The Sound of Madness Reading Challenge 2025 is here! Can you believe this is the fifth year already?! For the oldtimers, welcome back! For the newcomers, I hope you’ll have a lot of fun this year trying to fill out these music-based reading prompts as I had a lot of fun (and pain, so much pain) coming up with them.
Here are my reading goals for 2025, including reading challenges and a shortened TBR list I’d like to focus on this year.
Keeping with traditions, we waited until January to tell you which books we enjoyed in 2025. It’s time for Timy’s top 10 reads of 2025!
Bjørn’s pick this week is Hit ‘Em Wit Da Hee by Missy Elliott, Mocha, and Lil’ Kim.
The Sound of Madness Reading Challenge 2026 is back for the 6th year! For the oldtimers, welcome back! For the newcomers, I hope you’ll have a lot of fun this year trying to fill out these music-based reading prompts as I had a lot of fun (and pain, so much pain) coming up with them.
A quick recap of the reading I did in 2025 Q4, pick 5 of my favorite reads, and also report on how I progressed with my different reading challenges.
Timy’s pick this week for Music Monday is Too Much Blood by The Gaslight Anthem.
Liis and I once again joined forces to tweak the prompts of this super fun book tag a bit. Let me present, for the fourth year, My Life in Books 2025 edition!
Team Asylum reviews our tenth and last SPFBO Champion, THE LOST WAR by Justin Lee Anderson. Reviews are from Arina, Drew, and Timy.
Team Asylum reviews our ninth SPFBO Champion,REIGN & RUIN by J. D. Evans. Reviews are from Drew, Rari, Timy, and Tru.
Team Asylum reviews our eight SPFBO Champion, BY BLOOD, BY SALT by J.L. Odom. Reviews are from Arina, Drew, Rari, and Tru.
Team Asylum reviews our seventh SPFBO Champion, THE THIEF WHO PULLED ON TROUBLE’S BRAIDS by Michael McClung. Reviews are from Arina, Drew, Filip, Rari, Timy, and Tru.
Timy reviews QUEEN OF THE DEAD, a standalone urban fantasy novel by Sarah Broadway.
Team Asylum reviews our ninth SPFBO Champion,REIGN & RUIN by J. D. Evans. Reviews are from Drew, Rari, Timy, and Tru.
Bjørn reviews SON OF A LICHE and DRAGONFIRED, books 2 and 3 of J. Zachary Pike’s satirical fantasy series, The Dark Profit Saga.
Team Asylum reviews our eight SPFBO Champion, BY BLOOD, BY SALT by J.L. Odom. Reviews are from Arina, Drew, Rari, and Tru.
Jen reviews A WINTER’S MERCY, the third book in Phil Williams’ military fantasy series, The Blood Scouts.
Team Asylum reviews our seventh SPFBO Champion, THE THIEF WHO PULLED ON TROUBLE’S BRAIDS by Michael McClung. Reviews are from Arina, Drew, Filip, Rari, Timy, and Tru.
Keeping with traditions, we waited until January to tell you which books we enjoyed in 2025. It’s time for Timy’s top 10 reads of 2025!
The Sound of Madness Reading Challenge 2026 is back for the 6th year! For the oldtimers, welcome back! For the newcomers, I hope you’ll have a lot of fun this year trying to fill out these music-based reading prompts as I had a lot of fun (and pain, so much pain) coming up with them.
A quick recap of the reading I did in 2025 Q4, pick 5 of my favorite reads, and also report on how I progressed with my different reading challenges.
Liis and I once again joined forces to tweak the prompts of this super fun book tag a bit. Let me present, for the fourth year, My Life in Books 2025 edition!
We at the Asylum are excited to host the cover reveal for Nils Ödlund’s upcoming new fantasy novel, AT THE ROAD’S END, the first book in the Gone Home series! The expected publication is December 1, 2025.
We at the Asylum are excited to host the cover reveal for Jennings Zabrinsky’s upcoming new adventure/dark fantasy novel, THEATER OF BLADES, the second book in the Strange Frontier series! The expected publication is November 2025.
We at the Asylum are excited to host the cover reveal for Phil Williams’ upcoming new military fantasy novel, A WINTER’S MERCY, the third book in The Blood Scouts series! The expected publication is October 28, 2025.
We at the Asylum are excited to host the cover reveal for Adam Holcombe’s upcoming new sci-fi novel, BOUNTY INC.., the first in the Bounty Inc. universe! The expected publication is October 15, 2025.
Sharon Rivest, the author of DECEIT, chose Tales from the Asylum as her SPFBO 9 spotlight, so let’s see how she imagines our home!
Brendan Noble, author of A Dagger in the Winds chose the challenge of What the Hungarian?! for his SPFBO 9 spotlight. Let’s see how he did with it!
Part 4 of the second SPFBO 9 To Be Continued… story, The Illusionist’s Nightmare is written by Mike Rousseau. Time to find out how Ezri’s story ends!
Part 3 of the second SPFBO 9 To Be Continued… story, The Illusionist’s Nightmare is written by Ryan Kirk. Her plan being made, it’s time for Ezri to get to work.
