Lola’s Ramblings: Reading Goals for 2026

For 2025 I set some gentle reading goals for myself and I liked this, so I am setting some goals again for 2026. A lot of them the same as previous year, but I changed some and swapped some out for new ones.

If you want to see how I did with my 2025 Reading Goals, you can read my recap post here.

Reading Goals for 2026

• Read 12 Non-fiction Books. Same goal as last year, I only barely made this one last year. So only setting this one a bit higher, I really like to continue to read some nonfiction books and about 1 per month seems doable. I hope to get more read, but we’ll see how that goes.
• Read 20 Cozy Fantasy Books. I love the cozy fantasy genre and totally smashed my goal in 2025, so I am setting the bar higher and aiming for 20 cozy fantasy books this year.
• Read 4 Books that are Re-reads. I don’t re-read a lot, but I like to remind myself to make some time for re-reads, same goals as last year with 4 books.
• Read 20 Books by new-to-me authors. I like trying out new-to-me authors so I kept this goal from last year and the same amount.
• Read 4 books with non-binary characters. Another one I kept from last year, I want to continue reading some books non-binary characters.
• Read 6 Books with Autistic Characters. I also kept this one from last year, as an autistic person myself I like reading books with autistic characters and want to continue my goal to get some of those read.
• Read 10 Books that are review copies I got in 2025. I did not do so well with my 2025 goal of requesting fewer review copies and in fact have a whole pile I didn’t get to in 2025. I hope to make a good dent into that pile, so set the goal on 10, hopefully I can get even more done.
• Read 4 Books that I got for free. I liked this goal and trying to get some free books read, so I am keeping this one around.
• Track how many new series I start. I want to get more insight in how many new series I start, so this one is just one to track how many new series I start.
• Start 4 new cozy mystery series. I have so many cozy mystery series I picked up book 1 for and want to try and get some of those started.
• Finish 6 Series. I want to actually finish some series I started, this might be a bit optimistic goal as I have no clue how many series I usually finish in a year and I read a lot of ongoing series too. So we’ll see how it goes.

Specific Book or Series Goals

• Continue the St Marin’s Series by ACF Bookens. I read the first 6 books before 2026 and while I didn’t get any read in 2025, I hope to get back to this series and read some this year as I really enjoy this author’s books and this is the only series I am not caught up with.
• Continue the Cranberry Cove Series by Peg Cochran. I listened to book 1 last 2025 and want to continue the series. There are currently 10 books out in this series, so plenty of more books to listen to.
• Continue the Cat in the Stacks Series by Miranda James. I read the first 9 books before 2026 and want to continue it, the series has 17 books out now, so plenty more to listen to.
• Listen to Banshees & Boba by Nia Quinn. This was one of my 2025 goals, but the audiobook version didn’t release yet, so I am hoping to get to it in 2026 as I think it will be released soon.
• Read at least 1 book RJ Blain. Another goal I didn’t get to in 2025, so I am adding this one again.
• Read at least 2 books by Celia Lake. I heard of this author’s books recently and bought a few of her books on sale. These sound like my type of books they are cozy with interesting sounding characters and a bit of magic. I hope I can try 2 of them and see if I like this author’s books.

What are some of your reading goals for 2026?