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Generally, I have a benchmark of 100 books with 50 of them assigned to challenges. After a non-fiction heavy 2013, my first challenge will be to read 24 litfic books. Since it'll be the centenary of the Great War, I'll read/reread 12 books on that topic. Finally, since I failed abysmally at my 17th century England challenge in 2013, I'll carry that forward to 2014 and read 12 non-fiction books plus ancillary fiction both contemporary and later. I've assigned my challenges in 12s for an easy mental checkmark each month, but for those who are keeping track, I'll add the missing two books as floaters in any category.
The litfic shouldn't be a problem, but there are potential issues with the other two. Maybe 15 years ago I immersed myself in Great War literature and revisiting might prove tedious, so I'm reserving the right to change that part of my challenge if it doesn't work for me. Similarly, I've found that the thrill can be gone with a repeated challenge, but I'm still interested in 17-th century England and hope to avoid the mistakes I made ths past year which kept me from meeting my goal.
Not a formal challenge per se, but the ebook TBR has reached stratospheric heights and must be scaled. Right now I'm keeping the number of ebooks on my readers at just below 400 (there are more unread in my Calibre library); I'd like to get this number much closer to 300 by year-end. I know that's unrealistic, but I'd like to see the numbers go down and not keep climbing. My other failed challenge for last year was in regard to my paper TBR; I've decided to shift my focus for this year, as the number of unread ebooks has far outstripped the DTBs.
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