Reading Challenges
Read together. Grow together.
Every challenge gives HDWR members a shared selection with structure, discussion, and recognition.
Current Reading Challenge - Vol. XV
Two books, read side by side
Reading began on August 3 and closes August 20. The MacDonald memoir and the Hegarty collection are now complete and archived. The community continues with Barron and Coe, currently in Chapter 4.
Timeline
Aug 3 - Aug 20
Progress
Chapter 4
Format
Weekly discussions
Certificate
Issued upon completion
They Killed Freddie Gray: The Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover-Up
by Justine Barron
An investigation into the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore police custody in April 2015, and the effort by city leaders to obscure how he was fatally injured. We read the evidence at the community pace and cite sources as we go.
Don't Blame Oliver
by Will Coe
Cromwell's spymaster John Thurloe answers Lord Clarendon's history of the English civil war, moving through parlours, taprooms, pulpits and the newborn popular press rather than the battlefield alone.
Upcoming
Next on the shelf
Vol. XVI
Selection to be announced
Reveal 2 weeks prior
Vol. XVII
Selection to be announced
Reveal 2 weeks prior
Vol. XVIII
Selection to be announced
Reveal 2 weeks prior
Past Challenges
The archive
Vol. XV
Too Much Ice in My Water
by Boyd Hamilton MacDonald
Completed
Vol. XV
Short Stories About a Tall Woman
by Anthony Hegarty
Completed
Vol. XIV
Suns of the End
by Robert Gryn
Completed
Vol. XIII
We Follow the Dying Light
by David Donaldson
Completed
Vol. XII
The Reluctant Disciple
by Jim O'Shea
Completed
Vol. XI
Flight of a Butterfly
by Sierra Burke
Completed
Of Mice and Men
Vol. X
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
Completed
Vol. IX
Concept to Conclusion
by Jyssica Schwartz
Completed