With 2025 finally here, now is the time to plan my reading goals for the upcoming year. With so many books on my reading list, I decided to aim for the moon. But will I be able to meet my 2025 reading goal?
Before 2024, I hadn’t met my reading goal for the four years before finally meeting it in 2023. I would always pick a high number and would ultimately fall short. I just didn’t have enough books in my to-read list to carry me over my goal.
But in 2024, I reached my goal of 60 books and read 61 books and have met my reading goal for consecutive years. With this recent accomplishment, I decided to aim for a hundred books as my goal for this year. After reaching my 2024, I can’t go down, that feels wrong.
Instead, I decided to push myself and read a hundred books and one of the reason I did that was because I have a lot of books I want to read this year.
I am still trying to read books released in 2023 and have added a bunch of amazing books from the past year as well. My list of books to read is overflowing and I can’t wait to see how many of these books I read and enjoy!
You might think a hundred books might be too much and normally I would agree. But I have in fact read over a hundred books in a year before. That was in 2019 and after reading that many books in a year, I wasn’t able to surpass my reading goal again.
My goal is to read at least 9 books a month and try to read 2 books a week so I don’t fall behind. The most important thing is to have a good start and focus on reading. Having accomplished this goal before, I have experience to fall back on.
Right now, I am reading Children of Children of Blood and by Tomi Adeyemi and will most likely check out the whole series. The novel is great and a novel I do recommend to everyone who enjoys fantasy novels.
One of the reasons why I was able to surpass a 100 books was that I read a lot of series and always had reading material. But the most important part is to enjoy the books that I am reading and not to read just to accomplish this goal.
Wish me luck and I will keep you updated with my progress. Happy reading!
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Good luck and happy reading!
Thanks!
I’ve reduced my goal to one hundred again this year as you read in my column. I know you can do it. Keep up the writing though. We all need goals.