2018 Read Harder Challenge

I really enjoyed attempting this challenge in 2016, so I'm trying it again in 2018. Find out more at Book Riot.

24 challenges:
  • A book published posthumously
  • A book of true crime
  • A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci-fi/fantasy, romance)
  • A comic written and illustrated by the same person
  • A book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa)
  • A book about nature
  • A western
  • A comic written or illustrated by a person of color
  • A book of colonial or postcolonial literature
  • A romance novel by or about a person of color
  • A children’s classic published before 1980
  • A celebrity memoir
  • An Oprah Book Club selection
  • A book of social science
  • A one-sitting book
  • The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle-grade series
  • A sci-fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author
  • A comic that isn’t published by Marvel, DC, or Image
  • A book of genre fiction in translation
  • A book with a cover you hate
  • A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author
  • An essay anthology
  • A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60
  • An assigned book you hated (or never finished)

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