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Let’s Talk Bookish: End-of-Year Reading Goals

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✨ Welcome back to another week of LTB! ✨

Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme created by Rukky @Eternity Books and co-hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits and myself! In this discussion meme, participants get to talk about certain topics, share opinions, and spread the love by visiting each other’s posts! Learn more about LTB, past topics and future topics HERE.

This week’s topic is:

End-of-Year Reading Goals

Prompts: What books do you want to read before the end of the year? Are there any new releases you’re still looking forward to? What goals did you set at the beginning of the year? Have you changed or added to those goals?

What books do you want to read before the end of the year?

I guess now would be the perfect time to jump onto the “10 Before the End” train since I’ve been meaning to do it for a while but just never got around to it! So without further ado, let’s take a look at 10 books I’d still love to read before the year ends…

Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell, Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, The Thrashers by Julie Soto, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
Fire Keeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley, I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, I Killed the King by Rebecca Mix & Andrea Hannah, A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna, Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao

Are there any new releases you’re still looking forward to?

At this point, I actually have no clue but I don’t think so! 😂 If my memory serves me right (although I don’t trust it) the last of my “most anticipated reads” have released at this point. However, as I’ve mentioned a couple of times before, I don’t pay that much attention to pub dates and despite doing my best to get better every year, I’m still not very on it, lol.

What goals did you set at the beginning of the year? Have you changed or added to those goals?

I set several reading goals at the start of the year and despite being tempted at certain points, I didn’t make any changes to them (or really looked at them) since. I haven’t done a stellar job with the majority of these goals—although I’ve excelled in listening to way more audiobooks this year than in any other year before—but I’ve been making steady progress on all of them throughout the year. I still hope to achieve my Goodreads Reading Challenge goal of 150 books. I’ve got about 20 books to go and I’m cautiously hopeful about hitting my target!

I’d also still love to complete the year-long challenges I joined this year: the Popsugar Reading Challenge, Buzzword Challenge, and the 2025 Year in Aeldia challenge. The challenge I’ve got the most left to read for is the Popsugar so I think I’ll focus my year end reading on books that can fulfill those prompts (in addition to the “10 Before the End” picks above):

If We Were A Movie by Zakiya N. Jamal, How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley, 2043 A Merman I Should Turn to Be by Nisi Shawl, The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, The Boyfriend Candidate by Ashley Winstead
If Only You by Chloe Liese, The Opposite of You by Rachel Higginson, Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

Don’t forget to check out the other bloggers who joined the discussion this week! 👇🏽

Emma @ Pages of Emma
Rachael @ The Green Tea Librarian
Leslie @ Books Are the New Black
Elle @ Unwrapping Words
Shoto @ Magic & Maybes
Yolanda @ Past Midnight
Raji @ Worlds Unlike Our Own
Julie @ Bookflowerpath
Abyssal Librarian
Tasya @ The Literary Huntress
Bree @ Bibliophile Bree
Jhohadli

If I’ve missed your post this week, don’t hesitate to let me know in the comments, and I’ll add you to this week’s list of community posts ASAP!

What are your end-of-year reading goals? Do you have any books you’d like to read before the end of the year?

19 thoughts on “Let’s Talk Bookish: End-of-Year Reading Goals”

  3. Quite a few books I want to read before the year end. I need to reach my target of 200
    The Wake by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
    The Bone Thief by Vanessa Lillie
    Roommate Game by Lane Hayes
    Unbroken by Jordon L Hawk
    Omnitron by Pauline Baird Jones
    After hours at Dooryard books by Cat Sebastian
    Irresistibly Wicked by Melissa Foster
    A Cowboy’s Claim by Vivian Arend
    Tamsyn by Veronica Scott (release in December)
    Scars of Silence by Johana Gustawsson if the library comes through
    These are the definates. A few others may creep in there

    Gill

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    • Ooh, that’s exciting to see! I’ve been eyeing that one since the beginning of the year and can’t decide when to pick it up because I feel like I have to be in the mood for it? Now that I’ve finished my last read and trying to decide what to pick up next, maybe I should see if my mood is ready for this 🤭 I hope you continue enjoying it!

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  8. I love these types of posts!! I have abandoned my challenges, it was a tough year, so I am even more impressed by how well everyone is doing! I am surprised that despite not checking it as often, you’re doing so well, good job!

    You seem to have very interesting and different books in both lists, I cannot wait to see your progress, good luck!

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  9. A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping was a great read. I hope you enjoy reading all of these when you get the opportunity (or the mood strikes!!).

    I set myself two reading goals this year-to read 52 books and to read 26 books I own. I’ve demolished the first goal, and two books short of the second goal. I try to keep my goals doable, so I’m not stressed about achieving them.

    I’ve seen the prompt list for next year’s Popsugar and I’m debating about giving it a try. We shall see!

    Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!

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  11. Even if you don’t finish those challenges, you did great!! It’s been a fantastic reading year. I just got A Witch’s Guide to Magical Inkeeping from PRHA if you want to buddy read it?? So many amazing books on your 10 before the end!

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