Happy Tuesday my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is: Bookish Goals for 2025 (How many books do you want to read this year? Are you hoping to read outside your comfort zone? Are there books you meant to read last year but never got to? Are there new-to-you authors you’re hoping to read?) Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and you can head over there to see what our other bookish friends are up to today.
Bookish Goals for 2025
🕮 read 200 books
- 48 that I own (physical and Kindle) (Mount TBR Challenge)
- 36 from my virtual TBR (Virtual TBR Challenge)
- 12 or more on Kindle Unlimited (because we pay for it, really should be 24, but my husband does read from it some)
🕮 Less than 36 ARCs (3 a month) I overdid it last year with 42
🕮 Read 3 classics (I don't have to finish them, but I need to attempt it-and this is reading outside my comfort zone)
🕮 Read more male authors (specific goal to try 5 new ones this year)
🕮 Work on completing series (no specific amount, I finished 15 last year)
🕮 Read monthly book club pick
🕮 Get rid of 47 books before my 47th birthday (July)
🕮 Read new-to-me authors (again, no specific amount, last year was 77, and I do have a list of ones that I wanted to try that carried over from last year)
I love reading and I don't need goals to read, but I do enjoy making them and seeing how I do over the year.
I need to get rid of books. Even though the thought pains me.
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Regine, it pains me as well, but I have to remember, I am not a storage facility ;)
DeleteI love your goals! There are series I'd like to get caught up in this year, too. But mostly I'm wanting to read as the mood takes me in 2025. :D Good luck with yours...especially getting rid of 47 books before you turn 47!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lark, I am also wanting to read where the mood takes me which is one reason I want less ARCs!
DeleteThese are all great goals. Good luck with them.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lydia!
DeleteThose are some good goals.
ReplyDeleteThanks Hena!
DeleteTwo hundred books just blows my mind! As a slow reader, you faster readers amaze me. I like how you’ve broken them down into categories. I am planning on joining quite a few challenges this year but they are all in sync with how I read so I wouldn’t consider them challenging.
ReplyDeleteCarla, audiobooks really help! I have finished 1, dnfed 2, and have started a 4th already this year.
DeleteThis is such a great list of goals, Cindy! I love how specific you were able to make them. I don't tend to read a lot of male authors these days either. Love the last goal. Good luck in 2025!
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Thanks Cheryl, I saw other goals I need to adopt from other blogs :)
DeleteI like your goals! For classics, I recommend you avoid Tristram Shandy - it made my list of top ten books I wanted to throw into the ocean. It was awful. I should read some Jane Austen. Never read any. Can you believe that?
ReplyDeleteLisa, don't tell anyone, but the few Jane Austen I have read I haven't loved, gasp. I do have Emma on the list to try soonish...we'll see ;) So, yes, I can believe it, I hadn't read any (except maybe in high school) until a few years ago.
DeleteA great list of goals. I want to reread a couple of Jane Austen books this year. I read recently it's the 250th anniversary of her birthday this year.
ReplyDeleteJoanne, I have a few of Austen's books on my list this year, Emma will be the first one I try.
DeleteI should have added a goal with Kindle Unlimited. I joined that too and I want to read more of those. You have some great goals. Good luck with them.
ReplyDeleteYvonne, never too late to add a few more goals ;)
DeleteGood luck on these goals!
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2025/01/14/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-goals-for-2025/
Thanks, Laurie!
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ReplyDelete¡Mucha suerte con tus objetivos! Yo también quiero leer más en unlimited Xd que sino al final lo pago para nada
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Memphis, Exactly. For several years I was paying for it and didn't use it at all! Thanks for stopping by!
DeleteSome good goals, the classics is a hard one. I often start one but rarely end up finishing these days, except for my favourite Jane Eyre.
ReplyDeleteClaireLouisa, I read Jane Eyre years ago in a comic type book, so I hope to eventually read the real thing, LOL!
DeleteLooks like you have some FABULOUS goals. (200 books!? I'm impressed!) I need to read more on my shelf and "clear" what I have, and one way I could do this is by going through the books that are series and read any books I haven't read in the series. I know there was one series (the one about the female bodyguards I think) by Lynette Eason that I never finished and FINALLY did in the last two years. It was so nice to "clear" that and put it in my mental "complete" list so doing that with more books would be nice. :) Hope you have great luck with your 2025 goals and thanks for visiting my list today!
ReplyDeleteThanks Rissi! Yes, I have read 200+ books the past few years, so it *should* be an achievable goal, we'll see. I have already started clearing out books, a little here, a little there. Eventually it will be a manageable list, right?! LOL!
DeleteI've been very happy with the classics I've chosen---not all of them, of course, but mostly they have been surprisingly great.
ReplyDeleteDeb, that's awesome. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster was one that I loved, and it surprised me last year :)
DeleteThese are great goals! I always hesitate to pick up classics, but I usually end up enjoying them once I've gotten into them!
ReplyDeleteKaris, that means you pick well, LOL!
DeleteThese are great goals! I need to do less ARCs this year too. I got a bit overwhelmed with them last year. Good luck! :D
ReplyDeleteAshley, it's so easy to do! Before you realize it you have been accepted for so many that are due all at the same time!
DeleteI don't read many male authors either. I don't know why except they don't tend to write the kinds of books I like best. There are some who I really like, though, and I should work on finding more of those too. Good luck with all your goals!
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Thanks Susan! I am currently reading a male author, so I am crushing my goals, LOL!
DeleteWhat is a Virtual TBR? I use my KU membership too much, lol. That's why I need to focus on my physical TBR. 😅
ReplyDeleteLindsi, a virtual TBR is like your Goodreads list of books you want to read, but don't own. So they can be ARCs, library books, or whatever...Can you really use the KU membership to much?!
DeleteYou have very lofty goals. Good luck! Thanks for visiting my blog. You asked about my challenge: I make up the "rules" for my ONE BIG BOOK CHALLENGE. I consider a big book one I consider to be daunting or challenging; one I want to read but keep putting off. Join me! Pick a book you've always wanted to read, claim it, and finish it by Dec. 31st! That's all!
ReplyDeleteAnne, I will for sure give it thought. I do have a few that I have been putting off and have moved to my "sooner" TBR cart, so we will see.
DeleteYou have some great goals! You can do it!
ReplyDeleteThanks Erin!
DeleteThese are great goals, Cindy! And you're right, we don't need to set goals to read, but it's something fun to do and strive for. :-) Good luck with your goals!
ReplyDeleteThanks Wendy!
DeleteSounds like some great goals! Good luck with them
ReplyDeleteThanks Marg!
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