2025 Reading Round-Up
Another year of reading is behind us and another year of reading is ahead of us.
I read 65 books last year.
I also completed my reading challenges.
- Book Bingo (25 books)
- To read 52 books - i.e. one per week.
Of the 65 books, I read 25 of them were by authors I hadn't read before.
This year, only three of the books were books of short stories. One was by a single author, the other two were multiple author books.
There were six authors where I read more than one of their books.
With the exception of one truly awful book (I said in my review that it was the worst book I had read for some time) I enjoyed, to varying degrees, all of the books I read. I was annoyed/irked/angered by four of the books - not the entire book, I wouldn't have carried on reading the book had I been annoyed from the off. There were a few books that disappointed me to an extent, mainly because I had been expecting more from them. However, overall it was a very good year.
My favourite books of the year (in no particular order) were:
The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas - James Patterson & Tad Safran
Claude's Christmas Adventure - Sophie Pembroke
The Hound Of The Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Reader, I Buried Them - Peter Lovesey (short stories)
The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Graham
Here The Road Ends - Jack Benton
The Snow Song - Sally Gardner
Eight Days - Jack Benton
I read 65 books last year.
I also completed my reading challenges.
- Book Bingo (25 books)
- To read 52 books - i.e. one per week.
Of the 65 books, I read 25 of them were by authors I hadn't read before.
This year, only three of the books were books of short stories. One was by a single author, the other two were multiple author books.
There were six authors where I read more than one of their books.
With the exception of one truly awful book (I said in my review that it was the worst book I had read for some time) I enjoyed, to varying degrees, all of the books I read. I was annoyed/irked/angered by four of the books - not the entire book, I wouldn't have carried on reading the book had I been annoyed from the off. There were a few books that disappointed me to an extent, mainly because I had been expecting more from them. However, overall it was a very good year.
My favourite books of the year (in no particular order) were:
The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas - James Patterson & Tad Safran
Claude's Christmas Adventure - Sophie Pembroke
The Hound Of The Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Reader, I Buried Them - Peter Lovesey (short stories)
The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Graham
Here The Road Ends - Jack Benton
The Snow Song - Sally Gardner
Eight Days - Jack Benton