Book Riot's 2018 Read Harder Challenge

New year, new challenge! I love starting out with a fresh list! (The details are here: https://bookriot.com/2017/12/15/book-riots-2018-read-harder-challenge/)  I'll be periodically updating this page as I cross off the tasks. I'm especially looking forward to crossing off #19. Which reading task are you most looking forward to accomplishing this year?

1. A book published posthumously
2. A book of true crime
3. A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci fi/fantasy, romance)
4. A comic written and illustrated 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 A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara
11. A children’s classic published before 1980
12. A celebrity memoir
13. An Oprah Book Club selection
14. A book of social science
15. A one-sitting book Saga, Vol. 8 by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
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 Eligible, by Curtis Sittenfeld
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)