Some ideas for your 12 books:

• Choose your books carefully. Pick good books on topics you want to know about.
• Read for enjoyment first, information second.
• Don't get hung up on the number of books you read. Instead, focus on getting the best from each book.
• If numbers really matter to you, choose thin books.
• Consider whether all your books need to be finished. Sometimes I just read single chapters of technical books, because that's all I'm interested in at the time. Sometimes I abandon novels part way through, because my life's too short to read poor quality books.
• Some books need to be read word-for-word, whereas others can be skim-read.
• Read one book at a time. Don't start the next one until you've finished the last one. That'll help you finish books.
• Take your current book everywhere. You never know when you'll get a couple of minutes to read.
• Consider audio books. It takes me about half an hour to walk to work, and I've "read" numerous books and articles on my MP3 player. I used to have a player that played the book back at high speed. The reader tended to sound like Mickey Mouse, but I got through the material a lot quicker.
• Set time aside to read. Often we try to fit it in around other things, but when life gets busy this can be hard. Scheduling reading time (and sticking to the plan) can help with this.
• Speed-reading techniques might help you.
• Take notes, as this can help you maximise the value you get from a book.
• Read a variety of books - that'll help you not to get bored with reading.
• Get fresh air and exercise. Personally, I find that I am more alert and focused when I'm not stuck indoors with a book all day, and so I read faster.
• Read lots. No matter how fast you read, you'll begin to read faster.

A few notes on reading speed:

• There are lots of tests of reading speed on the web. You might find these useful.
• Reading speed can vary a lot according to the type of writing. For example, text on a familiar subject using short words and clear sentences can be read a lot more quickly than a technical tome that's badly written and full of unfamiliar jargon.
• Reading speed can also depend on your mood and how fatigued you are.
• It isn't always easy to count the words in a book. Do you count the title page, contents and index pages? Are on-line word-counts accurate?
• Knowing your reading speed has some value, but it is a poor measure of the value you extract from a text. Some people can read very fast, but have little retention of the information they've read, or have little ability to integrate new information into their existing body of knowledge.

I have a similar reading program but with the emphasis on constancy and quality of the reading time. I find that the practice of reading every single day adds something to my life and the elegance of my thought -besides the joy factor-.

My program right now:

I choose the book and a 'draft strategy' (I decide what's going to be the unit of measure: pages, chapters)

I do a 'pilot session' to see how much I can read in a row with sustained quality -my concentration is not what it used to be, and at some point the words become blobs, etc-.

Based on that first day, I readjust and establish a realistic strategy for the book, writing the foreseen number of 'units' at the end of the week in a calendar. (For example, I'm reading a psychology book right now, hardly 120 pages but tough, a lot of abstract concepts, so my strategy is: A-Rereading the underlinings from the previous day, B-Reading and underlining at least 6 new pages.)

If by chance I don't reach the target one week, y recalculate what's missing and don't beat myself upon this. Quality reading is my main priority, even if some day I could only read one page.

But, as consistency is also important for me, I do "show up" every day. I mark the calendar with a Seinfeld Chain.

My case and my priorities are different from yours, but maybe you can get some idea out of my experiences.

Use a site like https://www.beeminder.com/ or http://www.stickk.com/

By pre-committing to a contract, one is much more motivated to ensure that a goal is reached.

As for reading speed: one good way to go about this is to read all your books on an e-reader such as moon+ reader for android. Apps like moon+ reader automatically track your reading WPM.