When I purchased my Kobo in 2012, they offered me one free ebook per month for a year in exchange for joining their mailing list. If you’re wondering why I even have these books, I Am Malala was passed on to me, I believe The Art of War came preloaded on my Kobo, and Broken is one of many free ebooks I received via a special promotion.

I seriously considered Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, but I do most of my reading at bedtime, and didn’t think it would lend itself to that.

I ruled out I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban because I’ve read quite a few autobiographies, so it probably wouldn’t count.

Next, I thought about some of the books I already own that I haven’t read.

One genre that sparked my interest was Western, so I considered trying something by Louis L’Amour or Cormac McCarthy, but I wasn’t excited about it.

To trigger some ideas, I played with the Genre Map on Book Country and looked at the overwhelmingly long list of genres on Goodreads. After all, if there’s a genre I don’t read, I’m probably just not interested in it. The third category listed in the 2015 Reading Challenge is “a book in a genre you don’t typically read.” Since I’ve broadened my reading horizons so much in the last few years, I knew that choosing a book would be a challenge in itself.

Broken by David H. Burton