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.
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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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I 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?
ReplyDeleteA 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteGood luck on these goals!
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Hola :)
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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Some 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.
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