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Goal: One book by an author with a last name starting with every letter of the alphabet
Started:Jan 2023
Why? Why not?
Goal: One book with a title starting with every letter of the alphabet.
Started: Jan 2023
Why? Why not?
| A | Another Cat Book |
| B | Book of sand: and, Shakespeare's memory |
| C | Calvin and Hobbes |
| D | The Darkness that Comes Before |
| E | Ella Minnow Pea |
| F | From Below |
| G | Gerrit's Notes |
| H | How to be Ace |
| I | Into the Drowning Deep |
| J | |
| K | |
| L | Le Gay Ghetto |
| M | Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years |
| N | No Straight Lines |
| O | The Ocean at the End of the Lane |
| P | Piranesi |
| Q | Queers Destroy Science Fiction! |
| R | Relax! : this book is only a phase you're going through |
| S | Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
| T | Trans-Galactic Bike Ride |
| U | |
| V | |
| W | Waiting for Godot |
| X | |
| Y | Your Body is Not Your Body |
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Goal: 5 books from every continent
Started:Jan 2023
Why? I need to read more widely.
| North America 1 | Gerrit's Notes |
| North America 2 | 100 Fathoms Below |
| North America 3 | Into the Drowning Deep |
| North America 4 | Song of Achilles |
| North America 5 | Nimona |
| South America 1 | Book of sand: and, Shakespeare's memory |
| South America 2 | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| South America 3 | |
| South America 4 | |
| South America 5 | |
| Europe 1 | Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years |
| Europe 2 | Piranesi |
| Europe 3 | Paradise Rot |
| Europe 4 | Revenge of the Librarians |
| Europe 5 | Invisible Cities |
| Asia 1 | Shiver |
| Asia 2 | Monkey King: Journey to the West |
| Asia 3 | |
| Asia 4 | |
| Asia 5 | |
| India 1 | |
| India 2 | |
| India 3 | |
| India 4 | |
| India 5 | |
| Africa 1 | The Swallows of Kabul |
| Africa 2 | |
| Africa 3 | |
| Africa 4 | |
| Africa 5 | |
| Australia 1 | From Below |
| Australia 2 | Time to Orbit: Unknown |
| Australia 3 | |
| Australia 4 | |
| Australia 5 | |
| Antarctica |
Goal: One book written in each of the most spoken languages
Started: Jan 2023
Why? I need to read more widely.
| English | Queers Destroy Science Fiction! |
| Chinese | Monkey King: Journey to the West |
| Hindi | |
| Spanish | Book of sand: and, Shakespeare's memory |
| Arabic | |
| Bengali | |
| French | The Swallows of Kabul |
| Russian | |
| Urdu | |
| Portugese |
Goal: 1 book from each of the biggest countries by size
Started:Jan 2023
Why? I need to read more widely, and going by population would align too closely to the language goal.
| Russia | |
| Canada | The Darkness that Comes Before |
| China | Monkey King: Journey to the West |
| United States | Gerrit's Notes |
| Brazil | |
| Australia | From Below |
| Argentina | Book of sand: and, Shakespeare's memory |
| Kazakhstan | |
| India | |
| Algeria | The Swallows of Kabul |
Goal: 20 books I actually own
Started:June 2024
Why? I own a lot of books
| 1 | Reluctant Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes |
| 2 | Your Body is Not Your Body |
| 3 | The Wood at Midwinter |
| 4 | Time and the Gods |
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Goal: 20 books off Libby!
Started: June 2024
Why? Use your library resources!
| 1 | The Swallows of Kabul |
| 2 | Carrie |
| 3 | A Short Stay in Hell |
| 4 | Waiting for Godot |
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Goal:1 book from each of these literary movements
Started: Jan 2024
Why? I need to read more across time.
| Renaissance | |
| Mannerism | |
| Petrarchism | |
| Baroque | |
| Marinism | |
| Conceptismo | |
| Culteranismo | |
| Precieuses | |
| Metaphysical poets | |
| Cavalier Poets | |
| Euphuism | |
| Classicism | |
| Amatory Fiction | |
| The Augustans | |
| Sentimentalism | |
| Gothic fiction | Fall of the House of Usher |
| Sturm und Drang | |
| Weimar Classicism | |
| Romanticism | |
| Dark romanticism | |
| American Romanticism | The Collected Writings of Abrose Bierce |
| Lake Poets | |
| Pre-Raphaelites | |
| Transcendentalism | |
| Realism | |
| Natrualism | |
| Verismo | |
| Social realism | |
| Socialist realism | |
| American Realism | |
| Magical realism | |
| Neo-romanticism | |
| Decadent movement | |
| Parnassianism | |
| Symbolism | |
| Russian symbolism | |
| Modernism | |
| Mahjar | |
| Futurism | |
| Cubo-Futurism | |
| Ego-Futurism | |
| Acmeism | |
| New Culture Movement | |
| Stream of conciousness | |
| Impressionism | |
| Expressionism | |
| First World War Poets | |
| Imagism | |
| Dada | |
| Imaginism | |
| The Lost Generation | |
| Stridentism | |
| Harlem Renaissance | |
| Jindyworobak movement | |
| Surrealism | |
| Los Contemporaneos | |
| Villa Seurat | |
| Objectivism | |
| Southern Agarians | |
| Postcolonialism | |
| Black Mountain poets | |
| Absurdism | Waiting for Godot |
| The Movement | |
| Nouveau roman | |
| Concrete poetry | |
| Beats | |
| Confessional poetry | |
| Oulipo | Invisible Cities |
| Postmodernism | Book of sand: and, Shakespeare's memory |
| Hungry generation | |
| New York School | |
| New Wave | |
| British Poetry Revival | |
| Language poets | |
| Spiralism | |
| Misty Poets | |
| Spoken Word | |
| Performance poetry | |
| New Formalism | |
| Sastra wangi | |
| Epathism |
Goal: Read one book in each of these genres
Started: Jan 2025
Why? I need to read more diversely.
| Action and Adventure | |
| Beach reads | |
| Classics | |
| Coming-of-age | |
| Dark academia | |
| Domestic Fiction | |
| Dystopian | |
| Erotica | |
| Fairy Tale | |
| Family Drama | |
| Fantasy | The Last Hero |
| Graphic novel | Snow, Glass, Apples |
| Historical fiction | Island of the Day Before |
| Horror | |
| LGBTQ+ | |
| Literary fiction | |
| Magical realism | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Mystery | |
| Novels in verse | |
| Romance | |
| Satire | |
| Science Fiction | |
| Short story (collection) | The Collected Writings of Abrose Bierce |
| Thriller | |
| Time Travel | |
| Women’s Fiction | |
| Art and photography | |
| Autobiography | |
| Biography | |
| Essays | |
| How-to guide | |
| Humor | |
| Memoir | |
| Narrative nonfiction | |
| Poetry | |
| Religion and spirituality | |
| Self-help | |
| Travel | |
| True crime |