20250 Pages

For the past five years (2020) and (2021) and (2022) and (2023) and (2024), I set reading goals tied to the year — 20200 pages, 20210 pages, 20220 pages, 20230 pages, 20240 pages. As of December 30th (which is the date GoodReads last updated my reading stats), I hit 22,745 pages with 66 books. So definitely beat my goal.

I still wish GoodReads would give you a running page count throughout the year.

To stay on-brand, I set 20260 as a goal for 2026.

My favourite things I’ve read this year:

• You Be Mother (Meg Mason)
• Mr. Wilder and Me (Jonathan Coe)
• The List of Suspicious Things (Jennie Godfrey)
• Proof of My Innocence (Jonathan Coe)
• The Rachel Incident (Caroline O’Donoghue)
• Sunrise on the Reaping (Suzanne Collins)
• Fair Play (Louise Hegarty)
• The Impossible Thing (Belinda Bauer)
• Probably Nothing (Lauren Bravo)
• Consider Yourself Kissed (Jessica Stanley)
• Bitter Sweet (Hattie Williams)
• What a Way to Go (Bella Mackie)
• Bring the House Down (Charlotte Runcie)
• Marble Hall Murders (Anthony Horowitz)
• The Killer Question (Janice Hallett)
• What We Can Know (Ian McEwan)
• The Queen Who Came in From the Cold (SJ Bennett)
• The Impossible Fortune (Richard Osman)
• The Rose Field (Philip Pullman)
• The Heir Apparent (Rebecca Armitage)
• That’s Not How It Happened (Craig Thomas)
• The Correspondent (Virginia Evans)

What is on your list of favourite reads this year? (Feel free to list movies or television shows if books are not your thing.)