2025 Reading Data
My 2025 reading stats
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Today, I am reviewing all of my reading data from 2025 - book nerds and chart lovers unite!
As with last year, I used both Goodreads and Storygraph. I mostly rely on Goodreads because it has so much of my years passed reading data and my vast library of books that I want to read and because I follow so many friends there. But more and more, I love Storygraph. Maybe one day I will make the switch to Storygraph for good.
I met my goal of 52 books by reading 68 books in 2025. In 2025 however, I did not pass the number I read in 2024, a personal best of 83 books. I believe I took things a little slower in 2025 and I also decided to read some books that were dense and personally challenging. As with every year, I will continue to set my goal at 52 books. At a book a week, this feels the right amount of challenging yet a still attainable goal.
Now let’s take a deeper dive into my 2025 reading!
68 books is equivalent to roughly 22,117 pages with the average time to finish a book at 13 days. My finishing rate was up in 2025 over 11 days in 2024 and 6 days in 2023. I attribute this to some personal development books that I read over a few months, taking my time to full absorb them.
I typically read one fiction and one nonfiction book at a time and this held true in 2025. I tend to listen to more nonfiction books than I read physically. While I still love my Kindle, I definitely over-indexed on physical books this year. My local library reopened after being closed for many years. I discovered that holds on physical books usually moved a lot faster than digital holds for ebooks, especially on new releases so I ended up reading a lot more physical books this year.
The first book I read in 2025 was The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston, an author I have read previously and loved (The Dead Romantics). The last book I read in 2025 was Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan, an author I have been wanting to read for some time.
My biggest reading mood of 2025 was by far and away emotional with reflective and lighthearted following.
In 2024, my top reading moods were emotional, reflective, funny and informative. Lighthearted moved further up this list in 2025 and relaxing did not appear on in my 2025 mood list at all. Which is fair because 2025 did not feel very relaxed!
In 2025, the average length of the books I read was 329 pages.
I read two books over 500 pages - Our Share of Night and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. My longest read of 2025 was Our Share of Night at 588 pages.
The shortest book I read in 2025 was Make Believe at 144 page.
The average length of books that I read was 329 pages.
I try to balance my reading by reading one fiction and one nonfiction book at a time. The nonfiction books generally take me longer to finish than the fiction books. In 2025, I read 72% fiction (49 books) and 28% nonfiction (19 books). My fiction/nonfiction split was slightly better in 2024 at 66% fiction (55 books) and 34% nonfiction (28 books).
📚 Currently Reading: The High Dive by Chelsea Fagan
🎧 Currently Listening: The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
As with 2024, my top genre for 2025 was contemporary with 26 books falling under this category. Romance, literary, historical took the next three spots with LGBTQIA+ being the fifth highest genre.
Interestingly, fantasy was much higher in my 2025 reads than 2024 and in 2024, memoir ranked much higher as did thriller. Outside of my reading around the world challenge books, I read a lot of contemporary romance and definitely not as many thrillers as with years passed.
Katherine Center was my only repeat author in 2025! In 2024, I was more of a repeat author reader - discovering Abby Jimenez and reading several of her books. I also read 2 nonfiction books by Oliver Burkeman in 2024 as well as a couple by my favorite Dolly Alderton including her newest book Good Material. In 2025 I read 54 new authors and discovered some new favorites!
January was my best reading month with 8 books read while July was my best page reading month with 2,229 pages!
On both Goodreads and Storygraph the most shelved of the book that I read in 2025 was The Maid, the least shelved was The Teardrop Island.
The highest rated book I read this year on Storygraph was A Little Less Broken which is about a woman learning she has autism. It made me laugh and it made me cry and I wish more people would read it! On Goodreads the highest rated book of the books that I read in 2025 was Nothing to Envy following the lives of ordinary people living in North Korea.
I rated the books I read in 2025 an average of 4.1. Not sure what this says about my scrutiny of books!
This was my second year of my reading around the world challenge and I read 12 books towards my challenge, traveling to 12 countries and diving into stories of people and places whose experiences are different than mine.
Let’s take a look at the list of countries that I read about in 2025:
North Korea | Italy | Sweden | Myanmar | Sri Lanka | United States | India | Japan | Argentina | Egypt | Nigeria | Pakistan.
If you want to read more about my favorite reads of 2025, you can check out the post below!
That’s it for my 2025 reading stats. I would love to know about your favorite book of 2025 and encourage you to set your own reading goal for 2025. It’s a really great resolution and a great way to get offline.
Happy reading,
Savannah
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If you would like to learn more about my Reading Around the World Challenge, you can read more about it in my previous post.
You can see my reading list for my Reading Around the World challenge here.
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