my 2020 reading goals

So this post was meant to happen 6 weeks ago at the beginning of the year, and then it didn’t. I planned out my reading goals back in December and then life happened and it never got written. But it is still the first quarter of 2020, so no time like the present to share with you my 2020 reading goals.

Number of Books

Last year I made it a goal to read 300 books in the year and while I did hit it by the end December seemed like it was a constant race to catch up to the goal. So this year I have massively scaled back. Officially on Goodreads I put a goal of 52 books, but in reality I don’t have a goal for a certain number. I want to be able to read whatever I want without worrying about hitting a certain amount. So I can read Children’s books and giant adult books without worrying.

Goodreads Choice Awards

Like I have for the past two years I am going to read one of the top books of the Goodreads Choice Awards in each category. I choose the top book that I haven’t read or wasn’t already on my to-read list. Here are the books that I will be reading for this:

Category	Book	Author
Fiction	Normal People	Salley Rooney
Mystery and Thriller	The Lost Man	Jane Harper
Historical Fiction	The Giver of Stars	Jojo Moyes
Fantasy	The Ten Thousand Doors of January	Alix E. Harrow
Romance	Things You Save in a Fire	Katherine Center
Science Fiction	Recursion	Blake Crouch
Horror	The Institute	Stephen King
Humour	William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Mean Girls	Ian Doescher
Non-Fiction	Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed	Lori Gottlieb
Memoir & Autobiography	Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years	Julie Andrews
History & Biography	Before and After: The Incredible Real Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennesse Children’s Home Society	Judy Christie
Science & Technology	Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men	Caroline Criado-Perez
Food and Cookbooks	Antoni in the Kitchen	Antoni Porowski
Graphic Novels	They Called Us Enemy	George Takei
Poetry	Lord of the Butterflies	Andrea Gibson
Debut Novel	A Woman Is No Man	Etaf Rum
Young Adult	Five Feet Apart	Rachael Lippincott
Young Adult Fantasy	Serpent & Dove	Shelby Mahurin
Middle Grade	The Bridge Home	Padma Venkatraman
Picture Books	Sulwe	Lupita Nyong’o

Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge

I have heard about this challenge for a few years now, but this year I am going to try tackling it. Some of the prompts on this list are quite interesting and I am excited to see what I can read for this challenge. I haven’t picked the books for this yet, but I will keep you updated on what I am reading from it. These links will take you to ideas for each of the challenges which I will be picking from. The challenges are as follows:

1. Read a YA nonfiction book
2. Read a retelling of a classic of the canon, fairytale, or myth by an author of color
3. Read a mystery where the victim(s) is not a woman
4. Read a graphic memoir
5. Read a book about a natural disaster
6. Read a play by an author of color and/or queer author
7. Read a historical fiction novel not set in WWII
8. Read an audiobook of poetry
9. Read the LAST book in a series
10. Read a book that takes place in a rural setting
11. Read a debut novel by a queer author
12. Read a memoir by someone from a religious tradition (or lack of religious tradition) that is not your own
13. Read a food book about a cuisine you’ve never tried before
14. Read a romance starring a single parent
15. Read a book about climate change
16. Read a doorstopper (over 500 pages) published after 1950, written by a woman
17. Read a sci-fi/fantasy novella (under 120 pages)
18. Read a picture book with a human main character from a marginalized community
19. Read a book by or about a refugee
20. Read a middle grade book that doesn’t take place in the U.S. or the UK
21. Read a book with a main character or protagonist with a disability (fiction or non)
22. Read a horror book published by an indie press
23. Read an edition of a literary magazine (digital or physical)
24. Read a book in any genre by a Native, First Nations, or Indigenous author

ARC’s

Again, same as last year I am going to try and read as many ARC’s as I can throughout the year. I read these books through NetGalley and it is always exciting to get to read books and review them before they come out. There isn’t a specific number of books that I want to read for this, but as long as I am reading one or two a week that should be good.

I know it is February, but do you have any reading goals for the year? Let me know what they are in the comments below.