Last week Candyce shared her reading goals for the upcoming year. Can you believe there’s only a week and a half left in 2024?! Today I wanted to share my reading goals for the upcoming year, so let’s dive in!

Goodreads Challenge
52 books

I’ve done pretty well on this challenge this year, but I’m still not reading as much as I used to do. Reading 52 books seems like a great goal, it is attainable and also something I do want to reach at the least. One book a week is what helped me this past year and something I would recommend to everyone.

Netgalley Feedback Ratio
50%

This is a goal I’ve had for years and I’m not doing well haha. My current Netgalley ratio is 39%. I think I might have to put a number of books with the ratio as well. With the amount of eARC’s I have, I would need to read at least 20 of them to get to 50%. I’m not sure I will be able to do so, but 12 books would be a great start. That’s one per month!

Backlist Books
12 books

Last year I had a goal of reading 24 physical books. They could be either new or backlist books. But this year I would love to read some actual backlist books. I still have 235 unread books on my TBR and I would love to get a bit more through them. Some of them I’ve had for over 10 years and I’m not sure I still want to read all of them. I’ve unhauled a couple of books this year and I might get rid of some more.

Big Books
12 big books

This is going pretty well, mostly because of audiobooks and rereads haha. I still want to make it a priority, and I might want to add something about 6 need to be first time reads instead of rereads. That way I might get through some of the big books on my TBR haha.

Finish Series
6 series

This is one that I have struggled with every single year. Now that I have lowered it to 6 series, it is looking better. So next year I will try again and see if I can finish 6 series. I have so many unfinished series and I’ve noticed I enjoy the later books less if I don’t read them soon after they are released. So this is a big one for me!

And those are my 2025 reading goals. They are pretty similar to last year’s goals but I have made some adjustments. Hopefully I can reach all of them, even the ones that have evaded me for years now ;). Do you set reading goals for yourself? I would love to hear about them!