Hello beautiful people, and welcome to the blog today!
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Friends, I hope you are doing well, staying hydrated, getting plenty of rest, and allowing yourself some grace.
It’s time for a mid-year update for my 2025 Good Reads Challenge. My list initially included a total of 35 books, but I whittled it down to a more realistic number of 25. If I can add more, I will, but right now it’s a comfortable number.
2025 Good Reads Challenge List
Key
🎧 = Owned Audible
💵 = Will purchase
🏛️ = Library Loan
🎀 = Read/Courtesy ARC Titles
📘 = Owned hardcopy
📱 = Owned Kindle
-*-*-* READ AS OF JUNE -*-*-*
18 Read Total out of 25, which includes ARC titles
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Murder Road, Simone, St. James 🎧
A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer, Maxie Dara 🎀
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread, Leila Taylor 🎀
The Cursed Among Us, John Durgin 🎧
Tell Them You Lied, Laura Leffler 🎀
The Mary Shelley Club, Goldy Moldavsky 🎧
The Summer I Ate The Rich, Maika Moulite 🎀
The Body, Stephen King 🏛️
Holly, Stephen King 📘
The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig 🎀
Mayra, Nicky Gonzales 🎀
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies, Hadley Freeman 📘
How to Survive a Horror Story, Mallory Arnold
Dead of Summer, Jessa Maxwell 🎀
Heads Will Roll, John Winning 🎧
So Thirsty, Rachel Harrison 🎧
Credenza, Wendy Dalrymple 🎀
The Devil and Mrs. Davenport, Paulette Kennedy 🎧
The Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo 📘
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-*-*-* REMOVED FROM CHALLENGE -*-*-*
The House at the End of Lacelean Street, Rupert Holmes 🎧
When Darkness Loves Us, Elizabeth Engstrom
Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to ’80s Teen Movies, Kevin Smokler
AHH! That’s What I Call Horror: An Anthology of ’90s Horror, Chelsea Pumpkins
80s Ghosts, V.S. Lawrence
Their Vicious Games, Joelle Wellington
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, Jayne Allen 🎧
*-*-*-TO BE READ IN THE CHALLENGE-*-*-*
Don’t Fear The Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones 📘
Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle 🎧
Witchcraft For Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix 🎧
Don’t Fear The Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones 📘
The Midnight Showing, Megan Shephard
*-*-*- CURRENTLY READING -*-*-*
The House That Horror Built, Christina Henry 🎧
The Broken Girls, Simone St. James 📘
*-*-*- ON THE FENCE -*-*-*
This Delicious Death, Kayla Cottingham 📘
Those Meddling Kids, Edgar Cantery 📘
Polybius, Collin Armstrong 🎧
Moved to 2026 Good Reads
The Angel of Indian Lake, Stephen Graham Jones 💻
Maggie’s Grave: A Horror Novel, David Sodergrin
A House With Good Bones, T. Kingfisher
I Was A Teenage Slasher, Stephen Graham Jones
A Cut Below: A Celebration of B Horror Movies, 1950s-1980s, Scott Drebrit
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TO BE READ *-*-*-*- ARC TITLES
Coffin Moon, Keith Rosson 🎀
Show Stopper, Lily Anderson 🎀
Breathe In, Bleed Out, Brian McAuley 🎀
As many of you know, TBR lists change constantly. Sometimes, something gets pushed to the front if I have a limited time to read it, and for others, I won’t have time. I’m also waiting to be approved (or not) for two more ARC titles. We shall see.
With that, I’ll end this post. Thanks so much for hanging with me today. I know you could be doing other things with your time, so I appreciate everyone who takes the time to stop by. Don’t forget to subscribe and like, as it really helps my site. Many thanks. Peace
