Susan's 2025 Reading Wrap Up

by Susan Roberts

2025 was a good year for reading books.  I had some extra time because I quit watching the news and cut back on most other TV.  As I get older, I've found that I enjoy my quiet times with books!  Here are some interesting facts about my 2025 reading results.

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My goal on Goodreads this year was 130 books, and I read 136 books.  I did a lot of interesting travel that cut back on my reading time.

According to Goodreads, I read almost 143,000 pages, and my average rating for the year was 4.4 stars.

88% of my books were by female authors.

My most read genres were 

Historical fiction  44%

Women's Fiction  25%

Suspense               15%

Romance              10%

The additional genres were nonfiction, magical realism, and poetry and I had 5 DNFs.

My top 12 for 2025 (in alphabetical order):

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Bacon, John The Gales of November

Badani, Sejal The Sun's Shadow

Bohjalian, Chris The Jackal's Mistress 

Everhart, Donna Women of a Promiscuous Nature (my review will be published later this month)

Harvey, Kristy Woodson Beach House Rules

Hugo, Lynne Mothers of Fate

Kurtzmn, Sharon The Lost Baker of Vienna

Page, Libby This Book Made Me Think of You (my review will be published next month)

Viorst, Judith Making the Best of What's Left

Wachtel, Shirley The Baker of Lost Memories

White, Karen The Last Carolina Summer

Wiseman, Ellen Marie The Lies They Told

Books that I'm looking forward to reading in early 2026

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More Than Enough by Anna Quindlin 2/24/2026

Kin by Tayari Jones 2/24/2026

Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth 4/21/2026

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett 5/5/2026

Summer State of Mind by Kristy Woodson Harvey 5/5/2026

Pollock's Last Lover by Stephan Kiernan 5/26/2026

Road Trip by Mary Kay Andrews 6/2/2026

Meet Me in Paris by Kristin Harmel 7/28/2026

The Amateur by Chris Bohjalian 8/4/2026

I'm not setting any reading goals for 2026.  I want to read books that I enjoy and find time to read all of the books that I want to read!

Susan Roberts grew up in Michigan but loves the laid-back life at her home in the Piedmont area of North Carolina where she is three hours from the beach to the east and the mountains in the west.  She reads almost anything but her favorite genres are Southern Fiction and Historical Fiction.

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