These are the Read Harder categories for your Term 2 Independent Reading. Please inform me of your book choice by January 21st. Here is the original list, including reading suggestions.
- Read a YA nonfiction book
- Read a retelling of a classic of the canon, fairy tale, or myth by an author of colour
- Read a mystery where the victim(s) is not a woman
- Read a graphic memoir
- Read a book about a natural disaster
- Read a play by an author of color and/or queer author
- Read a historical fiction novel not set in WWII
- Read an audiobook of poetry
- Read the LAST book in a series
- Read a book that takes place in a rural setting
- Read a debut novel by a queer author
- Read a memoir by someone from a religious tradition (or lack of religious
tradition) that is not your own - Read a romance starring a single parent
- Read a book about climate change
- Read a doorstopper (over 500 pages) published after 1950, written by a woman
- Read a sci-fi/fantasy novella (under 120 pages)
- Read a book by or about a refugee
- Read a middle grade book that doesn’t take place in the US or the UK
- Read a book with a main character or protagonist with a disability (fiction or non)
- Read a horror book published by an indie press
- Read a book in any genre by a Native, First Nations, or Indigenous author