MJV Bookish Thoughts: 2025 Reading Goals
Welcome back to My Jamaican Vignettes. For 2025, I am keeping things simple. There will be no reading challenges or participation in any special readalongs. But I have nine goals that will guide to my goal of reading 52 books for 2025. Let’s dive in.
2025 Reading Goals
First and overarching goal is to read 52 books, it is the same target as 2024 and I feel this is manageable.
Let’s get into the breakdown of how I will get to those 52 books by 31 December 2024.
For 2025, I want to:
- Read a book by a Caribbean author each month.
- Read one of the free books I downloaded during the Black Reader Appreciation Event (BRAE) or the B. Love Presents (American Thanksgiving week).
- Read two non-fiction books per quarter (including memoirs).
- Listen to an audiobook per month (or cancel Everand by March 2024).
- Complete reading the Jamaica Kincaid books that I have – I think I have around five.
- Read a Toni Morrison book each quarter – get through her catalouge of books starting with re-reading Beloved.
- Complete the Le Veq family series by Beverly Jenkins.
Those are the goals. Very simple. Nothing challenging. Really manageable and it comes down to reading the books that I already own.
What are your 2025 reading goals?
Happy reading!
See you next week.
Chantel DaCosta
Chantel DaCosta is a storyteller, editor and lifestyle blogger. She is passionate about mental health awareness and Jamaican women's own-voices stories.
