2025 in books

 I completed my Goodreads challenge on 26th December, early for me this year, I did adjust my read aim down to 55 from 60.

These are my stats according to Goodreads -

Books read - 55

Pages read - 19,402

Shortest book  - Death Row by Frieda McFadden

Longest book  - It, Steven King

Average book length - 352 pages

Most shelved book - Ugly Love, by Coleen Hoover.  3,935,968 also shelved this book

Least shelved book - The Cure, Eve Smith. 480 people also shelved this book.

My average rating was 3.3

Highest rated on Goodreads - The Mercy Chair by M.W Craven. (not a surprise his books are excellent)

My two favourite books for this year were Ugly Love and Yellow Face.  Both very different books but I couldn't put either one down.

My least favourite was The Shadow Key.

I read 2 on my kindle

15 on Audible

5 library books

25 from my own shelves

8 for book clubs

I see my reading challenge as a bit of fun, certainly not a competition, I do like to see the stats at the end of the year and seeing what was popular on Goodreads.  I did well with reading from my own shelves and I still have plenty on my TBR shelf to keep me going this year.  I've also got Kindle Unlimited free until the End of February and have downloaded a few books already, (might be more than a few, it might be a lot, lol).

I'm always up for book recommendations, so do tell if you have read anything good lately, I will have a go at most genres although I generally avoid fluffy romance or anything labelled as a 'cosy read' and I'm not a fan of horror.

What are your favourite books from 2025 have we read any of the same?

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