Read Harder 2025

It looks like Book Riot has abandoned their Read Harder group on Goodreads, so I'm posting the 2025 list here instead. I'll update my progress throughout the year.

To Be Read
Read a 2025 release by a BIPOC author.
Reread a childhood favorite book. Winnie the Pooh: The Accessible Version
Read a queer mystery. The Bell in the Fog
Read a book about obsession.
Read a book about immigration or refugees. Alan Cumming: Legal Immigrant
Read a standalone fantasy book.
Read a book about a piece of media you love (a TV show, a movie, a band, etc).
Read literary fiction by a BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and/or disabled author.
Read a book based solely on its setting.
Read a romance book that doesn’t have an illustrated cover.
Read a work of weird horror.
Read a staff pick from an indie bookstore. (Preferably, from your local indie bookstore.)
Read a nonfiction book about nature or the environment.
Read a comic in translation.
Read a banned book and complete a task on Book Riot’s How to Fight Book Bans guides.
Read a genre-blending book.
Read a book about little-known history.
Read a “cozy” book by a BIPOC author.
Read a queernorm book.
Read the first book in a completed young adult or middle grade duology. This Savage Song
Read a book about a moral panic.
Read a holiday romance that isn’t Christmas.
Read a wordless comic.
Pick a 2015 Read Harder Challenge task to complete.