Horror Aficionados discussion

Let's give this another try. We may not reduce the piles of books but at least we can keep them from getting out of control. I mean, have you seen the incredible books that will be coming out in 2025? They'll be distracting us from the incredible books we bought in 2024 that have yet to be read!

This will be the place to keep track of what you're reading and to see what other HA members are happily working their way through.

Sign up for the challenge here: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

Name your shelf on the challenge page and when you tag books to that shelf they'll count towards the challenge.

Have a great 2025!

My spot! lol I am still working on books from before 2024! Like five or six years ago! lol Going for 30 for 2025. Doubling what I did this year for those old books that are gathering dust in my kindle! lol :)

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1) Dead of Winter - read in January
2) The Winter People - read in January
3) Ghostlords - read in February
4) The Crimson Corset - read in February
5) The Cliffhouse Haunting - read in March
6) The Wolf Society - read in March
7) TOMBSTONES - read in April
8) Fatemarked - read in April
9) The Trinket Box - read in May
10) The Neighbors - read in June
11) I Have a Secret - read in July
12) Boys in the Valley - read in July
13) End of Watch - read in August
14) Flee - read in August
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I will sign up with my usual 45 books!

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1. Beneath the Sugar Sky
2. The Child Finder
3. One for the Money
4. The Last Colony
5. Revenant-X
6. Dead Money
7. Trust Issues
8. Big Time
9. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
10. The Midwich Cuckoos
11. The Passenger
12. The Daughters' War
13. The Dream Hotel
14. A Drop of Corruption
15. Devoted
16. Service Model
17. Alive
18. Alight
19. Alone
20. The Staircase in the Woods
21. When the Moon Hits Your Eye
22. The Language of the Birds
23. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
24. The Regulators
25. Ushers
26. My Heart Is a Chainsaw
27. The Passengers

2025 Mount TBR Challenge

I will pledge 40 books that are currently on my TBR list.

1. Mother of Rome by Lauren J.A. Bear - 01.02.2025 [since 2024]
2. White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi - 01.03.2025 [since 2011]
3. Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher - 01.04.2025 [since 2019]
4. Lightfall by Ed Crocker - 01.05.2025 [since 2024]
5. Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi - 01.09.2025 [since 2010]
6. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree - 01.11.2025 [since 2023]
7. A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers - 01.14.2025 [since 2024]
8. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David von Drehle - 01.15.2025 [since 2024]
9. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark - 01.21.2025 [since 2024]
10. Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez - 02.02.2025
11. Revelator by Daryl Gregory - 02.05.2025 [since 2022]
12. Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi - 02.08.2025 [since 2024]
13. The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard - 02.10.2025 [since 2020]
14. The Fourth Consort by Edward Ashton - 02.11.2025 [since 2024]
15. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - 02.12.2025 [since 2020]
16. In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard - 02.12.2025 [since 2022]
17. The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean - 03.05.2025 [since 2024]
18. Salt Slow by Julia Armfield - 03.11.2025 [since 2023]
19. The Shape-Changer's Wife by Sharon Shinn - 03.17.2025 [since 2011]
20. The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo - 03.18.2025
21. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu - 03.24.2025 [since 2023]
22. Afterparty by Daryl Gregory - 03.22.2025 [since 2023]
23. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow - 03.25.2025 [since 2009]
24. Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi - 03.28.2025 [since 2024]
25. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar - 04.05.2025 [since 2024]
26. White Cat by Holly Black - 04.05.2025 [since 2011]
27. The Good House by Tananarive Due - 04.12.2025 [since 2011]
28. Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo - 04.19.2025 [since 2023]
29. The Vengeance by Emma Newman - 04.24.2025 [since 2024]
30. Witch King by Martha Wells - 05.03.2025 [since 2023]
31.The City & the City by China Miéville - 05.11.2025 [since 2012]
32. Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller - 05.14.2025 [since 2019]
33. Strange Beasts by Susan J. Morris - 05.26.2025 [since 2024]
34. The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay - 05.31.2025 [since 2019]
35. Goth by Otsuichi - 06.01.2025 [since 2022]
36. Dracul by Dacre Stoker - 06.04.2025 [since 2023]
37. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel - 06.08.2025 [since 2022]
38. Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones - 06.17.2025 [since 2021]
39. If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien - 07.01.2025
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Signing up with 13 books for this one!
They will be 10 books from the first ten pages of my Goodreads to-read shelf, plus 3 books that I meant to read during 2024 and failed at.

08 / 13 (as of 07.31)

1. El mundo perdido
2. La tregua
3. Bloodline
4. Persuasión
5. La flor púrpura
6. Carrie
7. El legado escrito de los mayas
8. Relatos terroríficos 1
9. El arte de la guerra
10. Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

1. De las ciudades vuestras tumbas
2. La Sociedad por la Preservación de los Kaiju
3. Las flores que vieron las sombras

I'm going for 24 next year.

I want to get through a bit more of my backlog but also allow space for group reads and any other books I want to read.

1) Road of the Patriarch 2/5 - very disappointing start to the year. But, onwards and upwards!
2) The Children on the Hill 3.5/5 - the twists were a bit OTT but a good read nonetheless.
3) The Fear 3/5
4) PTSD Radio 1 (Vol. 1-2) 3/5 - I've been a bit spoiled by Junji Ito so other horror manga don't hit quite as hard as his. But there's a few great sections.
5)Misery 4/5 my second readthrough, still as good as I remember.
6) Parasite Gods 3/5
7) The Tommyknockers 3.5/5
8) The Memory Police 3/5
9) The Dark Half 3.5/5
10) Slade House 2.5/5
11) Maggie's Grave 4/5
12) Price Manor: The House That Burns
13) Price Manor: The House That Bleeds 4/5
14) The Thousand Orcs 4/5
15)The Lone Drow 3/5
16) The Two Swords 4/5
17) Camp Damascus 3/5
18) Four Past Midnight
19) Mystery Walk 4.5/ 5
20) Universal Harvester 3/5
21) Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories 4/5. That was so much fun!
22) Marginal 3/5
23) Six Stories 4.5/5

Yay, this is on its way to become my favorite challenge!
I'm pledging 1 per month, 12 books this year too. I will completely read my physical books that have been waiting for me so long.

Challenging myself to 10 this year. Good luck everyone!

I'm starting out with 25 but hope to make it higher :)

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12/20

01. mark 01/02
02. A Study in Drowning 01/03
03. The Unvaccinated: Book 1 of the Unvaccinated 01/07
04. Strings of Magic 01/05
05. Unidentified 01/05
06. The Wren in the Holly Library 01/06
07. Dearest 01/07
08. Devil's Creek 01/11
09 Lenny Among Ghosts 01/11
10. This Wretched Valley 01/14
11 The Haunting of Silver Hollow: A Riveting Haunted House Mystery 01/17
12. Lord of the Feast 01/24
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24 for me-Reading my Bookshelf-2025

1-The Gunslinger-Stephen King-💜💜💜💜💜
2-Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1-James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'Edera & Miquel Muerto💜💜💜💜
3-Shooting Star-Joe R. Landsdale-💜💜💜
4-Wormwood-Layla Martinez-💜💜💜💜
5-Root Rot & Other Grim Tales-Sarah Read-💜💜💜
6-What Were They Thinking? 100 Dumbest Events in Television History-David Hofstede-💜💜💜
7-Burnt Offerings-Robert Marasco-💜💜💜💜
8-The Drawing of the Three-Stephen King-💜💜💜💜💜
9-The Day of the Door-Laurel Hightower-💜💜💜💜
10-Boys in the Valley-Philip Fracassi-💜💜💜💜💜
11-Kin-Kealan Patrick Burke-💜💜💜
12-The Wastelands-Stephen King-💜💜💜💜💜
13-Last Days-Brian Evenson-💜💜💜💜
14-Wizard & Glass-Stephen King-💜💜💜💜💜
15-The Passage-Justin Cronin-💜💜💜💜
16-The Darkest Night: 22 Winter Horror Stories-Lindy Ryan-💜💜💜
17-Everything's Eventual-Stephen King-💜💜💜💜
18-The Wind Though the Keyhole-Stephen King-💜💜💜💜
19-Wolves of the Calla-Stephen King-💜💜💜💜💜
20-Song of Susannah-Stephen King-💜💜💜💜
21-The Dark Tower-Stephen King-💜💜💜💜💜
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Hi!
This is my first time doing this challenge ! I’m challenging myself to read 15 books I already own paperbacks for. The books will be under the “bookmarked” shelf.

Starting at 25! Hopefully I can get through more! :)

1. My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
2. Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
3. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
4. Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
5. The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D Jackson
6. Sugar by Mia Ballard
7. Model Home by Rivers Soloman
8. I'll Fly Away by Rudy Francisco
9. Helium by Rudy Francisco
10. The Chaos of Longing by K.Y. Robinson
11. The Color of Blood by Mona Kabbani
12. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
13. Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
14. Beast of Burden by Judith Sonnet
15. You Should've Kept Driving by M. A. Savino
16. I Love You, Call Me Back: Poems by Sabrina Benaim
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I'm aiming for 50 in 2025. That won't even put a dent in my shelves., but it's a start. This will be my spot to list them . . . . . .
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1. DEATH COMES FOR THE TOYMAKER graphic novel by Dakota Brown and Ryan Cody (December 21, 2024)
2. LITTLE BLACK BOOK graphic novel by Jeff McComsey and Felipe Cunha (December 22, 2024)
3. RED ZONE graphic novel by Cullen Bunn and Mike Deodato Jr (December 23, 2024)
4. HOW AMERICA WORKS, AND WHY IT DOESN'T by Bill Morrow (December 24, 2024)
5. JUSTICE INC graphic novel by Michael Uslan and Giovanni Timpano (December 24, 2024)
6. LEGION: TRAUMA graphic novel by Peter Milligan and Wilfredo Torres (January 01, 2025)
7. MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT by Riley Sager (January 03)
8. THE VARIANTS graphic novel by Gail Simone and Phil Noto (January 03)
9. GODZILLA: HERE THERE BE DRAGONS II, SONS OF GIANTS graphic novel by Frank Tieri and Inaki Miranda (January 04)
10. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Steig Larsson (January 09)
11. WILLY'S WONDERLAND PREQUEL graphic novel by S.A. Check & James Kuhoric with art by Puis Calzada (January 16)
12. THE CAPE: FALLEN graphic novel by Jason Ciaramella and Zach Howard (January 17)
13. SWAN SONG by Robert McCammon (January 25)
14. KILL CREEK by Scott Thomas (February 09)
15. WHAT MOVES THE DEAD by T. Kingfisher - audiobook (February 21)
16. WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE by John Scalzi (February 21)
17. EVERYBODY KNOWS by Jordan Harper (February 25)
18. ULTIMATES, VOLUME ONE graphic novel by Deniz Camp and Juan Frigeri (March 05)
19. BONE WHITE by Ronald Mali (March 13)
20. QUARRY by Max Allan Collins (March 20)
21. OUR MISSING HEARTS by Celeste Ng (April 01)
22. HOAX: DONALD TRUMP, FOX NEWS, AND THE DANGEROUS DISTORTION OF TRUTH by Brian Stelter (April 14)
23. 100 BULLETS, VOLUME ONE graphic novel by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso (April 12)
24. 100 BULLETS, VOLUME TWO: SPLIT SECOND CHANCE graphic novel by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso (April 13)
25. RULES OF PREY by John Sandford (April 18)
26. WAKE UP AND OPEN YOUR EYES by Clay McLeod Chapman (May 09)
27. THE BIG EMPTY by Robert Crais (May 14)
28. THE CHANGELING by Victor Lavalle (June 01)
29. NIGHT BLEEDS INTO DAWN by Graeme Reynolds (June 04)
30. UNIVERSAL MONSTERS: FRANKENSTEIN graphic novel by Michael Walsh (June 06)
31. STORM FRONT by Jim Butcher (June 19)
32. THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by Stephen Graham Jones (June 27)
33. THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS by M.R. Carey (July 10)
34. NEVER FLINCH by Stephen King (July 17)
35. THE BLACK ECHO by Michael Connelly (August 09)
36. EL DORADO DRIVE by Megan Abbott (August 14)
37. RAINBOW BRIDGE graphic novel by Steve Orlando and Steve Foxe with art by Valentina Vianconi (August 31)
38. DRAW YOU IN, VOLUME ONE: COLLECTOR'S ITEM by Jasper Bark (August 31)
39. ALL SYSTEMS RED by Martha Wells (Sept 03)

I’ll be going for another 20 in 2025!

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1. All Systems Red
2. The Puzzle Master
3. Horror Movie
4. Only a Monster
5. Hidden Pictures
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NIce goal, but what will you do for the remaining 11 months? (Just kidding)
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inciminci wrote: "Yay, this is on its way to become my favorite challenge!
I'm pledging 1 per month, 12 books this year too. I will completely read my physical books that have been waiting for me so long."

I'm going to aim for 20! 30 was a struggle in 2024...

1. Lost Among the Living 1/8/25
2. The House of Last Resort 1/20/25
3. The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon 1/29/25
4. Flash Fire 2/1/25
5. The Lying Game 3/14/25
6. Lock Every Door 4/5/25
7. The Girl in Red 4/11/25
8. The House of a Hundred Whispers 4/14/25
9. The Testaments 4/29/25
10. Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft 5/1/25
11. The Night She Disappeared 5/9/25
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11/20 Done!

Going with 20 this time, as I am really eager to reduce my pile, supported by some great TBR (SUB) challenges.

Print:
1. Bergland
2. Cascadia
3. Stunde um Stunde
4. Der Riss
5. Peanut Jones und die Stadt der Bilder
6. Die Überlebenden
7. Hasen feiern kein Weihnachten
8. Rindviehdämmerung
9. The Catcher in the Rye
10. Wer das Vergessen stört
11. Melmoth
12. Agathe
12. Der Totengräber und der Mord in der Krypta
13. Disgrace
14. Das Geheimnis der verborgenen Bibliothek
15. Elternabend: Kein Thriller
16. Hummer to go: Ein Bretagne-Roman

eBook:
1. Krähennacht
2. Wer mit den Wölfen heult
3. Der Poet des Meeres
4. Das grüne Königreich

Gianfry's 2025 Mount TBR Challenge

Reading progress: 22/24

1) The Accursed
2) The Omen
3) The Wolfen
4) Slashvivor!
5) Sleeper Train
6) The Cabin in the Woods: The Official Movie Novelization
7) The Reverie
8) Teddy
9) The Witching House: A Novella of Horror and Suspense
10) La ragazza che sapeva troppo
11) Fengriffen & Other Gothic Tales
12) Prince of Nightmares
13) Haunted
14) Blooding Night
15) Jaws
16) The Summer Job
17) The Woods are Dark
18) Mastodon
19) Island of the Flesh Eaters
20) Devils That Prey
21) Island of Bones
22) Maggie's Grave
23) Seven Buried Hill
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The challenge on the home page is acting wonky. If I click on my entry (the # of # books read) or view books it takes me to my GR Reading Challenge instead. It was working a few days ago but now it’s not. I think it did something like this a few years ago IIRC too many past years challenges still listed on the home page. 🤷‍♀️

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Since the year is 2025 and this is message no. 25, I'll go for 25 books.

January:
01. Ghosts by Edith Wharton;
02. Translation State by Ann Leckie;

February:
03. If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes;
04. Niebla al mediodía by Tomás González;

March:
05. Il paesaggio cosmico by Leonard Susskind;
06. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter;
07. Neuromancer by William Gibson;

April:
08. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare;
09. The Deep by Solomon Rivers;
10. Lanny and
11. Shy by Max Porter.

I'll go for 10 again this year but hopefully get more read.

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Challenging myself to 25 this year. Have fun everyone!

I'm going for 12 this year.
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1) This House Will Never Be Warm by Paul Avery Tindol
2) Alone on the Trail by Emily Hepditch
3) Mountain of the Dead by Jeremy Bates
4) Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies by John Langan
5) Pay the Piper by George A. Romero
6) Lost Gods by Brom
7) Evil in Me by Brom
8) Retown by Boris Bacic
9) Tides of Darkness by Andrew Van Wey
10) Frost Bite by Angela Sylvaine
11) Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
12) Revelator by Daryl Gregory

 

Canavan’s 2025 Horror Aficionados Mount TBR Challenge



The goal is to read at least 10 books from my personal TBR pile during 2025.

Legend
💝 = entries rated 4 stars or above

Setting a goal of 35 this year.
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I will set an initial goal of 10, but will shoot for more.

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I’m trying for 25 this year. It’s going to be hard because there’s so many horror books that are coming out this year!! They all look great too.

Total count so far: 22

I’m in. (10 books)
1. not a happy family by shari Lapena
2. the bad place by dean koontz
3. finlay donovan jumps the gun by elle cosimano
4. my dark vanessa by kate elizabeth russell
5. keep it in the family by john marrs
6. the road to omaha by robert ludlum
7. the cuban affair by nelson demille
8. red phoenix by larry bond
9. the last coyote by michael connelly
10. the coworker by freida mcfadden

I signed up for the challenge and never got a spot.

2025 Mount TBR Challenge
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I have a TBR list that is just ridiculous, especially since many of the books I do not own. I also own many books that I have never added to my TBR list. In addition I also have my Libby Wish list, also out of control. I am going to focus on books I own this year and/or books on my Libby Wish list.

Documentation: Name of the book - Date it was added to my TBR and/or purchased

1. The Long Walk - 04/10/2017
2. The Night Stockers - 10/26/2024
3. The Devil Takes You Home - 02/24/2023
4. Kane - 10/16/2024
5. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - 11/05/2024
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Ginger wrote: "I’m trying for 25 this year. It’s going to be hard because there’s so many horror books that are coming out this year!! They all look great too. Wah!

1. Jan 8th - The Fisherman
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That is the best kind of trouble to have!!

I'm aiming for five this year since I'm awful at getting to the older stuff in my list.

Update: COMPLETE!

1. Mexican Gothic
2. Beloved
3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
4. The Between
5. Company of Liars

Do you list ALL the books you've read or just horror titles. Thank you!

Unapologetic_Bookaholic wrote: "Do you list ALL the books you've read or just horror titles. Thank you!"

Any books you already own and read for the challenge qualify, they don't have to be horror. :)

I think I've failed this challenge every year 😆. This year I'm going for 15 books

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