Apparently it’s been longer than I thought since I posted about what I’ve been reading. Oops! I’m still working on the read harder challenge – I’ve read books in 10 of the 24 categories. I’m trying to queue them up and alternate reading them with other titles, which has helped. I also dug out some comics that got semi-forgotten before we moved and then buried in the move, and oh man, was it ever dumb of me to not read that stuff ages ago.

April

• The White Queen, Philippa Gregory
• The Crane Wife, Patrick Ness
• The Best American Short Stories 2016, Junot DÍaz, editor

May

• A Model World and Other Stories, Michael Chabon
• Exit West, Mohsin Hamid (a book in which all point-of-view characters are people of color)
• The Woman in Cabin 10, Ruth Ware
• The Girls, Emma Cline
• The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach (a book about sports)
• Managing to Change the World, Alison Green

June

• The Trespasser, Tana French
• The Night Watch, Sarah Waters (a book about war)
• The Fireman, Joe Hill
• Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy, Noelle Stephenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters & Brooke A. Allen
• The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (a banned or frequently challenged book)
• Belgravia, Julian Fellowes
• Today Will Be Different, Maria Semple

July

• The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (a book set more than 5,000 miles away)
• Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max; Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan; Vol. 4: Out of Time; Noelle Stephenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters & Brooke A. Allen
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe, Ryan North & Erica Henderson (an all-ages comic)
• French Revolutions for Beginners, Michael J. LaMonica
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 2: Squirrel You Know it’s True, Vol. 3: Squirrel, You Really Got Me Now; Vol. 4: I Kissed a Squirrel and I Liked It; Vol. 5: Like I’m the Only Squirrel in the World; Ryan North & Erica Henderson
• Girl in Dior, Annie Goetzinger
• Signs Preceding the End of the World, Yuri Herrera
• The Summer Before the War, Helen Simonson
• The End is Nigh, John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey (Editors)
• Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro & Taki Soma
• Eleanor and Hick, Susan Quinn