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!”

  6. Love your new goals! I’m sticking with the same ones I had last year since they work for me 🙂

    Julia Monroe Begins Again by Rebekah Millet

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  8. Finding Their Way Back by Jenna Mindel Dec 26
    I like that this is about a couple who get back together 28 years later, so an older couple.
    It looks good!
    Thanks for all the first week fun Kav!
    tracey14567 at gmail dot com

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  17. I’m sorry to hear you had the flu. Glad that you are feeling better. I like your goals. You are an inspiration. I’d like to check out the cozy mysteries Amanda Flowers has written. Farm to Trouble sounds like a good book to put before my on-line book club this year. I think they’d like it.

    Nora finding hope at yahoo

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  18. Another goal this year is to check out the new indie books by Becky Wade. I’ve loved her other books. I know my group would love her Indie novels too. I’d also like to encourage this author. We’d start out with book one Memory Lane.

    Nora Finding Hope at yahoo

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  19. I always like to check out new authors and their debut novels. A Lady’s Guide to Marvels and Misadventure by Angela Bell sounds like it will fit the bill. From the cover it looks like a fun adventure.

    Nora Finding Hope at yhaoo

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    1. I really enjoyed your first two choices and am 100% in for A Lady’s Guide to Marvels and Misadventures — one of my most highly anticipated new releases this quarter! Good luck, Nora!

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  20. Like Tracey said, last year’s goals worked well for me so I’ll stick to those. I’d like to read more of my favorite authors’ books that I’ve put aside in order to read newer authors, such as Robin Lee Hatcher, Anne Gabhart, Melanie Dobson, and Joanne Bischof.

    The Wings of Poppy Pendleton by Melanie Dobson

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  21. More diversity. Rhonda McKnight is a fabulous author I discovered last year & she has a new one coming out this June that sounds great!

    The Love Script by Toni Shiloh

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  28. The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley by Courtney Walsh
    I just noticed, I must have a fascination with titles that include a character’s full name! 😂

    manderley23 at gmail dot com

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  32. I just heard about The Bookish Bandit by Erica Dansereau and Britt Howard. It has great reviews. I’d love to give it a try as I work toward reading 52 books in 2024! Jolene – iwant2save34 at gmail dot com

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  36. I really like the part about reading outside of your comfort zone. We all need to do this.
    1. January 16, 2024
    To Slip The Bonds of Earth
    by Amanda Flower
    quilting dash lady at comcast dot net

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  38. Goal to read new to me authors. I know she has a lot of books so lots I could catch up on too.

    #2. Fragile Designs by Colleen Coble

    Thanks, Sandy

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  44. Oooh, bonus day😃 Counted With the Stars by Connilyn Cossette is one I’ve REALLY been wanting to read. I’ve read everything by her, except for her original trilogy😅 I need to remedy that! Her books are always so good!!!

    jcservantslaveATicloudDOTcom

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