My 2025 in Bookish Stats.

Happy New Year!
I can hardly believe we are in 2026, the last half of 2025 really flew by for me. I had a fantastic reading year overall, so lets dive into it with my favourite thing. Stats! My top reads will be coming in a separate post.

Firstly, an overview from Storygraph. (Come be friends with me!) In total I read 90 books in 2026, a slight increase from 2025. I don’t usually pay attention to page numbers, but nearly 33K is a pretty nice number, and I listened to less audiobooks this year. I am absolutely not surprised that Kristen Britian is my top author, since I reread nearly all of the Green Rider series, which is now at 8 books!

Reading Stats:

Going a little more nitty-gritty, you can see I actually started 93 books this year, but 3 of them were DNFs. I’m pleased that the number of DNFs is low, as it shows I still have a good handle on what I actually like to read! You can also see very clearly the drop-off in my reading when I started university in September, and I suspect that my new monthly average will remain around 3 books in 2026. You’ll also note there is a discrepancy in the page numbers, and that is because I started tracking the DNFs on Storygraph, so they still register as pages read, even if they don’t count for the books.

In 2025 I read a lot more e-books. Over 40% of my reading was digital in 2025.
I joined a couple of libraries which really helped there. Well, my local library didn’t actually have a single book I looked for (small-town problems), but I did also pay to join a large US library that accepts international members and they had lots of books! I want to continue this in 2026, since shelf space is at a premium these days.

I read so many standalones this year! 70% of the books I read in 2025 were standalones, which doesn’t surprise me because I have a really strong knack for starting series and then avoiding them forever.

Of the 30% of series books, 12 were first books and 12 were sequels. I finished 3 series and DNFed 2.

Book Stats:

I don’t think anyone is surprised that Fantasy was my most read genre in 2025. Nature non-fiction comes in second, though very far behind, and then it’s sci-fi. Fairly typical for me, since these are the three genres I always list as favourites. I read a few more contemporary books in 2025 and really enjoyed them, so hopefully I’ll keep expanding my genres in 2026!

I’m particularly pleased with my stats on how I acquired books. While I do own 90% of what I read in 2025, I only purchased around 40% of those books myself. I am incredibly lucky to have a good relationship with a couple of publishers, and I do also use NetGalley (for reference, the difference between ‘ARC’ and ‘Publisher’ is if the sent book was a proof or finished copy).
I’d like to get my ‘owned’ section even lower in 2026, as this is my physical book purchases and as a student again, I need to save money (and shelf space)!

60% of my reads had LGBTQIA+ rep in 2025, but only 40% had disability rep, with just 3% being through the main character. This is a fairly common trend in fantasy writing. LGBTQIA+ rep has come along in leaps and bounds over the last few years, but disability rep still falls quite short. Most of the books that had disability rep were either contemporary or magical realism, rather than straight fantasy.
Also, just to note that both of these stats disregard non-fiction as I don’t input that information for these particular stats.

Author Stats:

I read books by 83 different authors in 2025, which makes sense with the amount of standalones I got through! Of those 83, 63 of them were new to me, again a classic case of me avoiding series.
From the 29 returning authors, 6 books were by Kristen Britain, 3 by Robert Jackson Bennet and 2 each by Sam K. Horton, Abi Dare, Lana Harper and E.J. Swift. The rest were read from previous years.

The majority of my 2025 reading was of books written by women, with 67 female-authored books compared to 25 by men. This includes trans authors, as I list them as the gender they identify with and not ‘trans’. I could read more diversely by seeking out books from non-binary authors next year.

Finally, almost 30% of my book choices were from POC authors. This is a slight increase from 2024, helped by my participation in the Diverse Baseline challenge. In 2026 I’d like to see if I can even the percentages a little more.

I’ll finish with a fun, miscellaneous stat box from Storygraph that lists my ideal book features! If you’ve been following my blog and seeing what I read, I think you’ll agree that this is pretty spot on!