Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge discussion

Hello fellow Rioters! This year was my first year doing the Read Harder Challenge and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I didn't love every book I read but I've now read several memoirs, a genre I had never before dabbled in. However, this challenge helped to open my eyes in regards to my approach to reading the last 2 or 3 years. I've set Goodreads goals and been pleased when I surpass them every year but my reading goals and challenges have made me lean towards shorter books and shy away from ones longer than 600 or 700 pages. To help with this, I created a new group for people to set up a pages reading goal to potentially be done concurrently with one of the many other reading challenges available.

If you are interested, the link is below! Happy Reading!
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Hi Sam,

I've always been more interested in the number of pages I read then the number of books. And after a couple of years of keeping track of both, I knew how many pages I could read. So this year I set myself a goal to read approximately the same amount of pages, but I also set myself a goal to have an average pages per book of 500.

This last I did because I thought I loved reading big books, and I do. But I also discovered that I also really wanted to read the not so big books, so I'm actually struggling to keep my average at 500. And this actually caused my number of pages read to drop (my brain: I really really want to read that! yeah, but that's "only" 389 pages and my average is 493, so I really should read that to up my average, but I don't wanna).

Not sure yet what I'm going to do next year. I think I will still set a page goal, but not sure about the average. I do wish Goodreads would adjust the reading challenge to allow for a page count next year.