{"id":23466,"date":"2025-12-31T04:11:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23466"},"modified":"2025-12-28T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:41:07","slug":"2025-the-year-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/2025-the-year-in-books\/","title":{"rendered":"2025: The Year In Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As 2025 comes to a close, my fifth full year of remote working, I managed to once again surpass my previous records by completing a whopping 66 books, five books more than my previous high set last year and my fifth consecutive year completing the 52 books in 52 weeks challenge<\/a>.\u00a0 I completed the challenge in mid-October and surpassed last year\u2019s total in early-December.\u00a0 I read 25,279 pages, by far my highest total of all time and just the third time I\u2019ve managed to surpass 20.000 pages.<\/p>\n

Of those books, only two were non-fiction and, of the remaining 64 novels, only six were tied to a TV show, either as the source material or as a tie-in.\u00a0 None of the books came out of my dwindling \u201cto-read\u201d drawer, with two hard covers, three paperbacks, 61 e-books and no audiobooks.\u00a0 I was forced to switch my library card from the Chicago Public Library to my local library, which slowed me down a little but still led to 55 of the books I consumed throughout the year.<\/p>\n

Over 71% of the books I read this year were by authors I had read before. The 21 authors that I read for the first time this year were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Coco Mellors<\/td>\nAisling Rawle<\/td>\nStephen Graham Jones<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liz Moore<\/td>\nNatalie Sue<\/td>\nKaliane Bradley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Max Brooks<\/td>\nMary Shelley<\/td>\nPaul Tremblay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/td>\nKelly Bishop<\/td>\nTanya Pearson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liane Moriarty<\/td>\nBenjamin Stevenson<\/td>\nAshley Winstead<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ashley Elston<\/td>\nAlison Espach<\/td>\nAlice Feeney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ali Land<\/td>\nLindsay Jamieson<\/td>\nJeneva Rose<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Karin Slaughter, Laura Lippman, Kathy Reichs, Lee Goldberg, Stephen King, Emily Henry, Elin Hilderbrand, and Rebecca Forster were the authors that I read multiple titles from during 2025, accounting for nearly 35% of my total.<\/p>\n

22 of the books I read were released this year, while none were released during the 20th century.\u00a0 Two came from the 19th century, with the oldest first published in 1818.<\/p>\n

Finally, the breakdown by month, which was fairly consistent across the entire year.<\/span><\/p>\n

December \u2013 6
\nNovember \u2013 6
\nOctober \u2013 7
\nSeptember \u2013 5
\nAugust \u2013 5
\nJuly \u2013 5
\nJune \u2013 5
\nMay \u2013 6
\nApril \u2013 6
\nMarch \u2013 4
\nFebruary \u2013 7
\nJanuary \u2013 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As 2025 comes to a close, my fifth full year of remote working, I managed to once again surpass my previous records by completing a whopping 66 books, five books more than my previous high set last year and my fifth consecutive year completing the 52 books in 52 weeks challenge.\u00a0 I completed the challenge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[12209,11771,12219,11965,11959,12113,11961,11978,10260,10821,11974,12062,8099,770,12221,8023,11588,11968,12196,11972,11761,12204,11956,12027,12193,3394,12056,718,12059],"class_list":["post-23466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-aisling-rawle","tag-ali-land","tag-alice-feeney","tag-alison-espach","tag-ashley-elston","tag-ashley-winstead","tag-benjamin-stevenson","tag-coco-mellors","tag-elin-hilderbrand","tag-emily-henry","tag-jeneva-rose","tag-kaliane-bradley","tag-karin-slaughter","tag-kathy-reichs","tag-kelly-bishop","tag-laura-lippman","tag-lee-goldberg","tag-liane-moriarty","tag-lindsay-jamieson","tag-liz-moore","tag-mary-shelley","tag-max-brooks","tag-natalie-sue","tag-nathaniel-hawthorne","tag-paul-tremblay","tag-rebecca-forster","tag-stephen-graham-jones","tag-stephen-king","tag-tanya-pearson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23466"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23582,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23466\/revisions\/23582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}