Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

One of my overall goals for 2018 is to expand my reading horizons, as I tend to keep pretty closely to fiction, memoir, and fantasy. One of the tools I'm using to accomplish this is the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge - a series of 24 prompts intended to guide your reading toward new and unfamiliar places. While I'm not committing to completing every item on this list, I'm keeping it here for reference when I'm feeling stale about what's on my to read shelf and to prompt me to read outside my box. Ideally, I'll update this list when I check things off. So let's see how it goes!

1. A book published posthumously
2. A book of true crime (The Fact of a Body)
3. A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci fi/fantasy, romance)
4. A comic written and drawn by the same person
5. A book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries(Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa)
6. A book about nature
7. A western
8. A comic written or illustrated by a person of color
9. A book of colonial or postcolonial literature
10. A romance novel by or about a person of color
11. A children’s classic published before 1980 (A Wrinkle In Time)
12. A celebrity memoir (Does Sisters First count?!)
13. An Oprah Book Club selection
14. A book of social science
15. A one-sitting book
16. The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series
17. A sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author
18. A comic that isn’t published by Marvel, DC, or Image
19. A book of genre fiction in translation
20. A book with a cover you hate
21. A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author
22. An essay anthology
23. A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60
24. An assigned book you hated (or never finished)