November 2025 Reading List

Novels
Mister Tender's Girl: A Novel by Carter Wilson

Novellas, Novelettes, Shorts

The Belle of the Ball by Stephen Graham Jones
The Kill Clause: A Short Story by Lisa Unger

The Shivers collection (2025)
Night and Day in Misery by Catriona Ward
The Blanks by Grady Hendrix
The Indigo Room by Stephen Graham Jones

Scared Sexy Collection (2025)
My Boyfriends Are All Monsters by Kimberly Lemming
Beautiful Nightmare by Katee Robert
Space Vampire by Ruby Dixon

The Time Traveler's Passport Collection, edited by John Joseph Adams (2025)
(See review in thread.)
Cronus by P. Djèlí Clark
All Manner of Thing Shall Be by Olivie Blake
A Visit to the Husband Archive by Kaliane Bradley
For a Limited Time Only by Peng Shepherd
Making Space by R. F. Kuang

Novelettes (all published in 2025)
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy by Martha Wells
Redemption Song by Quan Barry
Shorted by Alex Irvine
The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For by Cameron Reed
After the Invasion of the Bug-Eyed Aliens by Rachel Swirsky
Agate Way by Laird Barron
The Name Ziya by Wen-Yi Lee
The Sack of Burley Cottage by Rich Larson

#NovellaNovember
(See reviews in thread.)
Gnomes of Lychford by Paul Cornell (2025)
Rosebud by Paul Cornell
Love & Other Killers by Brynne Weaver
Graveyard Shift by M. L. Rio
The Extra by Annie Neugebauer (2025)
Spread Me by Sarah Gailey (2025)
The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. Sui
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (2025)
But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo (2025)
And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed
A Hunger With No Name by Lauren C. Teffeau
Cradle and Graveby Anya Ow
The Oblivion Bride by Caitlin Starling
These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein
The Transitive Properties of Cheese by Ann LeBlanc
Yellow Jessamine by Caitlin Starling
The Dead Withheld by L. D. Lewis (2025)
Empire of the Feast by Bendi Barrett

Comics & Graphic Novels

Gargoyles: Here in Manhattan Collection by Greg Weisman
The Deep Dark: A Graphic Novel by Molly Knox Ostertag
The Last Session Vol. 1: Roll For Initiative by Jasmine Walls

Marvel/DC: Thor/Shazam! Infinity Comic (2025) #1 by Al Ewing
DC/Marvel: The Flash/Fantastic Four (2025) #1 by Jeremy Adams
I see they're trying to make Infinity Comics and DC Go happen. I still dislike the format even though I read the crossovers because I will always read the crossovers. That was an old-school Captain Marvel and I grinned while reading him.

Novella November, Part 1 of ?

Gnomes of Lychford by Paul Cornell
It's always nice, though sometimes sad, to visit Lychford. Gnomes of Lychford by Paul Cornell was what I needed after the previous book, containing some healing, a lot of humor, and exposing some magical secrets that the witches were unaware of.

Rosebud by Paul Cornell
It's been days and I can't get this story out of my head. Fantastically well done, creating a human civilization I can easily imagine coming into being and a terrifyingly powerful alien race.

Love & Other Killers by Brynne Weaver
I understand this novella bridges the gap between two series, both of which seem to be about killers. (As it said on the tin, eh?) Killers who kill bad guys is a trope I enjoy, and this book actually did that in romcom format. Somehow. I'm coming back for more in both series.

Graveyard Shift by M. L. Rio
This novella feels like the beginning of an apocalypse or the flashback that solves all the mysteries. The story unravels slowly through multiple perspectives, until you're left with the horrible knowledge of what's happening.

The Extra by Annie Neugebauer
An unreliable narrator spinning a chilling tale of memory and deception.

Spread Me by Sarah Gailey
This is Weird. I think we should get that out of the way right now, this is very much in the style of Finnish Weird and I love it. It's like The Thing but you can't mention The Thing and also you might want to sort of have sex with the thing. At its heart this story is about embracing our differences and being ourselves. Five fucking stars.

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