This month, it’s The Kingdoms (2021, UK) by Natasha Pulley. In January, my “new” author was Johannes V Jensen, whose collection The Waving Rye (1958, Denmark) I read (see here). In fact, looking back at 2021, I apparently read 22 books, out of 139, by authors I’d not read previously. It seemed an easy enough resolution to keep. But, for some reason, prompted I think by a comment on Twitter, I decided, for 2022, each month I would read at least one book by an author I had never read before. And then I sort of stopped doing that too. But I still continued coming up with book-related New Year’s Resolutions I could use to guide my reading during the following twelve months, with varying degrees of success. I stopped the reading challenges in 2012. Some of these challenges were more successful than others. And another year, it was a novel each month from a different country, a country I’d never read any fiction from before. Another year, it was the first book of twelve different fantasy series I’d not read before. One year, it was rereading a science fiction novel each month I remembered fondly from my teen years, and had not reread since. Some years ago, I used to put together a reading challenge each January.
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