The Hardest and Easiest Tasks of the 2026 Read Harder Challenge

A couple weeks ago, I sent out the Read Harder 2026 Halfway Check-In Survey to see how you’re doing with the tasks so far. How many have you completed? Which have been the easiest and the hardest? And what’s the best book you’ve discovered through Read Harder so far? Now, I have the results.

Today, I’m sharing the more straightforward stats, and next time, I’ll talk about the books you discovered through the challenge.

How many books total have you read so far in 2026? (Whether or not they are for Read Harder.)

I quickly learned from my first Read Harder survey to bump up the number range for this question: you all read an ungodly amount of books in a year! The top response, with 37.9%, was 26-50 books read so far, an...