Welcome to 2024, a brand-new year with brand new books to enjoy!
Each year I like to make a set of bookish resolutions, alongside my standard new year's resolutions, to set intentions for my reading for the year. These resolutions provide some direction for my reading, supporting the start of new reading habits and encouraging me to try new things with my reading rather than sticking to the same old books.
I like to share my resolutions in a blog post each year, both to hold myself publicly accountable and also to provide inspiration for your own bookish resolutions. If you are planning on making your own bookish resolutions for 2024, I have published an inspiration blog post sharing 100 New Year's Resolution Ideas For Book Lovers which I will link here. You can also read my 2023 Bookish Resolutions here and my recent post Reflecting On My 2023 Bookish Resolutions.
So, without further ado, here are my 2024 bookish resolutions:
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Read 75 books
Last year I read 75 books, surpassing my goal of 52. In true Chloe fashion, I am in constant competition with myself and am aiming to at least reach this same total in 2024. Fingers crossed I will be able to surpass the goal again but for now I think 75 is a good goal based on my current reading habits and reading speed.
If you would like to keep track of how I am progressing towards my 2024 reading goal, click here to follow my goodreads page.
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Read at least 24 books from my physical TBR
My physical TBR pile is getting rather ridiculous, we're talking in the hundreds. Although I'm loving reading ARCS and new releases, it has limited the amount of books I'm reading which I already own. As we're in 2024, I've set a goal of reading at least 24 of these books throughout the year.
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Read at least one chapter a day
This is a repeated resolution from last year but it really helped me to up the amount I was reading so I'm keen to continue the habit. Reading at least a little bit every single day helped me to make excellent progress towards my reading goal and I made it part of my daily night routine to make a hot drink and settle down with a book before bed. This is something I plan to continue in 2024 which will support this resolution.
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Continue to participate in book clubs
Last year I joined two local book clubs: one general fiction book club and one sex education book club which reads non-fiction and fiction books focused on different sex education themes such as gender, sexuality, body image, sexual health, relationships and menstruation. Although I've not been able to attend every single month, I've enjoyed the sessions I have gone to so am aiming to continue this into the new year.
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Continue to diversify my reading list
This is another repeated resolution from last year where I aimed to read more books written by BAME authors, books featuring BAME characters, books with trans and non-binary representation and books with disabled representation. Although I made really good progress with this last year, particularly with the range of representation in the books I was reading, I think this should be a resolution for every reader every year. For this reason I've put it back on my resolutions list for 2024.
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Have you set any bookish resolutions for 2024?
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