
Oh hello there.
I disappeared shortly after The Troubles began because I simply stopped reading. Some of my friends coped with this year by reading even more, I delved into writing fanfiction. We all find our way.
I made a pretty decent dent in the BRRHC for 2020 but I am here with a new syllabus and new determination for BRRHC 2021:
- Read a book you’ve been intimidated to read – Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
- Read a nonfiction book about anti-racism – Fatal Invention, Dorothy L. Sayers
- Read a non-European novel in translation – Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga
- Read an LGBTQ+ history book – Bisexuality in the Ancient World, Eva Cantarella
- Read a genre novel by an Indigenous, First Nations, or Native American author – The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones
- Read a fanfic – TBD
- Read a fat-positive romance – Spoiler Alert, Olivia Dade
- Read a romance by a trans or nonbinary author – Reverb, Anna Zabo
- Read a middle grade mystery – A Spy in the House, Y.S. Lee
- Read an SFF anthology edited by a person of color – Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, ed. Sheree R. Thomas
- Read a food memoir by an author of color – The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, Michael W. Twitty
- Read a work of investigative nonfiction by an author of color – Explaining Humans, Camilla Pang
- Read a book with a cover you don’t like – Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins, Emma Donoghue
- Read a realistic YA book not set in the U.S., UK, or Canada – A Girl Like That, Tanaz Bhathena
- Read a memoir by a Latinx author – My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education, Jennine Capó Crucet
- Read an own voices book about disability – Run, Kody Keplinger
- Read an own voices YA book with a Black main character that isn’t about Black pain – If It Makes You Happy, Claire Kann
- Read a book by/about a non-Western world leader – Cleopatra: A Life, Stacy Schiff
- Read a historical fiction with a POC or LGBTQ+ protagonist – Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
- Read a book of nature poems – A Thousand Mornings: Poems, Mary Oliver
- Read a children’s book that centers a disabled character but not their disability – Hands & Hearts, Donna Jo Napoli
- Read a book set in the Midwest – Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
- Read a book that demystifies a common mental illness – Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and Loss, Stephanie Wittels Wachs
- Read a book featuring a beloved pet where the pet doesn’t die – The Familiars, Stacy Halls
All books are subject to change via DNFing or difficulty accessing them.
All I have for 2021 belongs to books on my TBR list- not so much a reading challenge
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Going through the TBR pile is important! Goodness knows I have a million to read that I am conveniently ignoring
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