Books I've Read: Q1 2025

In the first quarter of 2025, here are the books I finished (in rough order):

1. The Fox Wife, by Yangsze Choo

2. Hotline, by Dimitri Nasrallah

3. Heaven, My Home, by Attica Locke

4. The Winter People, by Jennifer McMahon

5. Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, by Clay McLeod Chapman

6. Eynhallow, by Tim McGregor

7. They All Fall the Same, by Wes Browne

8. Long Time Gone, by Charlie Donlea

9. Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen, edited by Ellen Datlow

10. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, by Grady Hendrix

11. The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean

12. Do Evil in Return, Margaret Millar

13. The Butcher, Jennifer Hillier

14. A Certain Hunger, by Chelsea G. Summers

15. Money Shot, by Christa Faust

16. Theme Music, by T. Marie Vandelly

17. Our Winter Monster, by Dennis Mahoney

18. Dead Money, by Jakob Kerr

19. The Contortionist’s Handbook, by Craig Clevenger

20. Where the Dead Brides Gather, by Nuzo Onoh

21. Nightwatching, by Tracy Sierra

22. The Mechanics of Memory, by Audrey Lee

23. Choke Hold, by Christa Faust

24. The Sun Down Motel, by Simone St. James

25. Guide Me Home, by Attica Locke

26. Things We Do in the Dark, by Jennifer Hillier

27. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, by Nghi Vo

28. Gunshot Straight, by Lou Berney

29. The Quiet Librarian, by Allen Eskens

30. The Devotion of Suspect X, by Keigo Higashino

31. Whiplash River, by Lou Berney

32. The Library at Mount Char, by Scott Hawkins

33. Beauty in the Blood, by Charlotte Carter

34. Girlfriend on Mars, by Deborah Willis

35. Woodworking, by Emily St. James

36. Double Barrel Bluff, by Lou Berney

37. The Resting Place, by Camilla Sten

38. The Plotters, by Un-su Kim

39. Rose of Jericho, by Alex Grecian

40. Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle

41. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones

42. The Get Off, by Christina Faust

43. Wellness, by Nathan Hill

44. The Kick-Ass Writer, by Chuck Wendig

45. Save the Cat Writes a Novel, by Jessica Brody

46. Twice as Dead, by Harry Turtledove

47. Parishoner, by Walter Mosley

I really, really enjoyed many of the books I didn’t bold, so don’t let me sway you away from them if you’re tempted to give one a read. It’s a challenge at the end of each three-month period to decide what was a really stellar, stand-out, can’t-stop-thinking-about read.

To check out my reading from last year, click here to go to my 2024 best of the best books list, from which you can click through to see each quarter’s reads (and can click back into previous years, too).

The next quarter’s reading is already underway!