Reading Roundup Wrapup: October 2025

Pick of the month: Justice League International Omnibus, Volume 2 by Keith Giffen, J. M. DeMatteis, Adam Hughes, Bart Sears, et al. BWA-HA-HA! But seriously, I didn't have a great month, and this brought me some much-needed joy. My other highlight (for similar reasons) was How Right You Are, Jeeves.

All books read:

1. Black Panther Adventures by Roy Thomas, John Buscema, et al.
2. Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison
3. Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles; Or, Pirates of the Second Aether!! by Michael Moorcock
4. How Right You Are, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
5. Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton
6. Wait, Wait…I’m Not Done Yet! by Carl Kasell
7. Black Panther: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda, Part Four by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Daniel Acuña, et al.
8. Star Trek: The Next Generation #2: The Peacekeepers by Gene DeWeese
9. Doctor Who: Short Trips #26: How The Doctor Changed My Life edited by Simon Guerrier
10. Star Trek: The Official Motion Picture Adaptation by Mike Johnson & Tim Jones, David Messina, et al.
11. Doctor Who Magazine: Special Edition #63: Showrunners edited by Marcus Hearn
12. Star Trek: More Beautiful than Death by David Mack
13. Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
14. Star Trek, Volume 1 by Mike Johnson, Steve Molnar, and Joe Phillips
15. Justice League International Omnibus, Volume 2 by Keith Giffen, J. M. DeMatteis, Adam Hughes, Bart Sears, et al.
16. Legends: Black Panther by Tochi Onyebuchi, Setor Fiadzigbey, Fran Galán, Enid Balám, Ramón F. Bachs, et al.

All books acquired:

1. Gabriel Gale's Ages of Oz: A Fiery Friendship by Lisa Fiedler, illustrated by Sebastian Giacobino
2. Hawkeye: The Saga of Barton and Bishop by Matt Fraction, David Aja, Annie Wu, Javier Pulido, et al.
3. Legion of Super-Heroes, Volume 2: The Dominators by Paul Levitz, Francis Portela, Scott Kolins, et al. 
4. Justice League International Omnibus, Volume 2 by Keith Giffen, J. M. DeMatteis, Adam Hughes, Bart Sears, et al.
5. Nostrilia by Cordwainer Smith
6. Peach and the Isle of Monsters by Franco and Agnes Garbowska

Currently reading:

• Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan
• Star Trek: The New Adventures, Volume 2 by Mike Johnson, Ryan Parrott, Stephen Molnar, Erfan Fajar, Claudia Balboni, et al.
• Star Trek, Volume 2 by Mike Johnson, Joe Corroney, and Joe Phillips
• Star Trek: The Unsettling Stars by Alan Dean Foster
• Star Trek: The New Adventures, Volume 5 by Mike Johnson and Tony Shasteen
• Justice League International Omnibus, Volume 3 by Keith Giffen, J. M. DeMatteis, Kevin Maguire, et al.
• Long Gone, Come Home by Monica Chenault-Kilgore

Because I'm reading my "Kelvin timeline" Star Trek comics in chronological order, I'm jumping between a bunch of different books at once, and thus "currently reading" lots of things.

Up next in my rotations:

1. Formerly Known as the Justice League by Keith Giffen & J. M. DeMatteis, Kevin Maguire, and Joe Rubinstein
2. The Worthing Chronicle by Orson Scott Card
3. Baby Cat-Face by Barry Gifford 
4. Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Starcrusher Trap by Mike W. Barr 

Books remaining on "To be read" list: 671 (down 12)

Not only did I read a lot of books this month, but they were actually from my reading list! I have never before, in over twenty years of tracking, had my "To be read" list go down by twelve from one month to the next. My previous record was nine, achieved in both June 2008 and August 2010.