We're back with round two of our Book Riot Read Harder Challenge suggestions! Completing this challenge is a lot of fun and can help broaden your literary scope but it can be tough to find books that fit the categories. That's where we come in! In ep. 82 we did five different categories and today we have 5 more for you. Below are links to all the books we discuss. Take a listen!
 
Read a Debut Novel
This is Where it ends by Marieke Nijkamp
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
American War by Omar El Akkad
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Start up by Doree Shafrir
 
Read a book published between 1900 & 1950
The Old Man The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rise by Ernest Hemingway
Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
 
Read a book about books
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Invisible Library Series by Genevieve Cogman
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Lost Book of the Grail by Charlie Lovett
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Carry on by Rainbow Rowell
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
 
 
Read a book that has been banned or frequently challenged in your country
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
This one Summer by Mariko & Jillian Tamaki
1984 by George Orwell
George by Alex Gino
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Persopolis by Marjane Satrapi
 
Read a classic by an author of color
Anything by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Go tell is on the mountain by James Baldwin
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
 
Say Hello! 
Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com
Music
"Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com
Podcast Overview
We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, ger personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. 
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices