My Bookish Year in Stats – 2025

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I really feel that one of the best things about a new year is being able to look back on the previous one, so I just have to check out my bookish stats for 2025. Cos you know I love a good pie chart 🤓

Last year I read 68,309 pages across 209 novels, novellas and short stories and I listened for 640 hours to 102 audiobooks.

Looking at format, I’m surprised to find that my audiobook percentage dropped a little. I read fewer hardcovers but I did read more paperbacks, and even more eBooks.

Looking at When I was reading, it’s no surprise that most of what I read was set in the 21st century but I’m really happy that I managed to read about so many other eras as well. I used NA (not applicable) for non-fiction.

Looking at Where I was reading, I’m not surprised that most of what I read was set in the USA, as I was aiming to visit all the States this year (which I nailed 🥳) but I am rather surprised at how small the USA percentage is, it’s much smaller than usual. Which, I guess, does make sense cos after deciding 2025 would be my last bookish year in stats, I was determined to visit as many countries as I could. I used NA for non-fiction.

Would you look at this map 😍

When we look at Source, where my books came from, I’m so pleased to find I read more of my own books. I read a bit less via Everand, I took advantage of various trial periods and deals (Kindle Unlimited, Audible, BookBeat and Storytel), and I started using my library last autumn, which was all really good for the book budget! As my blogging motivation dwindled, I accepted fewer ARCs and read fewer books via NetGalley.

Looking at Genre, not much has changed, I still enjoyed a variety of genres, but thrillers are still my no. 1, although the percentage dropped considerably. I hadn’t realised but apparently, I read a lot more horror in 2025.

The balance between new-to-me and known-to-me Authors looks pretty good. I’m always happy to find that I enjoyed known-to-me authors, while also discovering almost as many new ones.

As from 2022, I tried to read as much from my backlog TBR as I could (inspired by Lisa @ OwlBeSatReading), so I’ve been keeping track of when I bought the books I read, or, in case of books read through Everand or other services, when I added them to my wishlist: did I #BeatTheBacklog or did I say #BallsToTheBacklog? Well… It could be better but I actually thought it would be worse, and I did do a lot better than in 2024, so I’m pleasantly surprised and rather pleased with this outcome.

I also kept track of whether I was reading standalones, series or duologies. No surprises here.

I also decided to have a look at books I read in their original languages vs books in translation. I wasn’t aiming for anything, I was just wondering how large the percentage of translated novels might be, and it turns out to be the same as in 2024. In absolute numbers I read 27 translated books.

I hardly ever reread books. Not because I don’t want to, but because my Mount TBR shoots daggers at me whenever I do. Still I decided to keep track of rereads, in the hopes of sort of motivating myself to reread more. In absolute numbers I reread just the one book, oops 😬

Well that’s it for today, if you made it here thanks for joining me and sticking it out 😄