Audely Bensen Writes

For most of 2024, I felt like I was barely reading at all, so I was surprised when I finally tallied up my reading to find that I'd beat last year's total (my personal reading record) by 2 books. I read 110 books in 2024. What I read was largely on par with past years, with a few exceptions.  Romance . I read 25 percent more romance this year compared to last year (which actually brought me back in line with the amount of romance I read in 2023). That being said, I mostly read older books (tackling much of Loretta Chase, K.J. Charles, and Talia Hibbert's backlogs). There weren't a ton of recently published romances that really grabbed my attention or pulled at my heartstrings this year.  Non-fiction. I read 35 percent less non-fiction than I did last year, since I wasn't actively researching for novel-drafting purposes. This year I've already got a ton of interesting non-fiction on my plate, so I'm hoping to increase the share of my reading that is non-fic...