My Favorite Books of The Year (So Far) | Q2 Reading Stats 📊📚

Reviewing and sharing all of my reading stats for the second quarter of 2025 including my favorite books of the year so far, my reading challenge process, my library savings, shortest vs longest book by pages & hours read & more.

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Videos to Check Out
Catch up on my reading wrap ups:    • Reading Wrap Ups 2025  
Q1 Reading Stats:   • Q1 Reading Stats 2025 📚📊  | My Favorite Bo...  
TBR Tackle:    • TBR Tackle  
Get To Know My Reading Taste:    • Does Our Reading Taste Align? | Get To Kno...  
Mid Year Reading Check In:    • Mid Year Reading Check-In | Reading Outsid...  
Reading Popular Queer Authors:    • 🏳️‍🌈 Are these POPULAR Queer Authors WORTH...  
Last Sentences:    • I Read LAST SENTENCES of Books To Decide M...  

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◼ ABOUT ME ◼
Hi, I'm Alex! My pronouns are he/him and I am a trans man. Welcome to my channel, Pucksandpaperbacks. I love to uplift queer and trans books from Young Adult fiction, queer romances & graphic novels, to memoirs. Thanks for stopping by! If you're new here, feel free to hit subscribe to join my community of Paperback Pals.

Note: I do not give books star ratings. It's just a personal preference of mine. In all of my videos, I just review the books.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:20 Promo
01:19 Q1 Reading Stats
03:20 Acquired
03:53 Library Savings
04:47 Support The Library!
05:48 Source & Format
06:31 Genre
07:05 Demographic/Audience
08:07 New vs Backlist Titles
09:02 Author Status
09:40 Publishers Read
09:50 Reading Diversely
10:47 Location Setting (Country vs State)
11:25 Cover Color
12:19 Shortest vs Longest Book
13:29 Reading Challenge Progress
13:54 Trans Reading Challenge Year 2
17:13 Buzzword
17:52 PopSugar
19:09 ReadQueerly
19:34 Trans Book Bingo
20:26 Disability Rep
21:45 Read or Unhaul Check In
22:25 Favorite Books
22:52 Thanks for watching!

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