Category Archives: Books

Books to Read- November 2025

  • The Best New True Crime Stories – Mitzi Szereto
  • The Lessons of History – Will & Ariel Durant
  • When Women Rules the World – Kara Cooney
  • Surprised by Joy – CS Lewis
  • Deviant – Harold Schechter
  • The Demon Next Door – Bryan Burrough
  • The Perfect Kill – Robert B Baer
  • Road Trip Elegies: Montreal to New York – Rufus Wainwright
  • Ghost in the Wind – EJ Copperman
  • Night Magick – Suri Rosen

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Books Read – November 2025

Fiction

Hard Day’s Knight – Simon R Green

Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost – Donald Niedekker, Trans. Jonathan Reeder 

Short Stories

The Nightmare Box and Other Stories – Cynthia Gomez

Non- Fiction

How to manage Your Home without Losing Your Mind– Dana K White

Why I Hate Everything – Maggie Weber

This is Your Mind on Plants – Michael Pollan


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Books to Read- October 2025

  • Man with No Name – Laird Barron
  • Inside Jobs – Ben H Winters
  • The Girl with Ghost Eyes – M H Boroson
  • The Sense of Wonder – Rachel Carson
  • Hard Magic – Larry Correla
  • The Weight of Glory – CS Lewis
  • Twelve Slays of Christmas – Jacqueline Frost
  • Roughing It – Mark Twain
  • What I Talk About when I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
  • Black Dahlia Avenger – Steve Hodel

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Books Read – September & October 2025

Fiction

Pride in Prejudice– Jane Austen

Animal Farm – George Orwell

The Furthest Station – Ben Aaronovitch

Wolf in the Fold – Simon R Green

Sport for the Baron – John Creasey

The Last Days of New Paris – China Mieville

The Masquerades of Spring – Ben Aaronovitch

What Abigail Did That Summer – Ben Aaronovitch

Nettle & Bone – T. Kingfisher

The Specialists – Lawrence Block 

Forces From Beyond – Simon R Green

Design for Great-Day – Alan Dean Foster & Eric Frank Russel

Alchemy of Secrets – Stephanie Garber

The Penelapiod – Margaret Atwood

Hekate– Nikita Gill

Short Stories

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century – Kim Fu

Graphic Novels

Nimona – Noelle Stevenson

Rivers of London – Bodywork – Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmel

Non- Fiction

Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain

Messy – Tim Harford


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Books to Read- September 2025

  • We Sold Our Souls – Grady Hendrix
  • Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Cetaganda – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Shards of Honor – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Winterfair Gifts – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • The Lord of Stariel – AJ Lancaster
  • In the House of Aryaman, a Loney Signal Burns – Elizabeth Bear
  • Morgan is my Name – Sophie Keetch
  • A Certain Hunger – Chelsea G Summers
  • The Grand Hotel – Scott Kenemore

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Books to Read- August 2025

  • Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • The Silent Corner – Dean Koontz
  • Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland – Lisa Schneidau
  • Cook County ICU – Cory Franklin
  • White Trash Warlock – David R Slayton
  • Spillover – David Quammen
  • Underland – Robert Mcfarlane
  • The Secret Life of Groceries – Benjamin Lorr
  • The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
  • The Nazi Hunter – Alan Elsner

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Books Read – August 2025

Graphic Novels

Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Carl Bower & Jose Alfonso Ocampo Ruiz (ill)

Non-Fiction

Thick and Other Essays – Tressie McMillan Cottom

The Awful End of Prince William the Silent – Lisa Jardine

Dogtripping – David Rosenfelt

Fiction

Dungeon Crawler Carl – Matt Dinniman

How to Survive a Horror Story – Mallory Arnold

Back to the Well – Gustavo Bondoni

House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones

The Masquerades of Spring – Ben Aaronovitch

What Abigail Did That Summer – Ben Aaronovitch

Nettle & Bone – T. Kingfisher

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Books to Read- July 2025

  • Slayground – Richard Stark
  • Deadly Edge – Richard Stark
  • Hunter – Mercedes Lackey
  • Articulating Design Decisions – Tom Greever
  • Managing Up – Mary Abbajay
  • The Art of Coaching – Elena Aguilar
  • The No Complaining Rule – Jon Gordon
  • Only the Paranoid Survive – Andrew S Grove
  • The Power of Consistency – Weldon Long
  • A Trucker’s Tale – Ed Miller

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Books Read – July 2025

Fiction

Radiance – Catherynne M Valente

This Princess Kills Monsters – Ry Herman

Daisy Darker – Alice Feeney

Devil Red- Joe R Lansdale

This Body’s Not Big Enough for the Both of Us – Edgar Cantero

A Matter of Death and Life– Simon R Green

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Books Read – June 2025

Fiction

Looking for Jake – China Mieville

Non-Fiction

Mind of the Raven – Bernd Heinrich

Everything is Tuberculosis- John Green

Graphic Novels / Comics

Through the Woods – Emily Carroll

The Girl From The Other Side Vol 1 – Nagabe

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