EJ's 2023 Reading Goals

[✨EJ✨]

Declaring my goals for 2023! Yep, I reduced my target for the 100 Books to Read Before You Die shelf 🙃

20 Books on my want to read list prior to January 1, 2023
1. A Deadly Influence
2. Damaged Intentions
3. She Can Run
4. Lie To Her
5. The Keepers of Metsan Valo
6. Angels' Blood
7. Homicide and Halo-Halo
8. Find Me
9. Yours Truly
10. Sweet Dreams
11. Heart-Shaped Box
12. For the Throne
13. Ghost 19
14. Rules of Prey
15. The Night Raven
16. Trust Me
17. The House Across the Lake
18. Sky in the Deep
19. Trust No One
20. Dark Age
🎉 Goal reached 07.20.
21. Coyote Blue

10 Books that have been on my bookshelf, Kindle, or Audible library prior to January 1, 2023:
1. A Deadly Influence
2. The Keepers of Metsan Valo
3. Homicide and Halo-Halo
4. Find Me
5. Heart-Shaped Box
6. Cold Evidence (re-read)
7. Before the Storm (re-read)
8. Into the Storm (re-read)
9. Catalyst (re-read)
10. Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
🎉 Goal reached 06.08.
11. Red Rising (re-read)
12. Golden Son (re-read)
13. Morning Star (re-read)
14. Iron Gold (re-read)
15. Dark Age

10 Books from ethnically diverse authors:
1. The 30-Day Sketchbook Project by Minnie Small
2. The Garden by Tomi Adeyemi
3. What the Dead Know by Nghi Vo
4. The Candles Are Burning by Veronica G. Henry
5. Kill Night by Victor Methos
6. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
7. Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh
8. Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala
9. Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
10. Deluge by Charmaine Wilkerson
🎉 Goal reached 04.29.
11. Mother Country by Etaf Rum
12. The Days Before Us by Sejal Badani
13. A Planned Occasion by Angie Kim
14. Hide by Tracy Clark
15. Zen to Done by Leo Babauta
16. Treasure by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Read 10 books set in 10 different countries:
I live in the US, so I won't count any of those 😉
1. The Garden (Brazil)
2. The Silence of the Girls, The Women of Troy (Ancient Greece)
3. Bring Them Home, Where Secrets Lie, Don't Turn Back, House of Lies, On Cold Ground, What She Said, Me Before You, An Inquiry Into Love and Death, The Night Raven, The Raging Storm, The Girls on the Shore, A Rip Through Time, The Poisoner's Ring, A Curious Beginning, A Perilous Undertaking, A Treacherous Curse (UK)
4. The Road Home (France)
5. Catalyst (Djibouti, South Sudan)
6. Inside Information (Israel)
7. Trust Me (Jordan)
8. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well (Denmark)
9. The Butterfly Collector, The Woman in the Library (Australia)
10. Sea of Tranquility, Three Mages and a Margarita, Warping Minds & Other Misdemeanors, Dark Arts and a Daiquiri, Four Shifters and a Stranger, A Damsel and a Demigod, Demon Magic and a Martini, Hellbound Guilds & Other Misdirections, Taming Demons for Beginners, The Maid's Diary, A Rip Through Time, The Alchemist and an Amaretto, A Little Warped, Slaying Monsters for the Feeble (Canada)
🎉 Goal reached 07.29.
11. Treasure (Nigeria)

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Also, I threw my hat in for the Alphabet Challenge!
🎉 Challenge completed on 08.30 💃🏻🕺🏼