@@Bagsbooksandcoffee yes I've read it and it's one of my favorite books😊 but my top 1 Colleen Hoover book is Maybe Someday..that book was such an emotional ride, and Ridge is one my favorite book boyfriends of all time - I'd say him and Kaz from Six of Crows. By the way, if you want to read Maybe Someday please don't look at the reviews on Good Reads (there's a big spoiler of the story), just go into it blind - I did that and it was an amazing experience😉
I read 46 books this year! My favorites (in no particular order): -Where the Crawdads Sing -The Folk of the Air series -Revival by Stephen King -A Good Girls Guide to Murder series -The Song of Achilles -Beach Read and People we Meet on Vacation! -Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty -Daisy Jones & The Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo -The Trials of Apollo series
timestamps 0:00-1:30 intro THREE HONORABLE MENTIONS 1:33-2:24 the beautiful ones by silvia moreno-garcia 2:25-3:50 the atlas six by olivie blake 3:51-5:23 marriage of a thousands lies by s.j sindu 5:24-5:31 talking TOP 10 BOOKS THIS YEAR (10) 5:32 pwmov and beach read by emily henry 6:06 beach read 7:08 people we meet on vacation (9) 8:24-10:16 the stationery shop by marjan kamali (8) 10:17-12:59 next year in havana by chanel cleeton (7) 13:00-14:54 an emotion of great delight by tahereh mafi (6) 14:55-17:40 the southern book club’s guide to slaying vampires by grady hendrix (5) 17:41-19:49 mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia (4) 19:50-22:01 the song of achilles by madeline miller (3) 22:02-24:23 the bronzed beasts by roshani chokshi (2) 24:24-26:08 yolk by mary h. k. choi (1) 26:09-28:14 you cant be serious by kal pen 28:15-29:27 outro
My top ten absolute favourites of 2021 in no particular order are: • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. • Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo. • All of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry. • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. • Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare. • Macbeth by William Shakespeare. • Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. • The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller. • Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. Honourable mentions : • The Seven Husband's of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. • A Man called Ove by Fredrick Brackman.
Hey, I started reading the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo, but I can’t continue reading it for some reason, is it a good book tho?PLS GIMME SOME TIPS 😭😭😭
@@myob.1 hi !! i will say i took a break in between reading that book. I'd say leave it for now and when u come back later to continue it'll be easier to go through with...i had the same experience with books like the invisible life of Addie LaRue and Circe, so don't force yourself to read & it's totally fine if u don't enjoy it like other people did or do :)
My top 7 books of 2021: The song of Achilles The 7 husbands of Evelyn Hugo Crooked Kingdom The Inheritance Games Caraval The love hypothesis The wrath & the dawn
I read 128 books in 2021! My top 10 are: 1) Hate by Tate James 2) A Different Blue by Amy Harmon 3) The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi 4) All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven 5) The Brown Sisters trilogy 6) Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi 7) Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean 8) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 9) Red, White, and Royal Blue bt Casey McQuiston 10) A Taste for Love by Jennifer Yen
My top five are: 1. Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom duology 2. The Secret History by Donna Tart 3. Emma by Jane Austen 4. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 5. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
@yardayn it’s about a woman who grows up isolated on a marsh, its a bit genre bending which is cool! It’s like a historical fiction/romance/murder mystery all in one ☺️ they are making a movie about it that I think is coming out in 2022
My top ten books of the year are: (in no particular order) 1: Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan 2: The Falling in Love Montage by Ciera Smyth 3: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 4: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins 5: Princess Academy by Shannon Hale 6: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 7: Tweet Cute by Emma Lord 8: Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch 9: You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson 10: Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins P.S. I love your videos so much. Keep up the great work! 💖
My top reads of the year (in no order) Without You- Anthony Rapp Quintessence- Jess Redman The Inertance Game/The Hawthorne Legacy- Jennifer Lynn Barnes The Gilded Ones- Namnia Forna Escape from Auroa/ Rise of the World Eater- Jamie Littler Malibu Rising- Taylor Jenkins Reid A Pho Love Story- Loan Lee The Last Magician/ The Devil's Thief- Lisa Maxwell Lady Sunshine-Amy Mason Doan Six Crimson Cranes- Elizabeth Lim A Kind of Spar- Elle McNioll Fearless- Mandy Gonzalez
My top three this year (in no specific order): -the handmaids tale (terrifying but so so thought provoking and important) -the poppy war (the historical and cultural references were AMAZING. Such an amazing fantasy; the plot, characters and writing was TOP NOTCH.) -the dragon republic (the ending omfg. And the plot twists?!?! Iykyk ;) )
I read 62 books in 2021 and my top 5 were 1. Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall 2. For Real - Alexis Hall 3. Scythe - Neil Shusterman 4. The Prince and the dressmaker - Jen Wang 5. Conventionally Yours - Annabeth Albert
Aaaaaaa I live for these videos! Some of my best reads have always been your recommendations at the end of the year! Hope you make great reading memories next year, Jananie
My top 3 books of the year: 1. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 2. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 3. Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman
The Southern Book Club was one of my favorites. Some parts were hard to read/ listen to for personal reasons but I loved it never the less. I also loved Act Your Age, Eve Brown and Satifaction Guaranteed were a couple of my faves as well.
my top 5 are 1. call it what you want by brigid kemmerer 2. the fault in our stars by john green 3. the way i used to be by amber smith 4. how hard can love be? by holly bourne 5. the manifesto on how to be interesting by holly bourne
Captivating picks w/ great excitement from you that makes one wanna go shopping for em which I really appreciate since I make some book trailers on my channel so I'm always looking for various stories to get inspired by which these look like they will, especially that horror even though I'm not usually a horror person either. Many thanks!
My 2021 faves- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The truly devious trilogy The city of glass & City of Heavenly fire Eliza and her monsters Fangirl
Homegoing was soooooo good!!! Read it for a book club a couple of years back. Didn't enjoy Transcendent Kingdom quite as much though. Have you read it?
Love Hypothesis almost made my top 10. Children of Blood and Bone made my least favorites. I was so annoyed by Inan. And Zelle annoyed me with how she felt about Inan. And when a character said “you guys” and used slang that just didn’t fit in with the book, it was jarring. And I was so frustrated because I so wanted to like it! The premise was so good!
I just bought the song of achilles and the beautiful ones 🥰. My top 5 this year are nonfiction books, some had very hard topics: know my name, I Rigoberta Mentchu, the soul of a butterfly, the undocumented American, atomic habits.
Here's my top ten best books in 2021 1. Crescent city 2. In the ravenous dark by a.m Strickland 3. Best served cold by Joe Abercrombie 4. Wizard and glass by Stephen king book 4 in the dark tower series 5. From blood and ash by Jennifer l armentrout 6. The wastelands by Stephen king book 3 in the dark tower series 7. A little hatred 8. Supernatural cold fire 9. The rules of arrangement by anisha bhatia great but underrated book 10. Legendborn Honorable mentions The crown of gilded bones Wisdom of crowds Cinderella is dead Lore Tokyo ever after
Since you love historical fiction, I would recommend “The Tea Girl of hummingbird Lane” by Lisa See and “The German Girl” by Armando Lucas Correa. I read those two in 2020. I loved them so much.
Just found your channel and loving it!!! I’m also South Indian so it’s great to see some representation! I definitely want to read The Stationary Shop now. Based on your review, I think you might enjoy “The Far Field” by Madhuri Vijay!
I read Perfume by Patrick Suskind earlier this year and it has to be one of my favorites that I've ever read! The writing is so beautiful even through disturbing and sometimes gruesome parts ,, definitely not for everybody but its just so good !! disturbing magical realism set in the 18th century and just.. mwah
My favorite books of 2021 are: 10: The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling. 9: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas. 8: Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon. 7: Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco. 6: Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco. 5: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Mass. 4: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. 3: My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. 2: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune. 1: House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland.
It is easy to pick a favourite book for me because I had a very meh year in terms of reading. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a horror novella told through emails following these two women who in a sense is giving each other dares and things escalate. It is amazing. Mexican Gothic though was one of the reads that stood out and I absolutely loved that book. I also read hers Gods of Jade and Shadow and I would honestly recommend that because that was amazing too. If you are interested in death gods and lavish descriptions all whilst set in the 1920s, pick up that book.
An awesome list, and now I want to read all of these! The Song of Achilles also made my top list of this year- I loved it! And so did Circe- fantastic! I just started the Gilded Wolves series and The Gilded Wolves is on my list too! I loved it soooo much! I'm reading The Silvered Serpents now and then will read The Bronzed Beasts because I want to marathon it before I go back to college but I'm loving every second.
I love beach reads but my 10 ten fav books last year would probably be (no particular order) 1. Henna artist 2. Yolk 3. One last stop 4. An ember in the ashes 5. Unfinished 6. The secret keeper of Jaipur 7. As good as dead 8. The box in the woods 9. Tokyo every after 10. Last night at the telegraph club My honorable ones is: Serpent & dove
@@giovanapc1 yess! some of my favorite other reads: - the song of achilles - the stationery shop - true biz - the vanishing half - when breath becomes air honorable mentions: - the night circus - the house in the cerulean sea would love to hear any of ur recs too :) i also talked about a lot of these in my june/july wrap up on my channel haha!
My favorites are (in no particular order): Freaking Romance (WEBTOON) Defy The Stars Crown of Midnight The Cruel Prince Night Star The Tiger at Midnight 100 Days of Sunlight House of Hollow The Fates Divide Graceling Daughter of Smoke & Bone My Dark Vanessa Land of the Lustrous series (Manga) El Finalito: Un cuento para niños grande Six Crimson Cranes
Some of my favorite books of the year (in no particular order): Fiction - The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden - The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemison - Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr - Deacon King Kong by James McBride - The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare - The Poppy War Trilogy by RF Kuang Nonfiction - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe - The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee - Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures - The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
I was waiting for your top 10 list! just knew Yolk and Silvia Moreno Garcia would be on this list. Thank you for another year of great videos and book recommendations ❤️
My top 5 books of 2021 were Black Water Sister by Zen Cho Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
I think I read 48 books this year, but don't hold me to that because that might not be the exact number! :) My top #5 are: "Chain of Iron" by Cassandra Clare "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" + "Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World" by Benjamin Alire Sáenz "Six of Crows" + "Crooked Kingdom" by Leigh Bardugo I just bought "Gilded Wolves" and will probably start that soon...I'm super excited to read it!
I read like 50 books last year and i totally adored: If we were villians by m.l Rio, Aristoteles and Dante Discovers the secrets of the universe by benjamin saenz and maybe someday by Holleen Coover
I read 40 books this year my top five - 1. The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo 2. The Raven Boys 3. Punk 57 4. A good girls guide to murder series 5. The song achilles
my top 10 (in no order bc i can’t decide) 1. the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid 2. it ends with us by colleen hoover 3. love and other words by christina lauren 4. ugly love by colleen hoover 5. it happened one summer by tessa bailey 6. verity by colleen hoover (yes another colleen) 7. the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood 8. aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire saenz 9. the song of achilles by madeleine miller 10. birthday girl by penelope douglas (i’m sorry i just couldn’t put this book down)
Really interested in Next Year in Havana, as someone who’s half Cuban and who’s grandfather/great grandfather was involved heavily in the Cuban revolution. My grandfather was put in prison for a while and my great grandfather was a coyote who helped ppl escape Cuba and he was killed and his body was never found. I’ve always wanted to read a book about Cuba and the experience of ppl’s lives during the revolution.
Sweet list. I am currently reading STEVEN PINKER. ( Enlightenment Now; The case for Reason, Science, Humanism and progress.) A bit on the opposite side of your spectrum. Enjoy the journey through the mysterious world.
First, I love you… your passion makes me want to live in a library… second, I’m guessing you live in Ottawa.. if so, where do you recommend to buy used books?
By best reads were the Poppy war trilogy (specifically The Dragon Republic which completely destroyed me✌🏻), The Way of Kings (yes, I am very late to the party but WOW I LOVED IT) and then I would say the entirety of the Naruto manga (yes, I am very late with this read as well, but now it is probably my favourite thing ever)
@@emilyreads5207 I honestly don’t even know if I have read everything I should have before starting The Stormlight Archive ahah I read Mistborn, bothe eras, and then I jumped into Stormlight because everyone is always talking about it and I wanted to finally be able to participate 🤣
My top 10: The Spanish Love Deception The Love Hypothesis It Ends With Us Edenbrook Archer’s Voice The Wall Of Winnipeg All Rhodes Lead Here Punk 57 The Brown Sisters Trilogy The Hating Game
So many people have told me about how much they liked Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi, and I feel so torn about whether or not I should read it! If you've read her other novels, did you like Yolk more? I really wanted to like Emergency Contact and Permanent Record but both of them kind of missed the mark for me, and I'm hesitant to try out Yolk because I don't want to be disappointed again.
I definitely think Yolk was much better than her other books because the focus was on the main character and her relationship with her sister rather than any kind of romance! I felt the exact same going into Yolk because I didn't love the other two but I do think Yolk is worth it!
2021 has definitely been a year >.> I love gay romances, so Song of Achilles is on my early 2022 TBR. I have read the Iliad and the Odyssey, so I know the story. I peeked at the last page, and even though it is sad, the last paragraph is also hopeful (not to mention there is that scene in the Odyssey, brief though it is).
Can you drop a list of some of your favorite gay romance books because I don’t often enjoy reading romance when I don’t really relate/feel represented but I can never find good recs
@@nicomars7836 any of Ariana Nash's works. Captive Prince trilogy by CS Pacat, and Whyborne & Griffin by Jordan L Hawk are some of my favorites. They are sexually explicit, and can get pretty intense (Nash likes to put her characters through the wringer), but I loved them.
The Song of Achilles hurt me so much that I couldn’t even watch your vlog on it to protect my fragile heart that this book broke My top 3 this year is: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Legend and honestly…Verity! Thank you for providing so much entertainment this year, your videos always brought a smile to my face ❤️
Is it just me or there are some issues with the video? Like, it's on more than 1x speed by default? It's quite hard to follow. I tried slowing it down manually but then it sounds weird. Just wondering why it's so fast.
How about reading a book because it's just good.? Of course going by your list we don't read the same type of books. For plot twists you really can't beat Lisa Scottoline or Barbra Taylor Sissel's Safe Keeping.
I read 52 books this year!
My top 5:
- It ends with us
- The invisible life of Addie LaRue
- The Atlas Six
- The Song of Achilles
- Honey Girl
Song of Achilles was the first book to ever make me cry🥲
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover was one of my favorite books this year!
I love Addie larue
I LOVED addie larue so much 🤧 and also it ends with us 🤧💞
i also read 52 and my favourite was it ends with us!
"I often look for books to destroy me" LOL MEEEE🤣😭
Then im sure you already read it but ugly love by colleen hoover
@@Bagsbooksandcoffee yes I've read it and it's one of my favorite books😊 but my top 1 Colleen Hoover book is Maybe Someday..that book was such an emotional ride, and Ridge is one my favorite book boyfriends of all time - I'd say him and Kaz from Six of Crows. By the way, if you want to read Maybe Someday please don't look at the reviews on Good Reads (there's a big spoiler of the story), just go into it blind - I did that and it was an amazing experience😉
@@marimm2400 thank you for the warning! Ill go into it blind :)
This is the best 😂😂😅
I read 46 books this year! My favorites (in no particular order):
-Where the Crawdads Sing
-The Folk of the Air series
-Revival by Stephen King
-A Good Girls Guide to Murder series
-The Song of Achilles
-Beach Read and People we Meet on Vacation!
-Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
-Daisy Jones & The Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
-The Trials of Apollo series
YESSS i love the agggtm series
I love a good girls guide to murder series & Evelyn Hugo & beach reads
timestamps
0:00-1:30 intro
THREE HONORABLE MENTIONS
1:33-2:24
the beautiful ones by silvia moreno-garcia
2:25-3:50
the atlas six by olivie blake
3:51-5:23
marriage of a thousands lies by s.j sindu
5:24-5:31 talking
TOP 10 BOOKS THIS YEAR
(10) 5:32
pwmov and beach read by emily henry
6:06
beach read
7:08
people we meet on vacation
(9) 8:24-10:16
the stationery shop by marjan kamali
(8) 10:17-12:59
next year in havana by chanel cleeton
(7) 13:00-14:54
an emotion of great delight by tahereh mafi
(6) 14:55-17:40
the southern book club’s guide to slaying vampires by grady hendrix
(5) 17:41-19:49
mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia
(4) 19:50-22:01
the song of achilles by madeline miller
(3) 22:02-24:23
the bronzed beasts by roshani chokshi
(2) 24:24-26:08
yolk by mary h. k. choi
(1) 26:09-28:14
you cant be serious by kal pen
28:15-29:27 outro
tysm!!❤
My top ten absolute favourites of 2021 in no particular order are:
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
• Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo.
• All of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry.
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
• Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare.
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
• The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller.
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein.
Honourable mentions :
• The Seven Husband's of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
• A Man called Ove by Fredrick Brackman.
Hey, I started reading the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo, but I can’t continue reading it for some reason, is it a good book tho?PLS GIMME SOME TIPS 😭😭😭
@@myob.1 hi !!
i will say i took a break in between reading that book. I'd say leave it for now and when u come back later to continue it'll be easier to go through with...i had the same experience with books like the invisible life of Addie LaRue and Circe, so don't force yourself to read & it's totally fine if u don't enjoy it like other people did or do :)
@@kanej1567 TYSM 🤩❤️❤️🔥
your taste in books seems to be a lot like mine!! looking to check out some you mentioned :) thanks for the recs haha
My top 7 books of 2021:
The song of Achilles
The 7 husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Crooked Kingdom
The Inheritance Games
Caraval
The love hypothesis
The wrath & the dawn
I read 128 books in 2021!
My top 10 are:
1) Hate by Tate James
2) A Different Blue by Amy Harmon
3) The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
4) All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
5) The Brown Sisters trilogy
6) Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
7) Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
8) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
9) Red, White, and Royal Blue bt Casey McQuiston
10) A Taste for Love by Jennifer Yen
Wow, 128! That's amazing!
How many books you've read?
Wow: 128 books.
My top five are:
1. Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom duology
2. The Secret History by Donna Tart
3. Emma by Jane Austen
4. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
5. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
@yardayn it’s about a woman who grows up isolated on a marsh, its a bit genre bending which is cool! It’s like a historical fiction/romance/murder mystery all in one ☺️ they are making a movie about it that I think is coming out in 2022
number 1 and 2 are also my favorite books 😁
REBECCA OMG i loved rebecca it’s so twisted
My top 3 for 2021:
1. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
2. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
3. One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
My top ten books of the year are: (in no particular order)
1: Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan
2: The Falling in Love Montage by Ciera Smyth
3: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
4: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
5: Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
6: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
7: Tweet Cute by Emma Lord
8: Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch
9: You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson
10: Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins
P.S. I love your videos so much. Keep up the great work! 💖
My top reads of the year (in no order)
Without You- Anthony Rapp
Quintessence- Jess Redman
The Inertance Game/The Hawthorne Legacy- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Gilded Ones- Namnia Forna
Escape from Auroa/ Rise of the World Eater- Jamie Littler
Malibu Rising- Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Pho Love Story- Loan Lee
The Last Magician/ The Devil's Thief- Lisa Maxwell
Lady Sunshine-Amy Mason Doan
Six Crimson Cranes- Elizabeth Lim
A Kind of Spar- Elle McNioll
Fearless- Mandy Gonzalez
My top three this year (in no specific order):
-the handmaids tale (terrifying but so so thought provoking and important)
-the poppy war (the historical and cultural references were AMAZING. Such an amazing fantasy; the plot, characters and writing was TOP NOTCH.)
-the dragon republic (the ending omfg. And the plot twists?!?! Iykyk ;) )
THE POPPY WAR SERIES IS SO GOOD.
@@emilyb4812 YESSSS OMG IM SO EXCITED TO READ THE BURNING GOD
BROOO I LOVE YOUR TASTE OMG
@@khyatitidke3929 You have no idea how much you’ve boosted my ego HAHAHA THANK YOU!!!!
@@whatever.1765 ayy no worries 😎💅🏻 it's just the truth 😌
Bestie I coudnt even listen to what books you were talking about because i was just watching you YOU ARE SOO PRETTY WTF 😩💘
I read 62 books in 2021 and my top 5 were
1. Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall
2. For Real - Alexis Hall
3. Scythe - Neil Shusterman
4. The Prince and the dressmaker - Jen Wang
5. Conventionally Yours - Annabeth Albert
Aaaaaaa I live for these videos! Some of my best reads have always been your recommendations at the end of the year!
Hope you make great reading memories next year, Jananie
Aw thank you ❤️❤️ I hope you have a wonderful reading year next year 💗
@@thisstoryaintover aaww thank you
I really loved the Heartstopper series and Dial A for Aunties!
Your taste is on point, Jananie, like always! 💞 have a great new year!
Oo I need to read both of those!! Have a happy new year as well!! 💗💗
I haven't finished ranking my favorites yet, but three of them are Black Sun, Spin the Dawn, and The Reading List. Have a happy new year!
Really enjoyed Black Sun and looking forward to the next book in the series!!!
spin the dawn is so gooood!!
My top 3 books of the year:
1. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
2. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
3. Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman
The Southern Book Club was one of my favorites. Some parts were hard to read/ listen to for personal reasons but I loved it never the less. I also loved Act Your Age, Eve Brown and Satifaction Guaranteed were a couple of my faves as well.
my top 5 are
1. call it what you want by brigid kemmerer
2. the fault in our stars by john green
3. the way i used to be by amber smith
4. how hard can love be? by holly bourne
5. the manifesto on how to be interesting by holly bourne
Captivating picks w/ great excitement from you that makes one wanna go shopping for em which I really appreciate since I make some book trailers on my channel so I'm always looking for various stories to get inspired by which these look like they will, especially that horror even though I'm not usually a horror person either. Many thanks!
The Stationery Shop is one of my 2021 favourites too!
My top 3:
1. The Atlas Six
2.A Good Girls Guide to Murder
3. Long Way Down
My 2021 faves-
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
The truly devious trilogy
The city of glass & City of Heavenly fire
Eliza and her monsters
Fangirl
Top 5
1. Homegoing!! (My new favorite of all time)
2. Born a Crime
3. Nightingale
4. Will
5. House on the Cerulean Sea
Homegoing was soooooo good!!! Read it for a book club a couple of years back. Didn't enjoy Transcendent Kingdom quite as much though. Have you read it?
My top 3 of the year :
1. The Love Hypothesis
2. Children of blood and blood
3. There's Something About Sweetie(thanks to Jananie's recommendation 💓)
Love Hypothesis almost made my top 10. Children of Blood and Bone made my least favorites. I was so annoyed by Inan. And Zelle annoyed me with how she felt about Inan. And when a character said “you guys” and used slang that just didn’t fit in with the book, it was jarring. And I was so frustrated because I so wanted to like it! The premise was so good!
@@emilyreads5207 Definitely get your point of view.
I just bought the song of achilles and the beautiful ones 🥰. My top 5 this year are nonfiction books, some had very hard topics: know my name, I Rigoberta Mentchu, the soul of a butterfly, the undocumented American, atomic habits.
You have me intrigued. Definitely will be picking up a few from your list 😊
I loved both Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacay, but I gotta say...Beach Read tops, for me. I could reread that one forever. UGH. GUS.
Here's my top ten best books in 2021
1. Crescent city
2. In the ravenous dark by a.m Strickland
3. Best served cold by Joe Abercrombie
4. Wizard and glass by Stephen king book 4 in the dark tower series
5. From blood and ash by Jennifer l armentrout
6. The wastelands by Stephen king book 3 in the dark tower series
7. A little hatred
8. Supernatural cold fire
9. The rules of arrangement by anisha bhatia great but underrated book
10. Legendborn
Honorable mentions
The crown of gilded bones
Wisdom of crowds
Cinderella is dead
Lore
Tokyo ever after
I don't keep track of a top ten but here are some of my favorites: Amari and the Night Brothers, Slay, Elatsoe, and The Girl and the Galdurian
Since you love historical fiction, I would recommend “The Tea Girl of hummingbird Lane” by Lisa See and “The German Girl” by Armando Lucas Correa.
I read those two in 2020. I loved them so much.
Excellent and comprehensive review of all these! You're wonderful!
Loved your picks!! Can’t wait to read them. 💙
My tbr pile is 👀 but here I am watching this adding more to the list to buy 🤣
Great! Thanks for the recommendations!
Just clicked on this vid and I have to say your camera quality is astounding 😍
I'd love to see Jananie tier rank all the books she read this year 🦋
Just found your channel and loving it!!! I’m also South Indian so it’s great to see some representation! I definitely want to read The Stationary Shop now. Based on your review, I think you might enjoy “The Far Field” by Madhuri Vijay!
thank you so much for another great year of content!! x
I read Perfume by Patrick Suskind earlier this year and it has to be one of my favorites that I've ever read! The writing is so beautiful even through disturbing and sometimes gruesome parts ,, definitely not for everybody but its just so good !! disturbing magical realism set in the 18th century and just.. mwah
Love your review. It makes me wanna try this book😂
@@soumyaa4230 lolol id say its worth a read!!
@@soumyaa4230 I read perfume in 2021 and I loved it! You won't regret reading it
the southern book club’s guide to slaying vampires is SO good
My favorite books of 2021 are:
10: The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling.
9: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas.
8: Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon.
7: Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco.
6: Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco.
5: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Mass.
4: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.
3: My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.
2: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune.
1: House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland.
It is easy to pick a favourite book for me because I had a very meh year in terms of reading. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a horror novella told through emails following these two women who in a sense is giving each other dares and things escalate. It is amazing. Mexican Gothic though was one of the reads that stood out and I absolutely loved that book. I also read hers Gods of Jade and Shadow and I would honestly recommend that because that was amazing too. If you are interested in death gods and lavish descriptions all whilst set in the 1920s, pick up that book.
I absolutely adore The Gilded Wolves series, cannot wait to finally read The Bronzed Beasts!
An awesome list, and now I want to read all of these! The Song of Achilles also made my top list of this year- I loved it! And so did Circe- fantastic! I just started the Gilded Wolves series and The Gilded Wolves is on my list too! I loved it soooo much! I'm reading The Silvered Serpents now and then will read The Bronzed Beasts because I want to marathon it before I go back to college but I'm loving every second.
I love SMG too! Have you read Signal to Noise? I loved it so much!
I have not! I didn't even know that book existed-THANK YOU for telling me-gonna grab it asap!
I love beach reads but my 10 ten fav books last year would probably be (no particular order)
1. Henna artist
2. Yolk
3. One last stop
4. An ember in the ashes
5. Unfinished
6. The secret keeper of Jaipur
7. As good as dead
8. The box in the woods
9. Tokyo every after
10. Last night at the telegraph club
My honorable ones is:
Serpent & dove
My favourite books last year:
- American Dirt
- Educated
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- Little Fires Everywhere
omg i literally read all of these books last year too and they were some of my favorites!
@@madebyymira Amazing! We must have similar taste in lit! Any recommendations on your side outside of these books?
@@giovanapc1 yess! some of my favorite other reads:
- the song of achilles
- the stationery shop
- true biz
- the vanishing half
- when breath becomes air
honorable mentions:
- the night circus
- the house in the cerulean sea
would love to hear any of ur recs too :)
i also talked about a lot of these in my june/july wrap up on my channel haha!
Thanks a lot for sharing! :)
My favorites are (in no particular order):
Freaking Romance (WEBTOON)
Defy The Stars
Crown of Midnight
The Cruel Prince
Night Star
The Tiger at Midnight
100 Days of Sunlight
House of Hollow
The Fates Divide
Graceling
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
My Dark Vanessa
Land of the Lustrous series (Manga)
El Finalito: Un cuento para niños grande
Six Crimson Cranes
Some of my favorite books of the year (in no particular order):
Fiction
- The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden
- The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemison
- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
- The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
- The Poppy War Trilogy by RF Kuang
Nonfiction
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
- The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures
- The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
I loved the Stationary Shop! It destroyed me in the best way 😭💜
I was waiting for your top 10 list! just knew Yolk and Silvia Moreno Garcia would be on this list. Thank you for another year of great videos and book recommendations ❤️
❤️❤️❤️
My top 5 books of 2021 were
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
I think I read 48 books this year, but don't hold me to that because that might not be the exact number! :)
My top #5 are:
"Chain of Iron" by Cassandra Clare
"Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" + "Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World" by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
"Six of Crows" + "Crooked Kingdom" by Leigh Bardugo
I just bought "Gilded Wolves" and will probably start that soon...I'm super excited to read it!
I read like 50 books last year and i totally adored: If we were villians by m.l Rio, Aristoteles and Dante Discovers the secrets of the universe by benjamin saenz and maybe someday by Holleen Coover
I read 40 books this year
my top five -
1. The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
2. The Raven Boys
3. Punk 57
4. A good girls guide to murder series
5. The song achilles
I ADORED An Emotion of Great Delight!! Such a beautiful and well crafted story ✨
I knew Yolk was coming haha 👀
What a cool sponsorship!! Thank you for the $5 off, I got a book I’ve been wanting for only $3 with your code 😊
Will I enjoy the song of Achilles if I am not familiar with the Greek mythology at all?
My top 4 in no particular order
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Song of Achilles
Pachinko
The Bluest Eye
Atlas Six is high on my list of books to pick up soon!
1:34 the beautiful ones
2:35 the atlas six
3:57 marriage of a thousand lies
your videos make me so excited about reading ❤️
my top 10 (in no order bc i can’t decide)
1. the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid
2. it ends with us by colleen hoover
3. love and other words by christina lauren
4. ugly love by colleen hoover
5. it happened one summer by tessa bailey
6. verity by colleen hoover (yes another colleen)
7. the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood
8. aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire saenz
9. the song of achilles by madeleine miller
10. birthday girl by penelope douglas (i’m sorry i just couldn’t put this book down)
Firekeeper's Daughter was my number 1 book this year
MINE TOO!! Finally someone else haha ✨
Hello! I just came across your channel. I really enjoy your background :D
Really interested in Next Year in Havana, as someone who’s half Cuban and who’s grandfather/great grandfather was involved heavily in the Cuban revolution. My grandfather was put in prison for a while and my great grandfather was a coyote who helped ppl escape Cuba and he was killed and his body was never found. I’ve always wanted to read a book about Cuba and the experience of ppl’s lives during the revolution.
Your choice is very versatile! 😊
Finally! Someone who loves An Emotion of Great Delight, too!
Check out the mindfuck series. Crazy good series that’s underrated!!
Sweet list. I am currently reading STEVEN PINKER. ( Enlightenment Now; The case for Reason, Science, Humanism and progress.) A bit on the opposite side of your spectrum. Enjoy the journey through the mysterious world.
Yolk was an honorable mention for me! I also really enjoyed Mexican Gothic.
my top 3 books I read this year: Gods of Jade and Shadow, Honey Girl, Scythe
I read A Song of Achilles this year just bc of your reaction in your reading vlog!
I was just waiting for song of Achilles 😂
Some of my favorites were
For the wolf
Atlas six
Six crimson cranes
I read Next Year in Havana last year and reread it earlier this year. It's one of my favorite books! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
First, I love you… your passion makes me want to live in a library… second, I’m guessing you live in Ottawa.. if so, where do you recommend to buy used books?
Read zodiac academy by caroline peckham and suzanne valenti
By best reads were the Poppy war trilogy (specifically The Dragon Republic which completely destroyed me✌🏻), The Way of Kings (yes, I am very late to the party but WOW I LOVED IT) and then I would say the entirety of the Naruto manga (yes, I am very late with this read as well, but now it is probably my favourite thing ever)
YAS poppy war series and also Naruto are god tier, some of my favorite books in the world 🙌🏾
Hey, at least you’re at the party! I need to get thru some other Sanderson books before I can start on Stormlight
@@emilyreads5207 I honestly don’t even know if I have read everything I should have before starting The Stormlight Archive ahah I read Mistborn, bothe eras, and then I jumped into Stormlight because everyone is always talking about it and I wanted to finally be able to participate 🤣
Yo i wrote best rap hooks of 2021 and then it auto corrected this to best books of 2021 then I found your channel much love ❤
My top 10:
The Spanish Love Deception
The Love Hypothesis
It Ends With Us
Edenbrook
Archer’s Voice
The Wall Of Winnipeg
All Rhodes Lead Here
Punk 57
The Brown Sisters Trilogy
The Hating Game
I would like to join the book club is it free to join if not how much does it cost
So many people have told me about how much they liked Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi, and I feel so torn about whether or not I should read it! If you've read her other novels, did you like Yolk more? I really wanted to like Emergency Contact and Permanent Record but both of them kind of missed the mark for me, and I'm hesitant to try out Yolk because I don't want to be disappointed again.
I definitely think Yolk was much better than her other books because the focus was on the main character and her relationship with her sister rather than any kind of romance! I felt the exact same going into Yolk because I didn't love the other two but I do think Yolk is worth it!
2021 has definitely been a year >.>
I love gay romances, so Song of Achilles is on my early 2022 TBR. I have read the Iliad and the Odyssey, so I know the story. I peeked at the last page, and even though it is sad, the last paragraph is also hopeful (not to mention there is that scene in the Odyssey, brief though it is).
Can you drop a list of some of your favorite gay romance books because I don’t often enjoy reading romance when I don’t really relate/feel represented but I can never find good recs
@@nicomars7836 any of Ariana Nash's works. Captive Prince trilogy by CS Pacat, and Whyborne & Griffin by Jordan L Hawk are some of my favorites. They are sexually explicit, and can get pretty intense (Nash likes to put her characters through the wringer), but I loved them.
I still have yet to read Yolk. 📖🍳
Where can I find the atlas six in stores or online? I've been looking everywhere ahh
I got my copy from Amazon!
Omg I'm so early.❤️
New to your channel. You're so pretty!
How do you join the book club?
I read 25 books this years:)
My top 3:
The fountain head by Ayn rand
Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
You should try caraval and the woman in the window!
Feel like I’m the only one who didn’t like the southern books guide to slaying vampires rated it one star 😭
The Song of Achilles hurt me so much that I couldn’t even watch your vlog on it to protect my fragile heart that this book broke
My top 3 this year is: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Legend and honestly…Verity!
Thank you for providing so much entertainment this year, your videos always brought a smile to my face ❤️
Is it just me or there are some issues with the video? Like, it's on more than 1x speed by default? It's quite hard to follow. I tried slowing it down manually but then it sounds weird. Just wondering why it's so fast.
The Forgotten Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Anon
amazing
I think I am literally the only person that didn't like People that We Meet on Vacation
Unrelated, but my god you’re gorgeous! Tell me your secrets ma,am 😫 ❤️
How about reading a book because it's just good.? Of course going by your list we don't read the same type of books. For plot twists you really can't beat Lisa Scottoline or Barbra Taylor Sissel's Safe Keeping.