Top 10 or 10 I LOVED Disappointing reads Most anticipated If you liked X read Y Most influential authors in the horror genre Books that transformed the genre Sorry, I just love your book content
“Books that make me want to write/make me feel inspired” “Books I wish would be made into movies or made into better movies” “If you’re in *this* mood, read *this*”
Books with the best twists(top 10 or 5) Books that will leave you wanting to leave the lights on all night The worst and best of horror books (could be split into two) Tier supernatural books Tier gorey or best visual descriptions
Book Content Ideas: - Book Shelf Tour - 2025 TBR stack (what you are excited to read this year) - Top Haunted House Book Recommendations (or other recommendations types)
First off, Fern? ADORABLE. She can interrupt your endings anytime she wants! So cute! Second, YESSSSSS, QUEEN. I love a good book video for you and I love your book content!! I am happy you're getting back to your roots and enjoying books/creating book content. You're awesome at it. Yes, we need" -bookshelf tour -2025 TBR -More movie to screen comparisons -Maybe a Darcy Coates Catalogue reading? You've done Riley Sager, and I feel you'd enjoy someone else's catalogue too. -Best Seasonal scary reads -Books you WISH were movies -Book Check: take a really bad movie, and REALLY GOOD book of the same topic, and see where 1 went wrong and the other went right. -Horror Around the World: read scary books from different areas of the world and see what you vibe with. That's all I can think of. Keep up the great work!
I so appreciate book videos/forums acknowledging the concept of DNFing. I decided to DNF a book last night after 19 pages and felt briefly guilty, then remembered--nope, I'm allowed to do this, and there are plenty of books out there I'm going to love, so why waste my time on something I'm literally hating?
you can import your goodreads data to storygraph it's super easy the app does it all for you! i love book content from you and would love to see a bookshelf tour !!
I've been watching you for years, so seeing two of my passions (horror and Dramione fanfiction) merge was such a fun thing to see! There are so many good stories out there, we're truly blessed with amazing talent in the fandom. If you'd like to read something with darker/horror vibes, I would totally recommend Love in the Time of a Zombie Apocalypse and A Certain Slant of Light
i love book content especially from people who don't usually make any content for it, and yours i like even more because it actually matches my taste👨🏻🍳
I found your channel through your book content, so I would love to see more! There are so many horror and thrillers coming out the first half of the year
Bummer that The September House didn't work for you. I absolutely loved it, and how it ended was, hands down, my favorite part of the story. Can't wait to get more book content from you. 🎉📚
These are some books I've recommended on my channel that you might like: -Solanin by Inio Asano (this is slice of life, not horror, but it explores dealing with loss in a way that made me sob). -Monstrilio by Gerardo Samano Cordova (family mourning the loss of their young son, somewhat of a Frankenstein retelling, very melancholy and beautiful). -The Yellow Wallpaper (motherhood horror short story as a woman is experiencing postpartum psychosis). -Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth (weird girl horror that explores what it's like to grieve someone you had a complicated relationship with. Also very lightheaded and funny at times). -This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno (supernatural/cosmic horror exploration of grief. Go into this as blind as possible if you can). -New Animal by Ella Baxter (not horror, but a woman who works at a mortuary can't cope with her mother's passing and runs away. Weird and heartbreakingly funny and stunning). -A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (not explicit horror, but spooky leaning about a young boy processing his mother's terminal illness. Gorgeous illustrations, made me cry incredibly hard).
Monstrilio... whew... read this while grieving the loss of a cat (some of her symptoms included lung issues). I think that book changed my brain chemistry
@nicoles2159 I'm actually grieving a cat right now as well. Have you read Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill? I feel like that's going to wreck me on a good day, let alone when I'm already weepy about my cat ಥ﹏ಥ
omg yes more book content please! bookshelf tour, reading vlogs, book shopping vlogs, tbr stacks, whatever excites you the most :) also fern at the end is so adorable!!
Maybe a grief horror video. Definitely a book vs. movie video... Fun horror thrillers - Rest Stop by Nat Cassidy (or ANY of his stuff, he is so good), Bloom by Delilah S Dawson , Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (water and grief horror in one). All three pretty short.
Love the addition of bookish content to this channel. There's so much cross-over between books and cinema, this is very refreshing. Would love to see a video on your thoughts on "book vs adaptation - which did it better" or "thoughts on anticipated 2025/2026 adaptations" (like the new upcoming Stephen King Running Man movie). Hope we get to see more content like this.
This video gave me so much comfort. We need more UA-cam channels to review and talk about books ❤ I hope the year is going good so far for you 💕 You're so comforting, sweet, and passionate. Thank you for making my day better and my life in general much better honestly 🙏 You give me so many reasons to keep going
Love your bookish content! I have so many books I really want to prioritize them a bit more this year and I do a similar movie goal for myself every year too! 100 movies? Wow! I barely watch 50 new movies to me every year - mainly because I love to rewatch my favorites. May we all read good books and watch good movies this year!! :)
I always find it so interesting since we are both Pisces that you are actually more interested in more literal themes but I always have loved all your suggestions! I feel like I am way more head in the clouds type of personality lol 😂
SO stoked for more book content!! Honestly, after years of being chronically film-pilled I started devoting more time to reading last year and I’ve been surprised to find how much richer it’s made my film-watching experiences? ex. Last night I watched Red Rooms for the first time, and afterwards I couldn’t stop weaving together connected themes & ideas from Devil House by John Darnielle and Penance by Eliza Clark (since all three scrutinize various responses to true crime as both a real tragedy & as entertainment). So if you ever wanted to share story parallels that you discover in movies/books I’d be psyched to hear them!
I love your book content and I would LOVE a bookshelf tour!! I love weird subtle fantasy litfic/horror and mona awad is even a bit too weird for me lol. Bunny was a ride and I still find myself remembering things at the end and being like, oh man yeah that did happen.
So excited for more book content from you!! I totally get how you felt about Mona Awad’s books - I read All’s Well by her and not sure if i ~got it~ but I really enjoyed it nonetheless. Bunny is now on my TBR !
Duuuude yes appreciate adding these to my to be read... Also finally getting into fanfic a big win!! So many ridiculously good stories out there I'm glad it was a good starting point!! Also that ending 😭 scariest thing!!😱
“The Good House” by Tananarive Due is easily my favorite book of all time and I think it does a beautiful job exploring grief all while being genuinely terrifying
Soo happy to hear praise for Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Suzanne created a really intruiging world and her storytelling is why I think the Hunger Games series really stands out from the other YA series. Shame a lot of people quickly dismiss the YA genre. Also super excited about the Sunrise on the Reaping coming out in March! Just a bit more!
The house across the lake threw me SO HARD. He definitely succeeded on that front, but at the same time it just seemed so out of left field that I had a hard time believing it and seeing how it would fit in the story. I still have a hard time deciding if it ruined it for me or not hahaha. Just one of those “well ok THAT happened I guess” moments lol
i've always loved book videos and been following your content for years so this makes me super happy!! also i have a few books that deal with grief in creative and interesting ways to recommend to you because it's a theme i really like reading about as well. first i really really recommend this thing between us by gus moreno, it's a horror book about a haunted house but a very modern one with google home and stuff + there's always ambiguity about the haunting. starve acre is a bit of the same type of a book except it's a folk horror, something i really love. and lastly i have a beautiful poetry collection if that's your thing, and it's this this dark interval by rilke, which are all poems focusing on grief and how to cope with it through art and language, it's really beautifully written and touching
We Used to Live Here made my best horror of the year as well! I read so much fanfiction during the early 00s and it's wild to me (in a positive way) that it's become so mainstream now because no one talked about it IRL then 😭
I saw you post about Manacled on Instagram just before the new year and I took the plunge. Oh. My. God. I’m so glad I did! The book is horror, it’s yearning, it’s so sad and I really liked it. I read the thing in 4 days and barely paused for sleep or food 😅 I can usually follow your recommendations as I think we have similar taste in books and films, and I’m so happy I dipped my toe into fanfiction. Apparently another good Dramione fanfic is “Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love” so I might check that out at some point, but for now I need to recover lol.
Gillian Flynn also has The Grownup which is a great short story. I also looove come closer, I re-read it last year and bumped it up to 5 stars! ALSOOO, I ended up reading A Short Stay in Hell because of you and I also loved it. Great concept and I liked the plot points he decided to explore :)
Happy to see more book videos from you! If you are still looking for books on grief, I would recommend Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto. It's dark, emotional, and dealing with grief and mother/daughter relationship.
I’m so here for more book content! If you haven’t tried this with audiobooks this is how I was able to get my brain used to them. First I would physically read the book..maybe half, maybe a hundred pages. Then I would switch. Because I was already in the story it made it much easier to pick up and comprehend the audiobook. I discovered this on accident when I wanted to know the ending of a book and couldn’t wait to finish it physically. Now I can easily pick up most audiobooks from the start. But initially I thought I could never get used to audiobooks. A great grief horror is Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie, and it’ll hit different now that you’re a parent. I’ve seen people saying parents wouldn’t do that..my child was sick at birth, yes absolutely I would do what these parents did, maybe not everything..I thought every perspective was important to the world. I’d love to see it as a movie but I’m sure it would be terrible.
I love your bookish updates as a fellow BookTube enjoyer myself! (I just lurk more often than comment 😅 haha). It is weird though, as much as I love horror movies, I have had such a bad time trying to find my vibe in horror novels, most of them are just meh for me 🫠. I'm excited to see what future vids you decide to make on the topic though, definitely agree with everyone about the book shelf tour. I also think it could be interesting to have some reading vlogs here and there too. I feel like those are a staple in the book community. Especially if you try out a new subgenre or a particularly twisty story, as those reactions could be super fun. And color me SO surprised that not only are you a Dramione shipper, you also prefer slow burn and little/no spice?? We are on the same wave length! I tried Manacled last year as well, but I only made it through the first section, right before the flashbacks started, and was having a rough time with it, especially when the pregnancy happened. But your comments on it, particularly because of how sensitive you are towards SA, makes me think I should give it a second try.
@PossessedbyHorror Ooh, really? That's interesting. I think I'm just gonna have to dive back in after all, just to see what she does with that, because I definitely agree about her writing skills. Her descriptions were so haunting, I still think about certain scenes 7 months later haha.
Yessss to more book content! There are very few of us women sole horror booktubers out there! If you're looking for more grief horror where it is a huge part of the story (if you haven't already read these): Blanky by Kealan Patrick Burke and This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno. Great ranking! I want to read Bunny this year! Awesome reading year of 2024
I am SO EXCITED!! I’ve been waiting for this!!!🫶 I can’t wait for more book content, I’ve recently been reading more horror and your recommendations are always the best. Seriously so hyped!
Love your book content! ♡ Have bought several books because you liked them (Nick Cutter). I'll suggest Lars Kepler as an author, specifically the Joona Linna series
freida mcfadden has really good popcorn thrillers always a good plot twist and very fast paced always get me out of a reading slump. i recommend starting with the housemaid or never lie!
Yes! The book content is my favorite! I also love books about grief. Here are some of my faves: This thing between us Our wives under the sea Monstrillio The troop & the deep A short stay in hell (twins)
Some great horror books that handle grief: Crossroads by Laurel Hightower (dark, but a fantastic fast read. Grief of a child) Whalefall by Daniel Krauss (underwater, super gorey, grief over a parent) Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova (monster, Mexican folklore in a modern setting. Grieving parents) The Girl from Rawblood by Catriona Ward (gothic, multiple timelines, weird read but my favorite C. Ward. Generational trauma) My fave Darcy Coates (but I love basically them all) are The Haunting of Leigh Harker and Gallows Hill
i agree about "Survive the Night" but i liked it more than "The House across Lake" but "Middle of the Night" by Riley Sager was one of his best the ending when you find out what happened is SO brilliant
I really enjoyed this! I'm trying to read more thriller/horror this year. Also, the fanfiction part made me smile ❤ I used to be a Dramione girl, but graduated to Tomione and there's no going back for me unfortunately haha
Yes yes yes I love your book videos ❤❤❤ any book content to be honest they're all good!! Maybe books to read on 2025 🎉🎉 FYI I love Middle of the Night, it's my second favorite Riley Sager!!!
I actually read “A Head Full of Ghosts” in your recommendation and really enjoyed it! Just tagged “Dead of Winter” in my own Libby account to listen to later. Winter is a really good time for thriller books, I find!
I love the book content!! I listened to the audiobook of from below, I really liked it, the concept is so cool, my only complaint with it was it could of been shortened a bit but i still really enjoyed it. My favorite of darcy coates so far though has been hunted!! I haven't heard of parasite tho I gotta check that one out
the eyes are the best part was my favorite horror book i read in 2024!! it was sooo good!!! I also really liked "the warm hands of ghosts" which was more historical fiction with a ghost story rather than horror or thriller but it was so goooddd. also not rlly horror but my favorite book on grief ive ever read is "on earth we're briefly gorgeous." so so beautifully written and such an interesting take on grief. i really love mona awads descriptions of like scenery its beautiful on that aspect but the endings of rouge and bunny were not my favs. i definitely preferred bunny to rouge but i completely agree idk how to feel about mona awad.
i highly recommend nathan ballingrud's other short story collection, north american lake monsters. wounds is a more straightforward horror collection, and i think it suffers a bit from the fact that a lot of its stories are good or okay, and two ("the visible filth" and "the butcher's table") are excellent. north american lake monsters reminds me of guillermo del toro's movies in the way it uses creatures, darkness, and horror elements. they're lushly described, but they're only occasionally meant to be scary. he kind of uses monsters as a way to talk about the simplest things that make us human (grief, feeling lost, childhood, alienation, weird family dynamics). his writing style takes on a tone that reminds me of clive barker, which, some people find clive barker too flowery but i love it. i sound like a nathan ballingrud evangelist but for real it's so good if you're into that specific vibe lots of books i've wanted to get around to in your 4 and 5 star tiers, which is exciting. i think either adam neville (torn between the ritiual and last days) or a short stay in hell will be my next horror read. i hope you keep doing book reviews! horror lit is kind of the underdog in the broader genre of movies, tv, and video games but it's really thriving right now.
I also read We Used to Live Here and was super disappointed by the ending at first, but the more I think about it and delve into the mysteries the more I adore it. Can’t wait to see what’s next (super disappointed by the future adaptation though)
Things have Gotten Worse is definitely on my tbr .... along with a majority of the books you mentioned lol. Even the dnf's . Please do a bookshelf tour !
I feel you 100% on Mona Awad. I don’t like the writing style but the stories are interesting. The thing is the more I think about the books I’ve read of hers, the less I like them.
I do want to hear people talk about foreign/non american horror books, broaden our horizon, just like you movies taste, i think expanding our reads to international stuff would be great!
I watched Sharp Objects last year on a whim and I loved it so much, I watched it again with my mom less than a month later because I NEEDED my mom to watch it so I could talk about it with someone.
2025 is the year of books! Make sure to comment any specific book content you'd like to see me do this year...
Top 10 or 10 I LOVED
Disappointing reads
Most anticipated
If you liked X read Y
Most influential authors in the horror genre
Books that transformed the genre
Sorry, I just love your book content
“Books that make me want to write/make me feel inspired”
“Books I wish would be made into movies or made into better movies”
“If you’re in *this* mood, read *this*”
Books/series that should only get TV/streaming adaptations and not full length film(s).
@@PossessedbyHorror most anticipated books of the year
Books with the best twists(top 10 or 5)
Books that will leave you wanting to leave the lights on all night
The worst and best of horror books (could be split into two)
Tier supernatural books
Tier gorey or best visual descriptions
We def need a bookshelf tour
Agreed
sarah booktube era maybe possibly???? i would love to see reading vlogs, maybe a vlog of you reading your anticipated releases
dont give her ideas that would lead to her channel / career dying
@ i’m confused how would book videos lead to that? her book related videos do very well and we love sarah over on booktube lol
@@myocoree I think the user who replied to you just needed a hearty meal and a good night's sleep so they can think properly :)
I would definitely subscribe to a second channel if she did this
@@bta8355do you know how massive booktube is lol
YES BOOK CONTENT!!
Book Content Ideas:
- Book Shelf Tour
- 2025 TBR stack (what you are excited to read this year)
- Top Haunted House Book Recommendations (or other recommendations types)
First off, Fern? ADORABLE. She can interrupt your endings anytime she wants! So cute!
Second, YESSSSSS, QUEEN. I love a good book video for you and I love your book content!! I am happy you're getting back to your roots and enjoying books/creating book content. You're awesome at it.
Yes, we need"
-bookshelf tour
-2025 TBR
-More movie to screen comparisons
-Maybe a Darcy Coates Catalogue reading? You've done Riley Sager, and I feel you'd enjoy someone else's catalogue too.
-Best Seasonal scary reads
-Books you WISH were movies
-Book Check: take a really bad movie, and REALLY GOOD book of the same topic, and see where 1 went wrong and the other went right.
-Horror Around the World: read scary books from different areas of the world and see what you vibe with.
That's all I can think of. Keep up the great work!
I so appreciate book videos/forums acknowledging the concept of DNFing. I decided to DNF a book last night after 19 pages and felt briefly guilty, then remembered--nope, I'm allowed to do this, and there are plenty of books out there I'm going to love, so why waste my time on something I'm literally hating?
Yes! Reading is supposed to be for fun. In 2025 we DNF books AND movies we aren’t vibing with.
@@PossessedbyHorror Hell yeah!
Been wanting a long book video from you. Loving this!
you can import your goodreads data to storygraph it's super easy the app does it all for you! i love book content from you and would love to see a bookshelf tour !!
I've been watching you for years, so seeing two of my passions (horror and Dramione fanfiction) merge was such a fun thing to see! There are so many good stories out there, we're truly blessed with amazing talent in the fandom. If you'd like to read something with darker/horror vibes, I would totally recommend Love in the Time of a Zombie Apocalypse and A Certain Slant of Light
Ooh thank you so much!!
MANACLED MENTIONED?! PossessedbyHorror fans stay WINNING (great video, happy new year queen
obsessed that you included fan fiction in this
also my EXTENSIVE fanfic library is open to you completely lmaoooooo
Yes more book content. I'd love for you to share some of your fav booktube creators - I love finding new folks to follow!
Awww your baby at the end of the video 🥰❤️😍
I’ll definitely have I some inspiration for some book reading now❤️
I’m so glad you are going to be doing more Booktube content.
i love book content especially from people who don't usually make any content for it, and yours i like even more because it actually matches my taste👨🏻🍳
So happy to see book content again from you
YES sarah book content 🖤
the sharp objects tv show is so good ! It’s EXTREMELY DARK & heavy but overall i loved it!
I found your channel through your book content, so I would love to see more! There are so many horror and thrillers coming out the first half of the year
Yes bookshelf tour and more book content. ❤
A video talking about the creators you follow for book content! I love book content ❤❤❤
I can’t wait for Sunrise on the Reaping book coming in March.
SAME
I watched nearly 300 movies last year and I told myself LESS screen time this year and MORE books so I loveee this!
I'm almost 40 and shipping Dramione! Great video, Sarah. Adding lots of books to my tbr! :)
Hell yeah 🙌
Yessss Lana!!!!
Bummer that The September House didn't work for you. I absolutely loved it, and how it ended was, hands down, my favorite part of the story. Can't wait to get more book content from you. 🎉📚
Bookshelf tour!
Love the new set up! & I’d love to see a bookshelf tour! 📚✨
Yes! I’m so excited that you will be making more book content!
These are some books I've recommended on my channel that you might like:
-Solanin by Inio Asano (this is slice of life, not horror, but it explores dealing with loss in a way that made me sob).
-Monstrilio by Gerardo Samano Cordova (family mourning the loss of their young son, somewhat of a Frankenstein retelling, very melancholy and beautiful).
-The Yellow Wallpaper (motherhood horror short story as a woman is experiencing postpartum psychosis).
-Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth (weird girl horror that explores what it's like to grieve someone you had a complicated relationship with. Also very lightheaded and funny at times).
-This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno (supernatural/cosmic horror exploration of grief. Go into this as blind as possible if you can).
-New Animal by Ella Baxter (not horror, but a woman who works at a mortuary can't cope with her mother's passing and runs away. Weird and heartbreakingly funny and stunning).
-A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (not explicit horror, but spooky leaning about a young boy processing his mother's terminal illness. Gorgeous illustrations, made me cry incredibly hard).
Monstrilio... whew... read this while grieving the loss of a cat (some of her symptoms included lung issues). I think that book changed my brain chemistry
@nicoles2159 I'm actually grieving a cat right now as well. Have you read Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill? I feel like that's going to wreck me on a good day, let alone when I'm already weepy about my cat
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@@superblomper Big hugs ❤🩹 I just read the synopsis and don't know if I can handle that just yet, but saving it for later 😭
welcome to the fanfiction side! it’s amazing and hard to go back to regular books once you are in it!!
omg yes more book content please! bookshelf tour, reading vlogs, book shopping vlogs, tbr stacks, whatever excites you the most :)
also fern at the end is so adorable!!
Maybe a grief horror video. Definitely a book vs. movie video... Fun horror thrillers - Rest Stop by Nat Cassidy (or ANY of his stuff, he is so good), Bloom by Delilah S Dawson , Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (water and grief horror in one). All three pretty short.
Grief horror video will be up this week :)
Love the addition of bookish content to this channel. There's so much cross-over between books and cinema, this is very refreshing. Would love to see a video on your thoughts on "book vs adaptation - which did it better" or "thoughts on anticipated 2025/2026 adaptations" (like the new upcoming Stephen King Running Man movie). Hope we get to see more content like this.
This video gave me so much comfort. We need more UA-cam channels to review and talk about books ❤ I hope the year is going good so far for you 💕 You're so comforting, sweet, and passionate. Thank you for making my day better and my life in general much better honestly 🙏 You give me so many reasons to keep going
Love your bookish content! I have so many books I really want to prioritize them a bit more this year and I do a similar movie goal for myself every year too! 100 movies? Wow! I barely watch 50 new movies to me every year - mainly because I love to rewatch my favorites.
May we all read good books and watch good movies this year!! :)
The cutest 40:33
I love your book content and your movie content! Bring it all!
How about a crossover for both types of media.
Ups and downs of book version vs movie/tv adaptations of those you read/watched.
I always find it so interesting since we are both Pisces that you are actually more interested in more literal themes but I always have loved all your suggestions! I feel like I am way more head in the clouds type of personality lol 😂
SO stoked for more book content!! Honestly, after years of being chronically film-pilled I started devoting more time to reading last year and I’ve been surprised to find how much richer it’s made my film-watching experiences? ex. Last night I watched Red Rooms for the first time, and afterwards I couldn’t stop weaving together connected themes & ideas from Devil House by John Darnielle and Penance by Eliza Clark (since all three scrutinize various responses to true crime as both a real tragedy & as entertainment). So if you ever wanted to share story parallels that you discover in movies/books I’d be psyched to hear them!
Nahhh never be ashamed of your YA no matter what anyone says!!! loved the list. I’ll be visiting my library AGAIN this summer break
oh i am so here for your bookish era!
I love your book content and I would LOVE a bookshelf tour!! I love weird subtle fantasy litfic/horror and mona awad is even a bit too weird for me lol. Bunny was a ride and I still find myself remembering things at the end and being like, oh man yeah that did happen.
So excited for horror book videos! Authors I recommend are Karin Slaughter and and John Marrs
I’m so here for book content!
So excited for more book content from you!! I totally get how you felt about Mona Awad’s books - I read All’s Well by her and not sure if i ~got it~ but I really enjoyed it nonetheless. Bunny is now on my TBR !
Duuuude yes appreciate adding these to my to be read... Also finally getting into fanfic a big win!! So many ridiculously good stories out there I'm glad it was a good starting point!! Also that ending 😭 scariest thing!!😱
“The Good House” by Tananarive Due is easily my favorite book of all time and I think it does a beautiful job exploring grief all while being genuinely terrifying
Yes bookshelf tour❤!
Soo happy to hear praise for Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Suzanne created a really intruiging world and her storytelling is why I think the Hunger Games series really stands out from the other YA series. Shame a lot of people quickly dismiss the YA genre. Also super excited about the Sunrise on the Reaping coming out in March! Just a bit more!
I’d also love to see more psychology based ones! I’ve heard a lot about the silent patient.
I’m definitely interesting in more psych based books but I did not like the Silent Patient 😬
You are so right for The ballad of songbirds and snakes. it’s so good!!
SO here for the book content 🫡
The house across the lake threw me SO HARD. He definitely succeeded on that front, but at the same time it just seemed so out of left field that I had a hard time believing it and seeing how it would fit in the story. I still have a hard time deciding if it ruined it for me or not hahaha. Just one of those “well ok THAT happened I guess” moments lol
i've always loved book videos and been following your content for years so this makes me super happy!! also i have a few books that deal with grief in creative and interesting ways to recommend to you because it's a theme i really like reading about as well. first i really really recommend this thing between us by gus moreno, it's a horror book about a haunted house but a very modern one with google home and stuff + there's always ambiguity about the haunting. starve acre is a bit of the same type of a book except it's a folk horror, something i really love. and lastly i have a beautiful poetry collection if that's your thing, and it's this this dark interval by rilke, which are all poems focusing on grief and how to cope with it through art and language, it's really beautifully written and touching
We Used to Live Here made my best horror of the year as well! I read so much fanfiction during the early 00s and it's wild to me (in a positive way) that it's become so mainstream now because no one talked about it IRL then 😭
Her little voice at the end! 🥹
I saw you post about Manacled on Instagram just before the new year and I took the plunge. Oh. My. God. I’m so glad I did! The book is horror, it’s yearning, it’s so sad and I really liked it. I read the thing in 4 days and barely paused for sleep or food 😅 I can usually follow your recommendations as I think we have similar taste in books and films, and I’m so happy I dipped my toe into fanfiction. Apparently another good Dramione fanfic is “Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love” so I might check that out at some point, but for now I need to recover lol.
@@Blingbillaboo love mortifying ordeal! it's so good!
POSSESSED BY HORROR BOOK VIDEO!!!
It's that time again, folks! 😍
Added quite a few to my tbr!
Gillian Flynn also has The Grownup which is a great short story.
I also looove come closer, I re-read it last year and bumped it up to 5 stars!
ALSOOO, I ended up reading A Short Stay in Hell because of you and I also loved it. Great concept and I liked the plot points he decided to explore :)
Happy to see more book videos from you! If you are still looking for books on grief, I would recommend Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto. It's dark, emotional, and dealing with grief and mother/daughter relationship.
I’m so here for more book content!
If you haven’t tried this with audiobooks this is how I was able to get my brain used to them. First I would physically read the book..maybe half, maybe a hundred pages. Then I would switch. Because I was already in the story it made it much easier to pick up and comprehend the audiobook. I discovered this on accident when I wanted to know the ending of a book and couldn’t wait to finish it physically. Now I can easily pick up most audiobooks from the start. But initially I thought I could never get used to audiobooks.
A great grief horror is Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie, and it’ll hit different now that you’re a parent. I’ve seen people saying parents wouldn’t do that..my child was sick at birth, yes absolutely I would do what these parents did, maybe not everything..I thought every perspective was important to the world. I’d love to see it as a movie but I’m sure it would be terrible.
I love books! Psych thrillers and horror are my fav! I want to know your most disturbing books. Or books with best twists!
@@peytonandamber9457 Yes! Same! Love my f’ with my mind books.
I've been waiting for this one 🎉
Dead of Winter was my first Darcy Coates too! And I loved it!!
I wouldnt mind a fan fic ranking in its own bubble like fan fic vs fan fic not having anything to do with regular literature
I love your bookish updates as a fellow BookTube enjoyer myself! (I just lurk more often than comment 😅 haha). It is weird though, as much as I love horror movies, I have had such a bad time trying to find my vibe in horror novels, most of them are just meh for me 🫠.
I'm excited to see what future vids you decide to make on the topic though, definitely agree with everyone about the book shelf tour. I also think it could be interesting to have some reading vlogs here and there too. I feel like those are a staple in the book community. Especially if you try out a new subgenre or a particularly twisty story, as those reactions could be super fun.
And color me SO surprised that not only are you a Dramione shipper, you also prefer slow burn and little/no spice?? We are on the same wave length! I tried Manacled last year as well, but I only made it through the first section, right before the flashbacks started, and was having a rough time with it, especially when the pregnancy happened. But your comments on it, particularly because of how sensitive you are towards SA, makes me think I should give it a second try.
The flashbacks from manacled were my FAVORITE part I couldn’t put it down. It’s mostly the war and it’s just such good storytelling.
@PossessedbyHorror Ooh, really? That's interesting. I think I'm just gonna have to dive back in after all, just to see what she does with that, because I definitely agree about her writing skills. Her descriptions were so haunting, I still think about certain scenes 7 months later haha.
Yessss to more book content! There are very few of us women sole horror booktubers out there! If you're looking for more grief horror where it is a huge part of the story (if you haven't already read these): Blanky by Kealan Patrick Burke and This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno. Great ranking! I want to read Bunny this year! Awesome reading year of 2024
I am SO EXCITED!! I’ve been waiting for this!!!🫶 I can’t wait for more book content, I’ve recently been reading more horror and your recommendations are always the best. Seriously so hyped!
I love reading vlogs 😊
Karin Slaughter is popcorn thriller to me. I find some of the twists/melodrama ludicrous, but they're quick, easy-to-digest reads for me.
Love your book content! ♡ Have bought several books because you liked them (Nick Cutter). I'll suggest Lars Kepler as an author, specifically the Joona Linna series
freida mcfadden has really good popcorn thrillers always a good plot twist and very fast paced always get me out of a reading slump. i recommend starting with the housemaid or never lie!
Omg I just finished manacled and absolutely loved it lmao
Boys in the Valley by Phillip Fracassi was my favorite read from last year. So good and made me read a bunch more by Fracassi.
So good!!
Yes! The book content is my favorite! I also love books about grief. Here are some of my faves:
This thing between us
Our wives under the sea
Monstrillio
The troop & the deep
A short stay in hell (twins)
Yas! Book content ❤❤❤🎉🎉
Some great horror books that handle grief:
Crossroads by Laurel Hightower (dark, but a fantastic fast read. Grief of a child)
Whalefall by Daniel Krauss (underwater, super gorey, grief over a parent)
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova (monster, Mexican folklore in a modern setting. Grieving parents)
The Girl from Rawblood by Catriona Ward (gothic, multiple timelines, weird read but my favorite C. Ward. Generational trauma)
My fave Darcy Coates (but I love basically them all) are The Haunting of Leigh Harker and Gallows Hill
Oh I own Whalefall I should read that soon!
@@PossessedbyHorrorthat’s fantastic because that’s the one I think you’ll like the most!
i agree about "Survive the Night" but i liked it more than "The House across Lake" but "Middle of the Night" by Riley Sager was one of his best the ending when you find out what happened is SO brilliant
I really enjoyed this! I'm trying to read more thriller/horror this year.
Also, the fanfiction part made me smile ❤ I used to be a Dramione girl, but graduated to Tomione and there's no going back for me unfortunately haha
Yes yes yes I love your book videos ❤❤❤ any book content to be honest they're all good!! Maybe books to read on 2025 🎉🎉 FYI I love Middle of the Night, it's my second favorite Riley Sager!!!
Omg baby voices 🥰 don’t forget you’re living the good old days! ❤️
I love Darcy Coates, I would recommend the small horrors book from her, it's filled with like 50 short scary stories and it's a fun and spooky read
I actually read “A Head Full of Ghosts” in your recommendation and really enjoyed it! Just tagged “Dead of Winter” in my own Libby account to listen to later. Winter is a really good time for thriller books, I find!
Thank you, Sarah. This 41 minute video *flew* by.
I love the book content!! I listened to the audiobook of from below, I really liked it, the concept is so cool, my only complaint with it was it could of been shortened a bit but i still really enjoyed it. My favorite of darcy coates so far though has been hunted!! I haven't heard of parasite tho I gotta check that one out
the eyes are the best part was my favorite horror book i read in 2024!! it was sooo good!!! I also really liked "the warm hands of ghosts" which was more historical fiction with a ghost story rather than horror or thriller but it was so goooddd. also not rlly horror but my favorite book on grief ive ever read is "on earth we're briefly gorgeous." so so beautifully written and such an interesting take on grief.
i really love mona awads descriptions of like scenery its beautiful on that aspect but the endings of rouge and bunny were not my favs. i definitely preferred bunny to rouge but i completely agree idk how to feel about mona awad.
SO EARLY HIIII!!!! ILYSMMM
The Carrow Haunt by Darcy is personally my favorite and i’ve read a lot of her work
i highly recommend nathan ballingrud's other short story collection, north american lake monsters. wounds is a more straightforward horror collection, and i think it suffers a bit from the fact that a lot of its stories are good or okay, and two ("the visible filth" and "the butcher's table") are excellent. north american lake monsters reminds me of guillermo del toro's movies in the way it uses creatures, darkness, and horror elements. they're lushly described, but they're only occasionally meant to be scary. he kind of uses monsters as a way to talk about the simplest things that make us human (grief, feeling lost, childhood, alienation, weird family dynamics). his writing style takes on a tone that reminds me of clive barker, which, some people find clive barker too flowery but i love it. i sound like a nathan ballingrud evangelist but for real it's so good if you're into that specific vibe
lots of books i've wanted to get around to in your 4 and 5 star tiers, which is exciting. i think either adam neville (torn between the ritiual and last days) or a short stay in hell will be my next horror read. i hope you keep doing book reviews! horror lit is kind of the underdog in the broader genre of movies, tv, and video games but it's really thriving right now.
Yes to book content! Last year I read Dearest by Jacquie Walters, I only gave it 3 stars but you may like it as it is horror novel about a new mother.
I also read We Used to Live Here and was super disappointed by the ending at first, but the more I think about it and delve into the mysteries the more I adore it. Can’t wait to see what’s next (super disappointed by the future adaptation though)
Wild, I really loved The September House.
Things have Gotten Worse is definitely on my tbr .... along with a majority of the books you mentioned lol. Even the dnf's . Please do a bookshelf tour !
I love your book videos yayyyyyyyyy
I feel you 100% on Mona Awad. I don’t like the writing style but the stories are interesting. The thing is the more I think about the books I’ve read of hers, the less I like them.
I do want to hear people talk about foreign/non american horror books, broaden our horizon, just like you movies taste, i think expanding our reads to international stuff would be great!
I watched Sharp Objects last year on a whim and I loved it so much, I watched it again with my mom less than a month later because I NEEDED my mom to watch it so I could talk about it with someone.