Happy New Year! We are in a few weeks into the new year now and I am excited to say that my reading has been going well, and I hope it continues too! Every year I try to set a few bookish goals for me to accomplish. Besides the ever-looming goal of buy less books than the year before, I completed every other bookish goal I had set out to accomplish in 2022! I hope to accomplish all of the following goals this year too.

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme created and hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's topic is: Top Ten Bookish Goals for 2023:

This goal remains the one consistent achievement I make every year. While it used to be a challenge, I usually can make it to 50 books by July now. I completed 2022 out with 201 total books read. I definitely think that number will not be that high again. As long as I read some amazing books, the number doesn't really matter. However, I’m hoping to reach 50 books by the end of 2023.

I have been making this a set goal for a while and without a doubt, I usually acquire more books every single year. I am hoping that will not be the case this year. My plan is to buy books with intention--knowing that I will get to them within 3 months. I have so many unread books on my shelves that, this year, I want to make those books my priority instead of bringing in more to add to the collection.

In my plan to buy less books, I hope to read more books from my local library. Instead of purchasing books before reading them, the library is a great resource to use to read the book and see if I like it before I buy it. While I use the Libby app, giving me access to the library's ebooks and audiobooks, I hope to visit the library more often to find books I may not know about otherwise.

My brother got me this lovely scratch-off poster of 100 Epic Reads of a Lifetime for Christmas in 2019. I’ve been working on it ever since, choosing my tbr so I get to scratch off at least one per month. I still have a bunch of books to read from the poster. To keep myself accountable, I want to try to read at least 6 of the books. Here’s the 6 I hope to read this year:

Moby Dick by Herman Melville | David Copperfield by Charles Dickens | The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | The Color Purple by Alice Walker

I always have such trouble finished all the series I start, because if I am liking the world, I never want it to end. Last year, I tried for the first time to track the book series I am in the middle of and discovered that I am currently in 32 book series (which includes both completed and ongoing series). I would love to finish some of those series! Here's the series I am hoping to get to in 2023:

Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco | Shades of London by Maureen Johnson | Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin

Gilded by Marissa Meyer | The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd | Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo