I found my monthly reading categories from last year a helpful "placeholder" for planning out books I'd put on my to-be-read list. I also embraced my perpensity toward mood reading and liked designating summer for that! Here are my updated categories for this year:
January: Self-Help + Recommendations
February: Anti-Racism
March: Memoir
April: Poetry + Short Stories
May: Literary Fiction
June: Graphic Novels
July: Mood Reading
August: Mood Reading
September: Mood Reading
October: Motherhood
November: Nonfiction
December: Classic
As for specific books, these are on my shortlist:
I'd also like to read more by the following authors:
Amor Towles, Ann Patchett, Elizabeth Strout, Gabrielle Zevin,
Isabel Wilkerson, James Baldwin, and Kevin Wilson
Isabel Wilkerson, James Baldwin, and Kevin Wilson
With a dreamy far-off look,
-SJW
