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
Posted on: April 12, 2018
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
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