At least 48 books:
I am four books behind as of this post (20 rather than 24), but I have upcoming vacation time with plenty of long train rides to catch up!
At least 4 are in French:
Trois femmes puissantes
En attendant la montée des eaux
This puts me at halfway. If I’m feeling desperate, I can count this goal as fully met (since I read each French book twice).
At least 25% are in Swedish:
Eight out of twenty is a nice round 40%. Or, the better metric: I’ve read an equal amount of Swedish and English.
At least 12 are non-fiction:
Sister Outsider
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Lies That Bind
Hemlös—med egna ord
How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century
Just a little less than halfway on this one, but everything I’m reading at the time of writing is non-fiction. Once they’re done this will be back up to par.
At least 10 have been in my library for over a year:*
This category has been sorely neglected. I only started with the first in June, with Wind, Sand and Stars.
At least 10 have come from my TBR (as of January 1, 2025):
An Unnecessary Woman
En attendant la montée des eaux**
Om det regnar i Ahvaz
(For my own reference, the last book I added to my TBR before January 1, 2025 was Où on va, papa ?)
At least half are by women or enby authors:
Seven out of fourteen authors so far this year are women.
At least 10% are by Black authors:
Trois femmes puissantes
Sister Outsider
En attendant la montée des eaux
The Lies That Bind
Ten percent of twenty would be two, so I’m ahead of the curve here. Assuming I finish around fifty books, however, I need one more.
At least 1 new-to-me country (as of January 1, 2025):
Lebanon (An Unnecessary Woman)
Iran (Den blinda ugglan)
Guadeloupe (En attendant la montée des eaux)***
The map has a few more than those added as I remembered things like, oh yeah, Garth Nix is Australian! Even so, I’m ahead of the game here, by accident, so I will arbitrarily allow this to count towards future lists.
*I revised this one after I didn’t quite meet it last year. Is it shifting goalposts or is it adjusting targets to better correspond to reality? You decide!
**Technically I had added another Condé novel to my TBR instead of this one. Since I mostly just picked it at random to act as a Condé placeholder, I’m counting En attendant… as part of this goal fulfillment.
***Guadeloupe is an overseas department and region of France, but it feels like it should count.
