Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Goals for 2025

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. For the rules see her blog.

This week’s 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?)

  1. Read 60 or more books. I used to read 90 to 100 books a year, but the last few years my reading rate has dropped a lot, so I’m being more realistic and not making this a target. It all depends on what else is going on in my life and the length of the books I read.
  2. Read the four books on my NetGalley shelf.
  3. Read more of the physical books on my bookshelves. My eyesight is not as good as it was, which means that I’m struggling with the font size in some of these books.
  4. Be more realistic about whether I will actually read these books and recycle those I know I won’t read. This is difficult because in the past when I have recycled books I find I often regret the fact that I did.
  5. Be more careful when considering whether to accept books for review.
  6. Write something about each book I read, even if it’s just a short paragraph.
  7. Read more nonfiction.
  8. I enjoy making lists of books to fit into a challenge, but I need to resist the temptation to join too many reading challenges. There’s a limit to how many books one can read in a lifetime.
  9. I like to read what I like and when I like without any pressure to read to a deadline.
  10. Enjoy the books I’m reading and abandon any that I’m not enjoying.

27 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Goals for 2025”

  2. Some great ideas for a reading year I think. I too feel like I want to jump in and do every challenge I see online, but it’s not always possible and sometimes it’s better that we set challenges for ourselves that are aligned with what we want already, right?

    happy new year!

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  4. Those are definitely worthy book-related goals, Margaret. You make a well-taken point, too, about not finishing books, and about being careful of which books you’ll do for reviews. Life’s too short to finish (or accept) books we’re not likely to enjoy.

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  6. I like your goals, Margaret. Like Deb above, I often pass along books to my neighborhood library, my book groups, or my local city library. I know I’ll never get to read all the books I want, but I must try – ha!

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  7. I love these goals. I, too, am taking it easy this year as far as expectations. It’s more fun when I don’t have tight deadlines to meet.

    Enjoy your nonfiction! It’s such a great genre.

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    1. My NetGalley shelf had become so huge that I couldn’t read books I’d bought or borrowed from the library, which was awful. So once I’d reduced it I was determined to keep it small. The only way to do that was not to look at the website, because it’s too tempting to resist requesting books I’d like to read.

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    1. Last year I got so behind with reviews I decided not to try to catch up with writing them. So this year I really want to keep on top of it. Good luck with writing yours!

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  11. Sounds like a good set of goals! Abandoning books is sometimes hard to do but it’s not worth struggling on with a book that isn’t working. And it leaves more time for the ones that do work!

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  12. I FELT it when you said you regretted past books you’ve recycled. It’s why I’m so hesitant to do so now. I had an ARC of Throne of Glass and donated it to a used book store over a decade ago. I remember thinking “I don’t think I’ll like this,” and now I wish I’d continued by hoarding ways.

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    1. I think it’s because I’m a mood reader that I find it difficult to decide what to recycle. The time might come when I am in the right mood to read a book and that’s when I regret letting it go. I’m also a collector or some might say a hoarder! :)

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  13. I used to be strict about reviewing every book I read in depth on my blog, which led to major frustration when I couldn’t keep up. Finally, I started writing a quick review on Goodreads immediately after finishing each book I read and only doing longer, more in-depth ones on my blog with the books I really wanted to write about. This has been so helpful! I no longer have to worry about keeping up and I have my fresh thoughts on a book written down so I can use them when I write longer reviews. It’s been so liberating! Good luck with all your goals.

    Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!

    Susan

    http://www.blogginboutbooks.com

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  15. Good luck with your reading goals this year, Margaret! I like your idea of just writing a paragraph on a book if you don’t feel like writing more. I might be more motivated to review if I allowed myself to do that too. I hope to read more nonfiction this year as well.

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