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2025 Bookish Goals

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I know I’m late, but happy new year! I hope the year has been treating you well so far.

Today, I wanted to chat about my reading goals for the year. As I’m getting back into reading, I’m setting myself goals, but who knows if I’ll keep to them lol

Read 25 Books

This is the goal I’ve been setting for myself every year for the past few years and haven’t hit the mark once. I’m determined this year, though, because I acquired too many books last year thanks to rejoining the online book space.

However, my extended goal is to read 50 books this year. I’m already on my third book, so I’m on par for this goal, at least! I won’t beat myself up, though, if I don’t hit this goal.

Complete 5 Series

I’m including things like duologies, trilogies, quartets, and larger series as part of this goal. I don’t want to limit myself to longer series or only trilogies or only duologies, etc. I have a few series in mind, and I’m almost finished my first trilogy of the year! Look at me go! I’m hoping to read more than this as I believe the majority of the books I own are in a series of some sort or other, so this shouldn’t be terrible to achieve.

Some series I hope to get to this year (though not limited to):

  • The Daevabad trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty (in progress!)
  • The Empire of the Wolf trilogy by Richard Swan
  • The Bloodsworn saga by John Gwynne
  • An Ember in the Ashes quartet by Sabaa Tahir (I never finished, so it’s a reread as well)
  • The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
  • The Realm of the Elderlings series by Robin Hobb (I don’t know if I’ll complete all 16 books this year, but I want to get my journey started!)

Read at least 15 physical books of my already owned books

These are books that I have on my shelves that I got prior to the start of 2025. So that’s a little more than half of my goal, and I’m confident I can do it, especially if I plan on reading several series this year. I’m not including any of my digital books in this count as I’ll read those sporadically and in between the physical ones. (Since I can physically see them, they have priority in my mind.)

Plus if I read all of Robin Hobb’s books, for instance, I’ll have completed AND surpassed that goal! lol

Read at least 5 books on my Kindle

I recently upgraded my 10+ year old Kindle to the newer 2024 Paperwhite, and so I really want to utilize my reading experience on it more. I already have five books in mind because it’s a series I once again never finished (I only had the last book to read, whoops), but I don’t mind rereading them. However, I also want to utilize my Kindle Unlimited subscription and not just be wasting my money, you know?

If you have any good Kindle Unlimited recs, let me know!

Utilize my library more

This ties in with my previous Kindle goal in that I don’t necessarily want to get physical library books, but I still want to support my library by getting digital versions of those books. I donate physical books to whatever library is local to me at the time yearly or every other year, but I still want to show the importance of them by borrowing books that I may not want in my personal collection, like non-fiction books, for example.

Read at least 5 non-fiction books

This is a new goal I never thought I’d have, to be honest lol I had been thinking about this for a while, and then my wife got me Neil DeGrasse-Tyson’s “Merlin’s Tour of the Universe: A Traveler’s Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far,” which talks a lot about space related things, which I’m a big fan of, and so this sparked my curiosity for reading more non-fiction books this year. I already have a couple more space related books I’ll be reading at some point, but I’m on the lookout for others in subjects I’m interested in!

And last, but most importantly, Have Fun!

I think that this is the spark that I’ve been missing in my reading life the last several years, plus I’ve been spending way too much time consuming media and playing video games and not prioritizing my reading. I really want to cut back on social media consumption this year, as well as other forms of entertainment, and replace that time with reading. It’s going to be a slow process, but I’m making progress, which is good! Plus I started the year out with a banger of a trilogy, so that helps, too lol

What are some of your goals for this year? How many books or pages do you plan on reading? Let me know in the comments!

Reading Goals for 2024

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*peeks in, the door creaking on its hinges as dust settles from the ceiling* Hello?

Well, it’s been a hot minute since I’ve blogged lol How have the last few years been treating you?

It’s been a rough few years for me, as it has for many others, but I hope that with the new year there is renewed hope in the future and that you will be able to find your way to where you want to be in your life.

But today, for the first time in… almost three years, I wanted to talk about some reading goals that I have for this year. I was debating on whether or not I wanted to do TikTok or this, and I decided to blog about it first because writing is much easier for me than speaking is when it comes to new experiences and whatnot. Like… talking to a camera just sounds daunting, but I’ll find a way to do it (maybe).

I’ve barely read in the last seven or so years, and I’ve been very slowly getting back into reading at the end of 2023, and I want to at least try to keep up that momentum if I possibly can. So here are my current reading goals for 2024:

Read 25 Books

Every year I set my Goodreads goal to 25 books. It seems like it’s doable, and though I haven’t read that many books in many years, I’m going to try my best to hit that goal this year. I’ve been using the app, Bookly, for a few weeks now (though I didn’t read the week of the holidays), and it’s been helping me read an hour a day at the minimum and keeping track of what I read. Highly recommend an app like this to help you form a habit if you’re struggling to read every day like I am!

Read Books I Already Own

This might seem obvious, but I’m affected easily by the excitement people show for newer releases, and so I have many books on my shelf – even from years ago – that I haven’t read that have just been sitting there and staring at me, waiting for me to give them the time of day. I’ll be doing another unhaul soon (I donate the books to a local library), so that’ll make space for more books I inevitably end up getting, so…

Basically, I want to read at least 2 books I actually own off of my shelves per month. This is extremely doable, and it’ll slowly cut down the amount of unread vs read books on my shelves. This doesn’t include my ebooks, which I need to go through and see what I actually want to keep, anyway.

Get More Books from the Library First

This coincides with my previous goal because I want to curate a collection that I personally want, a physical collection of books I’d either reread or just want to have on my shelves. Right now there’s many books I haven’t read that I’m still interested in reading that I own, however, over time my tastes change, space available changes, and I need to be realistic with myself about books that I want to keep. So, using the Libby app, I’m going to place holds on books that I’m interested in reading and then decide if I want to physically add them to my collection.

Read At Least One Diverse Book Per Month

I really liked what Sera of serareadthat on TikTok said about diverse books, in that it’s about reading books from authors who don’t look like you or are from a different culture/ethnicity/background that you, and so I want to read at least one book from a BIPOC author per month. I want to read stories from other cultures, with their own fantastical and mundane settings set in places I only wish I could see.

Read At Least One Book Outside of My Normal Genre Bimonthly

I, like many people, love to read fantasy. I love reading about rich and diverse worlds, magic and monsters, but I also know that there’s other genres outside of that that I should explore. For instance, this month (January 2024) I’ll be reading Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price along with a group of people on Fable called History Sickos hosted by Michael Kist. This is both a nonfiction and history novel, which are two genres of book I never really gravitate toward.

I might do this monthly, however I’ll keep my goal to bimonthly so that I can give myself time to warm up to the idea of it lol And this isn’t just limited to nonfiction, but also things like horror, thrillers, mystery, personal growth, middle grade, etc.

Read At Least One Indie Author Bimonthly

Again, I’m keeping this bimonthly only because of my goal to read more of my already owned books, however it’s always important to support indie authors when you can. And from what I’ve seen around TikTok, there’s a lot of great bangers out there that I’d be interested in reading, so I’ll keep my eyes peeled for indie books every other month.

Reread or Finish Rereading Books or Series

So there are still plenty of books that I own that I haven’t finished yet or finished off the series for, so that’s also going to be a priority for me this year. Will I have to reread a lot of books to get to that point? Yes, 100%, but that’s just how it is! I’m okay with it, though, because many of these books are ones I enjoyed in the past, so I hope to continue to enjoy them now.

Those are all of my reading goals for 2024! They’re broad and simple, but that’s what I need right now to get back into reading. So tell me, what are some of your goals for 2024? I’d love to hear about it!

I also don’t know how often I’ll be blogging again. Getting back into the swing of things full force is a bit daunting, but I hope that by easing back into it that I’ll be able to enjoy my time and rediscover my love for reading again.

Happy New Year everyone, and happy reading!