Book Riot’s 2018 Read Harder Challenge

I finished Read Harder 2018! I put a little pink asterisk next to the ones I especially liked.

1. A book published posthumously: The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs * (2/28) 
2. A book of true crime: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 2/19, The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean 2/9
3. A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci-fi/fantasy, romance): City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin 1/27, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin 2/4
4. A comic written and drawn by the same person: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson * 2/22 
5. A book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa): Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy * 2/24
6. A book about nature: Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau 3/1 
7. A western: Sackett's Land by Louis L'Amour 4/5
8. A comic written or drawn by a person of color: Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates 3/23
9. A book of colonial or postcolonial literature: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * 9/11
10. A romance novel by or about a person of color: Indigo by Beverly Jenkins 7/13
11. A children’s classic published before 1980: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery * 1/19
12. A celebrity memoir: Just Kids by Patti Smith 2/10
13. An Oprah Book Club selection: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, Becoming by Michelle Obama * 12/2
14. A book of social science: Evicted by Matthew Desmond * 1/12
15. A one-sitting book: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor 3/4
16. The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle-grade series: The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima * 3/5
17. A sci-fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author: Mem by Bethany C. Morrow 9/14
18. A comic that isn’t published by Marvel, DC, or Image: Quantum and Woody by James Asmus (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Tom Fowler (Artist) 9/29
19. A book of genre fiction in translation: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende * 10/17
20. A book with a cover you hate: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 9/27
21. A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author: Shelter by Yun Li 10/15
22. An essay anthology: Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis * 2/2,  Not that Bad by Roxane Gay 11/8 
23. A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60: The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher 5/30
24. An assigned book you hated (or never finished): Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 7/10