# New Year's Reading Resolutions?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-reading-resolutions/679097>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 17, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-reading-resolutions/679097 "2014-01-17T20:59:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-reading-resolutions/679097/21 "2014-01-20T04:36:38Z")

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> [@RandMcnally](#):
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> How do people read 200 books a year?!

Speaking only for myself, no social life to speak of. 😃

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**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-reading-resolutions/679097/22 "2014-01-20T14:25:59Z")

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I set my goal at 52 books this year — a book a week. I know that I can, and likely will, read more than that (I read 68 in 2013, an all-time high for me), but I don’t like to set my goal too high because then I start doing things like only choosing shorter and/or easier books. There are a few really thick books that have been sitting on my shelf that I’d like to get through this year. Right now I’m doing a challenge through my library, so I’m starting the year by trying to check out more library books.

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