Books of 2025

by Big Bearded Bookseller
Books of 2025

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

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