📚 April-June 2025 Reading Goals Update 📖
I decided to keep track of my goals each quarter again this year. Here are my goals and reading stats for April, May, and June.
🟪 Read 100 Books- 102/100: Goal completed June 25th, 2025
🟦 Reread at least one book every month- 6/12
🐇 April: Reread 2 ✔️
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
🟩 Read at least one 2025 release every month- 6/12
🐇 April: Read 3 ✔️
- Beetle & the Chimera Carnival by Aliza Layne
🟨 Read at least 5 tomes- 3/5
- Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson- 1,088 pages
🟧 Review every book I read- 102/102
- I have reviews for each book on this blog and Goodreads.
🟥 Read 5 classics other than the books in my next goal- 11/5 ✔️
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- 1984 by George Orwell
- A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
- Stung with Love by Sappho
🟧 Complete the Jane Austen Reading Challenge from Canterbury Classics- 6/12
🐇 April: Shop for Regency Romance at a Local Bookstore ✔️
🌷 May: Watch a Jane Austen Film or Tv Adaptation ✔️
🌻 June: Plan a Summer Picnic ✔️
🟨 Finish 3 Series- 7/3 ✔️
- The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica by James A. Owen
-Read the final 3 books in April
- The Dam Keeper series by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
- Read all 3 books in April
- Read Heroes and Odyssey for the first time and reread Troy in May
- The Science of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
- Read Darwin's Watch in April and Judgement Day in June
🟩 Read 12 retellings- 23/12 ✔️
- The Dragons of Winter by James A. Owen- Authors from literature: Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, etc. and literature such as King Arthur, Greek Mythology, fantasy
- The First Dragon by James A. Owen- Authors from literature: Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, etc. and literature such as King Arthur, Greek Mythology, fantasy
- The Dragon Knight by James A. Owen- Authors from literature: Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, etc. and literature such as King Arthur, Greek Mythology, fantasy, etc.
- The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones- I'm not going to say what Diana is retelling here because it is a spoiler for the book.
- Heroes by Stephen Fry- Heroes of Greek Mythology
- Troy by Stephen Fry- Focuses on the Trojan War
- Odyssey by Stephen Fry- Greek myths with a focus on The Odyssey, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and The Aeneid
- Lore Olympus: Volume 8 by Rachel Smythe- Greek myths
- The South Wind by Alexandria Warwick- “Sleeping Beauty” and the Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo
- Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1) by Nikita Gill- Greek mythology focusing Hekate
- Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire- reimagines the Decameron heroine Isabella
- Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher- retelling of "Snow White"
🟦 Read 25 fantasy books- 69/25 ✔️
- The First Dragon by James A. Owen
- Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones
- The Dragon Knight by James A. Owen
- The Dam Keeper by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
- Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
- The Dam Keeper: World Without Darkness by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
- The Dam Keeper: Return from the Shadows by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
- Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
- Beetle & the Chimera Carnival by Aliza Layne
- The Fellowship of Bakers & Magic by J. Penner
- Gary of a Hundred Days by Isabel Murray
- Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
- Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
- Darwin’s Watch: The Science of the Discworld Book 3 by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
- Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures by Stephen Fry
- Troy by Stephen Fry
- The Story of Gumluck and the Heroes (Gumluck Book 3) by Adam Rex
- Behooved by M. Stevenson
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
- Odyssey by Stephen Fry
- Lore Olympus: Volume 8 by Rachel Smythe
- When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley
- The South Wind by Alexandria Warwick
- A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
- Castle Swimmer: Volume 2 by Wendy Martin
- Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
- The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
- The Land of Unfinished Dreams by Marco Ventura
- The River Has Roots by Amal El- Mohtar
- Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1) by Nikita Gill
- The Herbwitch’s Apprentice (Witches of Olderea #1) by Ireen Chau
- Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire
- Judgement Day (The Science of the Discworld #4) by Terry Pratchett
- Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
- The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang
🟪 Read 25 graphic novels- 15/25
- The Dam Keeper by Robert Kondo
- The Dam Keeper: World Without Darkness by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
- The Dam Keeper: Return from the Shadows by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
- Beetle & the Chimera Carnival by Aliza Layne
- Lore Olympus: Volume 8 by Rachel Smythe
- Castle Swimmer: Volume 2 by Wendy Martin
- The Land of Unfinished Dreams by Marco Ventura
🟦 Read 25 books in 2025 from my list- 17/25
- Run Away With Me by Brian Selznick ✔️
- When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley ✔️
- Holy Terrors by Margaret Owen ✔️
- A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames ✔️
- Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett ✔️
- The Way of Edan by Philip Chase
- Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood
- The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
- Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson ✔️
- The Little Liar by Mitch Albom ✔️
- The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
- Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson ✔️
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree ✔️
- Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan
- Emma by Jane Austen
- The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
- The Dragons of Winter by James A. Owen ✔️
- A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher ✔️
- Swordheart by T. Kingfisher ✔️
- The Library Mule of Cordoba by Wilfrid Lupano ✔️
- Afia in the Land of Wonders by Mia Araujo ✔️
- The Herbwitch’s Apprentice by Ireen Chau ✔️
- The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones ✔️
- Darwin’s Watch by Terry Pratchett ✔️
- Johnny and the Bomb by Terry Pratchett
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🟩 Read 10 poetry collections- 7/10
- Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments by Sappho
- Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov
- Dear Future Boyfriend by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Challenges
Here are some challenges I would like to also complete during the year, but I’m not making them goals.
🟣 Buzzword Reading Challenge- Words & Covers
🐇 April-
Words- Animals: dog, deer, bunny, etc. ✔️
- The Dragons of Winter by James A. Owen
Covers- Animals ✔️
- Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones
🌷 May-
Words- To & Too ✔️
- A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
Covers- Eyes ✔️
- 1984 by George Orwell
🌻 June-
Words- Memory related: memory, forget, remember, confuse, know ✔️
- Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1) by Olivia Waite
Covers- Celestial ✔️
- Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1) by Olivia Waite
🔵 Extra Goodreads Challenges
~ Challenge 1: January Reader- Challenge 12: December- 6/12
~ Challenge 13: Grand Slam-
~ Challenge 14: Nailed It- 102/100 ✔️
~ Challenge 15: Stepped Up
📚 April- June 2025 Reading Stats 📖
🟢 Amount of books read in April-June: 48 books
🐇 April- 19 books
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🌷 May- 14 books
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🌻 June- 15 books
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🟡 Favorite Books of the 2nd Quarter
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🟠 Least Favorite Books/Biggest Disappointments of the 2nd Quarter
🔴 Page Counts
Total of Pages read in April-June:
📜 1-100: 2
📖 101-200: 13
📔 201-300: 7
📚 301-400: 17
📕 401-500: 8
📗 501-600: 0
📘 601-700: 0
📙 701-800: 0
📒 801-900: 0
🌷 May: 4627 pages
🌻 June: 3649 pages
🟣 Star Ratings for April- June
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- 24
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- 14
⭐️⭐️⭐️- 7
⭐️⭐️- 3
⭐️- 0
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