#BookRiot Read Harder Challenge 2018

I've been enjoying reacquainting myself with book blogs and book lover sites.  It is between semesters, and although #IShouldBeWriting, I'm enjoying rekindling my love of reading.  New Years is a good time to reflect and I've been working on my #WordOfTheYear #WOTY - which is CULTIVATE.  One thing I'm cultivating is my reading habit.  In my explorations, I rediscovered my GoodReads account that has been inactive for over a year.  I had joined the Book Riot group a while ago and I was reminded of the Read Harder Challenge.  So - I'm going to commit to that challenge too, because it opens some other possibilities for titles.
Here are the tasks - from Book Riot's site:

1. A book published posthumously
2. A book of true crime
3. A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci fi/fantasy, romance)
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)
6. A book about nature
7. A western
8. A comic written or illustrated by a person of color
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
13. An Oprah Book Club selection
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
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
22. An essay anthology
23. A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60
24. An assigned book you hated (or never finished)