My 2025 Reading Wrap-up

Happy New Year! I wish you all the best for 2026 and a great new reading year

This is the time of the year when we look back on the previous year and what we read. I read a record 120 books last year. It turned out to be a lot of mystery books, and that is probably why the number of books is somewhat higher. They are easy to read. Furthermore, I do listen to a lot of the Agatha Christie books I read.

I register the books I read on StoryGraph, which also provides the statistics.

After a quick look at the statistics above, I notice I only read 30 nonfiction books which is only around 25% of my overall reading. I usually read more. 90 books, 75% come from fiction, various genres.

Due to all the mystery books I read, of which 19 was by Agatha Christie, I read 73 female authors and 47 male authors. Of all the books I read 67% in English and 33% in Swedish.

I read 59 books from my TBR shelves (To Be Read). That leaves 188 books to go for 2026. Usually, there will be a few books added during the year. I don’t think I will ever come down to zero. I don’t differ books coming on my shelves from earlier year. I count also books ending up there during the year.

What about you? How many books have you read? Any very good ones that you can recommend? What is your favourite genre?

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I will return in a later post with the favourite books of the year and my prospects for 2026.