One of my new year’s resolutions is to read some of the books I passed over when I was a child, like the Laura Ingalls Wilder stories. I gave myself The Little House Collection Box Set for Christmas and plan to spend the next few months dipping into it. When I’m done I can pass the set on to Nathan and Lucie.

I’d also like to reread E.B. White’s children’s books like Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little. Finally, I’d like to explore many of the Young Adult titles, such as the Lemony Snicket or Artemis Fowl series, that weren’t around when I was a teen.

In adult titles, I’m planning to read books about food and cooking, like Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany, and all the science fiction I can get my hands on. After reading a plethora of business, writing and marketing books this year, I’m in dire need of escape to galaxies far, far away…Captain Picard, here I come!

A great way to track what you’re reading is Books to Check Out: A Journal (for adults) or Books to Check Out for Kids: A Journal. The kids’ version offers space to track books they’ve read and want to read, plus provides mad-lib style book reviews, a time chart, a suggested reading list, and more than 50 stickers to use throughout the journal. Books to Check Out for Kids is a great way to encourage a child’s interest in reading, and getting yourself a journal – and using it – will provide a good example as well.

So what books are you planning to (re)read this year?

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