Length Goals:
- Total Books: 50 (stretch goal of 75)
- Total Pages: 15,000
- E-TBR Reduction: 25
- Read from Print-TBR: 10
Substantive Goals: - Read at least 51% non-American authors
- Read more female/nonbinary authors than male
- Read at least 52 short stories
- Read each Poem of the Week (52) posted by The Guardian or poem from another source
- Read at least 10 books across all our collections that are selected by my wife.
Color Codes:
Favorite
Dropped
POEMS
1. "The Age of Cardboard and String" by Charles Boyle
2.
"Burning the Old Year" by Naomi Shihab Nye
3. "Homesick" by Hugo Williams
4.
"When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer" by Walt Whitman
5. "The Second Coming" by WB Yeats
6. "Rain Light" by W.S. Merwin
7. "
We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky
SHORT STORIES
1. "Satellites" by Rachel Curtis (New Yorker)
2. "The Tailor of Gloucester" by Beatrix Potter
3. "What the Forest Remembers" by Jennifer Egan (New Yorker)
4. "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. "The Plymouth Express Affair" by Agatha Christie
6. "The Adventure of the Western Star" by Agatha Christie
7. "The Rube's Pennant" by Zane Grey
8. "Drones Into Ploughshares" by Sarah Gailey
9.
"A Little Journey" by Ray Bradbury
10. "The Wedding: A Stage Direction" by H.L. Mencken
11. "The Yellow Drawing Room" by Mona Caird
12. "The Incredible Theft" by Agatha Christie
BOOKS
1.
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
2.
The Melody of Iron and Other Short Stories by Osamu Tezuka (book 1 from my print TBR goal)
3.
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki (book 2 from my print TBR goal)
4.
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald (book 3 from my print TBR goal)
5.
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
6.
Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
7.
The Moth Catcher by Ann Cleeves
BOOKS SELECTED BY MY WIFE