Books of 2025

Well it’s that time to set up a ‘What I’ve Read This Year’ page, this is where I keep track of my reading target (which is always 52) and make a list that includes links to the reviews.

I am sort of using StoryGraph to track owned and read books, but I still like this page as it is so satisfying.

This year sees me going on a more horror/folklore oriented kick, so slasher, fungal, ghost stories, mythology, witchy things, and much more – both fiction and non-fiction and for all age groups.

As always I don’t review three star reads or below.

1. Outsider Art (26/03/25) ★★★☆☆
2. The Lost Sunday (23/03/25) ★★★★★
3. The Hotel (23/02/25) ★★★★★
4. Shadowlands (23/03/05) ★★★☆☆
5. Cloud Boy (22/03/25) ★★★★☆
6. The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting (22/03/25) ★★★☆☆
7. Where Did She Go? (20/03/25) ★★★★☆
8. Buzz Sausage Wolf (20/03/25) ★★★★☆
9. The Godfathers of Horror Films (18/03/25) ★★★★☆
10. Incidents Around The House (17/03/25) ★☆☆☆☆
11. Serial Chillers: The Witch in the Wood (16/03/25) ★★★★★
12. Uprooted (13/03/25) ★★☆☆☆
13. Herbal Chronicles (12/03/25) ★★★★☆
14. The Salt Grows Heavy (11/03/25) ★★★★★
15. The Butcher of the Forest (09/03/25) ★★★★☆
16. Idle Grounds (06/03/25) ★★☆☆☆
17. This Place Kills Me (05/03/25) ★★★★☆
18. Strange Tales From Japan (05/03/25) ★★★★☆
19. It Came From The Multiplex (03/03/25) ★★★★★
20. Snails of the Unexpected (01/03/25) ★★★★☆
21. They Bloom at Night (01/03/25) ★★★☆☆
22. Grumpfort (28/02/25) ★★★★☆
23. Aliens Love Underpants (27/02/25) ★★★★☆
24. The Biggest Breakfast (27/02/25) ★★★★☆
25. Faithbreaker (26/02/25) ★★★★★
26. The Many Hauntings of the Manning Family (9/02/25) ★★★★☆
27. I Know What UFO Did Last Summer (16/02/25) ★★★★☆
28. After (12/02/25) ★★★★☆
29. Monsterland (12/02/25) ★★★★★
30. The Invitation (11/02/25) ★★★☆☆
31. The Freak (11/02/25) ★★★☆☆
32. The Green Kingdom (07/02/25) ★★★☆☆
33. How to Be Avant-Garde (06/02/25) ★★★★☆
34. Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs (04/02/25) ★★★★☆
35. Scuttler’s Cove (31/01/25) ★★★★☆
36. The Power of Words (31/01/25) ★★★☆☆
37. Wild Card (22/01/25) ★★★★☆
38. Withered Hill (22/01/25) ★★★★★
39. Epitaphs from the Abyss (18/01/25) ★★★★★
40. Man’s War Against Nature (17/01/25) ★★★☆☆
41. The Democracy of Species (13/01/25) ★★★☆☆
42. Tales From the Folly (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
43. Stray Cat Blues (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
44. Here Be Dragons (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
45. Deadly Ever After (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
46. Monday, Monday (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
47. Amongst Our Weapons (11/01/25) ★★★★★
48. False Value (08/01/25) ★★★★☆
49. Joker: DC Compact Comics Edition (07/01/25) ★★★☆☆
50. The Casebook of Carnacki The Ghost Finder (06/01/25) ★★★☆☆
51. The October Man (04/01/25) ★★★★☆
52. Sick Houses (03/01/25) ★★★★☆
53. Nothing But Blackened Teeth (02/01/25) ★★★★☆

So let’s make a stab at building an early TBR though knowing me I’ll probably ignore it anyway 😉

1. They Bloom at Night – Trang Thanh Tran
2. Scuttler’s Cove – David Barnett
3. Idle Grounds – Krystelle Bamford
4. The Lamb – Lucy Rose
5. Wake Up and Open Your Eyes – Clay McLeod Chapman
6. Black Brane by Michael Cisco
7. 8114 by Joshua Hull
8. The Cat Bride by Nicholas Jubber
9. Sick Houses by Leila Taylor
10. A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill
11. The Long Nights by Tom Mock
12. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
13. Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning
14. The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
15. The Books of Blood 1-3 by Clive Barker
16. Crab Attack by Michael Cole
17. Withered Hill by David Barnett
18. Rouge by Mona Awad
19. The Creeper by AM Shine
20. Unquiet Spirits edited by Lee Murray
21. Fellstones by Ramsay Campbell
22. The Searching Dead by Ramsay Campbell
23. We Ate the Dark by Mallory Pearson
24. The Night House by Jo Nesbo
25. Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
26. Ghost Story by Peter Straub
27. Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker