If you’re anything like me, January means it’s time to go bonkers setting your goal for the Goodreads Reading Challenge. Your method might entail looking at your number from last year (not great, but hey, you were busy) and then you might subtract ten percent so you’re not disappointed in yourself … then you add it back. After all, the point of a new year is to try and do better than you did last year, right?
This year, I’m adding up all the time I spend commuting to and from work (two hours daily) and going to the gym (three hours weekly, when I’m good). That equals one 13-hour audiobook each week — or nearly 2/3 of The Nix, which Audible’s Editors chose as the Best Listen of 2016. At that rate, I’d knock out about 35 books in 2017, not to mention the 25 more books on paper I’ll likely read.
Hold the phone: Does this mean I can claim 60 books as a reasonable goal this year? Eek! Then again, it is a “challenge.” Why not shoot the moon? Listening will definitely help you get there, and this list of Goodreads Choice Award winners is a solid place to start.
From prize-winning, best-selling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom....
Goodreads Choice Awards Winner for Memoir & Autobiography 2016
Winner: Memoir/Biography
"Thanks to When Breath Becomes Air, those of us who never met Paul Kalanithi will both mourn his death and benefit from his life. This is one of a handful of books I consider to be a universal donor — I would recommend it to anyone, everyone." –Ann Patchett See all finalists in Memoir/Biography
