My 2018 Reading Challenges

Posted December 18th 2017 by Dani in Challenges, Fun Things / 1 Comment

I took a break from reading challenges in 2017 due to school, but my reading and blogging life are slowly getting back under control, so I think it’s time I set some goals for next year!

My overall aim in 2018 is to Catch Up.

Broken down, my goals are:

  • To read books that others have hyped.
  • To read at least 50 of the books on my bookshelves that I haven’t yet. (I have hundreds of unread books in my flat.)
  • To push my Netgalley Feedback Ratio above 80%.

Below are the challenges I’m tackling next year. It’ll be tough, but that’s the point, eh?

I’m not going to include a TBR for each now; instead, I’ll do a monthly TBR post broken down by challenge, so watch out for those!

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Goodreads Reading Challenge 2018

Ah, the good old Goodreads challenge. Who isn’t doing this one? In 2016, I read 148 books. In 2017, I’m not sure whether I’ll make it to 100. It’s been a struggle because I fell massively behind in the first half of the year. In 2018, I’m gunning for 120. 10 books a month sounds doable to me while also allowing me time for work and other Real Life things.

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A Series a Month 2018

There are so many series that people rave about but I haven’t read, and this is the year I catch up. As there wasn’t a challenge doing just this yet, I created A Series A Month. The purpose of #ASeriesAMonth2018 is to read a new series each month, specifically one I haven’t started yet. This will help me enormously with reading the books on my shelves. I have whole series on there that I’ve never opened, like all the books from Throne of Glass.

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2017 Throwback

I was so busy finishing my masters and then starting a new job that I missed out on a lot of 2017 releases. Luckily, Jamie from Books and Ladders was in the same boat, so she’s made a challenge to read at least one book a month from 2017.

Find out more on Books and Ladders!

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2018 Beat the Backlist

In the same vein as 2017 Throwback, Austine from NovelKnight is doing a challenge to read backlist books. Since it would be pretty cheap for me to count the same books for both challenges, I’m going to be pushing myself to read books from before 2017 as well. That being said, I’m not crazy. I will be counting books from series for this. 😛

Find out more on NovelKnight!

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On Top of the Box

This is an ad-hoc one, but I have subscriptions to two book boxes at the moment (FairyLoot and Book Box Club), and while I love getting the boxes, I often simply shelve the books (unless I’ve already read an ARC). Given how much I spend on these boxes, I should really read what comes in them.

As such, I plan to read each book I receive within one month of opening a book box!

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2018 Netgalley & Edelweiss Reading Challenge

I think I probably have over 100 ARCs – mostly digital – that I have to read and actually review. Yes, bad Dani. My current Netgalley Feedback Ratio is 39%, and I need to read about 71 to get it up to 80%… I don’t even know if I can get it up that high next year, but hopefully I can read at least 50!

To help motivate me, I’m going to participate in Bookish Things & More’s reading challenge dedicated to reading those ARCs, and I’ll be going for Gold!

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ARC April and August

Read.Sleep.Repeat have been doing ARC months for years now, and I think it’s about time I join in properly. This should help me with the above challenge!

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Summary

What this all means is that I’ll be reading the following each month:

  • A series (2+ books)
  • A 2017 release
  • A 2016 or before release
  • One or two book box books
  • 4+ ARCs
  • PLUS any new releases and ARCs I receive (especially the latter in April and August)

Wish me luck!

What challenges are you doing?

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