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2018 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge1/24 completed
1) A book published posthumously: A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway)
2) A book of true crime: Under the Banner of Heaven (Jon Krakauer)
3) A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci fi/fantasy, romance): A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. LeGuin)
4) A comic written and illustrated by the same person: Maus (Art Spiegelman)
5) A book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa): The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
6) A book about nature: Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
7) A western: No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy)
8) A comic written or illustrated by a person of color: March: Book 2 (John Lewis)
9) A book of colonial or postcolonial literature: Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
10) A romance novel by or about a person of color: Behold The Dreamers (Imbolo Mbue)
11) A children’s classic published before 1980: A Wrinkle In Time (Madeleine L'Engle)
12) A celebrity memoir: Around The Way Girl (Taraji P. Henson)�
13) An Oprah Book Club selection: Love Warrior (Glennon Doyle Melton)
14) A book of social science: White Trash (Nancy Isenberg)
15) A one-sitting book: The Second Mrs. Hockaday (Susan Rivers)
16) The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series: Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer)
17) A sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author: Kindred (Octavia Butler)
18) A comic that isn’t published by Marvel, DC, or Image:
19) A book of genre fiction in translation: The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
20) A book with a cover you hate:
21) A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author: Devil In a Blue Dress (Walter Mosley)
22) An essay anthology: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Anne Fadiman)
23) A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60: Britt-Marie Was Here (Fredrik Backman)
24) An assigned book you hated (or never finished): The Once and Future King (T.H. White)
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1. A book made into a movie you've already seen: Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
2. True Crime: The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars (Paul Collins)�
3. The next book in a series you started: Glass Houses (Louise Penny)�
4. A book involving a heist: Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo)
5. Nordic noir: The Keeper of Lost Causes (Jussi Adler-Olsen)�
6. A novel based on a real person: The King’s Curse (Philippa Gregory)
7. A book set in a country that fascinates you: No Future Without Forgiveness (Desmond Tutu)
8. A book with a time of day in the title: Monday Mornings (Sanjay Gupta)
9. A book about a villain or antihero: Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
10. A book about death or grief: When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi)
11. A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym: Middlemarch (George Eliot)
12. A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist: Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
13. A book that is also a stage play or musical: Brighton Beach Memoirs (Neil Simon)
14. A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you: The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (Nadia Hashimi)
15. A book about feminism: Bad Feminist (Roxane Gay)
16. A book about mental health: The Noonday Demon (Andrew Solomon)
17. A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift: The Zookeeper’s Wife (Diane Ackerman)
18. A book by two authors: Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett)
19. A book about or involving a sport: Run Or Die (Kilian Jornet)
20. A book by a local author: The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics (John Hickenlooper & Maximillian Potter)
21. A book with your favorite color in the title: Harold and the Purple Crayon (Crockett Johnson)
22. A book with alliteration in the title: Magpie Murders (Anthony Horowitz)�
23. A book about time travel: Life After Life (Kate Atkinson)
24. A book with a weather element in the title: The Gift of Rain (Tan Twan Eng)
25. A book set at sea: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
26. A book with an animal in the title: American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West (Nate Blakeslee)
27. A book set on a different planet: Red Rising (Pierce Brown)
28. A book with song lyrics in the title: You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me (Sherman Alexie)
29. A book about or set on Halloween: Practical Magic (Alice Hoffman)
30. A book with characters who are twins: I Know This Much Is True (Wally Lamb)
31. A book mentioned in another book: Middlemarch (George Eliot)
32. A book from a celebrity book club: Grant (Ron Chernow)
33. A childhood classic you've never read: Matilda (Roald Dahl)
34. A book that's published in 2018: The Immortalists (Chloe Benjamin)�
35. A past Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Awards winner: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Kate Moore)âˆ�
36. A book set in the decade you were born: The Drifters (James Michener)
37. A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to: The Art of Asking (Amanda Palmer)
38. A book with an ugly cover: My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
39. A book that involves a bookstore or library: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (Joshua Hammer)�
40, 41, 42. Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, or 2017 POPSUGAR Reading Challenges: World Without End (Ken Follett), What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami), The Residence (Kate Andersen Brower)
2018 Popsugar Advanced Reading Challenge
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43. A bestseller from the year you graduated high school: A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
44. A cyberpunk book: The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi)
45. A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place: The Undoing Project (Michael Lewis)
46. A book tied to your ancestry: New York (Edward Rutherfurd)
47. A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title: At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails (Sarah Bakewell)
48. An allegory: A Monster Calls (Patrick Ness)
49. A book by an author with the same first or last name as you: Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions (Phil Zuckerman)
50. A microhistory: Bellevue (David Oshinsky)
51. A book about a problem facing society today: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Bryan Stevenson)
52. A book recommended by someone else taking the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: The Bookseller of Kabul (Asne Seierstad)