
2020 Reading Challenge
Number of Books
Sticking to 25. It’s a good number and achievable (read in Maude Lebowski’s voice).
Gender
Equal spit of women/men (or I’ll go off the rails again and read more books by women like I did last year) + one or more written by a non-binary person.
Diversity
Thirty percent people of color. I read a lot of white authors last year and thirty percent seems like a good place to start. I’m also going to be searching out more books written by authors who don’t hail from the US or UK.
Audiobooks
Still on a mission to find some enjoyment listening to audio books. Goal: one fiction, one nonfiction.
Poetry
50/50 women/men; two to four collections
Reading Women Podcast Challenge
Follow and finish their challenge which will definitely help with my other goals. I made note of their challenge last year but didn’t want to fully adhere to it—had other things going on. It’s time now.
Analog Book Journal
Just want to do it because it sounds fun. I use a notebook to track goals, To-Do lists, and other things throughout the year and love it. Why not expand to a book journal?
DNF
An important one. I do sometimes make exceptions to the did-not-finish rule if I’m not loving it but am finding it interesting enough, or want to have context for something. I might keep track of unfinished books and note why I put them down.