Welcome to my annual year in review post!
2025 was a pretty good reading and blogging year, helped by the fact that I wasn't working for the first half of the year. Not working gave me time and freedom to read what I wanted, whenever I wanted. No more trying to fit reading in around long hours and high pressure. I am back to that world now. I set my goal for 2025 at 104 books and I easily met it. I didn't re-set the goal and ended up reading 171 books for the year. Now that I am back at work, I am leaving my goal at 104, as that feels quite doable at a rate of 2 books per week.
You can see all my reading and blogging goals for this year in my recent Top Ten Tuesday post.
Let's get into the stats....
The lure of the new and shiny continues to dominate my reading when it comes to deciding what to read, and 2025 was even higher than 2024. I read 102 books published in 2025. The oldest book I read was Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Genre wise, there are no surprises that my reading is dominated by general fiction (which is a kind of catch all for all sorts of books), historical fiction and contemporary romance. I am not sure I always get my classifications right, especially when I look at what is marketed as women's fiction versus romance as often they feel very similar. I did read 3 non fiction books last year, which seems to be about my normal amount.
One of the things that has changed over the last few years is that I am reading a lot more British authors. This is mainly because of the blog tours that I am doing which feature of couple of British publishers. One of my ongoing goals is to focus a little more on Australian authors. I did read about 10 more books by Australian authors in 2025 than I did in 2024 so I did make some progress.
No surprises here really. My preferred reading format is definitely e-books these days. My numbers for paper reading have gone up in 2025, mainly because I used my local library more!
In 2024 I only read a couple of books from my library. In 2025 that number was a lot higher!
From a blogging perspective, I do have a fairly established routine. I will pretty much always post on Monday, Tuesday and Saturday, and a couple of Sundays a month and then as needed on other days of the week. There was a bit of a dip in October when we were on holidays and I hadn't pre scheduled as many posts as I did when we went on holidays earlier in the year.
Some other stats:
I read 67 new to me authors in 2025, which is 39% of my total read. There were several authors who I read for the first time last year that I then went on to read more of their books. Special shout out to Emma Grey. I gave both of her books that I read last year 5/5 and I can't wait to read their next book!
The authors who I did read the most books by were Leonie Mack with 4 books, Maggie Christensen, Amanda Hampson, Helen Rolfe, Jo Thomas, Laura Pearson and Shari Low with 3 books each
I don't do a lot of rereads at the best of times. In 2025 there was only one reread which was The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley. I have reread that book 5 times now and I still love it every single time! I didn't even do my now traditional rereads of Hogfather by Terry Pratchett and The Secret History of Christmas by Bill Bryson at Christmas
As always my reading is skewed to read a lot more women authors than men. In 2025 I read 158 books by female authors and 13 by men. That is a big reduction in the number of male authors from 2024.
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