📚✨ December Recap!

December gave us cosy nights, last-minute reading sprints, and some standout stories to close out the year. ❤️📚

How did your reading year end? What was the final book you finished in 2025?

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December’s Bittersweet Read: The Bride of Death— A fairytale that grows up—and breaks your heart a little along the way. #NotQuiteSuperhuman #NQSBookChallenge #DecemberReads #BittersweetReads #DarkFairytale #FantasyRomance

https://notquitesuperhuman.com/2026/01/03/decembers-bittersweet-read-the-bride-of-death/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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Seven novels:
●●●◐○ The Inheritor's War {Behold: Humanity! 17} - Ralts Bloodthorne
●●●○○ The Librarian of Baker Street - Greg Kauffman-Starkey
●●●◐○ 1637: No Peace Beyond the Line {Ring of Fire} - Charles E. Gannon, Eric Flint
●●●○○ The Case of the Ritual Rapist {Miles Grant 16} - Jack Dearborn
●●●●○ Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz
●●●○○ Death in the Dentist's Chair {Dr. Constantine 02} - Molly Thynne
●●●◐○ Operation Time Search - Andre Norton

One novella:
●●●◐○ Divide and Rule - L. Sprague de Camp

Three novelettes:
●●●◐○ The Feminine Metamorphosis - David H. Keller

●●●◐○ Frolic - Cammie Conte
●●●○○ An Unexpected Adventure - Martin Brant

Thirty short stories:
●●●◐○ The Thirsty God - Margaret St. Clair
●●○○○ Every Work Into Judgment - Kris Neville
●●●○○ What’s Inside of People - Matthew McDermott
●●○○○ Static - Alithnayn Abdulkareem
●●●●○ The Black Ewe - Fritz Leiber
●●○○○ If This Be Utopia… - Kris Neville
●●◐○○ Vessels - Michael Shotter
●●●○○ One Leg Is Enough - Kris Neville
●●●◐○ When the Last Gods Die - Fritz Leiber
●●●◐○ Revenge for Stan - Hannah Steenbock
●●●◐○ Going South: Forever - Ted Bun
●●●●○ Aesop's Elevator - William Alexander
●●○○○ Laatlammer - J.S. Louw
●●●○○ Vector - Margaret St. Clair
●●◐○○ Forty Shades of Green - Ted Bun
●●○○○ The Field Journal of Dr. Franklin Nod - Michael Shotter
●○○○○ Armando's Virtuous Crime - Najwa Binshatwan
●●●●○ I'm Looking for "Jeff" - Fritz Leiber
●●○○○ Pest Control - Will Forest
●●●○○ Piety - Margaret St. Clair
●●●●○ Interloper - Poul Anderson
●●●○○ Seeds of Futurity - Kris Neville
●●●◐○ The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles - Margaret St. Clair
●●●○○ 1632 and Beyond, Issue #1 (= 5 ss)
●●●●○ Zabrina Meets the Retro Club - Maddi Gonzalez
●●●●○ A Deskful of Girls - Fritz Leiber
●●○○○ The Gardener's Pitch - Michael Shotter
●●○○○ Roberta - Margaret St. Clair
●●●◐○ Appointment in Tomorrow - Fritz Leiber
●●●◐○ The Emperor's New Towel - Mel Cowan

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2025-12: 34 ss | 03 nvt | 01 nva | 07 nov
2025-11: 23 ss | 03 nvt | 05 nva | 10 nov
2025-10: 30 ss | 00 nvt | 02 nva | 13 nov
2025-09: 26 ss | 02 nvt | 00 nva | 13 nov

❄️ December is made for wandering tales and quiet magic…

Feathers and Foxes follows a travelling prince, stolen divine apples, and a vanished girl whose fate is tied to gods and riddles.

Perfect winter reading for lovers of myth & fairytales 🦊🍎

https://books2read.com/Feathers-and-Foxes

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❄️ December is a season of grief, magic, and second chances…

Sealed with a Curse tells of six princes lost to darkness, a swan herder who still believes in hope, and gods who refuse to stay silent.

Would you forgive—or walk away? 🦢✨

https://books2read.com/SealedwithaCurse

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#DecemberReads

THE URTH OF THE NEW SUN, Gene Wolfe
SKIPPING CHRISTMAS, John Grisham
THE BANE OF THE BLACK SWORD, Michael Moorcock
THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, Neil Gaiman
THE GORGON, Tanith Lee
YOU SHOULD COME WITH ME NOW, M. John Harrison
THE BOOK OF WONDER, Lord Dunsany
THIS IS ME, JACK VANCE!, Jack Vance
STORMBRINGER, Michael Moorcock

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Almost forgot to post my December #Reads for the Rest of Us at #MsMagazine! What are you #reading this month??

https://msmagazine.com/2022/12/06/feminist-books-writers-women-lgbtq-december-2022-reads-for-the-rest-of-us/
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Are you reading either of these #DecemberReads with me?

If so, visit my Happy Bookers page (http://Facebook.com/groups/HeidiBettsHappyBookers) and chime in!😃

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