20/20 Challenge

Every year I participate in Goodreads’ Reading Challenge. For 2020, I’ll be doing something a bit different. I’ll be reading no new books for the whole year. Instead I’ve collected many of my all-time favorites and committed to re-reads only, because (wait for it) hindsight is 20/20 and I’m interested in exploring the headspace of re-discovery, particularly of books I read and fell in love with a very long time ago.

While probably impossible to create a definitive favorites list, and improbable to actually get my hands on all of them and read them all in a year, this is going to be a fuzzy challenge. Rather than a hard number, the goal is the concept: To reach back in time, pan through the silt for the nuggets, and create a space for myself to wander among my all time favorite worlds, characters, and writing styles for one whole year. The physical list will probably change as I go, but here’s where it stands as of this writing:

- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
- Inferno by Dante Alighieri
- The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
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