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It’s here!

The 2016 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge is officially happening again, and we’re revealing the tasks today.

Join us on another year of pushing our reading further and harder.

Jobs From Fiction That Are More Exciting Than Yours: INFOGRAPHIC

I’m Pumped!

25+ Changes To This Favorite Childhood Book Show How Much Society Has Changed

[via Bored Panda]

People of Color on YA Book Covers in 2015

We’ve been tracking new releases all year, and as the year comes to a close it’s interesting take a look back and see how people of color have been represented on book covers.

In putting together this collection, I focused on covers that feature photos or illustrations of people who appear to represent the book’s main character(s) of color. I omitted images that were silhouettes that did not seem to speak to race, and images of people from the back or the distance that effectively obscured all their characteristics. I may have accidentally omitted some covers because there were quite a few of them! It’s also important to remember that not featuring a person of color on a book about a character of color is not automatically a negative. There are many evocative covers out there that don’t have any people on them. But if you’re interested in covers that do feature people of color, here is 2015’s batch. (For larger images where you can click through to the individual covers, go to this post on our website.)