My Top Ten Reads of 2025 📚 | WRAP-UP | 2025

This last year was a wild ride. As usual, I made the holidays into a competitive sport (playing against myself), and ended the year exhausted. But I wouldn't have it any other way! Unfortunately there was this concussion thing in October that slowed things down video-wise, but I'm on the mend and excited for a new year! LET'S DO A TOP TEN! 00:00 - Christmas in the Rain and a Toast 02:22 - Concussed! 04:37 - 2025 Reading Stats 06:36 - Model Home by Rivers Solomon 09:48 - The Fireman by Joe Hill 13:30 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 17:54 - The Between by Tananarive Due 20:42 - Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin 24:04 - Crooked House by Agatha Christie 26:57 - Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward 31:42 - King Sorrow by Joe Hill 37:13 - Voice Like a Hyacinth by Mallory Pearson 40:50 - The Stand by Stephen King 47:31 - Honorable Mentions 48:29 - Thank You #reading #booktube #cozymystery #horror #topten #wrap-up #2025 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Good House by Tananarive Due Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward The Storm by Rachel Hawkins Forty Acres by Dwayne Alexander Smith My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix Murder by Cheesecake by Rachel Ekstrom Courage - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CREDITS: "Floating Lanterns" by The Mini Vandals "Bellissimo" by Doug Maxwell (intro) "Subscribe Button" by MrNumber112    • Free Download: Subscribe Button + Notifica...   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SOCIALS: Byron on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@reading_inth... Byron on Instagram:   / reading_inthe_dark   Byron on Goodreads:   / reading_inthe_dark   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TECHNICAL DETAILS: (in case anyone was wondering) This video was filmed with a Canon r8 using the Canon 24mm f/1.8 prime lens, and a Movo VXR10 Universal Video Microphone. Some exterior shots utilize a Tiffen variable ND filter. Some additional material may be shot on the Canon m50 with the Sigma 16mm f/1.4 prime lens and a Freewell variable ND. Minimal footage was shot on an iPhone 16 Pro. Edited in Final Cut Pro.