Happy Friday bookish People! I hope you are all having a wonderful day today. It is 2026 and that means I can finally do a big wrap up of 2025.
Best book of the year: Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco – the final book in the Stalking Jack the Ripper series.
Worst book of the year: The Veiled Kingdom by Holly Renee
Most Read Author: Helena Dixon (The Miss Underhay mystery series) – 16 books!
Amount read in each genre: Crime – 54/Fantasy – 45
Average star rating: 3.9 stars
How many books by male authors: 11
How many books by female authors: 88
Reading goal: originally it was 50, but I managed to pass that in July so I upped it to 75, which I also passed.
How many books did you read: 99
How many pages did you read: 33,970
Longest book: Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Shortest book: Graveyard Shift by M L Rio
Best book covers of 2025: Us In Ruins, An Enchantment of Ravens, In Want of A Suspect, Fate of the Argosi, The Mythmakers
New book boyfriends: Rook from an enchantment of ravens – a Fae Prince of course, Inspector Sebastien Bell from Irina Shapiro’s Tate and Bell mysteries – a man who is not cowed by a woman’s intelligence, Gluttony from Throne of Secrets, Arbuthnot Swift from Murder by Candlelight – a bit lazy and sometimes careless but excellent at solving mysteries, Duke Max from The Agency for Scandal, and of course, the one and only Xaden Riorson from Fourth Wing. He is up there with the best.
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