2026 Reading Challenge discussion

I want to slow down my reading pace next year, so I'm setting my Goodreads challenge for 2020 to 104 books. That is two books per week and easily achievable for me. My reading goals for next year are going to be non-numerical in terms of total number of books to be read. My goals are centered around specific authors, genres, topics or series I want to either catch-up on or start. I don't know what the total is for the goals listed below, and I'm not going to count them. Anything else I read will be chosen based on my mood at the time.

1) Lisa Wingate's two newest novels:

Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

The Book of Lost Friends

Her backlist that I haven't finished yet. That comprises 5 of her older books:
Dandelion Summer

Good Hope Road

The Language of Sycamores

Drenched in Light

A Thousand Voices

2) 2 books about the body and nutrition:

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease

3) 2 books about female world leaders:

Margaret Thatcher

The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe

4) 2-3 Christian non-fiction books: TBD

5) 1 book on each of the 7 F's of Oola: I know that doesn't make sense to anyone else, but it does to me. They are seven F's found in a great book titled, OOLA Find Balance in an Unbalanced World

Faith: Ordering Your Private World

Family: The Five Love Languages Singles Edition

Field: probably Strengths Finder 2.0

Finance: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

Fitness: I'll probably use The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma for this, or maybe a book about the Paleo nutritional plan.

Friends: Truth and Beauty

Fun: Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

6) Finish Sue Grafton's series - I still have M - W left to read. I don't now if I'll finish all of them this year.

7) Continue the Daniel Allon series - I'm thinking may be 4-6 of them for this year.

8) 10 books-in-translation (two per quarter)

9) At least 2 of Bill O'Reilly's "Killing" series. Probably Killing Kennedy and then either Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency or Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General. Although, his next book is Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America and that sounds like it will pretty good, if hard to read.

10) Try the Louise Penny Inspector Gamache series...again. I've tried two of her books and didn't finish either one of them.

11) Read 2 classics: TBD

12) Read a tome: Anna Karenina

13) Read a YA series: Probably the Gallagher Girls series - don't know if I will read them all in 2020. Maybe The Flavia de Luce series.

14) A book involving sports - Pitch by Pitch: My View of One Unforgettable Game

15) A book involving music - Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan

16) Read a banned book on Banned Books Week

17) Find a couple of "fun" series: I'm thinking about The Kopp Sisters series by Amy Stewart and the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mysteries by Vicki Delaney

18) MMD monthly book picks and flight picks

19) 2020 MMD Reading Challenge - all of these books will come from the book, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List by James Mustich

I'm not going to put together a specific schedule, but I'll loosely distribute them evenly over the year.

If 104 is "slowing down" I can't magine what you read when you're reading full speed :D

Great goals though :) happy reading and good luck with your reading challenge :)