My 2025 Reading Goals

 2024 was a much better reading year than the last one, and I managed to reach most of my goals. So, this year, I'll try to do even better. My reading goals for 2025 are...

 

1. Read at least 20 books
   

   For the time being, I'm keeping my Goodreads goal and the book count goal the same as last year, but I'm secretly hoping to read a lot, so I'll have to raise it halfway through the year. That would make me very happy and proud, but I don't want to commit to it just yet.
   
   

2. Read at least 3 classics
   

   In the past years, I have read quite a few classic books, and I've realized how much they can change you and your reading mindset. I love how they've opened new horizons for me - whether I enjoyed them or not - and that's why I try to keep a minimum of classic books I'd like to read each year. I usually set my goal of 2 classic books per year, but this year I'm going to make it 3 and see how it goes.
   
   

3. Listen to at least 2 audiobooks
   

   I'm keeping this one the same as in past years because, in all honesty, it's always my easiest goal to achieve. Audiobooks are my savior when I have very limited time or when the book isn't something I'd normally read. At this point, if I had to set a relevant goal, it would be to read more physical books rather than audiobooks, so that's why I'm keeping it low, in hopes that I'll read more physical books.
   
   

4. Read at least 10 physical books
   

   This year, I'm also setting this goal, in addition to the previous one, because I really feel I should hold myself accountable and not let myself go. As much as I love listening to audiobooks, I'd like to get back to reading more physical books again. I think that at least half of the books that I'll read should be physical books and that's the goal I'm setting.

    
5. Read at least 2 non-fiction books
   

   I don't really care to read non-fiction books this year except for one I've had in mind for a while now. So, it feels like 2 non-fiction books are more than enough for 2025 for me.

    

6. Read at least 2 Stephen King books
   

   This was the only goal that I failed last year, so this year it seems like the most important for me to accomplish. I'll really try to make it, but I don't feel confident enough to make it even higher, so I'll keep it the same.

    

7. Keep reviewing the books I read
   

   Just like every other year, it's important to me to keep reviewing and maintaining this blog. So, nothing new about this one.

    

What are your reading goals? What are you expecting the most for 2025? What are you looking forward to reading this year? 

Feel free to share in the comments. I'd be happy to hear from all of you. 

My 2024 Reading Wrap-Up

2024 has been a busy year, but I'm happy and proud to say that this year I made it! I may have only barely touched the finishing line in time, but it's still better than not doing it at all and better than what I did last year! So, without further ado... Let us see the goals I had set for myself for the year that passed and see if I reached them...

1. Read at least 20 books   ✔
   
   I'm verry happy that this year I managed to complete my Goodreads reading challenge, which I had set for 20 books! I know it's a small number, but considering my life and how busy I am, it's not a small thing for me and I'm happy that I could make it!
   
   
2. Read at least 2 classics   ✔
   
   Now, this challenge is probably the one that I'm most proud of for 2024. Not that reading 2 classics a year is much of a deal, but for a person like me who does not gravitate towards classic books, it's something... Not only did I read more than 2 classics, but I read more than I thought and expected I could and more than any previous year.
   
   So, the classic books I read this year were:
   a. "The Selfish Giant", by Oscar Wilde (which was basically a re-read, since I had read it before, but still it was some years ago and I needed to remember it).
   b. "Oliver Twist", by Charles Dickens.
   c. "The Metamorphosis", by Franz Kafka.
   d. "The Prince", by Nicolo Machiavelli.
   e. "The Magic Shop", by H. G. Wells.
   f. "The lottery ticket", by Anton Chekhov.
   
   
   I've already made posts about some of these books, I'll try to talk about all of them in the future...
   
   
3. Listen to at least 2 audiobooks   ✔
   
   Out of the 20 books I read this year, 7 were audiobooks. And while I'm happy that I reached my goal, I do wish I would have read more physical books.
   
   
4. Read at least 2 non-fiction books   ✔
   
   This year I read 3 non-fiction books:
   
   a. "Ikigai", by Hector Garcia (which is kind of a self-help book).
   b. "Master Your Emotions", by Thibaut Meurisse (self-help, again).
   c. "The Prince", by Nicolo Machiavelli (which I mentioned again before and which is a political treatise).
   
   
   
5. Read at least 2 Stephen King books   ✘
   
   I even bought two Stephen King Books to have at the ready on my library, but I still failed this one! But, I'll try extra harf to make it next year!
   
   
6. Keep reviewing the books I read   ✔
   
   I've tried really hard to keep up with the reviews and the blog but, on this one, I feel like the success was 50-50. Like I kind of made it and kind of didn't. I did try quite a bit and wrote as much as I could, but I wasn't as consistent as I could have been throughout the entirety of the year. Which is fine, but I'll make a note to do better this time around.
   
   

So, I feel like 2024 has been an okay reading year as far as numbers go, and a pretty good year conserning the contents and quality of the things that I have read. So, in retrospect I'm satisfied with how everything went. I hope and wish 2025 will be even better and I'll try to make it so...

How has your reading year been? Fell free to share in the comments!