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. Skin Police Volume 1 (23/04/25) ★★★★☆
2. The Secret Romantic’s Book of Magic (23/04/25) ★★★★★
3. Meat Eaters (22/04/25) ★★★★★
4. Don McCullin (19/04/25) ★★★☆☆
5. Bite Risk: Cold Blood (18/04/25) ★★★★☆
6. A Box Full of Murders (17/04/25) ★★★★☆
7. There Is No Giant In This Story (17/04/25) ★★★★☆
8. The Biggest Dog In The Book (17/04/25) ★★★★★
9. The Fib (14/04/25) ★★★★☆
10. EC Cruel Universe (13/04/25) ★★★★☆
11. When I Arrived at the Castle (13/04/25) ★★★☆☆
12. Kick the Latch (13/04/25) ★★★★☆
13. Failed Summer Vacation (11/04/25) ★★★★☆
14. Basil Dreams Big (10/04/25) ★★★★★
15. How To Be A Viking (09/04/25) ★★★★☆
16. Riverskin (09/04/25) ★★★☆☆
17. The Cat Bride (08/04/25) ★★★☆☆
18. Fishfolk (07/04/25) ★★★☆☆
19. Where is the Cat? (07/04/25) ★★★★☆
20. MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious (05/04/25) ★★★☆☆
21. Wolf Siren (05/04/25) ★★★★★
22. Ghost Town (02/04/25) ★★★★☆
23. North American Lake Monsters (02/04/25) ★★★☆☆
24. A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel (01/04/25) ★★★★★
25. Coven (01/04/25) ★★☆☆☆
26. Heavy Metal Badger (31/03/25) ★★★★☆
27. The Girl Who Sold Time (30/03/25) ★★★★☆
28. Emerald and the Sea Sprites (30/03/25) ★★★☆☆
29. England: A Natural History (29/03/25) ★★★☆☆
30. Sometimes I Just WON’T (28/03/25) ★★★★☆
31. Hank Goes Honk (28/03/25) ★★★★☆
32. The Café at the Edge of the Woods (26/03/25) ★★★★☆
33. Outsider Art (26/03/25) ★★★☆☆
34. The Lost Sunday (23/03/25) ★★★★★
35. The Hotel (23/02/25) ★★★★★
36. Shadowlands (23/03/05) ★★★☆☆
37. Cloud Boy (22/03/25) ★★★★☆
38. The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting (22/03/25) ★★★☆☆
39. Where Did She Go? (20/03/25) ★★★★☆
40. Buzz Sausage Wolf (20/03/25) ★★★★☆
41. The Godfathers of Horror Films (18/03/25) ★★★★☆
42. Incidents Around The House (17/03/25) ★☆☆☆☆
43. Serial Chillers: The Witch in the Wood (16/03/25) ★★★★★
44. Uprooted (13/03/25) ★★☆☆☆
45. Herbal Chronicles (12/03/25) ★★★★☆
46. The Salt Grows Heavy (11/03/25) ★★★★★
47. The Butcher of the Forest (09/03/25) ★★★★☆
48. Idle Grounds (06/03/25) ★★☆☆☆
49. This Place Kills Me (05/03/25) ★★★★☆
50. Strange Tales From Japan (05/03/25) ★★★★☆
51. It Came From The Multiplex (03/03/25) ★★★★★
52. Snails of the Unexpected (01/03/25) ★★★★☆
53. They Bloom at Night (01/03/25) ★★★☆☆
54. Grumpfort (28/02/25) ★★★★☆
55. Aliens Love Underpants (27/02/25) ★★★★☆
56. The Biggest Breakfast (27/02/25) ★★★★☆
57. Faithbreaker (26/02/25) ★★★★★
58. The Many Hauntings of the Manning Family (9/02/25) ★★★★☆
59. I Know What UFO Did Last Summer (16/02/25) ★★★★☆
60. After (12/02/25) ★★★★☆
61. Monsterland (12/02/25) ★★★★★
62. The Invitation (11/02/25) ★★★☆☆
63. The Freak (11/02/25) ★★★☆☆
64. The Green Kingdom (07/02/25) ★★★☆☆
65. How to Be Avant-Garde (06/02/25) ★★★★☆
66. Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs (04/02/25) ★★★★☆
67. Scuttler’s Cove (31/01/25) ★★★★☆
68. The Power of Words (31/01/25) ★★★☆☆
69. Wild Card (22/01/25) ★★★★☆
70. Withered Hill (22/01/25) ★★★★★
71. Epitaphs from the Abyss (18/01/25) ★★★★★
72. Man’s War Against Nature (17/01/25) ★★★☆☆
73. The Democracy of Species (13/01/25) ★★★☆☆
74. Tales From the Folly (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
75. Stray Cat Blues (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
76. Here Be Dragons (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
77. Deadly Ever After (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
78. Monday, Monday (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
79. Amongst Our Weapons (11/01/25) ★★★★★
80. False Value (08/01/25) ★★★★☆
81. Joker: DC Compact Comics Edition (07/01/25) ★★★☆☆
82. The Casebook of Carnacki The Ghost Finder (06/01/25) ★★★☆☆
83. The October Man (04/01/25) ★★★★☆
84. Sick Houses (03/01/25) ★★★★☆
85. Nothing But Blackened Teeth (02/01/25) ★★★★☆