Ep. #192 — Read Harder 2018 Challenge Part 1

Our friends over at Book Riot have put out their annual Read Harder Challenge and we’re going to help you find some books! 

In this episode we offer some recommendations for the following challenge items:

• A book published posthumously 
• True Crime
• A book set in or about a BRICS country
• Science fiction with a female protagonist written by a female author

Books Mentioned In This Episode:

• Ariel by Sylvia Plath
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
• A False Report by T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• The Innocent Man by John Grisham
• American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
• Breaking Free by Rachel Jeffs
• Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn
• Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
• Ranger Games by Ben Blum
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
• Captains of the sands by Jorge Amado
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• Dry White Season by Andre Brink
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Provenance by Ann Leckie
• Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
• The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
• The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• Midnight Robber by Nala Hopkinson

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