2017 was a great reading year for me. I managed to read 85 books. My goal was to reach 70.

To give you an example of what kinds of books I read, here’s 10 of them:

• The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett
• East, West – Salman Rushdie
• The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
• Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
• The Narnia series
• What Really Matters – Arthur Kleinman
• Life Lessons from Bergson – Michael Foley
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Staring at the Sun – Irvin Yalom
• The Road – Cormac McCarthy

My reading goal for 2018 is to first of all get through all the paperbacks I haven’t read. I have a tendency (it’s actually like a disease) to visit second-hand bookshops and walk out with a bag of books and a smile on my face. Fortunately my wife is rather forgiving.

I have specific writing goals this year (which includes writing a novel for a Taiwanese movie director – no small task!) that I didn’t have last year, and so already I know I won’t have as much time to read.

Being the reading geek that I am, I’ve just pulled out all the books I’m to read this year and piled them up next to me, so I can list a few for you here.

Wife: Why can’t you just post a picture of them?

Me: Because I want to list them.

Wife: You’re very strange.

So, ignoring my wife, here goes:

• Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
• One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Season of Secrets – Sally Nicholls
• Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
• Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
• Formosa Under the Dutch – D.W Campbell
• A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
• Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
• Junk – Melvin Burgess

If I can reach 50 books this year, I’ll be a happy camper.

What about you?

What were your reading goals last year? Did you reach them?

What about this year? What do you plan on reading?

May 2018 be a super reading year for you.

“Good readers make good leaders” – Jim Rohn

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Gavin