Join in the Top Ten Tuesday fun! Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
This week’s theme is Bookish Goals for 2024. I have not sat down and thought about what my goals are this year. So as far as ten I am not sure I can come up with that many, but, I will try.
- Read more non-fiction I don’t normally read non-fiction but this year I would like to challenge myself to read more of them. I am looking for a non-fiction reading challenge, so if you know of one please do leave me a comment.
- Nail my 2024 reading challenges I joined a few challenges for 2024 and I know one of them I will nail for sure, but I’m not sure about the others, I wanted to challenge myself this year with different reading goals.
- Read more books from my bookshelves My daughter and I went out last summer and bought quite a few books (and I keep buying them online) so I want to make a bigger dent in getting more books read from my bookshelves. My daughter is making me look like an amateur, lol!
- And of course, the good old TBR pile on Goodreads I don’t believe I will ever make a good dent on that shelf. I just keep adding to it daily. A lot of the books I have on there though are books not published yet, and I can’t always get approved on NetGalley for them. I do get approved more than I used to, but sometimes shit happens.
- Start using DNF more than I do I struggle with this quite a bit, I think a lot of us do. I have to make myself use it when I just can’t get into the book. I have always tried my best to finish some pretty crappy books, and I usually do. So I need to practice this more. I just feel like if I do I will be penalized by NetGalley, I don’t know why I feel like this because I see quite a few DNFs on NetGalley, but I worry about this a lot.
- Stop worrying about blog stats Oh, I am so bad at this. I am constantly checking them, and I have to stop worrying about it and just blog. This is a very bad habit for me.
- Stop buying so many books I am sure we are all pretty much guilty of this. This is a very hard one for me. If I see something that sounds good, I just buy it. I have to stop doing this. My bookshelves are almost full, which means if I buy more books, I will have to buy another bookshelf. 😳
- Start using my book journal I bought a book journal to keep track of the books I have read, and I have yet to use it. It is sitting here collecting dust. I am so upset with myself for buying this and just letting it sit.
- Read what I want to read, ignore the hype If I want to read it I am going to read it. I need to stop reading all the bad reviews for a book first. I know right, but I do do this. If it sounds like something I know I will like, I just need to say yes!
- Read something other than thrillers I don’t know if I can do this but I am going to try to read some different genres this year.
What are your bookish goals for 2024?
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