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K.J.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at K.J.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
K.J. Charles’s Followers (12,252)
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303 books
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K.J. Charles
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United Kingdom
Website
Twitter
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Member Since
June 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/kjcharles
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The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)
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2013
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21 editions
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A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)
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2014
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17 editions
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The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)
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2023
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12 editions
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Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)
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2020
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12 editions
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Flight of Magpies (A Charm of Magpies, #3)
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2014
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15 editions
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The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)
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2021
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11 editions
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The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)
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2020
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11 editions
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Think of England (England World, #2)
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2014
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3 editions
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Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3)
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2021
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10 editions
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A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)
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2023
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7 editions
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Summer Reading But This Time the Books Exist
In a new low for literacy, the Chicago Sun-Times decided to print a Chat-GPT generated article recommending for ‘Summer Reading’ a whole bunch of books that literally don’t exist. Oh, and also Atonement because Ian McEwan is always a great beach read.
I don’t need to rehearse everything wrong with a newspaper uncritically putting out the regurgitron’s unconsidered slop, or the environmental cost of
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K.J.’s Recent Updates
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Shroud
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| I love a good bureaucrat urban fantasy (see If Found, Return to Hell) so this book, set in an underfunded Singapore government department dealing with supernatural creatures, was an instant buy. The setting is great, with a strong political flavour i ...more | |
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| A novel about female loneliness and ...stuff, more or less ruined by a thundering whimsicality. | |
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A very interesting book on how things happen and the ripple effects of tiny actions. Goes into a lot of philosophical depth about whether everything is predetermined or nothing is, and what that means on an individual level. (IMO nothing. I have no i ...more |
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| Reasonably persuasive on the importance of eating lots of fermented food. I'm currently fermenting garlic in honey because he really pushes that one, we will see how that goes. ...more | |
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| Second instalment in the sapphic post-zombie-apocalypse trilogy. I absolutely love these books: tense, dark, funny and hot. Meredith is icy, deceptive and ruthless as before, but with the cracks starting to show; Nicky remains deeply relatable as she ...more | |
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Chandrasekara is a marvellous writer, moving between gritty, lyrical, painful, playful. There's something quite Umberto Eco about the linguistic whimsicality on display, and for once I'm not using whimsical in a bad way. In all honesty I got more out ...more |
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A very sweet and bonkers cosmic horror small town romance. Boy meets girl, boy worships giant centipede that will devour the earth, you know the sort of thing. As previously: if you like Night Vale podcast you'll like the books. All hail the glow clo ...more |
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“What the fuck, what the fucking, bloody devil-shit, what in the name of Satan's swollen cock was that?”
― The Magpie Lord
― The Magpie Lord
“When I fuck you, Mr. Day, it will not be briefly. It will be long and hard and extremely thorough. I'm going to take pains with you.”
― The Magpie Lord
― The Magpie Lord
Polls
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
― Tremendous Trifles
― Tremendous Trifles
“Well, are you not going to give the man a round of applause?" he asked. "I mean, that was fucking amazing, didn't you think? Honestly, if you'd asked me ten minutes ago, hypothetically, if it was possible to cut your own head off, I'd have said unequivocally no. You've really got to hand it to the bloke -- though it's fair to say luck was involved. I mean, there's no way he could do it again.”
― Be My Enemy
― Be My Enemy
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CONGRATS on the huge news today, KJ! So excited for you and proud of you and amazed by it all...
K.J. wrote: "Thanks! Flowcharts are much more fun than I remembered..."You certainly proved that haha ;)!
Leo wrote: "Thanks for accepting my friend request! Enjoyed your flowchart/ Anne Rice post this morning :D"Thanks! Flowcharts are much more fun than I remembered...
Thanks for accepting my friend request! Enjoyed your flowchart/ Anne Rice post this morning :D
Gina wrote: "Hi KJ, thanks for accepting my friend invite. I just finished The Magpie Lord and A Case of Possession, they were awesome!!! :)"Thank you so much! Really glad you liked them. (Have you read the in-between freebie, Interlude with Tattoos?)
Hi KJ, thanks for accepting my friend invite. I just finished The Magpie Lord and A Case of Possession, they were awesome!!! :)
Thanks for accepting K.J. And thanks ever so much for Stephen & Crane.
Thank you! Freebie Magpie short will be out in Dec as a little Christmas stocking filler... :-)
Hi K.J. Thanks you so much! I'm a incredibly in love with your words and I'm very impatient for January's release of A Case of Possession. Very. Impatient. :D!
Thank you! I'm really enjoying the sensation of being read, having been a secret writer for ages, so I really appreciate the feedback. :-)
Thanks for accepting KJ. I really am a massive fan. Loving your books. :)
Josephine wrote: "Hi KJ - good to see you here! Now you need to upgrade yourself to author status :)Jo x"
Will do - I hope... completely new to this site, I need about a week to get used to it...
Hi KJ - good to see you here! Now you need to upgrade yourself to author status :)Jo x
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