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Oooh i didn’t know danez smith had a new book out!!! I’m so excited for lots of these, especially sarah moss and eliza clark ❤

So fab to see My Favourite coming up! What an amazing selection of books...

Unrelated but please share which paint you used for your walls - love the colour ❤

Food for thought. So many books and so little time. The ever expanding tbr! Happy reading to you.

This ranking is spot on!

Been waiting for your video,your videos make happy and I love all of your recommendation videos❤

I haven't heard of any other books on your list . I'm assuming that's because I'm in the United States of America.

Jackal I've been on the face can't make up my mind whether I want to read it or not.

Fire Exit is sitting on my desk.I haven't read it yet.

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Ordered "An Equal Music" instantly! A Suitable Boy has always intimidated me, but these feels like a slightly less daunting intro to Seth :) This was the perfect video to watch right after just watching another video entitled "why does every book feel the same now?" Thanks so much, Jasmine!

So many books and so little time. The ever growing tbr. Best wishes with what you choose to read.

Oh dear , I have to add them all to my tbr. but I'll start with Gilead. I have that top by the way , but it looks better on you 😀

I love backlisted videos! I have not read Gilead yet, but I did read Housekeeping this month by the same author. It was wonderful.

Great video,I'm looking forward to reading som of tgese❤

I still need to read Gilead!

Great video. Thank you for the recommendations. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, a favorite of mine from the nineties. ❤📚❤️

What's your favourite read NOT from the past 10 years? Please give me your recs so I can add them to my list 🙌🏻

Missing your videos❤

In relation to When Our Worlds Collided what do you mean by “a little bit on the nose with the points the author wanted to make”? Are you referring to the racism shown? Or something else?

I’ve been looking at Frank and Red but wasn’t sure but I might try the audio instead of the physical now actually! Thanks ☺️

The lead characters name in If My Words Had Wings is Tyrell not Tyrese 🫣 this book is the best book I’ve read this year also!! It should be on the high school curriculum imo! Danielle’s writing is absolute perfection

Very interested to hear about Donal Ryan's new novel - I loved The Spinning Heart so I will have to read it again and then read Heart Be At Peace!

Hi Jasmine, just wanted to say that I read Lily by Rose Tremain that you recommended a while back. I really enjoyed the sense of Victorian London, the sadness of Lily's experience in the foundling hospital and her nostalgia for her childhood home on the farm. Her low self-worth and loneliness were also well explored so overall it was a great read. Thanks for the recommendation!

Hi Jasmine, Thanks for sharing, I've written down Sarah Moss's title (I've never read anything by her). If you're interested in the topics of mental health and food, I cannot recommend enough Evanna Lynch's extraordinary memoir "The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting", which is one of my all-time favourites. I've recommended it to Meonicorn (The Bookish Land) and she absolutely loved it too! It is mainly about anorexia nervosa, and Lynch broaches this subject with brio, showing how complex it all is... (I've written about it on my blog if you want to read more about it :)) Xxx

I am currently reading Kairos. While I am really enjoying it, I think it's more of a winter book than a summer one! The prose is beautiful and slow - which doesn't work as well when it's so hot out! It's made me realize seasonal reading is important to me! than I thought! So my next book is definitely going to be something much lighter - maybe an Emily Henry will do the trick.

SO happy to hear the Lombardo is great. Have had my eye on it for a few weeks but for some reason I was resistant until I got some social proof that my instincts were correct 😂 Thanks, Jasmine! Loved the update

So pleased you enjoyed If My Words Had Wings - Danielle is such a star!

this month i fell in love with Abby Jimenez's writing. Highly recommend Part of Your World and Yours, Truly. beautiful romances.

Clean sounds so interesting! The best books I read this year are Three souls by Janie Chang, Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra and Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough.

I continue to read at a snail's pace but I have several things on the go at the moment including the new Holly Jackson book, a few poetry collections, and Nobody Told Me by Hollie McNish.

I like nonfiction but I just don't seem to read too much of it. I did read Educated by Tara Westover some time ago though and that was quite an intriguing story.

Hi Jasmine, I really wished you could read "Triste tigre" ("Sad tiger") by French author Neige Sinno about incest. It is such an important, crucial topic, yet not talked about enough! It led me to listening to Charlotte Pudlowski's podcast "Ou peut-être une nuit", adapted into a book too ("Or maybe one night", after a song by Barbara I think). "Triste tigre" has won many prizes in France, I hope it'll get translated!! It's very intelligent, full of references (incl. to Nabokov's "Lolita") and very interesting reflections on justice, art, literature, etc. I have written an article about it on my blog but it's in French... It's both autobiographical and literary, very honest and full of nuances... It raises many, many questions and shows the consequences of incest on the victims - not to forget that there are direct victims, but some people around are also involved, who may have suffered, be complicit, etc. "Triste tigre" also shows that incest is a systemic issue, not just something happenning in one or two families, not just a miscellaneous news item. It also shows the weight of silence, the terrible mechanisms at play, both for individuals and on a societal level... An article, which I haven't read, has been published on BookBlast about "Sad tiger", written by Georgia de Chamberet. According to a "sondage" (poll/survey?) by Ipsos for Face à l'inceste (4 and 5/11/2020), 1 in 10 French people say they are victims of incest. I still have to look into the numbers in the UK - G. de Chamberet mentions it at the end of her article. In France, Camille Kouchner's "The Familia Grande: A Memoir" (available in English) has contributed to more and more people speaking more openly about incest, I think. I haven't read it, but in it, she accused her stepfather of having sexually abused her twin brother - her stepfather was a high-profile person, as you can read in the Guardian's article "High-profile French political scientist accused of sexually abusing stepson" by Kim Willsher. Apparently Olivier Duhamel, the stepfather, has admitted having sexually abused his stepson, as written by Micheal Fitzpatrick in his article "Rape, sexual violence charges dropped against French academic, media figure" for RFI. (I have quickly read these articles, please do more research, etc., if you want more accurate information, as always/with everything!) I'm sure there are other very interesting references on this topic in English too, do you know of any? I also recommend Vanessa Springora's memoir "Consent", which also caused a stir in France - TW sexual abuse of a teenage girl, it may be worth looking up for other potential TW if needed... (I use "cause a stir" in a non-pejorative way, it helped get things moving, I think.) Xxx

Saved Sociopath on my TBR list. Sounds super interesting

Sociopath sounds so good! that cover!

Have you ever read Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking? She wrote it after losing her husband.

Thank you for the recommendations, I will definetely pick up "Think like a woman" and the book by Claire McIntosh. I really enjoyed the book beginners by Tom Vanderbuilt and "When breath becomes air" another book about breavement.

I read a ton of nonfiction and I actually prefer it to fiction. Great video. Thanks.

Great reviews as always Jasmine! So happy to hear you've had such a great couple reading months

Really agree with your taste. Also think SarahHall is undervalued.love all her books but favourite is Wolf Border.

Your channel is amazing

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Have just reserved Moon Tiger from my library. You've sold me 😅

The Dutch House! So good. When I finished it, I literally burst into tears. I never had that reaction before. Picked up Moon Tiger a few months ago, just moved it up my list. Great video!

Ask Again, Yes is one of my favorite books of the last five years!

You NEVER disappoint! Thank you for sharing ❤

Oh wow, I own The Dutch House! Must get to it soon. Thank you for the review! ❤️📚 I've added Still Life and Praise Song for the Butterflies to my list.

You're glowing Jasmine, hope all's well!

What an excellent reading month 🎉