Book Riot’s 2018 Read Harder Challenge

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Welcome to the fourth edition of Book Riot’s annual reading challenge, the 2018 Read Harder challenge, created and written by Rachel Manwill. Every year, more and more readers discover and complete Read Harder, and with every new edition, Read Harder gives you 24 tasks that will invite new genres, new authors, and new worlds, both real and imaginary, into your reading life.

Finally, here are the tasks!

A book published posthumously
A book of true crime
A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci fi/fantasy, romance)
A comic written and drawn by the same person
A book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa)
A book about nature
A western
A comic written or drawn by a person of color
A book of colonial or postcolonial literature
A romance novel by or about a person of color
A children’s classic published before 1980
A celebrity memoir
An Oprah Book Club selection
A book of social science
A one-sitting book
The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series
A sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author
A comic that isn’t published by Marvel, DC, or Image
A book of genre fiction in translation
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)

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So one book of each genre in the year correct?