r/bookclub does an annual book bingo challenge. It gets you to read specific genres, or from a specific decade, or from a specific place. I can’t speak to how useful/achievable it would be, especially if you don’t enjoy having a target number (not sure how many ‘squares’ it takes) but could be good inspiration.

Alternatively, just set a low goal or no goal on Goodreads if you want to read bigger books. For example, last year I beat my target 50, but next year I want to read a few doorstoppers so I’m only going to put 25 or something down. The goal can be whatever you think is realistic. One of my friends had a baby and put 4. Nobody else cares what your goal is.

Most books I didn’t like at school I probably wouldn’t have liked much anyway. I don’t enjoy Dickens and Shakespeare to read even if I like the plot/stories themselves (eg. I like Great Expectations in principle but it’s a slog of a book). The only one I can think of that I might possibly have liked better outside school was Tess of the D’Urbervilles which I loathed in A-Level English Lit but can’t really remember quite why. I’ll never be touching it again though to find out!

I’m quite glad English lit didn’t cover more books that overlapped with my tastes, the overanalysis just ruins everything while you lose focus on the tone and message trying to dissect individual word choices, many of which I expect are largely coincidental