My reading goals and first readathon for 2020

For 2018 I have set my first reading goal: to read 42 books. I ended up reading 52. Awesome! So for 2019 I set another goal, slightly higher at 55. I ended up reading 68! Even more awesome.

For 2020 I am setting my reading goal at 70 books, but I will also be adding another challenge. And from that came another. This upcoming year, I will be doing my first readathon! It is called #StartOnYourShelfathon, you can read all about it >>here at the Quiet Pond<< but I’ll give you a small recaps and the “rules” I made up for myself.

What is #StartOnYourShelfathon?
#StartOnYourShelfathon is a 2020 star-themed readathon hosted and run by CW from The Quiet Pond. The aim of #StartOnYourShelfathon is to read as many unread books on your bookshelf as you can between December 13th 2019 and December 31st 2020.

This is fun ofcourse, and even without buying more than 5 books in 2019 I still have a LOOOOOOT of unread books. Because this is my first readathon and I don’t want to restrict myself too much on the books I will be reading next year I decided that at least half should be books I already own. This includes ebooks. MANY EBOOKS!

Help Castor the star collector find the stars
The mascot of #StartOnYourShelfathon is Castor the Star Collector, who has lost all the stars he has collected over the years and needs your help to find them again.

For every book that you read as part of #StartOnYourShelfathon, you collect a star that you can add the star to your ‘star map’. Read books, collect stars and create constellations!

My color-coded stars
I created some pages in my journal and a list on Goodreads with 35 book titles of books I either physically own or have as ebooks AND want to read in 2020. Some are from series I want to finish, some are just books that have been lurking at me for a while. And some are from authors I like and want to read more from. All along two pages I have drawn up 65 stars, in different sizes. For every book I will read I get to color a star.

Purple for physical books, blue for ebooks and… silver for books I own as ebooks but instead borrowed physically from the library. Yes, because, THAT is my third challenge. To read as little ebooks as possible and instead of buying new books get them from the library. All the other books I will read will be colored yellow for books I already own and green for new/others. And books I did not finish will become pink (because I don’t like red).

My #StartOnYourShelfathon TBR
As written above some are from series I want to finish, some are just books that have been lurking at me for a while. And some are from authors I like and want to read more from. These are the books I want to read for this readathon (in random order):

1. The Human Factor by Graham Greene
2. Steeds leuker by Jelle Hermus
3. Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
4. The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #3) by Agatha Christie
5. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4) by Agatha Christie
6. A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #5) by Agatha Christie
7. They Do It with Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6) by Agatha Christie
8. The Water’s Edge (Konrad Sejer, #8) by Karin Fossum
9. Bad Intentions (Konrad Sejer, #9)
10. The Caller (Konrad Sejer, #10)
11. The Drowned Boy (Konrad Sejer, #11) I apparently do NOT own this…
12. Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch #7) by Terry Pratchett
13. Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)
14. Roses of May (The Collector, #2) by Dot Hutchison
15. The Art of Purring (The Dalai Lama’s Cat, #2) by David Michie
16. Black House (The Talisman, #2) by Stephen King
17. The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
18. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
19. Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2) by Jane Harper
20. The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1) by Micheal Rutger
21. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
22. Neverwhere (London Below, #1) by Neil Gaiman
23. Het slimme onbewuste by Ap Dijksterhuis
24. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
25. John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1) by David Wong
26. Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2) by Stephen King
27. Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2) by L.M. Montgomery
28. The traveling cat chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
29. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
30. The Mist by Stephen King
31. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
32. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
33. How to be free by Tom Hodgkinson
34. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Four (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #1-4) by Douglas Adams 1+2! saving the rest for next year
35. Online marketing expert in een week by Jeroen Bertrams DNF

What about you? Do you have reading goals for 2020? Are you participating in a readathon? Which are they? Share it in the comments!