Read Harder Challenge Progress

This BookRiot Challenge will certainly broaden my horizons in the coming months. What's cool is they allow you to double dip in that if one book meets more than one criteria, then it counts.

Here are the tasks (the ones I have completed have the book listed):

💀A book published posthumously - The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
🔪A book of true crime - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
📚A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci fi/fantasy, romance) - The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
🖌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 - Backyard Foraging by Ellen Zachos
🐎A western
✒A comic written or illustrated by a person of color - Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
📖A book of colonial or postcolonial literature
💏A romance novel by or about a person of color
🙌A children’s classic published before 1980 - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
💎A celebrity memoir - Coreyograpy by Corey Feldman
📗An Oprah Book Club selection
👥A book of social science - Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
✔A one-sitting book - Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
👯‍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 - Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
㊗️A book of genre fiction in translation - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
😡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)

If you have recommendations for any of my empty categories, please leave a comment!