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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Book 19 is "Prince Lestat" by Anne Rice, book 11 of the Vampire Chronicles.

Edit: finished 8th April.

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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.

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Book 23 is "Shorefall" by Robert Jackson Bennett, the second Founders trilogy book.

Edit: finished 21st April.

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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.

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Book 27 is "Locklands" by Robert Jackson Bennett, the third in the Founders trilogy.

Edit: finished 30th April.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Book 34 is "The Tainted Cup" by Robert Jackson Bennett.

Edit: finished 24th May.

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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.

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Book 36, in the meantime, is "Sightwitch" by Susan Dennard.

Edit: finished 27th May.

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Book 37 is "House of Leaves" by Mark Z Danielewski.

Edit: finished 3rd June.

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Book 38 is "Scarlet" by Genevieve Cogman.

Edit: finished 4th June.

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Book 39 is "Thief's Magic" by Trudi Canavan, the first in the Millennium's Rule series.

Edit: finished 15th June.

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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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Book 42 is "Maker's Curse", the final Millennium's Rule book by Trudi Canavan.

Edit: finished 27th June.

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Book 43 is "Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil" by V. E. Schwab.

Edit: finished 28th June.

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Book 44 is "Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fae", edited by Elizabeth Dearnley.

Edit: finished 30th June.

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Book 45 is "Isles of the Emberdark" by Brandon Sanderson.

Edit: finished 1st July.

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Forgot to post this last night...

Book 46 is "The Court of the Air" by Stephen Hunt, the first Jackelian book.

Edit: finished 5th July.

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Book 47 is "Diaspora" by Greg Egan.

Edit: finished 15th July.

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Book 48 is "Pandora's Star" by Peter F. Hamilton, first of the Commonwealth Saga.

Edit: finished 29th July.

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