My Goodreads Year in Books – Did They Get It Wrong? Again?

Goodreads Year in Books 2025

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.

 

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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

Have you set your 2026 Challenges?
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