Willa Magland
I Met My Book Goal!
Posted Dec 20, 2024
Okay, well technically my book goal was only 16, but some time last week I decided to bump it up to match my mom's yearly 25 book goal. I did it! This is definitely the most amount of books I've ever read in a year in my life (not ashamed to say that), and I'm looking forward to setting a higher goal next year. Maybe 35? I think I could do it.
My top five books this year:
- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
- E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
- The Essential Dickenson Selected by Joyce Carol Oats
Two of these I read for Bookbug book club, which has been a very special place for me, and I'm so thankful that I found it earlier this year. I ❤️ bookbug!
Honorable mentions are The Hours by Michael Cunningham, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, and My Ántonia by Willa Cather!
I've already a compiled a (developing) TBR for 2025:
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
- The last ~400 pages of Moby Dick
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Vladomir Nabokov, Lolita
- Vladomir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
- Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
- George Orwell, Animal Farm
- Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Thomas Frank, The Wrecking Crew
- Richard F. Thomas, Why Bob Dylan Matters
- Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander
- Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
- Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary
- Homer's The Iliad
- Nick Tosches, In the Hand of Dante
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography
I own all of these EXCEPT two... which means that it's pretty much impossible for me to rationalize buying books at all. Hooray for my wallet!
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