I see a lot of lofty reading goals on social media but decided to go with one a little more achievable, knowing myself. I don’t remember much from my days at Coke, and I certainly don’t miss setting annual objectives, but I do know how to make a SMA(chievable)RT goal. Is that even still a thing?! :-)

I posted a box for book suggestions on my Instagram. I plugged all the titles into a list and decided to go with the 12 most frequently recommended! I can knock at out least one book a month. Here’s my list:

1. Lessons in Chemistry – December
2. The Measure – October
3. Daisy Jones & The Six – June
4. Remarkably Bright Creatures – March
5. The Bronze Horseman – November
6. The Gown – February
7. The Dutch House – April
8. The Push – September
9. The Greatest Generation – July
10. Honor – August
11. Wish You Were Here – May
12. Where the Forest Meets the Stars – January

If you’re interested in the rest of the recommendations, here you go.

• 28 Summers
• The Alchemist – Read
• All the Light We Cannot See – Read
• Ashley’s War
• The Blue Bistro
• The Book of Lost Names – Read
• The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek – Read
• The Bookwoman’s Daughter – Read
• The Codebreaker’s Secret
• Empire of Pain
• The Evening Hero
• Fellowship Point
• Finding Mrs. Ford
• Firefly – couldn’t find this one
• The Four Winds – Read
• Funny You Should Ask
• The Great Alone
• The Guest List – Read
• The Garden and Gun Guide to Southern Living – Read
• The Heart’s Invisible Furies
• Horse
• Hotel Nantucket
• The Idea of You
• Joan of Arc (Mark Twain)
• Killers of a Certain Age
• Kindred
• The Last Bookshop in London
• The Last Thing He Told Me – Read
• The Librarian of Saint-Malo
• The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
• The Nightingale – Read
• One Thousand Gifts – Read
• Oona Out of Order
• Peachtree Bluff Series – Read
• The Room on Rue Amelie
• The Rose Code – Read
• The Silent Patient – Listened
• Summer Sisters
• The Snow Child
• Under the Tulip Tree
• The Wedding Veil
• The Wife Upstairs
• What Lies in the Woods
• What Remains
• Wish You were Here

I set alerts for the titles my local library carries and have already picked up the first two for January and February! I tell you what, for many of the top 12, there are dozens or even hundreds of people in front of me. That is definitely the sign of a good read.

I started with Where the Forest Meets the Stars and adore it so far. What’s on your bedside?

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