Reading Goals for 2025

[artvandelay576]

Good afternoon all,

First full week of 2025 and I have set a few reading goals for the year. I finished the year off with the first volume of Edmund Harris's Theodore Roosevelt biography and Calvin Coolidge's biography checked off my list. This year I want to delve more into classic literature. I've just finished Dostoevsky's The Gambler and now I will begin his novel The Brothers Karamazov. Given the copy I have is 995 pages, if I budget 20 pages each day, I should finish by March.

Do any of you have literary goals for the new year? Maybe a title you've always wanted to read, but never found the time? What are some recent books you've read and could recommend?

 

[Lyvie]

I honestly just want to get through my shelf of books. I can't go to Barnes and Noble or BooksAMillion without picking up books. I don't have any particular genres as I lean toward if the synopsis of the book is decent and the first few pages hook me, I'm there.

I'm trying to get a book read for every month but at the latest, two given how my schedule goes. I've wanted to read the LOTR. Been through the extended versions of the movies so why not the books next? I picked up 1984 by George Orwell and Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. On a recommendation from Facebook, I collected the series The Time I Got Drunk by Kimberly Lemming. I'm reading the first book which is not bad. Comedic but I'm kind of left wanting more.

 

[artvandelay576]

I get that. Every time I go into Barnes and Noble I walk out with a new book. When I was younger I would buy all the paperback "Barnes and Noble Classics" and after a while I purged the ones I never touched to free up some shelf space. I still have a copy of Great Expectation by Charles Dickens, the bookmark still where I left it about a quarter of the way. I didn't have as much free time after I was finished with school. Full-time work just ate away at my reading time, so now I try to match a 1:1 buy a book : read the book ratio.

I recently saw a book by Leo Tolstoy that was not Anna Karenina or War and Peace, and the story seemed more enticing that either of those two. It's called Resurrection, and that just may be my next read after I finish with my current Dostoevsky book.

 

[Lyvie]

I completely understand that. Oh and hey I looked up Resurrection and I'm quite interested in adding that to my collection too. So, thank you for mentioning it.

 

[Nihilistic_Impact]

My reading goal is to read more books than previously, so I need to try and get a couple done a month. Though my bigger goal is to not massively increase my to read list, it is too easy for me to fall victim to my base impulses and binge buy books.