Like every year for the last four years I set my reading goal to fifty books on Goodreads. I never achieve this goal but I think it is a beautiful number and I like a good challenge. Last year, 2023, I read thirty books, which is not bad in my opinion. Now for this year, I would like to have 24 focus books (see the list below). Books that I want to read no matter what. But my most important goal is to read in different languages: English, Dutch, Russian, Japanese and Spanish; this will be a real challenge. All the Russian literature books from the list I would like to read in Russian. For Japanese and Spanish I still have to find some new books and finish the ones that I started last year.
In an ideal situation, I would read three books in Japanese and three books in Spanish this year. Wish me luck 🙂
Furthermore, I want to participate in an online bookclub (on YouTube), which is called A Game of Tomes*.
Below you see the list of books that I definitely want to read this year. A lot of them are classics, some horror fiction and some other interesting reads.
- War and Peace by Lev Tolstoj
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Master and Margarita by Michael Bulgakov
- Hiking with Nietzsche by John Kaag
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
- 1984 by George Orwell
- American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
- Monday Starts on Saturday – Strugatsky brothers
- The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
- Ghost Story – Peter Straub
- The Stand – Stephen King
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin
- Snow – Orhan Pamuk
- Beyond Good and Evil – Frederich Nietzsche
- A Rebours – Karl Joris Huysmans
- The Stranger – Albert Camus
- The Awakening – Kate Chopin
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien
- On Palestine – Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe
- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
- No Longer Human – Osamu Dazai
- Anna Karenina – Lev Tolstoj
*The bookclub (A Game of Tomes) is hosted by Emmie and CarolynMarieReads on YouTube, check it out!
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