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HELLO JANUARY

A YEAR OF BRONTE

DRAGONS & ROBOTS

DICKENS YEAR-LONG SLOW READ

PERSONAL READING CHALLENGES

I'm linking up with THE SUNDAY POST hosted by The Caffeinated Reviewer.

It's January... time to set our reading and blogging goals for 2026!

  

2026 READING CHALLENGES

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PERSONAL CHALLENGES TOTALS IN 2025

NONFICTION 10/6

MIDDLE GRADE 12/12

NATIVE AMERICAN/FIRST NATIONS AUTHORS 4/4

MUSIC 1/4

PLAYS 1/4

BACKLIST ARCS 4/4

CLASSICS/VINTAGE 12/6

RE-READS 8/4

FREEBIES/99¢ KINDLE BOOKS 16/4

NYT 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY 5/4

MUSIC 1/4

PLAYS 1/4

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I will be lowering these two categories to one book in 2026.

NONFICTION 10/6

CLASSICS/VINTAGE 12/6

RE-READS 8/4

FREEBIES/99¢ KINDLE BOOKS 16/4

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I will be raising these categories accordingly

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PERSONAL CHALLENGES IN 2026

NONFICTION 0/12

MIDDLE GRADE 0/6

NATIVE AMERICAN/FIRST NATIONS AUTHORS 0/3

MUSIC 0/1

PLAYS 0/1

BACKLIST ARCS 0/3

CLASSICS/VINTAGE 0/12

RE-READS 0/6

FREEBIES/99¢ KINDLE BOOKS 0/12

NYT 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY 0/3

BOOKER PRIZE FIRST PLACE WINNERS 0/3

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I have added a Booker Prize category and also changed the numerical increment to three.

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I haven't done a public year-long reading challenge in a long time, but this Massachusetts Center for the Book challenge looks comfortably doable.

I'M IN!

Instead of a book set in Massachusetts you could read one set in your own state or country. You can find the Genre Wheel spinner for their February category: HERE.

READ-A-THONS

DEWEY'S 24-HOUR READ-A-THON

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I haven't remembered to do a D24HRead-A-Thon in years. I have marked this April's event on my calendar and set reminders. Because my blog theme this year is A Year of Brontë I'll be reading The Professor by Charlotte Brontë.

CARIB-A-THON

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This will be Carib-A-Thon's seventh year! I have participated in all six of the previous events. It's co-hosted by RunwrightReads and ComfyCozyUp. It runs

for two weeks starting the second week of June. You can view my 2026 Goodreads reading selections shelf: HERE.

DICKENS

GOODREADS

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This is my annual Dickens Year-Long Slow Read for this year.

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A YEAR OF BRONTE

I haven't done a yearly blog reading theme since 2022 when I read a majority of Black and Native American/First Nations authors. I would always skip a year in-between and 2024 was supposed to be A Year of Middle Grade, but it didn't happen. After Liis from Cover to Cover and I read Villette, instead of our usual re-read of Jane Eyre, for our Women's History Month buddy read last year, I started thinking about reading other Charlotte Brontë books, and maybe doing a Wuthering Heights buddy read with Liis because neither of us cared for Emily Brontë's writing in our younger years. Then I started thinking about Anne Brontë! This led me to declaring 2026 A Year of Brontë. I will be posting about the particulars next week.

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JANUARY'S THEME

DRAGON DAZE & ROBOT RAVES

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My January blog theme used to be strictly dragons, however... seeing that Science Fiction is my favorite genre I felt I should also be starting the year with some Sci-Fi fare too, so four years ago  I changed it to dragons and robots.

GOODREADS

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I am re-reading A Wizard of Earthsea as my first dragon book this month.

GOODREADS

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This will be my first robot themed book for this month.

Last year I started reading a Nonfiction related to my monthly theme. Does anyone have an idea for a book about dragon lore or robots?

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What are your reading challenges this year?

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MY 2025 WRAP-UP POST

Happy New Year and happy reading to you!