Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge discussion

Hey y’all, these have been on my nightstand to read for a while. Do they fit anywhere in the 2021 challenge?

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Fates and Furies

Lone Wolf and Cub, Omnibus 1

I have some books I own that I'm wondering if any fit into a category? These are the ones I was not sure I could find a home for - any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

Albertalli, Becky - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Backman, Fredrik - A Man Called Ove
Ball, Jesse - Census
Barbery, Muriel - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Bellassai, Matt - Everything is Awful
Branum, Guy - My Life as a Goddess
Evaristo, Bernadine - Girl, Woman, Other
French, Tana - In the Woods
Flynn, Gillian - Dark Places
Gay, Roxane - Hunger
Handler, Chelsea - Life WIll Be the Death of Me
Hamilton, Karen - The Last Wife
Hawkins, Paula - Into the Water
Kwan, Kevin - Crazy Rich Asians (trilogy)
Lerner, Ben - The Topeka School
McCreight, Kimberly - A Good Marriage
Offerman, Nick - Gumption
Offerman, NIck - Paddle Your Own Canoe
Orlean, Susan - The Library Book
Steadman, Catherine - Something in the Water
Straub, Emma - All Adults Here
Wolitzer, Meg - The Interestings

Tracy wrote: "I have some books I own that I'm wondering if any fit into a category? These are the ones I was not sure I could find a home for - any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

Albertalli, Becky - ..."

Dark Places takes place in the midwest I believe!

Dread Nation for any prompt other than POC/LGBTQ main character?

Jane wrote: "Dread Nation for any prompt other than POC/LGBTQ main character?"

Man I was hoping it'd fit the "YA novel with a black main character that isn't about black pain" for you but with it being set just after the Civil War, I don't think there's any way it wouldn't include black pain.

This has probably been the hardest list in years to wedge in random books that have been lying around or otherwise on my radar. I don't think I'm going to make it.

Erika,

I think Dread Nation might work for that prompt #17. Yes, it's set about ten years after the Civil War, and the main characters are Black, but in this universe the Civil War stopped because the dead on the battlefields became zombies.

Where would the book The Woman in Cabin 10 fit in any of the categories since it takes place on a cruise ship?

Reed wrote: "Where would the book The Woman in Cabin 10 fit in any of the categories since it takes place on a cruise ship?"

The only setting prompts this year are:
Read a realistic YA book not set in the U.S., UK, or Canada
Read a book set in the Midwest

Reed wrote: "Where would the book The Woman in Cabin 10 fit in any of the categories since it takes place on a cruise ship?"

I think the only place it could fit is "13. Read a book with a cover you don't like"