Author name: SGJ

Many BHH links & etc

Best Books of 2025 The Best Horror Books of 2025 for When You Really Want a Good Scare The Best Horror Books of 2025 – B&N Reads https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#reset=true&view=covers&year=2025 (really https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#year=2025&book=246) https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/11/19/best-scifi-fantasy-novels-2025 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/books/notable-books.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/24/books/book-recommendations-notables.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share) Every Book on Obama’s 2025 Reading List https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/199702383/2890165557 Booklist’s Editors’ Choice: Adult Books, 2025 Booklist Editors’ Choice: Adult Audio, 2025 14 Best […]

Aardvark!

Open Road covers

Gorgeous, yes? So cool seeing them all side by side:

Mannequins Tour!

I’m teaching the Stegner Fellows at Stanford in the Spring, so, when Nightfire releases Night of the Mannequins in February, I’m doing a few stops west of the Rockies. https://us.macmillan.com/tours/stephen-graham-jones-night-of-the-mannequins Also: ECCC! (was supposed to have been there in 2020, thrilled to finally be there now)

The Expanded States of Grace!

Out today from Open Road. More flash than it used to have: Or, talking flash, this is my sort-of definition of it:

Hadn’t thought of it like this

I mean, in spite of wondering and wondering and not being able to figure out why all the intolerance we’re seeing, experiencing, trying to live through, are going to have to live down somehow:

Best Reads from Lately

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/17/wolf-tool-use-animals https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/business/last-penny-minted https://www.wired.com/story/a-disease-carrying-mosquito-has-landed-in-the-rocky-mountains-where-it-historically-couldnt-survive https://www.wired.com/story/can-a-hydroelectric-dam-really-make-the-days-longer Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists | Neanderthals | The Guardian https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2025/11/19/how-mark-wahlberg-became-the-king-of-streaming https://www.extremetech.com/science/scientists-successfully-extract-40000-year-old-rna-from-woolly-mammoth Superman edition found in mum’s attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12m ”Star Trek: The Next Generation” readies for last episode https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/graphics/see-how-egyptians-built-giza-pyramids They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Christianity

Tomorrow!

Or, if you’re reading this on the 20th: today!

ReadinMag

Honored to be on the final ballot for this. Click to vote:

Audible’s top 20 of 2025!

In both General AND Horror! https://www.audible.com/blog/article-2025-best-horror-audiobooks https://www.audible.com/ep/best-of-the-year

Time’s 100 Books, and much more:

Cool list for a vampire novel to be on: And, while I’m at it, here’s just a whole stack of BHH lists and reviews (which I hope to put on the BHH page soon, here): The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones – love the title and liked the book – Trending Books https://dj-screenwriter.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-buffalo-hunter-hunter-by-stephen.html

Texas Book Fest 2025

Was in Seattle at Auburn Library Friday night, where @thatnerdchick slipped me some Chipotle to I could dine in my preferred style in the green room: Then it was a lot of this fun action: Got back to the room pushing midnight, and wired, had to pack and be ready for my car at 2:30am

Best Reads from Lately

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20170314-the-town-that-built-a-mirror-to-catch-the-sun https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-10-15/banned-books-iowa-city-high-school-student-club Sealed for 5.5 Million Years, Movile Cave Hints at the Nature of Extraterrestrial Life Inside one American’s year-long attempt to date alt-right men https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/world/ireland-lion-dog-mouse.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation – High Country News For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to Ojibwe Nation https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-we-all-still-carrying-around-car-keys https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/features/thomas-pynchon-shadow-ticket-review-b2840031.html

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