toptentuesday – Page 60 – What Cathy Read Next…

Top 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…

Achieve 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).
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.
Attend Henley Literary Festival and, if possible, at least one other literary festival in person.
Complete the When Are You Reading? Challenge 2024.
Complete the What’s in a Name Challenge 2024
Complete the 20 Books of Summer 2024 reading challenge.
Complete the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2024
Read all the books on The Walter Scott Prize 2024 shortlist before the winner is announced.
Complete my Backlist Burrow challenge (that I started in 2023) by reading the remaining books I chose from the backlists of six authors.
Maintain a 95%+ feedback ratio on NetGalley.

Do you have any book-related goals for 2024?

Top 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 Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2024, a good excuse to browse NetGalley for forthcoming releases and add lots to my wishlist. Links from the titles will take you to the full book description on Goodreads.

To Kill a King by David Gilman (1st February, Head of Zeus) – ‘The eighth adventure in the critically acclaimed ‘Master of War’ series set in fourteenth-century Europe.’
Diva by Daisy Goodwin (14th March, Head of Zeus) – ‘In this remarkable novel, Daisy Goodwin brings to life a woman whose extraordinary talent, unremitting drive and natural chic made her a legend.’
The Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola (21st March, Orion) – ‘Months after the plague ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it that their corpses do not decay. The Papal authorities commission lieutenant governor Stefano Bracchi to investigate as subtly as he can.’
How to Make a Bomb by Rupert Thomson (11th April, Head of Zeus) – ‘If he suddenly found what surrounded him unbearable, it was because it was artificial. Everything had been designed and manufactured, and he was trapped in it’
Girl Friends by Alex Dahl (11th April, Head of Zeus) – ‘Two best friends. A girls’ trip to Ibiza.One night that changes everything…’
James by Percival Everett (11th April, Mantle) – ‘The powerful reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‘
The Household by Stacey Halls (11th April, Manilla Press) – ‘Inspired by real historical figures and events . . . NOT ALL WHO ARE FALLEN WANT TO BE SAVED’
The Scandalous Life of Ruby Devereaux by M. J. Rowbotham (11th April, Head of Zeus) – ‘Everyone knows Ruby Devereaux’s books. But no one knows her story… until now.’
A Plague of Serpents by K.J. Maitland (25th April, Headline) – ‘K.J. Maitland’s gripping Jacobean historical thriller series comes to a dramatic conclusion…’
Sufferance by Charles Palliser (1st May, Guernica) – ‘From the bestselling author of The Quincunx, comes a deeply unsettling psychological novel about the hideous decisions that people are forced to make when living under tyrannical regimes.’