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At the start of each new year, our friends at Book Riot issue a challenge: Read consciously, thoughtfully, and outside your comfort zone.
The 2017 Read Harder Challenge lays out 24 new book tasks. They're more fun and more challenging than ever, with the added bonus of category suggestions from awesome authors like Roxane Gay and Celeste Ng.
To support anyone tackling the challenge, our book experts here at The New York Public Library are suggesting books in each category for readers looking to fulfill the tasks—particularly readers who want to use mostly library books!
Are you taking on the challenge? Have more suggestions for books that fit the tasks? Let us know in the comments.
1. Read a book about sports.
Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town by S. L. Price
Forward: A Memoir by Abby Wambach
Blacktop: Janae by LJ Alonge
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
2. Read a debut novel.
Girl at War by Sara Nović
B • This is how we count the days. June: the Germans komma to the islands — football cleats, big T-shirts, thick tongues — speaking like spitting. July: the Italians, the French, the British, the Americans. The Italians like pad thai, its affinity with spaghetti. They like fabrics, sun glasses, leather sandals. The French like plump girls, rambutans, disco music, baring their breasts. The British are here to work on their pasty complexions, their penchant for hashish. Americans are the fattest, the stingiest of the bunch. • Suparada Fuangfu Professor Isarapohn English 418 3 December 2015 The Depiction of Alienation in "Don't Let Me Die in This Place "Don't Let Me Die in This Place" is one of the short stories in the collection of short stories “Sightseeing” by Rattawut Lapcharoensap, published in 2005. This short story uses the 1st person point of view of a bad-tempered elderly American man who recently moved in Thailand to live with his son’s family. The narrator suffers from partial paralysis after having the stroke; he therefore requires the help from his son, Jack and his son’s wife, Tida, in order to live a daily life normally. Throughout the story, the narrator describes the painful experience of adjusting himself to the new family, culture and environment. He also flashes back to his memorable past in between the story. During the narrator’s state of adapting himself to the new place, Jack, his s
Sightseeing
So starts the first story in Sightseeing bygd Rattawut Lapcharoensap, a series of short stories (and one novella) first published in 2004. The stories aren’t all about stereotypes of foreigners, but some of them do touch on the tricky relationship between the tourist and the touristed. There’s a delicate story about first love between a ung Thai boy and a Burmese immigrant who lives illegally in a shack next to his apartment building, which ends in x The Depiction of Alienation in "Don't Let Me Die in This Place