We're back with more recommendations for Book Riot's 2018 Read Harder Challenge! Today we are tackling: 
A classic of genre fiction
A book you can read in one sitting
An essay anthology
An assigned book you hated (or didn't finish)
 
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien Watership Down by Richard Adams Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Old man and the Sea by Ernest hemingway We have always lived in the castle by Shirley Jackson The ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
The Fire This Time, edited by Jesamyn Ward Rereadings, edited by Annie Fadiman Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, edited by Roxane Gay Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to have Kids, edited by Meghan Daum Double Bind: Women on Ambition, edited by Robin Romm
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Tripods trilogy by John Christopher
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