2021 Reading Goals and Challenges

Hi all!

Today I’m bringing you my reading goals and challenges for 2021! I did really well on my goals and challenges last year, so here’s hoping I do just as well this year.

I’m going to make sure I stick to realistic goals as last year I had heaps — although I did complete them all, I was quite tired and stressed by the end of it. So I’m going to only participate in things I really want to.

Let’s make 2021 a more relaxing reading year.

Goals

Read 100 books

Usually, I make my reading goal 52 books (one book a week) but this year I’m feeling a bit more ambitious, even as I reduce the amount of goals I have. Let’s do it!

Read backlist books from authors I love

I didn’t do as well as I hoped with this challenge last year, although I did read quite a few backlist books. This year, I want to focus on authors I already love — for example, like Susanna Clarke, V.E. Schwab, Alexis Hall, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Cat Sebastian, and Mary Renault.

Finish series you’ve been reading for ages

I really need to finish some of the series I’ve been in the middle of for ages. While I’d like to catch up on some series that are still ongoing, I mainly want to finish reading series that have already been completed. Some series I definitely want to finish are: Nightrunner series, The Chronicles of Narnia, and the Alexander the Great trilogy.

Read at least one classic a month

If I want to have any hope of completing my Classics Club TBR list by October 2022, I need to read 2 classics books a month, but I’m going to focus on at least one a month for this goal.

Read books I’m genuinely interested in

This is another goal from last year but it’s one I’d like to remember! A lot of the time, I get swept up in the hype of new book releases and read them when I’m not interested and end up hating them. So I need to keep making sure I just read books I’m intrigued by.

Challenges

My own readathon

These books aren’t 100% confirmed yet, but most are. I’m meeting my friend soon and we’re going to go over them to make sure these are the books we want to read, but I reckon most will stay the same! If they change, I’ll be updating this. It’s just we’ve just been too busy to finalise everything haha.