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. How To Be A Viking (09/04/25) ★★★★☆
2. Riverskin (09/04/25) ★★★☆☆
3. The Cat Bride (08/04/25) ★★★☆☆
4. Fishfolk (07/04/25) ★★★☆☆
5. Where is the Cat? (07/04/25) ★★★★☆
6. MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious (05/04/25) ★★★☆☆
7. Wolf Siren (05/04/25) ★★★★★
8. Ghost Town (02/04/25) ★★★★☆
9. North American Lake Monsters (02/04/25) ★★★☆☆
10. A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel (01/04/25) ★★★★★
11. Coven (01/04/25) ★★☆☆☆
12. Heavy Metal Badger (31/03/25) ★★★★☆
13. The Girl Who Sold Time (30/03/25) ★★★★☆
14. Emerald and the Sea Sprites (30/03/25) ★★★☆☆
15. England: A Natural History (29/03/25) ★★★☆☆
16. Sometimes I Just WON’T (28/03/25) ★★★★☆
17. Hank Goes Honk (28/03/25) ★★★★☆
18. The Café at the Edge of the Woods (26/03/25) ★★★★☆
19. Outsider Art (26/03/25) ★★★☆☆
20. The Lost Sunday (23/03/25) ★★★★★
21. The Hotel (23/02/25) ★★★★★
22. Shadowlands (23/03/05) ★★★☆☆
23. Cloud Boy (22/03/25) ★★★★☆
24. The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting (22/03/25) ★★★☆☆
25. Where Did She Go? (20/03/25) ★★★★☆
26. Buzz Sausage Wolf (20/03/25) ★★★★☆
27. The Godfathers of Horror Films (18/03/25) ★★★★☆
28. Incidents Around The House (17/03/25) ★☆☆☆☆
29. Serial Chillers: The Witch in the Wood (16/03/25) ★★★★★
30. Uprooted (13/03/25) ★★☆☆☆
31. Herbal Chronicles (12/03/25) ★★★★☆
32. The Salt Grows Heavy (11/03/25) ★★★★★
33. The Butcher of the Forest (09/03/25) ★★★★☆
34. Idle Grounds (06/03/25) ★★☆☆☆
35. This Place Kills Me (05/03/25) ★★★★☆
36. Strange Tales From Japan (05/03/25) ★★★★☆
37. It Came From The Multiplex (03/03/25) ★★★★★
38. Snails of the Unexpected (01/03/25) ★★★★☆
39. They Bloom at Night (01/03/25) ★★★☆☆
40. Grumpfort (28/02/25) ★★★★☆
41. Aliens Love Underpants (27/02/25) ★★★★☆
42. The Biggest Breakfast (27/02/25) ★★★★☆
43. Faithbreaker (26/02/25) ★★★★★
44. The Many Hauntings of the Manning Family (9/02/25) ★★★★☆
45. I Know What UFO Did Last Summer (16/02/25) ★★★★☆
46. After (12/02/25) ★★★★☆
47. Monsterland (12/02/25) ★★★★★
48. The Invitation (11/02/25) ★★★☆☆
49. The Freak (11/02/25) ★★★☆☆
50. The Green Kingdom (07/02/25) ★★★☆☆
51. How to Be Avant-Garde (06/02/25) ★★★★☆
52. Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs (04/02/25) ★★★★☆
53. Scuttler’s Cove (31/01/25) ★★★★☆
54. The Power of Words (31/01/25) ★★★☆☆
55. Wild Card (22/01/25) ★★★★☆
56. Withered Hill (22/01/25) ★★★★★
57. Epitaphs from the Abyss (18/01/25) ★★★★★
58. Man’s War Against Nature (17/01/25) ★★★☆☆
59. The Democracy of Species (13/01/25) ★★★☆☆
60. Tales From the Folly (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
61. Stray Cat Blues (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
62. Here Be Dragons (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
63. Deadly Ever After (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
64. Monday, Monday (12/01/25) ★★★☆☆
65. Amongst Our Weapons (11/01/25) ★★★★★
66. False Value (08/01/25) ★★★★☆
67. Joker: DC Compact Comics Edition (07/01/25) ★★★☆☆
68. The Casebook of Carnacki The Ghost Finder (06/01/25) ★★★☆☆
69. The October Man (04/01/25) ★★★★☆
70. Sick Houses (03/01/25) ★★★★☆
71. Nothing But Blackened Teeth (02/01/25) ★★★★☆