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Want to Read More This Year? Join the 2016 Reading Challenge!
Forget about drinking more water or getting in shape! Our favorite New Year's resolution is definitely this: Read More Books. And we're guessing it's yours, too. Make it easier by creating a reading goal and tracking your progress with the 2016 Reading Challenge on Goodreads!
Will it be one book every other month? Or maybe one book a week? A day? It's up to you! Your goal can be any size. To get started, just choose the number of books you'd like to read this year.
Not sure what to read next? Don't worry! Here are a few ways to build your want-to-read list on Goodreads:
- Recommendations: To get recommendations tailored just for you, rate books you've already read. The more books you rate, the better your recommendations will be!
- Giveaways: Did you know you can enter book giveaways for a chance to win free books?
- Lists: You can also browse the thousands of lists on Listopia—where you'll find categories ranging from classic (Best Books of the 21st Century) to niche (Best Alpha Male Alien Meets Human Heroine Romance).
- Goodreads Choice Award winners: Peruse the results of the recently announced 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards, with winners and runners-up in 20 categories!
And it never hurts to have some social support when working toward a goal, so check out the many Goodreads groups that host reading challenges across every topic, theme, and genre imaginable.
In 2015, Goodreads members pledged to read more than 94 million books! What is your 2016 goal? Tell us in the comments!
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60 books :) I really want to do this one :)
at the other end of the spectrum from the goals of 300 or more, what about the statistic that shows 266 goals have been completed. we're two weeks in and people have completed their goal for the entire year?
Jodes wrote: "Wow, ya'll are making me look like a slacker! I was thinking 20 books this year. HAHAHA!!!"A lot of people that are able to read hundred books or more have literally NO life outside of reading. It takes several hours of reading per day to do this.
Mike wrote: "Jodes wrote: "Wow, ya'll are making me look like a slacker! I was thinking 20 books this year. HAHAHA!!!"A lot of people that are able to read hundred books or more have literally NO life outside..."
One of my friends is a children's librarian, and her goal for this year is 200 books. As she pointed out to me, at least half of those will be children's books that she reads for work. She does have a life; she's just lucky to have a job where reading is a big part of the job.
Johnny wrote: "Mike wrote: "Jodes wrote: "Wow, ya'll are making me look like a slacker! I was thinking 20 books this year. HAHAHA!!!"A lot of people that are able to read hundred books or more have literally NO..."
Childrens books are very short compared to the books I read, which are mostly 700+ pagers and even 1400 some times. My average sized book for 2015 said 660 pages or something, which is pretty high, imo. Size does matter! lol. I'm glad they show you the total amount of pages you read at the end of the year, because someone can read less books, but actually read more words than someone who read more books. Guess my point is that it really does depend on the size of the books someone is reading.
I changed my goal, or more like reassessed it. I'm planning to read 130 books this year. At least 30 of those have to be real books, but the rest can be comics. I had to change my goal, because I add everything I have read here and don't want to reach my goal too soon - I read a lot of comics.
Kelly wrote: "I have a question, How come on my challenge, it says I'm 2 books ahead of schedule? It says I've read 3 of 20 books. I'm not sure what I'm doing. Is this normal?"It takes the number of books you want to read and divides them up over the year. It then takes the number of books you have logged and compares the two, giving you a way to see if you are meeting your goal.
Mike wrote: "Johnny wrote: "Mike wrote: "Jodes wrote: "Wow, ya'll are making me look like a slacker! I was thinking 20 books this year. HAHAHA!!!"A lot of people that are able to read hundred books or more ha..."
Yes! You can only compare your goal to yourself. I will read over 100 books. But, that includes some graphic novels, cook books, young adult novels, books of poetry, and some novellas in addition to a smaller number of long and serious books.
Kelly wrote: "I have a question, How come on my challenge, it says I'm 2 books ahead of schedule? It says I've read 3 of 20 books. I'm not sure what I'm doing. Is this normal?"Just to give you an example, my goal for this year is 50 books. Which roughly comes out to about one book a week. But because I'm a speed reader with OCD, I've already read 14 books, which means, according to the progress meter, I'm 10 books ahead of schedule.
It's normal depending on how fast you read, and what you set as your goal.
Sinistre wrote: "My 2014 reading challenge was 50, I ended up finishing only 432015 reading challenge was 40, I ended up finishing only 25
I decided 30 for this year. Wish me luck"
The challenge is nice to keep us reading, but most important is to enjoy what you are reading. An observation, you read more books when your challenge was higher.
Nancy wrote: "I'm currently reading The Complete Northanger Horrid Novel Collection (9 Books of Gothic Romance and Horror) on my Kindle, would this count as one book or nine?"My view is, if they have separate ISBN numbers, then you are reading individual books.
Nancy wrote: "Karen wrote: "Nancy wrote: "I'm currently reading The Complete Northanger Horrid Novel Collection (9 Books of Gothic Romance and Horror) on my Kindle, would this count as one book or nine?"My vie..."
I would see how they are listed on Goodreads. If they were originally novels or novellas, they should be separate. If it is this list, they are all separate novels.
Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) by Eliza Parsons. London: Minerva Press.
Clermont (1798) by Regina Maria Roche. London: Minerva Press.
The Mysterious Warning, a German Tale (1796) by Eliza Parsons. London: Minerva Press.
The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest (1794) by 'Ludwig Flammenberg' (pseudonym for Carl Friedrich Kahlert; translated by Peter Teuthold). London: Minerva Press.
The Midnight Bell (1798) by Francis Lathom. London: H. D. Symonds.
The Orphan of the Rhine (1798) by Eleanor Sleath. London: Minerva Press.
Horrid Mysteries (1796) by the Marquis de Grosse (translated by P. Will). London: Minerva Press.
Nancy wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Nancy wrote: "Karen wrote: "Nancy wrote: "I'm currently reading The Complete Northanger Horrid Novel Collection (9 Books of Gothic Romance and Horror) on my Kindle, would this count..."Those were all originally released as separate books, i would count them that way.
Nancy wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Nancy wrote: "Karen wrote: "Nancy wrote: "I'm currently reading The Complete Northanger Horrid Novel Collection (9 Books of Gothic Romance and Horror) on my Kindle, would this count..."They are listed as separate books on Goodreads and were initially published separately, but you can count them however you wish.
I read books and I have completed my challenges the last two years. This year is 85 books anf so far I have read 19. I love to read and I am fast. I am a professor and I have always had to read a lot, including all the papers, thesis and dissertations of my students. I am not in a competition. I just have fun reading. It does not matter the number of books you read. You just do what you eant and have fun!☺
Grace wrote: "Guy wrote: "wondering if any of you folks have jobs. I read 12 last year, met my goal. This year 8 is my goal. Not sure where all the time is for reading 50-100+ books a year. Would be nice I guess..."Yes, I have a job, one that requires tons of reading and writing, but I still manage recreational reading in the evening, weekends and on vacations. 50 is just one book weekly. :)
Guy wrote: "wondering if any of you folks have jobs. I read 12 last year, met my goal. This year 8 is my goal. Not sure where all the time is for reading 50-100+ books a year. Would be nice I guess. More power..."As I've mentioned before, I'm a speedreader with OCD. You would be amazed at what that combination can do.
Maria Lucia Seidl De Moura wrote: "I read books and I have completed my challenges the last two years. This year is 85 books anf so far I have read 19. I love to read and I am fast. I am a professor and I have always had to read a l..."19! that's amazing.
So I realized I was being really impatient in finishing few books I've read in order reach my goal, rather than enjoy the process. Which is sad and makes no sense.Being realistic, reduced my goal from 100 to 70. The idealist in me still hopes to surpass the goal. :P
I believe that my reading goal this year was set for 15. So far, I have read six books, but my stats read that I have only read one book this year. What is up with that?
Jackie wrote: "I believe that my reading goal this year was set for 15. So far, I have read six books, but my stats read that I have only read one book this year. What is up with that?"Did you set the dates when you started/finished reading all of your books? If you don't do that, particularly the end date, the database won't recognize that you have read them this year.
Im setting for 100, I started in agust, got 74 already
Johnny wrote: "Guy wrote: "wondering if any of you folks have jobs. I read 12 last year, met my goal. This year 8 is my goal. Not sure where all the time is for reading 50-100+ books a year. Would be nice I guess..."Having a job is what allows me to do most of my reading as I have a train commute where most of my reading takes place and also always have an Audio book in the car. Add a bit of reading before sleep and now and then on weekends, not hard to do.
LordAdiRules wrote: "Im setting for 100, I started in agust, got 74 already" Lol, how in God's name do you have time to read 74 books in 5 months? Retired?
My goal was 36 - one more than I read last year. But so far this year Ive read 46. Not sure what I was doing with my time last year.
I've missed my goal by 2, but I've read some pretty long books this year so I feel quite good about my 73!
I completed 3 more than my goal which pleased me very much. Am now encouraged to set a higher goal for 2017!
Set my target as 100 but have just made the 130 mark so will up next years target to possibly 125?
Marie wrote: "I completed 3 more than my goal which pleased me very much. Am now encouraged to set a higher goal for 2017!"I read four more than my goal (130/134) :-). I also managed to surpass my other goal: more than 30 of those 133 books were real books instead of comics :-). Didn't manage to read 10,000 pages of real books though - result was 9,975... :D
I keep looking for the 2017 challenge so I can add my goal to my feed. When do they usually post it? My goal for 2016 was set for 3 dozen books (needed to cut down to concentrate on writing), but I've finished 4 dozen to date. I'll finish one today making it 49 books in 2016. That makes me happy because, for the most part, I enjoyed the books I read.
My original goal was 150 but I changed it early on to 100 and completed my challange at 106.
My 2016 goal was a total bust! Only 18 books and my goal was 36. Nevertheless, I expect 2017 to be more prolific for reading as I am planning to assiduously avoid the news and current events. I will live more in my literary world vs. the 'real' world. I'm going to again strive for 36 books in 2017.
I'm disappointed. First I wanted to read 110. Second I wanted to read 100. Then I gave up and put 80. Finally I read 88. Next year I'll do better. Last year I read 100 books. 2017 I'll try that again. :/But congratulations everybody. Or better luck next year. ;)
Paula wrote: "I keep looking for the 2017 challenge so I can add my goal to my feed. When do they usually post it? My goal for 2016 was set for 3 dozen books (needed to cut down to concentrate on writing), but I..."Probably first thing tomorrow morning :-).
Anne wrote: "Paula wrote: "I keep looking for the 2017 challenge so I can add my goal to my feed. When do they usually post it? My goal for 2016 was set for 3 dozen books (needed to cut down to concentrate on w..."Thanks, Anne. I suppose I just have that "ready, set, go" attitude right now. :>)
Paula wrote: "Anne wrote: "Paula wrote: "I keep looking for the 2017 challenge so I can add my goal to my feed. When do they usually post it? My goal for 2016 was set for 3 dozen books (needed to cut down to con..."No surprise :-)
I surpassed my goal of 36 by reading 60 this year. I would like to share my 2016 challenge accomplishment on FB but can't find the 2016 challenge anymore. All I'm seeing is the 2017 challenge sign-up.
Randal wrote: "I surpassed my goal of 36 by reading 60 this year. I would like to share my 2016 challenge accomplishment on FB but can't find the 2016 challenge anymore. All I'm seeing is the 2017 challenge sign-up."You can get it from your profile.
Um, 150 more or less. I'm keeping a record of read books.