How many books a year?

**Kaynil** · October 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM Official Post

Do you have a target amount of books you try to read per year?

If you do, do you have any exclusion criteria?
For example, is there a genre you don't count? do you include the ones you decide not to finish?
Do you have a minimal amount of pages for it to count like a proper book?

Do you have a record? And are trying to break it this year?

Lace Sabatons · October 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM Official Post

I try not to set those kinds of goals. For myself, I've found they don't tend to engender the kinds of behaviors or attitudes about myself that are helpful to me.

If I want to read more, rather than set a # of books as my goal, I'll make a point to set aside more time each day/week for reading.

If I want to read a different kind of book than I normally do (more nonfiction, for example), I'll make a point to include it in my book stack. I've got a standing rule that once I make my stack, I read the books in it one after another, without shuffling the order around at all.

That's what ends up working for me. I do like tracking the books I've already read though! I read about 40 in 2024. Mostly fiction, but I'm working more nonfiction in.