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What Are Your Reading Goals for 2023?


Is this the last year I finish”Duck, Newburyport“?! — MJ Franklin, preview editor

My main goal for 2023 is to admit to myself that I will never finish “Finnegans Wake” and that’s okay. But it’s okay if I am too!

Also, I want to push through my science fiction block: this is the year I’ll be reading books that people tell me will change my mind and my life — Ursula K. LeGuin, Octavia E. Butler , Thea Lim — and I believe they will.

And I want to read to my son his first “Moomintroll”. — Sadie Stein, preview editor

In 2017, I purchased a signed copy of Louise Erdrich’s “The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse” at Birchbark Books while I was in Minneapolis. After starting to read the book and losing it in a pile — and then in a moving box — I vowed to finish it by the end of Q1 2023. In the meantime, I’m reading through a stack of books. Handy book “A Very Short” by Oxford University Press. “Introduction” books on various topics; this week’s episode is about the United States Congress, partly because of the backdrop to the TV series about the Speaker of the House and partly because I’m afraid most of my basic knowledge of the workings of the legislative branch is out of whack. from Schoolhouse Rock! and an obscure class on government taught by a nonchalant high school football coach in rural Indiana. I am also reading the annual “World Almanac and Fact Book,” which my dad used to do every year – buy a copy in January and read every little bit of the cover over the next few months. (Yes, he is an unstoppable “Danger!” machine.) — JD Biersdorfer, production editor

Usually, my goal when it comes to reading is just reading more: more books, faster, more often. I may be a picky reader – let’s call it “sophisticated”, but that shouldn’t be a problem, as the supply of interesting literature I haven’t explored is nearly endless. . “Anna Karenina”? Loved it. “War and peace”? Never picked it up.

My job ensures that I read a lot of new titles, so I like to spend my free time reading older works, whether they are classics or simply books. I skimmed for the first time. Last year, that meant I finally got my hands on “2666” by Roberto Bolaño; this year “My Ántonia” and “Pnin” are both near the top of my list for no particular reason except that they are on the shelf, beckoning. — Gregory Cowles, senior editor

Before the pandemic, I used to walk to my local library every other Sunday and spend about an hour in the dustiest of bookshelves, where I pick up a book I’ve never read — and often haven’t. never heard of! I would spend two luxurious weeks with any book I had viewed, always an older title, and lingering on every page. It was a great antidote to the way I used to read, and I wanted to start over. — Tina Jordan, deputy editor

When my 14-year-old daughter put a novel by Simone de Beauvoir (the work of which I had never heard of) on her Christmas list, I took it as a sign of importance: Obviously We are now ready as a family to choose the books we can. read and enjoy together, both adults and children — a book club for the four of us. (Alas, we still don’t seem to have reached this point for cinema.) First for us was Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” — an admittedly dark choice. (although arguably fitting in with our war-filled line of News). We talked about watching new German film adaptation after that, but we might find ourselves not brave enough for many tours through the carnage of World War I. For the next pick, we’re thinking of something a little more subdued — an underground wave being built for “Wuthering Heights.” — Emily Eakin, preview editor

As of 2019, I’ve been reading at least two books for fun every month as completely unscientific proof that I’m still a master of my phone. Since I’ve never been a rereader, I wanted to start incorporating the titles I’ve read into my monthly routine.

I announced to my family that I would start this month with Luis Buñuel’s autobiography (which I last read in 2017). The announcement was greeted with “Awesome” and two dispassionate nods. — Matt Dorfman, art director

My goal is adjacent reading: to get a new contact lens prescription so I don’t have to increase the font to 18 on my iPad; stop being a conscientious objector in my book club; to start responding to messages from friends looking for reading recommendations three minutes before they board a flight to somewhere I’ve never been; give at least 11 of the 19 boxes of picture books in my garage to my goddaughter; established a Free mini library and never allow it to contain squirrels or discarded coffee cups; and admit, once and for all, without a doubt, that I will never, no matter how much time I spend on it and how many pangrams I borrow from my sister, be the queen in Spelling Bee. — Elisabeth Egan, preview editor

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