Books read this month: 30*
New books: 26
Re-reads: 4 (all audiobooks)
Books from the to-read pile: 6
NetGalley books read: 1
Kindle Unlimited read: 8
Ebooks: 11
Audiobooks: 4
Non-fiction books: 1
Favourite book: hard to pick – the Phryne Fisher was bittersweet but lovely, the Helen Ellis was fun and I still really, really love Romantic Comedy even if I didn’t love the audiobook narrator’s rendering of the male characters!
Books bought: moving on…
Most read author: Jenn McKinlay if we’re looking at the new reads, Dorothy L Sayers if we include the re-reads too.
Books read in 2025: 346
Books on the Goodreads to-read shelf (I don’t have copies of all of these!): 802
I wrote a whole list of books that I was going to read in November at the start of the month, and then about a week later I did an audit of the 50 states challenge and realised that I needed to throw the original list out of the window. And so my major achievement for the month is ticking 16 (!) states off the list. Eight of those were already on either the virtual pile or the physical pile and another four came from Kindle Unlimited, so that was pretty good too. Now I just need to keep the momentum going and tick the last states off – we’re into single figures now so it’s very, very doable…
Bonus picture: I finished the beat the to read shelf bookcase in my journal. All of those green colours are mysteries of various types so you can see a bit of a pattern there…
*often includes some short stories/novellas/comics/graphic novels – 3 this month!
Verity Reads Books (lots of them) 