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HORROR BOOKS I READ THIS YEAR SO FAR + A DNF
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
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INTRO 00:00
DARK MATTER BY BLAKE CROUCH 03:05
GOBLIN BY JOSH MALERMAN 06:30
SURVIVOR BY CHUCK PALAHNIUK 09:33
CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD BY PAUL TREMBLAY 12:28
PROJECT HAIL MARY BY ANDY WEIR 15:20
KILL CREEK BY SCOTT THOMAS 19:36
DNF (DID NOT FINISH) 26:32
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Horror books written by women that I love:
•The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
•Near The Bone by Christina Henry
•The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke
•The Last House On Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Lighthouse Witches and Near The Bone are both incredible
Love The Hollow Places! Such a good weird horror.
I read White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi for one of my classes, that book was absolutely haunting and genuinely scary, I really liked it! Severe trigger warning for disordered eating though
The last house on needless Street might be the most unpredictable book I've ever read
I haven’t read the Hollow Places but I loved The Twisted One’s!!
For video ideas you could do anticipated releases or “if you like this movie read this book” (or vice versa) type of lists!
This is such a cool idea!
I would definitely recommend checking out Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant since you love water horror. It was a good one and it's written by a woman and it features a f/f relationship.
YES this book is so so good!!
Thanks for this, will definitely check out!
Agreed!
I recommend this book to everybody, its my favourite
I DNFd that book. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone with a science background.
Loving the book content ✨ Also, please read Dark Places! I loved the Gone Girl movie so much that I haven’t read it but I did read her other ones and they really blew me away.
Sharp Objects is also amazing!
@@jaimelilfox Sharp Objects is good but it made me so, so sad :(
The Gone Girl book is even better! You should definitely give it a try. It’s not as good as my favorite by Flynn (which is Sharp Objects), but it gets so close.
The imagery from Dark Places lives in my brain. I wish the movie for it had captured it better.
all of her books are phenomenal. i cannot wait for her to publish more :))
Living for the book content! 💜 Please do more than just quarterly videos -- been looking forward to more since the first one! Would love to see what's on your TBR or maybe predicted 5⭐ reads, maybe some more book and movie comparisons as well!
love those ideas!!
Yes, we want more!!!
I'm a booktuber and I DNF'D Kill Creek because I could not deal with the way he wrote the main female character. I was done. So I'm so glad you spoke on this. Thank you! And Project Hail Mary was my favorite book that I read last year.
YAAS I love book content
When you called out the fat-phobia in Kill Creek, I literally screamed "YES" at my computer. The real horror of that novel is the anti-fatness and his depiction of women - so spot on.
How did I KNOW the one you didn’t finish would be Verity 🤣. I knew immediately lol as for Gillian Flynn, I prefer Dark Places to Gone Girl. Just my opinion 🤷🏻♀️
Dark Places is her best one IMO. Sooo good.
I'm so happy you loved Project Hail Mary! I loved it too. Trust me, you'll love the Martian as well. I also want more books like this- realistic/light hearted/scifi!
I was just looking for horror book recommendations!! this is perfect!!
I love booktube content and would love to see more of it from you!! thanks for the trigger warnings as well ♥️♥️
I really like these videos. I like when you include lines you liked or didn't like too, so I can get a little feel for their writing 👌🏼
yessss i’m so excited for this video omg
Love when you do book reviews! I'm always looking for more books to my TBR pile.
omg! You have no idea how long I've waited for this video since the last one. I've reading the ones you read last year! I loved them. Thank uuuuuu
Verity...is so stupid. I cant stand Colleen Hoover. Her writing is so simple and she just thinks she's so clever. She writes a ton of abuse as love and her male characters generally never get any consequences. It makes me so angry. I don't know how she has fans. ALSO...my favorite Chuck Palahniuk is Invisible Monsters. Such an awesome book! 🙌 AND if you love space, I'm reading Dead Silence right now. By S.A. Barnes. Its space horror, I'm really loving it so far...might be something you would wanna check out.
I feel like Colleen Hoover is a better publicist than she is a writer. She just plays the marketing game really well.
Always here for some quality book content. I’ve read quite a few of the recommendations from your last video and have found some new favourite authors from it!
My favorites this year that I read were “tender is the flesh” by augustine and “a short stay in hell” by Steven peck. definitely recommend both!
I second Tender is the Flesh. I’m still traumatized by some of the visuals. 😳
Tender is the Flesh has stuck with me ever since I read it!
A Short Stay in Hell is at the top of my April TBR. Im glad you liked it :)
Ugh, Tender is the Flesh bothered me so much in a negative way. I loved the world building, but it seemed that every time it introduced a new interesting concept is pivoted back to this douchebag middle management guy at the slaughterhouse and his banal dealings. It bored me in that sense! If it had been marketed as a book that dealt with the horrors of men who take advantage of women, and everything in their surroundings really, I may have enjoyed it! Like she said though, more power to you. Not my thing!
@@playingpossum9656 certain parts in the first half were a little hard to read (on my stomach) lol but over all I really liked it. A short stay in hell is definitely easier to read and has really cool world building. You should check it out!
You really can’t go wrong with Gillian Flynn. Of her three novels Gone Girl was my favorite and the book that got me into thrillers back in 2014
Sharp Objects is her best novel imo, the tv series was really fantastic too
@@Hexentric8 -Agreed. Gone Girl is amazing, & i enjoyed Dark Places, but Sharp Objects is definitely my favourite of Gillian Flynn's books. I don't normally get creeped out by murder mystery thrillers, but the book, & miniseries adaptation of Sharp Objects, were both so disturbing that it left me feeling really uneasy when I got to that ending.
LOVED DARK PLACES. Highly recommend and looking forward to hearing your thoughts !
I have 8 unused audible credits, and I am right now in an ER being treated for an injury that's probably going to keep me out of work for a while, so this is beyond timely. Thanks!
Love your book reviews! I think I've read more this year than I have in the last 10 years because of your recommendations!
The bookworm in me is very happy with your book content! Maybe you could do a video about books you are excited about to read?
I was totally surprised with PROJECT HAIL MARY, I didn't think I would like it, but I still think about it.
Love love love the book content! I’m ALL about horror/thriller books nowadays. I cannot stop reading them. I love all of your videos, obvi. But definitely keep the book content coming!
The Winter People is a book I think you’d really like!
Also, thank you SO much for bringing up Verity. I’ve been so back and forth about reading it and now that I’ve listened to what you had to say, I know for a fact that this will not be the book for me. 😂 So, thank you for that.
Hi sarah i just had to hop back over here and thank you for recommending paul tremblays A head full of ghosts! I started reading it yesterday after watching your video and i just finished it and it was spectacular! The ending was so unexpected and absolutely terrifying! So thank you ❤️
I read several books from your last book video and loved them (4 between Jan and Feb)! I'm about to start The Troop and I'm so excited to get more!
Yesss! I love your book content!
Your reviews are really so amazing 👏🏻
I personally think the way Scott Thomas wrote the main female character was spot-on: if I don't look down at my boobs every five seconds, I sometimes forget that I'm a woman!🙄 It's been awhile since I read that one, but I remember it being sort of ableist as well -- it read to me like the one disabled character existed simply to scare the others. It's such a shame that the whole thing was a dumpster fire, because Scott Thomas is a very talented writer!
I also tried to read Dark Matter a few years ago and DNFed it because I found it boring and slow. But since it took you awhile to get into it as well, maybe I'll pick it up again.
cant tell you how much i appreciate you listing all of them in discription....
Great video! I feel the same way about books your not the only one and thanks for the heads up about kill creek! I loved head full of ghosts!
thank you for the book recs (and book don'ts) 💞
I know why you pinpoint and its important for you the writing in books, I can tell you have a very rich vocabulary, in fact, this can be off topic but I'm mexican and you help me out a lot to incorporate words and phrases to my personal vocabulary 🥰 so thank you haha
Literally agree with everything you said about kill creek 🙌 but the horror elements really creeped me out haha
I gobble up horror like candy. I’m always coming back for more. Nothing really seems to scare me, BUT, A Head Full of Ghosts is so good that I couldn’t finish it. It scared me too much. That’s high praise from this Horror Junkie.
Absolutely loved the Martian, both book and movie, so now I'm excited to read Hail Mary based on your review!
I'd personally like to see you cover Dark Places! I personally liked it more than Gone Girl even though I loved Gone Girl.
Gillian Flynn is an amazing writer!
The writing in Dark Places is on another level of awesome.
Definitely try out Josh Malerman's longer works--- bird box is excellent, unbury carol is fantastic, inspection is a great concept. Love these book vids! I'm an avid horror reader and love when you read, too! Especially since you're a writer, as well!
Project Hail Mary is my favourite sci fi book yet, it was just such a lovely read, I still think about it and feel happy when I see others talk about it ❤
YES YES YES MORE BOOK CONTENT
The cops in Goblin creeped me out 🤣 A Man In Slices was my favorite as well! 🤗
there’s this book called “devil’s hill” by E. Reyes that i’ve been seeing a lot lately and i think you might like it! i’m not sure of your taste in books yet but I just wanted to recommend it :)
Been waiting for the book content love it!!!❤️ can’t wait for your bookshelves tour as well. Sad you didn’t like verity but it does have a big romance in it😂 definitely adding the others to my tbr
I love your book content! Quarterly sounds good or whenever you read enough to warrant another video.
A good sci-fi recommendation is All Systems Red by Martha Wells. This is the first in a series of 4 short novellas called The Murderbot Diaries. The audiobook is 3 hours, so you can get through it quick. It has some adventure/action and the science and space stuff is really easy to digest and grounded. It's also surprisingly funny, so hopefully this sounds like something you would like!
Absolutely have to recommend to you, House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. It's a big one but, oh, so good! Took me some time, especially to get into it at the beginning but it was definitely worth it. I've never read something like this before or after and it's terrifying. Its genuinely scary and I think you'd really appreciate the kinda found footage style descriptions of film snippets throughout.
I love your book content! Both Gillian Flynn books are fantastic but I recommend Dark Places!
Yesssss book content! 📖💀♥️
I’m living for this new booktube era 🙌
The Troop and The Deep are both on my tbr still from your last video so now I feel like I’m slacking lol 😂
Both Gone Girl and Dark Places are great (Sharp Objects is also phenomenal, and the short story The Grownup)! You’ve probably seen the movie so you already know the twist in Gone Girl, so maybe go for Dark Places? Either or, though. She’s one of my favorite authors and nothing quite beats her books in the thriller genre imo :)
Yay I love the book content!
I am really glad that i found your amazing channel love this video please stay safe and enjoy your reading love Australia fan John xx
When I was looking up "actually scary horror recs" on Reddit a couple of years back, Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is one that came up quite a few times, just an idea for your next/future Palahniuk read!
Love your book videos! Can't wait to read Project Hail Mary. I love the movie Gone Girl. I also liked the book and especially Gillian's writing and I have yet to read Dark Places but I'm sure Sharp Objects is the best out of all of her books. I don't know if you have already read it/ seen the tv show or just don't have it but that book is amazing and I feel like it's pretty much a book you'll love.
hey, make sure you check your interactions to make sure youtube isn’t burying your vid’s from subs! i was waiting on you to drop a video because you’re one of my fav creators who hasn’t been on my page recently. i looked at your channel and found this. peace and love, great content
Definitely love the book content. I watch a lot of booktube, so it's nice to merge my book and horror content streams. Haha. That being said, if you wanted to do more book content, I personally really enjoy reading vlogs and videos that recommend specific types of books, basically like your movie recs.
Oooo, also, big recommendation for Hailey Piper's books, especially Benny Rose the Cannibal King and The Worm andHis Kings. I think you would really love those.
I love everything you put out 🤟
I really, really love Gone Girl and can't recommend it enough. For me there are enough differences from the movie that it doesn't detract from the book when you've seen the movie first.
Also I read Kill Creek several years ago, when I wasn't quite as sensitive about problematic portrayals as I am now. As a person of size, I really appreciate your sensitivity to the fatphobia in addition to the rampant sexism.
Thank you!
I haven't read Dark Places, but I'm reading Gone Girl right now and I love it! It's taking me a while to get through because I'm finishing my undergrad and working part-time, but it's so good that I want to read Flynn's other books.
I do have one book recommendation, though it is by a male author. "Thirteen Storeys" by Jonathan SIms. His first major claim to fame as a writer is "The Magnus Archives" a Horror/Supernatural podcast that for the most part was an amazing listen. The book is similar to Goblin in that it follows the stories of 13 characters who all experience personal supernatural forces at an apartment complex called Banyan Court. As you read each chapter, you start to uncover the mysteries of the apartment building and understand why everything is happening. And to help focus the story, each chapter focuses on one member of the large cast. I believe it is also available in audiobook form!
Girl talk about book content whenever you want to, you don’t have to be consistent with it! :) also I’d recommend The Girl With All the Gifts by MR Carey!
I loved that book too. The boy on the bridge is the sequel and it is so good if you haven't read it.
Ania Ahlborn, Tananarieve Due, Samantha Kolesnik, Gemma Amor, V. Castro, Sara Tatlinger, Catriona Ward, Christina Henry, Jess Lourey and LaTanya McQueen are just a few great women who write some kick-ass horror.
Nice list! I’ve not read Blake Crouch and am a little closer to picking up Dark Matter now. That’s also a Paul Tremblay book I’ve not read yet, so I was happy to hear you talk about it - despite all the reviews of it out there it still doesn’t feel spoiled for me yet :) yeah, my vote is against spoilery book chat.
Some female author recs:
Come Closer by Sara Gran - horror (is it possession?)
The Push by Ashley Audrain - thriller (am i crazy or is my kid evil?)
Brother by Ania Ahlborn - horror (TCM family dynamics)
If You See Her by Ania Ahlborn - horror (what happened in the abandoned building?)
The Hollow Places by T Kingfisher - horror (what's in the hole?)
The Twisted Ones by T Kingfisher - horror (what's in the woods?)
Awesome recommendations!!!!
Sara Gran and Ania Ahlborn are amazing!!!!
@@courtgarris1396 Yes! I haven't read Sara's newest, but it's definitely on my list.
I would highly recommended Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant & To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger! both faves of mine. also Ania Ahlborn & Gemma Amor are both great female horror authors.
Head Full of Ghosts is such an amazing book. I wish I could go back and read it again for the first time. Love love loved it!
Have you checked out Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman? It's set partly during the Satanic Panic and partly in present day. Really well done. Probably my favorite horror novel of 2021
Also thank you for the rec on Home Before Dark. I enjoyed it a lot!
I love those book videos ❤ personally I loved both Gillian Flynn books. They're both fantastic and so well written 👏🏽
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk on your to-read list! It's one of my favorite horror anthologies by FAR
honestly, i would pay you to read some of my most hated books cause i love your rants HAHAHA
I’ve recently read:
The Grand Hotel by Scott Kenemore
No Exit by Taylor Adams
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
All of which I enjoyed as great horror or horror adjacent books and all of which are on audible so you can read on a walk or a commute
I absolutely love and appreciate these videos!
Thank you for calling out anything to do with cruelty.
I had listened to “The Troop” and had to skip past a lot of the animal stuff.
I also love that you are not afraid to talk about subject matter that should be called out.
I’m jotting down this list for future reads.
Thank you!
If you're into short horror Ellen Datlow has some awesome horror anthologies.
A more obscure horror is The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun. It gave me very similar vibes to Jackson and Trembley bc it leans heavily into psychological horror blending into the supernatural.
Also strongly recommend more Stephen Graham Jones. If you like slasher films, The Last final girl is a very meta thrill ride.
I'd like to see a horror book haul or a TBR list, it might be interesting if you do a 'like this film read this book' kinda recs too
I just finished reading A Head Full of Ghosts. Thank you SO much for recommending it. I read it in 2 days and I wish I could read it all over again for the first time.
Side comment but I love your shirt so much!!! Saw is my favorite horror series
I am loving the book content!!! I'd recommend Drowning Deep by Mira Grant and The Cavern by Alister Hodge. (both are water horror!!)
I love Gone Girl and Dark Places! I say maybe try Dark Places, but Gone Girl is a classic. Also, a thriller I think you may enjoy is The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson.
As for content I'd love movie comparisons, reviews or rants with a spoiler section, tier rankings, even maybe a video where you read recommended books for you and see if you enjoyed them.
Dark Places is my favorite I constantly re-read it but Gone Girl is really good too! I also highly recommend Sharp Objects by her as well!
I personally would love for you to read Dark Places. I really enjoy and respect your book content/recommendations. I'm currently reading Home Before Dark (100 pages in), and really enjoying it so far. I feel like there are other ways to effectively write horror, so I agree with you. I'm not a fan of Stephen King, I have found other writers of the genre that I think are much better at writing than he is...
Quarterly book reviews would be great! Have a great weekend Sarah! 😃
Absolutely love horror books, keep reading ❤️😃👍
I literally just finished Gone Girl this morning. So good!!!
I used to read a lot when I was younger. As a kid I read all the Edgar Allan Poe books I could get. Later I knew about H.P. Lovecraft but couldn't find a book. Then got several Stephen King books and had them until some years ago when I donated them to Goodwill. Nowadays I have eyesight issues and I can't focus my eyes for too long or else I'll get a headache. I bought 2 expensive Nintendo books and was bearly able to read something. And this is with glasses without them I can't see a single page. It sucks! Anyway it's great to see you Sarah covering horror books. Cool video!👍
A Head Full of Ghosts is so good !!
Both Flynn novels are WONDERFUL, but I read Dark Places more recently and loved it!
i just discovered your channel a couple weeks ago and i love your content, i’m so glad you’re gonna be doing book review videos too!! a book i really liked was The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould, it’s a YA small town murder mystery with ghosts following the main characters and has several queer characters :)
The taking of Annie Thorne!! It’s a bit like pet cemetery and every chapter keeps you guessing I would highly recommend ⭐️
OOOOOOOO I have never heard of this. Going to add it to my TBR :)
@@haley5803 it’s by CJ Tudor she’s a female writer and has a few decent books! 😊😊
I read Survivor Song bc of your last book rec. video! I really enjoyed it.
I’ve read two Gillian Flynn books so far. Dark Places and Sharp Objects. Sharp Objects was just okay to me, but I LOVED Dark Places. It switched time and perspective every chapter and it was so well paced. I read it pretty quickly cause I just didn’t want to put it down. And when I finished it I almost felt guilty for starting a new book 😅 I loved the characters so much.
I just picked up Gone Girl and I’m excited to read it. I’d seen the movie several years ago and remember really liking it, so I’m sure the book is amazing.
Based on your movie taste, I highly recommend Bad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender! It's definitely young adult, but surprisingly gets the spooky vibes on point, more than any adult "horror" I've read. (I do have a review of it and some other horror novels on my channel, if anyone has any interest xx)
omg YASSSSSS Project Hail Mary was my favorite book of 2021 a must read for anyone! such a great story such a GOOOOD read!!!!!
I think you should read both Gillian Flynn books but maybe start with Dark Places, I have a feeling you might really like it. Also, I highly recommend the audiobook for Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix
The Cabin at the End of the World ended up in my top 5 reads last year. A Head Full of Ghosts is on my tbr for April. 👻☺ And yes to more books on this channel.
I'm in withdrawal for more @Possessedbyhorror book chats!
OMG finally someone else who DNF the same book. I feel so alone in the book community since eveeeerrryyyyyoooonnneee loves it - no thanks!!! This opinion was felt on every single level!!!
Love your recommendations! Definitely added a few to my tbr. I think quarterly reviews are great since you said you don’t get to read that often. As for recommendations I enjoyed Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Some ya horror on my tbr are House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland, The Corpse Queen by Heather M. Herrman, Campfire by Shawn Sarles, and White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson.
Yeah, I had issues with Kill Creek as well. I’d say to try Tananarive Due for sure.
I reread Dark Matter a couple weeks ago. Love it. Project Hail Mary is on my TBR.
My last read was My heart is a chainsaw, I liked it but it was a bit difficult to read. I started Home before dark and it is easier to read and seems good!
I also liked Kill Creek but how I didn't notice (or just not remember) the things you pointed out 😳 I liked the story! Maybe it's because I read most of my horror in English (I'm Finn) But I really appreciate your review and kind of deeper dive.
Ronald Malfi's Bone White and Little Girls are soooo good, one of my faves! ❤
I can't wait for more book content from you! 😍