{"id":13468,"date":"2026-01-20T01:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=13468"},"modified":"2026-01-20T05:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:11:32","slug":"top-ten-bookish-goals-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=13468","title":{"rendered":"top ten bookish goals for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before we get to That Artsy Reader Girl’s<\/a> weekly Top Ten Tuesday topic, our 2026 goals, let’s check in on how I did with last year’s:<\/p>\n

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  1. Read 52 books<\/strong>. 62 titles finished.<\/li>\n
  2. Read 25 books I own<\/strong>. I managed a piddly four.<\/li>\n
  3. Read more diversely (15).<\/strong> 18 titles were written by authors who identified as BIPOC or queer.<\/li>\n
  4. Write at least 6 non-Top Ten Tuesday posts about books this year.\u00a0<\/strong>I managed six review posts.<\/li>\n
  5. Read more backlist titles (15 books published outside this half-decade, and at least 7 from before the year 2000).\u00a0<\/strong>I finished 10 books from before 2020 and only two from the 1900s.<\/li>\n
  6. Read 3+ books of poetry or novels in verse. <\/strong>Fail, although I did finish two works of prose by poets.<\/li>\n
  7. Read more nonfiction \u2014 at least 5.\u00a0<\/strong>10 books.<\/li>\n
  8. Read a book by an author who lives in Africa and one who lives in Central or South America. <\/strong>Fail.<\/li>\n
  9. Send the books I\u2019ve bought as gifts to the people they\u2019re meant for. <\/strong>Fail.<\/li>\n
  10. Give every book I own a permanent home on a shelf.\u00a0<\/strong>Fail<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Okay, so that’s not a great track record. I read more, read more diversely, and read more nonfiction, but still leant toward recent works of fiction from the library.<\/p>\n

    Let’s see what we can do about it with some goals for this year:<\/p>\n

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    1. Read 52 books. This number works for me as a target.<\/li>\n
    2. Finish at least 20 books I own.<\/li>\n
    3. Read 3 works from pre-1900, 5 books from the 20th century, and 10 books (total) published before 2021.<\/li>\n
    4. Publish reviews for all 12 months DURING 2026 (with a few days’ grace period for December).<\/li>\n
    5. Finish 1 play, 1 short story collection, and 2 books of poetry.<\/li>\n
    6. Read works by authors from at least 7 countries, at least 5 of which should be in translation.<\/li>\n
    7. Read at least 5 books by queer and\/or trans writers.<\/li>\n
    8. Read 5 works of nonfiction, in at least 4 different Dewey Decimal areas.<\/li>\n
    9. Send the gift books out into the world. (I bought them so friends would get to read them. Silly to hold on to them forever.)<\/li>\n
    10. Give every book I own its own shelf space. (This should be my ultimate goal for my personal library and if I can’t figure it out, more books should move on to other bibliophiles.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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