Horror Aficionados discussion

Another new year, another chance to read those books that are piliing up.
Let's make it an exciting, horrifying time to share some good stories with our fellow Horror Aficionados.

This will be the place to keep track of what you're reading and to see what other HA members are happily working their way through.

Sign up for the challenge here: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

Name your shelf on the challenge page and when you tag books to that shelf they'll count towards the challenge

Signing up with 12 books this time around! (I'm actually still one book away from finishing the '25 challenge, but I should be getting into that last one next week, so, no problem.)
For this year I'll do it 50-50, so, one half will be themed (non-fiction) and the other will be books that I had planned to read the prior couple of years but didn't for one reason or another.

Non-fiction
1. Mitologías amerindias
2. Mujeres en la Antigüedad clásica: Género, poder y conflicto
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1. Donde los árboles cantan
2. Las bestias olvidadas de Eld
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Sweet! This is always a fun challenge!

2026 Horror Aficionados Mount TBR Challenge

I'm pledging 40 books again, that must have been sitting on my TBR pile for at least a year. No books published in 2026.

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My spot. I am going for 20 in 2026 so I am hoping to shake some dust off my kindle books! lol

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Grabbing my spot! I’m going to go for 12. 📚
I’d like to (mostly) read what I already own, so some of my list may not be horror.

_) Lost & Found 12/21/25 (own)
_) Weyward 12/23/25 (own)
1) What Moves the Dead 1/2/26 (library)
2) Then She Was Gone 1/4/26 (own)
3) The Girl on the Train
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I am dropping mine from my usual 45 to 30 for 2026.

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My spot! I'll do 10 for 26 .

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I'm in with 12 books, one for each month. I'll only read physical copies for this one.

I've had such amazing success with this challenge 🙄, I'll try for only 20 this year.

I'm going to go for 20. French and English books. Audiobooks or physical copies or Kindle books.

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I'm increasing my # for 2026 by 10 more.
Hope to read at least 60 books from books already shelved across all my bookcases.
Time to work that down.
This will be my spot. 3 of 60 completed

1. THE VERY NAUGHTY LIST by Michael D.A. Clarke (January 02)
2, BATMAN: DETECTIVE COMICS, VOLUME 2; GOTHAM NOCTURNE, PART 1 graphic novel by Ram V and various artists (January 03)
3. ASSORTED CRISIS EVENTS, VOLUME ONE graphic novel by Deniz Camp and Eric Zadawazki (January 05)

Planting my flag! Going for 8 this year.

Here I lie? Goal of another 25!

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HORROR
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1.Zombie Fallout, 12/25, 4 stars\
2. A Plague Upon Your Family, 1/1/26 5 stars
3. The End , 1/4/26, 5 stars
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DARK MM ROMANCE

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1.Creep12/2025
2.Rock Bottom12/2025
3. Body and SoulCR
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NON FICTION
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My Spot. I'm aiming for at least 15, and my books will have to be labelled Horror as a genre.

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Stephanie wrote: "Here I lie? Goal of another 25!"

I start off modest then increase so I can to myself you crushed it lol. I think I read 25 books by like April or May 2025.

I'm aiming for 50 for the year

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I'm going for 26 in '26-Reading My Bookshelf-2026

1-After The People Lights Have Gone Off-Stephen Graham Jones-
2-Needful Things-Stephen King-
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Completed 1/42 Physical TBR books I own.

1. The Sword of Kaigen
2. A Time for Blood

Let's get started.

I am aiming for 6.

Yesssss! Let's Gooo! :D

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I smashed my 2025 goal so I'm going for 30 in 2026.

2026 Mount TBR Challenge
Aiming for at least 15 from my literary-horror TBR!

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Canavan’s 2026 Horror Aficionados Mount TBR Challenge



My goal is to read 10 horror-related books from my personal TBR pile during 2026. Further information about the challenge is provided by WendyB and can be found here.

Legend
💝 = entries rated 4 stars or above

1. Lucky’s Grove , H. R. Wakefield (Author) & Gregory Gallant (as by Seth) (Illustrator) (1940/2025 ed.) ✭✭✭✭ 💝
2. Captain Dalgety Returns , Laurence Whistler (Author) & Gregory Gallant (as by Seth) (Illustrator) (1952/2024 ed.) ✭✭✭½
3. The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series VII , Gerald W. Page (Ed.) (1979) ✭✭✭
4. Sea Mist , E.F. Benson (2005) ✭✭✭

Hello, I’m in. Going for 12 and they have to be horror. ☺️

Hello. I am going for 10. I wanted to tackle my physical books this year and this gives me a good reason to!

My spot

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