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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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My goal is 250 books this year, same as last year!
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Beth wrote: "Going for 25 books this year. I realize it is small potatoes compared to what some people read, but I am doing what I can."There are too many people who don't bother to read at all. I think your goal is awesome, Beth xo
80 books I don't think I can manage more than this
Normally I would do more but I have 4 kids to look after lol so I will choose 160 to complete this year and hope that I get more done! By the way, I think ANY number of books anyone reads is awesome! I love reading and think people who read rock! Happy New Year to everyone and may the odds (of finishing your challenge) be ever in your favor ;)
Would it be possible for you to make it so you can set a page goal instead of a book goal, if that's what you prefer? I only ask because I started A Song of Fire and Ice, and I could probably read 10+ books in the time it takes me to read those. I read a variety of lengths, but usually rather long books, and I would much rather set a page goal than a book goal. I think it would be awesome if we had the ability to choose.
The past couple of years I have set a goal of 60 books/year & I haven't met that goal. So this year my goal is 52...one book a week! I'm excited about all the books I'm going to read.
Last year I set my goal at 100 books, but wanted to be sure I wasn't guilty of what one person said and only read short books, so I also kept an Excel spread sheet to keep track of this as well as other goals. Here are my statistics:102 books
Average # of Pages. 380
# of books written by women. 52
Books I own 7 Need to do a better job on this one
Non Fiction. 9 And improve on this one as well
Audio Books. 16
Have reduced my goal this year to 75 and will adjust if need be. Want to concentrate on reading for both enjoyment and education. Favorite book of the year "Our Souls at Night" audio version and will look for more books by this reader and another "The Golum and the Jinni " as is was very unusual, reminded me a bit of Night Circus" which is another of my favorite books.
So, happy 2016 reading. Don't be concerned about the numbers, but read lots because there are so many good books of all kinds out there. The goal just helps you keep reading.
60 or more. I kinda want to push as far as I could go but that would be too much way more than you think.
Cheryl wrote: "Last year I set my goal at 100 books, but wanted to be sure I wasn't guilty of what one person said and only read short books, so I also kept an Excel spread sheet to keep track of this as well as ..."Happy Reading to you too!....Night Circus is on my "to-read" list!
Marie wrote: "2015 I tried to reach 100 but I stopped with 88 ... 2016 another try of 100 :)"
88 is great! :)
My goal is to read 85 books. I have completed my 2015 challenge.
Nada wrote: "My goal this year is to read more pages so I lowered my books number to 60 to be able to do that. I'm excited xD"Page wrote: "Danielle wrote: "I had a total of 609 last year including my re-reads. Wonder how many I can do this year :)"
Wow! That is absolutely amazing! You are my hero! "
Congratulations!
Honestly, just 12! I didn't read much last year, so if I can accomplish one a month, I'll be very happy :)
My goal last year was 50 and I read 68, so I'm setting my goal higher this year: 75.
I pledged 36 books last year, actually read 39 books and I'm planning on at least 45 books in 2016!!!! With audio options + paper books I think I'll make it!!!!
Hi,I am catching up with my old habit of reading, making it more formally part of my daily habits, a self discipline.
So in 2015 I set a very conservative goal to see how I could do and I set a goal of 10.
I have a part time to full time job and commuting in my home town kills a lot of time so I have only marginal time to read. However, during 2015 I took a MOOC course about my countryman Gabriel García Márquez in which I read again several of his books I had read in the past and some new ones, so it helped me to beat the 10 books goal with 14 books read.
I have to say here that my goal is not the number of books. My goal is rather to devote more of my time to reading, but to read my way, which I compare to eating good food: smell it first, taste it slowly, enjoy it. I enjoy re-reading phrases or paragraphs that I liked. I even enjoy reading back complete books that I love. Either to laugh again with funny characters or situations or even to let some tears go with passages that are sad or moving.
So my goals will probably never go beyond 2 or 3 books a month in average, but rather reflect a consistent habit.
I have more than enough raw material: I have a small library of some 200 to 300 books plus some 40 in my Kindle. These are not too big numbers and yet they suffer the common illness of growing as I visit bookstores, read book comments and recommendations or browse through Goodreads, Amazon and the like.
So I have chosen from those books I already have, physical or ebooks, 16 that I have set as my personal challenge in 2016. I even have a reading plan over time for them. Any addition I make, any book I read not in the plan will be "at my own risk".
So this is how I am coming back to reading and if someone reads this, hope you accompany me in this journey: I'll surely can go with you in yours.
Good reading,
Mario
My goal this year is 75 books. Will do my best to complete it!
I've reduced my goal to 40 this year because my goal is to read harder and longer books and to savor them more slowly. I'm planning to increase the time spent on reading but read fewer books - although perhaps just as many pages.
I'm going for 200 again - it's enough to actually be a challenge and not so many that it's out of reach. Every year I have to push myself to get to the number, especially as I've started just started several series with very long books.
My goal last year was 25 and I read it (I read some more but was not for public list) , now I'm setting my goal higher: 36; 3 per month.Happy 2016 and goodreading!
I made my goal for 2015, 50 books . I read 53, so my goal for this year is 60!
100 books, because the past year I cann't read many.
Last year my goal was 125, and I read 143. This year I lowered my goal to 120 because I want to try to read books outside of my usual genres and join discussion groups.
Mariana wrote: "Last year my goal was 125, and I read 143. This year I lowered my goal to 120 because I want to try to read books outside of my usual genres and join discussion groups."That's a really good strategy!
Is it just me or is there not really an easy way to mark a book off as read on the mobile version of Goodreads? I actually read more than 175 books in 2015, but I couldn't always be at my computer and it was quite the hassle to try and mark off books as read. Unless I am just missing something, I click on the book, go under 'review' to click edit, move the book to the 'read' shelf and then set the date.
Anyone who knows how to do it faster, feel free to share with me!
I really want to keep track of everythng i read this year; it's kind of fun to see it.i
120 books. I read 139 in 2016 so I think I can do this.
This year, I would like to read more pages. So, 10. :)
Only just managed my target 100 last year, will try 80 for 2016 :D
