Book-related New Year Resolutions

To try to catch up with the books I bought over the last whatever that I've wanted to read for years longer. & finish the several that I started but got lost into the piles beside my bed.
So definitely the Crime and Punishment I bought about 3 years ago. The Strength of the Wolf on US control of drugs etc which is probably older still.
& Mars Before 2000 which is at least from last year so not quite as bad.
I think some Pynchon too and bios of Hank Williams, Nina Simone, Sam Cooke and a couple of others.

I'd like to read more fiction by authors I haven't encountered before.

> 1) chekhov short stories (currently on volume 5 of 13)
> 2) rebus novels (10 / 20ish)
> 3) 87th precinct novels (20 / 50+)
> 4) 1847 / 1848 (wikipedia lists about a dozen english-language novels for each year)
> 5) dickens christmas editions (4 or so left)
> 6) iain m banks re-reads
> 7) thomas hardy
> 8) Guardian 100 books list from 2015 (the first 40 or so are public domain)

1, 3, 4, 6, 7) fail
2) 2 more, now 12/23
5) yes! finished all the christmas editions, and most of the journalism (Uncommercial Traveller, Reprinted Pieces). december is the biography from a few years ago and, hopefully, Bleak House re-read.
8) Robinson Crusoe

I was able to keep the resolution to read more books than I bought, but the pandemic kept me away from my favorite charity bookshops, which made this much easier than in a more normal year. I didn't read more poetry than the smattering I normally do, which is a shame. Maybe next year.

to try to get some books I giot out a while back finished before they have to go back in fenruary. perhaps if i managed to read abook per eye I could eventually catch up with all the books I have waiting to be read.
may buy a few more before I'm through though

I'd like to read more fiction by authors I haven't encountered before.

I also set a goodreads resolution of 26 books and I'm at 52 currently. Although there's a few I don't count as full books.

Think I might try to read more books I'll enjoy in 2021 - going through this year's list there were only a few (of 35ish) that I'd ready again.

(but I'm getting ahead of myself slightly there, leave that for new year's day)

Buy more short books - was looking for something to read to split up bleak House and everything was 400, 500, 600 and in one case 1200 pages long.

Every year I consider spending the year reading a book starting with each letter of the alphabet but have so far never done it. Am saving the Ray Davies memoir, X-Ray, just in case.

Read lots of fun stuff: SFF, crime, comics
Read the Critique of Pure Reason

Read a few of them instead of just using them to cover the bed with

Finish Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries. I loved Vol.1 then shit happened.

Downloaded the goodreads app so I will know what I've read through the year.

Just read Swann's way,and intend to start the year working my way through the remaining novels in the series. Have been meaning to get round to Proust since my first year of university, half my lifetime ago

What’s a good Rebus to start with, koogs? Have struggled with Rankin’s on-the-nose style in the past, but wouldn’t mind trying again.

Hoping to work my way through some Pym and Ross Macdonald this year, the three Robert Shearman doorstops, and finally finish some longer novels I’ve left hanging - Middlemarch, It, Twenty Years After...

Also have a lot of heavy academic reading this year so i’m looking for good, funny, short novels to ease my load (something like Heartburn or Excellent Women or At Freddies)

The Rebus novels are in real time, ie he ages as things go on (which caused problems when he got to retirement age) and they do refer back to previous books, albeit lightly, so I'd say start towards the beginning, if not necessarily the first (which I remember as being less good). You can get cheap omnibus editions too, first 3, second 3, bundled together, often for pennies second hand on Amazon.

just reminded myself, I don't really do resolutions but a couple of notions I had for 2021: read some comics (I have fun home on my shelf & satoshi kon's opus on my tablet); buy fewer books (was originally thinking "stop buying books" but there are publishers, bookshops &c I would like to support in These Trying Times)(I am absolutely resolved not to buy any books thru amazon, except for my audible sub I guess lol); keep posting fun pics of what I'm reading to insta (I am terrible at remembering to do this tho)

look forward to being reminded of this at year's end having done none of it obv