All The Right Reads

Hi, friends. 

Tabatha, one of our founders and our most prolific review poster, regularly updates her reading stats over on her personal blog. Or, at least, she has in previous years. This year we thought it might be fun to move her content HERE so you can all see her reading stats. 

What do you need to know?

1. She reads A LOT. She typically takes on 2-3 reviews or ARCS for us each month but that’s only a fraction of what she reads. 
2. She reads EVERYTHING. Seriously. There are genres she’ll flock to more easily when left to her own devices (thrillers) but she’ll read anything! 
3. She reviews everything she reads. You may have noticed that. 
4. She doesn’t think reading is a competition, she just likes statistics and likes looking at what she’s read. This isn’t intended to make you feel bad, it’s just for your information!
5. If you see something you’re curious about, ASK. Someone will dig into the stats and see if we can find you an answer. 

So, with that all out of the way, let’s dig into June. 

Here are the books Tab read during the month of June.

• 12 total books
• 4,248 total pages
• 33% independently published

She knows this is what she read because she tracks each one in a little journal. We’ll throw those pages at the end of this post, just for fun!

What genres are those?

As you’ve likely noticed in 2026, Tab does dabble in a lot of genres. But she tends to flock back to mystery/thriller, as she did this month. 

What age categories?

No graph for this one this month. Why? Because 100% of the books Tab read in June were written for adult audiences. 

Where does she get all her books?

We love a good free book around here and we are HUGE fans of the library. So it makes total sense that the library keeps taking such a large portion of Tab’s graph for this question. Again, the library comes out on top. 

The review copies all came directly from the authors again this month. The ARC came from the publisher and Netgalley. One purchase was from our favorite local bookstore, the other two were purchased directly from the author at Fan Fusion this year. 

What format does she read?

Everything. This pie chart fluctuates a lot from month to month. This month she was literally HALF audiobook, which is unusual for her. She blames that on the fact that those two purchased at Fan Fusion were actually audio. 

STAR RATINGS:

• 0 1-star books. That makes sense because this is RARE for us. At alltherightreads we say a book has to be one we cannot recommend to get this rating. 
• 0 2-star books. These are books that were problematic, for some reason. The full reviews would lay out why. We usually say something about these had to rub us the wrong way. 
• 4 3-star books. This is probably our most common rating. For us, these books are GOOD but they’re NICHE for some reason. Before we could recommend them to you, we’d have to find out if you’re in that niche. Sometimes it’s because of content warnings, sometimes it’s because they’re just for a really specific reader. If you happen to be in this niche, however, these could be your absolute favorite books!
• 7 4-star books. These are books that we’d recommend just based on the fact that you say you read this genre. They’re just GREAT examples of their genre. For Tab this month those were:
  • I Repeat Myself by Natalia Shafa, a speculative science fiction. 
  • The Keeper by Tana French, a slow moving mystery/thriller
  • Our Marriage is Murder by Carol Goodman, a cozy mystery/thriller
  • James by Percival Everett, a historical fiction reimagining of a classic
  • My Friends by Fredrik Backman, a contemporary story about found family
  • Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney, a shocking mystery/thriller
  • Reluctant by Kendrai Meeks, the first in a paranormal fantasy series
• 1 5-star book. These books are ones that CROSS GENRES. We’d recommend them to almost any reader but definitely to readers of at least 2 genres. Crossing genres can be difficult for any author because you have to do both well. For Tab in June that one was:
  • A Killer Kind of Romance by Letizia Lorini. This one blends beautiful characters, an adorable romance, and a solid mystery. You’ll appreciate the clues speckled along the way and get to a satisfying conclusion. 

As promised, here are her crazy journal pages. 

TLDR: Tab read 12 books for a total of 4,248 pages in June.

So, that’s Tab’s June Reads wrap! What kind of stuff would you like to see next month? Let us know in the comments.