My Personal Reading Challenge for 2021

Hey everyone, and happy 2021!

Like many of you, January 1st always inspires me to set goals for the new year. Unfortunately, I’m ready to give up on them by February 1st. This year, however, I’m going to try something different by making my expectations more realistic.

This is especially true of my reading goals. In years past, I’ve used GoodReads to set the number of books I expected to read for the year. As expected, I fall short every year and then feel terrible about it. All this does is make reading a chore. A chore!

So this year, I’m setting a different kind of goal. Instead of measuring my reading by the number of books I’ll read, I’m going to set goals for the types of books I’ll read.

Here are my goals. In 2021, I want to read at least:

one classic
one non-fiction book
two books published in 2021
one science fiction novel (to mix things up!)
one historical fiction

I’ve also set a number of books to read, but based on my abysmal numbers from last year, I’m not going to post it. Yet. Stay tuned for June when I give you an update.

What about you guys? Any reading goals? I’d love to hear about them!