I’m not always great about following through with standard New Years resolutions, but I am pretty good about meeting reading goals. This year I decided to take it a step further and make specific goals beyond just “read X number of books.”

So, here are my 10 Reading Resolutions for 2015:

1. Cut back on buying books. Either check them out from the library or read books I own but haven’t already read.
2. Join BookTube! (I actually wanted to join last year but I’m waiting for my husband to get a new laptop instead of buying a webcam and editing software.)
3. Host a monthly book club.
4. Read 100 books.
5. Read In Search of Lost Time series.
6. Read A Hundred Years of Solitude. This is my husband’s favorite book and I’ve been meaning to read it since he finished it a couple years ago and continues to rave about it. I’d like to attempt to read it in Spanish, but we’ll see how that goes.
7. Read a poetry collection from an unknown to me poet.
8. Read a biography.
9. Read a Sci-Fi novel. (I’m leaning toward The Martian by Andy Weir.)
10. Read 1 book each month from the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list:
    • Ulysses by James Joyce
    • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
    • On the Road by Jack Kerouac (this is actually a re-read, but I purchased The Original Scroll last year and still haven’t read it)
    • Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
    • Beloved by Toni Morrison
    • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
    • IT by Stephen King
    • The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

Wish me luck!