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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 this year is 30 books from my own books. They're piling up in my room, have not touched yet. So far I can't read 100 pages per day on working day and more on weekend.
24,usually i manage more, but last year was busy and i barely made it to 25 -
one a month is good enough for me, especially with my love for fat fantasy volumes
50! My goal for 2015 was 40, so hopefully I'll read 10 more this year:)
Anyway, for me personally it's not so much about quantity, I just hope I'll find some really awesome books that'll stay with me.
Good luck everyone!
Props to everyone for setting their reading goals for this year, I would if I could... but as soon as I start thinking about page numbers or book counts then reading becomes a task. My goal is to simply read as many books as I want to (just living my year book to book)
Angie wrote: "My goal is 500 books this year."Must be nice to not have to work or take care of kids, or have any kind of life for that matter! Good luck with that insane number, however.
Tyler wrote: "Props to everyone for setting their reading goals for this year, I would if I could... but as soon as I start thinking about page numbers or book counts then reading becomes a task. My goal is to s..."Maybe that's what we all should do! ;)
for now i decided to read blind owl written by Sadegh Hedayat .(Iranian writer )
I'll try for 25 books - that's around 2 a month. I'm guessing Sherlock fanfiction doesn't count? Lol
First Book..The Best Seller she wrote by Ravi Subramanian. Next is Moderm Romace by Aziz Ansari
Shima wrote: "110 but I'll try to aim higher"Brittany wrote: "Going for 150!"
Ikram wrote: "200 books :)"
How do you read over a hundred books?
I used to hate reading but throughout December I read so many books and discovered my love for them so hopefully I can reach my goal of 75!!
warriorlover wrote: "I hope you make it!!"Thanks!
Just imagine if each person donated $1 for every book they read to some sort of literacy charity...
Trying for 52 books this year.. Amin :)
If you live like me who have so many other works and cannot compromise reading passion then I will say 3 book per month and that is 36 rare cases if you got any interesting book that it lead to 40. Let's see..,
Danielle wrote: "I had a total of 609 last year including my re-reads. Wonder how many I can do this year :)"How is it possible to read more than 1 book a day?
Katherine wrote: "Just imagine if each person donated $1 for every book they read to some sort of literacy charity..."What a great idea,
I read 60. my goal was 25. I discovered audiobooks this year and use my drive time to devour my reading list.
Susan wrote: "Danielle wrote: "I had a total of 609 last year including my re-reads. Wonder how many I can do this year :)"How is it possible to read more than 1 book a day?"
I wonder that too. How short are the books she reads?
warriorlover wrote: "hi guys. i am very bored. Have any of you heard of the book "Cress"?"Yeah, by Marissa Meyer ?????
I have read Cinder but have yet to read Scarlet (getting tomorrow) and Cress. Did you read them?
Ummmm... I have read a few WarriorCats books, your profile pic reminds me of CinderPelt.
Maybe we could name her Turquoise because of her eyes. They're beautiful
Kolsuma wrote: "Shima wrote: "110 but I'll try to aim higher"Brittany wrote: "Going for 150!"
Ikram wrote: "200 books :)"
How do you read over a hundred books?"
Well, I've done it by reading more than one book at a time.
That's a nice name. He/she kinda does look like NightFrost , I like it.
Kelly wrote: "How do I do this? I've already set my challenge 20 books, but I don't know how to update it to say I've read a book? Can someone help me, please."So all you do is go to the book you rated. Go to "edit review". It should have an option that says "Date read" :)
Last year my goal was 500 which I met. This year I want to try and read more pages instead so am lowering my goal to 365.
Luka wrote: "So, um, how do people manage to read a book every other day?You speed read? Do audio books and commute 4h a day? Read 50page books? Only read and do nothing else?
How is it done?
Last year went 1..."
I listen to audio books during my commute to and from work. I also have days were I can listen and work at the same time. This really helps to bump my number up.
Also only have 1 child at home and my husband does not work so by the time I get home there is not a lot of rushing to get homework, dinner, etc done because 90% of the time he has it taken care of. So while hubby and son are watching tv, I read. This gives me at least 3 hours to read before bed every night. Usually up til 11 or so. I also read books to my son so they tend to be shorter (50 pages or so) and some of the ones I read are 150 pages or less, this means I can read more than one in a day. I can definitely see how it might be a stretch for some due to real life. I can remember times when I was lucky to get 10 books read a year. Good Luck to everyone with their challenges.
Johnny wrote: "Kolsuma wrote: "Shima wrote: "110 but I'll try to aim higher"Brittany wrote: "Going for 150!"
Ikram wrote: "200 books :)"
How do you read over a hundred books?"
Well, I've done it by reading m..."
I start new books before finishing the earlier one, and usually the result is that I finish neither of them. Apparently all of us have different style that suits us.
warriorlover wrote: "I agree"Her eyes are amazing - is that a real colour?
First I thought I will read 100 books. But who knowes... I am planning to read more (and re-read Harry Potter Series for the third time) .
I read 549 last year so my goal for this year is 550!
