This is my twenty-first year of keeping these booklist entries. Here was the Mastodon thread of what I read last year and here’s my 2025 booklist. The thread of this year’s books will kick off once I’ve finished a book (update: it’s here). Will it be yet another Ruth Galloway novel, Tigers Between Empires, or the graphic novel adaptation of The Hidden Life of Trees? Stay tuned! You can see an approximation of this year’s reading over on LibraryThing. Another challenging year, for different reasons. I started 127 books and finished 123. Read on for more details…
Not a lot of radical departures except for the ebook/print book split. I’ve been reading a mystery series which is entirely in print, and I read a lot of graphic novels in 2025. I still read the most in March. I’m nudging up my percentages of female and non-binary writers. Slow and steady.
average read per month: 10.25
average read per week: 2.37
number read in worst month: 8 (October)
number read in best month: 15 (March)
number unfinished: 4
percentage by male authors: 42%
percentage by female and non-binary authors: 58%
fiction/poetry as percentage of total: 76%
non-fiction as percentage of total: 24%
percentage of total liked: 93%
percentage of total ambivalent: 5%
percentage of total disliked: 2%
ebook to print book percentage: 29:71
Previous librarian.net summaries: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004. The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.