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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. Completed June 28, 2024.
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.
2. The Women by Kristin Hannah
3. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel



9. Printz Award
Personal
Read the Printz Award winner and finalists. (Announced in late January) 
Award Winner: The Collectors 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- (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

-Anne



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