One Book a Week (Julia Reads Books)

Finding pleasure in Horror & Fantasy

I feel that this is the year where I’ve read so much fewer books compared to all the others. When I was thinking to myself that now that I’m expecting a baby I’ll have so much more free time to read and chill, I found myself craving horror, finishing of the Intercepts, the Infected trilogy…

Written by

Carra Lucia

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2025 Books in Review

  1. Umney’s Last Case (1993) * Stephen King Book Review (1/19/2018)
  2. Stephen King * The things they left behind Short Story (3/18/2018)
  3. Mile 81 * Stephen King Book Review (9/20/2018)
  4. Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) by George R. R. Martin (12/22/2018)
  5. Resurrection Walk – A Lincoln Lawyer novel by Michael Connelly (1/17/2025)
  6. Pachinko – Min Jin Lee (Audiobook) (2/7/2025)
  7. Haralamb Zinca – Dosarul Aviatorului Singuratic (Romana) (2/11/2025)
  8. When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman (2/14/2025)
  9. Ted Chiang * Compilation (2/15/2025)
  10. The Midnight Library by Matt Haigh (or the groundhog day library) (2/18/2025)
  11. Stephen King – The night flier 1989 or the story of a vampire taking a pee (3/13/2025)
  12. A bedroom in the wee hours of the morning – Stephen King – or other stories from Overlook hotel (3/14/2025)
  13. I’m Glad My Mom Died * Jeannete McCurdy (or the eating disorder caused by mom issues book) (3/18/2025)
  14. Mexican Gothic * Silvia Moreno-Garcia (3/30/2025)
  15. Haralambie Bârzan – Partea nevăzută a zilei de mâine – The unseen side of tomorrow (1985) (4/9/2025)
  16. T.J. Payne – Intercepts – a horror novel (4/12/2025)
  17. Science in an age of unreason * John Staddon (4/24/2025)
  18. Infected by Scott Sigler – Triangles #1 (5/27/2025)
  19. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke * Eric LaRocca (5/29/2025)
  20. True Love Experiment * Christina Lauren – Or the hot sex scenes with the mountain (6/2/2025)
  21. The Fisherman * John Langan (6/5/2025)
  22. All Things Are Nothing to Me * Jacob Blumenfeld (6/10/2025)
  23. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo * Taylor Jenkins Reid (7/7/2025)
  24. Never Flinch – Stephen King (Finders Keepers) 2025 (7/15/2025)
  25. The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (Audiobook) (7/21/2025)
  26. John Scalzi – Fuzzy Nation (Audiobook) (7/25/2025)
  27. The Deep, Deep Snow by Brian Freeman (audiobook) (7/29/2025)
  28. The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (9/17/2025)
  29. The Courage to Be Disliked * Ichiro Kishimi (9/19/2025)
  30. Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood (9/24/2025)
  31. Contagious – Scott Sigler – Triangles #2 (10/3/2025)
  32. Skeleton Crew by Stephen King (10/5/2025)
  33. Ancestor – Scott Sigler – or the little book of dangers of Xenozoonosis (10/29/2025)
  34. The White Book – Han Kang (2019) audiobook (11/11/2025)
  35. The Love Haters – Katherine Center (11/22/2025)
  36. Patient Zero – Jonathan Maberry (11/25/2025)
  37. After World by Debbie Urbanski – or how AI falls in love with a human (2023) (11/28/2025)
  38. Unbury Carol * Josh Malerman (12/20/2025)

I feel that this is the year where I’ve read so much fewer books compared to all the others. When I was thinking to myself that now that I’m expecting a baby I’ll have so much more free time to read and chill, I found myself craving horror, finishing of the Intercepts, the Infected trilogy by Scott Siegler and what really bummed me down was Ancestor from the same author – the pregnant cows infected with a new genetic mutant hit too close to home.

Collage of classic novel covers and related imagery including To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, 1984, and Lord of the Flies.