Book Riot hosts an annual “Read Harder” challenge, providing a list of topical and genre categories, spanning both fiction and non-fiction. Those who've undertaken the 2017 challenge are likely well underway reading books they may not have picked up of their own accord. In April, the quarterly discussion group will read to one of the categories on the checklist: Read a classic by an author of color.
Set in Florida, Their Eyes Were Watching God was published in 1937 to great controversy in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance. Zora Neale Hurston narrates Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant but voiceless teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny."
If you're working towards the Read Harder goals for this year, you can track your progress and share recommendations with other participants. If you’d like to read outside your comfort zone and enjoy BYO lunch while chatting with fellow members about your reading, M.I.’s quarterly Book Riot Reading Group might be just what you’re looking for!
Book Riot Reading Club Book Groups
