Category: Books

Literacy 2026: Book 1: The Impossible Fortune
Richard Osman’s fifth book in the Thursday Murder Club series

The Innocents and the surprising rarity of satisfying ghost stories
My thoughts on the 1961 film The Innocents and how hard it is to find a good old-fashioned haunting

Literacy 2025: Book 24: Hidden Pictures
Jason Rekulak’s thriller about a young woman hired as nanny to a bright child whose drawings reveal a dark presence hiding in the house

Literacy 2025: Book 23: Heads Will Roll
Josh Winning’s slasher novel about a camp for a celebrity who’s in danger of being canceled… PERMANENTLY

Literacy 2025: Book 22: The Last Devil To Die
Richard Osman’s culmination of the cozy mystery series The Thursday Murder Club

Literacy 2025: Book 21: William
Mason Coile’s short novel about a haunted smart house and the possibly possessed robot living in its attic

Literacy 2025: Book 20: Unruly
David Mitchell’s short histories of the kings and queens of England from Arthur to Elizabeth I

Literacy 2025: Book 19: Victorian Psycho
Virginia Feito’s excellent satirical novel about a governess working for a not terribly impressive family

Literacy 2025: Book 18: Close to Death
Anthony Horowitz digs into the past cases of his detective partner Daniel Hawthorne

Literacy 2025: Book 17: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Volume One)
Emil Ferris’s masterpiece about a young werewolf growing up in 1960s Chicago

Literacy 2025: Book 16: The Twisted Ones
T Kingfisher’s folk horror novel about a woman discovering the ancient things that live in the woods around her grandmother’s house

Literacy 2025: Book 15: Dark Matter
Blake Crouch’s novel about a man trapped in the multiverse and trying to get back home.











