My Reading Log for 2025
Yup, I’m an absolute bookworm. I admit it. If there is one thing I love as much as writing (well almost) it’s reading. And here’s a list of books I’ve read in 2025.
Reread: Hubble Bubble by Christina Jones
Fox Under the Moon – Seasons of Comfort and Hope by Stacey McNeill
Let the Bells Ring Out by Milly Johnson
Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour
Reread: Can You Keep A Secret by Sophie Kinsella
Medea by Rosie Hewlett
Carrie by Stephen King
Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson
Reread: Inkbound (Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo) by Philippa Leathley
So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
Daughter of Chaos by A S Webb
A Sliver of Darkness by C. J. Tudor
Pet Semetary by Stephen King
The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer
Misery by Stephen King
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Reread Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Inkbound (Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo) by Philippa Leathley
Reread: When Marnie Was There by Joan G. Robinson
Aphrodite by Phoenicia Rogerson
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
Mischief Acts by Zoe Gilbert
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Tearsmith by Erin Doom
Cackle by Rachel Harrison
The Veil by Rachel Harrison
Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch
Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
Reread Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin – A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
Immersion and Emotion – The Two Pillars of Storytelling by Michelle Barker and David Griffin
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Aoyama
Wayne Dyer’s Ultimate Library – Dr. Wayne Dyer
The Corn Bride by Mark Stay
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Fates by Rosie Garland
What Girls Do in the Dark by Rosie Garland
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau
Relight My Fire by C. K. McDonnell
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson and Rachel Willson-Broyles – translator
Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between by Lauren Graham
Billie Eilish by Billie Eilish
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
A new play from the works of P.G. Wodehouse by The Goodale Brothers: Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense
P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1, The Jeeves Collection: The inimitable Jeeves, Carry On Jeeves, Right-Ho Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters, Joy in the Morning
Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry – Akiane Kramarik and Foreli Kramarik
Kent Urban Legends, the Phantom Hitch-hiker and Other Stories by Neil Arnold
Becoming Supernatural by Dr. Joe Dispenza
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Love Will Tear Us Apart by C. K. McDonnell
The Essential Lovecraft – A bumper Collection of H.P. Lovecraft: The Tomb, Dagon, Polaris, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Transition of Juan Romero, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Doom That Came to Sarnath, The Terrible Old Man, The Cats of Ulthar, Fact concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, The Temple, Celephais, From Beyond, Nyarlathotep, The Picture in the House, Ex Oblivione, The Nameless City, The Quest of Iranon, The Outsider, The Other Gods, The Music of Erich Zann, Herbert West: Reanimator, The Unnamable, The Hound, The Lurking Fea, The Rats in the Walls, The Festival, Under the Pyramids, The Shunned, The Horror at Red Hook, He, Cool Air, The Call of Cthulhu, The Silver Key, Pickman’s Model, The Strange High, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Colour Out of Space, History of the Necronomicon, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Thing on the Doorstep, The Shadow Out of Time, The Haunter of the Dark.
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
The Winter Spirits – Ghost Tales for Frosty Nights – stories by Bridget Collins, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jess Kidd, Natasha Pulley, Elizabeth Macneal, Laura Purcell, Susan Stokes-Chapman, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Stuart Turton, Catriona Ward
Odyssey told by Stephen Fry
Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch
Lilith by Nikki Marmery
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Somewhere Beyond the Sea TJ Klune