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Friday, 16 January 2026

Statistics 2025

     

My statistics for the last years are here:
2009-12, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 
2023, 2024  

* Statistics 2025 *
 
I did 235 posts in 2025 which was 57 more than last year.

And these are the results of my reading lists for 2025:

My regular posts are either weekly (Book Quotes, Top Ten Tuesday, ThrowBack Thursday, Wordless Wednesday) or monthly (Happy Month, Six Degrees of Separation, Spell the Month in Books), so I posted more or less the amount of weeks or months in a year. I didn't do them all regularly, though. Especially the Top Ten Tuesday, I've participated so long and have done a lot of the topics already, so I just do them from time to time.


I also did a few lists that are more or less statistics about half of the year and a comparison to ten years ago:
I also participated in Non-fiction November.

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And then there are, of course, all the challenges I have done over the years.
I read books that contributed to the following challenges. Some of them count for more than one category:

Challenges (number of books read for the challenges in brackets)

I read more on this topic but they were not on this list.
Thanks to a present by my son and a loan from a book club member, I was able to add two more books to the list.
Best European Literature (2)
Dutch and French Books (1 Dutch, 3 French)
Every year I find some more books I can add to my list of favourite books. 24 this year. Not too bad, I guess.
Some books taking place in France or written in French.
(German: Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels)
We read 1925 and 1952 this year. It's a good idea to add some reads from former years that we might not have touched before.
I read 17 chunky books in 2024 of which 4 are considered a chunkster. Mor-book-ly Obese again.
I read suggestions from friends all the time, just haven't kept up with who recommended which book.

Book Clubs:
International Online Book Club 2017 etc. (7)
One of the books was not available in English or German and I had read four of the others.
We took a break in the summer and at Christmas, so only read 10 books this year.

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Some of the challenges are older and I only add to them if I happen to read one of the books. No new books on these lists:

I already said this last year. Only three more books on my list, maybe I'll get to "Slaughterhouse Five" one day.
Books That Changed the World 
Esperanto Books 
Here we mostly read short stories.
(Das Lieblingsbuch der Unabhängigen = The Favourite Book of the Independents)
When they are German books, it usually takes a couple of years until they appear in paperback. So, this year, I didn't get to read the newest one:
Nelio Biedermann "Lázár"
Le Monde - The 100 Books of the Century 
Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century 
Nobel Peace Prize 
Unfortunately, I didn't get to read any of the peace prize winners this year, but I read many by people who would have deserved it (not the one who was so keen on being awarded only to start a war right after that).
The non-western books that every student should read 
The only thing I miss from our old place is the library that would get me any book I wanted. Not so easy here where we only have a small church library and they only get the biggest best-sellers. And all of them in German only, of course.

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Books Read: 88
Pages read: 26.884 which results in 306 pages/book, 73 pages/day, 7 books/month
Last year (2024), I read 73 books with 25,412 pages which resulted in 348 pages/book, 73 pages/day, 7 books/month. So, it looks like I read a little more in 2025.
The average novel contains between 140 and 320 pages, i.e. 230 which would make 117 average books (compared to 116 last year, so not that much better, just shorter books).

Books dating from which year:
Pre 1800s: 3
1800s: 12
1900-1949: 7
1950-1999: 14
2000s: 52 (3 of which from 25)

Male Authors: 48 + 1
Female Authors: 40 +1

Nobel Prize Winners: 3

Fiction: 62
Non-Fiction: 26
I might have to include some of the reference books I read and use.

Chunky Books - more than 450 pages: 17, of which more than 750: 4
Library/Borrowed: 7
Re-Read: 6 (all Jane Austen)
TBR Pile: 23

Oldest Book: 411 BC
Aristophanes "Lysistrata and Other Plays" (GR: Λυσιστράτη, Lysistrátē) - 411 BC
Newest Book: 2025
Harris, Kamala "107 Days" - 2025
Longest book: 1,022 pages
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (Goethe German) - "Faust I + II" (GE: Urfaust. Faust: Erster und zweiter Teil) - 1772-1808
Longest book title: 57 letters
Kaminer, Wladimir "Little Red Riding Hood smokes on the balcony … and other family stories" (GE: Rotkäppchen raucht auf dem Balkon … und andere Familiengeschichten) - 2020
Shortest Book Title: 2 letters
Schöfer, Maike "Nope: An incitement to say no" (GE: Nö: Eine Anstiftung zum Neinsagen) - 2025
Funniest Book:
Schnoy, Sebastian "Learn from Napoleon how to avoid doing the dishes" (GE: Von Napoleon lernen, wie man sich vorm Abwasch drückt) - 2013
Saddest Book:
Weirdest Book:
Thoreau, Henry David "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" - 1854
Most disappointing:
Hopmann, Sophie/Heidelore Mais "Cucumber Sandwich in the Glove Compartment" (GE: Gurkensandwich im Handschuhfach) - 2019

New author (for me) that I would like to read more from: 8
Michel Bergmann, William Deresiewicz, Tahsim Durgun, Michael Köhlmeier, Benjamin Monferat, Jasmin Schreiber, Yuta Takahashi, Lucy Worsley

Translated Books:
7 from 7 languages
1 ea from Finnisch, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish

Books read in another language:
Dutch: 1
French: 3
German: 30

Numbers in Book Titles: Sixth, Seven, Ten, 107
Place Names in Book Titles: Brüssel, England, Europe, Mansfield, Mariana Trench, Northanger Abbey, Walden
Names in Book Titles: Artemisia, Austen, Bovary, Britt-Marie, Chekhov, Chibineko, Chuzzlewit, Emma, Faust, Feld, Felix Krull, Gretchen, Hamnet, Jane, Judith,Katherine, Klee, Luzie, Lysistrata, Mann, Mariana, Martin, Mary, Max, Moormann, Napoleon, Parr, Peanuts, Psmith, Rose, Rotkäppchen, Sonneborn, Thomas, Tiffany, Tolstoy, Unrat, Wunder
Colours in Book Titles: Rot (red)

My Favourite Books: 24
- "The History of England: By a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian" - 1791
- "Mansfield Park" - 1814 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen)
- "Persuasion" - 1817 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen) *
- "Pride & Prejudice" - 1813 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen) 
Heidenreich, Elke "Dr. Moormann & I" (GE: Frau Dr. Moormann & ich) - 2023
Hyun, Martin; Kaminer, Wladimir "Instructions for neighbours" - (GE: Gebrauchsanweisung für Nachbarn) - 2024  
Kaminer, Wladimir "Little Red Riding Hood smokes on the balcony … and other family stories" (GE: Rotkäppchen raucht auf dem Balkon … und andere Familiengeschichten) - 2020
- "Tolstoy's beard and Chekhov's shoes, excursions through Russian literature" (GE: Tolstois Bart und Tschechows Schuhe, Streifzüge durch die russische Literatur - 2019)
Loriot "The Yodeling School and other dramatic works" (GE: Die Jodelschule und andere dramatische Werke) - 1981
Monferat, Benjamin (Stephan Rother) "World in Flames" (GE: Welt in Flammen) - 2014
Schreiber, Jasmin "Mariana Trench" (GE: Marianengraben) - 2020
Stelter, Bernd "Fashion, murder, and the sound of the sea. Camping crime thriller" (GE: Mode, Mord und Meeresrauschen. Camping-Krimi) - 2024
Worsley, Lucy "Jane Austen at Home" - 2017

Added  after an idea by Emma:

Adjectives in Book Titles: brilliant, crazy, dull, last, weird; dramatische, gut, klein
Adverbs in Book Titles: andere. hier
Animals in Book Titles: Penguin, Snail, Whale
Nationality in Book Titles: French
Preposition in Book Titles: about, as, at, for, from, in, of, on, out, to; auf, durch, für, im, mit, nach, oder, vom, von, über, zur
Questions in Book Titles: 
Brandreth, Gyles "Have You Eaten Grandma?" - 2017

With my books, I visited places in the following countries:
Africa (5):Botswana, Cameroon, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Arctic (1):
Arctic
Asia (9):
Armenia, Dubai, India, Israel/Palestine, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Syria, Turkey, Vietnam
Australia/Oceania (2):
Australia, New Zealand
Europe (19):
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Yugoslavia
North America (4):
Canada, Caribbean, St. Lucia, USA
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay

Countries "visited" in total: 43

Authors come from:
Africa (2):
South Africa, Zimbabwe
Asia (7):
India, Israel/Palestine, Japan, Korea, Syria, Turkey, Vietnam
Australia/Oceania (2):
Australia, New Zealand
Europe (10):
Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
North America (2):
Canada, USA
South America (1):
Uruguay
Author countries in total: 24

See also "My Year in Books" (and here on Goodreads).

You may find some even greater statistics by better bloggers than me, e.g. at "Stuck in a Book".
 
If you want more information on any of the lists mentioned, please, let me know.
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