The not-so-challenging challenge: New year, new reading goals

Set your New Year’s resolution with some help from the library. We’ve compiled a list of reading goals that you can use to power your reading in 2024!

• Read a book from every major literary movement (e.g., Romanticism, Modernism, Postcolonialism…)
• Read a book by a Nobel Prize-winning author
• Read a book by an Indigenous author
• Read a book written by an author from each Canadian province…or just one from Saskatchewan!
• Read a book from each major religion or spiritual tradition
• Read a book that has been adapted into a stage play or musical
• Read a book from each of the major literary prizes (e.g., Pulitzer Prize, Man Booker Prize, National Book Award)
• Read a book from a different subgenre within your favorite genre
• Read a book written by an author of a different race or ethnicity for each month of the year
• Read a book from each of the New York Times Best Seller lists for fiction, non-fiction, and young adult literature
• Read a book by a 2SLGBTQIA+ author
• Read a book by an author who has won multiple literary awards
• Read a book from each of the major publishing houses (e.g., Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, Harper Collins Publishers, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan Publishers)
• Read a book from each of the major time periods in literature (e.g., Ancient Greek, Renaissance, Victorian…)
• Read a book that starts with the letter of your name
• Read one book in multiple formats (print, graphic novel, audiobook) and reflect on your experience
• Read a non-fiction book (e.g., autobiographies, self-help, popular science, investigative journalism)
• Read a book from each of the seven continents
• Try reading outside your normal format (link to lists for graphic novels and audiobooks)
• Read a book from a genre you have never tried before (Western, Romance, Mystery, Horror, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Sci Fi...)
• Create a reading bingo from some of these prompts, and get a blackout!

Don’t stop there! Do you have a seemingly never-ending TBR pile? Is there a genre you’ve never explored? Do you want to read for 15 minutes every day? Set your reading resolution and take part in the RPL Adult Reading Challenge for the chance to win great prizes.