Reading/books
Welcome to the Dust + Waves reading page!
This is where you can find the list of books I have read during the year. Be sure to drop me a line if you have read any of these books and want to chat about them!
Goodreads - you can find my ratings and reviews here.
Books read in 2025:
January
The Silent Companions / Laura Purcell
The Lost Village / Camilla Sten
The Last One / Will Dean
Salem Falls / Jodi Picoult
Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six / Lisa Unger
Breathless / Amy McCulloch
The Woman In the Mirror / Rebecca James
Last Seen Alive / Claire Douglas
The Lighthouse Witches / CJ Cooke
The Measure / Nikki Erlick
Divine Rivals / Rebecca Ross
The Hike / Lucy Clarke
The Nightingale / Kristin Hannah
Stalking Jack the Ripper / Kerri Maniscalco
The Perfect Lie / Jo Spain
Babel / RF Kuang
Strange Unearthly Things / Kelly Creagh
February
Relic / Douglas Preston
Listen for the Lie / Amy Tintera
Red Rising / Pierce Brown
The Woman Who Lied / Claire Douglas
The Reformatory / Tananarive Due
Our Wives Under the Sea / Julia Armfield
A Court of Thorns and Roses / Sarah J Maas
Vampires of El Norte / Isabel Canas
Just Like Home / Sarah Gailey
The Return of Ellie Black / Emiko Jean
A Dowry of Blood / ST Gibson
Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier
Heart Shaped Box / Joe Hill
The Other Mrs / Mary Kubica
The Night Circus / Erin Morgenstern
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders / David Grann
The Mad Women's Ball / Victoria Mas
March
Weyward / Emilia Hart
The Bog Wife / Kay Chronister
Notes on an Execution / Danya Kukafka
Don't Let the Forest In / CG Drews
Local Girl Missing / Clair Douglas
Wilder Girls / Rory Power
If We Were Villains / ML Rio
Strange Sally Diamond / Liz Nugent
Imposter / K Larsen
What We Harvest / Ann Fraistat
The Hollow Places / T Kingfisher
At the Bottom of the Garden / Camilla Bruce
The Dead Girl in 2A / Carter Wilson
Beautiful Ugly / Alice Feeney
April
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife / Ashley Winstead
The Vanishing at Castle Moreau / Jaime Jo Wright
The Devil and Mrs Davenport / Paulette Kennedy
Wild Dark Shore / Charlotte McConaghy
A House with Good Bones / T Kingfisher
Hunted / Darcy Coates
The Path of Thorns / AG Slatter
The Woods are Waiting / Katherine Greene
The Disinvited Guest / Carol Goodman
The Sirens / Emilia Hart
The Botanical Daughter / Noah Medlock
May
The Cliffs / J Courtney Sullivan
Pines / Black Crouch
The Last Time She Saw Him / Kate White
Still Life / Louise Penny
Daughter of Mine / Megan Miranda
The Hollow Kind / Andy Davidson
Two Twisted Crowns / Rachel Gillig
The Drowning Kind / Jennifer McMahon
Frankenstein the 1818 text / Mary Shelley
Good Bad Girl / Alice Feeney
The House in the Cerulean Sea / TJ Klune
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue / VE Schwab
The Missing Half / Ashley Flowers
Kill All Your Darlings / David Bell
We Live Here Now / Sarah Pinborough
June
The Guest List / Lucy Foley
Ninth House / Leigh Bardugo
You're Invited / Amanda Jayatissa
Murder Road / Simone St James
The Golden Couple / Greer Hendricks
Kill Creatures / Rory Powers
The Death of Jane Lawrence / Caitlin Starling
Woman Last Seen / Adele Parks
The Last Housewife / Ashley Winstead
Crypt of the Moon Spider / Nathan Ballingrud
Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves / Quinn Connor
Mexican Gothic / Silvia Moreno-Garcia
One of the Girls / Lucy Clarke
Dead End Girl / LT Vargas
The Night Guest / Hildur Knutsdottir
The Lake / Natasha Preston
Something in the Walls / Daisy Pierce
Books read in 2024:
January
Razorblade Tears / SA Cosby
None of This Is True / Lisa Jewell
February
The Frozen River / Ariel Lawhon
March
Crave / Tracy Wolff
April
Queen of Thieves / Breezy Marsh
Serpent & Dove / Shelby Mahurin
May
Blood & Honey / Shelby Mahurin
The Wager: Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder / David Grann
Three Dark Crowns / Kendare Blake
June
One Dark Window / Rachel Gillig
Crush / Tracy Wolff
The Fury / Alex Michaelides
One Dark Throne / Kendare Blake
Chasing The Boogeyman / Richard Chizmar
The Search Party / Hannah Richell
Sharp Objects / Gillian Flynn
The Housemaid / Freida McFadden
July
Dark Matter / Blake Crouch
The Assassin's Blade / Sarah J Maas
The Stranger Inside / Lisa Unger
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
The Hunger / Alma Katsu
The Therapist / BA Paris
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon / Stephen King
Craven Manor / Darcy Coates
Survive The Night / Riley Sager
Lone Women / Victor LaValle
Have You Seen Me / Kate White
August
Witch Child / Celia Rees
The God of The Woods / Liz Moore
Never Lie / Freida McFadden
The Sanatorium / Sarah Pearse
Remarkably Bright Creatures / Shelby Van Pelt
Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck
The House in the Pines / Ana Reyes
The Paris Apartment / Lucy Foley
Bad Little Falls / Paul Doiron
Where Darkness Blooms / Andrea Hannah
The Book of Lost Things / John Connoly
September
Local Woman Missing / Mary Kubica
The Final Girl Support Group / Grady Hendrix
The Cherished / Patricia Ward
Mortal Remains / Mary Ann Fraser
Horrid / Katrina Leo
Lock Every Door / Riley Sager
The Blinds / Adam Sternbergh
The Whisper Man / Alex North
Black Rock Bay / Brianna Labuskes
The Shadows / Alex North
The Nesting / CJ Cooke
The Cloisters / Katy Hays
The Midnight Library / Matt Haig
The Haunting / Natasha Preston
October
The Watchers / AM Shine
The Sun Down Motel / Simone St James
The Haunting of Rookward House / Darcy Coates
Ink Blook Sister Scribe / Emma Torz
Clown in a Cornfield / Adam Cesare
We Used to Live Here / Marcus Kliewer
Thats Not My Name / Megan Lally
She is a Haunting / Trang Thanh Tran
The Creeper / AM Shine
The Ex Hex / Erin Sterling
My Darling Dreadful Thing / Johanna va Veen
The Book of Witching / CJ Cooke
Annihilation / Jeff VanderMeer
How To Sell a Haunted House / Grady Hendrix
Looking Glass Sound / Catriona Ward
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey / Kamala Harris
November
Salt & Storm / Kendall Kulper
The Midnight Feast / Lucy Foley
Authority / Jeff VanderMeer
All The Colors of the Dark / Chris Whitaker
Graveyard Shift / ML Rio
The Cruel Prince / Holly Black
The Cabin at the End of the World / Paul Tremblay
Starling House / Alix E Harrow
The Deep / Alma Katsu
The Passenger / Lisa Lutz
Beneath The Shadows / Sara Foster
The Crossing Places / Elly Griffiths
December
One By One / Ruth Ware
The Starless Sea / Erin Morgenstern
Winter at the Door / Sarah Graves
The Winter People / Jennifer McMahon
Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea / Mary Higgins Clark
Dead of Winter / Darcy Coates
Death at a Christmas Party / Ann Sutton
The Cat Who Came For Christmas / Cleveland Amory
My Darling Girl / Jennifer McMahon
One of Us Knows / Alyssa Cole
NOS4A2 / Joe Hill
The Hollows / Daniel Church
The Darkening / Sunya Mara
Raven Black / Ann Cleeves