🎃 Peekabook 2025

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10 participants (27 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

A challenge focused on reading mystery, thriller and horror for the spooky season in 2025, but you can complete it in whatever month you prefer. To make it harder for people who frequently pick up books of these genres, add to the challenge only the best or scariest stories among your spooky reads this year.

I'm also hosting challenges for: fantasy tropes, epic poems, poetry collections, anthologies, audiobooks, big books, standalones, book chains, book covers, fantasy tropes, Dark Academia, Kafka's works, Brazilian lit, Everything Everywhere All at Once and BTS' solos.

To easily visualize your reading year, here's the 2025 Reading Wrap Up.

And here's my guide on how to read more regularly.

Challenge Books

All books added
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

We Used to Live Here

Marcus Kliewer

320 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction horror lgbtqia+ thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn

A Dangerous Collaboration

Veronica Speedwell #4

Deanna Raybourn

336 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction historical mystery adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Guilt and Ginataan by Mia P. Manansala

Guilt and Ginataan

A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery #5

Mia P. Manansala

8 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction contemporary mystery funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
Chasing the Boogeyman: A Novel by Richard Chizmar

Chasing the Boogeyman: A Novel

The Boogeyman #1

Richard Chizmar

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction crime horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Four Aunties and a Wedding

Aunties #2

Jesse Q. Sutanto

284 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary mystery romance funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

287 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary dark emotional sad slow-paced
The Family Experiment by John Marrs

The Family Experiment

John Marrs

454 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction dystopian science fiction thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

How to Sell a Haunted House

Grady Hendrix

413 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler

The Hypnotist

Joona Linna #1

Lars Kepler

503 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction crime mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Gift by Freida McFadden

The Gift

Freida McFadden

1 hour, 4 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction thriller dark mysterious fast-paced