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

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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!