#TopTenTuesday Bookish Goals for 2024 #TuesdayBookBlog

Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Bookish Goals For 2024. I love setting reading goals. Achieving them? Well, that’s a different matter…

  1. Goodreads Challenge 2024Achieve my Goodreads target of reading 104 books (I didn’t hit my target of 120 books last year so I’ve set a target I think is more realistic).
  2. Read at least 25 books that have been in my TBR pile for longer than two years, i.e. they were acquired prior to 1st January 2022. 
  3. HenleyLiteraryFestivalAttend Henley Literary Festival and, if possible, at least one other literary festival in person.
  4. Complete the When Are You Reading? Challenge 2024.
  5. What's In A Name 2024Complete the What’s in a Name Challenge 2024
  6. Complete the 20 Books of Summer 2024 reading challenge.
  7. Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2024Complete the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2024
  8. Read all the books on The Walter Scott Prize 2024 shortlist before the winner is announced.
  9. Complete my Backlist Burrow challenge (that I started in 2023) by reading the remaining books I chose from the backlists of six authors.
  10. Maintain a 95%+ feedback ratio on NetGalley.

Do you have any book-related goals for 2024? 

What’s In A Name Challenge 2024 – Sign Up

What's In A Name 2024The What’s In A Name Challenge is being hosted again for 2024 by Andrea at Carolina Book Nook. Having succeeded in completing the challenge last year, I’m going to join in again.  

The challenge runs from 1st January to 31st December 2024. You can sign up at any time but can only count books you read between those dates. Read a book in any format (hard copy, ebook, audio) with a title that fits into each category. (Andrea has provided some examples for each category on the challenge sign-up page.) You can’t use the same book for more than one category but creativity in matching the categories is not only allowed, it’s encouraged! You can choose your books as you go or make a list ahead of time.

I’ve made some provisional selections from my TBR pile but I’m finding the last category impossible to find a match for at the moment. Links from the title will take you to the book’s entry on Goodreads (or, at some point, my review). 


Double Letters         A Dry Spell by Clare Chambers

An NFL Team            Day of the Caesars (Eagles of the Empire #16) by Simon Scarrow (Philadelphia Eagles)

A natural disaster  The Year Without Summer by Guinevere Glasfurd

A virtue                     How to be Brave by Louise Beech (fortitude)

A shape                    Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Footwear                   ?