HRYCED or the Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do is hosted by Qwordy and runs July 7, 2025 to July 6, 2026 (officially, but I started on June 21, 2025). Want to find out more about it? You can watch Qwordy’s V2 intro video here.

Here are the books I’ve read so far for the challenge:

• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
• What Doesn’t Kill You by Tessa Miller
• The Road of Bones by Demi Winters
• Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
• Lone Women by Victor Lavalle
• Spells, Strings and Forgotten Things by Breanne Randall
• Gettysburg Physicians by Barbara Franco
• The Wood in Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
• Wheesht by Kate Davies
• Twixt Firelight and Water by Juliet Marillier
• The Wide, Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
• Year of Wonders by Geradline Brooks
• A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
• What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
• A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang
• On Trails by Robert Moor
• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
• A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle Jensen
• The Incredible Kindness of Paper by Evelyn Skye
• Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
• Violeta by Isabel Allende
• Sisters of the Wind by Angeline Boulley
• The Zorg by Siddharth Kara
• Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura
• Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson
• The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane
• The Puzzle of Polynesia: Sea People by Christina Thompson
• Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz
• The Museum of Lost Quilts by Jennifer Chiaverini
• A Study in Scarlet by Sherry Thomas
• A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas
• Dark Sisters by Kristi semester