Hello friends!

Oh, how I am dreading this post…

So you’ve read my post “My 8 Reading Goals for 2024“, but we still haven’t talked about if I reached my goals for 2023. Last year, at the beginning of the year, I shared with you “My 8 Reading Goals for 2023“, so today we will see together how my reading year went… and laugh at how miserably I have failed!

I always like setting a few yearly goals for reading because I think it’s the perfect opportunity to push boundaries, explore new things, and get out of our comfort zone!

In the following list, I will list all of my reading goals for 2022. In front of each goal, I added an icon: ✔️ if I achieved it or ❌ if I failed. So here are the reading goals I set for 2022:

1. Read 60 books: ACHIEVED ✔️

This was an easy one for me to achieve! This was not very hard for me to achieve since this has been my yearly goal for the last few years. This year I was able to read 78 books, which means I read about 6.5 books per month (average). At this point, I’m used to reading this many books.

2. Reduce book collection to 200 (or less) books: FAILED ❌

Another year, another flop. I swear this is one of the hardest goals to achieve! Somehow I ended up with more books than when I first started the year! The funny thing about this is that I sold dozens of books this year… but somehow I bought even more! This is something I desperately need to fix, so I’m working on this in 2024.

3. Read 20 books from my physical TBR: ACHIEVED ✔️

I’m so proud of myself! I can’t believe I achieved this goal by reading 21 books from my physical TBR. This was easier than I thought and I’m happy I was able to read a bunch of books that were waiting for me. I hope this goal will be achieved again in 2024!

4. Read 2 fantasy series I have always wanted to read: ACHIEVED ✔️

Another goal that was achieved! Wow, who am I and what did I do to Neide? I was able to conclude the “Ready Player One” and “The Blade of Secrets” fantasy duologies, so this was another hit! I also started the “Skin Books” series in 2023, so I did more than expected. I’m very proud of myself for this one!

5. Read 2 big books (>500 pages): FAILED ❌

I once again failed this goal! If you read my “My Fear of Big Books” post, you know I’m intimidated by big books. I wanted to work on this fear of mine because I don’t want to miss out on all the amazing stories out there. I started reading “The Priory of the Orange Tree” (which is almost 900 pages long) at the end of the year, but I would be still missing one book! This goal was a fail.

6. Do not finish books if I really don’t want to: : MIXED ✔️❌

I really don’t know what to say about this one. Part of me thinks I got better at DNFing books, but at the same time, I kept reading the “Skin Books” trilogy because I kept giving it a chance and I didn’t want to leave the series unfinished. I’m wondering if this goal was really worth doing? Sure, life is too short to read boring books… but I also don’t like leaving things unfinished. I have mixed feelings about this one, it’s probably something I’ll ignore in the future and I’ll do whatever I feel like doing! At least I learned something about myself with this goal: maybe there’s a grey area here.

7. Read a book for every genre: ACHIEVED ✔️

Another goal I wanted to achieve in 2023 was to read from different genres! I like to think of myself as a diverse reader and I want to get out of my comfort zone, so I made this goal last year to ensure this would happen. I have below all the genres I selected, and as you can see the only one I wasn’t able to achieve was paranormal. Since there were so many genres and I only failed 1, I still decided to mark this goal as achieved. I think it’s important to be flexible and embrace our victories… and this was a great accomplishment for me either way! Check out the genres I tried to read this year:

• Romance ✔️
• Thriller ✔️
• Fantasy ✔️
• Young Adult ✔️
• New Adult ✔️
• Adult ✔️
• Horror ✔️
• Historical ✔️
• LGBTQ+ ✔️
• Contemporary ✔️
• Science Fiction ✔️
• Science ✔️
• Self-Development ✔️
• Memoir / Biography ✔️
• Mystery ✔️
• Paranormal ❌
• Graphic Novel / Manga ✔️

8. Do TBR lists again: ACHIEVED ✔️

Wow, this went super well this year! I was very consistent with my TBR lists and I tried following them. I felt very organized and in control of my reading. It was a lot of fun to write my TBR posts every month and pick new books for each month! Another plus is that I was able to track my reading goals a little better as well. This worked really well and I’m planning on keep doing it!

And there you have it friends, my reading year. Wow, I’m impressed with myself… this went smoother than I thought! I achieved a lot in 2023 and I made a lot of progress with my reading (and discipline). I can only hopefully I’ll achieve more and better in 2024! 🙂

What about you? Have you revisited your goals? Let me know how your year went! 🙂

Have a great day friends!