This page is to help me keep track of my reading throughout the year, with one place to check my goals and help to decide what to read next.
First, looking at how I spend money on books:
- A book borrowed from the library
1000 Years of Annoying the French by Stephen Clarke
The Girl in the Spider’s Web – by David Lagercrantz
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: the story of women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson
Colossus: Bletchley Park’s greatest secret
The Silent Ones by William Brodrick
The World According to G, by Geraint Thomas
- A book on Kindle Unlimited
Knit Together: Amish Knitting Novel by Karen Anna Vogel
Amish Knitting Circle: Smicksburg Tales 1 by Karen Anna Vogel
Amish Friends Knitting Circle: Smicksburg Tales 2 by Karen Anna Vogel
Amish Knit Lit Circle: Smicksburg Tales 3 by Karen Anna Vogel
Amish Knit & Stitch Circle: Smicksburg Tales 4 by Karen Anna Vogel
Amish Knit & Crochet Circle: Smicksburg Tales 5 by Karen Anna Vogel
The Midwife’s Revolt by Jodi Daynard
Our Own Country: A Novel by Jodi Daynard
The Pocket Notebook Book by Ray Blake
- A book that has been waiting on your bedside table for a long time
- A book you own but have never read
The Wizard of Earthsea quartet - A book from a second-hand bookshop
The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies (Amazon 2nd hand) - A book bought in 2017 from an independent bookshop
Second, considering reading that will stretch my mind
- A book published before 1900
- A book from a Booker prize shortlist (any year)
What’s bred in the bone by Robertson Davies (shortlisted 1986) - A book recommended by a friend or family member
Anne of Green Gables (recommended by my next-door-but-one neighbour in the mid 1980s) - A historical book (can include biography/autobiography)
1000 Years of Annoying the French by Stephen Clarke
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: the story of women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson - An academic theological book
- A book by an #ownvoices or #diversebooks author
Third, including reading that will relax and restore me
- A Discworld book (re-read)
- A new book by a favourite author
- A book I have wanted to read for a while
- A book that inspires personal growth
- A spiritual classic
- Whatever I want to read
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of the Island
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne’s House of Dreams
Anne of Ingleside
Dragonriders of Pern series: first 15 books, ending with The Skies of Pern
Yarnitecture by Jillian Moreno
Knit Wear Love and You Can Knit That by Amy Herzog