Reading Goals For 2023

I am a creature of habit. Last year, I curated lists of books that I planned to read from. It kept me focused on books I want to read and at the same time allowed me to read with serendipity and flexibility. I'm doing it again. If it ain't broke, why try and fix it? 

I have four collections that I plan to read from: fiction, nonfiction, Indigenous authors, and Canadian authors. There is crossover between the lists.

Of course I will read many books not on these lists. 

I dropped my GoodReads Goal to 200 books. This means I probably won't get to as many of the following books as I would like to. I will do my best. 

NOVELS

My goal is to read at least 24 books from this collection. 

Annie on My Mind Garden, Nancy

Attack of the Black Rectangles King, Amy Sarig

The Basketball Game Snider, Hart

Besties: Work It Out (World of Click, #1) Miller, Kayla

The Bluest Sky Gonzalez, Christina Diaz

Brand New Boy Almond, David

Charlie & Mouse Are Magic Snyder, Laurel

City of the Dead Ponti, James

Crunch (Click, #5) Miller, Kayla

Farmhouse Blackall, Sophie

The First Rule of Climate Club Firestone, Carrie

Forever Truffle Britt, Fanny

Four Faces of the Moon Strong, Amanda

Going to Meet the Man Baldwin, James

Hana Khan Carries On Jalaluddin, Uzma

The Heaviness of Things That Float Manuel, Jennifer

The Island of Monsters (Spirit Hunters #2) Oh, Ellen

The Killing Moon (Dreamblood, #1) Jemisin, N.K.

The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1) Hoang, Helen

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century Fu, Kim

Letters from Cuba Behar, Ruth

The List of Last Chances Myers, Christina

A Minor Chorus Belcourt, Billy-Ray

My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.: Our Story. Our Way. Reynolds, Jason

Narwhalicorn and Jelly (A Narwhal and Jelly Book #7) Clanton, Ben

No Vacancy Cohen, Tziporah

The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster Willems, Mo

Play Like a Girl Wilson, Misty

Pretty Perfect Kitty-Corn Hale, Shannon

Recursion Crouch, Blake

Red, White, and Whole LaRocca, Rajani

Shrines of Gaiety Atkinson, Kate

The Sleeping Car Porter Mayr, Suzette

A Snake Falls to Earth Little Badger, Darcie

Someday, Maybe Nwabineli, Onyi

Spell Sweeper Födi, Lee Edward

Stand on the Sky Bow, Erin

The Theory of Crows Robertson, David A.

Things We Lost to the Water Nguyen, Eric

To Change a Planet Soontornvat, Christina

Travels with Charley: In Search of America Steinbeck, John

We Are Here Charles, Tami

When Women Were Dragons Barnhill, Kelly

Winterkill Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk

A World of Curiosities Penny, Louise

Written in Dead Wax (The Vinyl Detective, #1) Cartmel, Andrew

Yerba Buena LaCour, Nina

NONFICTION

I plan to read at least 20 of these books. 

All About Love: New Visions hooks, bell
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Kingsolver, Barbara
The Anthropocene Reviewed Green, John
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience Brown, Brené
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person Joseph, Frederick
Cougar Annie's Garden Horsfield, Margaret
Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters Zuk, Marlene
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist Raworth, Kate
Echoes of British Columbia: Voices from the Frontier Budd, Robert
Erebus: The Story of a Ship Palin, Michael
Ethel's Song: Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems Krasner, Barbara
Girl Who Loved Giraffes: And Became the World's First Giraffologist Stinson, Kathy
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya
An Immense World Yong, Ed
Intimations Smith, Zadie
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic Linebaugh, Peter
Mega-Predators of the Past Stewart, Melissa
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture Maté, Gabor
Naked: Not Your Average Sex Encyclopedia Bernier, Myriam Daguzan
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet Mann, Michael E. 
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Ehrenreich, Barbara
The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation Teillet, Jean
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis Ghosh, Amitav
Orwell's Roses Solnit, Rebecca

On Animals Orlean, Susan

Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases Kang, Lydia

Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada Johnson, Harold
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story Lewis, Michael 

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Moore, Kate

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Mukherjee, Siddhartha

Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age Loreto, Nora

These Precious Days: Essays Patchett, Ann

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II Wein, Elizabeth

Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis' Secret Code Barone, Rebecca E. F.

Undaunted: The Wild Life of Biruté Mary Galdikas and Her Fearless Quest to Save Orangutans Silvey, Anita

We Are Still Here: The Women of Afghanistan Shahalimi, Nahid

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy Nesteroff, Kliph

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing Perry, Bruce D.

Who Were the Navajo Code Talkers? Buckley, James Jr.

The Wisdom of Trees: How Trees Work Together to Form a Natural Kingdom Judge, Lita

The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life Greenfield, Amy Butler

The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family Wong, Lindsay

The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry Berry, Wendell

CANADIAN AUTHORS

I'm hoping to read at least 75 books from an ongoing and ever evolving list. You can see it here.

INDIGENOUS CANADIAN AUTHORS

Like my Canadian authors list, this one is also evolving. I plan to read at least 20 books from here.

I will probably also participate in Sue @ Book By Book's  Summer Big Book Challenge, but more about that later. I already have some potential tombs on a to read list here.