Now that we are a few days into the new year I decided it was a good time to share my reading goals with you all. As you all know I always give myself a large reading to do list. But I like setting challenge. The reading challenge I will join you will find later on in the week in a seperate post.
Goodreads and Storygraph Challenge
Keeping these goals the same as in 2022. I quite enjoyed the way that went and I don’t think I really need to challenge myself to read a certain amount of books. A 100 books has been a certainty for a few years now.
40 Books Before 40
In October I shared this list with you all that I want to read before I turn 40. Which is slightly less than 5 years away. So that means I’d like to read at least 8 books of this list this year. So that is my solid goal for it this year. If I read more that would be awesome too of course but we shall see.
5 Books I Think Will Be 5 Star Reads
| Night Watch by Terry Pratchett | 2002 |
| Year One by Nora Roberts | 2017 |
| Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao | 2021 |
| The Burning God by R.F. Kuang | 2020 |
| The God of Lost Words by AJ Hackwith | 2021 |
The past few years I’ve actally managed to complete this goal so I’m keeping it. It is always interesting to see which books will actually be 5 star reads for me. It’s not been a 100% yet.
mini Goals
- Catch up to Mercy Thompson series
- Finish the City Watch arc of Discworld.
- Read at least 3 books of the October Daye series
- Catch up to The Invisible Library series
- Read Maya and the Dark trilogy
- Finish 10 series
These are fairly doable small goals that should fit in with most of the reading challenges I’m doing.
A Dance With Books 
I always just put around 100-120 books for my goal and lower it if I’m not on track by the end of the year! :p I know some people feel stressed by goals and choose 1 book or whatever, but I guess I just go for the approach of not taking the number I pick that seriously.
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Same to be honest. I used to really go for the number (and be stressed) but I’m at a point in my life that I don’t think I need that anymore. I’d prefer to challenge myself in other specifics (and even if I don’t make it, so what, at least I thought about it/worked on it).
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I love that your goals are all doable. No need to stress out, right? I am probably going to do a goals post at some point too. Good luck!
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Absolutely. I already completed one of my mini goals haha.
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That’s a great list of goals! I really like the idea of setting a books/pages goal that won’t add stress.
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Yes I guess it doesn’t really matter that much anymore these days, for me anyway?
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That’s kinda where I am, too. What I’m reading makes more of a difference to me than how much I’m reading. One of the things I like about setting up the goals, though, is it makes it easier to click through and see which books I read in the year.
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I love your 40 before 40 idea! I might have to steal that. 🙂 I think you’ll really like the Maya and the Dark series. 😀 Good luck with your goals this year!
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Yes do it 😀
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