Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.

October 2025 Wrap Up

I’m late with my wrap up this month. I having some health issues and dealing with some adverse side effects so I haven’t been as active both physically and mentally recently. I’ve left a lot of tasks undone too, and I have so many book reviews to catch up on. I’m recovering though and definitely hopeful that next month will be better.

My October 2025 TBR Intentions

I did pretty good on my October TBR intentions, but there were a couple of books I didn’t get to that I still want to eventually. I did manage to read three Stephen King books, which I’m very happy about because that means I’m making progress with my Stephen King Constant Reader Challenge! I’d been slow-moving with the challenge but Halloween season often comes with lots of SK buddy reads and I’m not complaining.

1. The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
2. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
3. This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman
4. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
5. A Sorceress Comes To Call by T. Kingfisher
6. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
7. The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
8. Falling by T.J. Newman

Books Read in October 2025

1. A Sorceress Comes To Call by T. Kingfisher
2. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
3. The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
4. The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
5. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
6. This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman
7. The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa
8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
9. Carrie by Stephen King
10. Duma Key by Stephen King
11. The Running Man by Stephen King
12. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Notable Books This Month

I am still so obsessed with the Dungeon Crawler Carl series! I finally finished them to the most recently released, but I am anxiously anticipating the next books and I love that I’m still so passionate about them. I don’t usually do well with long-running series because I lose interest or they start to get repetitive, but I don’t feel that way about this series and I truly hope it stays that way until the end.

A Sorceress Comes to Call was also a standout. T. Kingfisher is one of my automatic-read authors, and this book has become one of my favorites by her. I also have Hemlock & Silver on my TBR, and I’m excited to read that next.

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened was an interesting surprise. It’s my in-person bookclub’s BOTM, and my first book by the author. I expected something humorous, yes, but I was surprised by Lawson’s brand of humor. I listened to this on audio with the author narrating, and I love how audacious and unapologetic she is. She finds humor in some serious shit too, which I find a little disconcerting, but I can’t help but love her.

November 2025 TBR Intentions

I signed up for quite a few spooky reads during Halloween season and I’m still paying the price. I also have some classics I’m doing for The Classics Club challenge.

1. Dracula by Bram Stoker
2. Christine by Stephen King
3. Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King
4. Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
6. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
7. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
8. Watership Down by Richard Adams
9. Falling by T.J. Newman

How was your month in October? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful November with lots of great books!