Books read this month: 29*
New books: 23
Re-reads: 6 (5 audiobooks)
Books from the to-read pile: 3
NetGalley books read: 11
Kindle Unlimited read: 9
Ebooks: 1
Audiobooks: 5
Non-fiction books: 1
Favourite book: Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter
Books bought: 9 books and 9 ebooks – it was all going really well until the last 10 days of the month when the Heated Rivalry books went on offer and then the damn burst on a bit of physical book purchasing too.
Most read author: hard to tell because it’s probably among the audiobooks – either Ngaio Marsh or Elizabeth Peters, because the Falcon at the Portal is now the longest book I’ve read this year and I’m a way through the next one too, but I’ve also done four Inspector Alleyns.
Books read in 2025: 58
Books on the Goodreads to-read shelf (I don’t have copies of all of these!): 599 – this is back a little again because I’ve added a bunch of the 2026 releases that I either want to read or have copies of via NetGalley. So hopefully that will come down again as I read them!
Firstly an apology that I’m posting this so far into March, but there were a few things that I wanted to talk about in the first week of the month that couldn’t really wait, and so this was the thing that got bumped. A pretty good month in reading to be honest. I’m pretty pleased with the number of books on the list from NetGalley, even if the to-read pile list is a bit shorter. I’m still some way off getting the list down to where I want it, but progress is progress.
Bonus picture: Unexpected stained glass spotted while wandering through Soho.
*often includes some short stories/novellas/comics/graphic novels – 7 this month!
Verity Reads Books (lots of them) 