The 2025 summary

Here they are: all the books I got through in 2025, all 83 of them. Plus some insights courtesy of The Storygraph, which is a pretty neat alternative to Goodreads.

The Stats

Insights courtesy of The Storygraph. These are just screenshots, but if I get time and the .csv download includes what I'm hoping for, I'll see if I can use the data to make some nice graphs in Datawrapper and embed them here instead of the screenshots.

For the year, 83 books in total, which is not bad. Probably the biggest reading year I've had in some time, which came about because I was away from work for most of the year recovering from surgery until September. Gave me a lot more time to get back into the books than I've had for ages. And I had time to get to the library too. I actually really enjoyed that, I'd forgotten how nice it can be to drop into the library and browse. By my count, fully three quarters of this year's reads were from the library.

The side-effect of this is, I think it's done a lot to improve my concentration. An e-reader is great, and I'm certainly not chucking mine out any time soon, but I've found that going back to actual books reallly helped repair my concentration. I had some pretty bad burnout a few years back and concentration was one of the victims of that—I had a hard time doing anything for more than ten minutes at a time, it just felt shattered. Some time off for the burnout did help, but it feels like I really did a better repair job with that extended time away in the first two thirds of 2025 than I did a few years ago.

No surprise there in a year that kicked off the Pratchett Project. By my count, I have about 14 novels left, not counting the Science novels, which I don't know if I'll read.

Mick Herron is all the Slow Horses books, which I'm enjoying immensely. He will likely also drop off a bit next year as I've just today (1/1/26) finished Bad Actors—only Clown Town and some novellas to go for the slow horses. But hopefully he'll have another one out by then.

Julie Quinn comes from finishing off the Bridgerton novels.

My usual favourite authors don't show up in the list of authors for whom I've read more than one book: sorry, Stephen King, T Kingfisher etc, maybe 2026 will bring more.

No shockers here, certainly. Again, Pratchett influences the biggest genre, but F/SF/H have always been top of the list for me, along with crime/thriller novels.

See that big dip in September? Guess when I went back to work after all that time away. I didn't quite rebound to the same peak I had pre-return to work but I'm pretty happy with how I'm still managing to get some time to read most days. I'll be really interested to see how 2026 stacks up against 2025 overall.

The Books

Books for the current year

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