I’m doing the Read Harder Challenge again this year, and will indicate the categories in parentheses. I’m also trying to read more new releases – hoping for about one a month – rather than forever being the voracious reader who hasn’t read, say, Lincoln in the Bardo or The Underground Railroad yet.

That said, I’ve had a run on library holds coming in over the last few weeks, so it’s been tough to work on the Read Harder books and new releases.

• Men Explain Things To Me, Rebecca Solnit
• Nimona, Noelle Stevenson (a comic written & illustrated by the same person)
• The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin
• A Separation, Katie Kitamura
• The Biographies of Ordinary People, Vol. 1, Nicole Dieker
• Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
• The Portable Veblen, Elizabeth Mckenzie
• Elmet, Fiona Mosley (December 2017)
• The Perfume Collector, Kathleen Tessaro
• The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 6: Who Run the World? Squirrels, Ryan North and Erica Henderson (illustrator)
• Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Vol. 2, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Chris Sprouse, Rich Buckler, Brian Stelfreeze (illustrators)
• Shrubs: An Old Fashioned Drink for Modern Times, Michael Dietsch
• Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
• The Strange Bird: A Borne Story, Jeff VanderMeer
• Borne, Jeff VanderMeer

Lots of good stuff in the last couple of months. Of particular note: Borne and The Stone Sky, if you like sci-fi (the latter is the third in a trilogy); A Separation; and Sing, Unburied, Sing.