Category Archives: Books

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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Books to Read- June 2025

  • The Wealth Choice – Dennis Kimbro
  • No BS Marketing to the Affluent – Dan S Kennedy
  • Acres of Diamonds – Russell H Conwell
  • Super Mario – Jeff Ryan
  • Free to Focus – Michael Hyatt
  • Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
  • Million Dollar Habits – Brian Tracy
  • Plan Your Year Like a Millionaire – Rachel Rodgers
  • Butcher’s Moon – Richard Stark
  • Plunder Squad – Richard Stark

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Books to Read- May 2025

  • The Power of Positive Leadership -Jon Gordon
  • The 10X Mentor – Grant Cardone
  • Pitch Anything – Oren Klaff
  • The 12 Week Year – Brian P Moran and Michael Lennington
  • This is Your Mind on Plants – Michael Pollan
  • Existentially Challenged – Yahtzee Croshaw
  • Mythos – Stephen Fry
  • Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs – Roger Lederer
  • A Darker Shad of Magic – VE Schwab
  • The Unemployed Millionaire – Matt Morris & Wallace Wang

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