It's that time of the year! As tumultuous as my reading this year was with a lot of reading slumps, I am still setting up a few goals for myself as well as joining a couple of reading challenges for 2024. You might notice that my goals are overall pretty forgiving and can also easily be doubled up.
Goal #1: Read 50 Books
A standard goal! I don't press myself to read X number of books in a year. My focus is always on quality, so for GoodReads and the like, my number goal is always something attainable for me.
Goal #2: Finish/Catch-up on 6 series
I'm keeping this from this year, because this went pretty well, I thought! I want to prioritize series I've already started and not necessarily start and end series within 2024, but I'll take what I can get!
Goal #3: Read 10 books over 450 pages
Another goal I'm kind of holding over from 2023, but I want to push myself to reach for more intimidating, longer books on my TBR as I usually gravitate to shorter novels/novellas
Goal #4: Read 10 books I physically own
My physical TBR is looking... pretty bad, y'all. The shelves are double stacked with books I haven't yet read, but my library's ebook library continues to entice me... so I need to prioritize books I already own. A lot of these, who could've guessed, are also bigger books or books I'm halfway through a series with, so this is a goal I really need to focus on.
Goal #5: Keep up to date on eARCs
This year, with the reading slumps and all, I was pretty late on my ARC reviews. I know there are readers who post reviews much later than I do, but it still makes me anxious when I don't post a review at least within the same month of the publishing date. So 2024, I want to catch up on 2023 eARCS, be better about reading and reviewing ARCs, and also make sure I'm only requesting books I'm really interested in.
And now the reading challenges! These are all year-long reading challenges, mainly focused on trying to make my reading a little more intentional. I'm also going to blame my recent joining of StoryGraph for why I've joined all of these challenges... it's just so fun and easy to join a challenge and add my books to it!
Reading Challenge #1: Decolonize Reading Journey
This is probably the most intimidating challenge of the bunch, but in a good way! Started by Dominique of paperbacks_n_frybread, these 32 challenges are aimed at decolonizing your reading, as the title suggests. I enjoyed Black Walnut Book's reading challenge of last year, so I decided to give a similar but different challenge a shot.
This journey is intimidating as many of the challenges are very specific. You see the full list here on Instagram, but as a sample, the challenges range from "an Immigrant memoir" to "Book by a Sami author" and "Poetry by a South Asian Author." I hope to fulfill as many prompts as I can. If you are also participating in the challenge, let's trade recommendationss!
Reading Challenge #2: Read Queerly
This is a reading challenge started by Alex of obscurepages with the simply goal of reading books with LGBTQ+ characters. There's a bingo board and a Storygraph reading challenge if you want to have a look!
I don;t have a set TBR for this, as I read a lot of queer books, so I'm just going to see how the books I read, land on the board!
Reading Challenge #3: Buzzword Readathon
A hold over from last year! This is a reading challenge started by Kayla of booksandlala to take book title trends and make a readathon out of them! More information and an explanation of the prompts can be found in Kayla's announcement video here!
I'd like to read each book in the month assigned, but I'd be fine if I just manage to read all 12 prompts by the end of the year. So, here is my go-to TBR, that will most likely change throughout!
- January – "there/their/they're" - Their Troublesome Crush by Xan West
- February – positive words - Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee
- March – character names - The Two Wrong Halves of Ruby Taylor by Amanda Panitch
- April – nature words - A Dark and Drowning Tide by Alison Saft
- May – "every" - Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage
- June – repeating words - I Think I Love You by Auriane Desombre
- July – measurements - Fifteen Hundred Miles From the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa
- August – "Like" - Like A Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
- September – senses - Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson
- October – relationships - Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
- November – "Only" - The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
- December – holiday words - Her Christmas Wish by Karmen Lee
What do your yearly reading plans look like? Are you participating in the same reading challenges? Let me know in the comments!
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