Reading Plans for Next Year?

[MK]

Paula W wrote: "Agreed on Austen. I loved the other two. 😜"

:D

[Tammy]

Yes, Paula, you have yourself a fine plan for next year! Great idea.

[Leni]

Wow, that looks like a longtime project for sure! I've bookmarked the page. Many of them are already on my TBR, or I have already read them, but there are books there that I'm not familiar with at all.

[Julie]

Aubrey wrote: "Now that it's been released, I'll be participating in the Reading Women Challenge of 2019, in addition to any reading women challenges put on by this group. You can see the RWC 2019 layout here:

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This looks great, I might try this one (will start listening to the podcast for sure)

[Luke]

Julie wrote: "This looks great, I might try this one (will start listening to the podcast for sure) "

I'm glad to hear that, Julie. I look forward to seeing what you pick for the challenge. Some suggestions for each topic can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

[Sam]

Angie wrote: "I'm about 90% sure I'm going to do a Literary Movements challenge this year so I can experience the evolution of literature. Any suggestions on that would be helpful. I found one that someone poste..."

That sounds really cool!

[Paula W]

Leni wrote: "Wow, that looks like a longtime project for sure! I've bookmarked the page. Many of them are already on my TBR, or I have already read them, but there are books there that I'm not familiar with at ..."

I just figured out that I have read 33/100 on the list, so that’s exciting and makes this challenge easier to take on. As a bonus, I also realized that many of the ones I haven’t read have never been read by this group. I am looking forward to nominating some of them every month!

[Lois]

My reading goal is 100 books that I plan to track on Goodreads! I don't always list what I'm reading, so I plan on displaying all of the books (of all genres) that I read, including ARCs!

[Hayley]

cool - - sign me up!

[Leni]

Paula W wrote: "I just figured out that I have read 33/100 on the list, so that’s exciting and makes this challenge easier to take on. As a bonus, I also realized that many of the ones I haven’t read have never been read by this group. I am looking forward to nominating some of them every month!"

I have read 31 of them. Or 32 if I can count Grimm's fairy tales, but I'm not 100% sure I've read all of them.
The Telegraph has a shorter list of only 30 books. (And some that are not on the 100 list.) I've read 12 of those.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/wha...

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I plan on participating in celebrating George Eliot next year. I just love her. And I typically do a “52 Books in 52 weeks” challenge I find every year on Pinterest. Otherwise I’m not doing any other challenges. I’d like to do more buddy reads. I’m also going to finish our group bookshelf and keep up with future choices. My biggest issue actually is writing my reviews. I hate writing my reviews, but I know it’s a necessary evil, especially since I read a ton of Netgalley books. So a huge goal is to be more timely. But I never stick to any formal future reading plan. I’m contrary and read where my mood takes me.

[Erin]

I’ve started planning — well, only thoughts and the beginnings of a list yet — my reading for 2020. 😂😂😂 What madness is this? Well, it is easier to pry books off my 2019-to-be-read list if I don’t feel I’m dropping them to be lost in the maelstrom of General TBR... The theme will likely emerge along the lines of tomes-keeping-the-bookshelf-in-place...

[siriusedward]

Thats something .. :)

[Sara, New School Classics]

And I thought I was a planning nut. I can't even think about 2020 yet. lol. Happy reading, Erin.

[Renee]

Sara wrote: "And I thought I was a planning nut. I can't even think about 2020 yet. lol. Happy reading, Erin."

I know eh? I don't even have a plan for next year yet! I'm a bit of a procrastinator though :)

[siriusedward]

A-Z is a list I fill up after I read at least some books on my other challenge list ,as it fills up it gives me a sense of achievement..of course ,some letters have never yet been filled..not all together ,at least...

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

If anyone is interested in the 52 topics in 52 weeks Challenge let me know
I’ll be more than happy to post it! A few of us are doing it as a buddy challenge.

[Erin]

Matt wrote: "I like the idea, Erin! I’ve already put together an A-Z author list for 2019 and 2020. I will probably add other challenges and fill with extra stuff on my tbr, but planning gives me a road map to ..."

Wow, you are organized! I try not to plan too much for the year so that I don’t deny myself if some unplanned book strikes my fancy, but I tend to get carried away anyway! 😂

Sara wrote: "And I thought I was a planning nut. I can't even think about 2020 yet. lol. Happy reading, Erin."

Hehe, thank you! 😆 It’s really just a strategy to focus my planning for 2019 as I want to focus on classics of China and Japan but there are several major western classics that I want to make sure I get to and I know I won’t have time next year. It just somehow makes me feel better to move these to a 2020 TBR list than to just remove them from my 2019 list. 😅

[Darren]

Erin - I'm the same - I have a whole series of exclusive shelves that my books need to work their way up through before they get to currently-reading!

also, you can just make any shelf (including your main "Want-to-Read" shelf) sortable and put all the higher priority titles nearer the top