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K.J.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at K.J.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
K.J. Charles’s Followers (12,532)
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K.J. Charles
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https://www.goodreads.com/kjcharles
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The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)
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2013
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21 editions
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The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)
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2023
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12 editions
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A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)
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2014
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17 editions
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Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)
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2020
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12 editions
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Flight of Magpies (A Charm of Magpies, #3)
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2014
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15 editions
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The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)
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2021
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11 editions
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The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)
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2020
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Think of England (England World, #2)
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2014
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Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3)
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2021
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A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)
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2023
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7 editions
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Summer Reading But This Time the Books Exist
In a new low for literacy, the Chicago Sun-Times decided to print a Chat-GPT generated article recommending for ‘Summer Reading’ a whole bunch of books that literally don’t exist. Oh, and also Atonement because Ian McEwan is always a great beach read.
I don’t need to rehearse everything wrong with a newspaper uncritically putting out the regurgitron’s unconsidered slop, or the environmental cost of
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K.J.’s Recent Updates
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| I understood less of what was going on in this one than I did in the first, but more than I did in the second. A remarkable trilogy, though in all honesty you could only read the first one and do all right. Very well translated, compelling, atmospher ...more | |
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| I consider the main Enlightenment trilogy (the Murdo/David books) to be among the best queer historical romances ever. Absolute top ten, in large part because of the ruthless realism, the genuine cost, the fear and the courage required on the parts o ...more | |
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An intensely readable sapphic historical mystery, with a professional sceptic facing off against a pair of self-proclaimed mediums (media?) on board an ocean liner. Marvellous characterisation of spiky, awkward, in-denial Avis and a great slow burn r ...more |
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| Absolutely delightfully lighthearted romance SF about a woman visiting Roswell actually being abducted by an alien. It has a slightly old fashioned screwball comedy feel to it which I loved, and a kind and thoughtful take on communication and underst ...more | |
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I have a feeling that I might have understood the point of this more if I'd read American Psycho. Definitely gave me the feeling of a book in dialogue with another book. However, I haven't and am not going to, so here we are. It's basically a very go ...more |
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| I think it's fair to call this a squib: the premise is "what would happen if the moon suddenly turned to cheese". Yes, very silly, though tbh the author earns it with the sequence of an unfortunate TV commissioner person getting pitched endless chees ...more | |
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| These books are the ne plus ultra of this particular evolution of the Golden Age detective story, the super-elaborately constructed type, usually depending on wildly implausible behaviour and deductions, which Japanese writers especially have cultiva ...more | |
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| Terrific account of the end of the dinosaurs: what their world was like, what happened when the asteroid hit, what survived and how. Vivid writing and a fascinating sweep of time and place. A highly readable account that briefly made me feel better i ...more | |
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I have wanted the story of the other enchanted swords ever since I read Swordheart, so learning this was the Dervish's story filled me with glee. (He's mentioned maybe six times in Swordheart: that is how you lay elegant sequel bait.) BUT. Not only i ...more |
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“What the fuck, what the fucking, bloody devil-shit, what in the name of Satan's swollen cock was that?”
― The Magpie Lord
― The Magpie Lord
“When I fuck you, Mr. Day, it will not be briefly. It will be long and hard and extremely thorough. I'm going to take pains with you.”
― The Magpie Lord
― The Magpie Lord
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“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
― Tremendous Trifles
― Tremendous Trifles
“Well, are you not going to give the man a round of applause?" he asked. "I mean, that was fucking amazing, didn't you think? Honestly, if you'd asked me ten minutes ago, hypothetically, if it was possible to cut your own head off, I'd have said unequivocally no. You've really got to hand it to the bloke -- though it's fair to say luck was involved. I mean, there's no way he could do it again.”
― Be My Enemy
― Be My Enemy
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CONGRATS on the huge news today, KJ! So excited for you and proud of you and amazed by it all...
K.J. wrote: "Thanks! Flowcharts are much more fun than I remembered..."You certainly proved that haha ;)!
Leo wrote: "Thanks for accepting my friend request! Enjoyed your flowchart/ Anne Rice post this morning :D"Thanks! Flowcharts are much more fun than I remembered...
Thanks for accepting my friend request! Enjoyed your flowchart/ Anne Rice post this morning :D
Gina wrote: "Hi KJ, thanks for accepting my friend invite. I just finished The Magpie Lord and A Case of Possession, they were awesome!!! :)"Thank you so much! Really glad you liked them. (Have you read the in-between freebie, Interlude with Tattoos?)
Hi KJ, thanks for accepting my friend invite. I just finished The Magpie Lord and A Case of Possession, they were awesome!!! :)
Thanks for accepting K.J. And thanks ever so much for Stephen & Crane.
Thank you! Freebie Magpie short will be out in Dec as a little Christmas stocking filler... :-)
Hi K.J. Thanks you so much! I'm a incredibly in love with your words and I'm very impatient for January's release of A Case of Possession. Very. Impatient. :D!
Thank you! I'm really enjoying the sensation of being read, having been a secret writer for ages, so I really appreciate the feedback. :-)
Thanks for accepting KJ. I really am a massive fan. Loving your books. :)
Josephine wrote: "Hi KJ - good to see you here! Now you need to upgrade yourself to author status :)Jo x"
Will do - I hope... completely new to this site, I need about a week to get used to it...
Hi KJ - good to see you here! Now you need to upgrade yourself to author status :)Jo x
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