Books read this month: 31*
New books: 25
Re-reads: 6 (all audiobooks)
Books from the to-read pile: 7
NetGalley books read: 4
Kindle Unlimited read: 11
Ebooks: 3
Audiobooks: 6
Non-fiction books: 1
Favourite book: The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy, but it was close with Swordheart and also Vagabond
Books bought: two actual books, ten ebooks
Most read author: the three Helen books probably mean Linda Graeme, but they’re not long books (and the print is big) so it could be T Kingfisher because Swordheart is 450 pages!
Books read in 2026: 264
Books on the Goodreads to-read shelf (I don’t have copies of all of these!): 595
A pretty good month in reading. I’ve tried to tackle the to-read pile after the huge amounts of books acquired in July and actually done ok on that front despite spending a of time away from home. I read all the August released I’d requested from NetGalley which is pretty good going (and I’ve even written some about them) and I (mostly) resisted the urge to buy more physical books – even if I did have a bit of a bonanza time while writing the Kindle offers. We are however heading into the bumper autumn release season so I dread to think what I might manage to get up to this month.
Bonus picture: Judy! on the wall at the Palladium. I’m not going to say it was my favourite thing about the trip to JCS because that would be unfair on how much I enjoyed Richard Armitage as Herod (which is under five minutes of the show and late in the second act). But it was high on the list!
*often includes some short stories/novellas/comics/graphic novels – 8 this month!
Verity Reads Books (lots of them) 