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So many great choices for 2025!

Omg another amazing Dino sweatshirt! 😍 Where are you getting these?! I'm supposed to read The Poppy War this month but idk if that will happen but you reminded me I need to get to it 😅 I am reading Immortal Longings for my IRL book club next month! I love that you are reading non fiction books for your read around the world- it's a great idea! Great list for the year!

I am so excited to hear about some of your nonfiction reads! The only two books that I have read from this list are Nickel and Dimed (I read it in high school so I have no idea what I would think about it now) and of course the Patricia Evangelista book. That was one of my very best reads from last year! I really am excited to see what you think of it!

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Such a great list! The Tyranny of Merit (even though it's not technically on your list ^^') sounds super interesting - adding it to my wishlist :) Curious to hear what you think of Vespertine. I also really liked Margaret Rogerson's other books, and this one too, but I felt it got a bit repetitive with the "levels" of the magical threats. I'd also be keen to pick up The Invisible Life of Addie Larue. Let me know if you want to buddy-read it at some point in the year ^^

So many interesting books! I'm always super impressed at how articulate you are and how you give such precise and engaging summaries of the books you read and the ideas they contain! Well done ^^

I'm always seated for your non-fic reads because they always slaaappp 🤩 From the perspective of All About Love sounds so interesting! I love seeing how things written history and seems to work in the current time. The Chaos Machine sounds so fascinating, and the example you had about how they had to shut down the internet itself is so crazy. I have many of the books you recommend already on my TBR but keep doing these please because that's how I find some amazing non-fics read for the future 🥰💕 I didn't read too many non-fics, honestly. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks had a lot of interesting key notes, but I didn't like the tone of the writer much & how she inserted herself. I do this the topic is important and should be discussed though!

Just reminding me that I need to pick up All About Love! Absolutely gonna check out The Chaos Machine. Gotta get my hands on a copy of right to sex. My best book of the year was non-fiction- Unlikable Female Characters by Anna Bogutskaya

So many great books! all about love is on my 40 Before 40 list and I'm looking forward to getting to it. Sedated and Against the Grain sound fascinating and like really important reads. It's hard to pick my favorite nonfiction, but two that stand out are The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore and A Well Trained Wife by Tia Levings.

Loved hearing about these. Adding a few to my future reading!

I have been waiting for this video! I just finished An Immense World this week and loved it! I read A Woman of No Importance and Evicted a few years ago and really liked both of them. All About Love and The Urge are going on my TBR right now.

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Love hearing your favorites! A Darker Shade of Magic is on my TBR. So happy to find someone else who likes The Night Ends With Fire! I really enjoyed it, but apparently I'm in the minority on that opinion. 🤣

Hi! I'm here from Mimi's channel 😊 I had a great time with The God and the Gumiho! I unfortunately dnf'ed the Night Ends with Fire- I was mad about how they marketed it as an adult book when its clearly not but I know others that have really liked it! A Feather so Black sounds very interesting! I have Sorcery and Small Magics and I want to get to it soon as well. I'm excited to read the new Ali Hazelwood- she's like the only romance author I plan on reading right now. We def have some overlap!! P.S. I LOVE your dino book sweatshirt!

Agreed! It's SO hard to rate between non-fic and fics. You definitely did an amazing job picking your top picks because I still haven't even started thinking about the books I really enjoyed in 2024 😂 The God and the Gumiho is a book I want to read SO bad. Both with how much you love it and how gorgeous the covers are. What editions do you have for Ali Hazelwood?? I love the gorgeous take of covers 😍 You really did love Fantasy last year, from what I saw from your highlights! For me, personally, I felt like Check & Mate was actually the weakest for me because... low key, I couldn't get over how he basically paid someone to find her to create circumstances for them to meet 🥲 I do think it's still super cute but... that one point couldn't get out of my head. I cannot get a real list but what I really enjoyed this past year might be Beartown, The Dragon's Republic, and maaybe JFTS?

I really want to read Guns of the Dawn and The Familiar. 💕

I read A Darker Shade of Magic (and the rest of the trilogy) this year and had such a good time with it! I found the trilogy as a whole really satisfying. I hope you enjoy the rest of the series!

I didn't intentionally participate in Neurovember this past year, but hopefully if Cat does it again this year I can! I love hearing everyone's recommendations.

Sedated sounds like something I’d really “enjoy” reading. Thank you for talking about these books!

3 chunky books! I don't have any of them on my TBR so I'll be continuing on and watching 😂 if I get spoiled, I'm sure I'll forget in a week. Love the clips from Italy as well to see the different landscape from where I'm at! I like the call out on The Final Empire, it seems like female might be more of a background setting for the plot 🥴 And the disconnect with the FMC & the world she lives in is unexpected. At 16, I 100% think you should be aware enough to realize the terrible things are happening especially when it's so close to home (literally). I ddi skip the major spoilers for Guns of the Dawn since it seemed like it's a pretty good book, and I might be interested in trying it out 🫢 I also am not a fan of writers with a repetition in the story writing, I think it's unnecessary? Or it's a poor way to build suspense -- especially if on a timeline, say hour 1 to hour 2, but it's rewritten multiple in different perspective without adding much to the world or characters... it automatically knocks off my rating for it unless I really like the characters & want more filler scenes. I love the fact that the reads are just a surprise! I didn't read any of the books so I couldn't really tell you if you'd like them or not, but I love the surprise difference in the expectations! PS. I love the dino sweatshirt LOL.

I enjoyed the video and your thoughts. Happy New Year!

I agree with most of your point you made in this video. I would add there is a parallel between what happening with the publishing industry and what happened to the comic book fad of the 90s before the big crash right after. Special editions and collectible issues were the big thing and people got sick of it. Readers were pushed out in favor of the "investors" who thought buying these limited runs were going to make them money down the road. Then the bottom fell out. In a time when the average American (as this is the frame of reference I have) is reading less books, do the publishers really want to overstay their welcome with these special editions when people start getting tired of subpar books that look pretty and nothing else? In my eyes, a special edition should come after you sell a couple million copies of your first few print runs. When everything is special, nothing is.

Cat's idea was super awesome! I'm fairly new to the terminology of neurodiversity, so I love hearing more books representing that and I'm taking notes since I want to expand my knowledge! I didn't participate because I was a bit unfamiliar but now I have a lot of recs from yourself & others who did this 🥰 Sedated is actually really relate-able. How am I always able to get so many different recommendations from you?? Because that's 100% true, and it's something I went through, and had to break myself from old workplace. I was in a lucky enough place to be able to stop working without anything to fall back on, and I do notice that there was a huge correlation between my mental health & the toxic work place once I took a step back and left. You were SO close, and I love it!

These sounds like amazing reads! Have a wonderful holiday season 😊

If you think mental health is better under socialism I’d suggest you speak with a Venezuelan.

Happy Holidays! I agree with you about mental health and autism. Those topics need to be discussed and out in the open.

Not me getting this video recommended under ''Everybody wants to rule the world cover in Classical Latin (SOFTBARDCORE)'' This may be a sign

You did so well on the challenge. I feel "Bodies" could potentially be ticked off with Sedated and/or Untypical, but in any case, you ticked off so many prompts and I'm so glad you found reads you really enjoyed. Sedated sounds like it might have interesting crossovers with Empire of Normality, which talks about how capitalism is ultimately what led to this idea of a "normal mind" and hence impacting neurodivergent people in not so great way ^^' Thanks so much for participating in the event! I'll definitely host it again in 2025, it was so much fun :)

You did great on this event! Sedated sounds great and infuriating! Is there a call to action in it or is it just stating the facts of reality? Very interesting reads all of them.

Ooooow, I'm soooo glad you found a new favorite thanks to the Neurovember event! It makes me so happy 🥰 Can't wait for your video about the nonfiction books you read for it as well!

I didn't know there was a new release from Hazelwood. Might have to read it for this season even though I have a million and two books to read before the year end 😂 Genuinely... I may or may not have been sold for The Coven by you LOL. Sometimes I just want something little mindless 🤪 Can't wait to see what you read for Neuronovember! I didn't participate on it because I was in a reading slump & I wasn't too aware about what constitute neurodivergent but I can't wait to participate next year!

Loved hearing about all these!!

What a great video! You’re very eloquent, definitely adding some of these to my TBR 🙏🏼

I haven’t heard of most of these!! So many beautiful covers!

Ooh I love hearing about these books. I have only read one of these so far (Invisible Women) but Evicted sounds really good and important. Adding that to my TBR!

I haven’t read this book yet but it was recommended to me by a friend the subject matter is very interesting and important “Sexy But Psycho” by Jessica Taylor. Basically about how patriarchy monopolises women’s trauma against them.

This is such a fantastic video! The Value of Everything is going on my TBR. I also loved Evicted and Invisible Women. You are so good at analyzing these books. Thanks for tagging me in it 😊

How do you come out with book after book recommendations that are so amazing to help me broaden my knowledge? You already know I'm interested in Invisible Women, but I'm now interested in The Value of Everything & The Tyranny of Merits the most from this list. Just from the synopsis of all the books as you go through it, it's already giving me a bit more to think about.

I remember hearing about Evicted some time ago but I forgot about it, but now it is back on my TBR. Invisble women sounds like a book I should read! Great video :)

So many interesting books. Great video. Thanks.

Invisible Women is such a good read but also so frustrating and maddening. All About Love is on my 40 Before 40 list and I'm really looking forward to getting to it. The Cost of Sexism sounds really good! Thanks for all the recommendations.

I've been loving fantasy books -- especially ones that make me kick and laugh. I'll be adding Sorcery and Small Magics to my TBR! This is the first time I've seen your edition for A Fate Inked in Blood. Your copy is GORGEOUS 😍 I haven't read it even though it's been on my TBR for so long -- I was supposed to read it with Cat but my life went all over the place 😂 I definitely thought that Bride was going to be on the list because at the beginning of the video, I kept eyeing your copies of Ali Haelwood books.

I really love you going through all of these recs, and also into specific details as to which book has which points that stands out. From your list, the books that really stand out to be is The Right to S. (trying not to get sent to YT jail because that happens too much LOL) & Invisible Women. I love seeing the statistics, and data and how that would relate (or not) to us. I can definitely see how things were designed and tested mostly on men and as a result, females often get missed in safety features. I remember there's one data point I saw a long time ago, is that seat belt were designed with maximum safety for specific heights. The average women is about 1-2" shorter than the specific height safety! TLDR, data relating to how the world is probably inherently sexist is an interesting fact! Definitely WILL pick this book up. Also the way you articulate all of the synopsis of the book is amazing 😩🧡 I feel like I got such good ideas of all the books and what I can expect going into it

Kat recommend me some books to read on the next year ☺️

The only one I've read in here is A Fate Inked in Blood. I agree with you that is was very predictable, but I (mostly) enjoyed in nonetheless and I'll be curious to pick up the next book! I really want to read The night ends with fire too, it sounds so good!

Hi Kat! I tagged you to do 'The Book Murder Tag,' if you are interested in doing it. It was created by Noah at The Book Wyrm. The video is on my channel now. Great video by the way.😺

Thanks for the recs! I've added a few of these to my holds list at the library.

A few of my fav feminist fiction books Historical -The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave -Snowflowet and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Dystopia -The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo Fantasy -Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (check TWs) -She Would be King by Wayétu Moore I have read "A Vidication of the Rights of Women" by Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley, and we still have the same problems she discussed in 1794. Things have changed and some of it no longer applies, but a lot of it higlights the same repackaged sytemic issues. "Witchcraft" by Marion Gibson and "The Barbazon: the hotel that set women free" by Paulina Bren are my next two nonfics.

I read Invisible Women a few years ago and it was really important! Great list!

All those books sound so interesting. Invisible Women have been on my radar for a while, but I have a few feminist books on my bookshelves already that I should get to first ^^' I haven't read her latest works, but Mona Chollet is a brilliant author too - I think most of her books have been translated into English, in case you want to check her books out.