Again today, I’m joining hosts  Girlxoxo, Traveling with T and Estella’s Revenge for their annual #AMonthofFaves blog event – “a fun way to recap the year that was” with “every day of the event (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) planned out” and  a link-up on all their blogs. Today’s topic is  “Challenges and Goals.”

I didn’t do any reading challenges this year and my personal goals/resolutions? I’m going to save those for a post January 1. Instead, I am going to look forward to my reading goals for 2019, including a collection of 10 books on my Kindle with which I want to start the new year. However, I will save my “First Book of the Year” for a post for January 1– and it will be a book in print this year.

My main reading goal this year, in what will be the year that I turn 50 (in June), is to read 50 books. This year, I read 35; in 2017, 48; in 2016, 44, so it is doable. Initially, with my 25 Things Before I Turn 50 post, my goal was to read a book a week and I was thinking of a book a week in the year that I turn 50, but then as I writing this, I realized why not just make it 50? So there it is.

In alphabetical order, the books I have on my books to read in 2019 collection on my Kindle are:

1. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
2. All Things Bright and Beautiful and All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot
3. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
4. Crocodile on the Sandbank, the first Amelia Peabody mystery, by Elizabeth Peters
5. John Adams by David McCullough
6. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan
7. The Quiet Game, the first Penn Cage, by Greg Iles
8. The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
9. The Year of Less by Cait Flanders
10. You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me by Alexie Sherman

A few explanations:

• Technically, it’s 13 books, but I have the first Herriot books in one collection and The Space Trilogy that I recently bought as a Kindle Daily Deal.
• I already have started the first three books on the list. I just haven’t finished them…yet.
• The list is split evenly fiction and nonfiction as I want to read more nonfiction than I did this past year.

What are your reading goals for 2019?