2025 Goals – Down the Rabbit Hole

2025 is here and new year means new goals! I always enjoy creating goals for the year or the month (whether I actually manage to get them done is another matter). I have a goal and tracker notebook, a reading tracker spreadsheet and this blog! How do other people go around making goals for 2025? How do you track them?

Goals

• Read 200 books
• Read 80,0000 pages
• Read all the books on my 2025 TBR
  • Bonus: Read the 10 bonus books on my 2025 TBR
• Get my NetGalley to 90%
• Up to date with all my reviews on Storygraph
• Read the complete Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist
  • Read the complete Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist
• Complete the Pop Sugar challenge
• Complete the Reading Harder challenge
• Have my TBR balanced at the end of the year (or in the negative) – this means for every book I buy, I have to read a book I own (though not necessarily bought in 2025). And as a penalty to this, I am going to say that if the TBR isn’t balanced at the end of the year, I’m going to make it balanced. So if I end up with +90 again, I am going to have to get rid of 90 books. Incentive!
• 50% of books bought in 2025 read in 2025

2025 TBR

This year I didn’t look at the books that I had missed on my last yearly TBRs (I did consider it for a while), but rather I went around on my shelves and see what books I’ve gotten fairly recently and whether I’m excited to get to them soon. Some of them I will admit had become almost a chore to consider reading and so I’ve mixed them up with books that I’ve received that I’m genuinely excited about. Why do I keep books on my TBR that I almost dread reading? Because sometimes books can surprise you when you get over that hump (Rebecca was one of them, I stopped and started it at least twice and I finally finished it at the end of 2024). This year, I intend to try The Fifth Season one more time and if it still doesn’t work for me, then I’m getting rid of the whole series.

1. Pyramids
2. Heaven Official’s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 6
3. Seven Days: Monday–Sunday
4. The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
5. Shatterpoint
6. The Examiner
7. The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2025
8. Dune
9. The Fifth Season
10. Leave the World Behind
11. The Wild Isles: An Anthology of the Best of British and Irish Nature Writing
12. Evermeet: Island of the Elves
13. Devil’s Bride
14. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
15. Winter’s Orbit
16. The Ones We’re Meant to Find
17. Notorious
18. The Tainted Cup
19. Upon A Frosted Star
20. The Return of the King
21. Orbital
22. Kokoro
23. Two Necromancers, a Dwarf Kingdom, and a Sky City
24. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
25. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue