On today's episode we're once again helping you tackle your 2018 Read Harder Challenge. Book Riot has one of the best yearly reading challenges but how do you find books to match each task? We've got your back. To find additional challenge book ideas check out episodes #192, #217, and #245.
 
A comic written or drawn by a person of color
Check, Please by Ngozi Ukazu
Monstress by Marjorie Liu
Malice in Ovenland by Micheline Hess
Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
M.F.K. by Nilah Magruder
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
Today's task recommendations: 
The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series
Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi
The Belles by Dhionelle Clayton
Strange Fire by Tommy Wallach
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
You Don't Know My Name by Kristen Orlando
The all the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
 
A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
Long Black Veil by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Speakers of the Dead by J. Aaron Sanders
Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter
 
A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60
FYI - Any Miss Marple mystery by Agatha Christie will work
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Lillian Boxfish Take a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J Gaines
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