Ep: #217 – Read Harder Challenge Part 2

We’re back with more recommendations for Book Riot’s 2018 Read Harder Challenge! Today we are tackling: a classic of genre fiction, a book you can read in one sitting, an essay anthology, and an assigned book you hated (or didn’t finish).

• The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

• The Old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• We have always lived in the castle by Shirley Jackson
• The ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman
• The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
• Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris
• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

• The Fire This Time, edited by Jesamyn Ward
• Rereadings, edited by Annie Fadiman
• Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, edited by Roxane Gay
• Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to have Kids, edited by Meghan Daum
• Double Bind: Women on Ambition, edited by Robin Romm

• Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• Tripods trilogy by John Christopher