2025 Book Wrap Up – My Year in Books

Hello, my friends, and happy new year! ❤️

As the new year starts, I always like to reflect on my reading in the past year, and this is usually something I do in my bullet journal without sharing. But this time around, I thought it would be interesting to show it to the world, and see how it all looks when put together.

Firstly, a small note on how I track my books. I have my biggest library on Goodreads, and although I have tried, it’s very hard to move away from it, because of how much data I already have there.

But this year, I have used Storygraph and Pagebound in parallel to Goodreads. It’s been quite hard to use all three platforms at once, but I love them all for different reasons. I want to stick to only one, but I am unable to give up on any of them just yet. Maybe soon I will do a blog post listing all the pros and cons for each platform.

For this blog post, the credit goes to Storygraph for the stats and some of the graphics. I really enjoy seeing them all in one place!

✨ I read a total of 38 books in 2025. Not as many as previous years, but still grateful I got to read this many.

✨ The first book I finished in 2025 was “The Train from Platform 2” by Stephanie Steel, and the last book I finished was “Too Late” by Colleen Hoover. I guess it wasn’t too late. 😀

✨ In terms of genres, it looks like romance dominated this year, but the thrillers followed very shortly after.

✨ My longest book ended up being “A Discovery of Witches” by Deborah Harkness with over 650 pages, and the shortest read “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, with 128 pages.

And a few stats that I am very proud of:

✨ I have read books from 26 new authors this year.

✨ I have read 23 books from my shelves. This is a big one for me, because I have been trying very hard to read books that I already have. And my TBR still keeps growing, so it’s important for me to try and stay on track.

✨ I had no DNF’s this year, even though I want to point out, nothing wrong with DNF’ing a book. Life’s too short to finish a book you don’t get along with.

✨ In 2025, there were a lot of books I enjoyed, and only a few had low ratings. However, this wasn’t a surprise for me, as last year I intentionally picked books that intrigued me, and that I really wanted to read. I didn’t really go out of my comfort zone a lot, and the ratings prove it. Maybe 2026 will be different – we’ll see! 🙂

And now I guess it’s time for the full list, the order of them split by rating (from lowest to highest), as well as by dates read. The titles that have a link on them will lead you to my book reviews that I have already published.

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1. Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman

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2. Melting Point by Cici Williams

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3. The Train from Platform 2 by Stephanie Steel
4. Twisted Love (Twisted Love #1) by Ana Huang 
5. A Discovery of Witches (All Souls #1) by Deborah Harkness
6. The Serpent Called Mercy by Roanne Lau
7. Girl A by Abigail Dean
8. Much Ado About Hating You by Sarah Echavarre Smith
9. My Roommate is a Vampire (My Vampires #1) by Jenna Levine
10. The Frozen People (Ali Dawson #1) by Elly Griffiths

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11. The Private Jet by Sarah Goodwin
12. Variation by Rebecca Yarros
13. All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover
14. The Sunshine Man by Emma Stonex
15. Exiles by Mason Coile
16. Misery by Stephen King
17. Christmas by Candlelight by Karen Swan
18. Believe by S. M. Govett
19. The Empty Cradle by Lisa Rookes
20. Faebound (Faebound #1) by Saara El-Arifi
21. And Then There Was You by Miranda Dickinson
22. None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
23. Ever After by Amanda Prowse
24. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
25. Heart The Lover by Lily King
26. Coram House by Bailey Seybolt
27. Capturing Love (Love, Beauty & Soul #1) by Ann Penny
28. Murder at Christmas by G.B. Rubin
29. Too Late by Colleen Hoover

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30. Capitana (Capitana #1) by Cassandra James
31. Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca Yarros
32. Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1) by Sarah J. Maas
33. Drowning by T.J. Newman
34. Wool (Silo #1) by Hugh Howey
35. From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
36. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
37. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses #2) by Sarah J. Maas

And that is my reading 2025 wrap-up! 🙂 My goals for 2026 -I suppose I want to read more new authors and find books that will stay with me for a long time. Also, to publish more of my book reviews.
How was your 2025 in books? Did you read any books worth recommending?

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