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Written by a South East Asian Author: The Ghost Bride by Yangzee Choo
Biography: The Girl Who Walked Home Alone by Charlotte Chandler
Feminist: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Science: Cosmos by Carl Sagan (still currently reading)
Set in the Middle East: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Notable Mentions of non-challenge books:

1. Laika by Nick Abadzis


2. Step Aside, Pops by Kate Beaton


3. The Assisstants by Camille Perri (goodreads win)


4. more of the Dublin Murder Squad series


5. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness


6. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston


7. The Master of Blacktower by Barbara Michaels (must get more gothic romance, even if it's trashy)


8. The Boss by Abigail Barnette


9. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

I've been thinking of a scene in Freedom Writers (one of the more condescending white teacher+black/brown students movies), it goes like: the students are reading Diary of a Young Girl. One girl excitedly says something like "OMG, do Peter and Anne hook up?" The movie is about the poor education system, so you can't blame students for not knowing much about the Holocaust. BUT how does Hilary Swanks character reply? Something like "You just have to keep reading and find out... [smirk]"

I didn't think of it much back then, but now I'm like WTF?! This isn't Gone Girl!