My Yearly Bookish Review 2025

My yearly goal was to read/listen to 100 books in total.

I read 104 books!
Audiobooks: 60
eBooks: 31
Physical: 13

Standalones: 69
Part of a series: 35

(Books published in 2026: 3)
Books published in 2025: 42
Books published 2024 and earlier: 59

My best reading month was July and November, with 13 books for both months.

Top three genres read were Thriller, Mystery & Short Story.

The longest book I read was 554 pages (The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson)
The shortest book I read was 39 pages (Abscond by Abraham Verghese)

I spent $0.00 on books and all things book related.
My goal was to spend $0.00 for the entire year.

For This Year (not too much changed from last years goals):

I am making my yearly reading goal be 50 books. Reading is supposed to be a marathon, not a sprint. I feel like I am always rushing through books because I wanted to hit high goals and “keep up with the Jones'”. This year I want to take my time with the books I want to read, remember the plot, and enjoy the stories more.

I will continue to use Storygraph. I still have my Goodreads account open for if I need to leave a review there for ARCs, but I barely log in to the site at this point. Please add me as a friend on Storygraph, I would appreciate it so much!

I will be doing another ZERO spending year again. I love my library, and Libby and Hoopla have been life savers for books I want to read and don’t want to spend money on. I’m supporting my community by using the library! I plan to keep myself accountable on spending with my Google sheets, like the last four years.

I am not requesting or accepting any eARCs this year. No requesting on Netgalley, Edelweiss or any companies I am affiliated with, unless it’s a book I REALLLLLLLLLLLLLY want to read and know I can read it around the time I am approved. I want to make use of my library as much as humanly possible and get through my backlog of ARCs/books I have on my Kindle already.
P.S. If an ARC shows up on my doorstep as surprise mail then it is what it is.

I am pulling back a ton on Instagram. It’s too much work for no engagement, which in turn is no fun. If it’s not fun I don’t want to bother…
I am focusing on making fellow book friends through my blog instead of on Instagram, and I also want to focus on writing better content for this blog.

I want to try to read some bigger books this year. That was my plan last year and then I ended up abandoning it early on. I plan to choose a few series with thicker books and get to them this year.

My Previous Yearly Review:

Do you have any goals, big or small, that you hope to accomplish this year?
Let me know in the comments!