if the goals could convert time listened to pages read like the stats page does, that would be great. IE im trying to hit 500,000 pages read before 2030, but it wont count any of my audiobooks, only print/digital.

As well as genre, a kind of ‘create your own genre’ would be awesome. Like someone has already mentioned, like a ‘new to me’ or ‘favourite childhood novel’.
Or a feature to link a list to a goal.

Goal for authors I've never read before would be interesting.
Also like the idea of setting a goal based on genre.

Also adding a plug for genre and mood as advanced goals.

Also interested in a goal to have a percentage of your read/reading books for the year be from your want to read list.

Would love to have a goal to read a number of items in your "want to read" list (probably would want a cut off date so you can't cheat and add books and then read them to complete the goal). For example Goal: 5 books from want to read (added pre 2026).

Any chance we could optionally remove the timeline? Would love to set indefinite goals.

Love to have a way to track challenges and bingos, which could be by manual add or by list.

Love this idea! Always learning and growing.

Please add a Fiction / Non-fiction option! I love reading Fiction but this year my goal is to read at least 2 non-fiction books and I would love if Hardcover could reflect that.

I think it would be helpful to be able to manually connect a book to a goal. For example, if I want to read 5 leadership books for work this year, I only want certain books to count toward it (not just any non-fiction book).

I appreciate the idea of a simple "read X books this year", but I would also like to be able to also manually attribute a book to a goal.

Just chiming in with another person who would love to see this. I'm really not a numbers kind of person so I don't care about how many books I read this month/year/etc. But I do like to specify things like "new to me authors" or "books I've wanted to read for years but never got around to."

Being able to specify a List in the reading goal and either pre add the books I want to count to that list or adding them as I go would be nice.

I will note that these examples are different functions. The second is a simple X out of Y total books read. But in the case where you add them to the list as they are read, that's always going to be 100%. Maybe an option to specify so that it would say something along the line of "Read X new to her authors this year". So ignoring a comparison to a total goal amount.

I'd love to be able to set a goal based on each book's page count, like 10 books over 1k words! Or based on book type, like read 10 paper books (as opposed to ebooks or audio)

A thing I didn't see mentioned as a possible filtering option: fiction/non-fiction. Has this been under consideration?

Though I guess implementing "manual update" and/or list-specific goals could offer a more flexible way to do this, as fiction and non-fiction are pretty broad categories.

Could we add a 'manual update vs. automatic count' option to cover more advanced/specific goals? For example, I want to read 5 new to me genres next year, or writers from 10 different countries - these goals are too specific to track automatically, but if there was a manual update option, I could add and check off books that I think count myself.

Edit to add: internisus' suggestion below would be cool as well as allow a hacky way to do my request. i.e. Attach a goal to a list, then add the books I think count to my goal to the list as I read them.

Being able to set reading goals within specific lists would be a very practical addition. For clarity, what I have in mind is lists being implemented as another advanced line option with a drop-down allowing the user to select from their existing lists, and of course only reading books from that list would progress that goal.

I miss being able to specify which books are part of my reading goal list. An option in the book's menu that would easily add a certain book to the reading goal. Just like Skoob's Reading Goal:

Would it be possible to add a setting for "unique books"? Like, a book can only count towards each goal once? my kid loves to read the same books with us over and over again, and if I log them it kinda feels like padding the goal tracker