- Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Silent Corner – Dean Koontz
- Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland – Lisa Schneidau
- Cook County ICU – Cory Franklin
- White Trash Warlock – David R Slayton
- Spillover – David Quammen
- Underland – Robert Mcfarlane
- The Secret Life of Groceries – Benjamin Lorr
- The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
- The Nazi Hunter – Alan Elsner
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Books to Read- August 2025
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#HRCYED Progress Update
It’s been a little over a month since I started working on the Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do (HRCYED) 2.0.
While I’ve been putting up reading lists for each prompt, I might not always read exactly as planned. Part of the challenge for myself is trying to do as much of these prompts as possible using the books that I already have on hand. This is my round up of what progress I’ve made so far:
Completed Prompt: Subgenres of Choice
Books Read:
- Can’t Spell Treason without Tea (Teas and Tomes #1) Rebecca Thorne
- A Matter of Death and Life – Simon R Green
- This Body’s Not Big Enough for the Both of Us – Edgar
- Nettle & Bone – T. Kingfisher
- The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London) – Ben Aaronovitch
- Dungeon Crawler Carl (#1) – Matt Dinniman
In Progress:
- By the Hundreds: 3/7
- Series Staircase: 3/10
- The Last 10 Years: 2/10 or 11 if you want to earn +5 points
- Adaptations: 3/8
- Around the World: 1/7
- Spooky Creatures: 1/8
- Become the Avatar: 1/4
- Animals: 3/5
- Queer Alphabet: 2/9
- BIPOC Authors: 1/10
- New Releases: 2/12
- Challenge Yourself: 1/??
- Non-Fiction: 3/5
So, I’ve definitely found myself reading a lot more because of this challenge and I am getting through my TBR. All in all, I think this has been a good challenge to take on even if it’s one more piece of stress I probably shouldn’t be taking on.
Anyway, if you’d like to learn more about HRCYED, you can find the announcement here:
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#HRCYED Subgenres of Choice
This is what I’m planning to read for the HRCYED Subgenres of Choice: (Note, I am trying to do this challenge with only books I own or can get from the library.)
- Cozy Fantasy: Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea (read in July) – Rebecca Thorne
- Crime: A Matter of Death and Life (read in July) – Simon R. Green
- Thriller: This Body’s Not Big Enough for the Both of Us (read in July) – Edgar Cantero
- Fairytale: Nettle & Bone – T. Kingfisher
- Urban Fantasy: The Masquerades of Spring – Ben Aaronovitch
- Humor: Dungeon Crawler Carl #1 (read in August) – Matt Dinniman
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#HRCYED NonFiction Reading List
This is what I’m planning to read for the HRCYED Nonfiction Prompt:
- Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy – Ed. Richard Brian Davis
- Thick – Tressie McMillan Cottom
- The Awful End of Prince William the Silent – Lisa Jardine
- Dogtripping – David Rosenfelt
- Integral Psychology – Ken Wilber
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HRCYED Participation Kick-Off Post
If you haven’t heard of it, the Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do is abbreviated as #HRCYED and is running around on the Book-Tube community. Am I part of that community? Not really. I watch a few here and there, but I’m not a particular participant in reviewing, nor do I make videos.
What do I do? I read and I write. So, am I going to propose my own books against some of the challenges? You betcha.
Have I ever met a major challenge that will make my life difficult? Nope.
Am I going to write up my proposed reading lists so you can all see how badly I fail? Yes.
This is me officially letting it be known that I’m doing this challenge. It’s supposed to be a year-long challenge, so we’ll see how long I last.
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Books to Read- July 2025
- Slayground – Richard Stark
- Deadly Edge – Richard Stark
- Hunter – Mercedes Lackey
- Articulating Design Decisions – Tom Greever
- Managing Up – Mary Abbajay
- The Art of Coaching – Elena Aguilar
- The No Complaining Rule – Jon Gordon
- Only the Paranoid Survive – Andrew S Grove
- The Power of Consistency – Weldon Long
- A Trucker’s Tale – Ed Miller
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Books to Read- June 2025
- The Wealth Choice – Dennis Kimbro
- No BS Marketing to the Affluent – Dan S Kennedy
- Acres of Diamonds – Russell H Conwell
- Super Mario – Jeff Ryan
- Free to Focus – Michael Hyatt
- Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
- Million Dollar Habits – Brian Tracy
- Plan Your Year Like a Millionaire – Rachel Rodgers
- Butcher’s Moon – Richard Stark
- Plunder Squad – Richard Stark
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Books to Read- May 2025
- The Power of Positive Leadership -Jon Gordon
- The 10X Mentor – Grant Cardone
- Pitch Anything – Oren Klaff
- The 12 Week Year – Brian P Moran and Michael Lennington
- This is Your Mind on Plants – Michael Pollan
- Existentially Challenged – Yahtzee Croshaw
- Mythos – Stephen Fry
- Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs – Roger Lederer
- A Darker Shad of Magic – VE Schwab
- The Unemployed Millionaire – Matt Morris & Wallace Wang
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Books to Read- April 2025
- H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald
- Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come – Jessica Pan
- Buffet – Roger Lowenstein
- The Caesars Palace Coup – Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap
- Who – Geoff Smart and Randy Street
- The 6 Habits of Growth – Brendon Burchard
- Homo Dues – Yuval Noah Harari
- The Manager’s Path – Camille Fournier
- Hook Point – Brendan Kane
- Men Without Work – Nicholas Eberstadt
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Books to Read- March 2025
- Amplify Your Influence – Rene Rodriguez
- Who Not How – Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy
- The Problem of Pain – CS Lewis
- The Devils of Loudon – Aldous Huxley
- The Old Ways – Robert Macfarlane
- The Five – Hallie Rubenhold
- The Year of Less – Cait Flanders
- The Medici – Paul Strathern
- Grandma Gatewood’s Walk – Ben Montgomery
- The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women – Elizabeth Norton
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