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2025
Year in Books
56,470
pages read
William
170
books read
William
How to Write a Short Horror Story by Patrick Méndez
Shortest Book
47
pages
Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson
Longest Book
1,344
pages
Average book length in 2025
332
pages
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Most Shelved
5,592,583
people also shelved
500 Horror Writing Prompts by Christina Escamilla
Least Shelved
0
people also shelved
William’s average rating for 2025
3.0
3.0
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.64 average
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky

William’s first review of the year

really liked it
I really liked this novel or the idea of it. I kind of want to find the movie now. I would have liked a little more alien artifact hunting, and I like the idea of why the aliens visited.
WILLIAM’S 2025 BOOKS
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky
really liked it
All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks
Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa
Black Elk by Joe Jackson
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Aim to Misbehave by Rosiee Thor
The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway by Una McCormack
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazō Nitobe
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill
Eating Crow by Christian C. Kloepfer
really liked it
Salivate by Alison Osias
Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia
Tiger Chair by Max Brooks
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
The Stairway to Heaven by Zecharia Sitchin
Thunder in the Mountains by Daniel J. Sharfstein
The Women by Kristin Hannah
it was amazing
The Writhing by Abe Moss
Fearless and Free by Josephine Baker
Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
The Wars of Gods and Men by Zecharia Sitchin
Where He Can't Find You by Darcy Coates
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
Riding Like the Wind by Iris Jamahl Dunkle
really liked it
Haunted Deadwood by Mark Shadley
Ernest Hemingway by Mary V. Dearborn
Trouble Island by Sharon Short
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates
Soulsmith by Will Wight
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
Whose Names Are Unknown by Sanora Babb
National Park Encounters by Anonymous Ranger
My Perfect Daughter by Sarah A. Denzil
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson
Threadcaster by Jennifer Stolzer
The Runaway Jury by John Grisham
really liked it
Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
Tomorrow's Children by Daniel Polansky
Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson
The Strangers We Know by Pip Drysdale
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
really liked it
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule
Six Years by Harlan Coben
Tortured Dreams by Hadena James
The Big Fix by John Mankiewicz
We've Got Issues by Phillip C. McGraw
Land of Wolves by Craig Johnson
The Poppy Wife by Caroline Scott
Severance by Ling Ma
Lust Killer by Ann Rule
Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Win by Harlan Coben
really liked it
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Skinwalkers at the Pentagon by Colm A. Kelleher
Miami Blues by Charles Willeford
Congo by Michael Crichton
Walking the Edge by Sue Ward Drake
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
really liked it
The Manor of Dreams by Christina Li
Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879 by Herman Lehmann
The High Country by John Jackson Miller
The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier
Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
liked it
Never Flinch by Stephen King
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Outbreak by Joshua C. Chadd
Battleborn by Joshua C. Chadd
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
Wolf Pack by Joshua C. Chadd
Heat 2 by Michael Mann
Drifters by John L. Campbell
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Bad Company by Joshua C. Chadd
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
it was amazing
Last Hope by Joshua C. Chadd
Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Nightflyers by George R.R. Martin
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Prohibition by Edward Samuel Behr
really liked it
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Humans, Bow Down by James Patterson
Five Decembers by James Kestrel
The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
Blood Red Snow by Günter K. Koschorrek
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard by Robert E. Howard
Bloody Hands by Dennis Young

William’s last review of the year

really liked it
I met Dennis at a comicon and have enjoyed his novels. I read the first three and when he added a forth to the series I gave it a try. It a fun space marine scifi.
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