This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is about the reading goals I want to accomplish by the end of the year.
There’s a part of me that wants to just read whatever I feel like for a few months. Which would be okay. I haven’t met a lot of the reading goals I started the year with, but then this year hasn’t really gone as expected.
My first goal, or 8 goals really, is to finish this year’s 52 Book Club. I’ve completed 44 prompts, and most of the remaining ones shouldn’t be too hard. Here’s what I still need to read and my ideas for each category.
- High Fantasy: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
- Published Posthumously: Savor by Fatima Ali
- Second-hand book: All Clear by Connie Willis
- Nordic Noir: The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell
- Newbery winner: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- Same name as me: Florida Woman by Deb Rogers
- City of Dublin: So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan or The Gathering by Anne Enright
- Octavia Butler: Dawn
I also want to read more of the books that are sitting on my shelves, like Under a Veiled Moon by Karen Odden, Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens, How Can I Help You by Laura Sims, Congratulations, the Best is Over by R. Eric Thomas, and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.
I’ve also been thinking a lot about re-reading favorite books, like Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, Harry Potter, and Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver. But rather than start on that now, I’m thinking about creating a challenge next year for re-reading, if anyone would be interested.
And finally, I’ve been promising Mr. CG forever that I’d read one of his favorite books, Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I’ve only heard great things about the book and it sounds like one I’d like.
I may not read all of these, but those are my reading goals for the rest of the year. What are your reading goals?
