½ Year Wrap Up
Halfway through the year already, crazy. I love pausing to look back at the stories that have filled my shelves (and my ears) so far. Here’s a quick look at how my reading year is shaping up.
My 2025 So Far — Reading Stats
Total Books Read: 60
Physical Books: 28
Audiobooks: 29
E-Books: 3
Total Pages: 21,435
Average Rating: 3.63
Favorite Books
Each month I pick the best book I read that month and put it on a bracket. Here is the bracket for the 1st half of the year.
January Book: The Scarlet Veil by Shelby Mahurin
February Book: Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
March Book: Summer in The City by Alex Aster
April Book: Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
May Book: Not Safe for Work by Nisha J Tuli
June Book: The Wedding People by Alison Espach
Favorite Book: Summer in The City by Alex Aster
Genre Breakdown
Ratings
The tiny smidge of dark pink is my one 5 star book coming out of the first half.
Most-Read Authors
Goals
Going into 2025 I had 5 reading goals I hoped to complete. Here is how I am doing so far:
60/100 books (Putting me about 10 books ahead of schedule)
Complete a Monthly TBR Challenge. So far I am 6/6 on that.
Complete 4 quarterly bookmark challenges (these are fun mini-challenges I create for myself, such as diversifying my reads or reading a book from 5 different celebrity book clubs). I have completed 2/4 so far.
Read all of Throne of Glass. I havent started this yet, so I may be a bit behind on this goal.
My last goal was to shorten my physical TBR. I started with 173 books and now sit at 247. So that goal is not looking good at all.
It’s been a fun reading ride so far! What’s been your standout read so far this year?