I read a lot of books. I’m sure there’s some Jane Austen quote about how it unsettles a young lady’s mind to fill it with such wide-ranging nonsense, but I’ve not read any Austen this year 🤷

In total, I read 64 books. I strictly alternate between fact and fiction otherwise my brain gets confused. I try to maintain an even gender ratio and I like old books as well as new books. I mostly buy eBooks from Kobo now that Amazon has restricted their DRM. I also visit the library for the exceedingly rare times I need a paper book. I’m a member of NetGalley which allows me to receive advance review copies from some authors.

Here’s a pretty montage of all their covers:

What do the stats say about my reading habits?

32 of the books I read were by solely by men. A few books were compilations or co-authored. A couple of authors are non-binary. The rest were by women.

32 were fiction, 32 were non-fiction.

Only 6 were from before the turn of the century. With Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales being the oldest.

My average rating is 3.72⭐. Female books score an average of 3.65, Male 3.8.

I rate fiction higher at 3.87 than non-fiction at 3.68.

Female written non-fiction is rated slightly lower (3.6) than male non-fiction (3.75).

Male written fiction is rated slightly higher (3.84) than female fiction (3.71).

Feel free to download all the semantic metadata for each book if you’d like to run your own fascinating analysis.

Someone asked me how I found the time to read so many books. I just prefer reading to most other activities. Sat on a beach, I can polish off a book a day. When travelling, my eReader carries my entire "to-read" pile. You’re never alone with a book.

You can read previous year-end review-of-reviews at 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019.

If you’ve written a book, please leave a comment and I’ll try to read it in 2026.