Book Riot's 2018 Read Harder Challenge: https://bookriot.com/2017/12/15/book-riots-2018-read-harder-challenge

My entry on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/19117350-2018-read-harder-challenge-plans?comment=174356389&page=2#comment_174336033

This is my plan to BEAT THIS CHALLENGE!!!

• A book published posthumously
  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - buy on Audible?
  • Ariel by Sylvia Plath
• A book of true crime
  • Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas
  • I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara - available 2/27
• A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci fi/fantasy, romance)
  • Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• A comic written and illustrated by the same person
  • Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
• A book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa)
  • Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• A book about nature
  • HELP MEEEEEE
• A western
  • Kingsway West by Greg Pak
  • Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen
  • All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy - not as much of a stretch bc I already like McCarthy
• A comic written or illustrated by a person of color
  • Boxers by Gene Luen Yang
• A book of colonial or postcolonial literature
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• A romance novel by or about a person of color
  • The Duchess War by Courtney Milan
• A children’s classic published before 1980
  • A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
• A celebrity memoir
  • We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories by Gabrielle Union
  • Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
  • The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
  • The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
  • You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
  • Where Am I Now? by Mara Wilson
  • The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian by W. Kamau Bell
• An Oprah Book Club selection
  • Sula by Toni Morrison
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• A book of social science
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• A one-sitting book
  • We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
  • Electric Arches by Eve Ewing
  • A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
• The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series
  • Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
• A sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author
  • Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
  • Provenance by Ann Leckie
  • Dawn by Octavia Butler
  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• A comic that isn’t published by Marvel, DC, or Image
  • your name., Vol. 1 by Shinkai Makoto
  • Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun
• A book of genre fiction in translation
  • The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin & Ken Liu - YESSSSSS
• A book with a cover you hate
  • Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
• A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author
  • The Interpreter by Suki Kim
• An essay anthology
  • Period: Twelve Voices Tell the Bloody Truth by Arisleyda Dilone, Ann Friedman, Madame Gandhi, Santina Muha, Ingrid Nilsen, Wiley Reading, Ashley Reese, Kylyssa Shay, Aminatou Sow, Emma Straub, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, and Elizabeth Yuko - available 5/8
  • Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America by Martha Brockenbrough, Jaye Robin Brown, Sona Charaipotra, Brandy Colbert, Somaiya Daud, Christine Day, Alexandra Duncan, Ilene Wong (I.W.) Gregorio, Maurene Goo. Ellen Hopkins, Stephanie Kuehnert, Nina LaCour, Anna-Marie McLemore, Sandhya Menon, Hannah Moskowitz, Julie Murphy, Aisha Saeed, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Amber Smith, and Tracy Walker - available 8/14
  • Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Ally Sheedy, Gabrielle Union, Amy Jo Burns, Lyz Lenz, Claire Schwartz, and Bob Shacochis AND MORE, edited by Roxane Gay - available 5/1
• A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60
  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• An assigned book you hated (or never finished)
  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

key

• I already own this
• I am reading this!