My 2025 Reading Stats & Reflections
A whole bunch of numbers and percentages and spreadsheet data
This is the first time I’ve really looked at these numbers, and it was so interested to analyze my reading journey this year. If this isn’t your thing, stay tuned for future posts and skip this one!
📚 The Big Picture
📖 Books Read: 174
📄 Pages Read: 55,150
⏱️ Breakdown by Page Count
I divided all the books up into 50-range pages (200-250 pages long, etc.) and the category in which I read the most was books that were 300-350 pages long. This translates into about 9-12 hours for an audiobook, which translates into at most 6-8 hours for me, since I listen to them at 1.5x speed if not faster.
🧠 What I Read
When it comes to categories, here was the breakdown:
Fiction: 59
Nonfiction: 78
Spiritual: 37
🧭 By Genre
I came up with tons of categories for genres in my tracking, but here are the top 5. The fact that fantasy came out on top was kind of funny since I’d consider that one of my least favorite genres, but I read a lot of C.S. Lewis and Tolkien this year, accounting for 11/12 of the fantasy books I read.
General Fiction: 22
Biography & Memoir: 17
Historical Nonfiction: 15
Fantasy: 12
Spiritual Formation: 11
📘 How I Read
I am pretty promiscuous in my reading formats.
📱 Ebook: 21
📖 Print: 52
🎧 Audiobook: 100
I read a lot more on my Kindle Paperwhite this year. Last year, only 5% of my books were ebooks. This year, it was 12%.
🆕 Breakdown by Publication Year
Almost 70% of the books I read were published after 2020. The second highest publication decade was the 2010s, which held 15% of the books I read. This means almost 85% of the books I read were from the 21st century, and I really want to change that in 2026! I don’t regret reading these books, but there are so many older books I want to read.
📚 Where They Came From
I continued to rely heavily on the library for both audiobooks and most of my ebook reading!
🏠 Owned Books: 57
🏛️ Library Books: 117
🗓️ Reading Rhythms
Based on my total books, I read an average of 14.5 books a month, or about one book every two days. In reality, I don’t read like that and I usually am reading multiple books at the same time and inexplicably often finish several on the same day (last week, I finished three different books on the same day).
📅 Month with the Most Books: December (20)
🧗 Longest Books: The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo (a favorite) and The Quiet Game by Greg Iles (not a favorite)
🐜 Shortest Book: Do You Pray: A Question for Everybody by J.C. Ryle
🖊️ Who I Read
Here are all the stats on the authors I read:
👩💻👨💻 Author Gender Breakdown: 84 female and 90 male
🌍 Books by Authors of Color: 8 out of 174 (I mentioned recently that I want to change this next year!)
🧑🤝🧑 Unique Authors Read: 152
⭐ Most-Read Authors: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien
As you can tell, I’m definitely a data person and I love tracking all these things about the books I read. If you don’t, maybe this post inspired you to start doing that in 2026. Or maybe you’re just more affirmed that you truly do not care about any of these details. Either way, thanks for bearing with me.
Love this kind of data! Thanks for sharing.