It’s another year of reading goals and challenges!
Besides hopefully avoiding falling into reading slumps, I love focusing on the reading challenges that I participate in every year. I know there’s been a lot of chatter of the amount of reading that happens, but we all know there’s better things to worry about. Anyways, I’ve always my reading goal around the 100 mark and I tend to go way over that, but for me, that’s a good baseline. Setting this goal and become a rather reliable one and something that I don’t stress over. Besides my annual reading goals that I partake in through The StoryGraph, I’ve added 3 additional challenges. And then I jotted down some personal intentions towards my reading year. Let’s go over them!
The StoryGraph’s 2025 Reading Goals
These are pretty straightforward with the number of books, pages and hours. Last year I did reach my book and pages goal, but came up short with my hours goal. I wasn’t stressed about since December wasn’t quite the audiobook filled month I’d hope it be. I raised book goal to 142, 35,700 pages and 350 hours. I can’t wait to see how the year ends with these reading goals.
Personal Reading Goals
- 100 New to Me Authors
- 100% Feedback Ratio for Netgalley
- Clear out my ARCs from Edelweiss
- Mini reviews for all books read
- Unhaul more books from my physical library especially ones that I probably wouldn’t read again.
- Utilize my library more for audio and digital books
25 Books in 2025
I tried this challege a couple years ago and it was an epic fail. This one might be my biggest challenge of all because I picked reads that were out of my genre. But I wanted to push myself on this and dive more into my Hawaiian history, which is something I’ve been avoiding because there’s a lot of strong feelings there that I’m not ready to face. But 2025, I wanted it to be the year to learn more about my culture and the history of Hawai’i. And then of course, there’s quite a bit of fiction reads as well. I’m definitely excited the most about this challenge.
Romanceopoly by Under the Covers Book Blog
Whether your new or have participated in this annual challenge before, it has been revamped and it’s the absolute cutest. While it used to resemble it’s own rendition of Monopoly it has transformed into a year of seasonal reading of visit 4 different villages with different prompts. The stress is very low with one because you can “play” however best works for you. I don’t have a solid game plan with this one, might just go at it one prompt at the time. I’m a mood reader through and through, so I’m going to be winging this one a bit.
Check out Romanceopoly over at Under the Covers Book Blog!
52 Book Club
I’ve never heard of this one until this year when a friend mentioned they were going to participate in it. And yes, it’s another low-key challenge, see the pattern? It has 52 different prompts and I’ve just been matching them up with my read books as I go. The best way they described, and I absolutely agree with, is that it’s a bookish scavenger hunt. And that just sounded so fun to me!
Check out 52 Book Club’s 2025 Reading Challenge
My Progress
And there you have my reading goals and challenges for 2025, I’m really hopeful for these, so I’ll definitely keep everyone updated on them. If you loved my digital journaling photos that I shared for each challenge, I have a whole section all about my digital journaling journey. And I’ll be sharing more of my spreads over on Youtube. Like and subscribe, all of the good things, if that’s what you’re interested in.
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