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Length Goals:
  • Total Books: 50 (stretch goal of 75)
  • Total Pages: 25,000
  • ETBR Reduction: 25
  • PTBR Reduction: 10

Substantive Goals:
  • Read at least 51% non-American authors
  • Read more female/nonbinary authors than male
  • Read at least 52 short stories
  • Read at least 10 of the New Leaf Book Club/Literary Book Club selections

Short Stories/Novellas (17):
Spoiler:
  1. "Sentry of Sky" by Evelyn E. Smith
  2. "Barn Burning" by Haruki Murakami
  3. "The Night Came Slowly" by Kate Chopin
  4. "Asleep in Armageddon" by Ray Bradbury
  5. "The Lifted Veil" by George Eliot
  6. "Miracle" by Lucy Corin
  7. "The Mystery of the Blue Jar" by Agatha Christie
  8. "From The Diary of a Violent Tempered Man" by Anton Chekov - 5 stars
  9. "A Box, A Pocket, a Spaceman" by E. Catherine Tobler
  10. "Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear
  11. "Transformation" by Mary Shelley
  12. "Valedictorian" by NK Jemison
  13. "She Searches for God in the Storm Within" by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
  14. "The Tunnel Ahead" by Alice Glaser
  15. "SPAM" By Savanah Burney
  16. "The Tomb" by HP Lovecraft
  17. "Dagon" by HP Lovecraft


Books (23):
Spoiler:
  1. A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind by Shoukei Matsumoto
  2. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Anne Terese Fowler - DROPPED
  3. Message to Adolf Pt. 1 by Osamu Tezuka
  4. Beasts, Gods, and Men by Ferdinand Ossendowski - DROPPED
  5. Message to Adolf Pt. 2 by Osamu Tezuka - 5 stars
  6. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
  7. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  8. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carol Rovelli
  9. The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt by Ken Krimstien - 5 Stars
  10. The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
  11. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
  12. A Clutch of Constables - Ngaio Marsh
  13. Showa: A History of Japan 1926-1939 by Mizuki Shigeru - 5 stars
  14. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
  15. The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
  16. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
  17. Showa: A History of Japan 1939-1945 by Mizuki Shigeru - 5 stars
  18. The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar
  19. Showa: A History of Japan 1945-1953 by Mizuki Shigeru - 5 stars
  20. Gently With the Ladies by Alan Hunter
  21. Showa: A History of Japan 1953-1989 by Mizuki Shigeru - 5 stars
  22. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
  23. All About Emily by Connie Willis
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