Reading challenges and want to read 2022

[litskispeciality]

Do you do follow or try to complete a specific reading challenge, rather than just read so many pages or books? I've never done a reading challenge, but feel it would help motivate me.

Also, do you have anything old, new etc. on your want to read 2022 list? Thinking of starting one, then when I hit a slump go back to that. I feel crossing things off will also motivate me to pick up or start a second one at the same time etc.

[litskispeciality]

So far on my list I'm adding:

The Defense
The Story Teller (Dave Grohl)
Acid for the Children (Flea)
The Guest List
Lucky by Marissa Stapley
One of Us is Lying

[travella]

I don't do reading challenges beyond my Goodreads total books goal (which I intentionally set low).  I tried many years ago to complete a couple challenges I founds online.  I found that it took some of the fun from reading for me.  I felt pressured to complete awful books or books I had no interest in to fill a category.

Books I look forward to for 2022:

The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

Sea of Tranquility by Emily Mandel

The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni - a lot of people have recommended this

In Order to Live by Park Yeonmi

I also want to read some more books by Nadia Hashimi.  She wrote Sparks Like Stars which I liked.

[charlatti]

I just do a number goal via Goodreads. I get a lot of different book recommendation emails, and I enjoy looking for new releases and older books I hadn’t heard of. So my to-read list is always stocked and that’s really what motivates me to read. I have done challenges once or twice but I always felt like I was really stretching the categories so I could read what I wanted to read.

[tcu2003]

I just do a number of books read goal via Goodreads. And I have a constantly growing to-read list there, so I pick whatever sounds interesting to me, or a topic I want to read more on, when I need my next book. Or sometimes what’s available immediately through the e-library book options if my local library.

[tacokick]

I hate having reading goals so I don’t really set one. On GoodReads I just set a low number goal so it will connect all books for the year for me.

I do try to read a range of genres each year but don’t get too nuts about it. I already read from a pretty wide range of women’s voices. This year I read around 22 books by men out of 260 and all but 4 were nonfiction. Not trying to hear what more men have to say in 2022. I did try to read more translated international books since so many more are available now then ever before and will probably try that again.

I don’t know. I clearly read a lot but I hate making it feel like homework so I don’t like to put a lot of parameters on it. I also don’t like being told what to read so anything but the most basic online “book club” is beyond me.


I get a lot of books from Netgalley and ones I get turned down for, I suggest to my library for ebooks so I get them right away when it comes out. I track a lot of authors too. I don’t have a to-read list though.

[aurora]

Some years I have tried to match my reading to category lists I found online, but in reality these didn't impact what I read very much (maybe ~5 books a year out of my typical 50) so I stopped. I don't even set a number goal but I do keep track and compare from year to year for fun.