kebabette's
2025
Reading Wrap-Up

kebabette finished reading 107 books, across 30,857 pages!

First book
Uncommon People by Miranda Sawyer

Uncommon People
Last book
The breath of the gods by Simon Winchester

The breath of the gods

kebabette's 2025 StoryGraph

A mood map of kebabette's reading

Lighter books push the line up and darker books pull the line down

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kebabette lingered over quieter, thoughtful moments, soaked up fascinating insights, and wandered through tales tinged with shadow.

A steady rhythm of stories kept the year moving along nicely.

Books and pages read per month in 2025

Line chart showing books and pages read each month in 2025. The data for books read per year are as follows: January - 11 books, February - 3 books, March - 9 books, April - 12 books, May - 8 books, June - 7 books, July - 9 books, August - 10 books, September - 11 books, October - 10 books, November - 7 books, December - 10 books. The data for pages read per year are as follows: January - 2856 pages, February - 1809 pages, March - 2938 pages, April - 3496 pages, May - 2266 pages, June - 2173 pages, July - 2447 pages, August - 2297 pages, September - 2599 pages, October - 3041 pages, November - 1867 pages, December - 3068 pages.
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The genres kebabette spent the most time with in 2025

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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

Longest book
32h 51m
Shortest book
32 pages
Slices of heaven : uniquely Kiwi comics about Aotearoa by Daniel Vernon (yeehawtheboys)

Slices of heaven : uniquely Kiwi comics about Aotearoa

Daniel Vernon (yeehawtheboys)

The average length of the books kebabette read was 293 pages and it took her around 11 days to finish each book!

A-Z Great Film Directors by Andy Tuohy

A-Z Great Film Directors

Andy Tuohy

Least time spent
1 day
Most time spent
188 days
Introducing Te Tiriti O Waitangi by Jared Davidson

Introducing Te Tiriti O Waitangi

Jared Davidson

The authors kebabette spent the most time with in 2025

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2025's average rating was...

4.05

kebabette sure knows how to pick them!

2025 5reads

Exalted by Anna Dorn
Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst
Room to Dream by David Lynch
The Science of Racism: Everything You Need to Know But Probably Don't – Yet by Keon West
The Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale
The CIA Book Club by Charlie English
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold
Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson
Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors by Kent Monkman
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The breath of the gods by Simon Winchester

kebabette's 2025 ratings

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Some months were better than others...

February

Highest average rating
4.33

Turns out August wasn't kebabette's favorite month, with an average rating of 3.8.

April

Most pages read
3496 pages

Other StoryGraph users and kebabette's 2025 reads

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

Most shelved
466,973 users
kebabette's rating: 4.5
Ghosts on every corner by Reuben Woods, Ghostcat

Ghosts on every corner

Reuben Woods, Ghostcat

Least shelved
1 user
kebabette's rating: 4.0
Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors by Kent Monkman

Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors

Kent Monkman

Highest rated
4.86
kebabette's rating: 5.0

kebabette explored the works of 113 new authors, including Bob Woodward, Michael Clune, and Astrid Dahl!

Pan by Michael Clune
The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

4 of the books kebabette read were part of a series.

It was only new stories and ideas for kebabette this year. No rereads!

Joan Collins by John Kercher
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown

kebabette finished all of the books she picked up this year — no DNFs!

kebabette read 5 books from her own shelves this year!

Sex and the City 2: The Stories. the Fashion. the Adventure. by Eric Cyphers

2025 at a glance

Uncommon People by Miranda Sawyer
War by Bob Woodward
A New Zealand Diary: Living in Lyttelton by Alex Hallatt
A New Zealand Diary: Living in Lyttelton
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Alex Hallatt
A Thousand Threads: A Memoir by Neneh Cherry
Exalted by Anna Dorn
Cloudspotting for Beginners by William Grill, Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Slices of heaven : uniquely Kiwi comics about Aotearoa by Daniel Vernon (yeehawtheboys)
Sonny Boy by Al Pacino
Seventies Glamour by David Wills
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Room to Dream by David Lynch
The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey by Astrid Dahl
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik
Black Beech and Honeydew by Ngaio Marsh
She's Always Hungry by Eliza Clark
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science by Dava Sobel
The Science of Racism: Everything You Need to Know But Probably Don't – Yet by Keon West
Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
A-Z Great Film Directors by Andy Tuohy
I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
Crush by Tegan Quin, Sara Quin
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift by Sabina Jaskot-Gill
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift
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Sabina Jaskot-Gill
Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
Central Otago Couture: The Eden Hore Collection by Jane Malthus
A Song For You And I by K. O'Neill
The Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale
Violet and the Velvets #1: The Case of the Missing Stuff by Rachael King
Want by Gillian Anderson
Send Nudes by Saba Sams
Freaks Out!: Righteous Rock N Roll and the Rise and Fall of the Freaks by Luke Haines
Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life by Philipp Kaiser, Cindy Sherman, Sophia Coppola, Joanne Heyler
The Art of the SNL Portrait by Mary Ellen Matthews
Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp
Delirious by Damien Wilkins
Poorhara by Michelle Rahurahu
The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey
Soft Core by Brittany Newell
The CIA Book Club by Charlie English
Carrion Crow by Heather Parry
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern
Thirst Trap by Gráinne O'Hare
This Compulsion in Us by Tina Makereti
Ghosts on every corner by Reuben Woods, Ghostcat
Joan Collins by John Kercher
All The Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman
We Do Not Part by Han Kang
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold
Eyeliner's Buy Now by Jon Stratton, Jon Dale
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen
No Words for This by Ali Mau
Saga, Vol. 12 by Brian K. Vaughan
The Cat Operator's Manual: Getting the Most from Your New Cuddle Unit by Queen Olivia III
Spent by Alison Bechdel
Polkinghorne by Steve Braunias
Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth
Base Notes: The Scents of a Life by Adelle Stripe
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Sex and the City 2: The Stories. the Fashion. the Adventure. by Eric Cyphers
Rytual by Chloe Elisabeth Wilson
Say Everything: A Memoir by Ione Skye
Flesh by David Szalay
Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson
Introducing Te Tiriti O Waitangi by Jared Davidson
Love Languages by James Albon
You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model by Sarah Hartshorne
Universality by Natasha Brown
Speaking my language = Te kōrero i tōku reo by Mike McRoberts
Megan Hess: Perfume by Megan Hess
Anything Could Happen by Grant Robertson
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder by Rachel McCarthy James
Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors by Kent Monkman
Pan by Michael Clune
Mum's Busy Work by Jacinda Ardern
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie
Gunk by Saba Sams
107 Days by Kamala Harris
The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
10,000 Ink Stains: A Memoir by Jeff Lemire
Ripeness by Sarah Moss
Ghostlore: 50 Chilling Tales of Ghosts, Spirits, and Spectres from Around the World - from Poltergeists to Banshees by Icy Sedgwick
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style by Monica L. Miller
Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes by Laci Mosley
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
David Lynch: His Work, His World by Tom Huddleston
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown
Vagabond: A Memoir by Tim Curry
The Fashion of Clueless by Mona May
All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles
The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations about a Triple Murder Trial by Chloe Hooper, Sarah Krasnostein, Helen Garner
Gwyneth: The Biography by Amy Odell
The breath of the gods by Simon Winchester

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