TTT: Bookish Goals for 2026!

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish and is now run by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week she will post a new Top Ten list . Everyone is welcome to join.  This week’s topic is:

Bookish Goals for 2026

1. My goal for this year is 305 books. I’m almost positive I hit it last year, but since I couldn’t post ALL the books I read, I can only guesstimate at how many I read. This year I want to know or sure how many I rad and get the stats.
2. Read my ARCs early: I want to read my ARCs earlier. I know for a fact that there used to be a 2 week window where you were supposed to wait to review them closer to the publishing date. But the more I wait now, the more behind I am lol I get backed up with reviews and try not to overwhelm my audience more than one or two a day, so yeah.
3. Up my Netgalley Average: I keep saying I want to do this, but it’s never going to happen lol I can’t stop requesting lol It’s just just going to get worse before it’s better at this point lol
4. Making sure to keep track of the books I read through my spreadsheet and my reading journal. This is going to go way different now that I can take count of everything lol
5. Read more of what I Order: So basically I want to read more MG & more YA non-fiction. I already read a lot of YA and I want to keep that going as well.
6. I want to bring my Two for Tuesday to video form as well: However it’s a little hard because I don’t always have the physical books. And I know that gets boring sometimes to never have the actual book on me right? Or maybe I’m just talking myself out of it. Who knows?
7. Pay closer attention to my Reading Challenges: Again, this year I can actually input everything I read, so this year it might actually work out and I can actually finish one.
8. Try for my next Work Reading List: Fingers crossed for CSK
9. READ MORE GENRES & MORE INTERSECTIONALITY: I realized last year when I was reading for the award committee that I have been putting a lot on the back burner. And I’m on track to do the same thing lmao So far I’ve read like 17 books and one of them has been historical and all the rest were romance, thrillers, or the one I’m reading now which is a horror book lolol I also want to look at books that have more than one identity because I know I am more than just my ADHD or more than just my chronic illness of allergies, migraines, or asthma. And I know that these things also effect how people see me from day to day because I’m Black. And I want to acknowledge that for teens and YA books as well.
10. Show my Reading Journal more: I want to show my Reading Challenge Check-Ins and my Thing I Googled Pages: I love these and I want to show them off more. I learn so much while reading and I think it’s cool to share that with others.

What about you? Do we share any of the same goals? What is one that you put that I don’t have? Let me know in the comments!