The Toronto Public Library is also doing a Reading Challenge this year. i’m still working on my list
** Toronto Reading Challenge 2019 **
- A book recommended to you by library staff
- ✔ Educated by Tara Westover
- A graphic novel
- ✔ Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
- Nimona
- A book from a Canadian award-winning author
- ✔ Decent into the Night by Edem Awumey
- A book set in Toronto
- Fauna by Alissa York
- Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez
- A book by an author in a visible minority
- ✔ An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
- ✔ Heartberries by Terese Marie Mailhot
- ✔ Decent into the Night by Edem Awumey
- ✔ This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
- ✔ Naughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
- Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
- ✔ A Study in Scarlet Women part of The Lady Sherlock Series by Sherry Thomas
- ✔ Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
- ✔ The Unkindness of Ghosts - by Rivers Solomon
- A book by an LGBTQ+ author
- Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
- I’ve Got a Time Bomb by Sybil lamb
- All the birds in the sky by Charlie Jane Anders
- Small Beauty by Jia Qing Wilson-Yang
- A Two-Spirit Journey - Ma-Nee Chacaby
- ✔ The Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon
- A book about mental health
- ✔ Heartberries by Terese Marie Mailhot
- The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist’s Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain by James H. Fallon
- Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World by Sharon Heller
- The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (fiction about a neurodiverse character by a neurodiverse woman authour.)
- A non-prose book
- ✔ The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- A book in translation
- ✔ Descent into Darkness by Edem Awumey
- A book on a topic you know nothing about
- ✔ What you are getting wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
- ✔ Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy
- We Regret to inform you we will be killed tomorrow with our families
- A book you’ve always meant to read
- ✔ Darkness by Bharati Mukherjee
- in university my Sanskrit professor recommended I read this book, and I have always meant to.
- ✔ Darkness by Bharati Mukherjee
- A book that has been banned or challenged *
- A book that has been adapted into a movie or show
- ✔ Where did you go Bernadette by Maria Semple
A book by an author with the same initials as you
- ✔ Feed by Mira Grant ADVANCED
A book by an author with a disability
- On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis
A book about being a newcomer, refugee or immigrant
- ✔ Descent into Darkness by Edem Awumey
A book you should have read in school, but didn’t
- Another struggle. I read every assigned book or reeeeealllly don’t want to.
A book you previously tried to read and gave up on
- The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo
A book set in a country you’d like to visit
- We regret to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families by Philip Gourevitch
Two books with the same/very similar titles
- Forever, Pete Hamill and Forever, Judy Blume
- Vox and Vox
A book from our First & Best lists
- ✔ Counting in Mi’kmaw/Mawkiljemk Mi’kmawiktuk by Loretta Gould
- ✔ Square by Mac Barnett
A book by an eh List writer
- The Marrow - Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
- Drop Dead by Lorna Poplak
- The Toronto book of the dead by adam bunch
- Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez
A book from Read Indigenous
A book from The List: Great Reads for Youth *
A book that’s related to the Periodic Table of Elements *