I had a really good year of reading in 2025. I surpassed my Goodreads goal of 60 books, completed a couple of reading challenges with other bloggers (20 Books of Summer and Nonfiction November), in addition to two personal challenges (A Year of Elizabeth Strout and A Year of Maggie O'Farrell). I discovered several new authors and am eager to read more from their backlists. I don't have any goals for 2026 other than to read more from my own stacks, especially those books that are over 400 pages.
Now for the fun stats!
Total Books Read: 67
Print Books: 56
Audiobooks: 11
ebooks: 0
Female Authors: 55
Male Authors: 12
New-To-Me Authors: 21
Fiction: 54
Nonfiction: 13
General Fiction: 36
Classics: 0
Poetry: 0
Historical Fiction: 5
Horror: 0
Science Fiction/Fantasy: 2
Time Travel: 0
Dystopia: 0
Mystery/Thrillers: 10
Westerns: 0
Epistolary: 1
Childrens: 0
Young Adult: 0
Memoir: 9
Travel/Food: 1
Nature/Science: 1
Essays: 0
Rereads: 7
Debuts: 6
Over 400 pages: 6
Over 500 pages: 2
Over 600 pages: 1
ARCs: 7
Borrowed from Library: 10
Borrowed: 2
From My Stacks: 48
Total Pages Read: 19,410
Total Hours Listened: 128 hours and 23 minutes
Backlist: 56
Published in 2025: 10
To Be Published in 2026: 1
Ratings:
5 stars: 6
4.5 stars: 17
4 stars: 18
3.5 stars: 13
3 stars: 7
2 stars: 6
Top Picks of 2025 (5 stars):
The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
A Far-flung Life by M. L. Stedman
Honorable Mentions:
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
So Far Gone by Jess Walter
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Names by Florence Knapp
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Song of Hartgrove Hall by Natasha Solomons
We Spread by Iain Reid
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The Next Day by Melinda Gates
The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
Very nice statistics! You did well and enjoyed your reading year. I'm reading Beyond That, The Sea right now for a book group meeting in a couple of weeks. Enjoying it very much and will go back and read your review of it. Not sure how some will feel about the rotating point of view, but I'm fine with it. And, no, I didn't know that children were sent to the US during the war. Think this is a good one especially as it is the author's debut novel. I'll be reading The Correspondent and Frozen River for book groups later this spring. Good luck with this year's reading!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kay. It's always fun to tabulate my year-end stats. I think Beyond That, the Sea is one I'll re-read in the coming years. Same with Frozen River. My book group is reading The Correspondent this year, so I'll either re-read the print edition or try the audio. So far, this year's reading is going very well!
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