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deezabee ([info]iseethelight) wrote,
@ 2018-01-02 13:21:00

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Entry tags:!bingo, !books



2018: READING CHALLENGE
A SHORT STORY COLLECTION A DEBUT AUTHOR A GOODREADS WINNER A BOOK THAT'S MORE THAN 100 YEARS OLD A BOOK ABOUT A GLOBAL ISSUE YOU FIND IMPORTANT
A BOOK BY OR ABOUT A PERSON WITH MENTAL ILLNESS A BOOK TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH #OWNVOICES A MEMOIR OR BIOGRAPHY A BOOK WITH A QUEER MAIN CHARACTER
NON-FICTION BY A DIVERSE AUTHOR SOMETHING FROM YOUR 'TO READ' SHELF ON GOODREADS FREE SPACE A BOOK WITH A ONE WORD TITLE A GRAPHIC NOVEL
A BOOK WITH A POC MAIN CHARACTER A BOOK YOU HEARD ABOUT ONLINE A FANTASY NOVEL WRITTEN BY A WOC A SCIENCE FICTION OR HORROR NOVEL A BOOK FROM THIS LIST
A NOVELLA³ A BOOK GOODREADS REC'D TO YOU A BOOK BY OR ABOUT AN INDIGENOUS PERSON OR CULTURE A BOOK THAT'S MORE THAN 500 PAGES A BOOK WITH A DISABLED MAIN CHARACTER

¹ There are a lot of lists of #ownvoices-books, but you could start here or here if you want.
² There are a ton of lists here too, where this one is a good starting point.
³ A novella is at most 40,000 words, which is 150-200 pages max.


01. A short story collection
02. Debut author
03. A GoodReads Choice Awards Winner (any category)
04. A book about a global issue you find important
05. A book that’s more than 100 years old
06. A book by or about a person with mental illness
07. A book translated to English
08. #ownvoices
09. A memoir or biography
10. A book with a queer main character
11. Non-fiction by a diverse author
12. Something from your ‘to read’ shelf on GoodReads
13. A book with a one word title
14. A graphic novel
15. A book with a POC main character
16. A book you heard about online
17. A fantasy novel written by a WOC
18. A science fiction or horror novel
19. A book from the The Best 16 Books of 2017 by Black Authors list.
20. A novella:
21. A book GoodReads recommended to you
22. A book by or about an indigenous person or culture
23. A book that’s more than 500 pages
24. A book with a disabled main character




I need ideas for non-fiction diverse author, a book by or about an indigenous person or culture, a book by and about a person with mental illness, and a book with a disabled main character. Any recommendations? Feel to recommend any books in general you think would fit here though, I'll take 'em all. Also short stories, as I don't read them. I could for sure have finished this last year, or done a lot of them.

Thanks to [info]karin for posting this so I could steal it! :)


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[info]zeromus
2018-01-03 11:29 am UTC (link)
I see Roxanne Gay being recommended a couple times and wanted to give a heads up: I'm reading Hunger now and it is not an easy book for several reasons. It's good, but it's uncomfortable for a lot of it hitting close or close enough to home, if that makes sense. Also she does talk about her sexual assault in blunt detail, so trigger warning for that.

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a great one to read. It's not very long but is something I think everyone should read at some point in their lives.

I actually read a handful of novellas this year, but they were in the Dorothy Must Die series. That was an interesting series, and I enjoyed it, but I don't know that I...recommend it. It's not great? But they're fun in that the author is very creative.

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[info]karin
2018-01-03 01:23 pm UTC (link)
Jumping in to say that I've been putting off reading Hunger for this exact reason, but I'm going to do it this year. I want to read it, it just seems like it'll be a painful read.

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[info]iseethelight
2018-01-03 01:43 pm UTC (link)
It's good to go into these books wth awareness. It's a random thing but Jodi Picoult's new book I was like NOPE NOPE NOPE because while it was well written, it was too real, because it's about white supremacy and racism and I do NOT want to get in the head of a modern Nazi right now.

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[info]zeromus
2018-01-04 11:56 am UTC (link)
I don't want to say too much so as not to spoil, but there are quite a few things in there that she tackles pretty straight forwardly that are uncomfortable, but it's NEEDED to talk and to read about them, if that makes sense? I enjoyed it.

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[info]karin
2018-01-06 01:08 am UTC (link)
It does, yeah. Parts of Bad Feminist were super uncomfortable to so I think I know roughly what I'm in for, but it's good to know from other people too.

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[info]iseethelight
2018-01-03 01:44 pm UTC (link)
Thank you for the trigger warning! It's good to go into things with that in mind.

I've heard abut Dorothy Must Die! LOL From someone who said something similar, that they're fun but not terribly good at the same time. I might try one out anyway!

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[info]zeromus
2018-01-04 11:57 am UTC (link)
LOL. Yeah. They are fast reads, at least. I'd be interested in how you feel about them!

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