Reading goals in 2020

It has been a good couple of years for myself in the reading department. At the start of 2018 I made a decision to do at least some reading, from an actual book, every weekend. I wasn’t able to make every weekend in 2018 because I started a few weeks into January already, but I did manage the rest of the year. With that, I managed to cumulative about 28, depending on how you count bundled stories.

I have continued this trend into 2019 and am on pace to have a complete year of weekend reading. It’s going to come out to about 23 for the year, which is intentional. I wanted to slow down and split my overall available time a bit more between books and podcast consumption.

That brings us to 2020 though. For this upcoming new year, I wanted to see how documenting what books I have, and try to plot out which I want to try to consume. Below is the list of books I presently have at home, and none have been started yet. I need to make sure to leave room to accommodate any new books I may purchase. As many know, readers have two habits, reading books, and collecting books to eventually read.

• A Dance With Dragons – George R.R. Martin
• Aliens Steel Egg – John Shirley
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing – Hank Green
• Anubis Gates – Tim Powers
• Arcana – Musicians on Music – edited by John Zorn
• Bedknob and Broomstick – Mary Norton
• Better Than Life – Red Dwarf – Grant Naylor
• Cinnamon and Gunpowder – Eli Brown
• Complete Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Countdown to Lockdown – Mick Foley
• Different Seasons – Stephen King
• Doctor Sleep – Stephen King
• Dracula – Bram Stoker
• Everybody Writes – Ann Handley
• Everything ( A Book about Manic Street Preachers ) – Simon Price
• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
• Feed – Mira Grant
• Free Culture – Lawrence Lessig
• Furiously Happy – Jenny Lawson
• Girl in a Band – Kim Gordon
• Jeff Buckley – Dave Lory/Jim Irvin
• Misery – Stephen King
• Nightflyers and other stories – George R.R. Martin
• No Cunning Plan – Tony Robinson
• NOS4A2 – Joe Hill
• Page Turner – Barbara Kyle
• Pirate Cinema – Cory Doctorow
• Pyrates – George MacDonald Fraser
• Rowdy – Roddy Piper Story – Ariel Teal Toombs
• Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
• Self Help – Al Snow
• Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
• Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
• Take a nap, Change your life – Sara Mednick
• The Armageddon Rag – George R.R. Martin
• The Art of slow writing – Louise DeSalvo
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales – H.P. Lovecraft
• The Gunslinger – Stephen King
• The Hike – Drew Magary
• The Last Man – Mary Shelley
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
• The Pirate Hunter – Richard Zacks
• The Wizard of Oz (first 5 novels) – L. Frank Baum
• The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
• Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

It’s definitely a daunting list, with at least three of the books also being collections of multiple stories. That said, the ones in bold are the ones I am presently eying. On the topic of Goodreads challenge, I think I will stick with 20 books again, and if I go above and beyond, awesome.

Looking at the resulting bolded list, it’s appearing that it’ll be a biographically heavy year.