Dr Richard HusseyNew year, new reading thread.
Starting off 2025 with book 1, "Starborn" by Lucy Hounsom.
Edit: finished 6th January.
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Book 2 is "Heartland" by Lucy Hounsom.
Edit: finished 12th January.
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Book 3 is "Firestorm" by Lucy Hounsom.
Edit: finished 18th January.
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Book 4 of 2025 is "Dragonsteel Prime" by Brandon Sanderson.
This is one of his "unpublished" Curiosities, versions of books no longer canon but which he has or will rewrite into something that'll be published.
Edit: finished 27th January.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #BrandonSanderson #Cosmere #SandersonCuriosities #Dragonsteel
Book 5 is "The Obelisk Gate" by N.K. Jemisin, book 2 in the Broken Earth trilogy.
I read book 1 last year, and got 2&3 for Christmas.
Edit: finished 2nd February.
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Book 6 is "The Stone Sky" by N.K. Jemisin, third book in the Broken Earth trilogy.
Edit: finished 5th February.
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Book 7 of 2025 is "Interview With the Vampire" by Anne Rice.
It's been at least 20 years since I first read this and I've read it a few times since, but I recently discovered the were the now books I didn't know about so I decided to redo the whole Vampire Chronicles.
Edit: finished 10th February.
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Book 7 is the second Vampire Chronicles novel, "The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice.
Edit: finished 18th February.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #AnneRice #TheVampireChronicles #TheVampireLestat
Book 8 is the third Vampire Chronicles novel, "The Queen of the Damned" by Anne Rice.
Edit: finished 25th February.
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Book 9 of 2025 is the fourth of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, "The Tale of the Body Thief".
Edit: finished 4th March.
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Book 10 is the fifth of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, "Memnoch the Devil".
Edit: finished 10th March.
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Onto book 11, which is "The Vampire Armand", the sixth of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.
Edit: finished 19th March.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #AnneRice #VampireChronicles #TheVampireArmand
For book 12 I'm jumping over to Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches series for a bit, as the two series intertwine and the seventh Vampire Chronicles will be the fourth Mayfair Witches...
So onto the first one, "The Witching Hour".
Edit: finished 30th March.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #AnneRice #MayfairWitches #TheWitchingHour
Book 13 of 2025 is the second Mayfair Witches book, "Lasher" by Anne Rice.
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Book 14 is "Taltos", the third Mayfair Witches book by Anne Rice.
Edit: finished 2nd April.
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Now we start to crossover...
Book 15 is "Merrick" by Anne Rice, the fourth Mayfair Witches book and seventh Vampire Chronicles novel.
Edit: finished 2nd April.
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Book 16 is "Blood and Gold" by Anne Rice, the eighth Vampire Chronicles book.
Edit: finished 3rd April.
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Book 17 of 2025 is "Blackwood Farm" by Anne Rice, book 5 of the Mayfair Witches and 9 of the Vampire Chronicles.
Edit: finished 3rd April.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #AnneRice #VampireChronicles #MayfairWitches #BlackwoodFarm
Book 18 is "Blood Canticle" by Anne Rice, book 10 of the Vampire Chronicles and book 6 of the Mayfair Witches.
Edit: finished 4th April.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #AnneRice #VampireChronicles #MayfairWitches #BloodCanticle
Book 19 is "Prince Lestat" by Anne Rice, book 11 of the Vampire Chronicles.
Edit: finished 8th April.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #AnneRice #VampireChronicles #PrinceLestat
Book 20 is "Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis" by Anne Rice, book 12 of the Vampire Chronicles.
Edit: finished 12th April.
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Book 21 is the thirteenth and final Vampire Chronicles novel, "Blood Communion" by Anne Rice.
Edit: finished 14th April.
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Book 22 is "Red Side Story" by Jasper Fforde.
Edit: finished 19th April.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #JasperFforde #ShadesOfGrey #RedSideStory
Book 23 is "Shorefall" by Robert Jackson Bennett, the second Founders trilogy book.
Edit: finished 21st April.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #RobertJacksonBennett #FoundersTrilogy #Shorefall
Book 24 is "The Lighthouse Witches" by C.J. Cooke.
Edit: finished 22nd April.
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Book 25 of 2025 is "Shoestring Theory" by Mariana Costa.
Edit: finished 23rd April.
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Book 26 is "Shroud" by Adrian Tchaikovsky ( @aptshadow ).
Edit: finished 26th April.
Book 27 is "Locklands" by Robert Jackson Bennett, the third in the Founders trilogy.
Edit: finished 30th April.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #RobertJacksonBennett #FoundersTrilogy #Locklands
Book 28 is "Anno Dracula" by Kim Newman.
This sounds like an absolutely marvellous premise... Go and find the back jacket text if you can and have a read.
Edit: finished 7th May.
Book 29 is "City of Blades" by Robert Jackson Bennett, second in the Divine Cities trilogy.
Edit: finished 9th May.
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Book 30 of 2025 is "City of Miracles" by Robert Jackson Bennett, third in the Divine Cities trilogy.
Edit: finished 12th May.
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Book 31 is "Down Station" by Simon Morden.
Edit: finished 19th May.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #SimonMorden #Down #DownStation
Book 32 is "The White City" by Simon Morden.
Edit: finished 20th May.
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Book 33 is "The Cat Who Saved Books" by Sosuke Natsukawa.
Edit: finished 21st May.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #SosukeNatsukawa #TheCatWhoSavedBooks
Book 34 is "The Tainted Cup" by Robert Jackson Bennett.
Edit: finished 24th May.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #RobertJacksonBennett #ShadowOfTheLeviathan #TheTaintedCup
Book 35 of 2025 is "The Kingdom Beyond the Waves" by Stephen Hunt.
Edit: pausing this one for a while as it turns out to be the sequel...
Edit 2 Electric Boogaloo: Started again from the beginning 5th July.
Edit 3: finished 12th July.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #StephenHunt #TheKingdomBeyondTheWaves
Book 36, in the meantime, is "Sightwitch" by Susan Dennard.
Edit: finished 27th May.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #SusanDennard #ATaleOfTheWitchlands #Sightwitch
Book 37 is "House of Leaves" by Mark Z Danielewski.
Edit: finished 3rd June.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #MarkZDanielewski #HouseOfLeaves
Book 38 is "Scarlet" by Genevieve Cogman.
Edit: finished 4th June.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #GenevieveCogman #TheScarletRevolution #Scarlet
Book 39 is "Thief's Magic" by Trudi Canavan, the first in the Millennium's Rule series.
Edit: finished 15th June.
#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #TrudiCanavan #MillenniumsRule #ThiefsMagic
Book 40 of 2025 is "Angel of Storms" by Trudi Canavan, the second in Millennium's Rule.
Edit: finished 22nd June.
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Book 41 is "Successor's Promise" by Trudi Canavan, Millennium's Rule book 3.
Edit: finished 25th June.
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Coffin Rock Créationsit was my first book this year and I hated it ^^