This summer, I decided to set a goal for myself: read 20 books. As a member of GoodReads.com, I have participated for the past couple of years in their Reading Challenges. I set the goal of 50 books for the year and, last year, failed miserably. I set the same goal for myself this year and this time around, I will not go down so easily! 

As a graduate student, a lot of my time in the fall, winter and spring is taken up with classes, writing papers, large projects and internships. I am also a recruitment specialist for my sorority, Alpha Gamma Delta. This fall, I hope to add “part time job” to that list as well. Needless to say, reading for pleasure quickly slips under the radar. 

For these reasons, I have chosen to try to get ahead on my 2012 reading goal of 50 books. When I started my summer goal of 20 books, it was the end of April and according to my GoodReads counter, I was already 6 books behind my ideal yearly progress! Of course if I can read more than 20 books this summer, I will. I am determined to meet both summer and yearly goals! 

What summer reading goals do you have this year? Are you just hoping to get through that one hot summer read? Trying to read more classics this year? Or are you, like me, working your way through a whole laundry list of books? Which books top your summer reading list?