TTT | Bookish Goals for 2025

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My first TTT of 2025! The New Year ended up being busier than I expected and kept losing track of posting these. Of course, my bookish goals have changed since growing up and even in the past year. Growing up, I really only cared about how many books I read. It wasn’t until really getting into the Bookstagram and BookTok community that I saw book goals related to what types of books or pages or book challenges that people read throughout the year. So, here are my book goals for 2025:

1. 100ish books per year: Okay, so last year I didn’t add a reading goal on Goodreads or Storygraph until halfway through the year. When I did, I was ahead by ten books, I think. The rest of the year, I never was behind and typically was head of my reading by double-digits. I still plan to read around 100 books a year, but I obviously don’t need the boost from reading trackers. I will probably set a “reading goal” on Goodreads and Storygraph in the last few days of the year (just for the wrap-up and the graphics).
2. More poetry: I feel like I say this each year but continue to read more poetry.
3. Read the books I own: Partly to read more from my TBR and partly to not spend as much money on books.
4. Utilize my reading resources: What I mean by this is to not automatically go out and buy books. I want to use my library, Kindle unlimited, Libby, and Hoopla resources. With libraries, interlibrary loans exist too, so I can typically get most books to me.
5. Set aside time to write: It’s been a complicated and busy few years with masters degrees and trying to get out of my small, conservative town. Now that I am in a better place, I really want to set aside writing time each week or have a goal to write x amount of words per week.
6. Patronize more coffee shops: Living in a bigger city, there’s more coffee shops around me. I’d like to patronize more of those, a way to get out of the house to read or write.
7. Finish series: There’s many series that I’ve started and had plans on finishing but haven’t. Usually, it’s due to the fact that I read the first in the series before the rest was out.

Darcy