Book Riot’s 2025 Read Harder Challenge

Another I always look forward to doing. So glad a new bookstore is coming to my town, so that prompt will be covered! (More on this to come as it happens). It's been a long time since there was a bookstore in my town.

1. Read a 2025 release by a BIPOC author:
2. Reread a childhood favorite book:
3. Read a queer mystery:
4. Read a book about obsession:
5. Read a book about immigration or refugees:
6. Read a standalone fantasy book:
7. Read a book about a piece of media you love (a TV show, a movie, a band, etc):
8. Read literary fiction by a BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and/or disabled author:
9. Read a book based solely on its setting:
10. Read a romance book that doesn’t have an illustrated cover:
11. Read a work of weird horror:
12. Read a staff pick from an indie bookstore. (Preferably, from your local indie bookstore.):
13. Read a nonfiction book about nature or the environment:
14. Read a comic in translation:
15. Read a banned book and complete a task on Book Riot’s How to Fight Book Bans guides:
16. Read a genre-blending book:
17. Read a book about little-known history:
18. Read a “cozy” book by a BIPOC author:
19. Read a queernorm book:
20. Read the first book in a completed young adult or middle grade duology:
21. Read a book about a moral panic:
22. Read a holiday romance that isn’t Christmas:
23. Read a wordless comic:
24. Pick a 2015 Read Harder Challenge task to complete: