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2024 Yearly 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 is: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mandel
 


2. Pulitzer Challenge
Personal
Read the current Pulitzer Prize winner announced in May of each year. And read these past winners from a list I created.:
1. 2024 winner: Nightwatch by Jane Ann Phillips
2. 2004 winner: The Known World by Edward Jones
-The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Completed March 1, 2024
-Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. Completed April 9, 2024.



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.


 


4. Discussion Challenge
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:


 

5. Goodreads Challenge
Read 100+ in 2024
I will keep track of my books on the Goodreads website.

 

6. Classics Club List
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:
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf




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




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.



9. Printz Award
Personal
Read the Printz Award winner and finalists. (Announced in late January) 
Award Winner: Collections edited by A.S. King




10. Write reviews for all book club selections.
Personal




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-
2016-
2021-
2024a.- The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright
2024b.- Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan

-Anne



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