REACTING TO GOODREADS BEST 76 BOOKS OF LAST DECADE [CC]
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this isn't a list of the "best" books of the last decade, rather a list of the most commercially popular books of the last decade.
"the colleen hoover book everyone is mad about, you know the one i'm talking about" girl, it could still be any one of her books lol
The Goodreads ‘editorial team’ is the one exception to the phrase “there’s no i in team”
I think this shows the power of book clubs like Reese’s or BOTM, because most of these are from those.
“You not gonna tell me about myself” - same 😅
It’s the one Goodreads’ employee’s personal favourite list 😂
If I see Lessons in Chemistry on ONE MORE LIST... I swear I am the only one that hated this book with a passion.
I wanna join this club... the adaptation was good though
Add me to this club too. I thought it was very boring and there was no reason to care. The show was worse imo
No you’re right. That book was so bad and triggering and literally no one ever mentions that
My friend hated it and from what I've heard I would too
you are NOT alone that book is one of my all time most hated
Not that I love SJM, but her books were more "popular" by Goodreads' own criteria. For A Court of Thorns and Roses alone, the want to read (1.3 million) is more than everyone that shelved Such a Fun Age (1.1 million). So they must have discounted all Fantasy books or some other nonsense that's not for "real" readers.
"Atomic Habits... I see this everywhere and I'm not going to read it cause you're not going to tell me about myself." 10000000% lololol
Did Fantasy get completely snubbed? Maybe Lost Apothecary is fantasy, not sure. Not a fan but surprised we didn’t see any Emily Henry. Yeah I don’t think this list is all that accurate.
I was going to make this exact same comment! The Lost Apothecary was... not great.
I have a feeling most of the choices on the list where influenced by best selling books on Amazon for the decade, not so much people's favorites.
My mom (who is not a big reader) has read quite a few books on this list. It feels like it is a lot of popular book club books!
"best" and "popular" are distant relations
😂 “You’re not gonna tell me to get up at 5 am to make up my bed to become a millionaire.. FOH” 😂😂😂😂❤
I just want to take a moment to thank you for all your videos. After being away from reading for more than a decade, I wanted to get back to it so I searched up book recommendations here on TH-cam and found you . I started with the Broken Earth series (freaking loved it) then read Midnight Library, then Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, then How High We Go in the Dark, and I just finished Babble. As you can see, these were all books you recommended and I have thoroughly enjoyed ALL of them! I know it was a hard year for you but I want to let you know you’re so appreciated and thank you for helping me reconnect with my love of reading.
Also-- no Stephen King? He's always winning the horror Goodreads votes.
I will say I've heard of most of those titles but they definitely don't represent the best of the best! Except the Obamas ❤ They are the best of the best 😊
I'm not sure they should include "want to read" books on this list...I have lots of "want to read" that I'll never pick up and maybe don't even care about anymore. it's not like I go back and remove books I no longer want to read, you know?
I didn’t even realize no Stephen King. This list seems very incorrect
Before We Were Yours is about kids being taken from their parents and adopted out. It was a good read.
It made me pick up the book where the people who went through tann’s orphanages tell their own stories.
@@booksandjava What's the title of that one?
@@stephanieann6695 It's called Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
Before and After
Ughh, the Spanish Love Deception?! Out of all the romances that's the one that made it? What an overhyped poor man's Hating Game. I mean, it fit their criteria better than the actual Hating Game? Something doesn't add up.
Seriously, the list don’t make sense
Spanish Love Deception has 630k and Hating Game has 678k, so if it were between the two, HG should have been on the list instead. I don’t get how they came up with this lol
Goodreads bamboozled us again
I loved Elinor Oliphant is completely fine! It's a very specific read. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I also listened to the audiobook. The feeling of being painfully alone was something I identified with. The ending was so healing for my heart.
This list surprises me too, but I do agree about not being shocked to see several of them. The odd part is out of ALL the books there are several repeat authors in picking just 76 books out of an entire decade of releases?
It does seem like they just ignored the fantasy genre tho…which seems odd.
I've read 12 of them lol. They really avoided SFF for the most part.
I feel like there are so many authors and books missing from this list. The fact that Sarah J Maas and Emily Henry are not on here definitely is super weird. Half of these books I’ve never even heard of so it doesn’t seem to really go along the guidelines of all the books everyone has read/want to read. Also the Lost Apothecary on there is sooo random, literally have not heard anything about it
Klara and the sun was a big one for lit fic girlies. We loved it. Sea of Tranquility too. It’s also popular with the literary scifi books.
OK but like "It Ends With Us" by Colleen Hoover has nearly 3 MILLION ratings on goodreads and it was published in 2016. Like where is that? ACoTaR has nearly 2 million. Like they're not my top reads of all time, but if this is a popularity contest, where are they???
Great video! I love your taste in books ❤️
I very much needed this video in my life. This is list is just...odd. I think the one employee got bored and threw darts at book covers to find which ones to put on this list. 😂
I'm more surprised by the lack of Stephen King than SJM or Sanderson.
He's more of a household name.
i feel like this is a pretty accurate most popular list bcs i have heard so much abt almost all of these books on youtube + booktok
Anxious people is actually my favorite Bachman book!
And the only ones I haven’t read is Bear town and sequel
Spanish Love Deception making this list with 630k ratings while some Emily Henry and Ali Hazelwood books have near or over a million 🤔
You’ve gotta read Cloud Cuckoo Land it’s a masterpiece! I don’t know anyone who’s read it that doesn’t love it.
Apparently I’ve read 33 of those books color me surprised
Apparently I’ve read 43 of those books color me surprised
I would love to see your top ten recs!!!! Please do this
maybe my memory is weird due to the pandemic but it seems to me that most of these are from the very end of the 2010s/2020 🤔🤔🤔 weird say this is a "favorites of the las decade"
I thought I wouldn't like Daisy Jones and the Six, but I listened to the audiobook and absolutely loved it. It's one of my favorite books this year. The audiobook has a full cast and it was honestly just amazing. I don't know how it would read in a physical book. So I listened to Evelyn Hugo and really enjoyed it as well. I can't believe you haven't read Trevor Noah's book. Definitely listen to the audiobook.
I read all the light we cannot see, and liked it but did not get far into the adaptation because there were so many unnecessary changes
Earliest I’ve ever been; hello, miss Owens!
I think that the young Romantsy/SFF folks may be a bit overrepresented on TikTok vs the general population, which is why I think it seems underrepresented here. This looks like the books 'read' by folks who go to book clubs to drink wine and often haven't actually read the books. It's funny, I haven't read many of these (mostly on purpose) and the ones I have read are mostly meh, or firmly 'okay', 3 stars. Except for Trevor Noah's book - all the stars.
Yeah, most of the books that I hear about online are not what anyone I know really reads.
I tried to read "The Husband's Secret" and DNF'd it. Never picked up another Liane Moriarty either. Not my thing.
Ive re read The Midnight Library a few times. Not cuz i relate to it but i love the story.
They just went by how many people added them at all, nothing to do with rating or number of ratings, so the buzziest most awarded books are going to be what people add to Want to Read but don't necessarily actually read, which makes more of them make sense I guess. 🤷🏼♀️. 2023 would be 11 years if you're counting 2013. I wish more people were interested in genre fiction instead of stuff like Demon Copperhead, which is just a retelling of David Copperfield.
A lot of these seem so… random? Yeah, there are great ones, but a lot more that you can easily read on the side. Nothing again easy, fun books! But in GREAT books, I want some impact, some deeper topics.
The Giver of Stars was quite good on audio
I swear, Goodreads just pulls things out of a hat for these lists.
Edit: I've only read one book from this whole list, and it was "Im glad my mom died" 😬 There's a lot of literary fiction and WW2 historical fiction on that list, and I don't read those sub-genres.
I love Cloud Cuckoo Land, I recommend it to anyone who loves books! I do think some parts are a little slow but overall I wish I could read it for the first time again!
Also I've read 29 from the list,
ive read uh, 6, of these
i re read the Midnight Library and I still loved it the second time, I think people's critiques are valid but I still loved that book
I assume that this list has some kind of curve for books published more recently, like maybe a quota of each pub year of the last decade? I don't know that for a fact but just based on the newer books picked, that's what I guess must have happened.
This was hilarious 🤣🤎
I Loved Klara and the sun
Them including "want to read" just makes this a list of most hyped books. Which is fine, but I would like to know what people are actually reading and maybe even liking.
I'm not on goodreads anymore (fuck amazon) but I've heard that the new generation and booktokkers aren't really using it, is that correct? Perhaps that's why some of the authors you mentioned aren't there?
I’ve read 9 of these and have 2 on my tbr. But for real where is all the fantasy😭
I really liked Big Little Lies (I read it before the show) and I STRONGLY disliked The Spanish Love Deception
Daisy Six and the Jones 😭
I loved Spare and hated Ugly Love!
I Can recommend Lliane Moriarty the husband secret! Read it with my bookclub girlies.
This list should be called "the most popular books of the last decade"....hard stop. (oh wait, is that what this list was, most popular, not best LOL)
lmao your description of why you won’t read atomic habits is too accurate
"the lost apothecary 🤨????"
tbh this list was *weird*
I've read 15 and it seems like the most random list 📚
Not “you’re milking me baby/ promotion of expired condoms usage” Spanish Love Deception being next to When Breath Becomes Air 😂😂😂😂
Edit:I see these are the most popular books which tracks
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DNFed BEARTOWN!
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I almost never look at these "blogposts" (or whatever they are trying to be) anymore, exactly because they are shady like this. This seemed to use the same kangaroo logic as the "nominees" for the Goodreads choice awards. But in this case I think it's just the description that is terrible. What they seem to mean is the most popular books published in the past 10 years, as of publication. Because for ex. Malcolm Gladwell's most popular book is The Tipping Point with 802,817 ratings, but published in 2000 is much more popular than Talking to Strangers with 280,551 ratings, but that was published in 2019.
So I am pretty sure they mean the most popular books published in the past 10 years. But I am not able to trust them, since they are not willing (?)/able (?) to describe this in a competent manner.
Also, am I the only one that finds these numbers strange? Like, why 76? Not top 10, top 50, or top 100. Or at least 75, if for whatever reason it needs to be around 70. But 76? It's such a strange choice.
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What is going on at Goodreads? 🤔
this is a wild list.... there's no romance, fantasy... a few sci-fi but how are you going to leave off genre fiction that is out here selling books? it should say - 76 most shelved books that are historical fiction, lit fic, memoir or nonfiction.
I dont get the hype for the midnight library, not that I hated it but I dont get praise for this book at all
List seems to not include some that probably should be there. No Stephen King either on the list. It seems suspicious.
"hanya yanagihara...needs to be brought up for her crimes against humanity" 💀🤣
I'm tired of GR making lists and putting multiple books by a single author on said lists. Pick the best ONE per author and give those 2-3 other spaces to someone who deserves more readers and recognition!
I HATED Educated. Here was this woman who had gotten away from a terrible situation and then learned nothing from it.
The Goldfinch was super racist imo. Never got the hype and low-key don’t want to lol.
I've heard of basically every book in this list a fair amount so it doesn't seem that surprising to me. As for Brandon Sanderson and other genre authors not being in there, I think it's because they're mostly known in that world, not overall? I've been so surprised by that but when I talk to random people, they usually haven't even heard of them.
I felt a little attacked when you said we don't care about The Goldfinch, it's one of my favourite books ever and I've read it twice 🥲