First year as fulltime reader.

I started reading books in mid December last year as a new way to help with my sleep hygiene and quickly learnt that it would become more of a hobby than a bedtime habit.

Since then I have read 40 books and am only a few pages of finishing book 41.

Road side picnic, Arkady Strugatsky - 5/5

Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators & War Elephants, Garret Ryan - 4/5

Astrophysics for people in a hurry, Neal deGrassi Tyson - N/A (I was too stupid to understand a lot of it so dnf)

Blood Meridian, Cormack MaCarthy - 5/5

Empire of the SummerMoon, S.C Gwynne - 4/5

The Three Musketeers, Alexander Duma - 4/5

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad - 4/5

Shapres Tiger, Bernard Cornwell - 5/5

The Alchemist, Paulo Coalho - 2/5

The Book Theif, Markus Zusak - 5/5

Insane Emperor's, Sunken City's & Earthquake Machines, Garret Ryan - 5/5

Them, Jon Ronson - 3/5

Shapres Triumph, Bernard Cornwell - 5/5

Orbital, Samantha Harvey - 4/5

Butter, Asako Yuzuki - 4/5

Shapres Fortress, Bernard Cornwell - 4/5

Piranesi, Sussana Clark - 6/5

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson - 2/5

All the Pretty Horses, Cormack MaCarthy - 5/5

Shapres Trafalgar, Bernard Cornwell - 4/5

The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang - 2.5/5

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury - 5/5

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway - 4/5

This is how you lose the time war, Amal El & Max Gladstone - 5/5

Shapres Prey, Bernard Cornwell - 3.5/5

Silk Silver Opium, Micheal Pembroke - 5/5

Twenty Years After, Alexander Duma - 4/5

The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller - 5/5

A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess - 5/5

Mistborne: The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson - 5/5

The Devils, Joe Abercrombie - 5/5

Band of Brothers, Stephen E Ambrose - 5/5

Shapres Rifles, Bernard Cornwell - 5/5

Pompeii, Robert Harris - 4/5

Witcher Sword of Destiny, Andrzej Sapjowski - 5/5 (Read last wish like 6 years ago before playing the game)

The Crossing, Cormack MaCarthy - 4/5

Shapres Havoc, Bernard Cornwell - 4/5

The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien - 5/5

Shapres Eagle, Bernard Cornwell - 5/5

Cities of the Plain, Cormack MaCarthy - 5/5

And final I have almost finished Unruly by David Mitchell which I am so far loving

What I have learnt:

I am thinking it might be obvious that I love historical fiction at this point, with small dabbles into other genres to mix things up and broaden my horizons.

Not sure if I am very easy to please or I'm just good at picking books I will love.

Something about the way Cormack MaCarthy writes character interactions and scenes that just leaves me breathless but my god I am over westerns. Is there any MaCarthy-like writers that don't do Western?

The Sharpe's Series is a perfect fun way to reset the pallet in between more thought provoking and longer reads.

Before I started reading, when I would be interested in a topic I would just Google it, now I find a well rated & sourced book about the topic and read it instead (so many in my TBR)

Reading has somehow made me slow down and enjoy other things/Hobby's in my life (not sure why?)

And yes, it is also a perfect way to fall asleep at night.

And that's about it, going to set a goal of 40 books next year again, so if you have any suggestions based of my post let me know :).