2020 RHC




Book Riot's 2020 Read Harder Challenge

                         I appreciate this challenge as a shorter one 
that I can easily include with others.
It always has some very specific tasks, 
but also the majority are fairly broad...
And I can use one book to complete multiple tasks! YAY!

24/24 completed as of December 30
Total of 137 books read

*Book I own
**Book scheduled as a 2020 book club read

1. Read a YA nonfiction book
*Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash
August 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. Read a retelling of a classic of the canon, fairy tale, or myth by an author of color
A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock #1) by Sherry Thomas
December 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie-Antigone
December 19 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. Read a mystery where the victim is not a woman
*Twisted Twenty-Six (Stephanie Plum #26) by Janet Evanovich
Although the kidnapping victims were Grandma Mazur and Stephanie, there were murder victims who were male. 
*The Firm by John Grisham
January 28 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* **War of the Wives by Tamar Cohen
March 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Inferno by Dan Brown
March 27 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Mysterious Case Case (Determined Detectives #1) by Mary Blount Christian
April 2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Splintered Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #3) by Carolyn Haines
April 11 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Hope Rides Again (Obama Biden Mysteries #2) by Andrew Shaffer
April 12 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Fistful of Collars (Chet and Bernie #5) by Spencer Quinn-3 murders, 1 male victim
April 21 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries #1) by Charles Finch
May 7 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* **Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan
May 10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Beach House by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge
May 22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Crossed Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #4) by Carolyn Haines
July 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Accomplice (Theodore Boone #7) by John Grisham
July 10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Hydrogen Murder (Periodic Table #1) by Camille Minichino
July 13 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell
August 19 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
September 25 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut #3) by Mary Robinette Kowal
September 29 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Angel of Darkness (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #2) by Caleb Carr
October 10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Iggy Chronicles, Volume One (Chet and Bernie #5.1) by Spencer Quinn
October 14 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Zodiac Killer (Zodiac Killers #1) by W.L. Knightly
October 20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Cat in the Manger (Alice Nestleton #1) by Lydia Adamson/pseudonum for Franklin B. King
October 25 ⭐️⭐️
The Cleverness of Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #12.6) by Alexander McCall Smith
October 29 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-Seven (Stephanie Plum #27) by Janet Evanovich
November 15 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock #1) by Sherry Thomas
December 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley #1) by Patricia Highsmith
December 13 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Read a graphic memoir
*Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash
August 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. Read a book about a natural disaster
*The Beach House (Beach House #1) by Mary Alice Monroe-hurricane
May 19 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Martian (The Martian #1) by Andy Weir-dust storm...on Mars!
June 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lou in Lockdown by Jojo Moyes-pandemic
June 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Blizzard's Wake by Phyllis Reynolds Naylo-blizzard
July 17 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal
July 28 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut #2) by Mary Robinette Kowal
August 11 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. Read a play by an author of color and/or a queer author
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and The Members of the Tectonic Theater Project-Queer
March 26 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. Read a historical fiction novel not set in WWII
*The Son by Philipp Meyer
January 12 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* **The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
February 15 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
March 25 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog's Tale by Laurie Myers, illustrated by Michael Dooling
April 3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park
April 22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
April 25 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
April 30 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries #1) by Charles Finch
May 7 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
May 13 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
June 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
June 27 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
June 30 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal
July 28 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
August 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut #2) by Mary Robinette Kowal
August 11 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut #3) by Mary Robinette Kowal
September 29 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rocket's Red: A Lady Astronaut Story (Lady Astronaut #4.4) by Mary Robinette Kowal
September 29 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Angel of Darkness (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #2) by Caleb Carr
October 10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spotting the Leopard by Anna Myers
October 17 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
November 25 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock #1) by Sherry Thomas
December 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
December 23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

8. Read an audiobook of poetry
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
March 26 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

9. Read the LAST book in a series
**Twisted Twenty-Six (Stephanie Plum #26) by Janet Evanovich
January 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Can't wait for #27 to be published in 2020!
*Hope Rides Again (Obama Biden Mysteries #2) by Andrew Shaffer
April 12 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lou in Lockdown by Jojo Moyes (Me Before You)
June 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Accomplice (Theodore Boone #7) by John Grisham
July 10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient #2) by Helen Hoang
July 15 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Love, Stargirl (Stargirl #2) by Jerry Spinnelli
July 20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*A Voice in the Wind (Starbuck Family Adventure #3) by Kathryn Lasky
August 28  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut #3) by Mary Robinette Kowal
September 29 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Angel of Darkness (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #2) by Caleb Carr
October 10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-Seven (Stephanie Plum #27) by Janet Evanovich
November 15 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

10. Read a book that takes place in a rural setting
*The Son by Philipp Meyer
January 12 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* **The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
February 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey
February 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* **The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
February 15 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*An Integrated Man by Julia Strachey
February 27 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Us Against You (Bjornstad #2) by Fredrik Backman, translated by Neil Smith
March 15 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* **Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse
March 17 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Secrets of Lost Arrow by Dotti Enderle
March 24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
March 25 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and The Members of the Tectonic Theater Project
March 26 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* **A Touch of Gold by Annie Sullivan
March 29 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog's Tale by Laurie Myers, illustrated by Michael Dooling
April 3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Circe by Madeline Miller
April 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Splintered Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #3) by Carolyn Haines
April 11 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Overstory by Richard Powers
April 20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Fistful of Collars (Chet and Bernie #5) by Spencer Quinn
April 21 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
April 21 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park
April 22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
April 25 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi-particularly in Africa
April 30 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
May 15--5/5 stars
*The Beach House (Beach House #1) by Mary Alice Monroe
May 19 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*What Katy Did (Carrs Family #1) by Susan Coolidge
May 24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orïsha #2) by Tomi Adeyemi
May 28 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 
*The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar-Rawiya's story
May 31 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
June 15 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
July 4 ⭐️
All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
July 7 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Crossed Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #4) by Carolyn Haines
July 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Blizzard's Wake by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
July 17 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
July 25 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash
August 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
August 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
August 16 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell
August 19 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
August 24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*A Voice in the Wind (Starbuck Family Adventure #3) by Kathryn Lasky
August 28  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
September 13 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Song of Blood & Stone (Earthsinger Chronicales #1) by L. Penelope
September 19 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
September 25 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 26 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut #3) by Mary Robinette Kowal
September 29 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rocket's Red: A Lady Astronaut Story (Lady Astronaut #4.4) by Mary Robinette Kowal
September 29 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spotting the Leopard by Anna Myers
October 17 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer #1) by Laini Taylor
November 29 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Grace of Kings IDandelion Dynasty #1) by Ken Liu
November 28 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
December 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

11. Read a debut novel by a queer author
*Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash
August 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
October 18 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley

12. Read a memoir by someone from a religious tradition (or lack of religious tradition) that is not your own
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
October 18 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

13. Read a food book about a cuisine you've never tried before
The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem by Marcus Samuelsson
December 23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

14. Read a romance starring a single parent
*The Sunday Lunch Club by Juliet Ashton
January 20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Circe by Madeline Miller
April 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Beach House by Jane Green
May 20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient #2) by Helen Hoang
July 15 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 26 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Penderwicks at Gardam Street (The Penderwicks #2) by Jeanne Birdsall
October 26 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

15. Read a book about climate change
The Overstory by Richard Powers
April 20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

16. Read a doorstopper (over 500 pages) published after 1950, written by a woman
*Song of Blood & Stone (Earthsinger Chronicales #1) by L. Penelope
September 19 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut #3) by Mary Robinette Kowal
September 29 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer #1) by Laini Taylor
November 29 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

17. Read a sci-fi/fantasy novella (under 120 pages)
All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
July 7 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Home (Binti #2) by Nnedi Okorafor
December 28 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

18. Read a picture book with a human main character from a marginalized community
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman, illustrated by Florence White Williams
September 26 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o, Vashti Harrison illustrator
November 7 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

19. Read a book by or about a refugee
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park
April 22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

20. Read a middle grade book that doesn't take place in the U.S. or the UK
*The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
August 17 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

21. Read a book with a main character or protagonist with a disability (fiction or nonfiction)
* **War of the Wives by Tamar Cohen--Felix is a sociopath/psychopath
March 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi-Old Lady/Akua Collins suffered from emotional challenges in a time when there was no diagnoses possible
April 30 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*What Katy Did (Carrs Family #1) by Susan Coolidge
May 24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
May 25 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
May 31 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan
June 23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid-addiction
June 30 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Crossed Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #4) by Carolyn Haines
Nandy was definitely mentally unfit. 
July 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient #2) by Helen Hoang
July 15 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Blizzard's Wake by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
July 17 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Normal People by Sally Rooney
July 18 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Love, Stargirl (Stargirl #2) by Jerry Spinnelli-Betty Lou, agoraphobia
July 20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal
July 28 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Me Before You (Me Before you #1) by Jojo Moyes
August 15 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell
August 19 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut #3) by Mary Robinette Kowal
September 29 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
November 22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

22. Read a horror book published by an indie press
Since I do NOT do horror, I will read a second book for a different task, to be decided...
This is as close to a "horror" novel as I intend to come for the foreseeable future:
* **Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan
May 10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

23. Read an edition of a literary magazine (digital or physical)
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24. Read a book in any genre by a Native, First Nations, or Indigenous author
* **Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse
March 17 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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