My favorite books of 2019: The Kite Runner, Anne of Green Gables, Long Way Down, The Well of Accession, The Remains of the Day, Jane Eyre, The Return of the Native, A Gentleman in Moscow, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Letter from Birmingham Jail, and Wuthering Heights❤️
I also read Anne of the Island this year and loved it! I have Howard’s End and The Morning Gift on my TBR after watching your previous videos! My personal favourites from this year were Northanger Abbey, Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day and Girl With A Pearl Earring 😊
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day was so close to ending up on my list -- it only just missed out! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it, as well as Northanger Abbey and Anne of the Island! Have you since read any of the other Anne books?
When you started talking about Eva Ibbotson, I hoped you would mention The Morning Gift!! I LOVE that book, but I never hear people talking about it. I also really adored A glove shop in Vienna and other stories by her!
Recently listened to The Age of Innocence per your suggestion and loved it as well! Thanks for sharing! I think my favorite for the year was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
I definitely did not read as much as I would have liked to but a few of my favorites I did read this year are Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, Anne of Green Gables,💗 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope & Night by Elie Wiesel.
Some of my favorite books that I have read this year are The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden, Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin, Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco, and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.
"Howard's End" was my second favourite book I read this past year! I love Forster as his novels are so easy to read, yet are spellbinding! My favourite this year was "Far From the Madding Crowd" but it's so hard to choose between two incredible authors. Also, I read "A Life in Nature" last year, and it remains one of my favourite biographies! I would recommend "Over the Hills and Far Away" if you want another bio of Potter, which takes the form more of an academic essay. I will for sure read more Edith Wharton as I've only read "Ethan Frome" so far.
Thank you so much for the recommendation! I don't have it so I shall have to track a copy down! Next up I think is The House of Mirth, but maybe afterwards!
My accent? I think it's a pretty normal "English" accent. I'm from the West Country but only occasionally do I sound like I am, when I say specific words. I suppose I never really think about it!
@@lucythereader Thanks so much Lucy, so apparently west country is the place with a better accent, in my opinion, anyway you sound amazing when you speak! Greetings from Italy
My favorite book of the year is If we were villans by M.L Rio. I read maurice several years ago and I'm planning to reread it since I don't remember a lot but I remember that I love the end and the movie is good
Loved this video! Would really like a Beatrix Potter video 😃 My favorite book this year was by Hanna Bervoets (a Dutch author). The title is ‘Het rijk der zieken’ wich means: the realm of the sick.
I plan on buddy reading The Age Of Innocence with Carolyn in January and I can't wait! Loved Howard's End as well although my favourite E.M. Forster novel will always be A Room With A View! 😍
I think you and Carolyn will love it! I'm keeping my fingers crossed you both enjoy it! I'd like to re-read A Room with a View soon as I didn't *love* it when I read it the first time; now that I've read more Forster, though, I think I'll be able to appreciate it more. I can see why it's your favourite!
@@lucythereader I'm pretty sure we'll enjoy it! We do have a very similar taste in books ☺ Have you already seen the A Room With A View adaptation with Maggie Smith and Helena Bonham Carter? Love it 😍
'Howards End' is one of my all-time favourite books. I can't remember now where I read it or who said it, but I came across something about the quintessentially English house at the heart of the book representing England itself, and the book being about the struggle over who is going to control the country from then on. Will it continue to be the old propertied families? Or will it be the newly educated classes?
That's so beautiful - and I think one of the reasons I love the book so much! Such a fascinating idea for Forster to explore. Thank you so much for sharing, Christina!
For me the best book of the year is the prodigal tongue by Lynne Murphy. I don't know if British really view American English as the book says but I definitely learn a lot about languages from this book.
This was just so enjoyable to watch ❤️ ever since I saw the latest BBC adaptation of Howard's end, I've really wanted to read it, and I think this has given me the impetus to do so! I read the doll factory this year. I loved it, but found the ending a little rushed, so it was 4* for that one. The bird cottage I bought for a friend as a gift after watching your description when you'd read it earlier in the year. I also bought anne of green gables last year after loving Tilly & the book Wanderers, but haven't re-read it as yet. Great list!! I've filmed mine, just need to edit it and post it. Happy new year and I look forward to watching next year x
That's interesting - I actually loved the ending of The Doll Factory because of how frantic it felt. I thought it added to the effect! I hope your friend likes Bird Cottage! That sounds like the perfect gift. Happy New Year! x
So u r a birdwatcher then? If u r visiting Canada, consider visiting Pt Pelee Nat'l Park in extreme southern Ontario. Lots of kinds of North American wild birds to see there. Different avians than what u r used to, some of 'em anyway. Composer Olivier Messiaen was also heavily into birds. He was inspired to write some of his music by our feathered friends. :-) Then there was Francis of Assisi, who was into talking to birds.... Then 1 day u might visit PEI, home of Anne of GG. Canada eh! (-:
I absolutely love your accent. I have done a lot of screenshots during this video to take notes about the books 😂 As a spanish speaker and also a literature student, I would like to recommend you my favourite spanish classics ever: Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, Fog (niebla) by Unamuno and anything written by Borges (Maybe his non-fiction work like Other Inquisitions is better to start. But nevertheless you can also jump into all his tales/stories first. It is not an easy author.) 🥰 My favourite book this year have been Mandíbula (Mandible) by Mónica Ojeda :) but I think that it is not translated to english yet 😭
Already looking forward to a Video about Beatrix Potter. I read the Biography by Linda Lear a few years ago after visiting Hilltop farm and really enjoyed learning more about her life. Even though I am from Germany and not Britain I grew up with the stories as a friend of mine had all the videos (her dad was british) and we would watch them when we had sleepovers. So I have many fond memories of her stories.
the books in book shops are sure too expensive ,idk why should books be that expensive ,this was the reason that kept me not reading much .Classics though are much cheaper and reasonable .This is the only thing I dont like abt books
My favorite books of the year were -Tete a tete: the lives and loves of Simone de Beauvoir and jean paul Sartre -the bell jar -The stranger by Albert Camus
I finished Lady Audley's Secret today. Definitely one of my favourite novels of the year. I also loved The Luminaries, The Goldfinch and The Song of Achilles.
The only reason I’m momentarily clicking away is to put one of your recommendations on hold on my library app then coming straight back... 😊❤️😂 Back!!! 😂❤️ Also, my favorite books I read for the first time this year: -Pride and Prejudice -The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo -The Bluest Eye -Between the World and Me
lucythereader I wanted to find The Morning Gift but my library app doesn’t have it! 💗 I’m going to see if I can find it at my second hand local bookstore though. 😊 It was the first time I read P&P (I tried reading Sense and Sensibility but didn’t care for it, but LOVED P&P so much)! I’ve loved most of the film adaptations of her books but it was a whole other experience reading it. In my mind, P&P is basically perfection. 😂💗
Lucy, I read Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery this year and it is one of my favorite books. I started reading The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. I will read Howard’s End by EM Forster in 2020. Happy New Year in advance. I subscribed to your TH-cam channel in July 2019. I recently discovered your blog as well. I will soon read your novel, The Paper and Hearts Society. I have been a precocious child and have learned to accept it. I just finished reading The Complete Christmas Stories by Lucy Maud Montgomery. I endeavor to read Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. I love you
Your comments are always so lovely to read, so thank you so much! Have you heard the results from your writing competition yet? Are you enjoying The Age of Innocence? Good luck with your reading in 2020, and happy New Year!
lucythereader Your replies to my comments are so lovely to read. You are welcome. Thank you for your encouragement and support. I have received an email from the competition that the editors, publishers, authors, and judges have started reading the writing pieces. Award recipients will be announced in March. I am really enjoying The Age of Innocence. It will definitely become one of my favorite books. Happy New Year. Good luck with your plans in 2020.
Love your decision on your favourite of the year! E.M. Forster is one of my top 5 favourite writers and Howards End is a masterpiece, so glad to hear you singing its praises! :)
PLEASE HELP! I am looking to buy classics but I am having trouble finding which to buy. id prefer if they all were from the same publisher and pleasing to look at. $25 or under per book and durable. annotated books would be preferred as well, any recommendations? I've spent hours looking and I come across the same few collections
I'm a new subscriber, I was looking for reviews of Villette by Charlotte Bronte and came across your video on the Bronte books. The video didn't have what I was looking for but instead, I loved the way you talk about books and I'm absolutely fond of your accent ! I'm hooked 😍
My favorite books of 2019: The Kite Runner, Anne of Green Gables, Long Way Down, The Well of Accession, The Remains of the Day, Jane Eyre, The Return of the Native, A Gentleman in Moscow, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Letter from Birmingham Jail, and Wuthering Heights❤️
karysa bendele if you like the kite runner you MUST read his (i forget his name whoops) other book a thousand splendid suns, it’s mesmerising
@@yourmom-bp1np the author is Khaled Hoseini. I read the book, i highly recommend
I also read Anne of the Island this year and loved it!
I have Howard’s End and The Morning Gift on my TBR after watching your previous videos!
My personal favourites from this year were Northanger Abbey, Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day and Girl With A Pearl Earring 😊
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day was so close to ending up on my list -- it only just missed out! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it, as well as Northanger Abbey and Anne of the Island!
Have you since read any of the other Anne books?
lucythereader I read Anne of Avonlea this year as well but definitely preferred Anne of the Island! Happy new year!
Really pleased to see The Doll Factory featured in your favourites. I loved this book too and found Silas to be an amazing villain.
When you started talking about Eva Ibbotson, I hoped you would mention The Morning Gift!! I LOVE that book, but I never hear people talking about it. I also really adored A glove shop in Vienna and other stories by her!
Recently listened to The Age of Innocence per your suggestion and loved it as well! Thanks for sharing! I think my favorite for the year was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
I definitely did not read as much as I would have liked to but a few of my favorites I did read this year are Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, Anne of Green Gables,💗
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope & Night by Elie Wiesel.
Agnes Grey! Perfect choice!
I absolutely love Anne of Island too!
Some of my favorite books that I have read this year are The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden, Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin, Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco, and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.
"Howard's End" was my second favourite book I read this past year! I love Forster as his novels are so easy to read, yet are spellbinding! My favourite this year was "Far From the Madding Crowd" but it's so hard to choose between two incredible authors. Also, I read "A Life in Nature" last year, and it remains one of my favourite biographies! I would recommend "Over the Hills and Far Away" if you want another bio of Potter, which takes the form more of an academic essay. I will for sure read more Edith Wharton as I've only read "Ethan Frome" so far.
Good day Lucy! A suggestion about your possibly next Edith Wharton's novel could be "Bunner sisters". I do love it!
Thank you so much for the recommendation! I don't have it so I shall have to track a copy down! Next up I think is The House of Mirth, but maybe afterwards!
@@lucythereader What a beautiful novel The House of Mirth. Thank you for the recommendation of the biography of Beatrix Potter! Happy New year!
so glad to hear you mention bird cottage!! i have an arc of it!! super excited 😊
lovely video as always! I always adore hearing you talk about books 🥰
I did part of my dissertation on Lady Audleys secret. You may also enjoy the novel east Lynne :)
East Lynne is on my list to read next year - I can't wait!
Yours...it is my favourite "British Accent" of the Year, so could you tell me more about it, please? Thanks in advance anyway.
My accent? I think it's a pretty normal "English" accent. I'm from the West Country but only occasionally do I sound like I am, when I say specific words. I suppose I never really think about it!
@@lucythereader Thanks so much Lucy, so apparently west country is the place with a better accent, in my opinion, anyway you sound amazing when you speak! Greetings from Italy
@@lucythereader Can you suggest me for some best books "?? please please.....
My favorite book of 2019 is Siddhartha.
My favorite book of the year is If we were villans by M.L Rio. I read maurice several years ago and I'm planning to reread it since I don't remember a lot but I remember that I love the end and the movie is good
I'm hoping I'll be able to read If We Were Villains in 2020 - it looks so good!
Loved this video! Would really like a Beatrix Potter video 😃 My favorite book this year was by Hanna Bervoets (a Dutch author). The title is ‘Het rijk der zieken’ wich means: the realm of the sick.
I plan on buddy reading The Age Of Innocence with Carolyn in January and I can't wait! Loved Howard's End as well although my favourite E.M. Forster novel will always be A Room With A View! 😍
I think you and Carolyn will love it! I'm keeping my fingers crossed you both enjoy it!
I'd like to re-read A Room with a View soon as I didn't *love* it when I read it the first time; now that I've read more Forster, though, I think I'll be able to appreciate it more. I can see why it's your favourite!
@@lucythereader I'm pretty sure we'll enjoy it! We do have a very similar taste in books ☺
Have you already seen the A Room With A View adaptation with Maggie Smith and Helena Bonham Carter? Love it 😍
'Howards End' is one of my all-time favourite books.
I can't remember now where I read it or who said it, but I came across something about the quintessentially English house at the heart of the book representing England itself, and the book being about the struggle over who is going to control the country from then on. Will it continue to be the old propertied families? Or will it be the newly educated classes?
That's so beautiful - and I think one of the reasons I love the book so much! Such a fascinating idea for Forster to explore. Thank you so much for sharing, Christina!
"The Morning Gift" by Eva Ibbotson...👌I'll read it.
If you like birds, you should read „The meaning of birds”! It’s beautiful story about grief 😌
Amazing - thank you so much for the recommendation!
I was lucky enough to get a NetGalley arc of The Doll Factory, it was an incredibly interesting book and also pretty creepy
Can’t wait for Beatrix potter video love her and her stories draws etc .❤️🙂
That makes me very happy to hear, Grace!
For me the best book of the year is the prodigal tongue by Lynne Murphy. I don't know if British really view American English as the book says but I definitely learn a lot about languages from this book.
This was just so enjoyable to watch ❤️ ever since I saw the latest BBC adaptation of Howard's end, I've really wanted to read it, and I think this has given me the impetus to do so!
I read the doll factory this year. I loved it, but found the ending a little rushed, so it was 4* for that one.
The bird cottage I bought for a friend as a gift after watching your description when you'd read it earlier in the year.
I also bought anne of green gables last year after loving Tilly & the book Wanderers, but haven't re-read it as yet.
Great list!! I've filmed mine, just need to edit it and post it.
Happy new year and I look forward to watching next year x
That's interesting - I actually loved the ending of The Doll Factory because of how frantic it felt. I thought it added to the effect!
I hope your friend likes Bird Cottage! That sounds like the perfect gift.
Happy New Year! x
So u r a birdwatcher then? If u r visiting Canada, consider visiting Pt Pelee Nat'l Park in extreme southern Ontario. Lots of kinds of North American wild birds to see there. Different avians than what u r used to, some of 'em anyway. Composer Olivier Messiaen was also heavily into birds. He was inspired to write some of his music by our feathered friends. :-) Then there was Francis of Assisi, who was into talking to birds....
Then 1 day u might visit PEI, home of Anne of GG. Canada eh! (-:
I absolutely love your accent. I have done a lot of screenshots during this video to take notes about the books 😂 As a spanish speaker and also a literature student, I would like to recommend you my favourite spanish classics ever: Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, Fog (niebla) by Unamuno and anything written by Borges (Maybe his non-fiction work like Other Inquisitions is better to start. But nevertheless you can also jump into all his tales/stories first. It is not an easy author.) 🥰
My favourite book this year have been Mandíbula (Mandible) by Mónica Ojeda :) but I think that it is not translated to english yet 😭
Already looking forward to a Video about Beatrix Potter. I read the Biography by Linda Lear a few years ago after visiting Hilltop farm and really enjoyed learning more about her life. Even though I am from Germany and not Britain I grew up with the stories as a friend of mine had all the videos (her dad was british) and we would watch them when we had sleepovers. So I have many fond memories of her stories.
Okay - you've convinced me to give Howard's End a try :)
I hope you enjoy it, Alison!
If you like Mary Elizabeth Braddon look out for Wyllard’s Weird by her
Thank you so much for the recommendation!
The Gentleman From Moscow and Where The Crawdads Sing. I'll just leave this here....
the age of innocence is one of the only books where the film adaptation is better in my opinion
the books in book shops are sure too expensive ,idk why should books be that expensive ,this was the reason that kept me not reading much .Classics though are much cheaper and reasonable .This is the only thing I dont like abt books
Anyone who say's "Everythink" needs to read a lot more.
My favorite books of the year were
-Tete a tete: the lives and loves of Simone de Beauvoir and jean paul Sartre
-the bell jar
-The stranger by Albert Camus
The Bell Jar! So happy to see that included!
For my favourite book of the year I'll have to go with The Goldfinch
Sol Ferraro just got this for Christmas! Excited to read it!
@@abbiel7566 hope you enjoy it as much as i did!
Sol Ferraro my favorite too!!
I Would love a beatrix potter video
I finished Lady Audley's Secret today. Definitely one of my favourite novels of the year. I also loved The Luminaries, The Goldfinch and The Song of Achilles.
The only reason I’m momentarily clicking away is to put one of your recommendations on hold on my library app then coming straight back... 😊❤️😂
Back!!! 😂❤️ Also, my favorite books I read for the first time this year:
-Pride and Prejudice
-The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
-The Bluest Eye
-Between the World and Me
Haha, I love that! Which one was it?
Oh, Pride and Prejudice!! Was it your first Jane Austen?
lucythereader I wanted to find The Morning Gift but my library app doesn’t have it! 💗 I’m going to see if I can find it at my second hand local bookstore though. 😊
It was the first time I read P&P (I tried reading Sense and Sensibility but didn’t care for it, but LOVED P&P so much)! I’ve loved most of the film adaptations of her books but it was a whole other experience reading it. In my mind, P&P is basically perfection. 😂💗
Lucy, I read Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery this year and it is one of my favorite books. I started reading The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. I will read Howard’s End by EM Forster in 2020. Happy New Year in advance. I subscribed to your TH-cam channel in July 2019. I recently discovered your blog as well. I will soon read your novel, The Paper and Hearts Society. I have been a precocious child and have learned to accept it. I just finished reading The Complete Christmas Stories by Lucy Maud Montgomery. I endeavor to read Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. I love you
Your comments are always so lovely to read, so thank you so much! Have you heard the results from your writing competition yet? Are you enjoying The Age of Innocence?
Good luck with your reading in 2020, and happy New Year!
lucythereader
Your replies to my comments are so lovely to read. You are welcome. Thank you for your encouragement and support. I have received an email from the competition that the editors, publishers, authors, and judges have started reading the writing pieces. Award recipients will be announced in March. I am really enjoying The Age of Innocence. It will definitely become one of my favorite books. Happy New Year. Good luck with your plans in 2020.
Have you ever tried The Tudor Era? That's my Favourite Genre. Maybe it's the plotting and treason and the lives of people in that era.
I'd like to read Bird Cottage, and am currently reading How to Be a Victorian and loving it!
Bird Cottage is fantastic. I hope you enjoy it if you read it! And so very happy to hear you're loving How to Be a Victorian!
Have you read Forster’s A passage to India? Great book.
Not yet, but hopefully I will in 2020!
Love your decision on your favourite of the year! E.M. Forster is one of my top 5 favourite writers and Howards End is a masterpiece, so glad to hear you singing its praises! :)
PLEASE HELP! I am looking to buy classics but I am having trouble finding which to buy. id prefer if they all were from the same publisher and pleasing to look at. $25 or under per book and durable. annotated books would be preferred as well, any recommendations? I've spent hours looking and I come across the same few collections
I'm a new subscriber, I was looking for reviews of Villette by Charlotte Bronte and came across your video on the Bronte books. The video didn't have what I was looking for but instead, I loved the way you talk about books and I'm absolutely fond of your accent ! I'm hooked 😍
Subscribed. Would love to see a vid on your favourite fantasy books sometime 😁😀👍
howards end sounds so interesting! will have to read it in 2020! great video!
I hope you enjoy it if you read it next year!