Gillian H

@gillyreads.com

1530 Followers 246 Following

I like yelling about books. Living on muwinina country She/Her https://www.gillyreads.com/links/

Infographic: heading reads The StoryGraph Wrap-Up 2025 @gillyreads, there a four book covers across the top indicating first read (Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright), last read (Melaleuca by Angie Faye Martin), longest read (Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright) and shortest read (Spider-Ham: Hollywood Mayhem). Underneath there are three boxes showing thé stats 130 books, 37,837 pages and 16.7 hours. A bar graph depicting top read genres: romance (60 books), contemporary (35 books), historical (28 books), fantasy (18 books) and middle grade (11 books). Top read authors are Sarah MacLean, Joanna Lowell, India Holton.
A info graphic titled “@gillyreads December 2025 monthly wrap-up”. Two coloured boxes across the top show the stats 7 books and 1,963 pages. There are three book covers showing first, middle and last read. The Last Page by Katie Holt, Wormwood Mire by Judith Rossell and Melaleuca by Angie Faye Martin. It states the average book length was 308 pages and average time to finish 38 days. A pie graph shows 86% fiction and 14% non-fiction. A bar graph shows the most read genre is romance (3 books), followed by fantasy (1 books), contemporary (2 books), feminism (1 book) and middle grade (1 book). Compared to November books up 133% and pages up 192%. There is a graph that shows how many pages were read/listened to each day in November. And a pie graph that shows 86% print and 14% digital.
A stack of books on a wooden shelf: Melaleuca by Angie Faye Martin, The Friendship Fling by Georgia Stone, Wormwood Mire by Judith Rossell and Unbranded by Herb Wharton
A info graphic titled “@gillyreads November 2025 monthly wrap-up”. Two coloured boxes across the top show the stats 3 books and 672 pages. There are three book covers showing first, middle and last read. Chocolate Porridge and Other Stories by Margaret Mahy, Cinder House by Freya Marske and Seven Brides For Beau McBride. It states the average book length was 224 pages and average time to finish 1 days. A pie graph shows 100% fiction. A bar graph shows the most read genre is fantasy (1 book), followed by historical (1 book), romance (1 book), LGBTQIA+ (1 book) and children (1 book). Compared to October books up 100% and pages up 100%. There is a graph that shows how many pages were read to each day in November. And a pie graph that shows 100% print.
Small stack of books on a wooden shelf: Chocolate Porridge and Other Storied by Margaret Mahy, Seven Brides for Beau McBride by Amy Barry and Cinder House by Freya Marske
A info graphic titled “@gillyreads September 2025 monthly wrap-up”. Two coloured boxes across the top show the stats 8 books and 2,042 pages. There are three book covers showing first, middle and last read. These are Don’t Take Your Love To Town by Ruby Langford Ginibi, Besties: Work It Out by Kayla Miller, Jeffrey Canino and Kristina Luu and The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love by India Holton. It states the average book length was 247 pages and average time to finish 4 days. A pie graph shows 88% fiction and 13% non-fiction. A bar graph shows the most read genre is graphic novel (4 books), followed by middle grade (4 books), romance (2 book), fantasy (2 book) and autobiography (1 book). Compared to August books down 62% and pages down 69%. There is a graph that shows how many pages were read each day in September. And a pie graph that shows 88% print and 13% digital
Stack of books on a wooden shelf, the books are The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love by India Holton, Biting Back by Vivienne Cleven, Don’t Take Your Love To Town by Ruby Langford Ginibi, Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd, Besties: Work It Out by Kayla Miller, Jeffrey Canino and Kristina Luu, Miles Morales: Shock Waves by Jason Reynolds and Pablo Leon, and Miles Morales: Stranger Tides by Jason Reynolds and Pablo Leon
Three books on a wooden table: Discipline by Randa Abdel-Fattah, Liar’s Test by Ambelin Kwaymullina and Translations by Jumaana Abdu
A info graphic titled “@gillyreads August 2025 monthly wrap-up”. Two coloured boxes across the top show the stats 21 books and 6,511 pages. There are three book covers showing first, middle and last read. These are Brightest Wild by Tania Crampton-Larking, The Wake-Up Call by Beth O’Leary, and Always Will Be by Mykaela Saunders. It states the average book length was 307 pages and average time to finish 16 days. A pie graph shows 90% fiction and 6% non-fiction. A bar graph shows the most read genre is romance (13 books), followed by contemporary(7 books), fantasy (6 book), comic (2 book). Compared to July books up 75% and pages up 49%. There is a graph that shows how many pages were read/listened to each day in July. And a pie graph that shows 95% print and 5% digital.
A stack of books on a wooden shelf. At the side the edge of a wooden box is visible with a bookmark poking out the top. The books are: Brightest Wild by Tania Crampton-Larking Aboriginal Women By Degrees by MaryAnn Bin-Salik The Geographers’ Map to Romance by India Holton The Baby Dragon Cafe by A.T. Qureshi The Flat Share by Beth O’Leary The Switch by Beth O’Leary Set On You by Amy Lea A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell An Academic Affair by Jodie McAlister The Wake-Up Call by Beth O’Leary Just Our Luck by Denise Williams The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton The League of Gentlewomen Witches by India Holton The Secret Service of Tea and Treason by India Holton Spider-Ham: Great Power, No Responsibility by Steve Foxe Spider-Ham: Hollywood May-Ham! by Steve Foxe Dancing Home by Paul Collis Marrying Off Morgan McBride by Amy Barry The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Always Will Be by Mykaela Saunders
A info graphic titled “@gillyreads July 2025 monthly wrap-up”. Two coloured boxes across the top show the stats 12 books and 4,360 pages. There are three book covers showing first, middle and last read. These are The Burrow by Melanie Cheng, What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn Solomon, and Daring and the Duke by Sarah MacLean. It states the average book length was 344 pages and average time to finish 1 day. A pie graph shows 100% fiction. A bar graph shows the most read genre is romance (11 books), followed by historical (8 books), literary (1 book), contemporary (1 book). Compared to June books down 29% and pages down 25%. There is a graph that shows how many pages were read each day in July. And a pie graph that shows 83% print and 17% digital.
A stack of books on a wooden shelf. The books are: Daring and the Duke ~ Sarah MacLean Weather Girl ~ Rachel Lynn Solomon Earl Crush ~ Alexandra Vasti Ne’er Duke Well ~ Alexandra Vasti What Happens in Amsterdam ~ Rachel Lynn Solomon Bombshell ~ Sarah MacLean Heartbreaker ~ Sarah MacLean Knockout ~ Sarah MacLean Eat Your Heart Out ~ Victoria Brownlee The Burrow ~ Melanie Cheng
A info graphic titled “@gillyreads June 2025 monthly wrap-up”. Two coloured boxes across the top show the stats 17 books and 5,849 pages. There are three book covers showing first, middle and last read. These are The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin by Alison Goodman, Mazin Grace by Dylan Coleman and The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochran. It states the average book length was 363 pages and average time to finish 3 days. A pie graph shows 94% fiction and 6% non-fiction. A bar graph shows the most read genre is romance (9 books), followed by contemporary (7 books), fantasy (2 books), historical (2 books) and mystery (2 books). Compared to May books down 6% and pages up 15%. There is a graph that shows how many pages were read/listened to each day in June. And a pie graph that shows 82% print, 12% digital and 6% audio.
A stack of 12 books on a wooden shelf. The books are Broken Dreams by Bill Dodd, Blood by Tony Birch, Mazin Grace by Dylan Coleman, Washpool by Lisa Fuller, Silverborn by Jessica Townsend, Into The Fairy Realm by Samantha Ellen Bound, Aster’s Next Good Thing by Kate Gordon, Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston, The Perfect Find by Tia Williams, The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochran, Those Who Perish by Emma Viskic, and The Last Love Note by Emma Grey.
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The cover shows an illustration of a set with two spotlights meeting in the middle. In the background is a row of silhouettes of women. In the front are two people. A white man standing in a suit and one brown man casually dressed, with a headset and clipboard. The text reads “The Charm Offensive. Alison Cochrun.”
A digital book cover. The background is half peach coloured and half pink. There is an illustration of a man and woman sitting together, the man has on headphones, the woman is listening on a phone. Behind them is a sign reading ‘on air.’ The text reads “First-Time Caller. B.K. Borison.”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The cover is pink with two Aboriginal girls looking to the side, with illustrated colourful leaves and flowers along the bottom. The text reads “Washpool. Lisa Fuller.” There is a black sticker in the top corner that says “black & write! fellowship writer”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The book is bright pink and the cover is mostly taken up with white text that has yellow and navy blue drop shadows. It reads “Sounds Like Love.” Along the top reads the text “Ashley Poston.” Across the bottom is a silhouette of two people dancing, a stave with music notations wraps around them.
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The book has an orange cover with a white circle in the centre. In the circle is a pattern of black lines with white dashes that look like a road. The text reads “First Nations Classics. Blood. Tony Birch. Introduction by Larissa Behrendt.”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The book has a grey-brown cover with a white circle in the centre. In the circle is a pattern of red Akubra hats. The text reads “First Nations Classics. Broken Dreams. Bill Dodd. Introduction by Gayle Kennedy.”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The book cover has an illustration of a dragon breathing fire above a city street. The sky is dar blue. Fireworks are in the background. Standing on the street is a girl with dark hair, wearing a black coat over a red dress. She is loving fiercely up at the dragon. The text reads “Jessica Townsend. Silverborn. The Mystery of Morrigan Crow. The fourth book in the Nevermoor series.”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The cover is a photo of a cloudy sky, with birds flying along the bottom. The text reads “Emma Viskic. Those Who Perish.”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The book has a purple cover with a white circle in the centre. In the circle is a pattern of orange butterflies. The text reads “First Nations Classics. Mazin Grace. Dylan Coleman. Introduction by Claire G Coleman.”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The cover is an illustration of a pink sky with a hint of green. Along the bottom is a black silhouette of a car with suitcases strapped to the top, driving over a bridge. The text reads “The Last Love Note. Emma Grey.”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The cover is yellow, and has a photo of a black woman looking at a bridge. Her back is to the reader. The text reads “Tia Williams. The Perfect Find.”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The cover is purple, with silver text and a circle in the middle. On either side of the circle is an illustrated person. One side is an adult in a red robe, the other is a younger girl. They are looking at each other. The circle is silver and show an outline of a ramshackle looking house with a garden. The text along the top reads “Seven Wherewithal Way.” Smaller text around the circle reads “into the faerie realm” and the text below reads “Samantha Ellen Bound”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The cover is varying shades of blue with an illustrated silhouette of a tree with an adult swinging a baby into the air while an older child stands a little apart. The text reads “Aster’s Next, Good Thing. Kate Gordon.”
A digital book cover. It shows a black woman with natural hair, looking over her shoulder. The background is fades from pink into yellow. The bottom counter shows some pink flowers, around which are some orange line illustrations of flowers and butterflies. The text reads “Kennedy Ryan. This Could Be Us.”
A digital book cover. The background illustration which shows the sun peaking out from behind some mountains. The sky is yellow, there is water in the front, with two boats. Each boat has a person, one with a man rowing and the other with a woman reading. The text reads “Book Lovers. Emily Henry.”
A digital book cover. The background illustration shows a couple sitting on a pontoon in a body of water. Two other people are jumping into the water. The sky is pink, and along the waterline there are bushes and a building. The text reads “Happy Place. Emily Henry.”
A digital book cover. The background colour is cream. The illustration is of two ladies in pink and purple regency dress sitting in a curricle. The text reads “Alison Goodman. the Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin. An Ill-Mannered Ladies Novel.”
A info graphic titled “@gillyreads May 2025 monthly wrap-up”. Two coloured boxes across the top show the stats 18 books and 5,085 pages. There are three book covers showing first, middle and last read. These are Funny Story by Emily Henry, Deep End by Ali Hazelwood and Black Convicts by Santilla Chingaipe. It states the average book length was 293 pages and average time to finish 10 days. A pie graph shows 89% fiction and 11% non-fiction. A bar graph shows the most read genre is romance (9 books), followed by contemporary (5 books), comics (4 books), historical (4 books) and poetry (2 books). Compared to April books up 290% and pages up 245%. There is a graph that shows how many pages were read/listened to each day in February. And a pie graph that shows 83% print and 17% digital.
a stack of books on a wooden shelf. The books are: Beg, Borrow or Steal by Sarah Adams, Lakeshire Park by Megan Walker, Theory & Practice by Michelle de Krester, Captain Marvel 2: The Undone by Alyssa Wong, Ms Marvel: The New Mutant by Iman Vellani, Spider-Woman 2: The Assembly by Steve Fox, Deep End ~ Ali Hazelwood, The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr and illustrated by Safdar Ahmed, Plains of Promise by Alexis Wright, Stuff I’m (Not) Sorry For by Maxine Beneba Clarke, Seven Days in June by Tia Williams, Unbury the Dead by Fiona Hardy, Kit McBride Gets a Wife by Amy Barry, Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry, and Black Convicts by Santilla Chingaipe
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The cover is black with white text. Across the the cover are lines grey text that can’t be read in the photo, these are names. The shape of the australian continent and tasmania is in the middle. The readable text says “on the first fleet at least 15 convicts were of African descent. 500 more followed. Who were they?” Across the top. In the middle it says “Black Convicts: How slavery shaped Australia.” Across the bottom “Santilla Chingaipe”
A digital book cover. The background illustration is a detailed picture of a beach, the Brighton Pavilion is in the background at the top. The illustration includes people sitting on the beach, sea bathing, a person painting on the beach and someone riding a horse. The text reads “Manic Pixie Dream Earl. Jenny Holiday.”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The cover is an illustration of two people sitting on a beach, with a red and orange sky and pink blue water. The text reads “Great Big Beautiful Life. Emily Henry.”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The cover is pink, has an illustration of mountains, with pine trees and a wood cabin in the background. There is an illustration of a couple on a horse in old fashioned clothes. The man is throwing a rope, which turns into the first part of the text “Kit McBride” the rest of the text reads “Gets a Wife. Amy Barry.”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The cover has a background image of a car driving down a road in the dark, a hint of sun on the horizon. The text reads “They messed with the wrong women. Unbury The Dead. Fiona Hardy.”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The cover is light blue, a black woman is leaning back again a black man, his arms around her, his chin on her shoulder. The text reads “Seven Days in June. Tia Williams” there is a Reese’s Book Club sticker in the corner.
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The cover has a red background with an illustration of a crumpled then spread out piece of lined paper, that looks like it has been torn out of an exercise book, crumbled and then spread out again. Along the top it says “100 more poems for young people” the 100 is crossed out and “99” is written next to it. The rest of the text reads “Stuff I’m (Not) Sorry For. Maxine Beneba Clarke.”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The book has an olive green cover with a white circle in the centre. In the circle is a pattern of purple seed pods. The text reads “First Nations Classics. Plains of Promise. Alexis Wright. Introduction by Mykaela Saunders.”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The top half of the cover shows a dark bluish drawing of a person seated with their head in the arms. The text across the bottom reads “The Nightmare Sequence. Omar Sakr & Safdar Ahmed. Introduction by George Abraham.”
A hand holding a purple book in front of a white walls. The cover is illustrated, the left bottom corner shows the edge of a swimming pool and the right bottom corner has two people’s arms coming out of the water, holding hands. The text reads “Ali Hazelwood. Deep End.”
A hand holding three comic trades. The front comic shows Ms Marvel on the front cover, the title reads ‘Ms Marvel: The New Mutant’. The side of the second comic cover is visible with the title reading “Spider-Woman” that is partly obscured. Only a small part of the last cover can be seen with text reading “CAP”
Screenshot of text highlighted in an online article. It says “I want to live in a world where health isn’t judged by size, where stepping into a doctor’s office doesn’t fill me with dread. A world where I can exist in my body without fear of being heckled on the street. Where I can walk into any store and find clothes made for me, not just for the bodies the world prefers. Where beauty isn’t a narrow standard but a spectrum—diverse, expansive, undeniable at every size. Where the next generation of women doesn’t have to unlearn the same shame I did.”
A hand holding a red book. The cover has a photo in the centre of a young brown woman standing on a street. The cover text reads “Michelle de Kretser. theory & practice”
A screenshot of showing the library holds listing for The Burrow by Melanie Cheng. It shows I am 33 in the queue.
A digital cover image with a bright illustration on the front of a woman in a pool in a blowup unicorn ring, looking at a man sitting on the edge. The text reads “You and Me on Vacation. Emily Henry”
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The cover image is a woman standing in front of a country estate in regency dress.
A hand holding a book in front of a white walls the book has a full illustration on the cover of two people on either side of a pink wall. The text reads “Sarah Adams. Beg, Borrow, or Steal”
Digital image of an illustrated book cover. The illustration is a couple sitting at a railing with pink sky in the background. Both holding drinks and laughingstock the text says “Funny Story. Emily Henry”
A info graphic titled “@gillyreads April 2025 monthly wrap-up”. Two coloured boxes across the top show the stats 5 books and 1,475 pages. There are three book covers showing first, middle and last read. These are Peripathetic by Cher Tan, The Off-Limit Rule by Sarah Adams and Earls Trip by Jenny Holiday. It states the average book length was 276 pages and average time to finish 7 days. A pie graph shows 60% fiction and 40% non-fiction. A bar graph shows the most read genre is romance (4 books), followed by contemporary(2 books), essay (2 book), historical (1 book) and politics (1 book). Compared to March books down 44% and pages down 47%. There is a graph that shows how many pages were read/listened to each day in February. And a pie graph that shows 80% print and 20% digital.
A stack of books on a wooden shelf. Books are The Enemy and The Off-Limit Rule by Sarah Adams, The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Peripathetic by Cher Tan
A digital image of a book cover. The cover is an illustration of a park with a castle up the top, trees and grass with yellow flowers and a path across the cover. At the bottom is a horse and carriage with three men inside and a coachman sitting up top. There is also a man and woman walking together and two women on a picnic blanket. The text reads “Earls Trip. Jenny Holiday”.
A hand holding two books in front of a white wall. The fury book is purple with an illustration of a brunette woman holding a hairdryer. The text reads “Sarah Adams. The Off-Limit Rule.” The second book is pink. There is a row of brightly coloured illustrated buildings across the top and two illustrated people. The text reads “Sarah Adams. The Enemy”
A hand holding a hardcover book in front of a white wall. The cover background is an image that looks like a peeling brown wall with scraps of poster and writing on it. The text reads “The Message. Ta-Nehisi Coates. Bestselling author of Between The World and Me.”
A book held against a white wall. The cover is black and white. Text reads “Peripathetic. Notes on (un)belonging. Cher Tan.”
A info graphic titled “@gillyreads March 2025 monthly wrap-up”. Two coloured boxes across the top show the stats 9 books and 2,798 pages. There are three book covers showing first, middle and last read. These are A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell, Artfully Yours by Joanna Lowell and Finding Eliza by Larissa Behrendt. It states the average book length was 294 pages and average time to finish 9 days. A pie graph shows 75% fiction and 25% non-fiction. A bar graph shows the most read genre is historical (4 books), followed by romance (4 books), fantasy (1 book), history (1 book) and memoir (1 book). Compared to February books up 13% and pages up 26%. There is a graph that shows how many pages were read/listened to each day in February. And a pie graph that shows 89% print and 11% digital.
A stack 9 books on a wooden shelf. The books are: The Duke Undone, The Runaway Dutchess, Artfully Yours and A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell, The Midwatch by Judith Rossell, Naag Mountain by Manisha Anjali, Cactus Pear For My Beloved by Samah Sabawi, Steam Pigs by Melissa Lucashenko and Finding Eliza by Larissa Behrendt
A hand holding a book in front of a white wall. The book has a navy blue cover with a white circle in the centre. In the circle is a pattern of yellow bonnets. The text reads “First Nations Classics. Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling. Larissa Behrendt. Introduction by Fiona Foley.”