Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

This year I am trying to do Popsugar, AtY and Book Riot's Read Harder (doubling books between the challenges are ok)

Book Riot Read Harder 2018

1) A book published posthumously

2) A book of true crime:

3) A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci fi/fantasy, romance): Agatha Christie or

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) ✅ (India) or

6) A book about nature ✅
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7) A western

8) A comic written or illustrated by a person of color: ✅ (illustrations)

9) A book of colonial or postcolonial literature

10) A romance novel by or about a person of color:

11) A children’s classic published before 1980:
✅

12) A celebrity memoir: (AtY surviving a hardship)

13) An Oprah Book Club selection: e.g.

14) A book of social science

15) A one-sitting book: ✅ ✅ ✅

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: ✅ (also works for the local author in Popsugar 2018)

19) A book of genre fiction in translation: ✅

20) A book with a cover you hate ✅

21) A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author or

22) An essay anthology Denk Mal! 2018 (book still needs to be created on goodreads)

23) A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60:
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24) An assigned book you never finished (or started) (assigned by myself in the last year: or