My reference book to learn Kanji has arrived.
It will be a long year and a very hard challenge to 2016 learning all 2 thousand kanji necessaries to read japanese.
Are you using these for a class or something?
If you get stuck on trying to learn the kanji, I would look into the JLPT (think the first test was N5). This is the tests you have to pass for some companies to legally say you can speak Japanese and use it for communication in a workplace.
The first test are standard communication, hiragana, katakana and about 150 Kanji.
http://www.jlpt.jp/e/
N5
The ability to understand some basic Japanese.
Reading
・One is able to read and understand typical expressions and sentences written in hiragana, katakana, and basic kanji.
Listening
・One is able to listen and comprehend conversations about topics regularly encountered in daily life and classroom situations, and is able to pick up necessary information from short conversations spoken slowly.