We’re back with another Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week’s topic is Bookish Goals for 2024.
Last Friday, I posted about reading goals and whether they’re worth it and in that post I listed the few that I have. I’ve also made posts about two challenges I’m participating in: Choose Your Own Adventure Year in Aeldia 2024 & 2024 Buzzwordathon. After several years of reading and blogging, I’ve learned that keeping a few simple goals works better for me rather than overwhelming myself with too many goals at once. So this week, instead of listing 10 goals that I don’t have, I’m going slightly rogue and sharing five pre-2022 backlist titles and five overdue ARCs that I’m hoping to finally tackle this year for the Project Backlist Reading Challenge. My two goals for this reading challenge are:
- Committed Reader ⇢ Read an owned book a week (or a month)
- ARCrasinator ⇢ Clear overdue ARC list
Backlist Books
The Starless Sea
The Night Tiger
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Places I’ve Cried in Public
We Are Okay
Old ARCs
She Who Became the Sun
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
The Raven and the Dove
Where the Lost Wander
The Songbook of Benny Lament
Did you set many reading goals for yourself this year? Have you read any of these books or are they also still on your TBR?
dinipandareads 
Good luck! This seems like a very sensible list. 🙂
Here is my <a href=”https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-goals-for-2024/“>Top Ten Tuesday</a> post.
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Thanks, Lydia! 😃
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Good Luck Dini. This sounds very doable. I also have Where the Lost Wander and The Songbook of Benny Lament on my backlist ARC shelf. I am trying to read at least one ARC backlist book per week, starting with the ones that are the oldest (from 2014).
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Thanks, Carla! It does sound doable, I just hope that I don’t lose steam halfway. That tends to happen with me, lol 🫣 I hope you enjoy the ARCs you get to and good luck with your one ARC per week goal. That also sounds doable and I believe you can do it! 😃
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Good luck with your readings! I set some goals myself, including continuing series and trying to read as much books I own as I can instead of just keeping adding to my TBR 😅
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Thank you! I’ve seen “reading my own books” on so many peoples’ goal lists this year. I love it 😂 I hope we can all do it. Good luck with your goals and happy reading!
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I managed to come up with 9 goals, but if I don’t achieve them it’s not a worry. My main one really is to read books from my TBR. I would love to cut it down 😂
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-goals-for-2024/
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That’s great! As long as it doesn’t add pressure on you and make reading less fun, right? I hope you enjoy the journey to achieving your goals and happy reading!
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Thank you. Exactly! I read for fun and I do my best to keep it that way!
Happy Reading too!
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I have not read ANY of those books, but I do wish you luck beating the backlist and I hope you find all gems in the bunch
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Thanks, Sam! I hope so too! 😍
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I really haven’t thought about it too much so today is the day to figure it all out. 😂
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Haha, did you figure it out? I’m about to hop to your page to find out 😂
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Yes, I did! 😂 It helped to see what others were doing. It put my thoughts into words.
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I’m cheering you on. Hope it goes well.
Here is our <a href=”https://www.longandshortreviews.com/miscellaneous-musings/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-goals-for-2024/“>Top Ten Tuesday.</a>
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Thank you so much! 😍 Good luck with your goals and happy reading!
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Great book choices. I hope you get through some of them this year. 🙂
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Thanks, Louise! I hope so too! 😃
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Good luck!! This is very doable and I’m pretty sure I need to read Ten Thousand Doors too! We might have had that on our list at some point, over the past few years. haha
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HAHA I have a feeling we do have it on our list. If you’re still up for reading it together, let me know, I’d still be down for it 😂
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Absolutely!! I would always rather read a book with you! ❤
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Good luck with your goals!
Here’s my TTT.
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Thank you! Good luck to you as well 🙂
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I was sadly disappointed with She Who Became The Sun, but The Starless Sea was wonderful!! If I were you i’d start with it, it’s totally worth it 🙂
Happy reading 🙂
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I’m admittedly a bit worried I’ll not enjoy She Who Became the Sun and I’m not even sure why cos it sounds amazing. Sorry to hear it wasn’t for you! But I’m glad to hear you loved Starless Sea. I hope 2024 will be the year I finally read it! 😂 Happy reading to you as well!
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Good luck with all of these Dini! I’m definitely with you on keeping goals simple. I’ve only read The Starless Sea from this list, but I did enjoy it, hope you will too!
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Thanks, Lindsey! Keeping it simple is defo key for me, lol. Starless Sea is so well loved so I hope that I love it too 😍
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I really want to read The Starless Sea at some point this year, too. It has been on my TBR cart for a while… I hope you enjoy all of these!
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If you want a buddy to read with I’d be down! Let me know 🙂 I’m hoping this year will finally be the year I pick it up, lol. 😂
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Yes!! Just let me know when you’d like to read it. I’m game for any time after mid-February. I have a ton of ARCs to read before then.
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Awesome! I’ll be travelling in Japan until 10 March but then I’d be down to start anytime after that. Let me know if that works for you 😃 Good luck with your ARCs!
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Late March or any time after that is fine with me. Just let me know once you get back, and we can go from there. 🙂
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I’m doing several challenges this year, but other than that I’m hoping to make a dent in some of my ongoing series and stay up to date with current releases on authors/series that I’m already up to date on. Good luck with the challenges you chose!!
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Thanks, Ali! Good luck to you as well on keeping up with and making a dent in all the series you’ve got going 🙂 Happy reading!
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Committed reader! That’s what I need to do and commit to the physical books on my shelf lol. Good luck with your goals Dini!
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Hehe, I did committed reader last year as well and did a pretty mid job but I hope 2024 will be a great year for being a committed reader! 😂 Good luck to you too and happy reading!
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I loved these goals! I think you will accomplish them.
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Thanks, Deanna! I’ve got a good feeling (right now, lol, I hope it lasts)! 💜
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I really enjoyed She Who Became The Sun! I have the second book on my shelf to read.
Good luck with your goals
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I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it! It’s so well loved so I hope that I enjoy it just as much as everyone else 🙂 Good luck with your goals as well!
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Good luck with these goals, definitely all doable. Happy Reading!
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Thanks so much! 💜
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I love your idea of focusing on a few meaningful goals, Dini! I can totally relate to having a ton of backlist books and ARCs, as you well know. xD I think we even have some in common. I hope you get to read and love them all!
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Thanks, Sammie! I love the idea of setting many goals and then, well… Very little happens 😂 A simple few is where it’s at for me! I hope you enjoy all your reads this year as well! And I hope you’re doing well—it’s been sooo long since we last spoke! 💜
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It’s been toooo long! (Totally my fault, obviously). But I’ve missed you! Here’s to hoping you get to read all the good books in 2024. 😀
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I finally picked up She Who Became the Sun and enjoyed it a lot. I hope you are able to tackle these backlist books. We Are Okay is also good and short, so shouldn’t be too much of a struggle to get through. Happy reading!
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Ooh, I’m so glad to hear that you enjoyed it! It’s a very well loved book so I hope that I enjoy it as much as everyone else 🙂 I’m hoping to pick up We Are Okay soon as I seem to be in the mood for more serious sad books, lol. Happy reading to you as well, Alicia!
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I was so surprised I had ten. Of course I separated the book cart and bookshelves goal when in my head I lumped them together but still. You have some wonderful reads to catch up on. Good luck with the challenge!
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Thank you, Tessa! 😍
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ahhh good luck with all of your goals!! i can’t wait to see what you’ll think of these!
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Thanks, Kaya! 😍
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It’s an excellent idea to schedule in some backlist titles, I think! Good luck!
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I often feel like I need to do just a “clear all” and start over. Thanks for visiting.
Happy New Year and good luck on your bookish goals. My 2024 Bookish Goals-Anne
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I loved WHERE THE LOST WANDER! I hope you enjoy it and all these others. Good luck with your reading challenges.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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I love your list, Dini! I really enjoyed She Who Became the Sun and The Raven and the Dove.
The Starless Sea has been on my TBR for a couple of years too… 😐
I hope you enjoy all of these!
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I’ve had The Songbook of Benny Lament on my TBR for a while! I hope we are both able to read it this year, and enjoy it!
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!https://readbakecreate.com/goals-for-2024-book-and-blog-goals/
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That’s a great list, Dini! I’ve read and loved The Ten Thousand Doors of January so I can definitely recommend that one. I hope you end up loving them all 🙂
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Good luck with your goals! I’m also participating in Project Backlist with the same two goals 😊 I really hope I can tackle some of my owned books this year 😄
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