2025 Reading Goals & TBR

I put a lot of thought (and very elementary math) into deciding my 2025 reading goals and what books to put on my TBR, so without further ado, here they are!

Reading Goals
📚 Read 50 books
Even though I read 63 books in 2024, I'm trying to focus on quality over quantity this year.

📖 50% of the books I read are written by Queer/non-white/disabled authors
I did a diversity audit of my 2024 reads, and I was so embarrassed by my stats. This year I'm intentionally trying to diversify my reading, hence the reading goal.

🖋️ Read 1 non-fiction book a month
I've been out of school since May, and sometimes I miss learning! I want to keep learning, whether it's about a topic or a person, so I'm trying to read some non-fiction books.

😊 75% of the books I read are books I own
I bring too many (physical) books into my home, and all they do is sit on my bookshelf. I am SO bad about reading my physical TBR, so this year, the majority of my reads need to be ones from my bookshelf.

⏰ Reading for at least 1 hour everyday
Continuing the theme of intentions, I'm trying to be more intentional with my free time. I've already started limiting my screen time when it comes to social media, but instead of replacing that screen time with movies and TV, I'm hoping to change it into reading time.

🛒 Total book buying ban
I can't keep buying books and not reading them!

My 2025 TBR
Non-Fiction

• The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

• Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy

• Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts

• Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life by Margaret Price

• Poems, Protest, and a Dream by Sor Juana de la Cruz

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou

• Feminist Queer Crip by Alison Kafer

• The Art of Being Yay! by Aidan Park

• Trafficking Women's Human Rights by Julietta Hua

• Feminist Disability Studies edited by Kim Q. Hall

Fiction

• Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

• The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson

• The Stand-In by Lily Chu

• I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman

• Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

• Lore by Alexandra Bracken

• The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

• Loveless by Alice Oseman

• The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

• The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

• Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

• Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

• They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

• Counting Down With You by Tashie Bhuiyan

• A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo

• How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days by K.M. Jackson

• How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann