Red-Haired Ash Reads

2025 is finally over and that means its time for a wrap up of my reading year. I am also going to recap my reading goals from last year, which I didn’t actually post publicly this year. Also as a bonus, I include my favorite movies and anime of the year.

2025 Goals Revisit

1. Read 400 books.
   • I completed this one, even with it being a really hard reading year for me.
2. Read 35% of my TBR.
   • I didn’t actually get to 35, but I got to 26% which was pretty good considering I started the year at 19%. I probably got closer to 30% with DNF books though.
3. Post at least three times a month on Instagram.
   • I succeeded at this for the most part. There was a few months where I only posted twice, but I was dealing with a lot this year which made it harder to feel motivated about posting. On top of the fact that barely anyone sees/interacts with my posts.
4. Participate in different reading challenges this year.
   • I participated in quite a few different challenges this year. I did the 52 Book Club, 100 Graphics in 2025, 2025 Audiobook Challenge, 50 nonfiction books in a year, and some monthly/seasonal bingos that I found on Instagram. I also joined my first book club this year and it has been a really fun experience.

2025 Reading Stats

I read 429 books this year, which is about 100 less than I read last year, but I also had an extremely stressful year with the house fire, personal sickness, and a sick cat. I was better this year about DNF though so I am hopeful I continue to learn what makes me not enjoy a book so I can DNF faster.

• New: 248
• Re-reads: 188
• DNF: 23

Formats:

In 2025, I read mostly eBooks, which is my main format, and for the third year in a row audiobooks come in second. Then Manga and Graphic Novels, which could have been under eBooks since I read these almost exclusively in e-format but I like to track them separately.

• eBook: 233
• Audiobook: 118
• Graphic Novels: 34
• Manga: 30
• Bonus Shorts: 14
• Hardcover: 3
• Webcomic: 1
• Paperback: 1

Pages:

This year I read 80,596 pages! I initially wanted to hit 100,000 pages but I knew by the middle of the year that wasn’t going to happen so I switched it to 80,000.

Listening Time:

In 2025, I set my listening goal to 1000 hours. I surpassed that by quite a lot with 1,233 hours and 25 minutes of audiobooks listened to.

Most Read Authors:

I was not surprised by who my top authors this year were because quite a few of them were favorite authors that I was comfort reading, but I also had a few new/newish authors that I ended up reading a lot of two.

• Anna Hackett – 57
• Lynsay Sands – 37
• Hailey Turner – 25
• C. Rochelle – 17
• Alice Winters – 15
• Lily Mayne – 14
• Anna Lowe – 14
• Jennifer Estep – 14
• Jim Butcher – 10
• Chugong – 9

New Favorite Authors:

Some new favorite authors for me this year were C. Rochelle, Zoe Ashwood, Fae Quin, Rachel Reid, Akira Sugito, and Hirohiko Araki.

Most Read Genres:

Again, I was not surprised by my most read genre’s this year because it was my favorite genre: paranormal romance. That was followed by LGBTQIA, Sci-Fi, Nonfiction, and Fantasy.

Favorite Movies:

While I watched a lot of movies this year, I found that I didn’t end up loving a lot of the new movies I watched so this ended up being an easy choice for top six.

• Bring Her Back
• Predator: Bandlands
• Superman
• Sinners
• Heart Eyes
• Frankenstein

Favorite Shows/Anime:

This year I watched a lot of anime and a few TV shows. So here were my six favorites.

• Bob’s Burgers (all seasons)
• One Piece: Egghead ARC
• My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 1
• Severance Season 1 and 2
• To Be Hero X Season 1
• Creature Commandos Season 1

How did your 2025 reading go? Also did you enjoy any of these movies/anime?