Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.
The rules are simple:
- Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
- Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
- Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
- Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Bookish Goals For 2025. I’m someone who likes setting themselves goals so this topic is perfect for me. Full disclosure: some of these may have appeared on last year’s post!
- Achieve my Goodreads goal of reading 104 books
- Read more of the books I already own, including:
- at least 20 books that have been in my TBR pile for longer than two years, i.e. January 2023 or prior
- the five remaining books on my Backlist Burrow list, a challenge I started in 2023 but have made little progress with
- Attend Henley Literary Festival and at least one other literary event
- Complete the When Are You Reading Challenge – see my sign-up post here – and Historical Fiction Reading Challenge – see my sign-up post here
- Complete the What’s in a Name Challenge – see my sign-up post here
- Read all the books on The Walter Scott Prize 2025 longlist before the shortlist is announced
- Reach the point where I’m read and reviewing every book on my NetGalley shelf in advance of publication
- Take part in a reading challenge I haven’t done before. Don’t know what yet!
- Finally bite the bullet and update my blog’s theme
- Embrace audiobooks and aim to listen to one per month
What bookish goals, if any, have you set for 2025?
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