This is the end,

Of the year!

My 2025 reading stats – since I was just discussing this on Facebook and I do keep a track here’s the stats:

135 books read, 35 by women, 24 by people of colour
Earliest published date 1932
Longest book 553 pages
5 marked as “Brilliant” (my highest rating)


Entangled Life (illustrated)


The Wild Life of our Bodies


When We Cease to Understand The World


The Immune Mind


Question 7


Authors from 20 countries, including new to me this year – Burma (Myanmar – but was written before the name change) and Lebanon as well as 27 from the UK, 30 from the USA
75 from the TBR
10 hardbacks
23 ebooks
102 Nonfiction, including 10 Biographies and 14 books about writing
8 Graphic Novels
1 short story book, 1 book of essays
2 poetry books
22 Fiction

And I published a book

The Devil’s Prayer

Published by suttope

Pete W Sutton is a writer and editor. His two short story collections – A Tiding of Magpies and The Museum for Forgetting – were shortlisted for Best Collection in the British Fantasy Awards in 2017 & 2022 respectively. His novel – Seven Deadly Swords – was published by Grimbold Books. He has edited several short story anthologies and is the editor for the British Fantasy Society Horizons fiction magazine.

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