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LOL, #9 denied. I love it!!! Kind of hard to make time for a re-read when you're trying to cross off challenge prompts. I love your spirit!!( I planned on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, since it specified "makes you smile", REALLY....NO TIME FOR THAT!!! So I ended up using the audio version of Beezus and Ramona that my daughters were listening to in the car. I read it when I was younger and it made me smile)
Lol thank you. When I planned my Popsugar challenge I took so long trying to figure out what I wanted to re-read and I finally got to the point where I un-apologetically don't feel like re-reading at this point in life, it doesn't make me smile at all!!That being said I love all those Ramona books and if I had young bookworms around me all the time I'd revisit them constantly.
Ali's 2018 BookRiot Read Harder Challenge*= owned.
→= currently reading.
♫= audio available at the library by download.
♪= audio available at the library by CD.
★= POC author
1. A book published post-humously
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, by Michelle McNamara.*♫
2. A book of true crime
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI,by David Grann.♫
3. A classic of genre fiction
The Color of Magic, by Terry Pratchett.*
4. A comic written and drawn by the same person
The Undertaking of Lily Chen, by Danica Novgorodoff
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, by Arundhati Roy★
6. A book about nature
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit, by Michael Finkel.
7. A western
The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt.*♫
8. A comic written or drawn by a person of color
Not Your Sidekick, by C.B. Lee.★
9. A book of colonial or postcolonial literature
Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi★♫
10. A romance novel by or about a person of color
My Fair Concubine, by Jeannie Lin★♫
11. A children's classic published before 1980
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton*
12. A celebrity memoir
Not My Father's Son, by Alan Cumming. ♫
13. An Oprah Book Club selection
White Oleander, by Janet Fitch*
14. A book of social science
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, by Jon Ronson*
15. A one-sitting book
The Grownup, by Gillian Flynn♪
16. The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series
Scythe, by Neal Shusterman*
17. A sci-fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers*
18. A comic that isn't published by Marvel, DC or Image
This One Summer, by Mariko Tamaki★
19. A book of genre fiction in translation
Fever Dream, by Samanta Schweblin.★
20. A book with a cover you hate
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, by Alina Bronsky.
21. A mystery by a person of color or LGTQ+ author
White Tears, by Hari Kunzru. ★
22. An essay anthology
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, edited by Jesmyn Ward. ★♫
. 23. A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60
The Quiche of Death, by M.C. Beaton. ♫
24. An assigned book you hated or never finished
The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin.*
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1. Read a book about sports.
Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport, by Anna Krien.
2. Read a debut novel.
Ready Player One, by Ernest Kline.7/10/17 ☆☆☆☆☆3. Read a book about books.
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury.
4. Read a book set in Central or South America, written by a Central or South American author.
The Hummingbird's Daughter, by Luis Alberto Urrea.
5. Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith.
6. Read an all-ages comic.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel2/7/18 ☆☆7. Read a book published between 1900 and 1950.
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf.
8. Read a travel memoir.
Imagine Wanting Only This, by Kristen Radtke.
9. Read a book you’ve read before.Not in the mood to re-read.
10. Read a book that is set within 100 miles of your location.
2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas, by Marie-Helene Bertino.
11. Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location.
Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward.10/10/17 ☆☆☆☆12. Read a fantasy novel.
All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders.
13. Read a nonfiction book about technology.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot.
14. Read a book about war.
The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters.
15. Read a YA or middle grade novel by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+.
We Are Okay, by Nina LaCour.
16. Read a book that has been banned or frequently challenged in your country.
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood.
17. Read a classic by an author of color.
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy.
18. Read a superhero comic with a female lead.
El Deafo, by Cece Bell
19. Read a book in which a character of color goes on a spiritual journey
Green Grass, Running Water, by Thomas King
20. Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel
Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943, by Erica Fischer.
21. Read a book published by a micropress.22. Read a collection of stories by a woman.
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, by Leslie Nneka Arimah
23. Read a collection of poetry in translation on a theme other than love.
I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan, by Eliza Griswold
24. Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color.
When Dimple Met Rishi, by Sandhya Menon.
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