Time for a final accounting of how I did on my 2024 reading goals and challenges...
2024 Yearly Goals and Challenges
1. One Big Book
Personal Challenge
Read one book during the year that I consider a challenging book; a book I've avoided reading for years due to its daunting nature. Must be completed by 12/31/24.
My 2024 One Big Book was: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mandel
DONE!
2. Pulitzer Challenge
Personal
Read the current Pulitzer Prize winner announced in May of each year. +Read others from my list.:
1. 2024 winner: Nightwatch by Jane Ann Phillips. Completed June 28, 2024.
2. 2004 winner: The Known World by Edward Jones. Completed Sept. 21st.
3. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Completed March 1, 2024
4. Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. Completed April 9, 2024.
5. A Bell for Adano by John Hersey. Completed September 5, 2024
6. A Death in the Family by James Agee. Completed October 16, 2024.
7. A House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday. Completed Nov. 21, 2024
DONE!
Plus I completed my personal challenge to read all the prize winners from the 21st Century.
My Pulitzer Project finale post is here. It took me years to read all the books and months to create the post about the project.
3. National Book Award Challenge
Personal
Every year the National Book Award is given out in five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction. Poetry, Translated Literature; Young People's Literature. My goal is to read two of the five winners (or finalists) per year. This award will be announced mid-November.
I read one winner and two finalists. DONE!
Hosts: Feed Your Fiction Addiction and It Begins at Midnight.
Post a discussion topic related to books, reading, or related topics.
I'm aiming to complete the beginning level, Discussion Dabbler or 1-10 posts in 2024.
Tracking topics/dates:
Low bar. I only had to do one and I did three. DONE!
5. Goodreads Challenge
Read 100+ in 2024
I will keep track of my books on the Goodreads website.
I read 122 books. Challenge met!
6. Classics Club List
Host: The Classics Club
About ten years ago I created a list of 50 classic books I wanted to read. I kept adding titles to the list faster than I read them. I still have about 25 books left on that expanded list. This year I want to read at least five books from my list.
Tracker:
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Death in the Family by James Agee
The Postman Always Rings Twice by Cain
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
I read 9 classics, not all were on my list, however. DONE, sort of!
7. Super Past Due Reviews
A personal challenge
Write three super past due reviews (over a year old)
Reviews completed tracker:
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
I wrote two and only have one left from my original list.
8. Big Book Summer Challenge
Read 400+ page length books during summer (Memorial Day to Labor Day). My goal is 4 big books.
Tracker:
1. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed. 400 pages.
2. The Women by Kristin Hannah
3. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
4. Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
9. Printz Award
Personal
Read the Printz Award winner and finalists. (Announced in late January)
Award Winner: The Collectors edited by A.S. King
Honor Books: 1. Gather by Kenneth Cadow
2. The Girl I Was, Am, and Never Will Be by Shannon Gibney
I read three of the five books.
10. Write reviews for all book club selections.
Personal
My reviews for all 23 books here.
11. Women's Prize for Fiction, a personal challenge:
A. 2020 and forward -- read two of the finalists/winners for each year (only three books remaining.)
B. 2010-2019 -- read one of the finalists/winners for each year (Only two books remaining.) (Details)
2015- How to Be Both by Ali Smith
2016- (The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie)
2021- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyassi
2024a.- The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright
2024b.- Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan
I read 4 of the 5 Women's Prize Winners/finalists I challenged myself to read. The Portable Veblen goes back on my reading list for 2025.
-Anne
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