I finished 33 titles (7 up from last month. While I didn’t finish any audiobooks, I did manage to finish a lot of books.

So many, you’ll see that I made progress on the TBR piles and on several on the TBR Range. I guess I just need to take more months off to do little more than read. I’m sure that’ll be easy to do before retirement…well, at least I know what retirement will look like.

The Month in Reading
October Calendar
(thanks to Bookmory for the image)

TBR Piles

Audio E-book Physical Goodreads
Want-to-Read		 NetGalley
Shelf/ARCs/Review Copies
End of
2025		 4 89 112 192 11
1st of the
Month		 3 97 137 209 11
Added 0 1 2 2 14
Read/
Listened		 0 10 12 0 8
Current Total 3 88 127 211 16

My TBR Range
TBR Range Chart
(click to embiggen)
Breakdowns:
“Traditionally” Published: 19
Self-/Independent Published: 14

Genre This Month Year to Date
Children’s 0 (0%) 25 (9%)
Fantasy 12 (36%) 68 (25%)
General Fiction/ Literature 2 (6%) 23 (8%)
Mystery/ Suspense/ Thriller 6 (182%) 57 (21%)
Non-Fiction 2 (6%) 23 (8%)
Science Fiction 4 (12%) 31 (11%)
Theology/ Christian Living 4 (12%) 25 (9%)
Urban Fantasy 1 (3%) 16 (6%)
“Other” (Horror/ Humor/ Steampunk/ Western) 2 (6%) 5 (2%)

Review-ish Things Posted
Books of the Month

Other Recommended Reads

Other Things I Posted

Spotlights

Music Mondays

WWW Wednesdays

Saturday Miscellanies

Enough about me—how Was Your Month?

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