In January, I posted my reading and writing goals for 2023 and now I'm checking in to hold myself accountable. My reading list from 2023 is at the bottom and I'll share my favorites in another post!
Reading: Goal: Read 15,000 pages. Reality: I read 19,608 pages! Goal: >50% of the authors will be marginalized or different from me in a demographic way. Reality: 50.9% were marginalized or different from me in a demographic way. Goal: Read 9 indie books Reality: I read 9 indie books (see reading list below) Goal: Read 2 foundational scifi novels Reality: I read 2 foundational scifi novels: Frankenstein and I, Robot Goal: Read 4 scifi nominees/winners from the last two years Reality: I read more than 4 award winners/nominess, though I'll admit they aren't all scifi, and not all nominated in the last two years: Chain-Gang All Stars (National Book Award 2023 nominee); Babel (Nebula winner 2023); Woman of Light (multiple award winner/nominee 2023); The Sixth Extinction (Pulitzer Prize 2015), All Systems Red (Nebula and Hugo 2018); Artificial Condition (Hugo 2019) Goal: 5 debut novels Reality: I read 7 debut novels: Woman of Light, Lessons in Chemistry, Please Report Your Bug Here, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, The Blood Trials, Camp Zero, and Chain-Gang All-Stars Writing: Goal: Send >5 queries each month until I finish my potential agent list. Reality: Because some agents never opened in the time period I was querying, I didn't finish the list. However, that's beyond my control, so because I did send more than 5 queries per month until my list ran dry, I am counting this as a success. Goal: Finish the draft of my current WIP Reality: Success! Goal: Continue to attend my critique groups and keep up with pre-reading Reality: Success! Goal: Attend one writing workshop or conference Reality: I attended the PNWA 2023 conference. Goal: Get one short story selected for publication Reality: Nope! I totally forgot this was a goal this year. I wrote a short story, but never shopped it around. Oops! Overall, not bad. I only fell short on a couple goals. Below is my reading list from the year. My most popular genre by far was fantasy, followed distantly by scifi. Three of these books were DNRs, but at least 100 pages of each counted toward my page goal. Title Author Pub Type Genre Link The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert Trad Non-Fiction My Review Woman of Light Kali Fajardo-Anstine Trad Historical My Review Arsenic and Adobo Mia M. Manansala Trad Mystery My Review Reminders of Him Colleen Hoover Trad Romance Podcast All Systems Red Martha Wells Trad SciFi My Review Chain of Thorns Cassandra Clare Trad Fantasy Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus Trad Historical My Review Anastasia Sophie Lark Indie Fantasy My Review The Chemist Stephanie Meyer Trad Action Podcast I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself Marisa Crane Indie Scifi/Literary My Review Please Report Your Bug Here Josh Riedel Trad Scifi My Review Fevered Star Rebecca Roanhorse Trad Fantasy The Blood Trials N. E. Davenport Trad Fantasy My Review Murder Your Employer Rupert Holmes Trad Mystery Podcast Artificial Condition Martha Wells Trad SciFi Bird by Bird Anne Lamott Trad Non-Fiction My Review Babel R.F. Kuang Trad Fantasy My Review Rogue Protocol Martha Wells Trad SciFi Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo Trad Fantasy My Review Story Genius Lisa Cron Trad Non-Fiction My Review Crooked Kingdom Leigh Bardugo Trad Fantasy My Review The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi Shannon Chakraborty Trad Fantasy My Review Charlotte: The Price of Vengance James Moore Pre-Pub Mystery Podcast Camp Zero Michelle Min Sterling Trad Scifi My Review The Power of Babel John McWhorter Trad Non-Fiction My Review Putting the Fact in Fantasy Dan Kobolt et. al. Trad Non-Fiction My Review Love, Theoretically Ali Hazelwood Trad Romance My Review The Terraformers Annalee Newitz Trad Scifi My Review The Legacy of Yangchen F. C. Yee Trad Fantasy Toph Beifong's Metalbending Multiple Trad Fantasy Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros Trad Fantasy Podcast Frankenstein Mary Shelley Trad SciFi My Review The Mimiking of Known Successes Malka Older Trad Scifi/Mystery My Review The Raider Bride Johanna Wittenberg Indie Fantasy Starlet Sophie Lark Indie Historical/Mystery My Review Throne of Glass Sarah J. Maas Trad Fantasy My Review iRobot Isaac Asimov Trad SciFi My Review Of Cinder and Bone Kyoko M. Indie SciFi Poisoned Primrose Dahlia Donovan Indie Mystery My Review Chalice of the Gods Rick Riordan Trad Fantasy My Review Sun and the Star Rick Riordan/Mark Oshiro Trad Fantasy My Review Crown of Midnight Sarah J. Maas Trad Fantasy The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams Trad Historical My Review When We Left Cuba Chanel Kleetan Trad Historical My Review Chain-Gang All-Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Trad Fantasy My Review My First and Only Love Sahar Khalifeh Trad Historical The Savior's Champion Jenna Moreci Indie Fantasy Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros Trad Fantasy Podcast coming soon! The Throne of the Five Winds S.C. Emmett Trad Fantasy Grunt Mary Roach Trad Non-Fiction Heir of Fire Sarah J. Maas Trad Fantasy Assassin's Blade Sarah J. Maas Trad Fantasy We're All Monsters Here Amy Marsden Indie Fantasy My Review Queen of Shadows Sarah J. Maas Trad Fantasy
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