New year, new journal! Starting off with my title page for 2021, I wanted to keep my theme quite minimal and plain, one that I knew I wouldn’t get tired of looking at for the whole year. You can probably tell I have a love for all things starry and celestial so it was an obvious choice to go for a golden starry theme for my reading journal! The shine doesn’t show up so well on these pictures but trust me when I tell you the way these Posca markers show up is so pretty, I’m really pleased with how this little page turned out.

After the title page I have my 2021 reading goals page, but as I’m going to be doing a separate blog post dedicated to this I’m going to skip over that one for now and move onto my anticipated releases spread! I’ve seen people do this ‘year at a glance’ style of spread in their bullet journals for important dates like birthdays and events and thought it would be perfect for tracking my anticipated releases for the coming year. I think if I could do it again I might do three months to a page instead of six – I only put a few on to take this picture and May is already nearly full… oops.

Next up is the books read tracking page; this one is pretty standard but I always like to include it in all my journals. I didn’t have a number in mind when I started drawing out the spread but I have enough space on it for 72 books. Even though I’m not sure I’ll get anywhere near that, I didn’t think I’d hit 35 this year and I ended up going way past that with nowhere to write them down! I also have a key in the top left to colour them according to the format of book I read but I haven’t decided what colours they’ll be yet.

This one is a direct copy from my 2020 journal! I really enjoyed being able to track my favourite books of each month and see them all lined up next to each other so I knew I definitely wanted to carry it on for next year. You can see where I’ve left a little pencil mark for where I’ve mapped out where I want the book covers to go so I’ll just be printing them out throughout the year and sticking them in as I go.

My series tracker is here to remind me to stop picking up firsts in a series when I have so many unfinished ones! I’m so bad at reading series – I either binge the whole lot in one go or wait months between reading each book. I’ve listed a few of the series I really want to finish or get up to date with this year to hold myself accountable.

My Buzzwordathon spread is a brand new one for 2021. Kayla over at booksandlala announced a year-long version of her Buzzword readathon so I wanted a place I could refer back to without having to keep skipping around through her announcement video each month. I’ve left a little circle to either tick or write in the number of books I completed that fit the prompt for the month.

I’m hoping I won’t need to use this last spread too much, which is exactly why I knew I had to put it in! I purposely only gave myself one page for my haul log because the plan is to buy far less books in 2021 than I have in previous years. The lack of space on this page is also very symbolic of the lack of space on my bookshelves so hopefully by keeping one clear I can stop the other from getting out of hand.