Reading

What I read, how much of it, and who I keep going back to. Pulled nightly from my Goodreads shelf.

569 Books read
195k+ Pages
4.2★ Avg rating
248 Five-star reads
Most read authors
01 Lee Child 30 books · 11k pages
02 Patricia Highsmith 22 books · 6k pages
03 Lemony Snicket 20 books · 5k pages
04 Derek Landy 13 books · 6k pages
05 Brian McGilloway 12 books · 4k pages
06 Gregg Hurwitz 12 books · 5k pages
07 Robin Stevens 12 books · 4k pages
08 Steve Cavanagh 12 books · 5k pages
09 Sue Townsend 11 books · 3k pages
10 Claire Allan 8 books · 3k pages
11 J.K. Rowling 8 books · 4k pages
12 Douglas Adams 7 books · 2k pages
Favourite authors

weighted score — one point per book read, two more per five-star

01 Lemony Snicket 18×5★ · 20 books · 4.85 avg
02 Lee Child 11×5★ · 30 books · 4.23 avg
03 Patricia Highsmith 11×5★ · 22 books · 4.41 avg
04 Brian McGilloway 12×5★ · 12 books · 5.0 avg
05 Steve Cavanagh 12×5★ · 12 books · 5.0 avg
06 Robin Stevens 8×5★ · 12 books · 4.58 avg
07 Sue Townsend 8×5★ · 11 books · 4.64 avg
08 Douglas Adams 7×5★ · 7 books · 5.0 avg
09 Derek Landy 4×5★ · 13 books · 4.15 avg
10 Claire Allan 6×5★ · 8 books · 4.62 avg
11 J.K. Rowling 6×5★ · 8 books · 4.62 avg
12 Liz Nugent 5×5★ · 6 books · 4.83 avg
Recent five-star reads
One of Us Is Guilty Steve Cavanagh · 2026 The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith · 2026 One Yellow Eye Leigh Radford · 2026 The Secret History Donna Tartt · 2026 The Truth About Ruby Cooper Liz Nugent · 2026 Jumper Steven Gould · 2026 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas · 2026 Prestige Drama Séamas O'Reilly · 2026 Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company Patrick McGee · 2026 Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2025 See everything on Goodreads ›
The numbers
books per year
pages per book, over time · hover a point · drag to zoom · double-click to reset
how I rate — 568 rated books
page-count distribution

avg 352pp · longest: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (2184pp) · shortest: Without Fail (14pp)