Books Read 2025

1. Books and Broadswords, Volume 1 – Jessie Mihalik
2. How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying – Django Wexler
3. Next Level – Stacy T. Sims
4. The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends – Peter Berresford Ellis
5. The Familiar – Leigh Bardugo
6. The Black Bird Oracle – Deborah Harkness
7. Death and Relaxation – Devon Monk
8. Jane and the Stillroom Maid – Stephanie Barron
9. Sacred Ground – Mercedes Lackey
10. Fan Fiction – Brent Spiner
11. Last Dragon Standing – G. A. Aiken
12. The Collected Enchantments – Theodora Goss
13. The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro
14. Buried Deep and Other Stories – Naomi Novik
15. The French Ingredient – Jane Bertsch
16. Tales from a Magical Teashop – Casey Blair
17. Hexed – Kevin Hearne
18. Lud-in-the-Mist – Hope Mirrlees
19. Competence – Gail Carriger
20. Only Bad Options – Jennifer Estep
21. A Sorceress Comes to Call – T. Kingfisher
22. Magic Binds – Ilona Andrews
23. You Only Go Extinct Once – Bob Lorentson
24. Deal with the Devil – Kit Rocha
25. Sweep of the Blade – Ilona Andrews
26. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries – Heather Fawcett
27. The Spinster and the Free Maid – Amberley Martin
28. Witches Get Stuff Done – Molly Harper
29. Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments – T. L. Huchu
30. The Road to Farringale – Charlotte E. English
31. The Priestess and the Dragon – Nicolette Andrews
32. The Teller of Small Fortunes – Julie Leong
33. Divinity 36: Tinkered Starsong – Gail Carriger
34. The Witness for the Dead – Katherine Addison
35. All Systems Red – Martha Wells
36. Silver in the Wood – Emily Tesh
37. Witchmark – C. L. Polk
38. Promise of Blood – Brian McClellan
39. The Adventure of the Demonic Ox – Lois McMaster Bujold
40. Winter Lost – Patricia Briggs
41. The Dragon Who Loved Me – G.A. Aiken
42. The Masquerades of Spring – Ben Aaronovitch
43. Into the Riverlands – Nghi Vo
44. Libriomancer – Jim C. Hines
45. Tales of Wonder – Jane Yolen
46. A Civil Campaign – Lois McMaster Bujold
47. Winterfair Gifts – Lois McMaster Bujold
48. Magic Triumphs – Ilona Andrews
49. Fated – Benedict Jacka
50. Ladies of the Lake – Caitlin and John Matthews
51. Cast in Fury – Michelle Sagara
52. Tower of Thorns – Juliet Marillier
53. Hero in a Halfling – William Tyler Davis
54. The Innkeeper Chronicles Volume 2 – Sweep of the Blade
55. The Innkeeper Chronicles Volume 2 – Sweep with Me
56. Stone and Sky – Ben Aaronovitch
57. The Dark Lord’s Daughter – Patricia C. Wrede
58. Necrobane – Daniel M. Ford
59. I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself – Glynnis MacNicol
60. The Wolf in the Whale – Jordanna Max Brodsky
61. The Blacktongue Thief – Christopher Buehlman
62. Miss Amelia’s List – Mercedes Lackey
63. Desdemona and the Deep – C. S. E. Cooney
64. Our Moon – Rebecca Boyle
65. Sweep of the Heart – Ilona Andrews
66. Burn Bright – Patricia Briggs
67. 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years – John Scalzi
68. The Raven Scholar – Antonia Hodgson
69. Testimony of Mute Things – Lois McMaster Bujold

Not my best year – I went through several periods where I’d have three books going because I couldn’t properly get into any of them. Can’t really put a finger on why – I read all of them to completion, and did enjoy them. We’ll just have to see if this translates to next year.