So…. this year, I am trying to beat the number of books I read last year (which I think was exactly two, or maybe three). My goal is 30 books in 2018. Even that is probably unrealistic (says the girl with an entire bag full of goal planners…), but hey when you aim high you land somewhere near the stars or however the saying goes.
I’ll be tracking this here as well as on Goodreads (let’s be friends there). When I did this back in 2012, I did periodic updates (I think one month at a time) so I want to do that again because hey, I might as well put my English degree to good use by writing book reviews.
Books To Be Read – My List
- Something from the True Crime genre (The Fact of a Body – by Deckle Edge)
- A book set in India
- A book published in 1984
- A book from an antagonist’s point of view
- A book from Amazon’s 100 Books To Be Read In A Lifetime (maybe The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – by Rebecca Skloot)
- A book published in 2018
- A book told through letters (this is one of my most favorite literary devices!)
- An Oprah Book Club selection
- A YA book
- A non-fiction business book
- A social science book
- A memoir by a POC
- A book that’s sat on my bookshelf for years
- A celebrity biography/memoir
- A political figure biography/memoir
- Historical fiction (probably something by Margaret George!)
- A book by an Indie author
- An author’s debut book
- A mystery
- A productivity book (thinking Essentialism: The Art of Less by James Latham)
- A cookbook
- A classic I have not yet read
- Something by Margaret Atwood or William Faulkner that I haven’t yet read
- A book that’s been sitting in my amazon wishlist for years (Back to Abnormal by Dana Wildsmith)
- A craft or DIY book
- A book about nature or by a naturalist (thinking Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard)
- A southern gothic novel
- A magical realism novel
- Something suggested by my husband
- Something suggested by a friend (taking suggestions now!)
Want to download my list and adapt it for your own reading challenge? As a special thank you for joining my email list, I’m offering my 2018 Reading Challenge as a free printable. It includes the list above (minus my personalizations) plus spaces to write in your book choices. Grab it below –