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As for January, I'm hitting the Tournament of Books shortlist pretty hard.The Hanging City (Week 1 Prompt, Buddy Read)
Big Swiss (Week 2, TOB)
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Week 3, TOB)
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library (Week 4, TOB)
The Shamshine Blind (Week 5, TOB)
Interesting Facts about Space (BOTM pick for January)
And then... whatever else I happen to pick up. January is usually a good reading month for me so fingers crossed that trend continues!
My friends tell me I'm a bit ambitious with my goals this year, but I figure I can always scale back if I need to, and I'm willing to overlap a lot.I set my GR goal for 75 books but I hope to get to 100 again this year.
Other Goals:
- Read ATY in order
- Read all of my IRL book club books
- Read 12 books recommended by 12 friends
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Vibrant Years by Sonali Dev
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
The Women by Kristin Hannah
- Read 12 books from my backlist print copies on my bookshelf
The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris
- Read (most of) the TOB shortlist (already knocked out 4!)
- Read or donate all of the print books I owned before Christmas 2023
That's awesome Ted! Welcome back!
December 31: I've added the links to a printable version of our ATY prompts, as well as a template you can use in your Instagram/Facebook stories, if you'd like to post about your reading. Don't forget to use the hashtags #aroundtheyearin52books and #aty2024 when you post!https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Thank you Steve!
Printable version of the 2024 list: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18gv5...Template for Instagram Stories tracking: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fg7B...
I'm not seeing it Nike. Unfortunately, with so many people on the spreadsheet, sometimes things get accidentally deleted or moved around... looks like that might be the case for yours. Sorry about that!
Not yet, but I'm working on it today!
That's an excellent goal Jackie. In the same spirit, I went through my owned physical books today and decided that anything I owned pre-Christmas presents will either need to be read or donated by the end of the year next year. It's only 26 books, so I feel like it's manageable.
December 30: It's time for our year-end survey!https://forms.gle/we5SxbYnz6erWo4d7
This will close January 10!
I haven't read either but I was also sad to see those two up against each other since I've heard great things.
Welcome Hannah! We don't have many southern hemisphere folks so it's fun to add people who are off season from the rest of us!
The final month of 2023! Keep an eye out for our year-end wrap up post, but in the meantime... let us know what your best book of December was.Answer the following questions:
- Title
- Author
- Rating
- Format (Print, eBook, Audio)
- ATY Prompt you used it for (if applicable)
- Brief reason why it was the best
2023 Best Books Listopia
The brackets have been released!https://www.tournamentofbooks.com/the...
(scroll to the bottom)
How are y'all feeling?
So far, the only pairing where I've read both books is American Mermaid and Monstrilio, and Monstrillio takes the win, hands down.
I recommend grabbing the link and saving it somewhere (I keep mine on the community spreadsheet) for easy access! You can also sort the folder alphabetically and that may help you find it quicker.
And they have a 30% off all hardcovers if you go in store for the next couple of days!
Oh Bana, I picked Babel as my favorite book of 2023, and Project Hail Mary was my best book of 2022! You're in for a good January lol
It's the same link, John. We will transition to it to 2024 when the year is over!
