The Sun Eater series is extraordinary. Ruocchio is a master story teller. I imagine you will probably read the shorter fillers, although they are not necessary - except for Dregs of Empire. Read it at the right spot between #5 and #6, but don't miss it
I read my first Guy Gavriel Kay book last year (The Lions of Al-Rassan) and it turned out to be one of my favourite standalone novels ever. I've got Tigana next on my list.
People say the first book in Three body is best?? Who says that? That is the complete opposite of my experience. Every book got better. I still think about Deaths End now.
@ I thought the dark forest was a huge improvement on three body, Death’s End was and even bigger improvement, one of the best SciFi books I have read. Yes of course all personal opinion. I was just surprised to hear that the majority think three body is the best. I’d genuinely be amazed if that is true.
Well, my tbr just got 60 books longer lol I’m reading the Tainted Cup right now and really enjoying it! I love the cross between fantasy and mystery. I’m getting into fantasy and sci-fi really for the first time this year, and I’m so excited for all the possibilities. I hope you enjoy these reads this year! -Shar
Both Lions of Al-Rassan and Spear Cuts Through Water are amazing standalones!! 🙌 Blood over Bright Haven, on the other hand, is good but not great by any means, it suffers from overhype. I just finished the Three-Body Problem and that was also great! Hope you have a good reading year. 📚
Got a few books we share this year of wanting to read - Will of the Many, Tainted Cup and some GGK. I agree with the people recommending The Bone Clocks as your next David Mitchell, as it is more in the fantasy wheelhouse (not read Ghostwritten), the others I've found tend to be more historical fiction leaning with fantastical elements. Either way, hope you enjoy your reading!
Our TBR this year has a lot of crossover! I just got the Broken Binding's Will of the Many edition, can't wait to read that soon. While I shamefully haven't read Joe Abercrombie yet, The Devils is a must-read for me (loved the art that's been released!), so I definitely want to read some of his books before his newest releases. I still need to finish Inheritance Cycle reread as well as reading Paolini's new books. I need to read Mistborn, Wheel of Time, and the list goes on and on 🤣
Just saw this video on TH-cam and with regard to Guy Gavriel Kay, I’ve read (and own) 14/16 printed novels out and HE IS A PHENOMENAL WRITER. I’m truly looking forward to this year’s Written on the Dark novel. I imagine that you’ll love his prose and his stories.
The Spear Cuts Through Water is definitely worth the read! So beautifully written, it's indeed my favorite standalone to this day. Can't wait for you to read it :D
Yeah I'm planning on starting The Sun Eater this year. Also like you cannot wait for The Devils. I'm catching up on The Bound and Broken right now so I'm ready to read book 4 as soon as it comes out this year. I want to read Malice as well, at least see if I like John Gwynne. Regardless, it is going to be a great year in books!
The issue with the Licanius trilogy is that it's fine overall but the ending is INCREDIBLE. likes its a whole bunch of mid that comes together in such a good way at the end of book that it needs those final moments to make it all worth it. I ended up doing the audio books to help me push through it to get to that great ending.
Quite the ambitious list, but there are a ton of great books here that I, myself, need to read as well. Just started on Abercrombie (yes, finally) and I'm loving his writing so far. Will probably read The Devils right when it's released! But man... so many books out there!
The Tainted Cup was my favorite read of 2024, and my first Robert Jackson Bennet novel. I then read his Divine Cities trilogy which I loved. The sequel to Tainted Cup comes out in April!
So many great books on your list! I stopped reading The Bound and Broken a few chapters into the second novel (can’t remember the title). I loved The Fall bit wasn’t too crazy about the novels, but seeing all the book tubers I love and in general share taste with adoring this serie I’m wondering if i should pick it up again?
Yes «Sun Eater» & «GGK»! 😎🙌 Also, I should really get back to the second «Red Rising» series!😅 My Winter SFF TBR/MBR List (have had to rework it quite a bit due to being in bed with pneumonia🤒🤧😅): «All the Horses on Iceland» by Sarah Tolmie (Historical Fiction/Fantasy Novella about an Medieval Icelander’s Fantastical Journey to Central Asia) «Carthage Ascendant» by Mary Gentle (Book of Ash #2, Alt-Historical Military Fiction inspired by the Mercenary Wars of the Renaissance) «The Lion & the Sword» (90s Fantasy inspired by Alexander the Great’s Conquest of Greece) by Roberta Cray My Spring SFF TBR/MBR: «Informocracy» by Malka Older (Cyberpunk) «Brothers of the Wind» by Tad Williams (Prequel to «Memory, Sorrow & Thorn», Epic Fantasy) «Leviathan Falls» by James SA Corey («The Expanse» #9, Space Opera) «Bloodstone» & «Dark Crusade» by Karl Edward Wagner (Both in the «Kane» series, S&S/Proto-Grimdark) «Lancelot» by Giles Kristian (Arthurian Fantasy/Historical Fiction) «The Children of Gods and Fighting Men» by Shauna Lawless (Historical Fantasy set in Viking Age Ireland) «Sun Eater» 3-6: «Demon in White», «Kingdoms of Death», «Ashes of Men» & «Disquiet Gods» (+ the short stories) by Christopher Ruocchio (Space Opera) «The Blood Dimmed Tide» by Stephen Aryan (Historical Fantasy inspired by the Mongol Conquest of Persia) «Navola» by Paolo Bacigalupi (Political Fantasy inspired by Renaissance Italy & «The Godfather») «The Crystal Cave» by Mary Stewart (Arthurian Fantasy from the perspective of Merlin) «The Folding Knife» by KJ Parker (Political Fantasy) «The Bright Sword» by Lev Grossman (Arthurian Fantasy) And I plan to start on the «Aspect Emperor» series by R. Scott Bakker (Epic Dark/Grimdark Fantasy, sequel series to «The Prince of Nothing») and «The Last King of Osten Ard» by Tad Williams (Sequel series to «Memory, Sorrow & Thorn», Epic Fantasy) this Summer and finish them in the Autumn! Cheers! 🙌
I see way too little talk about the New Crobuzon series on booktube, hope you get to it. It's unique and strange and fascinating, definitely worth a try.
Looking forward to the Shadows of the Apt reviews! I recently read Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky and really liked it, a good mix of SciFi and Fantasy.
I have quite a few of these on my TBR too. I like to be a little late to the party (with the exception of Joe Abercrombie, I preordered that one) because when people are still talking and making videos about a book a year(s) after it was released, after the initial promotion hype has died down, it's either actually good or really bad.
Yes for Red Country and Sharp Ends,they're both amazing if you like Joe Abercrombie !!! :) For me it's gonna be Malazan and Dandelion Dinasty in 2025 !
Definitely want to read will of the many as well as the first law trilogy, the green bone saga and poppy war trilogy as well as the bound and the broken series by Ryan Cahill and the silo series by Hugh Howey. Starting with green bone saga!!
Will of the Many kinda blew my mind, it has an umph.. The first book of sun eater was ok, maybe a 3/5. The novella after 5/5. If every book is on par with the novella I'm down. Love your tubee
When I read fantasy books I like the thick small paperbacks but there always so hard to keep wide open so I break the spine 7 ways evenly to work the spine but idk how long that’s going to make the book last
I have most of the books you mentioned on my TBR, with the exception of Robert McCammon (heard that name for the very first time right now) and Liu Cixin. I read his first novel Supernova Era, and while the consept was interesting, it had too much propaganda in it and I didn't like his style too much. So I am not in any hurry to read the Three-Body Problem, though it's still on my radar. Now I already have plans that will probably keep me from reading everything on your list in 2025 (wanna do a reread of Wheel of Time and all-things Anthony Ryan; also Stormlight Archive and everything Osten Ard, also want to reread his Otherland tetralogy which I find bloody brillant), but I definitely want to read Suneater; in fact, I'm halfway through Empire of Silence, and while I'm not quite getting the hype completely yet, I have enjoyed it quite a lot so far and I am pretty much hooked, even in case it wouldn't get better. I'll also definitively read Bennett's Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption, but I have to finish his Founders Trilogy first. He's brillant though, so he's on my 25 tbr as well. I'll also find room for Katabasis, M.L. Wang (hopefully both The Sword of Kaigen and Brighthaven) and Guy Gavriel Kay, whom I read in chronological order so A song for Arbonne is next. And of course there's Tchaikovsky, though in my case it's the Final Architecture series I need to finish first. That would already make for 60 books (not counting the novella stuff done by Ruocchio which I want to read as well), and most of it is pretty large books, so it's already more than I'll be able to do most probably. This said, I recently remembered there was a time when I couldn't binge series just because the later novels hadn't been written yet, and I never had a problem picking up where I left the series when the next novel was released. So apart from Suneater which I want to have read up on before the last book is released, I can see myself easily spread the multi-part series out over two or more years, which would enable me to read some other stuff I am exited about or at least very interested in. which would include most of the other stuff you mentioned. ^^
welcome to the devils is already on my shelf. 📖📖 i'm sorry that there was no mention of films, but it was still interesting. In any case, if you are interested in sci fi animations later on: www.youtube.com/@WonderVisualsNetwork
Dude ignore what anyone else says - Lions is 100% the best place to start with GGK. There are some books that are just built on a whole other level, and Lions is one of them. I read an ARC of Grave Empire recently and it's a definitely going to be one of the more beloved releases of the year. It's spectacular. China Mieville's my favorite fantasy author, hope you enjoy New Crobuzon! The Scar broke fantasy for me, everything I read after it felt so bland I took a 4 year break from the genre 😂
I saw China Mieville's books in your TH-cam channel. keep it up brother . You really do have different recommendations. Don't change your taste . I pray you will be rewarded with more subscribers and likes.
guys English is not my first language i try to read these book but cant understand them(like DUNE) can you please tell me what to read I did read project hail mary so any book of that level of complexity
Artemis is another by the author of Project Hail Mary. You might also think about short stories where the author doesn't try to build up a whole new world with it's own language style. Philip K Dick has good stories with straightforward English. Also, "Stories of Your Life and Others" by Ken Chiang. Wonderful writing and a wide range of stories, including the story that formed the basis of the movie 'Arrival'. Becky Chambers writes easy to read books, start with 'The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet'. There are follow-ups in that series if you want to continue. She also wrote 'A Psalm for the Wild Built' and 'A Prayer for the Crown Shy' in a series called Monk and Robot. They are what people call 'cozy scifi'.
The Sun Eater series is extraordinary. Ruocchio is a master story teller. I imagine you will probably read the shorter fillers, although they are not necessary - except for Dregs of Empire. Read it at the right spot between #5 and #6, but don't miss it
I read my first Guy Gavriel Kay book last year (The Lions of Al-Rassan) and it turned out to be one of my favourite standalone novels ever. I've got Tigana next on my list.
Great video. I love finding out new series to get into. I just started the Mistborn trilogy. And I am excited about a lot of these.
People say the first book in Three body is best?? Who says that? That is the complete opposite of my experience. Every book got better. I still think about Deaths End now.
I just read second book, and definitely, second is way better than the first one... But still, just a personal opinion :p
@ I thought the dark forest was a huge improvement on three body, Death’s End was and even bigger improvement, one of the best SciFi books I have read. Yes of course all personal opinion. I was just surprised to hear that the majority think three body is the best. I’d genuinely be amazed if that is true.
Big year of reading ahead! Thanks for including Gatebound in there.
Well, my tbr just got 60 books longer lol I’m reading the Tainted Cup right now and really enjoying it! I love the cross between fantasy and mystery. I’m getting into fantasy and sci-fi really for the first time this year, and I’m so excited for all the possibilities. I hope you enjoy these reads this year! -Shar
Just started the realm of the elderlings, and now, seeing your recommendation, I feel more confident about my decision 😅
You're going to love it! Robin Hobb is the queen of character development in my opinion. :) Enjoy!
@@TedReadInsteadthnx, I hope the same 🤝🫡
The Will of the Many has also been on my tbr forever. Can't wait to see you read it and what you think of it!! ❤❤
Both Lions of Al-Rassan and Spear Cuts Through Water are amazing standalones!! 🙌 Blood over Bright Haven, on the other hand, is good but not great by any means, it suffers from overhype. I just finished the Three-Body Problem and that was also great! Hope you have a good reading year. 📚
I'm reading Will of the Many right now. It's very good.
Goodluck with all ur reading!! 🎉
I’m minded to finally read some Richard Swan this year - and probably also Cloud Atlas once I’ve caught up with your review!
Top of my list for 2025
- finish Wind and Truth
- Licanius trilogy
- Suneater
- Star wars Trawn trilogy
Yesss! Please start Sun Eater 🎉🎉
Love this video❤
I finished The Will of the Many last week!!! The ending, which I read twice, tipped it from a high 4 to a 5 star! It was unexpected. Which I loved!
Got a few books we share this year of wanting to read - Will of the Many, Tainted Cup and some GGK. I agree with the people recommending The Bone Clocks as your next David Mitchell, as it is more in the fantasy wheelhouse (not read Ghostwritten), the others I've found tend to be more historical fiction leaning with fantastical elements. Either way, hope you enjoy your reading!
Our TBR this year has a lot of crossover! I just got the Broken Binding's Will of the Many edition, can't wait to read that soon. While I shamefully haven't read Joe Abercrombie yet, The Devils is a must-read for me (loved the art that's been released!), so I definitely want to read some of his books before his newest releases.
I still need to finish Inheritance Cycle reread as well as reading Paolini's new books. I need to read Mistborn, Wheel of Time, and the list goes on and on 🤣
I mentioned a bunch of these on the TBR video I just made - definitely bumping a few up the list!
So many of these are on my TBR as well. So much to read, so little time.
Just saw this video on TH-cam and with regard to Guy Gavriel Kay, I’ve read (and own) 14/16 printed novels out and HE IS A PHENOMENAL WRITER. I’m truly looking forward to this year’s Written on the Dark novel. I imagine that you’ll love his prose and his stories.
The Spear Cuts Through Water is definitely worth the read! So beautifully written, it's indeed my favorite standalone to this day. Can't wait for you to read it :D
“Lgbt” tab in good reads.
I’m good fam.
Yeah I'm planning on starting The Sun Eater this year. Also like you cannot wait for The Devils. I'm catching up on The Bound and Broken right now so I'm ready to read book 4 as soon as it comes out this year. I want to read Malice as well, at least see if I like John Gwynne. Regardless, it is going to be a great year in books!
I just finished the tainted cup a few days ago. It was so good. The world is so UNIQUE! I think you'll enjoy it.
The FOMO is so real. I started Suneater this month because of it. Like 60% into Empire of Silence now.
The Kingdoms of Death snub is crazy. 😂
The issue with the Licanius trilogy is that it's fine overall but the ending is INCREDIBLE. likes its a whole bunch of mid that comes together in such a good way at the end of book that it needs those final moments to make it all worth it. I ended up doing the audio books to help me push through it to get to that great ending.
Will of the Many is one of the best books - absolutely adored it!!
Will of the Many way amazing. I will reread that one for sure when book 2 has a release date.
4 body problem!! So good 😍
3 body my bad
Quite the ambitious list, but there are a ton of great books here that I, myself, need to read as well. Just started on Abercrombie (yes, finally) and I'm loving his writing so far. Will probably read The Devils right when it's released! But man... so many books out there!
The Tainted Cup was my favorite read of 2024, and my first Robert Jackson Bennet novel. I then read his Divine Cities trilogy which I loved. The sequel to Tainted Cup comes out in April!
So many great books on your list! I stopped reading The Bound and Broken a few chapters into the second novel (can’t remember the title). I loved The Fall bit wasn’t too crazy about the novels, but seeing all the book tubers I love and in general share taste with adoring this serie I’m wondering if i should pick it up again?
Yes «Sun Eater» & «GGK»! 😎🙌
Also, I should really get back to the second «Red Rising» series!😅
My Winter SFF TBR/MBR List (have had to rework it quite a bit due to being in bed with pneumonia🤒🤧😅):
«All the Horses on Iceland» by Sarah Tolmie (Historical Fiction/Fantasy Novella about an Medieval Icelander’s Fantastical Journey to Central Asia)
«Carthage Ascendant» by Mary Gentle (Book of Ash #2, Alt-Historical Military Fiction inspired by the Mercenary Wars of the Renaissance)
«The Lion & the Sword» (90s Fantasy inspired by Alexander the Great’s Conquest of Greece) by Roberta Cray
My Spring SFF TBR/MBR:
«Informocracy» by Malka Older (Cyberpunk)
«Brothers of the Wind» by Tad Williams (Prequel to «Memory, Sorrow & Thorn», Epic Fantasy)
«Leviathan Falls» by James SA Corey («The Expanse» #9, Space Opera)
«Bloodstone» & «Dark Crusade» by Karl Edward Wagner (Both in the «Kane» series, S&S/Proto-Grimdark)
«Lancelot» by Giles Kristian (Arthurian Fantasy/Historical Fiction)
«The Children of Gods and Fighting Men» by Shauna Lawless (Historical Fantasy set in Viking Age Ireland)
«Sun Eater» 3-6: «Demon in White», «Kingdoms of Death», «Ashes of Men» & «Disquiet Gods» (+ the short stories) by Christopher Ruocchio (Space Opera)
«The Blood Dimmed Tide» by Stephen Aryan (Historical Fantasy inspired by the Mongol Conquest of Persia)
«Navola» by Paolo Bacigalupi (Political Fantasy inspired by Renaissance Italy & «The Godfather»)
«The Crystal Cave» by Mary Stewart (Arthurian Fantasy from the perspective of Merlin)
«The Folding Knife» by KJ Parker (Political Fantasy)
«The Bright Sword» by Lev Grossman (Arthurian Fantasy)
And I plan to start on the «Aspect Emperor» series by R. Scott Bakker (Epic Dark/Grimdark Fantasy, sequel series to «The Prince of Nothing») and «The Last King of Osten Ard» by Tad Williams (Sequel series to «Memory, Sorrow & Thorn», Epic Fantasy) this Summer and finish them in the Autumn!
Cheers! 🙌
I see way too little talk about the New Crobuzon series on booktube, hope you get to it. It's unique and strange and fascinating, definitely worth a try.
I can't recommend the suneater series enough. That series replaced dune as my top 1 sci-fi.
Highly recommend After Moses by Michael Kane. It’s an independent sci fi series in the vane of Firefly but with great characters you can root for.
Looking forward to the Shadows of the Apt reviews! I recently read Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky and really liked it, a good mix of SciFi and Fantasy.
I have quite a few of these on my TBR too. I like to be a little late to the party (with the exception of Joe Abercrombie, I preordered that one) because when people are still talking and making videos about a book a year(s) after it was released, after the initial promotion hype has died down, it's either actually good or really bad.
GGK is high on my priority list in 2025-I neeeeeeed to get to it
Yes for Red Country and Sharp Ends,they're both amazing if you like Joe Abercrombie !!! :)
For me it's gonna be Malazan and Dandelion Dinasty in 2025 !
Definitely want to read will of the many as well as the first law trilogy, the green bone saga and poppy war trilogy as well as the bound and the broken series by Ryan Cahill and the silo series by Hugh Howey. Starting with green bone saga!!
Will of the Many is a BANGER
The spear cuts through water was the best book I read in 2024. It’s truly a masterpiece
Well, I'll be back at the end of the year to talk about what I liked!
Will of the Many kinda blew my mind, it has an umph.. The first book of sun eater was ok, maybe a 3/5. The novella after 5/5. If every book is on par with the novella I'm down. Love your tubee
Sun Eater should be a top priority
Thats a list! Have fun 🙂
I will read The Last War Series, Dandelion Dynasty, Lumar Books, Harry Potter etc
When I read fantasy books I like the thick small paperbacks but there always so hard to keep wide open so I break the spine 7 ways evenly to work the spine but idk how long that’s going to make the book last
You are gonna love Boy's Life I think. McCammon is amazing.
I can't wait!
You should add Blade of the Wanderer, by Steven Raaymakers. It's like horror-fantasy.
I have most of the books you mentioned on my TBR, with the exception of Robert McCammon (heard that name for the very first time right now) and Liu Cixin. I read his first novel Supernova Era, and while the consept was interesting, it had too much propaganda in it and I didn't like his style too much. So I am not in any hurry to read the Three-Body Problem, though it's still on my radar.
Now I already have plans that will probably keep me from reading everything on your list in 2025 (wanna do a reread of Wheel of Time and all-things Anthony Ryan; also Stormlight Archive and everything Osten Ard, also want to reread his Otherland tetralogy which I find bloody brillant), but I definitely want to read Suneater; in fact, I'm halfway through Empire of Silence, and while I'm not quite getting the hype completely yet, I have enjoyed it quite a lot so far and I am pretty much hooked, even in case it wouldn't get better. I'll also definitively read Bennett's Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption, but I have to finish his Founders Trilogy first. He's brillant though, so he's on my 25 tbr as well. I'll also find room for Katabasis, M.L. Wang (hopefully both The Sword of Kaigen and Brighthaven) and Guy Gavriel Kay, whom I read in chronological order so A song for Arbonne is next. And of course there's Tchaikovsky, though in my case it's the Final Architecture series I need to finish first.
That would already make for 60 books (not counting the novella stuff done by Ruocchio which I want to read as well), and most of it is pretty large books, so it's already more than I'll be able to do most probably. This said, I recently remembered there was a time when I couldn't binge series just because the later novels hadn't been written yet, and I never had a problem picking up where I left the series when the next novel was released. So apart from Suneater which I want to have read up on before the last book is released, I can see myself easily spread the multi-part series out over two or more years, which would enable me to read some other stuff I am exited about or at least very interested in. which would include most of the other stuff you mentioned. ^^
The Tainted Cup was a fun easy read
All Mitchell is connected Bone Clocks is pretty far into his connected universe. I would say start with 1000 Autumns.
welcome to the devils is already on my shelf. 📖📖 i'm sorry that there was no mention of films, but it was still interesting. In any case, if you are interested in sci fi animations later on: www.youtube.com/@WonderVisualsNetwork
Johan, where is The Fall of Hyperion?
Is it just me or is the vocal audio very quiet in this video?
That’s …… a lot of books!
Pick up Malazan!
Need to give Malazan another crack lol
Dude ignore what anyone else says - Lions is 100% the best place to start with GGK. There are some books that are just built on a whole other level, and Lions is one of them.
I read an ARC of Grave Empire recently and it's a definitely going to be one of the more beloved releases of the year. It's spectacular.
China Mieville's my favorite fantasy author, hope you enjoy New Crobuzon! The Scar broke fantasy for me, everything I read after it felt so bland I took a 4 year break from the genre 😂
I saw China Mieville's books in your TH-cam channel. keep it up brother . You really do have different recommendations. Don't change your taste . I pray you will be rewarded with more subscribers and likes.
guys English is not my first language i try to read these book but cant understand them(like DUNE)
can you please tell me what to read
I did read project hail mary so any book of that level of complexity
I thought Red Rising was pretty straight forward in terms of language. The only catch might be the use of Roman military terms.
Artemis is another by the author of Project Hail Mary. You might also think about short stories where the author doesn't try to build up a whole new world with it's own language style. Philip K Dick has good stories with straightforward English. Also, "Stories of Your Life and Others" by Ken Chiang. Wonderful writing and a wide range of stories, including the story that formed the basis of the movie 'Arrival'. Becky Chambers writes easy to read books, start with 'The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet'. There are follow-ups in that series if you want to continue. She also wrote 'A Psalm for the Wild Built' and 'A Prayer for the Crown Shy' in a series called Monk and Robot. They are what people call 'cozy scifi'.
@@dansaunders6761 @kim_Miller
Thank you I will read them 😁😄
I have a question for u where do u find ur books to read next r u using a website or something?
Damn theres alot of books you have to finish