Read in November 2025
what a big reading month 🙈 39 books - it was gonna be 40 but I ran out of energy before I could finish my last novella for the month. my absolute standout favourites were Fate's Bane by CL Clark and Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin, with honorable mentions to The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling and Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz <3
Nonfiction:
War on Peace by Ronan Farrow - 3/5
Familiar authors:
To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers - 3/5
Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin - 5/5
A Spindle Splintered by Alix E Harrow - 3/5
A Mirror Mended by Alix E Harrow - 3/5
The Flesh King by Richard Kadrey - 4/5
1922 by Stephen King - 3/5
Paladin’s Grace by T Kingfisher - 4/5
Paladin’s Strength by T Kingfisher - 2/5
To Clutch a Razor by Veronica Roth - 2/5
Murder Road by Simone St James - 3/5
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St James - 4/5
The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling - 5/5
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - reread
Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver - 3/5
Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver - 3/5
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - 4/5
The Foxglove King by Hannah Whitten - 2/5
Other reads:
The Bone Orchard by Sara A Mueller - 3/5
Rest Stop by Nat Cassidy - 3/5
Fate’s Bane by CL Clark - 5/5
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman - 3/5
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill - 1/5
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle - 3/5
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin - 4/5
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin - 4/5
The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed - 4/5
The Extra by Annie Neugebauer - 2/5
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz - 4/5
The Summer War by Naomi Novik - 4/5
How to Survive a Slasher by Justine Pucella Winans - 4/5
But Not Too Bold by Hacha Pueyo - 3/5
Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather - 4/5
Sisters of the Forsaken Stars by Lina Rather - 4/5
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather - 3/5
The Cold House by AG Slatter - 4/5
Where Peace is Lost by Valerie Valdes - 3/5
I Can Fix Her by Rae Wilde - 2/5
Tin Man by Sarah Winman - 2/5
