Hello, reader!
We’re into the second week of 2025 and I haven’t spoken a word about any of my 2025 reading goals. Mostly because I’m trying to go into this year putting as little pressure on my reading life as possible! In that direction, slumps lie, ya know what I mean? Going into the year struggling with a reading slump already feels like not the best time to start making demands of myself when it comes to books.
I do, however, love me a list and, while I was on leave from work for a minor surgery, I decided to make a spreadsheet of all the unread books that I own. I was bored and stuck at home and it seemed like a great idea. That task revealed that I have 375 books that I physically own that I haven’t read! That… feels like a lot 😅 So I decided that I needed to set at least own reading goal in 2025 and that was to read more of my owned TBR instead of getting distracted by flashy, new things.
In the spirit of this goal (and because it’s one of the challenges in my Little Inklings Design planner), I’ve decided that I’m going to do the 25 Books In 2025 reading challenge! And every book on my list is going to be a book from my owned TBR. All the books on my list were chosen at random by using a number generator and my spreadsheet, so there is no rhyme or reason to this at all, haha. Still, I’m excited for all the picks and happy to bring down the, frankly, ridiculous number of unread books that I own.
That being said, let me share which 25 books I’ll be attempting to read in 2025!
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein – Goodreads::StoryGraph
- Caliban’s War by James S.A. Corey – Goodreads::StoryGraph
- Child of the Dream by Sharon Robinson – Goodreads::StoryGraph
- A Deal with the Elf King by Elise Kova – Goodreads::StoryGraph
- Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender – Goodreads::StoryGraph
Kerri McBookNerd 