#newyearsathon Day 15, January 15th and final stats:

Pages read today:  105

Books finished today:  0

Final total pages read:  2278

Final books finished:  9

-Richard

 #newyearsathon Day 14, January 14th:

Pages read today:  207

Books finished today:  1

Total pages read:  2173

Total books finished:  9

-Richard

 I finished reading:

"Just Mercy:  A Story of Justice and Redemption" written by Bryan Stevenson.   316 pages.  Five stars.

The ninth book of the year.   2,185 pages at an average of 243 pages per book.

-Richard

 #newyearsathon Day 13, January 13th:

Pages read today: 56 pages

Books finished today:  0

Total pages read:  1966

Total books finished:  8

-Richard

 #newyearsathon day 12, January 12th:

Pages read today:  136

Books finished today:  0

Total pages read:  1910

Total books finished:  8

-Richard

 #newyearsathon day 11,  January 11th:

Pages read today:  245

Books finished today:  2

Total pages read:  1774

Total books finished:  8

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" edited by Harold Bloom.   204 pages.   Four stars and "Kingdom of Shadows" written by Alan Furst.   239 pages.  Three stars.

The seventh and eighth books of the year.  1,869 pages at an average of 234 pages per book.

-Richard

 #newyearsathon day10 - January 10th;

Pages read today:  72

Books finished today: 0

Total pages read:  1529

Total books finished:  6

-Richard

 #newyearsathon Day 9, January 9th:

Pages read today:  103

Books finished today:  1

Total pages read:  1457

Total books finished: 6

-Richard

 I finished reading:

"Incendiary Art" written by Patricia Smith.  129 pages.  Four stars.

The sixth book of the year.  1,426 pages at an average of 238 pages per book.

-Richard

 #newyearsathon Day 8 - January 8th:

Pages read today:  51

Books finished today:  0

Total pages read:  1354

Total books finished:  5

-Richard

 #newyearsathon Day 7. January 7th:

Pages read today:  107

Books finished today:  1

Total pages read:  1303

Total books finished:  5

-Richard

 I finished reading:

"Baby Driver" written by Jan Karouac.   251 pages.  Three stars.

The fifth book of the year.  1,297 pages at an average of 259 pages per book.

-Richard

 #newyearsathon Day 6, January 6th:

Pages read today:  158

Books finished today:  0

Total pages read:  1,195

Books finished:  4

-Richard

 #newyearsathon Day 5. January 5th:

Pages read today:  101

Books finished today:  0

Total pages read:  1037

Total books finished:  4

-Richard

 #newyearsreadathon Day 4, January 4th:

Pages read today:  481

Books finished today:  2

Total pages read:  936

Total books finished: 4

-Richard

 I finished reading:

"Fortune and Glory:  Tantalizing Twenty-Seven" written by Janet Evanovich.  304 pages.  Three stars and "Saga:  Volume 12' written by Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan.  154 pages.  Four stars.

The third and fourth books of the year.   1,046 pages at an average of 261 pages per book.

-Richard

#newyearsathon Day 3, January 3rd:

Pages read today:  259

Books finished today:  2

Total pages read:  455

Total books finished:  2

-Richard 

 I finished reading:

"House of Music:  Raising the Kanneh-Masons" written by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason.  331 pages. Five stars and "The World at Night" written by Alan Furst.  257 pages.  Three stars.

The first and second books of the year.  588 pages at an average of 294 pages per book.

-Richard

 #newyearsathon Day2, January 2nd:

Pages read today:  69

Books finished today:  0

Total pages read:  196

Total books finished:  0

-Richard

 #newyearsathon Day 1, January 1st:

Pages read today:  127

Books finished today: 0

-Richard

This year, like last year we will be participating in #newyearsathon.  This is from January 1st - 15th.  I will post daily updates.

-Richard

 Here are my final reading stats from 2025

Books finished:  190.  This was the joint fourth most with the record of 243 in 2022.   I read 59,398 pages which was the fifth most.   The record is 74,393 from 2022.   

Average # of pages per book: 313.   The highest average number of pages per book was 420 in 2013.

I read authors born in 43 different countries compared to 47 last year:  1. USA: 80, 2. England: 42, 3. Scotland: 12, 4. Russia: 9 and 5. India and Ukraine with 6.   

I read authors born in 26 different USA States (incl DC):  1. California  18, 2. New York 10, 3. New Jersey, and Pennsylvania: 6 and 5. Texas and Michigan: 5.   Last year was 26 different States.  

   
I read books with titles starting with 23 different letters of the alphabet.  I missed U, X, and Z.

I read authors with last names starting with 25 different letters.  I did not read X 

I read authors who won the Booker Prize (2), the Nobel Prize (4),  the Pulitzer Prize (8) and the Woman's Prize (1)

I read the most books published in 2024 (15) the newest book was published in 2025 and the oldest book I read was published in 1845.

My average rating of books was 3.7 (last year was 3.7)

Since I've started tracking the number of books (2005) I have read 2577 which means an average of 123 per year.   Since I've started tracking the # of pages (2008) I have  read 813,392 pages at an average of 44,188 per year at an average of 334 per book.

This years goal is 123 books.

-Richard