Let’s see how I did with my reading goals for 2025!
Reading Goals for 2025
- Read 10 Non-fiction Books. Done! I read 12 non-fiction books this year.
The books I read: The Magic of Knowing What You Want, The Healing Journey, How Can I Help?, Reclaim Your Mind, ADHD is Awesome, Gardening for Beginners, Trees of the Rocky Mountains, Embodying Autism, Birds of the Pacific Northwest For Kids, You Can Stop Now, The Science of Shopping and Healing Autistic Burnout - Read 8 Cozy Fantasy Books. Done! I read a big total of 35 and surpassed my goal by a lot.
The books I read: Coffee, Milk and Spider Silk, Doll Girl Meets Dead Guy, The Tea Witch’s Promise, Pratical Rules for Cursed Witches, The Nameless Restaurant, Winter Tales From Cozy Vales, Chaotic Apéritifs, The Tea Witch’s Secret, Unbury the Bones, Flooded Secrets, The Potion Dealers, Dragons & Dumplings, A Mythical Case of Theft, The Coffee House Witch & The Grumpy Cat, The Tea Witch’s Treaty, The Rebellious Fae’s Guide To Family Rivalries, The Sea Spirit Festival, Boneless, The Spellshop, A Tale of Mirth and Magic, Must Love Moss and Moonshine, A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping, The Coffee House Witch & The Hangover Potion, Wanted: Brooding Man, Tragic Past, Bookstore Witch, Thaumaturgic Tapas, The Demon and The Fairy, Cursed Cocktails, Contracts & Cats, Princesses & Pastries, Extraordinary Quests for Amateur Witches, Autumn Tales From Cozy Vales, The Coffee House Witch & The Cursed Clock, The Unlucky Fae And The Good Luck Charm and Stories From the Deep. - Read 4 Books that are Re-reads.Done! Only barely made this one and read exactly 4 re-reads this year and almost all during the stressful time leading up to moving.
The books I re-read: Doll Girl Meets Dead Guy, Appalachian Awakening, Something Wild & Wonderful and The Potion Dealers. - Read 20 Books by new-to-me authors. Done! Totally beat this goal with 36 new to me authors I read this year.
The new to me authors I discovered this year: Coyote JM Edwards, Tracy Gee, Kayla Cottingham, Tao Wong, Caroline Bakker, Douglas W. Tallamy, Tereza Kane, Jay Vidyarthi, Sam Lumley, Kintetsu Yamada, Kim and Penn Holderness, Kate Wheeler, Lily Jones, Robert Weiss, Ashley Bennett, Kurano, Rachel Lynn Solomon, Kristen Vale, Ann Rose, Sarah Beth Durst, Maisy Magill, Lily James, Kathryn Nolan, Kim Davies, S.L. Rowland, Toni Binns, Elinor Wilder, Kim Griswell, Autumn Tales From Cozy Vales, M.Q. Barber, Maia Ross, Robin Jo Margaret, Amogh Swamy, Kate Hardcastle, Peg Cochran and Sharon K. O’Connor. - Read 4 Books with a f/f romance.Done! I did really well this goal. I read 15 f/f romances this year.
The books I read: Practical Rules for Cursed Witches, Bounded Love, Appalachian Awakening, Goat Magic, The Coffe House Witch & The Grumpy Cat, The Rebellious Fae’s Guide To Family Rivalries, The Bat Ward’s Watch, Starlight and Space Between, A Demon’s Cocktail With Sambuca, Thrill of the Chase, The Coffee House Witch & The Hangover Potion, Bookstore Witch, The Hellhound Growl, The Coffee House Witch & The Cursed Clock and The Unlucky Fae And The Good Luck Charm. - Read 4 books with non-binary characters. Done! Did pretty well with this one too and beat my goal and read 6 books with non-binary main characters.
The books I read: Spell Bound, Unbury the Bones, Flooded Secrets, The Sea Spirit Festival, Boneless and Stories From the Deep. - Read 6 Books with Autistic Characters. Done! I read 9 books with autistic characters this year.
The books I read: Poisoned Primrose, Paper Cuts, How to Have a Killer Time in D.C., Dragons & Dumplings, Something Wild & Wonderful, The Dead Come to Stay, A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping, Not a Free Ion and Princesses & Pastries. - Read 8 Books that are review copies I got in 2024. Done! I exactly made this goal and read 8 books that were review copies I got in 2024.
The books I read: Coharie Beach Café 3, File M for Murder, Coharie Beach Café 4, Waiting on Psamathe, Out of Circulation, Coharie Beach Café 5, How Can I Help and Coharie Beach Café 6. - Read 4 Books that I got for free. Done! I didn’t expect to do so well with this goal, I read 11 books that I got for free.
The books I read: Poisoned Primrose, The Nameless Restaurant, Winter Tales from Cozy Vales, Masquerade of Blood and Silence, Unbury the Bones, ADHD is awesome, Marcus’s Cadence, Legacy of Wings, Swipe Right for Kuk, Must Love Moss and Moonshine and Autumn Tales From Cozy Vales. - Don’t request too many review copies. Not completed. I totally failed this goal. This year was very stressful and I have a tendency to request more review copies when I am stressed. I read a lot of them, but also a lot I didn’t get to.
Specific Book or Series Goals
- Continue the St Marin’s Series by ACF Bookens. Not completed. I read the first 6 books before 2025 and read 0 books in 2025.
- Start the Motts Cold Case Mystery series by Dahlia Donovan. Done. I read the first book in this series Poisoned Primrose. Hopefully I can continue the series.
- Get caught up with the Secret, Book, and Scone Society Series by Ellery Adams. Done. I’ve listened to the first 4 books in 2024 and listened to book 5 The Vanishing Type, book 6 Paper Cuts, book 7 The Little Lost Library and book 8 The Tattered Cover in 2025. That’s 4 books in this series I listened to this year. I am now fully caught up with this series.
- Listen to Banshees & Boba by Nia Quinn. Not completed. I had pre-ordered the audio for this one, but it didn’t release this year yet, so I didn’t get the chance to listen to it yet, hopefully this year.
- Read at least 1 RJ Blain book. Not completed. I wanted to do this, but somehow didn’t get around to reading any of her books this year.
- Continue the Parisian Ghosts series by Janna Ruth. Done! I read the first 3 books in 2024 and read the following books this year: book 4 Ghosts of the Opera, book 5 Ghosts of the Provence, Book 6 Ghosts of the World Fair and book 7 Ghosts of the Monarchy in 2025. That’s 4 books in this series I read this year. There will be two more books in this series, one that’s already released and one that’s releasing soon.
Even with a few you didn’t quite meet the goals on, you met so many other goals you did awesome! That’s all we can do. I’d like to do some re-reads this year. I have some favorites that I used to read about once a year that I haven’t read in a few years and I miss those characters! Here’s to a good 2026 for us, and hopefully your new place and the financial things you’ve been able to get in order will help with that!
I was quite glad I did so well with most of these. I do like doing a few re-reads every year and during the stressful time before moving those re-reads were so nice. I hope to do a few re-reads again this year. Here’s to a good 2026. Hopefully living in the new house and being in a better place financially will help a lot. And I hope now that your mom has moved you have a calmer year too.
Considering all you had going on this year, wow, you did fabulous, Lola!
Love seeing you reach and exceed the majority of your goals.
I agree I definitely think I did pretty well with my goals with everything else going on this year.
WOW that’s a lot of goals. You did fabulous even with the few you didn’t quite meet especially with everything you had going on this last year. Good Luck on your new goals for 2026 whatever they are and Happy Reading!
They do look a lot listed like this. I am glad I made as many of the goals as I did. I will have my 2026 reading goals post up next week I think.