Yes, I did get my Goodreads stat data (I’d missed it’s arrival) and it shows 149 books read, 49,775 pages read. Oops!
I love to see the new numbers though there’s an error or two (again—i.e. Last Book of the Year was not How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley. It was Killing Me Softly by Sandie Jones on December 30.
Also, Goodreads shows Mark Twain by Ron Chernow as the longest book at 1,200 pages. I suppose the book was 1,200 pages, but the CE gave up at approximately 46%. The shortest book was The Builders by Maeve Binchy at 93 pages.
The real problem with showing 149 books read with 49,775 pages read, however, is that the landing page correctly showed 187 and the successful challenge of 150 books. So far this year, the landing page shows 4 books of a challenge of 175 books, but the widget zero. I have no idea why it stopped counting my books last year at 149 or why it’s failing to count my Challenge books this year.
Goodreads Stats (minus 38 books)
| Average Book Length in 2025
Average Book Length in 2024 |
334 pages
337 pages |
| Most Shelved*
4,485,715 |
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr |
| My average rating for 2025
My average rating for 2024 |
4 stars
4.1 stars |
| Highest Rated on Goodreads – 4.6 average | Soaring Above
Amanda Hughes |
Have you looked over your Goodreads stats, ran a critical eye over what went right or wrong?
Have you set your new challenges for 2026?
Do you find errors in your stats too? Any ideas whether or not the problem is Goodreads (JavaScript?) or my basic free version of WordPress?
©2025 V Williams
*Slight change in stats since I wrote my post regarding 2024 Goodreads stats
That’s odd! I feel it picks up my Books Read accurately, but I’d love to be able to change the pages read to take account of books I didn’t finish. It seems like cheating to claim 800 pages if I only read the first quarter, but it also seems wrong not to record the book if I read 200 pages of it!
exactly! i’d love to claim some of the stats and know i can’t others. can’t into account a DNF. teaching us to determine if we’ll DNF within a few pages whether than try and make a go of it?
Even though I make sure I’m adding books correctly there is no. difference in my stats too. Your year still looks great in Reading.
thank you, but i’d love to know what the actual numbers were.
The only thing I know is that you have to make sure every book has a date for when you started reading and for when you finished the book or Goodreads won’t count it for your challenge.
yes, ty. every book has a start date and my review is the finish date. since all books were read and reviewed the same way, it didn’t make sense to me that it just suddenly stopped counting at 149. particularly when the other count was correct and every book justifying that count is listed. crazy. i’ve gotten a canned response from Goodreads saying the same. but 38 books would go back months, so those end/review dates would all be within 2025. appreciate your taking the time to comment!