BOOKMARK: THE COMPLEAT 2026 READING LIST

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2007 - 100 Books (avg. 408.57 pages)   2008 - 80 Books (avg. 385.50 pages) 2009 - 67 Books (avg. 338.03 pages) 2010 - 129 Books (avg. 378.75 pages) 2011 - 133 Books (avg. 375.98 pages) 2012 - 144 Books (avg. 398.92 pages) 2013 - 130 Books (avg. 397.36 pages) 2014 - 130 Books (avg. 391.13 pages) 2015 - 122 Books (avg. 364.18 pages) 2016 - 100 Books (avg. 433.06 pages)

2017 - 104 Books (avg. 413.24 pages) 2018 - 108 Books (avg. 377.99 pages) 2019 - 125 Books (avg. 389.52 pages) 2020 - 266 Books (avg. 306.32 pages) 2021 - 255 Books (avg. 312.65 pages) 2022 - 251 books (avg. 328.91 pages) 2023 - 240 books (avg. 337.88 pages) 2024 - 236 books (avg. 399.28 pages) 2025 - 273 books (avg. 336.71 pages)

Starting my reading list for 2025! Another year of my most OCD New Year's Resolution. :)

I set a new high-water mark for total book count this year, but 2024 remains my record for total pagecount (at 94,231); this year's books were generally shorter, for a total of 91,921 pages. That's 250 pages per day. Probably still too much, but I tend to read/watch more in exhausting RL years, and 2025 was definitely that for me.

The rough genre counts bear that out, lots of distraction material: 78 narrative non-fiction; 25 post-apocalyptic fiction; 39 mystery or thriller; 32 LitRPG; 23 Jane Austen variations; 35 other scifi; 21 other fantasy; 5 poetry collections; and only 15 historical or literary fiction.

In other stats for 2025: 8 were re-reads; and 10 were graphic novels. 127 were ebooks, the rest physical, 32 of which were borrowed from the library. 7 were YA. And my work book club completed its third year and planned for a fourth! So, on to Year Twenty of book tracking! I record books here as I start them, and remove them if I don't finish.

Books for 2026: 5 including 1 rereads, 3 nonfiction, 0 poetry collections, 0 ya, 2 ebooks, and 1 graphic novels. Library count: 2.

Books Read in 2025:

Highlighted listings for Book Riot's 2026 Read Harder Challenge.

1. Beware of Chicken (Vol 5) by Casualfarmer. Ebook, 290pp. 5th of a series.

2. Tokyo Rose - Zero Hour by Andre R. Frattino and Kate Kasenow. Nonfiction graphic novel, 128pp.

3. Born to Be Hanged by Keith Thomson. Nonfiction ebook, 397pp.

4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Paperback, 368pp. Reread.

5. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz. Hardback nonfiction, 384pp.