I went for 100 books to read this year. I did not really make it, but did read 86 books. Of these, 43 books came from my TBR shelves. Even so, the shelves ended up at 211 books still to read. I never seem to come under 200 books, although I do read around 50 books from my shelves every year. Will 2025 by a different year?
This year I read 3 nonfiction and 55 6fiction, of which 28 were thrillers. Many Agatha Christie and Donna Leon. Somehow, I felt I needed a lot of easily read books this year..
My favourite books 2024
Krysalis by John Trenhaile
La vie secrète des écrivains/Öns hemlighet by Guillaume Musso
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig (NF)
Madonna in Fur by Sahabattin Ali/August
Kala by Colin Walsh
The Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe/September
Prinsen av Vasa - Den siste gustavianen by Harald Hultman (NF)
12 books turned out to be favourites of mine. The rest were good, so overall, a pleasing year.
I read books by authors from the following countries:
Sweden - 29
Great Britain - 23
USA - 14
France - 4
Ireland - 3
Germany - 3
Antiquity - 3
Japan - 1
Australia - 1
Portugal - 1
Austria - 1
Turkey - 1
Italy - 1
What to read in 2025
To start with I will try to finish the around seven books I have already started. I will go for a month long trip to SE Asia in mid January and will have to see how far I have reached by then. On the trip I will probably mostly read on my ipad, e-books and audio books.
Random spin will also be an option in 2025 in order to read from my TBRs. On my TBR list I have 60 fiction books and 109 nonfiction ones.
I wish you all a Happy New Year and a lot of good reading for 2025.
I have enjoyed a lot Faust and this book by Musso! Hapy new year of reading to you too!
I impulsively bought three books at the library sale yesterday, brought them home, and tried them---I will probably be passing them on, unread. This is the sort of thing that does me in, TBR-wise.