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Philip’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Philip’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Philip Fracassi’s Followers (2,073)
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Philip Fracassi
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
December 31, 1970
Website
Twitter
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Member Since
October 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/pfracassi
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Boys in the Valley
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2023
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The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre
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2025
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8 editions
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The Third Rule of Time Travel
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2025
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9 editions
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Gothic
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2023
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10 editions
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Sacculina
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2017
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7 editions
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A Child Alone With Strangers
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2022
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9 editions
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Behold the Void
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2017
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15 editions
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Beneath a Pale Sky
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2021
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2 editions
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Sarafina
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2024
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7 editions
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D7
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Writing and Reading 2025 Wrap-up
December 15, 2025
This was an interesting year for me.
I traveled more than I’m used to, and more than I’d like, with a two week trip to Spain for the Celsius 232 Festival in Aviles and a two month promotional tour to support The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre. I also did a smaller tour earlier in the year to promote The Third Rule of Time Travel, as well as trips to AuthorCon in March and
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"They deserted the war. But they found something worse waiting in the woods.
Philip Fracassi’s Sarafina is a brutal mashup of Civil War drama and folk horror that asks whether survival is worth the cost of your soul. Set during the bloody aftermath of " Read more of this review » |
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"What. A. Wild. Ride. Obsessed with this book.
I picked SARAFINA up at Powell’s Books the other day on a whim, mainly because I am trying to read more horror and loved the cover. I was not expecting to unearth one of my top reads of the year! SARAFINA " Read more of this review » |
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"If Robert McCammon ever decides to retire from writing, Philip Fracassi is primed and ready to take the torch. When I first read his Boys in the Valley, I thought, “Damn, this guy can write.” Here was an author using a historical setting to full effe"
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"War, as it turns out, is a terrible place to discover you don’t want to be in a war.
Three brothers (Ethan, Mason, and Archie) have this revelation during the Battle of Shiloh and decide to run in the opposite direction of cannon fire. Sadly, the dese" Read more of this review » |
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I love me some Dan Brown. What I love most about Dan's books are all the cool factoids and fringe science and history and art and architecture and etc. etc. that he works into his thrillers. I'm obsessive about learning new things and it's always suc ...more |
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| KING SORROW is an epic premise executed with flair and precision by a master storyteller. A massive tome that can barely contain the ferocious energy and evil of our giant wyrm, and a cast of characters that evolve in startling, even jarring, and fas ...more | |
“One reason tragedy exists is to teach us how to help others, help others learn how to find a way through their own dark time, through a journey of growth.”
― Boys in the Valley
― Boys in the Valley
“God’s greatest gift to us is our ability to love others, and to see it happening before your eyes … it’s like watching a garden grow.”
― Boys in the Valley
― Boys in the Valley
“When I hit, there’s no pain. I don’t know if it’s because I’m safe, or because I’m dead.”
― Boys in the Valley
― Boys in the Valley
Polls
1st Quarter 2024 - Horror #2
Among the Living by Tim Lebbon - 283 pgs
Small Spaces by Katherine Arden - 218 pgs
House of Shadows by Darcy Coates - 268 pgs
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White - 384 pgs
Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi - 335 pgs
Good Girls Don’t Die by Christina Henry - 320 pgs
Murder at Spindle Manor by Morgan Stang - 249 pgs
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty - 385 pgs
The Dulwich Horror of 1927 by David Hambling - 89 pgs
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“It’s about walking, or crawling as the case may be, through this messy existence with eyes open. It’s about squeezing a fistful of shit and praying for a diamond.”
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