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 July. 

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

• 12 total books
• 4,581 total pages
• 25% 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?

Mystery/Thriller continues to dominate 2026 although Fantasy made an interesting run at it this month. Also, a few surprise appearances from Romance. 

What age categories?

Surprising no one, including Tab, adult books continue to be at the top of the list. 

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. 

We can break this down even further for you. All of the blue section was borrowed from the library, instead of from another human. The red section includes 1 ARC copy from the publisher and Netgalley as well as 2 review copies from the authors (submitted through our website). The yellow section is equally split between books Tab purchased directly from the author at Fan Fusion this year and books Tab preordered from BN before they released.

What format does she read?

Everything. This pie chart fluctuates a lot from month to month. This month she was literally HALF audiobook for a second month in a row, which is unusual for her. She blames it on the fact that some of the audiobooks were a bit short this month. 

STAR RATINGS:

• 1 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. 
• 3 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. 
• 6 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!
• 1 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:
  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a GREAT example of speculative science fiction. This one revolves around time travel with a lot of rules … but that’s part of the fun!
• 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 July that one was:
  • Lightning in Her Hands which is also the second book in a series. Start with the first one to really appreciate this series! This series all centers around a group of really well written sisters who have magical abilities. They all have romance subplots, making them great for fantasy fans or romance fans.

As promised, here are her crazy journal pages. 

TLDR: Tab read 12 books for a total of 4581 pages in July.

So, that’s Tab’s July Reads wrap! How are you all doing on the yearly reading goal?