Reading Goals for 2018

Carrie Gelson at There's a Book for That, hosts #MustRead. If you have a "want to read" list on Goodreads (or somewhere else) that goes on forever, then you might be interested in joining for 2018. All you have to do is choose any number of specific books on that list, and do your best to read them all.

I couldn't manage to winnow my list down to a manageable number this year so I've taken a lesson from other readers and changed things up. I have three lists of books that I plan to read from this year. Of course I will enjoy other serendipitous reading of books that catch my fancy. I like my new approach to these lists because it keeps me focused at the same time as it permits me to read with some flexibility.
The two lists here include a fiction and nonfiction list that I plan to read from. The other is a more flexible list of books by Canadian Indigenous authors that I plan to read at least 24 books from. You can see that list here. I'm also working on a Must Read Picture Book list but will see where that one goes.

I'm hoping to read at least 25 books from the following fiction list.

1. Ban This Book by Alan Gratz 
2. Book Scavenger (Book Scavenger, #1) by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
3. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip M. Hoose 
4. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo 
5. The Daybreak Bond by Megan Frazer Blakemore 
6. Dear Martin by Nic Stone
7. Diamond Boy by Michael Williams
8. A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1) by Christopher Moore
9. Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta
10. An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo
11. The Ethan I Was Before by Ali Standish
12. Eugenia Lincoln and the Unexpected Package (Tales from Deckawoo Drive #4) by Kate DiCamillo
13. The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
14. Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow 
15. Give Me Some Truth by Eric Gansworth
16. The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley
17. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
18. Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate,
19. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 
20. I Love You, Michael Collins by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
21. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
22. The Last Grand Adventure by Rebecca Behrens
23. The Law of Finders Keepers by Sheila Turnage 
24. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
25. Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
26. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
27. Moon Shadow by Erin Downing
28. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
29. Once by Morris Gleitzman 
30. The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz
31. Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
32. Restart by Gordon Korman
33. The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
34. The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall
35. Smart Cookie by Elly Swartz
36. Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard (Peter Nimble, #2) by Jonathan Auxier
37. Sunny by Jason Reynolds
38. The Theory of Hummingbirds by Michelle Kadarusman
39. Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi
40. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
41. Under Suspicion (Friday Barnes #2) by R.A. Spratt
42. The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
43. The Way Home Looks Now by Wendy Wan-Long Shang
44. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
45. What Elephants Know by Eric Dinerstein
46. Where You'll Find Me by Natasha Friend
47. Wires and Nerve by Marissa Meyer
48. Wish by Barbara O'Connor
49. You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins
50. Zero Repeat Forever (The Nahx Invasions #1) by Gabrielle Prendergast

From this list of Nonfiction titles I plan to read at least 12

1. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk
2. The Bee Book by by Fergus Chadwick, Steve Alton, Emma Sarah Tennant, Bill Fitzmaurice, Judy Earl
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
4. Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Daisy Hernandez
5. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
6. Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters by Robert Probst
7. Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours)
   by Harold Johnson
8. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women by Elena Favilli
9. Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen
10. The Hunting Accident by David L. Carlson
11. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King 
12. Love and Laughter in the Time of Chemotherapy by Manjusha Pawagi
13. Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough by Doug Saunders
14. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer 
15. On The Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
16. The Rose That Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur
17. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari
18. The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home by Arlie Russell Hochschild 
19. Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist by Jess Keating 
20. Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves by Kate T. Parker
21. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
22. Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD by Roméo Dallaire
23. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 
24. We Were Eight Years In Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
25. Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky