Luqman through Al-Hujurat. Luqman’s advice to his son, the siege of Madinah in Al-Ahzab, then Yaseen — the heart of the Quran — and the prophetic chain in As-Saffat.
Az-Zumar brings the ayah on never despairing of Allah’s mercy, and the year ends with Al-Hujurat as a capstone on Islamic social ethics and brotherhood.
The hifz target is Surah Yaseen in full, memorised alongside its tafseer.