End of Year Round Up 2025

Total books read: 124

Number of pages read: 43,227

New books read: 109

Books reread: 15

Number of books by women, trans, and nonbinary people read this year (only counting new books read): 73

Number of books by BIPOC this year (only including new books read): 30

Number of books by disabled authors this year (only including new books read)*: 3
*This can only include authors I know are disabled. More on the list could be and I might not know. 

Breakdown by genre (only counting new books read):
-Fiction: 88 (children’s literature: 2; classics: 1; contemporary fiction: 6; fantasy: 20; graphic novel: 3; historical fiction: 12; horror: 5; literary fiction: 9; mystery: 3; romance: 1; science fiction: 9; thriller: 1; YA: 16
-Nonfiction: 20 (biography: 1; children’s literature: 1; history: 2; memoir: 3; philosophy: 1; science: 9; social science: 1; travel: 1; true crime: 1
-Poetry: 1

First book of the year: Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adyemi

Last book of the year: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

Most read author of the year: Rick Riordan, for the second year in a row (I guess if it’s going to a straight white man). I read 4 books by him.

Best books of the year (in no particular order; not including rereads):
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
My Friends by Frederick Backman
The Keeper of Lonely Spirits by E.M. Anderson
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Icarus by K. Ancrum
The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater
Ocean’s Godori and Teo’s Durumi by Elaine U. Cho
The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
Chlorine by Jade Song
The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World by J.R. Dawson
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Eight Bears by Gloria Dickie

Lowest-rated books of the year:
Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adyemi
The Home for Wayward Girls by Marcia Bradley
House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Books I didn’t finish:
My reading goal this year was to not finish any books I wasn’t enjoying. I didn’t quite meet my goal. I did still finish a few things I thought weren’t great, but it’s an ongoing process
Time Travelers: Victorian Encounters with Time and History edited by Adeline Buckland and Sadiah Qureshi
Rabbit & Robot by Andrew Smith
The Basic Kafka by Franz Kafka
Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr

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