If you’re a keen reader, do you set reading goals? I set them for different areas in my life – health, fitness and garden are just a few, plus reading. You can make your reading goals as simple as reading more books than the previous year. You can also make your reading goals go a bit more indepth. It’s up to you. Your reading goals can be anything that you want them to be.

Some readers set reading goals to encourage them to read more often. The intention of the goals that I set isn’t for that purpose. Reading is a natural mindset for me. I read every day and listen to audio books every day. It’s not something that I ever have to remind myself to do. However, setting reading goals helps me to bring a focus to the books that I choose to read. For example, one of my goals last year was to increase the number of female authors I read. I did increase them slightly, and I’m sure that wouldn’t have happened without being intentional about it.

  • Read the unread books on my bookshelf. I set this goal every year, but usually forget about it, as new books are released.There is no way that I will read them all, but I’d like to decrease them as much as possible.
  • Paticipate in the 52 Week Book Club Challenge to read 52 books every year to a particular prompt
  • My Goodreads reading goal for 2025 is to read 170 books.
  • Expand the genres that I read. I tend to make historical fiction my automatic go to genre. last year, I did become a fan of crime fiction depending on the author.
  • Read more non fiction books
  • Read more pages than I read this year. Goodreads will give me the number of pages read at the end of the year. By increasing the number of pages, I will be reminded not to skip over books with more pages than usual, just to reach my reading goal. There are a few large books that are on my TBR for 2025. I’d like to make this year more about the pages read than the books read.
  • Enter my books read into Storygraph, as a trial to decide if it’s preferable than Goodreads. If so, I will probably change over next year
  • Read print books before bed time, rather than the kindle in the hope that I get better sleep
  • Read at least four classics from my bookshelf
  • Make a mid year evaluation of the progress of my goals
  • Be willing to stop reading a book that I’m not enjoying. It’s always possible to come back to it another time. It may not have been the right time for that particular book