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

I have already read these books and recommend them!

• A book published posthumously
• A book of true crime
• A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci fi/fantasy, romance)
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• A comic written and illustrated by the same person
  • Nimona by Noelle Stevenson - monster girls, gay rep, love the creator
  • Fun Home by Alison Bechdel - tragicomic, gay rep
• A book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa)
  • The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
• A book about nature
• A western
• A comic written or illustrated by a person of color
  • any of the Black Panthers by Ta-Nehisi Coates or Roxane Gay
• A book of colonial or postcolonial literature
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• A romance novel by or about a person of color
• A children’s classic published before 1980
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• A celebrity memoir
  • anything by Mindy Kaling - funny, fresh, will stay with you
• An Oprah Book Club selection
  • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
  • Night by Elie Wiesel
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• A book of social science
  • Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg
• A one-sitting book
  • Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainier Maria Rilke
  • Dream Work by Mary Oliver
• The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series
  • Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
  • Graceling by Kristin Cashore
  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
  • The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
  • Sabriel by Garth Nix
• A sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author
  • Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
  • The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
• A comic that isn’t published by Marvel, DC, or Image
  • Nimona by Noelle Stevenson - monster girls, gay rep, love the creator
• A book of genre fiction in translation
  • Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
• 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)