Reading Goals for 2019

I looked at my laughably ambition 2018 goals, and I decided to modify them a bit.

I would like to read 100 new to me books this year. I decided to set that as a reasonable number and add more on as I re-read any or set a better pace or read anything too easy to count. After comparing last year’s reads with this year, I decided I needed to step up my goal for nonfiction and break it down into chunks. I think I want to average about 4 nonfiction books a month for about 48 total. I still need to work setting a note-taking habit.

• Continue on my U.S. history study. I read all of one, I believe towards that this year and that one was in the early part of the year.
• The Modern Mrs. Darcy Challenge (since it’s smaller this year)
  • A book you’ve been meaning to read
  • A book about a topic that fascinates you
  • A book in the backlist of a favorite author
  • A book recommended by someone with great taste
  • Three books by the same author
  • A book you chose for the cover
  • A book by an author who is new to you
  • A book in translation
  • A book outside your (genre) comfort zone
  • A book published before you were born
• Read my borrowed books (in flux, but I think around 5 now) and unread owned physical books (mostly devotional types books, several of them gifts, I think around 30). I’d also like to read several of my ebooks.
• Classics Club: I’m working on War and Peace currently on Serial reader, so that should be finished this year. I’d like to read all the Shakespeare’s plays that I have listed, 10, I think. I’d like to finish the Ernest Hemingway novels, and try one C.S. Lewis, and maybe at least start Kristin Lavransdatter.
• I would like to read 2 poetry collections, 2 essay collections, 4 non Shakespearean plays, 4 autobiographies/memoirs/biographies, and 10 scholarly journal articles. I might look over the Pulitzer Prizes for some works.
• At least one book in each of these categories:
  • World history
  • Personal development
  • Critical thinking
  • Logic
  • Interpersonal communication
  • Art
  • Music
  • Travel
  • Geopolitics
  • Religion/theology
  • Personal finance
  • Science (non-medical)
• At least 4 fiction and 4 nonfiction from outside the U.S. and Europe
• My re-reading possibilities
  • Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries
  • Maybe Anne of Green Gables series
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • To Have and To Hold
  • The Tale of Two Cities
  • Book of Walter Scott’s Poetry
  • Ivanhoe
  • Aunt Jane’s Hero
  • Evelina
  • The Book Thief
  • The Harvester