2024 Reading Goals + Giveaway!

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I do so love the start of a New Year. I always feel ridiculously optimistic when January 1st rolls around. Everything I didn’t get done in the old year will definitely be accomplished in the new one! And everything will be bigger and better and…well…It’s like Anne Shirley’s (Anne of Green Gables) astute observation: “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” Only it applies to an entire year!!!! And my bibliophile heart overflows with readerly bliss at thought of a fresh year full of book-oriented challenges and goals. Here are mine:

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2024 Reading Goals

  • Continue to seek out more Indie books
  • Hunt down some Debuts and read them!
  • Introduce myself to even more new-to-me authors
  • Diversify my reading
  • Target a few authors each quarter and read at least one book from their backlist
  • Enjoy getting acquainted with old friends — re-read!
  • Allow myself to be influenced by social media (book tube & instagram) for one book a month
  • Maybe read out of my comfort zone occasionally? But only 5 times the whole year! (she adds hastily, cowering behind her TBR pile)
  • Concentrate on an evolving SAS list. That’s Serious About Series. 24 new-to-me series, catch up on 24 series I’m in the process of reading and keeping current with 24 series I’m up-to-date with.
  • Keep stats and track my fictional travels.

Those are my official goals but I also want to pick up my instagram (bookstagram) again — both following and creating content. I got stymied when I started it early in 2023 because I read so much I couldn’t figure out how to do the monthly screenshots etc. and I got discouraged. But, hey, I’ve conquered bar graphs so….

I also reactivated my Net Galley account now that they offer (sparingly) audio books. We’ll see if anything comes of that.

Oh — and I still want to wrangle this unwieldy site into some sort of order…time got away from me while I was recuperating from the flu. (in other words, I was too busy reading.)

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GIVEAWAY TIME!!!

Now, what’s a little goal sharing without giveaways?! Today it’s easy peasy! We already shared goals yesterday so today let’s just talk about the books that got away from us last year.

So, the rules for this giveaway are simple:

  • You can enter this giveaway up to three times, each entry as a separate comment.
  • Mention any CHRISTIAN FICTION novel that have already been released — so from January 5 2024 back to earlier years, and, if the random.org odds are in your favour, you’ll win one of those books!
  • This offer is open to email entries as well.

Giveaway available to readers in the US and Canada — paperback or ebook — winner’s choice. Audible too for Canadians.

e-books only for International Readers who have an American Kindle account (Amazon.com).

Draw will be held and winner announced on

Saturday January 6 2024

122 thoughts on “2024 Reading Goals + Giveaway!”

  1. My goal this year is to catch up on books by some of my favorite authors. It’s hard to keep up with them all.
    1. The Wings of Poppy Pendleton by Melanie Dobson

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  3. Enjoyed reading your post and hope that the new audible offerings by NetGalley will provide another good opportunity for you to review and share. I would like to continue this year sharing information about books and authors to friends, family, and my email genealogy hobby contacts. I try to locally loan my print books, and a few months ago I sent a surprise package new book to an old friend who had moved out of state. Baker Book House made it very easy and reasonable (30% off and free shipping!) to do such for a Baker author whom she had never read. You are an inspiration for sharing the enjoyment of books!

    My earliest knowledge of the Christian historical fiction authors came courtesy of my library, which happened to carry a few books by Lauraine Snelling and Tracie Peterson. It would be nice to have a book from my favorite series of Lauraine’s, the original Red River of the North, An Untamed Land.

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    1. Hooray for book sharing everywhere. Good to know you can gift order from Baker Book House. I was wondering about that. Love the nostalgia of returning to early favourites. Good luck, CC!

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  7. LOL, I added Classics to my goals this year, but refused to set a goal, LOL! I was like once a month, or maybe just once a quarter…okay, no specific goal, LOL! I had such a hard time picking books out yesterday I feel like just repeating, LOL! My Phony Valentine by Courtney Walsh.

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    1. Good luck, Cindy! Ugh, classics — I’ve read a number of them back in the day but not sure I’d want to tackle something like The Count of Monte Cristo in all its 1000+ page glory. lol

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  10. Branching out ~ A time in history I normally don’t read ~ Western
    The Laws of Attraction (Wyoming Sunrise #2) by Mary Connealy – Bethany House Publishers, June 20, 2023
    Kathleen ~ Lane Hill House
    kathleen[dot]e[dot]belongia[at]gmail[dot]com

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  12. Kav, let me know if this selection by Tea Cooper is okay; The Butterfly Collector. We have entered her Thomas Nelson published novels before. This one is published by Harper Muse, November 28, 2023. If not, I will choose another title/author. Thanks, Kathleen ~ Lane Hill House

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    1. I did some checking and Harper Muse isn’t the Christian line of Harper Collins. They publish historical fiction, women’s fiction and southern fiction and the titles listed are all mainstream. There are so familiar names who used to write for CF but aren’t any more. Looks like the Thomas Nelson authors who wanted to leave the Christian market. So, I’m going to say no, Tea Cooper doesn’t fit into the Christian Fiction genre. Feel free to choose another title.

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  13. Again, goals are hard for me because I don’t make them! There’s too many books & authors to love out there…those I know, and those yet-to-be discovered. So maybe the first one is to read a book by a new-to-me author and her debut ( I think?):

    1. Of Jasmine and Roses by Jill Warner (November 2023)

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  15. Lastly, a book that I DON’T want to get away before the end of 2024, lol!

    3. A Not-So-Distant Love by Heidi Kimball (October 2023)

    teamob4 (at) gmail (dot) com

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  19. Three or four years ago I made a list of about six CF Authors who were very popular, but whose books I haven’t read. I think this would be a good time to request one of them!

    1) Written in the Mist by Naomi Rawlings

    pattymh2000(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  20. Heroes in the Crossfire by Lynn H Blackburn, Elizabeth Goddard, Lynette Eason, and Lisa Harris. This is a release from last year that I didn’t get to read yet.

    pmkellogg56[at]gmail[dot]com

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  22. Love at First Light by Stephanie Grace Whitson. I really enjoy her books but haven’t read any for awhile. This one looks really good.

    pmkellogg56[at]gmail[dot]com

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  23. I’m a fan of Tamera Alexander’s historical fiction but I believe her newest book is considered split-time, with a historical and contemporary story. I’d like to read A Million Little Choices.
    cps1950ATgmail.com

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  25. Squeezing in here at the last minute, hoping I’m not too late!lol

    My goal, as always, is to catch up on my favorite authors.lol

    Wildflower falls by Denise Hunter

    ladepooh at hotmail dot com

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