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My Favorite Books Read in 2025
TOP TEN IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER EXCEPT #1 FAVORITE:
FAVORITE BOOK: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter – Stephen Graham Jones
And One Day We Will Die – Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel – Edited by Patrick Barb
Moonflow – Bitter Karella
The Essential Bukowski – Charles Bukowski
The Tainted Cup – Robert Jackson Bennett
Night’s Master – Tanith Lee (Re-read from my 20s)
Mask of the Deer Woman – Laurie L. Dove
The Lady and Her Monsters – Roseanne Montillo
King of Ashes – S. A. Cosby
Eaters of the Dead – Michael Chricton
All of the Other Books Read in 2025 with Review Links
Ham on Rye –Charles Bukowski
Lost Souls (re-read) – Poppy Z. Brite (Billy Martin)
Star Quest: Now You See Me – Patricia Lee Macomber(ARC – Not Yet Available)
Plastic Jesus – Poppy Z. Brite
Twice as Dead – Harry Turtledove
Cleave the Sparrow – Jonathan Katz
The El: A Novel – Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
The Works of Vermin – Hiron Ennes
Veil – Jonthan Janz
Old Man’s War – John Scalzi
Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners – Edited by Doug Muran & Michael Bailey
The Good, The Dad, and the Punny – Logan Lisle
Backyard Starship – J. N. Chaney
The Queen of Saturn and the Prince in Exile – Erick Nunnally
Horror Movie: A Novel – Paul Tremblay
Never Flinch – Stephen King
Watching Evil Dead: Unearthing the Radiant Artist Within – Josh Malerman
Forgotten Bones: Whitby’s Forgotten Victims Book 1 – Wes Markin
Lone Women – Victor Lavalle
Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities – Kevin Jackson
Dreams in Black Static (Collection) – Ambrose Ibsen
Dewey the Library Cat: A True Story – Vicki Myron
When The Moon Hits Your Eye – John Scalzi
The Blanks – Grady Hendrix
Jackknife – Joe Hill
The Indigo Room – Stephen Graham Jones
The Little Sleep – Paul Tremblay
Letter Slot – Owen King
Dark Spores – Edited by Carol Gyzander
The Haunting of Velkwood – Gwendolyn Kiste
The Universe in Verse – Maria Popova
The Listener – Robert McCammon
The Hidden Lives of Owls – Leigh Calvez
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls – Grady Hendrix
Zombie – A Love Story – Patricia Lee Macomber
2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush – Edited by Kevin J. Anderson & John McFetridge
What I’m Reading
Currently reading: On Kindle, Blood of the Witness Tree by J. C. Vande Zande – picked it up from a post on Bluesky, just so you know that some of us actually buy and read one another’s books. About 20% in and enjoying this one.
Listening to the audiobook of Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker. Not far enough in to say anything other than it is immediately nothing like my mind sort of pictured it, and in a good way.
What I’m Watching
Watched and enjoyed the final season of Stranger Things and we loved finale was a great wrap-up. Will miss that one, but glad they didn’t push it to a point where sharks were jumped. Finished the season of Pluribus. Watched several truly forgettable horror movies, and also BUGONIA with Emma Stone which was… a lot.
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