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Books Read – December 2025

Fiction:

Nobody Move – Denis Johnson

What Feasts at Night – T Kingfisher 

Nothing but Blackened Teeth – Cassandra Khaw

Non-Fiction:

Hunting Buffalo with Bent Nails – Lawrence Block

The Gap and the Gain – Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Peace is Every Step – Thich Nhat Hanh

Better Than Before- Gretchen Rubin

Graphic Novels: 

Rivers of London: Night Witch – Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmel


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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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#HRCYED Series Staircase

This is what I’m planning to read for the HRCYED Series Staircase: (Note: I am trying to do this challenge with only books I own or can get from the library.)

  • Solo: Riapoke – Bryan Nowak
  • Duology:
    • A Hard Day’s Knight – Simon R Green
    • The Bride Wore Black Leather – Simon R Green
    • (Completing a larger series with the last two books is acceptable as per the FAQ)
  • Trilogy: (I recommend the movies if you can find them!)
    • Nightwatch – Sergei Lukyanenko
    • Daywatch – Sergei Lukyanenko
    • Twilightwatch – Sergei Lukyanenko
  • Four or More:
    • False Value – Ben Aaronovitch
    • Amongst Our Weapons – Ben Aaronovitch
    • Stone and Sky – Ben Aaronovitch
    • Winter’s Gifts – Ben Aaronovitch

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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 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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#HRCYED Subgenres of Choice

This is what I’m planning to read for the HRCYED Subgenres of Choice: (Note, I am trying to do this challenge with only books I own or can get from the library.)

  • Cozy Fantasy: Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea (read in July) – Rebecca Thorne
  • Crime: A Matter of Death and Life (read in July) – Simon R. Green 
  • Thriller: This Body’s Not Big Enough for the Both of Us (read in July) – Edgar Cantero
  • Fairytale: Nettle & Bone – T. Kingfisher
  • Urban Fantasy: The Masquerades of Spring – Ben Aaronovitch
  • Humor: Dungeon Crawler Carl #1 (read in August) – Matt Dinniman

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Books to Read February 2020

The Crescent Stone – Matt Mikalatos

The Heartwood Crown – Matt Mikalatos

The Soul of Power – Callie Bates

The Library of the Unwritten – AJ Hackwith

I Contain Multitudes – Ed Young

Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Taleb

One Nation Under God – Richard Abanes

The War of Art – Steven Pressfield

Going Through the Change – Samantha Bryant

Change of Life – Samantha Bryant

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Books Read in June 2019

Novels

Lies Sleeping – Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London #7)

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Books Read in May 2019

I suppose that “Finished In May” is a more accurate title, but anyway.

Novels

The Hanging Tree – Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London #6)

Six Gun Snow White – Catherynne M. Valente

Dead Reckoning – William Dresden

Helen & Troy’s Epic Road Quest – A. Lee Martinez

The Master of Dreams – Mike Resnick

Non-Fiction

Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld – Jack Halpern

Short Stories

From the Borderlands – ed. Elizabeth E Monteleone & Thomas F Monteleone

Children’s Books

Princess Florecita and the Iron Shoes – John Warren Stewig

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