The City of Girls is the best pairing for Evelyn Hugo!! It’s great and super similar in the way that it is an older woman looking back on her life and telling her story from beginning to end.
i'd say fun has, indeed, been delivered with this video, and i'd love to see a part two! i really loved some of these books, and i'm excited to be adding the recommendations to my (ever-growing) tbr
I can't stress enough how much I love your videos, everytime you upload it makes me so happy! ❤️ You've inspired me to pursue a career in the book world!
i LOVED everything i never told you. i hardly hear anyone talk about it despite celeste ng being pretty well known. i own if we were villains so i feel even more inspired to pick it up!
Hamnet & I Am I Am I Am were soo beautiful! I'd recommend Fresh flowers for water by Valerie Perrin for fans of Hamnet - specifically for great characterisation and exploring the the theme of motherhood and (found) families. And for second Maggie's book - The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, the title of O'Farrell's memoair took inspiration from Plath's great classic and this book is still super relevant for mental health.
Everything I never told you is one of my most favorite books ever !! It hit me so hard i ALWAYS think about that book and go back to it literally every month just to reread my favorite parts and cry again
While I am not familiar with most of the books I thought you did a really great job with the paintings and explaining the connections. This was such a great video.
Please do an updated bookshelf tour/office tour. I love seeing all the art, trinkets, and books as your background but would love to see everything up close!!!! Love you and love the videos!!! ❤️
I just want to say you make me so happy! 🌸All of your videos give me serotonin and when I’m down I just go back and binge your old videos. And every video my TBR grows at a concerning rate.
Some other recommendations for Seven Husbands are City Of Girls (both have women telling their stories in the past) and Wild Women And The Blues (Set In similar writing format with the “interviewer” and celebrity, very similar storylines although Wild Women is set in 1920’s Jazz Dance) I think both are great stories and reminded heavily Of The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo!!
I read Everything I Never Told You because you recommended it. I fell in love with it, it is one of my favorite books now. At the same time I read it my relationship with my sister grew closer which made me like it even more with the amount of sibling dynamic that's in it.
Thank you for this! So helpful! I usually go to Amazon, find a favorite book I've already read, find a 5 star review, go to that person's reviews and hope they have similar taste to mine so I can find more books to read. jeeze...it's exhausting. So this video you've provided is a shortcut for me. Yay you!
If you want to read Dracula but slowly I recommend Dracula Daily going on rn! A little bit of Dracula is emailed to you most days and you read the story like that. It's very simple to look up, sign up, and the backlog is available for you to catch up if you want 🧛🏻♂️
I love these kind of videos, so that’s a yes for part 2. I haven’t read We Were Villains, but another book about a Shakespeare play that is set in a school environment where weird things happen is All’s Well by Mona Awad. It does have the usual Awad fever dream/surrealism feel to the story, but it was so good!
For The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo I would recommend Señorita México by Enrique Serna. I don't know if it has an English translation. It talks about the life of a woman who won Miss Mexico in the 1960s, you get to see behind the curtain of all her problems before entering the competition and after it.
im literally adding every single one of these to my tbr. ive been searching for a book that will make me feel the way the song of achilles does (since its my favorite book) and death of vivek oji is a predicted favorite, i might start it after i finish watching this video. i hope u're well, your pink jacket is stunning :)
Noelle please read City of Girls!!! It is the closest book I ever found to Evelyn Hugo except it takes place in 20th century New York and focuses on theater instead of LA and movie stars
Hi Noelle, This was such great video! I love how this stimulates such interesting recommendations in the comments section. You have a really good knack for summaries… short and sweet! YES PLEASE to a second video!
thank you for your recommendations. can you also do a video or show in one of your vlogs how you style your bangs? i am thinking of getting bangs but unsure how to style them and your hair always looks amazing. do you guys have a recommendation for „the last house on needless street“?
If you never read middle school books, try it, start with One crazy summer. It was so interesting. It's set in 1968, 3 young black girls travel from NY to Oakland California to meet the mother that abandoned them. It also covers their introduction to the black panther movement. It's about family, forgiveness, love, sisterhood and so much more
if you liked "if we were villains" because of the dark academia vibe and friendship dynamic, i highly recommend "the secret history" by donna tartt. it's literally so good, in my opinion a lot better than if we were villains. i gave that one 3/5 stars and the secret history was a 5/5
Love this video! When you brought up Everything I Never Told You, I went through all the emotions that I had reading it. Seriously one of favorites because of you!
Another recommendation that's similar to Song of Achilles from the relationship point of view (no mythology) is The Hearts Invisible Furies. Beautiful and heartbreaking. Love these recommendations!
I’ve heard people say if we were villains is a “the secret history” ripoff, which may be harsh lol but by the synopsis you have for IWWV it sounds very similar! For anyone who’s interested but doesn’t know: the prologue for the secret history starts off with a group of 5 friends, all a part of a class studying Greek classics, murdering their other friend. The rest of the book rewinds, and you find out how they got to that point, and are made to anticipate with the characters whether they will be caught. It’s so so good, but definitley check out TWs!!
I loved The Song of Achilles, The Silence of the Girls and Circe but struggling to get into A Thousand Ships. I get all my books in audible and the narrations were brilliant on the first three. I’ve also read both Dracula and Camilla.
So happy to see you more lately thanks for the videos. I really liked this idea for the videos. I love Frankenstein and Piranesi was already in mi TBR so Im more excited now. I´ll love to see a part 2 💖Also I´ll love to have a recommendation based on "Im thinking of ending things".
I think it’s worth mentioning that Dracula is an epistolary novel composed through letters, diary entries, memos, and the like-so, if length really bothers you, Dracula is actually not just wall to wall text!
I’m reading it with Dracula Daily right now and it makes it so much less intimidating! It’s also so much fun to get an email with a chapter every couple of days :)
Love this video and love hearing you talk about each of these books! Fun as promised! Happy to see some of my favorites on here and get some new ideas. 😊
omg Frankenstein is an all time favorite of mine and I just picked up Piranesi last night! What a great connection you draw between them, I never would've thought about the stories from that perspective. English MA putting in WERK!!!!!
Another great video! Thanks! I loved the Vanishing Half, so you know I’m going to read Memphis. I put it on my TBR when you first reviewed it, but now it’s moving up the list.
If you liked Dracula I would like to recommend 'The Vampyre" by John Polidori as it is the first vampire story and it also sets up a lot of the tropes we now associate with that genre.
Frankenstein and Piranesi is a great pairing!!! I feel like Frankenstein was a little ruined for me just because I had to read it in school and write an essay on it TWICE, but I recognize it’s a great book.
I would really like a part 2, enjoyed this a lot! A recommendation for fans of the Vanishing Half: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters also focuses on identity (internal and external), discrimination and the impact on the people surrounding you. So even though it's a lot less focused on race, it feels like similar themes are the backbone of the story.
I spent my birthday yesterday in Edinburgh and treated myself to some books from Toppings Book Shop (highly recommend if anyone's visiting Edinburgh). I bought Pachinko, Such a Fun Age, Detransition Baby, Love and Other Thought Experiments, and Still Life. Can't wait to read them all over the summer!
For anyone who was a fan of Circe and Song of Achilles, I’m reading Elektra by Jennifer Saint right now and the tone is very similar. It’s the same story from SoA (Trojan War) from different characters but feels more similar to Circe in its themes (although it’s less distanced and long, which was my only hang up with Circe).
Yes Part II please! Another suggestion for fans of The Vanishing Half is Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah. It’s more about looking at a female friendship instead of sisters but compelling in that “ you’Re more like a sister to me” emotional way
Such great and interesting pairings! A dowry of blood would also be a great option to go with Dracula. Its quite short but it packs a punch. Not an obvious pandemic book, but A history of wild places follows the people in a closed off community who believe there is a disease outside of their borders that they do not cross. Thought it was great. Love your jewellery 😊
would also highly recommend the silence of the girls! I was a bit hesitant to start it because I loved achilles in tsoa but it's so good! I'll definitely check out the death of vivek oji :)
For the overall trend of feminist Greek retellings, I need to recommend Lavinina by Ursula K. Le Guin, which I've never heard anyone talk about. The writing is beautiful and I loved being immersed in the day-to-day workings of this ancient world. Of course, because it's Le Guin, the book includes an additional twist on the genre that was so Galaxy Brain it made my head spin 🤯💖
I just picked Lavinia up at a library sale. I, Claudius is on my shelf, too. I watched the PBS version of that years ago and loved it. Any recommendation as to which I should read first?
Could you do an updated favorite romances of all time??? I haven’t read contemporary romance since high school and am dying to get back into it! My main problem is that there are so many new/new-ish books and authors to choose from that it gets overwhelming 😳 I trust your opinion above anyone and would love to see an updated favorites! 🤍
I haven’t read “Station Eleven” yet (it’s definitely on my list) but based on your descriptions of the themes, you would probably like “An Ocean of Minutes” by Thea Lim. It’s one of my favorite books ❤
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson is a good retelling (? parallel?) of Frankenstein. It switches between present day (with a lot of discussion of technology and consciousness and what makes a person) and Mary Shelley in her writing process.
For pandemic related lit I LOVE, Oryx and Crake. Has a Sci fi twist, and I'm not even a Sci fi reader per se but that book is one of my all time favorite books. I haven't read Dracula yet but I read a nonfiction book Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers - super interesting exploration in how horror genre has portrayed women in light of our hormonal bodily functions and puberty growing up as a woman, and how the lack of understanding around these bodily changes inspired monstrous descriptions in books like Dracula and others. I'm not a super passionate or hyped up feminist and yet I still enjoyed this well researched and thoughtfully crafted take/look at how women are portrayed. So fascinating!
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thank you Noelle for blessing us with so many uploads lately! & that pink looks great on you🤩
thank you angel 🥹
Right? I’ve been binging her videos
A romance version of this video would be amazing!!
THIS
The City of Girls is the best pairing for Evelyn Hugo!! It’s great and super similar in the way that it is an older woman looking back on her life and telling her story from beginning to end.
Loved City of Girls!!
i'd say fun has, indeed, been delivered with this video, and i'd love to see a part two! i really loved some of these books, and i'm excited to be adding the recommendations to my (ever-growing) tbr
ily!!
I can't stress enough how much I love your videos, everytime you upload it makes me so happy! ❤️ You've inspired me to pursue a career in the book world!
this is incredible!!! i hope this career is everything you've ever wanted!!
i LOVED everything i never told you. i hardly hear anyone talk about it despite celeste ng being pretty well known. i own if we were villains so i feel even more inspired to pick it up!
It’s one of my favorites too!
Just comfort-watching some Noelle videos since I'm sick and in bed. Missing her content but hope she's doing well!!
My Dad died six months ago, and your videos always make me feel better, so thank you 💕
Hamnet & I Am I Am I Am were soo beautiful! I'd recommend Fresh flowers for water by Valerie Perrin for fans of Hamnet - specifically for great characterisation and exploring the the theme of motherhood and (found) families. And for second Maggie's book - The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, the title of O'Farrell's memoair took inspiration from Plath's great classic and this book is still super relevant for mental health.
Absolutely agree about Fresh Water For Flowers. What a beautiful book! 💐❤️
Everything I never told you is one of my most favorite books ever !! It hit me so hard i ALWAYS think about that book and go back to it literally every month just to reread my favorite parts and cry again
While I am not familiar with most of the books I thought you did a really great job with the paintings and explaining the connections. This was such a great video.
Please do an updated bookshelf tour/office tour. I love seeing all the art, trinkets, and books as your background but would love to see everything up close!!!! Love you and love the videos!!! ❤️
Noelle is the epitome of sunshine on a rainy day 🌞 for me, its impossible not to smile whilst watching her content 💛
I love your recommendations, especially the ones on family dynamics because I love those kinds of books.
I just want to say you make me so happy! 🌸All of your videos give me serotonin and when I’m down I just go back and binge your old videos. And every video my TBR grows at a concerning rate.
Some other recommendations for Seven Husbands are City Of Girls (both have women telling their stories in the past) and Wild Women And The Blues (Set In similar writing format with the “interviewer” and celebrity, very similar storylines although Wild Women is set in 1920’s Jazz Dance)
I think both are great stories and reminded heavily Of The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo!!
YES!!! I wish more people would talk about Carmilla! It’s so underrated! Fantastic read!
Noelle is fabulous, I love to see her videos. Thanks Noelle for all your thought and work that goes into making these videos for us.
I read Everything I Never Told You because you recommended it. I fell in love with it, it is one of my favorite books now. At the same time I read it my relationship with my sister grew closer which made me like it even more with the amount of sibling dynamic that's in it.
Please do a part two! I added so many books to my TBR. And a few were pushed to the top!
Thank you for this! So helpful! I usually go to Amazon, find a favorite book I've already read, find a 5 star review, go to that person's reviews and hope they have similar taste to mine so I can find more books to read. jeeze...it's exhausting. So this video you've provided is a shortcut for me. Yay you!
If you want to read Dracula but slowly I recommend Dracula Daily going on rn! A little bit of Dracula is emailed to you most days and you read the story like that. It's very simple to look up, sign up, and the backlog is available for you to catch up if you want 🧛🏻♂️
I love these kind of videos, so that’s a yes for part 2.
I haven’t read We Were Villains, but another book about a Shakespeare play that is set in a school environment where weird things happen is All’s Well by Mona Awad. It does have the usual Awad fever dream/surrealism feel to the story, but it was so good!
I’ve never read Frankenstein but the way you talked about the monster is making me want to pick it up real bad! Love the video 💖
Once you explained it Frankienstien and Piranesi really do have so many connections in them. I now cant unsee it. Amazing
Oh. Can you please do more like theses. So agree with "Everything I Never told you" such a power book. Love the channel too by the way.
For The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo I would recommend Señorita México by Enrique Serna. I don't know if it has an English translation. It talks about the life of a woman who won Miss Mexico in the 1960s, you get to see behind the curtain of all her problems before entering the competition and after it.
just got your ana luisa earrings and I LOVE THEM SO MUCH
I highly recommend Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi if you loved the vanishing half. Its another amazing generational story.
im literally adding every single one of these to my tbr. ive been searching for a book that will make me feel the way the song of achilles does (since its my favorite book) and death of vivek oji is a predicted favorite, i might start it after i finish watching this video. i hope u're well, your pink jacket is stunning :)
the historian by elizabeth kostova is a really great homage to dracula!! i read it in a high school english class and it was one of my favorites ❤️
Noelle please read City of Girls!!! It is the closest book I ever found to Evelyn Hugo except it takes place in 20th century New York and focuses on theater instead of LA and movie stars
Came to comment the same thing
Loved City of Girls so much!
I love how you gave multiple recommendations based on different aspects of the books! Thanks for the recommendations :)
I would love to see Part II please. I have lots of books you recommended in my TBR and cant wait to binge reading them all.
Yes, part 2 please!!! I need a recc for a book like book lovers, I’m in a romance mood (and yes I’ve read all other emily Henry books)
would love a classic/classic romance version of this! p&p, persuasion, emma etc
Hi Noelle,
This was such great video! I love how this stimulates such interesting recommendations in the comments section. You have a really good knack for summaries… short and sweet!
YES PLEASE to a second video!
I'll definitely be reading Memphis. Vanishing Half is also one of my favorites!
Yes to part 2, please! It was a fun video! You did deliver!
thank you for your recommendations. can you also do a video or show in one of your vlogs how you style your bangs? i am thinking of getting bangs but unsure how to style them and your hair always looks amazing.
do you guys have a recommendation for „the last house on needless street“?
If you never read middle school books, try it, start with One crazy summer. It was so interesting. It's set in 1968, 3 young black girls travel from NY to Oakland California to meet the mother that abandoned them. It also covers their introduction to the black panther movement. It's about family, forgiveness, love, sisterhood and so much more
It sound good does the English is easy?
Station eleven is one of my all time favorite books of all time.
I had to read this for AP Lit in high school and it was such a fun class discussion!
if you liked "if we were villains" because of the dark academia vibe and friendship dynamic, i highly recommend "the secret history" by donna tartt.
it's literally so good, in my opinion a lot better than if we were villains. i gave that one 3/5 stars and the secret history was a 5/5
This was so awesome! I'd love recommendations on Where the Crawdads Sing, it's one of my favorites!
Crawdads movie coming out soon.
Me too! I’m always looking for something similar. I eventually just re-read it because I love it so much 😂
Love this video! When you brought up Everything I Never Told You, I went through all the emotions that I had reading it. Seriously one of favorites because of you!
For Seven Husbands, I would maybe recommend to check City of Girls, similar vibes ✨
Yes to a part two! This was a great video with some relevant yet unexpected titles. Definitely adding some to my tbr. Amazing job!
I actually bought I am I am I am yesterday because you recommended it a few months ago :) can’t wait
I feel so happy when I get the notification that you uploaded a new video❤️🤗thank you for all the content and your wonderful personality 🌷
Another recommendation that's similar to Song of Achilles from the relationship point of view (no mythology) is The Hearts Invisible Furies. Beautiful and heartbreaking. Love these recommendations!
I’ve heard people say if we were villains is a “the secret history” ripoff, which may be harsh lol but by the synopsis you have for IWWV it sounds very similar! For anyone who’s interested but doesn’t know: the prologue for the secret history starts off with a group of 5 friends, all a part of a class studying Greek classics, murdering their other friend. The rest of the book rewinds, and you find out how they got to that point, and are made to anticipate with the characters whether they will be caught. It’s so so good, but definitley check out TWs!!
Yup. I read Secret History first and enjoyed it. I read IWWV a bit later and, meh.
I loved The Song of Achilles, The Silence of the Girls and Circe but struggling to get into A Thousand Ships. I get all my books in audible and the narrations were brilliant on the first three.
I’ve also read both Dracula and Camilla.
The way you describe books sometimes knocks the wind out of me! I was in awe myself when you surprised yourself! 🤍
Another recommendation for Dracula is The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova !!(:
Yes a part 2 video please!! Loved this one.
So happy to see you more lately thanks for the videos. I really liked this idea for the videos. I love Frankenstein and Piranesi was already in mi TBR so Im more excited now. I´ll love to see a part 2 💖Also I´ll love to have a recommendation based on "Im thinking of ending things".
I think it’s worth mentioning that Dracula is an epistolary novel composed through letters, diary entries, memos, and the like-so, if length really bothers you, Dracula is actually not just wall to wall text!
I’m reading it with Dracula Daily right now and it makes it so much less intimidating! It’s also so much fun to get an email with a chapter every couple of days :)
Love this video and love hearing you talk about each of these books! Fun as promised! Happy to see some of my favorites on here and get some new ideas. 😊
omg Frankenstein is an all time favorite of mine and I just picked up Piranesi last night! What a great connection you draw between them, I never would've thought about the stories from that perspective. English MA putting in WERK!!!!!
This was such a fun video. Absolutely love your recommendations. Yes please to a part two! 💙
Another great video! Thanks! I loved the Vanishing Half, so you know I’m going to read Memphis. I put it on my TBR when you first reviewed it, but now it’s moving up the list.
If you liked Dracula I would like to recommend 'The Vampyre" by John Polidori as it is the first vampire story and it also sets up a lot of the tropes we now associate with that genre.
i just finished everything i never told you! i think it pairs well with malibu rising :)
Noelle that color looks glorious on you!!
Love your explanations and descriptions, and glad I found your channel. Great job!
Frankenstein and Piranesi is a great pairing!!! I feel like Frankenstein was a little ruined for me just because I had to read it in school and write an essay on it TWICE, but I recognize it’s a great book.
PART 2!!!!!! with some more classics, please!
Rec for Station Eleven … How High We Go in the Dark. Also loved St. John’s other books… The Glass Hotel, etc
Hoping the wedding prep goes well 😍 you look radiant!
This video was so fun! I'll definitely want a a part 2
if you havent heard of it i would really recommend nella larson’s passing - kind of a predecessor to the vanishing half
I would really like a part 2, enjoyed this a lot!
A recommendation for fans of the Vanishing Half: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters also focuses on identity (internal and external), discrimination and the impact on the people surrounding you. So even though it's a lot less focused on race, it feels like similar themes are the backbone of the story.
you look so vibrant in this video and i love it
just added about ten books to my TBR ❤😂
Added lots of books to my wish list! Would love a part 2 💙
I spent my birthday yesterday in Edinburgh and treated myself to some books from Toppings Book Shop (highly recommend if anyone's visiting Edinburgh). I bought Pachinko, Such a Fun Age, Detransition Baby, Love and Other Thought Experiments, and Still Life. Can't wait to read them all over the summer!
Omg I read Evelyn Hugo with the book club and literally started on the first day of the month and binged it was sooo good😂😍
Dear Noelle, I really don’t know if I should thank you or blame you for making my TBR grow that much in 27 minutes! Anyway, you’re the best! 🤗
For anyone who was a fan of Circe and Song of Achilles, I’m reading Elektra by Jennifer Saint right now and the tone is very similar. It’s the same story from SoA (Trojan War) from different characters but feels more similar to Circe in its themes (although it’s less distanced and long, which was my only hang up with Circe).
If you like Elektra (esp if you like Clytemnestra) you might like Daughters of Sparta. It switches between Clytemnestra's and Helen's points of view.
Yess would love a part 2 in this format!
Yes Part II please! Another suggestion for fans of The Vanishing Half is Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah. It’s more about looking at a female friendship instead of sisters but compelling in that “ you’Re more like a sister to me” emotional way
Such great and interesting pairings! A dowry of blood would also be a great option to go with Dracula. Its quite short but it packs a punch.
Not an obvious pandemic book, but A history of wild places follows the people in a closed off community who believe there is a disease outside of their borders that they do not cross. Thought it was great.
Love your jewellery 😊
I had so much fun! Part 2 please!
would also highly recommend the silence of the girls! I was a bit hesitant to start it because I loved achilles in tsoa but it's so good!
I'll definitely check out the death of vivek oji :)
For Station Eleven, I would recommend both Life As We Knew it by Susan Bet Pfeffer and Wilder Girls by Rory Power
For the overall trend of feminist Greek retellings, I need to recommend Lavinina by Ursula K. Le Guin, which I've never heard anyone talk about. The writing is beautiful and I loved being immersed in the day-to-day workings of this ancient world. Of course, because it's Le Guin, the book includes an additional twist on the genre that was so Galaxy Brain it made my head spin 🤯💖
I just picked Lavinia up at a library sale. I, Claudius is on my shelf, too. I watched the PBS version of that years ago and loved it. Any recommendation as to which I should read first?
@@niles9542 I've never read I, Claudius - as far as reading order, I say follow your heart! :)
I read Frankenstein and liked it for all those reasons and I’ve been thinking of reading Peronese but not sure but now I gotta give it a go
Ok this just convinced me to finally read Frankenstein, and to start wearing bright pink shirt!
loved this video and pink is definitely your colour!!
literally my fav person to exist!! thank you for this! 💗
Could you do an updated favorite romances of all time??? I haven’t read contemporary romance since high school and am dying to get back into it! My main problem is that there are so many new/new-ish books and authors to choose from that it gets overwhelming 😳 I trust your opinion above anyone and would love to see an updated favorites! 🤍
I haven’t read “Station Eleven” yet (it’s definitely on my list) but based on your descriptions of the themes, you would probably like “An Ocean of Minutes” by Thea Lim. It’s one of my favorite books ❤
You don't know how much I needed this 😭 LOVE YOU TO ♾️ for this❤️
for the Dracula one I'd say Dowry of blood
its a reimagination of Dracula from his brides pov
You describe books so well.
Please make video like this more :) I love it!! Every genre u want noelle
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson is a good retelling (? parallel?) of Frankenstein. It switches between present day (with a lot of discussion of technology and consciousness and what makes a person) and Mary Shelley in her writing process.
For pandemic related lit I LOVE, Oryx and Crake. Has a Sci fi twist, and I'm not even a Sci fi reader per se but that book is one of my all time favorite books.
I haven't read Dracula yet but I read a nonfiction book Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers - super interesting exploration in how horror genre has portrayed women in light of our hormonal bodily functions and puberty growing up as a woman, and how the lack of understanding around these bodily changes inspired monstrous descriptions in books like Dracula and others. I'm not a super passionate or hyped up feminist and yet I still enjoyed this well researched and thoughtfully crafted take/look at how women are portrayed. So fascinating!
Another station eleven-esque pandemic book I’d recommend is How High We Go in the Dark!
Heck yes for a part II!