Books read this month: 31*
New books: 26
Re-reads: 5 (all audiobooks)
Books from the to-read pile: 5
NetGalley books read: 5
Kindle Unlimited read: 12
Ebooks: 4
Audiobooks: 5
Non-fiction books: 2
Favourite book: Meet the Newmans
Books bought: 4 actual books (3 of them in Sheffield), 1 pre-order placed, 5 ebooks
Most read author: Goodreads tells me that the Elissa Sussman is the longest book I’ve read this year so far so it must be that!
Books read in 2025: 31
Books on the Goodreads to-read shelf (I don’t have copies of all of these!): 597 (I told you I’d done a cull!)
January started well, but then sailed a little bit off course on account of that entire week of skating in Sheffield. Which was amazing and I regret nothing. The week of recovery I regret a little bit more, but hey these things happen. There are more novellas on this list than usual – because at times that was all my fried little brain could cope with, but also because Patti Benning writes annoyingly readable things and I kept going straight on to the next one but also because Amazon dropped another Valentines Novella collection with a bunch of romance authors I like and I ended up reading those instead of finishing off some of the things I had on the go. I’d like to think February will be a better month in reading, but the Winter Olympics start on Friday and we all know how much I love the Olympics. And given that I can only watch one thing at a time and I also have to work, the reading may get a little sidelined in favour of figure skating, skiing and sliding,
Bonus picture: Another picture from my fabulous week in Sheffield!
*often includes some short stories/novellas/comics/graphic novels – 10 this month!
Verity Reads Books (lots of them) 