Books Read in December

 

December was certainly a month where I did A LOT of reading! It was also the month where I started and stopped reading many books, mainly because they just weren’t working for me. (I still have them, though. I plan to pick them up to read again at some point. Maybe I will be interested in them then!)

 

I ended up reading a lot of books this month mainly because of my book reviewing gig. I challenged myself to read 3 books in a week for every week of December but, unfortunately, I was not always able to meet that challenge. Alas! Two books to read in a week is easier for me to manage than three, especially since I have a lot of things going on!

 

I wanted to read a Christmas book this month, but the only one I read was a children’s book. I still enjoyed it, though, because I love cats and the pictures were cute. I have some Christmas-themed cozy mysteries in my TBR, but I’m not really interested in reading cozy mysteries at this time.

 

With this being the last month of the year, I will include the books I finish reading this month in my January 2026 post, but they will not be counted as how many books I read in one year. They will just be books I have read! They are still going into my reading journal, too, but just as “Books I finished reading from 2025” and not for any particular list.

 

There are two lists this time around. Unfortunately, I forgot to add books published by Twisted Dreams Press which I did read but I must have spaced on adding them to my list, because they weren’t added to my list after I read them! I have no idea what number they are on my list of books read this year but they DO still count as part of the “the number of books I have read this year” so I added them after the list of books I read this month.

 

This month, I read 17 books. That is the biggest amount of books I have read in a month so far! Yay! I also finished reading three books this month.

 

Here is the list of books I read and finished reading this month:

 

160. FINISHED READING: Tides of Resilience: Beyond the Wave by John Bromfield

161. FINISHED READING: The Haven Horror by Hokunani Sorci

162. FINISHED READING: Self-Worth: The Path to Happiness by Jonathan J. Woolverton

163. Exposition & World's Fairs: In the Beginning by Bob McGlincy

164. Founding Courage: Courage and Character in the United States of America by Kirk Ward Robinson

165. Turn Your Back on the Shore: The Surf Poetry Collection by Scott Rosin

166. Email Marketing for Authors: Grow an Email List that Actually Sells Books by Dale L. Roberts

167. Adventures of a Chess Girl: Into the Depths of the Chess World and Back Again by Katie Kormanik

168. The Alive 5: The story of a boy who stuttered by Mark W. Dean

169. We'll Always Be Here: An Anthology of LGBTQ+ Horror edited by James G. Carlson

170. Santa Claws: A Christmas Tail for Cats by Denise Alicea

171. Gremword by Winston Xu

172. Enduring the Sickness: Four Works Concerning Isolation, Society, And Surviving the Ailments That Have Been Cast Upon Us by Andrew Buckner

173. Your Guide to Climate Action: How to Move Beyond Your Footprint and Make a BIG Impact by Ryan Hagen

174. Ghost Writer by Arjay Lewis

175. Come With Me by C.A. Baynam

176. Vigil: Poems by Ellen Lord

177. You Are a Strategist: Use No-BS OKRs to Get Big Things Done by Sara Lobkovich

178. Analog Synthesis: Poems by Christopher Fried

179. The Bug Collector by Wrath James White

 

And here are the Twisted Dreams Press books that I read that I FORGOT to add! (Whoops!)

 

180. Cauldhame by Bill Davidson

181. Death in the Cards by Susan E. Rogers

182. Dark Harvest: Terrifying Tales from the Poisoned Planet: A Fundraising Anthology Presented by Twisted Dreams Press edited by Jennifer Horgan

183. The New Adventures of Horror Clown: The Life and Good Times of a Serial Killer by Otto DeFay

184. Arthropleura Attack! by J. Rocky Colavito

185. Monster Monday edited by Dawn Wilson (hey, that's me!)

186. The One-in-the-Noose by Susan E. Rogers

187. I Just Called to Say You Killed Me by J. Rocky Colavito

188. Dreadful Seasons by Kurt Newton

189. Redhead Town: Dystopian/Vampire Novella by Deborah Sheldon

190. Vampire Verses by LindaAn LoSchiavo