I did it! Here are the books I ended up reading for the 2019 Read Harder challenge. I am trying to write reviews for every book I read as well, although I didn’t manage to do so this year. Where I could, I linked to my review of the book.

1. An epistolary or collection of letters: Dear Committee Members – Julie Schumacher
2. An alternate history novel: Blood and Ink – DK Marley
3. A book by a woman and/or AOC that won a literary award in 2018: Circe– Madeleine Miller (and the best lines from Circe…)
4. A humor book: Dear Committee Members – Julie Schumacher
5. A book by a journalist or about journalism: Get Well Soon – Jennifer Wright
6. A book by an AOC set in or about space: Binti – Nnedi Okorafor
7. An #ownvoices book set in Mexico or Central America: Fruit of the Drunken Tree – Ingrid Rojas Contreras
8. An #ownvoices book set in Oceania: Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera
9. A book published prior to Jan. 1, 2019 with fewer than 100 reviews on Goodreads: Pandora the Curious – Joan Holub
10. A translated book written by and/or translated by a woman: All This I Will Give to You – Dolores Redondo
11. A book of manga: Fence Vol. 1 – CS Pacat, illustrated by Johanna the Mad
12. A book in which an animal or inanimate object is a point-of-view character: Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy – Tui T. Sutherland
13. A book by or about someone that identifies as neurodiverse: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
14. A cozy mystery: The Tale of Hill Top Farm – Susan Wittig Albert
15. A book of mythology or folklore: Trail of Lightning – Rebecca Roanhorse
16. An historical romance by an AOC: Forbidden– Beverly Jenkins
17. A business book: Total Money Makeover – Dave Ramsey
18. A novel by a trans or nonbinary author: The Salt Roads – Nalo Hopkinson
19. A book of nonviolent true crime: The Library Book – Susan Orlean
20. A book written in prison: The Consolation of Philosophy – Boethius
21. A comic by an LGBTQIA creator: Fence, vol. 1 – CS Pacat, illustrated by Johanna the Mad
22. A children’s or middle grade book (not YA) that has won a diversity award since 2009: In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse – Joseph Marshall III
23. A self-published book: Blood and Ink – DK Marley
24. A collection of poetry published since 2014: Fig Tree in Winter – Anne Graue