Read Harder Challenge 2018

This challenge made me read quite a few books out of my comfort zone but some were already on my reading list. I took advantage of being able to count a book in more than one category. I was surprised by the books I liked (Anne of Green Gable and A Moveable Feast were pleasant surprises) and the books I hated (The Princess Diarist for one).
The dates following each book are the date I finished and you can find their reviews on this blog if you wish.

1. A book published posthumously - A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, 4 stars, 1/19
2. A book of true crime - The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth, 3 stars, 3/3
3. A classic of genre fiction - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, 5 stars, 3/7
4. A comic written and drawn by the same person - Komomo Confiserie by Maki Minami, 2 stars, 1/2
5. A book set in or about on of the five BRICS countries - The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden, 4 stars, 2/27
6. A book about nature - High, Wide, and Lonesome by Hal Borland, 4 stars, 1.21
7. A western - Silverman, A Western Quartet by Zane Grey, 2 stars, 1/17
8. A comic written by a person of color - see #2
9. A book of colonial or postcolonial literature - The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing, 1 star, 4/14
10. A romance novel by a person of color - When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon, 3 stars, 4/15
11. A children's classic published befoe 1980 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery,  4 stars, 2/27
12. A celebrity memoir - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher, 1 stars, 3/11
13. An Oprah Book Club selection - The Measure of a Man:A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poiter, 1 star, 4/28
14. A book of social science - Everybody Lies:Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Reveals About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, 4 stars,1/15
15. A one-sitting book - The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, 2 stars, 1/8
16. The first in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson, 5 stars,2/23
17. A sci-fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author - The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey, 2 stars, 2/26
18, A comic that isn't published by Marvel, DC, or Image - see #2
19. A book of genre fiction in translation - The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon, 3 stars, 1/12
20. A book with a cover you hate - see #19
21. A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ - Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley, 3 stars, 4/15
22. An essay anthology - Bookworms:Great Writers Celebrate Reading by Laura Furman, 4 stars, 1/20
23. A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60 - Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney, 2 stars, 1/6
24. An assigned book you hated (or never finished) - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, 1 star, 2/25