🎯My Reader Goals 2025

Every year I look back at my reading list and think about my reader goals.

The first thing I do is set up my Reading Challenge on The Storygraph:

📚 Reading Challenge 2025: Read 58 books & 21,000 pages.

I then look at my TBR (to-read pile) and note the series and books that caught my attention and that I would still like to read. That doesn’t mean I will follow this whole list; it works as a brainstorming of titles I am still interested in reading. If I ever get to a place where I can’t decide what to read next, I will look at this list to get some ideas.

Series I want to continue reading:

  1. The Stormlight Archives (Brandon Sanderson) (Books #2 to #4)

  2. The Dresden Files (Jim Butcher) (Books #12 to #17)

  3. Vorkosigan Saga (Lois McMaster Bujold) (Books #2 to #17)

  4. Old Man's War (John Scalzi) (Books #4 to #6)

  5. Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) (Books #3 and #4)

  6. The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (Books #6 to #9)

Books planned for my local Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Club:

  1. January: Shards of Honor/Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

  2. February: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

  3. March: Exordia by Seth Dickinson

  4. April: The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

  5. May: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

  6. June: Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames

  7. July: Drunk On All your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

  8. August: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

  9. September: The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind by Jackson Ford

  10. October: The Rook by Daniel O'Malley

  11. November: Neuromancer by William Gibson

  12. December: Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

Some other books on my TBR I want to read (in no particular order):

Fiction:

  1. Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflowers #1) by Lisa Kleypas

  2. Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel #1) by T. Kingfisher

  3. Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment #2) by Rebecca Ross

  4. The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean

  5. Gobbelino London & a Scourge of Pleasantries (Gobbelino London, PI #1) by Kim M. Watt

  6. The Rakess (Society of Sirens #1) by Scarlett Peckham

  7. The Perils of Pleasure (Pennyroyal Green #1) by Julie Anne Long

  8. The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie (Mackenzies & McBrides #1) by Jennifer Ashley

  9. Ne'er Duke Well (Belvoir's Library #1) by Alexandra Vasti

  10. The Duke Who Knew Too Much (Heart of Enquiry #1) by Grace Callaway

  11. The Earl I Ruined (The Secrets of Charlotte Street #2) by Scarlett Peckham

  12. Baking Bad (Beaufort Scales Mystery #1) by Kim M. Watt

  13. The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle #0.5) by Patrick Rothfuss

  14. The Heiress Hunt (The Fifth Avenue Rebels #1) by Joanna Shupe

  15. Notorious Pleasures (Maiden Lane #2) by Elizabeth Hoyt

  16. Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

  17. Derring-Do for Beginners (The Red Company #1) by Victoria Goddard

  18. Hild (Light of the World #1) by Nicola Griffith

  19. Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

  20. His Secret Illuminations (The Warrior's Guild #1) by Scarlett Gale

  21. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

  22. Trial of the Sun Queen (Artefacts of Ouranos #1) by Nisha J. Tuli

  23. The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Crowns of Nyaxia #1) by Carissa Broadbent

  24. A Heart of Blood and Ashes (A Gathering of Dragons #1) by Milla Vane

  25. The Thursday Murder Club (A Thursday Murder Club Mystery #1) by Richard Osman

  26. Iron Flame (The Empyrean #2) by Rebecca Yarros

  27. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

  28. The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels #1) by India Holton

  29. The Winter King (Weathermages of Mystral #1) by C.L. Wilson

  30. Starter Villain by John Scalzi

  31. Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo

  32. A Deadly Education (The Scholomance #1) by Naomi Novik

  33. Divinity 36 (Tinkered Starsong #1) by Gail Carriger

  34. One Dark Window (The Shepherd King #1) by Rachel Gillig

  35. Farthing (Small Change #1) by Jo Walton

  36. Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women #3) by Evie Dunmore

  37. Fire Logic (Elemental Logic #1) by Laurie J. Marks

  38. The Cold Between (Central Corps #1) by Elizabeth Bonesteel

  39. Truth or Beard (Winston Brothers #1) by Penny Reid

  40. The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen

Non-Fiction:

  1. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich

  2. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

  3. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter

  4. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

  5. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell

  6. What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You by Heather Corinna

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