Books read this month: 38*
New books: 28
Re-reads: 10 (all audiobooks)
Books from the to-read pile: 6
NetGalley books read: 0
Kindle Unlimited read: 18
Ebooks: 4
Audiobooks: 10
Non-fiction books: 3
Favourite book this month: Cure for the Common Breakup or Christmas is All Around
Most read author: Kerry Greenwood because all 10 of those audiobooks were Miss Fisher mysteries and no other author got on the list more than once because there were a lot of states to tick off…
Books bought: 2 preorders, 6 ebooks, 1 book. Most of the six were to fill in missing states, although Kindle Unlimited did a lot of that work for me.
Books read in 2024: 413
Books on the Goodreads to-read shelf (I don’t have copies of all of these!): 756
A month spent frantically ticking off the missing states in the 50 states challenge because that was infinitely more achievable than the idea of me carrying around physical books the whole month to try and finish that challenge, or in fact buying the kindle versions of books on the shelf to do it that way (because that is Defeating The Point). But I got there in the end, and the full list of what ticked off what is coming up in the next few days. All in all, a pretty good year in reading – 413 is my highest ever total, but I’m under no illusions that that’s because of the sheer number of cozy crime novella series I’ve read this year. But I couldn’t have completed the 50 states without them this year, so goodness knows what I’ll do next year if I do it again. I will try and pace myself better if I do it again – the mad dash in December isn’t a lot of fun and it meant I didn’t finish any NetGalley books last month because they didn’t fit the missing states. I need to work on that. I think I have done better at keeping my requests there down, but I always say that and I’m not sure it’s true. Anyway: here’s to a fresh start and a fresh slate in January!
Bonus picture: Goodreads tells me over 100k pages last year. Wowzers.
*includes some short stories/novellas/comics/graphic novels – including 7 this month!
Verity Reads Books (lots of them) 
Wow!! That’s a lot of pages! Well done for completing your 50 states challenge.