The Book Riot Reading Challenge 2015

Here are the 24 reading challenges from The Book Riot for 2015 and the book I read to complete the challenge.

1. A book written by someone when they were under the age of 25
Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic
2. A book written by someone when they were over the age of 65
Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis
3. A collection of short stories (either by one person or an anthology by many people) 
Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis
4. A book published by an indie press 
Housebound by Elizabeth Gentery
5. A book by or about someone that identifies as LGBTQ 
6. A book by a person whose gender is different from your own
Falling Sky by Rajan Khanna
7. A book that takes place in Asia 
China Road by Rob Gifford
8. A book by an author from Africa 
9. A book that is by or about someone from an indigenous culture (Native Americans, Aboriginals, etc.)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
10. A microhistory 
11. A YA novel
Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly
12. A sci-fi novel 
  The Martian by Andy Wier
13. A romance novel 
The Collector by Nora Roberts
14. A National Book Award, Man Booker Prize or Pulitzer Prize winner from the last decade
15. A book that is a retelling of a classic story (fairytale, Shakespearian play, classic novel, etc.)
16. An audiobook  
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
17. A collection of poetry 
18. A book that someone else has recommended to you
Housebound by Elizabeth Gentery
19. A book that was originally published in another language 
Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic
20. A graphic novel, a graphic memoir or a collection of comics of any kind 
Wolf Children Ame & Yuki by Mamoru Hosoda
21. A book that you would consider a guilty pleasure (Read, and then realize that good entertainment is nothing to feel guilty over)
Afterlight by Elle Jasper
22. A book published before 1850
23. A book published this year
Frostfire by Amanda Hocking
24. A self-improvement book (can be traditionally or non-traditionally considered “self-improvement”)
The Life Changing Magic of Tiding Up by Marie Kondo