My top 10 this year 1. The secret history 2. If we were villains 3. The invisible life of Addie La rue 4. Villains duology 5. A darker shade of magic trilogy 6. It ends with us 7. (Re-read) of chain of gold 8. The atlas 6 9. All the young dudes 10. Circe Honorable mention: an ember in the ashes series and The Cruel Prince trilogy
If we were villains has been sitting on my shelf because I read the synopsis and it underwhelmed me but since you loved it so much, I may just have too read it soon 😊💚
My top 10 of the year!!! 1. ACOMAF (finally) 2. Kingdom of Ash (finally) 3. Chain of Iron (my #2 Cassie book ever!!) 4. Queen of Air and Darkness (finally - can you tell I got out of a fantasy reading slump this year) 5. Shadow and Bone (I’m of the rare opinion that this is better than Six of Crows) 6. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (favourite stand-alone of all time) 7. King of Scars (Leigh Bardugo is a God) 8. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (yay we match) 9. Slammed (finally! My first Colleen book) 10. Champion (finallyyyyy read the Legend series this year!) Damn this was a really good reading year for me! Now I need to finish 2 more books before the end of the year to hit my 75 goal…
It’s always so wonderful to hear your favorites! My favorites were… 2. The Midnight Library (such a beautiful story, gonna be with me for a long time) 1. Crescent City House of Earth and Blood (my first Sarah J Maas novel and I’m obsessed now!)
Hello Christine! I just wanted to say that I’m in love with “again, but better” and Shane is probably the best character I’ve seen EVER! I can’t wait to read “Better together”!
Yay! I’m 230 pages into ACOSF and I’m very excited to enjoy the rest of it. Top 3 books of the year: 1. A Torch Against the Night 2. Scythe 3. Crooked Kingdom
Favourite Reads of 2021! 1. Take A Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert 2. Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid 2. She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen 4. Better Than The Movies by Lynn Painter 5. Chain of Iron by Cassandra Clare 6. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 7. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne 8. Heartstopper by Alice Oseman 9. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman 10. Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
Hii Christine!!!! I have a book that I’d like to recommend to you, it’s very short and easy to read, it’s also inordinately intriguing, this book is called ‘Oh William’ and it is by Elizabeth Strout, it’s about a woman (successful writer) who revisits her past memories with her first husband, all of this happens after her second husband’s death. It is super emotional and if you really want to get into a deep and empathetic mood, this is the book for you! Anyways, great video queen (as always LOLZ), WE LOVE YA!!!💖
Well now I've added more books on my tbr for 2022. Its been a wild year for me: I got engaged, im currently moving, i got a new car, but i didn't get to read very much (was on the worst reading slump of my life that went on for MONTHS.) I just now broke it thanks to my little sister's middle grade but AMAZING book called Jinxed. Now im reading like 4 books at once again and i couldn't be happier. 😄 I hope you all have wonderful holidays and a great new year, and thank you Christine for continuing to be such a light in our lives. I plan on getting your book Better Together soon. ❤
Yesss The Invisible Life of Addie Larue is by far the best book that came out this year! I have already bought your book but I haven’t gotten around to it yet but I’m so excited!
My fav books this year (No specific order, I LOVE them all) 1. Divergent 2. Insergent 3. Alligent 4. 5 feet apart 6. Hunger games 7. All this time 8. Signs of you 9. Harry Potter and the philosophers stone (re- read for like the hundredth time lol) 10. Beautiful creatures
Omg so happy to see Project Hail Mary on this list!! I just finished it this weekend and i LOVED LOVED LOVED it. They've already started working on the movie but they cast Ryan Gosling as the main character which I'm not super happy about :/ i don't think he's funny enough, he's more the dark sombre type. Matt Damon was so well cast as Mark Watney in The Martian.
Better Together is on my top books of the year list!! I absolutely loved it. I actually got a cat this year and named him Pilot after your books! Thanks so much for writing such amazing stories
YAAAAAAA addie larue just moved me in a such a way -- i'm so obsessed with that book!!! and i had listened the audiobook and she was an AMAZING narrator
I recently read the invisible life of Addie Larue and I wasn’t sure if I would be interested so I skimmed the synopsis, it far exceeds what you might understand the book to be about. It was a fucking stab in the heart, and so beautiful! I love when we get to see a character moving through life, and we were able to get so much of that in this story. So brilliant Thank you for making these videos Christine, I always go back to you when I need some reading or writing inspiration
My top books read this year are: #1 The House in the Cerulean Sea #2 Project Hail Mary (The rest in no particular order): Lore The soulmate equation The nightingale Chain of iron The maidens The silent patient. I’ve read 26 total, but I only give 5 starts to ones that just blew me away.
Those 10 books are now on my tbr :P And also a months belated digital hug because you had to go through that breakup. And wish you all of the best for 2022
When will better together finally come out as a paperback, I don't like reading hardcovers but waiting sucks :P Also I'm so agree on your synopsis opinions, which is why I love watching your recs because you never spoil anything for me :)
Fav sentence from Addie LaRue: "And she wishes she could have stayed, wishes that when Henry had said Wait, she had said, Come with me, but she knows it is not fair to make him choose. He is full of roots,while she has only branches."
Addie LaRue is one of my favorite books of all time because it gives hope in the midst of desperation and grief. My top 3 favorite reads of the year are Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff, A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas, and Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber. Although Kingdom of the Wicked almost took OUABH’s place as number 3
I got your new book for christmas and my aunt is so excited to read it. My TBR list is just so long I haven't even gotten around to reading your first one! I'm sure you can relate lol xD
My top ten this year 10. Queen of air and darkness by Cassandra Clare 9. The hundred lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea sedoti 8. Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare 7. Gilded by marissa Meyer 6. Know my name by Chanel Miller 5. Kingdom of the cursed by Kerri maniscalco 4. Midnight sun by stephenie Meyer 3. A good girls guide to Murder by holly Jackson 2. Takes from a shadow hunter academy by Cassandra Clare 1. The Spanish love deception by Elena armas
2021 wasn’t my year for reading. I was in such a big slump since summer 2020. I’m going on my 6th year of learning Spanish and am trying to get out of that slump by reading in English then in Spanish. I’m hoping to trick my brain into thinking I’m learning instead of reading. I can’t wait to “learn” with some of these!!
i just finished my first exam for this semester and your video is such a great gift to watch after it. also i was watching your shadowhunters videos earlier this week and i was just thinking about how fun it would be to do another video comparing the different series but this time you add the last hours!!
My top books that came out this year 1. The invisible life of addie larue 2. Malibu rising 3. Beautiful world where are you 4. Better together 5. Chain of iron
Addie LaRue was a great book. That and the 5th Wave Trilogy this year both opened my mind to things I've never thought of before. That's what makes novels great. When they challenge your train of thought and make you consider parts of life you may have otherwise never considered before.
I think addie larue can either be a bad book or a great book depending on what perspective you'll put it in. It can come off as a vey ignorant book, which what my impression with it was. Or it can be a beautiful lyrical romantic novel and just a focus on fictional character lives.
This reading year has been so chaotic for me! (as has this clusterfuck of a year). I've been out of work because of the pandemic the last few months so I've been streamlining a constant feed of fantasy audio books like an IV. I've really been enjoying some Asian inspired fantasies (since I've been into C-dramas the last year) but so many of the fantasy books, I've loved the beginnings but the endings are so depressing like WHYYYY so I haven't had many that have reached my favorites of all time. Any Way the Wind Blows has been my only favorite where the ending didn't ruin it and it was definitely my emotional support book
Yes! Julia Whalen has been one of my favorite narrators on audible for a while now. If you haven't listen to it yet she also narrates a book I haven't seen people talk about a lot by Taylor Jenkins Reid called Maybe in Another Life that's a very sliding doors kind of story. I listen to it when my oldest son was a baby and I was doing night feedings with him and the book was good enough to keep me awake while I was feeding him.
I didn't read a lot of books this year and most of it was rereads but I do have new 3 books that I reall enjoyed. The Tower of Nero a polish book containing a few Witcher stories which weren't written by Sapkowski but by a few other authors a Sci Fi book from one of myy favorite german authors The rereads where The Hunger Games and I also read the prequel for the first time, which I enjoyed, and the first 4 Earthsea books, which are alright. I bought the other 2 Earthsea books too for completions sake.
Busting out Good Reads for this one. My top ten for 2021. I started recording the books I'm reading back in 2018 and this year has been the year with the most so far! This was a hard list to make. 1.) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 2.) Better Together by Christine Riccio (may have reread it twice already.) 3.) The Love Hypothesis (I'm bitter because it is Reylo fanfic and I DIDN'T KNOW THAT GOING IN!) 4. Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur 5.) A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair 6.) Neon Gods by Katee Robert 7.) A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi 8.) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab 9.) Mindhunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker 10.) They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera I haven't even read ACOSF yet... and I still need to read Throne of Glass. But like, I read Neon Gods and it sent me down a romance rabbit hole
I feel like I say this on every favorites video, but CHRISTINE! You will love Rachel Lynn Solomon’s books! She has YA contemporary and adult romance, but I’d start with Today Tonight Tomorrow 👀 trust meeeee
My top 20 favorite books of 2021 20. Sunshine girl by julianna margolis her memoir 19. Supernatural cold fire 18. Tokyo ever after 17. Everything after 16. Rebel daughter 15. Legendborn 14. Lore 13. The dating plan 12. A little hatred 11. Ties that tether 10. Wisdom of crowds 9. The two lives of lydia bird 8. the rules of arrangement by anisha bhatia 7. From blood and ash 6. The trouble with peace by Joe Abercrombie 5. The wastelands by Stephen king book 3 in the dark tower series 4. Wizard and glass book 4 in the dark tower series 3. Best served cold 2. In the ravenous dark by a.m Strickland 1. Crescent city
Here is my attempt at a top 10! (But i just started reading the noblemans guide to scandal and shipwrecks so that will for sure bump someone!) Any Way the Wind Blows Chain of Iron Spin the Dawn Last Night at the Telegraph Club Malibu Rising The Ghost Bride All the Stars and Teeth Descendant of the Crane Cackle People We Meet on Vacation honorable mentions: The Downstairs Girl The Cousins
I’ll have to check out some of these books! This year I read Harry Potter for the first time and was blown away!! So many thoughts and feelings. I’m glad to finally be included in the magic world!!
I read These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong this year and I have never needed a sequel more, but I went to the bookstore to ask if they had it (the sequel) but they didn’t so they got my phone number and called me during school and now I have to call them back helpppp my antisocial butt can’t handle this
My favourites of the year were: The Diviners (the 4 books) Better than the movies, by Lynn Painter (it's so cute, Christine, you should check it out. It's kind of like the duff but soooo cute!) Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales (adorableee) Radio Silence Anne of Green Gables
Better than the movies is also one of my favourites (of the year and of all time)!! It's the best YA contemporary romance I've read in so long. Btw, do you have any recommendations for similar books? I have perfect on paper and radio silence on my tbr currently :)) I also read the duff a few years ago and remember liking it haha.
@@TasneemChoudhury362 OMG! YES! Better than the movies is in my top 3 favourite rom-com's of all time (I was bawling my eyes out of cuteness 4 times reading this book!). If you haven't read to all the boys I've loved before, that's a definite must. I also really enjoyed Tweet Cute, It's Kind of a Cheesy Love Story and The Victoria in my Head (the last one reads a bit young and it took me a while to get into the right mindset cuz the mc is 15 and I'm 20, but once you get into it, it's such a vibe). If you end up liking Radio Silence, try checking out Loveless by the same author. Do you have any recommendations of your own? (Oh, and if you haven't read The Diviners, please do. It's an epic ride :) )
@@emilienasrallah1395 ahh same for me! Im 19 but turning 20 in a few months. I LOVE YA contemporary but it's hard to find good YA/ YA that doesn't read too young sometimes. Thank you for the recommendations!! I read to all the boys a few years ago and its one of my faves :) Im planning to reread it sometime soon though. I also bought tweet cute recently! Ill for sure check it out. There are so many classic YA contemporary books I loved that I read a few years back - like perfect chemistry and anna and the french kiss. I read Heartstopper recently (so cute) which you've probably heard of since you've read Alice Oseman's other books. I also love reading Kasie West's books. They're hit or miss for me but they're so much fun to read. I also read Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer which I didn't love but was still really good - I really liked the concept of the book (writing letters haha). I've been struggling to find good YA contemporary but Better than the Movies was SOOO good and also so underrated? I'm also trying to explore more into new adult/adult romance. I didn't really like much of what I read but I did read the love hypothesis and liked it. I hope that helped! Its hard bc most of the books I read I end up not liking 😭
@@TasneemChoudhury362 First of all, happy birthday in advance :)) Second, I'm going to check out Letters to the Lost. I've heard about it on BookTube, but never checked it out. Perfect Chemistry is on my list :)) Ooh! I forgot one of my favs rom-coms ever. It's called Shuffle, Repeat (by Jen Klein ─ I don't know if you watched Grey's Anatomy, but she's one of the writers of the show. I haven't watched it, but anyway. The writing and dialogues are fantastic) and it's sooo good.. Kasie West's books are also hit or miss, but my favs are PS I like you and On the Fence. As for NA books, I'm slowly getting into the genre, but I don't think I'm at the same stage of life as the mc. I did enjoy The Unhoneymooners, tho. Do you have Goodreads?
@@emilienasrallah1395 thank you so much for the birthday wish + the recommendations!! I added them all to my tbr list :) Also PS I like you is my favourite Kasie West book too haha. I read a few NA books (beach read, the love hypothesis, the unhoneymooners) and I didn't like most of them. Its hard because I haven't been liking a lot of the YA contemporary Ive been reading either so I'm just trying to figure out what genre/books to read. It's a struggle! And talking to you has been so much fun. I love talking about books/reading so ty!!
Have you ever read Nalini Singh? the saga of the guild hunters is very good, I especially liked the last one, the archangel's light. Postcript: I love your Channel, greetings from Mexico.
I need your help!!! I adore Sarah J Maas books but I've finished all of them and need something along the lines of them.. Please only fictionnnnnn I've read the Darkfever series and really liked it although not quite as much as TOG, ACOTAR & CC I've also finished The Cruel Prince series & am currently working on the Furyborn series and I like it as well but again not quite as much as Sarah J Maas' offerings I am only able to do audiobooks because of my crazy hectic lifestyle as a single momma of 2 toddlers!! I work in a warehouse setting so I get ample time to listen to audiobooks though so life is good! I only started reading again about a year ago though and am in desperate need of some new material loll - I can't believe I even went this long without delving into books. It's like a part of myself was missing for so long and I just didn't realize it. I struggled with addiction for over a decade and since getting sober 2 years ago I am finally getting back to who I was before it took over 😊
I just read the ACOTAR series for the first time (got me back into reading) and just finished ACOSF AND AHHHHH one of my favs I’ve ever read! 100 pages into the invisible life of addie larue , Glad I picked good! Hahaha
Before I heard people talking about the invisible life of Addie Larue, I read the back and just wasn’t interested, should I try it anyway?? I’ve seen people get tattoos based off of this book so it’s definitely not terrible
@@claudiafabiani7660 Yeah I enjoyed it but I agree that Chain of Gold is definitely much better. Most of the plot of Chain of Iron could have been avoided if the characters just TALKED to eachother, and while normally this wouldn't bother me, the fact that the entire book was filled with this plot device was quite annoying
She’s stated a couple times before that (most of the time) if a series is already on a previous year’s list, she won’t include it every time. I may be wrong but I think she included Chain of Gold last year? So that could be why
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When Christine uploads her favourite books of the year, that’s when I really know the year is ending
Too true 😂
wait all year for these !! love them so much!!!
Facts!
My top 10 this year
1. The secret history
2. If we were villains
3. The invisible life of Addie La rue
4. Villains duology
5. A darker shade of magic trilogy
6. It ends with us
7. (Re-read) of chain of gold
8. The atlas 6
9. All the young dudes
10. Circe
Honorable mention: an ember in the ashes series and The Cruel Prince trilogy
Oh my god all the young dudes!!! The quality of that fanfiction is unlike any other, and it's definitely on my top ten reads this year as well
@@pn5894 definitely!! I loved it so much
addie la rue is SO GOOD
If we were villains has been sitting on my shelf because I read the synopsis and it underwhelmed me but since you loved it so much, I may just have too read it soon 😊💚
Hello
My Top 3 Favorite Books of 2021(that came out during 2021)
1. Chain of Iron
2.Better Together
3. Malibu Rising
My top 10 of the year!!!
1. ACOMAF (finally)
2. Kingdom of Ash (finally)
3. Chain of Iron (my #2 Cassie book ever!!)
4. Queen of Air and Darkness (finally - can you tell I got out of a fantasy reading slump this year)
5. Shadow and Bone (I’m of the rare opinion that this is better than Six of Crows)
6. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (favourite stand-alone of all time)
7. King of Scars (Leigh Bardugo is a God)
8. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (yay we match)
9. Slammed (finally! My first Colleen book)
10. Champion (finallyyyyy read the Legend series this year!)
Damn this was a really good reading year for me! Now I need to finish 2 more books before the end of the year to hit my 75 goal…
Damnn all good books , I'm happy you read all of those great books finally 🧡🧡
Damn Acomaf is my fav too for this year !!! And J think KOA is gonna be too !!!! I'm currently reading Tower Of Dawn !
@@justonemorepage8723 you are in for something traumatic lolol enjoyyy🙂I'm also rereading tower of dawn
It’s always so wonderful to hear your favorites! My favorites were…
2. The Midnight Library (such a beautiful story, gonna be with me for a long time)
1. Crescent City House of Earth and Blood (my first Sarah J Maas novel and I’m obsessed now!)
Hello Christine! I just wanted to say that I’m in love with “again, but better” and Shane is probably the best character I’ve seen EVER! I can’t wait to read “Better together”!
❤❤❤❤ thank you for reading!!
@@polandbananasBOOKS you’re welcome! Thank you for writing ❤️
Yay! I’m 230 pages into ACOSF and I’m very excited to enjoy the rest of it.
Top 3 books of the year:
1. A Torch Against the Night
2. Scythe
3. Crooked Kingdom
Favourite Reads of 2021!
1. Take A Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
2. Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid
2. She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen
4. Better Than The Movies by Lynn Painter
5. Chain of Iron by Cassandra Clare
6. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
7. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
8. Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
9. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
10. Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
Hii Christine!!!! I have a book that I’d like to recommend to you, it’s very short and easy to read, it’s also inordinately intriguing, this book is called ‘Oh William’ and it is by Elizabeth Strout, it’s about a woman (successful writer) who revisits her past memories with her first husband, all of this happens after her second husband’s death. It is super emotional and if you really want to get into a deep and empathetic mood, this is the book for you!
Anyways, great video queen (as always LOLZ), WE LOVE YA!!!💖
YES, addie larue!!!! it’s such a gorgeous, lyrical, powerful book,,,, ive read it last year when it came out and it still has a boot on my throat
Well now I've added more books on my tbr for 2022. Its been a wild year for me: I got engaged, im currently moving, i got a new car, but i didn't get to read very much (was on the worst reading slump of my life that went on for MONTHS.) I just now broke it thanks to my little sister's middle grade but AMAZING book called Jinxed. Now im reading like 4 books at once again and i couldn't be happier. 😄
I hope you all have wonderful holidays and a great new year, and thank you Christine for continuing to be such a light in our lives. I plan on getting your book Better Together soon. ❤
I’m so shocked that Chain of Iron didn’t make it on your list
I was waiting for it she always includes a Cassandra Clare book
Same here. I thought for sure it was number 1.
SAME! I thought it would have been number one!
she didn't read it last year?
@@andreakyed4225 but the book came out March 2021
Yesss The Invisible Life of Addie Larue is by far the best book that came out this year! I have already bought your book but I haven’t gotten around to it yet but I’m so excited!
My fav books this year
(No specific order, I LOVE them all)
1. Divergent
2. Insergent
3. Alligent
4. 5 feet apart
6. Hunger games
7. All this time
8. Signs of you
9. Harry Potter and the philosophers stone (re- read for like the hundredth time lol)
10. Beautiful creatures
Woah this list is straight outta 2014 haha
@@elizabethglowacz5615 lol 😂
I’ve been in such a reading slump. I needed this video!!!
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO ALL YEAR
Omg so happy to see Project Hail Mary on this list!! I just finished it this weekend and i LOVED LOVED LOVED it. They've already started working on the movie but they cast Ryan Gosling as the main character which I'm not super happy about :/ i don't think he's funny enough, he's more the dark sombre type. Matt Damon was so well cast as Mark Watney in The Martian.
Better Together is on my top books of the year list!! I absolutely loved it. I actually got a cat this year and named him Pilot after your books! Thanks so much for writing such amazing stories
Addie has really left her mark on the world. That book gives me the strangest feeling of deja vu, and I love it with all my heart.
My favs:
1. Song of Achilles
2. Addie LaRue
3. Amari & The Night Brothers
4. Beach read
5. Concrete Rose
YAAAAAAA addie larue just moved me in a such a way -- i'm so obsessed with that book!!! and i had listened the audiobook and she was an AMAZING narrator
I recently read the invisible life of Addie Larue and I wasn’t sure if I would be interested so I skimmed the synopsis, it far exceeds what you might understand the book to be about.
It was a fucking stab in the heart, and so beautiful! I love when we get to see a character moving through life, and we were able to get so much of that in this story. So brilliant
Thank you for making these videos Christine, I always go back to you when I need some reading or writing inspiration
My top books read this year are:
#1 The House in the Cerulean Sea
#2 Project Hail Mary
(The rest in no particular order):
Lore
The soulmate equation
The nightingale
Chain of iron
The maidens
The silent patient.
I’ve read 26 total, but I only give 5 starts to ones that just blew me away.
Those 10 books are now on my tbr :P And also a months belated digital hug because you had to go through that breakup. And wish you all of the best for 2022
I haven't even got past the intro yet, but this feels so nostalgic😂😂
When will better together finally come out as a paperback, I don't like reading hardcovers but waiting sucks :P Also I'm so agree on your synopsis opinions, which is why I love watching your recs because you never spoil anything for me :)
The editing is amazing (as always)!! Great job :))
Hi dear
Fav sentence from Addie LaRue:
"And she wishes she could have stayed, wishes that when Henry had said Wait, she had said, Come with me, but she knows it is not fair to make him choose. He is full of roots,while she has only branches."
Gimme all the books! They all sound so great, thanks for your recs Christine. Merry Xmas!
Addie LaRue is one of my favorite books of all time because it gives hope in the midst of desperation and grief. My top 3 favorite reads of the year are Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff, A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas, and Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber. Although Kingdom of the Wicked almost took OUABH’s place as number 3
Always look forward to the yearly favs
I got your new book for christmas and my aunt is so excited to read it. My TBR list is just so long I haven't even gotten around to reading your first one! I'm sure you can relate lol xD
My top ten this year
10. Queen of air and darkness by Cassandra Clare
9. The hundred lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea sedoti
8. Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare
7. Gilded by marissa Meyer
6. Know my name by Chanel Miller
5. Kingdom of the cursed by Kerri maniscalco
4. Midnight sun by stephenie Meyer
3. A good girls guide to Murder by holly Jackson
2. Takes from a shadow hunter academy by Cassandra Clare
1. The Spanish love deception by Elena armas
2021 wasn’t my year for reading. I was in such a big slump since summer 2020. I’m going on my 6th year of learning Spanish and am trying to get out of that slump by reading in English then in Spanish. I’m hoping to trick my brain into thinking I’m learning instead of reading. I can’t wait to “learn” with some of these!!
i just finished my first exam for this semester and your video is such a great gift to watch after it. also i was watching your shadowhunters videos earlier this week and i was just thinking about how fun it would be to do another video comparing the different series but this time you add the last hours!!
You are literally so pretty omg
My top books that came out this year
1. The invisible life of addie larue
2. Malibu rising
3. Beautiful world where are you
4. Better together
5. Chain of iron
Omg I'm so excited 🤩 and i was so sure that Chain of Iron is your first haha surprise surprise 😂
The end of COI had me way too angry XD
@@polandbananasBOOKS yeah , i can relate hahah my fav of the year is A Court if silver flames! That character development, oh myyy❤️
A court of silver flames is smth I want to read for so long already..
Ahh I love seeing how your tastes grow and change every year! We had the same top two reads this year 🤣💛 I learned taste from you 👏🏻
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Hey Christine, just wondering if you've read or will read From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. A.
My big big favourites were Gods & Monsters, The Galaxy and the Ground Within, Chain of Iron, and Blood & Honey!
Addie LaRue was a great book. That and the 5th Wave Trilogy this year both opened my mind to things I've never thought of before. That's what makes novels great. When they challenge your train of thought and make you consider parts of life you may have otherwise never considered before.
AAAH CHRISTINE DROPS A VIDEO AND MY DAY HAS BEEN MADE 🥰
❤❤❤❤
My top two were the exact same as yours! Loved Addie LaRue so so much 🙌🏻 and of course Sarah J Maas always pulls through
I think addie larue can either be a bad book or a great book depending on what perspective you'll put it in. It can come off as a vey ignorant book, which what my impression with it was. Or it can be a beautiful lyrical romantic novel and just a focus on fictional character lives.
This reading year has been so chaotic for me! (as has this clusterfuck of a year). I've been out of work because of the pandemic the last few months so I've been streamlining a constant feed of fantasy audio books like an IV. I've really been enjoying some Asian inspired fantasies (since I've been into C-dramas the last year) but so many of the fantasy books, I've loved the beginnings but the endings are so depressing like WHYYYY so I haven't had many that have reached my favorites of all time. Any Way the Wind Blows has been my only favorite where the ending didn't ruin it and it was definitely my emotional support book
Yes! Julia Whalen has been one of my favorite narrators on audible for a while now. If you haven't listen to it yet she also narrates a book I haven't seen people talk about a lot by Taylor Jenkins Reid called Maybe in Another Life that's a very sliding doors kind of story. I listen to it when my oldest son was a baby and I was doing night feedings with him and the book was good enough to keep me awake while I was feeding him.
I didn't read a lot of books this year and most of it was rereads but I do have new 3 books that I reall enjoyed.
The Tower of Nero
a polish book containing a few Witcher stories which weren't written by Sapkowski but by a few other authors
a Sci Fi book from one of myy favorite german authors
The rereads where The Hunger Games and I also read the prequel for the first time, which I enjoyed, and the first 4 Earthsea books, which are alright. I bought the other 2 Earthsea books too for completions sake.
Busting out Good Reads for this one. My top ten for 2021. I started recording the books I'm reading back in 2018 and this year has been the year with the most so far! This was a hard list to make.
1.) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2.) Better Together by Christine Riccio (may have reread it twice already.)
3.) The Love Hypothesis (I'm bitter because it is Reylo fanfic and I DIDN'T KNOW THAT GOING IN!)
4. Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
5.) A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair
6.) Neon Gods by Katee Robert
7.) A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
8.) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
9.) Mindhunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
10.) They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
I haven't even read ACOSF yet... and I still need to read Throne of Glass. But like, I read Neon Gods and it sent me down a romance rabbit hole
Hi dear
I feel like I say this on every favorites video, but CHRISTINE! You will love Rachel Lynn Solomon’s books! She has YA contemporary and adult romance, but I’d start with Today Tonight Tomorrow 👀 trust meeeee
Hi dear
My top 20 favorite books of 2021
20. Sunshine girl by julianna margolis her memoir
19. Supernatural cold fire
18. Tokyo ever after
17. Everything after
16. Rebel daughter
15. Legendborn
14. Lore
13. The dating plan
12. A little hatred
11. Ties that tether
10. Wisdom of crowds
9. The two lives of lydia bird
8. the rules of arrangement by anisha bhatia
7. From blood and ash
6. The trouble with peace by Joe Abercrombie
5. The wastelands by Stephen king book 3 in the dark tower series
4. Wizard and glass book 4 in the dark tower series
3. Best served cold
2. In the ravenous dark by a.m Strickland
1. Crescent city
Thanks for creating my TBR for 2022!
Addie LaRue has been on my TBR for so long! I plan on starting it in January. Malibu Rising was one of my favourites too!
Here is my attempt at a top 10!
(But i just started reading the noblemans guide to scandal and shipwrecks so that will for sure bump someone!)
Any Way the Wind Blows
Chain of Iron
Spin the Dawn
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malibu Rising
The Ghost Bride
All the Stars and Teeth
Descendant of the Crane
Cackle
People We Meet on Vacation
honorable mentions:
The Downstairs Girl
The Cousins
Yayyy for favourite books 🎉
I bought Addie Larue based off your rec a few months ago and I can’t wait to read it!!!!
Hell yeah, I look forward to this video every year
“He had to science very hard”
You madam have successfully brought out the loudest snort laugh I have ever made. I sounded like a warthog 😃
yaaass more appreciation to the soulmate equation! ❤️
I’ll have to check out some of these books! This year I read Harry Potter for the first time and was blown away!! So many thoughts and feelings. I’m glad to finally be included in the magic world!!
i loved addie larue!!!!!!!!!!!! i hope she writes a sequel???
The invisible life of addie larue is my favorite book of all time and this video brought me so much joy
I read These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong this year and I have never needed a sequel more, but I went to the bookstore to ask if they had it (the sequel) but they didn’t so they got my phone number and called me during school and now I have to call them back helpppp my antisocial butt can’t handle this
My favourites of the year were:
The Diviners (the 4 books)
Better than the movies, by Lynn Painter (it's so cute, Christine, you should check it out. It's kind of like the duff but soooo cute!)
Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales (adorableee)
Radio Silence
Anne of Green Gables
Better than the movies is also one of my favourites (of the year and of all time)!! It's the best YA contemporary romance I've read in so long. Btw, do you have any recommendations for similar books? I have perfect on paper and radio silence on my tbr currently :)) I also read the duff a few years ago and remember liking it haha.
@@TasneemChoudhury362 OMG! YES! Better than the movies is in my top 3 favourite rom-com's of all time (I was bawling my eyes out of cuteness 4 times reading this book!). If you haven't read to all the boys I've loved before, that's a definite must. I also really enjoyed Tweet Cute, It's Kind of a Cheesy Love Story and The Victoria in my Head (the last one reads a bit young and it took me a while to get into the right mindset cuz the mc is 15 and I'm 20, but once you get into it, it's such a vibe). If you end up liking Radio Silence, try checking out Loveless by the same author. Do you have any recommendations of your own? (Oh, and if you haven't read The Diviners, please do. It's an epic ride :) )
@@emilienasrallah1395 ahh same for me! Im 19 but turning 20 in a few months. I LOVE YA contemporary but it's hard to find good YA/ YA that doesn't read too young sometimes. Thank you for the recommendations!! I read to all the boys a few years ago and its one of my faves :) Im planning to reread it sometime soon though. I also bought tweet cute recently! Ill for sure check it out. There are so many classic YA contemporary books I loved that I read a few years back - like perfect chemistry and anna and the french kiss. I read Heartstopper recently (so cute) which you've probably heard of since you've read Alice Oseman's other books. I also love reading Kasie West's books. They're hit or miss for me but they're so much fun to read. I also read Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer which I didn't love but was still really good - I really liked the concept of the book (writing letters haha). I've been struggling to find good YA contemporary but Better than the Movies was SOOO good and also so underrated? I'm also trying to explore more into new adult/adult romance. I didn't really like much of what I read but I did read the love hypothesis and liked it. I hope that helped! Its hard bc most of the books I read I end up not liking 😭
@@TasneemChoudhury362 First of all, happy birthday in advance :)) Second, I'm going to check out Letters to the Lost. I've heard about it on BookTube, but never checked it out. Perfect Chemistry is on my list :)) Ooh! I forgot one of my favs rom-coms ever. It's called Shuffle, Repeat (by Jen Klein ─ I don't know if you watched Grey's Anatomy, but she's one of the writers of the show. I haven't watched it, but anyway. The writing and dialogues are fantastic) and it's sooo good.. Kasie West's books are also hit or miss, but my favs are PS I like you and On the Fence. As for NA books, I'm slowly getting into the genre, but I don't think I'm at the same stage of life as the mc. I did enjoy The Unhoneymooners, tho. Do you have Goodreads?
@@emilienasrallah1395 thank you so much for the birthday wish + the recommendations!! I added them all to my tbr list :) Also PS I like you is my favourite Kasie West book too haha. I read a few NA books (beach read, the love hypothesis, the unhoneymooners) and I didn't like most of them. Its hard because I haven't been liking a lot of the YA contemporary Ive been reading either so I'm just trying to figure out what genre/books to read. It's a struggle! And talking to you has been so much fun. I love talking about books/reading so ty!!
I haven't had a chance to read The Invisible Life of Addie LA Rue yet but I am really looking forward to it!!
I haven't read any of those books. Now I HAVE TO!!!!
You have to watch merlin!! You’d love it!
CHRISTINE WATCH MERLIN!!! You will LOVE it!
You should read Michael Crichton if you like Andy wier his science is so grounded and it feels like the stuff that goes down can actually happen
You're absolutely amazing.
Ugh yes love Malibu rising!
Apartment tour video? 😊💛
What are your thoughts on the Vampire Academy TV show? I’m so excited we’re going to get another chance, and with the Vampire Diaries creator too!
CHRISTINE I MISSED YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS SO MUCH I FELT LIKE I WAS STUCK FOR A LONG TIME NOT KNOWING WHAT TO READ :( OG Booktuber Reviews > BookTok
Have you ever read Nalini Singh? the saga of the guild hunters is very good, I especially liked the last one, the archangel's light.
Postcript: I love your Channel, greetings from Mexico.
VE Schwab is wonderful. I’ll read everything she writes!
Me: *studying for finals*
*Christine Drops Video*
Me: *Tosses textbooks out the window and grabs earbuds*
omg addie is defo my favorite too!!!!
Soo excited!!!
I need your help!!!
I adore Sarah J Maas books but I've finished all of them and need something along the lines of them.. Please only fictionnnnnn
I've read the Darkfever series and really liked it although not quite as much as TOG, ACOTAR & CC
I've also finished The Cruel Prince series & am currently working on the Furyborn series and I like it as well but again not quite as much as Sarah J Maas' offerings
I am only able to do audiobooks because of my crazy hectic lifestyle as a single momma of 2 toddlers!! I work in a warehouse setting so I get ample time to listen to audiobooks though so life is good! I only started reading again about a year ago though and am in desperate need of some new material loll - I can't believe I even went this long without delving into books. It's like a part of myself was missing for so long and I just didn't realize it. I struggled with addiction for over a decade and since getting sober 2 years ago I am finally getting back to who I was before it took over 😊
Hi Christine!!! Omg I’m so early
Me too
cool video, the other Merlin sounds interesting 😊
Have you read The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood? It’s incredible and I think you would love it!!
Malibu rising is great!
I just read the ACOTAR series for the first time (got me back into reading) and just finished ACOSF AND AHHHHH one of my favs I’ve ever read! 100 pages into the invisible life of addie larue , Glad I picked good! Hahaha
I think if you lighten your eyes lighter blue it would help with production lighting ;)
i am genuinely shocked that you didn't have chain of iron on this list omg
I love the shadowhunter chronicles, but I haven't read chain of iron yet and I'm really scared by the fact that it isn't on this list
Omg I never read synopsis too. And if I do read it for what ever reason, I'll wait until I forget lmao
Before I heard people talking about the invisible life of Addie Larue, I read the back and just wasn’t interested, should I try it anyway?? I’ve seen people get tattoos based off of this book so it’s definitely not terrible
Ever read any of Kate Dicamillo’s books?
I am genuinely surprised Chain of Iron is not on this list
Chain of iron was not that good unfortunately :( it was kinda repetitive and in no way as good and perfect as chain of gold
Did you like CoI?
@@claudiafabiani7660 Yeah I enjoyed it but I agree that Chain of Gold is definitely much better. Most of the plot of Chain of Iron could have been avoided if the characters just TALKED to eachother, and while normally this wouldn't bother me, the fact that the entire book was filled with this plot device was quite annoying
@@AwesomeSpyro exactly yeah :(
She’s stated a couple times before that (most of the time) if a series is already on a previous year’s list, she won’t include it every time. I may be wrong but I think she included Chain of Gold last year? So that could be why
HELLO BESTIE EXCITED TO WATCH
i like your creativity babe
I have been thinking about reading A Court of Thrones and Roses for ages now… someone convince me 🥵😂
I like better together its was good
Is this the first year Christine doesn’t have a Cassandra Clare book on her list?? What about chain of iron??
I'm still shocked there is no Chain of Iron on it 😱😱😱 or Rule of Wolves 🙈🙈🙈
Does anyone remember that one year when Christine uploaded her favorite books of the year in September. I was upset
Lol I think I did that the first few years XD
Christine please read From Blood and Ash😭