Tracking my progress with 2025 reading challenges. (Links to all challenges with full details, and to sign-up, can be found in this post.)
Challenges listed below:
23.0 - July 1 through October 31
Turned into TV series: Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris (show = True Blood)
Cover with dominant color…red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet: Finish - Jon Acuff
By author who published 10+ books: The March - E.L. Doctorow
Plural word in the title: Tomb of Gods - Brian Moreland
Set in the 1940s: The Keep - F. Paul Wilson
Body part in the title: The Pale Blue Eye - Louis Bayard
Set in Asia: The Reckoning - Jeff Long
Domestic cat on cover: The Legacy - John Coyne
STEM female character: Our Hideous Progeny - C.E. McGill
22.0 - January 1 through April 30
Here are the prompts and levels...
- Vampires
- Witches
- Folk Horror
The Twisted Ones - Written by a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) author
Don't Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones - A Ghost Story
The Hacienda, Isabel Canas April 13 - Written by a female author
- Cosmic Horror
- Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer
- Frightening Cover
- Adapted as movie/series
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde April 10 - Katsu, Ketchum, King, or Koontz
Holly, Stephen King March 24 - Black, gray, orange, or red cover
Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow, Christina Henry January 17 - Book featuring a Cryptid (mark off one BINGO square!)
The Dover Demon, Hunter Shea February 22
Spooky: Read 6 books from 6 categories
Chilling: Read 12 Books from all 12 categories
Frightful: Read 2 books from each category for a total of 24 books
Horrifying: Read 3 books from each category for a total of 36 books
Chilling: Read 12 Books from all 12 categories
Frightful: Read 2 books from each category for a total of 24 books
Horrifying: Read 3 books from each category for a total of 36 books
I'm doing the Chilling level. I've listed some of my planned reads above.
Cryptid BINGO card...
The Dover Demon, Hunter Shea
My main level...
The Enthusiast: read 1-3 books (2025 TV/Movie releases)
Also, additional levels...
Not Ready to Let Go: read at least one (1) book made into a movie or series in 2024
Living in the Past: read at least one (1) book made into a movie in previous years
The Movie Was Better (What?!): watch the movies/shows for the books you read.
Also, additional levels...
Not Ready to Let Go: read at least one (1) book made into a movie or series in 2024
Living in the Past: read at least one (1) book made into a movie in previous years
The Movie Was Better (What?!): watch the movies/shows for the books you read.
Potential books:
Wicked, Gregory Maguire (2024)The Witching Hour, Anne Rice (reread) Second season of streaming series (1/5/25)
The Pale Blue Eye, Louis Bayard (2022)
The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (2023)
Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann (2023)
Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin - House of the Dragon streaming series (2022, 2024)
The Keep, F. Paul Wilson (1983)
My Lady Jane, Cynthia Hand - streaming series (2024)
Dune, Frank Herbert (2021 and 2024) streaming series Prophecy (2024)
Klara And The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (2025)The Running Man, Stephen King (2025)
The Long Walk, Stephen King (2025)
2025
2024
2023 and older
Movies watched
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Rosemary's Baby
Completed books will have the date completed in red linked to the review (if applicable). Replacement books will be added to the end of the list.
Curious about this challenge? Get all the details here.
Books from my "holds shelf"
Diary of an Immortal, David J. Castello
The Orphan Witch, Paige Crutcher
The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
The American Adventuress, C.W. Gortner
The Year of the Witching, Alexis Henderson
The Penguin Book of Witches, Katherine Howe, Editor
The Double Bind, Chris Bohjalian
Billy Summers, Stephen King
The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher
Relics, Tim Lebbon
The Witch Doesn't Burn in this One, Amanda Lovelace
The North Water, Ian McGuire
All the Dark Places, Terri Parlato
The Chestnut Man, Soren Sveistrop
The Book of Speculation, Enka Swyler
A People's History of the Vampire Uprising, Raymond A. Villareal
Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo
Freezing Point, Karen Dionne
The Marsh King's Daughter, Karen Dionne
The Forever House, Tim Waggoner
The Writing Retreat, Julia Batz February 25
Camp Zero, Michelle Min Sterling March 10
Babel, R.F. Kuang
Strange Piece of Paradise, Terri Jentz
White Horse, Erika T. Wurth
The Broken Ones, Stephen M. Irwin
The Kingdom of Sweets, Erika Johnson
Witches Get Stuff Done, Molly Harper
Diavola, Jennifer Marie Thorne
The String Diaries, Stephen Lloyd Jones
My Darling Girl, Jennifer McMahon
Maplecroft, Cherie Priest
The Evening Road, Laird Hunt
Don't Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones
Salvation Spring, T.C. Parker
Hummingbird, T.C. Parker
The Long Con, T.C. Parker
Familia, Lauren E. Rico
The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd
Try Not to Die: At Ghostland, Ralston & Tullius
Hell on High, Michael Clark
Hemlock Island, Kelley Armstrong
Witches Steeped in Gold, Ciannon SmartThe Fury, Alex Michaelidis April 23Pine, Francine Toon May 4Horseman, Christina Henry January 17Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman April 18Holly, Stephen King March 24The Hacienda, Isabel Cantas April 13Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot March 26
At the bottom of the page is an image of my current holds shelf. I managed to read 15 books from the 59 books that were on the shelf starting in 2024. When I did read a book from my holds shelf, I shelved it on my main shelves and chose a book from my main shelves to replace it. I changed this up a bit in 2024. I made a list of new books as they arrived and for every third book I read from the holds shelf, I would replace it with one of the new books. That way I'm still replacing the majority of books from my main shelves.
Books replacing completed books on the "holds shelf"
Small Town Horror, Ronald Malfi April 29
Completed books will have the date completed in red linked to the review (if applicable). Replacement books will be added to the end of the list.
The Orphan Witch, Paige Crutcher
The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
The American Adventuress, C.W. Gortner
The Year of the Witching, Alexis Henderson
The Penguin Book of Witches, Katherine Howe, Editor
The Double Bind, Chris Bohjalian
Billy Summers, Stephen King
The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher
Relics, Tim Lebbon
The Witch Doesn't Burn in this One, Amanda Lovelace
The North Water, Ian McGuire
All the Dark Places, Terri Parlato
The Chestnut Man, Soren Sveistrop
The Book of Speculation, Enka Swyler
A People's History of the Vampire Uprising, Raymond A. Villareal
Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo
Freezing Point, Karen Dionne
The Marsh King's Daughter, Karen Dionne
The Forever House, Tim Waggoner
Babel, R.F. Kuang
Strange Piece of Paradise, Terri Jentz
White Horse, Erika T. Wurth
The Broken Ones, Stephen M. Irwin
The Kingdom of Sweets, Erika Johnson
Witches Get Stuff Done, Molly Harper
Diavola, Jennifer Marie Thorne
The String Diaries, Stephen Lloyd Jones
My Darling Girl, Jennifer McMahon
Maplecroft, Cherie Priest
The Evening Road, Laird Hunt
Don't Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones
Salvation Spring, T.C. Parker
Hummingbird, T.C. Parker
The Long Con, T.C. Parker
Familia, Lauren E. Rico
The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd
Try Not to Die: At Ghostland, Ralston & Tullius
Hell on High, Michael Clark
Hemlock Island, Kelley Armstrong
Witches Steeped in Gold, Ciannon Smart
Frankenstein Omnibus, Dean Koontz
Castle of Sorrows, Jonathan Janz
Deerskin, Robin Mckinley
Babysitter, Joyce Carol Oates
The Manor House, Gilly MacMillan
Affinity, Sarah Waters
The Book of Atrix Wolfe, Patricia McKillip
Children of the Night, Dan Simmons
At the bottom of the page is an image of my current holds shelf. I managed to read 15 books from the 59 books that were on the shelf starting in 2024. When I did read a book from my holds shelf, I shelved it on my main shelves and chose a book from my main shelves to replace it. I changed this up a bit in 2024. I made a list of new books as they arrived and for every third book I read from the holds shelf, I would replace it with one of the new books. That way I'm still replacing the majority of books from my main shelves.
Hotel Transylvania, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Doll, Daphne Du Maurier
The Toll, Cherie Priest
The Evening and the Morning, Ken Follett
The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan
Chronicle of the Pharaohs
Sleep Tight, J.H. Markert
Circe, Madeline Miller
Vampires and Vampirism, Montague Summers
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