My public reading goal for 2018 is 108 books but I’d really like to hit that elusive number 120 this year. I keep an Excel spreadsheet to track the titles along with other information that helps me keep my reading varied. At the end of the year, I enjoy charting different categories and figuring out how my reading has changed from one year to another. According to my records, I’ve read 94 books so far in 2018 (although my Goodreads tracker says 95 and I don’t know where the discrepancy occurred). Listed below are some of the books I am planning to tackle in October.

1. The Lowland /Jhumpa Lahiri
2. Voices from Chernobyl /Svetlana Alexievich
3. Secondhand Time /Svetlana Alexievich
4.  The Court Dancer /Kyung-Sook Shin
5. The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness /Kyung-Sook Shin
6. The Overstory /Richard Powers
7. Orlando /Virginia Woolf
8. Lolita /Vladimir Nabokov (Read – click here to watch my video review)
9. Reading Lolita In Tehran /Azar Nafisi
10. Meet Me At The Museum
11. The Emperor of Shoes
12. The Mandela Effect
13. Snap /Belinda Bauer (Read)
14. Warlight /Michael Ondaatje (Read)
15. And The Mountains Echoed /Khaleid Hosseini
16. The Namesake /Jhumpa Lahiri
17. The Circle /Dave Eggers
18. Where’d You Go, Bernadette / Maria Semple
19. There There /Tommy Orange
20. The Finkler Question/Howard Jacobson
21. Fallout / Peter Watson
22. The Lost Art of Reading (Read- click here to watch my video review)
23. One Person, No Vote /Carol Anderson
24. The Water Cure /Sophie Mackintosh

Click to watch the video where I discuss my TBR plans