jude's bookshelf

here's where i'll keep a log of what i'm reading. for (occasionally) more detailed reviews and my to-be-read lists, visit me on BookWyrm. click here for my top ten books of the year!

	Bad Dreams in the Night by Adam Ellis	fiction; anthology; graphic novel; horror -- 4/19/24
	Nobody's Child by Susan Vinocour	nonfiction; psychology; law -- 4/15/24
	Rabbit Heart by Kristine S. Ervin	nonfiction; memoir; true crime -- 4/13/24
	Hell Put to Shame by Earl Swift	nonfiction; biography; true crime -- 4/10/24
	This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances by Eric LaRocca	fiction; anthology; horror -- 4/4/24
	The Bone Woman by Clea Koff	nonfiction; memoir; forensic anthropology -- 4/4/24
	Hearts of Darkness by Jana Monroe	nonfiction; memoir; true crime -- 4/1/24
	The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo	fiction; horror -- 3/30/24
	Killer Amidst Killer by Billy Jensen	nonfiction; true crime -- 3/29/24
	Through the Night Like a Snake	fiction; anthology; horror -- 3/28/24
	The Sins of Brother Curtis by Lisa Davis	nonfiction; true crime -- 3/27/24
	Heavy Oceans by Tyler Jones	fiction; horror -- 3/25/24
	Unmasking AI by Dr. Joy Buolamwini	nonfiction; science; technology -- 3/25/24
	Death Strikes by David Maass & Patrick Lay	fiction; graphic novel; fantasy -- 3/22/24
	Sito by Laurence Ralph	nonfiction; biography; crime -- 3/22/24
	King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis	fiction; mystery -- 3/20/24
	Skating On Thin Ice by Walter S. Deskeredy, Stu Cowan, & Martin D. Schwartz	nonfiction; sociology; sports; crime -- 3/18/24
	Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe	nonfiction; graphic novel; memoir -- 3/16/24
	The Witch of New York by Gwendolyn Kiste	nonfiction; history; true crime -- 3/14/24
	The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste	fiction; horror; ghosts -- 3/11/24
	Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong by Jerry Clark and Ed Palatella	nonfiction; true crime -- 3/7/24
	Midnight on Beacon Street by Emily Verona	fiction; suspense -- 3/7/24
	The Warm Hands of Ghost by Katherine Arden	fiction; historical; fantasy -- 2/24/24
	The Mad Sculptor by Harold Schechter	nonfiction; true crime -- 2/24/24
	Dead Letters by Jacob Stephen Mohr (editor)	fiction; horror -- 2/24/24
	This House of Grief by Helen Garner	nonfiction; true crime -- 2/22/24
	The Secret History of Bigfoot by John O'Connor	nonfiction; history; travel; cryptozoology -- 2/14/24
	Evidence of Things Seen by Sarah Weinman (editor)	nonfiction; anthology; true crime; sociology -- 2/3/24
	This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer	fiction; horror -- 2/3/24
	In Light of All Darkness by Kim Cross	nonfiction; true crime -- 1/30/24
	Flamer by Mike Curato	fiction; comics; coming of age -- 1/21/24
	Stray Dogs by Tony Fleecs	fiction; comics; horror -- 1/21/24
	An Ordinary Violence by Adriana Chartrand	fiction; horror -- 1/9/24
	The Lost Tomb by Douglas Preston	nonfiction; crime; history; science -- 1/5/24
	Always Ireland by Jack Kavanagh	nonfiction; travel -- 1/5/24
	Past Tense by Jason McNamara	fiction; comics; sf; horror -- 1/4/24

	The Amusement Park by Stephen M. Silverman	nonfiction; history -- 12/30/23
	Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes	fiction; horror -- 12/30/23
	The Paleontologist by Luke Dumas	fiction; horror -- 12/19/23
	Murderabilia by Harold Schechter	nonfiction; crime; history -- 12/16/23
	Christmas and Other Horrors by Ellen Datlow (editor)	fiction; horror; anthology -- 12/11/23
	Pet Peeves by Nicole Goux	fiction; comics; horror -- 12/5/23
	Not Forever But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk	fiction -- 12/5/23
	The Night Parade by Jen Nakamura Lin	nonfiction; memoir; folklore -- 12/4/23
	Nestlings by Nat Cassidy	fiction; horror; vampires -- 12/2/23
	Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson	fiction; horror -- 12/2/23
	Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt	fiction; horror -- 11/21/23
	Never Whistle at Night by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (editors)	fiction; horror; fantasy; anthology -- 11/11/23
	The Night House by Jo Nesbo	fiction; mystery; horror -- 10/28/23
	Pet by Catherin Chidgey	fiction; mystery; horror -- 10/22/23
	A Good House for Children by Kate Collins	fiction; horror; ghosts -- 10/22/23
	Wild Spaces by S.L. Coney	fiction; horror; cosmic -- 10/21/23
	Jewish Space Lasers by Mike Rothschild	nonfiction; history -- 10/14/23
	The Madwomen of Paris by Jennifer Cody Epstein	fiction; historical -- 10/13/23
	Doppleganger by Naomi Klein	nonfiction -- 10/13/23
	Sucker by Daniel Hornsby	fiction; horror -- 10/10/23
	Creep by Myriam Gurba	nonfiction; essays -- 10/7/23
	The Hollow Kind by Andy Davidson	fiction; horror -- 10/7/23
	The Militia House by John Milas	fiction; horror -- 10/6/23
	What Kind of Mother by Clay McLeod Chapman	fiction; horror -- 9/30/23
	What Happened Was Impossible by E.F. Schraeder	fiction; horror; mystery -- 9/19/23
	The Devil's Playground by Craig Russell	fiction; horror; mystery -- 9/15/23
	Wonder Drug by Jennifer Vanderbes	nonfiction; history; science -- 9/2/23
	Burn the Negative by Josh Winning	fiction; horror -- 8/28/23
	At the End of Every Day by Arianna Reiche	fiction -- 8/24/23
	Boys in the Valley by Phil Fracassi	fiction; horror; possession -- 8/23/23
	Whalefall by Daniel Kraus	fiction; horror -- 8/23/23
	The Handyman Method by Nick Cutter & Andrew Sullivan	fiction; horror -- 8/23/23
	Under the Naga Tail by Mae Bunseng Taing and James Taing	nonfiction; memoir -- 8/18/23
	The Beast You Are by Paul Tremblay	fiction; horror -- 8/18/23
	Abandoned Eastern Ohio by Cindy Vasko	nonfiction; photography -- 8/17/23
	Abandoned Northern Ohio by Jeffrey Stroup	nonfiction; photography -- 8/17/23
	Abandoned Southern Ohio by Bonnie Chapman	nonfiction; photography -- 8/17/23
	Something's Alive On the Titanic by Robert Sterling	fiction; sf -- 8/17/23
	All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell	nonfiction -- 8/17/23
	The Wonder State by Sara Flannery	fiction; fantasy -- 8/17/23
	Strong Female Character by Fern Brady	nonfiction; memoir -- 8/17/23
	Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley	fiction; horror -- 8/17/23
	That Lonely Section of Hell by Lori Shenher	nonfiction; memoir; crime -- 8/16/23
	Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca	fiction; horror -- 8/15/23
	Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Lee Israel	nonfiction; memoir; crime -- 8/14/23
	Dead Dog's Bite by Tyler Boss	fiction; comics -- 8/14/23
	Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston	nonfiction; anthropology -- 8/14/23
	Bedbugs by Ben H. Winters	fiction; horror -- 8/12/23
	Abandoned Cleveland by Jeffrey Stroup	nonfiction; photography -- 8/12/23
	String Follow by Simon Jacobs	fiction; horror -- 8/12/23
	Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia	fiction; horror -- 8/8/23
	Harriet Said... by Beryl Bainbridge	fiction; crime; horror -- 8/7/23
	Green River Killer by Jeff Jensen & Jonathan Case	nonfiction; comics; crime -- 8/7/23
	The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi	fiction; horror -- 8/7/23
	A Death in White Bear Lake by Barry Siegel	nonfiction; crime -- 8/4/23
	Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle	fiction; horror; possession -- 7/27/23
	The Only One Left by Riley Sager	fiction; mystery -- 7/24/23
	Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano	fiction; horror -- 7/21/23
	A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan	nonfiction; history; crime -- 7/19/23
	All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby	fiction; mystery -- 7/17/23
	Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom	nonfiction; history -- 7/17/23
	A Tiny Upward Shove by Melissa Chadburn	fiction -- 7/13/23
	The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang	nonfiction; history; crime -- 7/11/23
	Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh	fiction; sf -- 7/10/23
	I'm a Terminal Cancer Patient But I'm Fine by Hilnama	nonfiction; manga; memoir -- 7/9/23
	Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine	fiction; historical fiction; fantasy -- 7/9/23
	Three Sisters In Black by Norman Zierold	nonfiction; crime -- 7/6/23
	Nightmare Country by James Tynion IV & Lisandra Estherren	fiction; comics; horror; fantasy -- 7/6/23
	Graveyard of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe	fiction; horror -- 7/5/23
	To Name the Bigger Lie by Sarah Viren	nonfiction; crime; memoir -- 6/28/23
	Karachi Vice by Samira Shackle	nonfiction; crime -- 6/27/23
	What the #@&% Is That? ed. by Douglas Cohen & John Joseph Adams	fiction; anthology; horror -- 6/26/23
	The Elissas by Samantha Leach	nonfiction; memoir -- 6/22/23
	Perv by Jess Bering	nonfiction; psychology; sex -- 6/21/23
	Lesbian Love Story by Amelia Possanza	nonfiction; history -- 6/20/23
	Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky	fiction; comics; horror -- 6/16/23
	The Angelmakers by Patti McCracken	nonfiction; history -- 6/12/23
	Chlorine by Jade Song	fiction; horror -- 6/11/23
	The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore	nonfiction; history -- 6/11/23
	Games for Dead Girls by Jen Williams	fiction; mystery -- 6/9/23
	Seventy Times Seven by Alex Mar	nonfiction; history -- 6/8/23
	Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry	nonfiction; history -- 5/30/23
	Dissolving Classroom by Junji Ito	fiction; manga; horror -- 5/25/23
	Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang	fiction; horror -- 5/25/23
	The Insatiable Volt Sisters by Rachel Eve Moulton	fiction; horror -- 5/22/23
	Tender Morsels by Margo Langan	fiction; fantasy -- 5/16/23
	Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor	fiction -- 5/11/23
	Massacre At Mountain Meadows by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr., & Glen M. Leonard	nonfiction; history; crime -- 5/10/23
	Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison	fiction; horror -- 5/10/23
	Making a Psychopath by Mark Freestone	nonfiction; psychology -- 5/10/23
	Nothing But the Night by Greg King & Penny Wilson	nonfiction; crime -- 5/10/23
	Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg	nonfiction; crime -- 5/8/23
	The Trees Grew Because I Bled There by Eric LaRocca	fiction; horror -- 5/2/23
	Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina	fiction; horror; mystery -- 5/1/23
	Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy	fiction; mystery -- 4/27/23
	In Cold Blood by Truman Capote	nonfiction; crime -- 4/27/23
	Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey, Pius Bak, & Roman Titov	fiction; comics; horror -- 4/21/23
	Against Football by Steve Almond	nonfiction; sports -- 4/19/23
	Y/N by Esther Yi	fiction -- 4/19/23
	More Than a Glitch by Meredith Broussard	nonfiction; tech -- 4/17/23
	Muckross Abbey and Other Stories by Sabina Murray	fiction; horror; ghosts -- 4/17/23
	From a Taller Tower by Seamus McGraw	nonfiction; history; crime -- 4/13/23
	Lone Women by Victor LaValle	fiction; horror; historical -- 4/12/23
	If It Sounds Like a Quack... by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling	nonfiction; health; history -- 4/10/23
	Do Penance or Perish by Frances Finnegan	nonfiction; history; gender; crime -- 4/9/23
	Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo	fiction; fantasy; mystery -- 4/9/23
	Shadowman by Ron Franscell	nonfiction; crime -- 4/5/23
	Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo	fiction; sf -- 4/5/23
	Deliberate Cruelty by Roseanne Montillo	nonfiction; crime -- 4/5/23
	The Spite House by Johnny Compton	fiction; horror; haunted house -- 4/4/23
	Liliana's Invincible Summer by Christina Rivera Garza	nonfiction; biography; memoir; crime -- 4/3/23
	The Things We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent	fiction; mystery; psychological -- 4/1/23
	Mass Murder in California's Empty Quarter by Ray A. March	nonfiction; crime -- 3/30/23
	A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher	fiction; horror; ghosts -- 3/30/23
	The Curse of the Marquis De Sade by Joel Warner	nonfiction; history -- 3/28/23
	Number One Fan by Meg Ellison	fiction; thriller -- 3/26/23
	We Were Once a Family by Roxana Asgarian	nonfiction; crime -- 3/25/23
	The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi	fiction; fantasy -- 3/25/23
	In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick	nonfiction; history -- 3/24/23
	Such Pretty Flowers by K.L. Cerra	fiction; horror -- 3/23/23
	Ghosts of the Orphanage by Christine Kenneally	nonfiction; history; crime -- 3/22/23
	Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah	fiction; horror -- 3/21/23
	Still Life With Bones by Alexa Hagerty	nonfiction; history; crime -- 3/21/23
	Mothered by Zoje Stage	fiction; horror; psychological -- 3/14/23
	Pushed by Erin Kimmerle	nonfiction; history; crime -- 3/7/23
	The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock	fiction; crime -- 3/10/23
	We Carry Their Bones by Erin Kimmerle	nonfiction; history; crime -- 3/7/23
	Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones	fiction; horror -- 3/7/23
	Rikers by Graham Rayman & Reuven Blau	nonfiction; history; crime -- 3/1/23
	Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna	nonfiction; crime -- 2/15/23
	Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt	fiction; horror; haunted house -- 2/14/23
	Boys Enter the House by David Nelson	nonfiction; crime -- 2/10/23
	The Child in the Electric Chair by Eli Hooper	nonfiction; crime -- 2/10/23
	The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper	nonfiction; crime -- 2/1/23
	Tender Is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica	fiction; horror -- 1/31/23
	The Vanishing Triangle by Claire McGowan	nonfiction; crime -- 1/30/23
	How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix	fiction; horror; haunted house; possession -- 1/24/23
	Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet	fiction -- 1/20/23
	From Hell by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell	graphic novel; fiction; crime -- 1/19/23
	Jimmy the King by Gus Garcia-Roberts	nonfiction; crime -- 1/13/23
	History of Fear by Luke Dumas	fiction; horror; psychological horror; possession -- 1/9/23
	Roll Red Roll by Nancy Schwartzman & Nora Zelevansky	nonfiction; crime -- 1/7/23

	White Horse by Erika Wurth	fiction; horror; ghosts; mystery -- 12/16/22
	The Gospel of Wellness by Rina Raphael	nonfiction; health -- 12/13/22
	Full Immersion by Gemma Amor	fiction; horror; sf; psychological horror -- 12/10/22
	In the Houses of Their Dead by Terry Alford	nonfiction; history -- 12/9/22
	House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson	fiction; horror; fantasy; vampires -- 12/6/22
	The Book of Phobias & Manias by Kate Summerscale	nonfiction; history; psychology -- 12/5/22
	Daphne by Josh Malerman	fiction; horror; ghosts; psychological horror -- 12/1/22
	The Disney Revolt by Jake S. Friedman	nonfiction; history; labor -- 12/1/22
	No Gods For Drowning by Hailey Piper	fiction; horror; fantasy; mystery -- 11/29/22
	Missing From the Village by Justin Ling	nonfiction; crime -- 11/28/22
	A Child Alone With Strangers by Philip Fracassi	fiction; horror -- 11/17/22
	Bold Ventures by Charlotte Van den Broeck	nonfiction; history; essays; architecture -- 11/15/22
	The Resting Place by Camilla Sten	fiction; mystery -- 11/12/22
	A Haunted History of Invisible Women by Leanna Renne Hieber & Andrea Janes	nonfiction; history; ghosts -- 11/10/22
	Red X by David Demchuk	nonfiction; graphic novel; memoir -- 11/8/22
	Numb to This by Kindra Neely	nonfiction; graphic novel; memoir -- 11/5/22
	Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Lost Spoke and Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca	nonfiction; crime -- 11/5/22
	Slenderman by Kathleen Hale	nonfiction; crime -- 11/3/22
	Leech by Hiron Ennes	fiction; horror; speculative fiction -- 11/2/22
	The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors by Doug Murano	fiction; anthology; horror -- 11/1/22
	Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth	fiction; horror; ghosts -- 11/1/22
	A Death on W Street by Andy Kroll	nonfiction; crime -- 10/25/22
	Luda by Grant Morrison	fiction; fantasy; horror -- 10/24/22
	Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang	fiction; fantasy; historical -- 10/17/22
	Clown in a Cornfield 2 by Adam Cesare	fiction; horror; slasher -- 10/16/22
	How to Write Like a Writer by Thomas C. Forster	nonfiction; writing -- 10/13/22
	The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris	nonfiction; history; medicine -- 10/13/22
	Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White	fiction; horror; sf -- 10/10/22
	Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir	fiction; sf; fantasy; horror -- 10/4/22
	Screams From the Dark by Kathryn Miles	fiction; anthology; horror -- 10/3/22
	Trailed by Kathryn Miles	nonfiction; crime -- 9/25/22
	The Pallbearer's Club by Paul Tremblay	fiction; horror; vampires -- 9/24/22
	Retail Gangster by Gary Weiss	nonfiction; biography; crime -- 9/21/22
	Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth	nonfiction; psychology -- 9/20/22
	From Below by Darcy Coates	fiction; horror; survival; ocean -- 9/18/22
	Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield	fiction; horror; sf; body horror; ocean -- 9/18/22
	A History of Delusions by Victoria Shepherd	nonfiction; history; psychology -- 9/15/22
	Old Country by Matt Query & Harrison Query	fiction; horror; folk -- 9/13/22
	Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel	fiction; horror; gothic; cults -- 9/13/22
	Song of the Red Squire by C.W. Blackwell	fiction; horror; historical; folk -- 9/13/22
	It Came From Something Awful by Dale Beran	nonfiction; history; sociology; internet culture -- 9/13/22
	I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy	nonfiction; memoir -- 9/8/22
	Florida Woman by Deb Rogers	fiction; mystery -- 9/2/22
	Path Lit By Lightning by David Maraniss	nonfiction; biography; sports -- 9/2/22
	Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey	fiction; horror; ghosts -- 8/27/22
	What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher	fiction; horror -- 8/25/22
	All the Lies They Did Not Tell by Pablo Trincia, translation by Elettra Pauletto	nonfiction; crime -- 8/25/22
	Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen	fiction; horror -- 8/25/22
	Should All Drugs Be Legalized? by Mattha Busby	nonfiction -- 8/23/22
	The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente	fiction; anthology; sci-fi -- 8/22/22
	Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology by Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason (editors)	fiction; anthology; horror -- 8/21/22
	The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman	nonfiction; history; comics -- 8/20/22
	Bodies of Subversion by Margot Mifflin	nonfiction; history; photography -- 8/20/22
	Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy	fiction; horror; ghosts; crime; cults -- 8/20/22
	"Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?> by Harold Schechter & Eric Powell	nonfiction; crime; comics -- 8/17/22
	The Ghost That Ate Us by Daniel Kraus	fiction; horror; ghosts; possession -- 8/6/22
	Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson	nonfiction; biography; history; crime -- 8/1/22
	A Mortal Glamour by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro	fiction; fantasy; horror; historical fiction; erotic -- 7/10/22
	Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World Paperback by Eric Guignard (editor)	fiction; anthology; horror; ghosts -- 7/1/22
	Scoundrel by Sarah Weinman	nonfiction; crime -- 6/29/22
	The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers	fiction; historical -- 6/22/22
	Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly	nonfiction; history; labor -- 6/20/22
	Stringers by Chris Panatier	fiction; sci-fi -- 6/17/22
	The Wakening by JG Faherty	fiction; horror; possession; demons -- 6/6/22
	The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas	fiction; horror; historical; gothic; romance -- 6/3/22
	We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets	fiction; horror; technology -- 5/31/22
	The Fervor by Alma Katsu	fiction; horror; historical; demons; monsters -- 5/31/22
	And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin	fiction; horror; survival horror; psychological -- 5/14/22
	Friend of the Devil by Stephen Lloyd	fiction; horror; mystery -- 5/13/22
	Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt	fiction; horror; survival horror; possession -- 5/1/22
	Refuse to Be Done by Matt Bell	fiction; nonfiction; writing advice
	All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes	fiction; horror; survival horror; monster
	Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda	fiction; horror; vampires
	Sandy Hook by Elizabeth Williamson	nonfiction
	The Book of the Most Precious Substance by Sara Gran	fiction; fantasy; horror