I’m so excited to see you happier and healthier next year, Gav! It’ll be so fun growing with you and the community you’ve built! I still want to go on a trip with you and the rest of us so that’s definitely a future goal! Here’s to a better year for all of us ❤️🫶🏼
I just wanted to thank you again for all of your amazing haunted places vlogs. They helped me so much while I was sick this year, they took my mind off things and were so entertaining!
I'm a bit sad that Gavin didn't look super enthusiastic about neither of the books, but I feel it. My reading year was kind of meh too... hoping for a better 2024 for everyone
My favorites of 2023: 1. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2. Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree 3. The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid 4. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 5. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 6. Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn 7. Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid 8. Hellbent by Leigh Bardugo 9. One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig 10. And then there were none by Slagatha Christie 😁
My favorites of 2023: I didn't get to read a lot this year (15 books) but hoping to change that for next year. 1. Godkiller by Hannah Kaner 2. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna 3. The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun 4. Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston 5. Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller 6. Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher 7. Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood 8. The Thorns Remain by J.J.A. Harwood 9. Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller 10. A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
Hmmmmmm my favorites: Legendborn and Bloodmarked, What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall, the Devil's Night series by Penelope Douglas, Night Shift by Kiare Ladner, Mooncakes, Nomadland by Jessica Bruder, White Horse by Erika T. Wurth and several more! Here's hoping your 2024 reading year is the best yet. xoxo
So pleased to see Junji Ito on your list! I gave a few of these books on my tbr so I will be bumping them up to the top 😊 Godkiller and Morgan is My Name are currently at the top of my list of best books I read this year.
The Whistling by Rebecca Netley was my favourite book of the year. The narrator on the audiobook really made it fantastic for me. Also, the Ghost Woods by CJ Cooke is what I’m reading now and loving it.
Hazel Blye and the Deep Blue Sea was one of my favourites of the year - it's taught me so much about healthy grieving and the magical realism was just perfect. but Mermedusa was a definite close runner up! Oh to live in Eerie on Sea
I'm still compiling my list as I have a feeling my current read Howling Dark will make it on there. I'll be starting the new arc of Red Rising with Iron Gold in 2024. Some cool-sounding books here to add to the TBR. -Cheers Gavin!
Wow surprised you really enjoyed attach on titan vol 1. I read vol 1 and was a bit disappointed because it didn't hold a candle to the anime and the animation of the action scenes. But I know a lot of people adore the manga! I really need to read monday's not coming it is on my shelf as well! Red rising was one of the best things I read in the year that I read it. I finally have my hands on heartstopper vol 5 and cannot wait to read it this month!! Love seeing that out there screaming made your favourites and I need to read my copy ASAP. Same goes for me and Uzumaki! It'll be my first Junji Ito. Everyone loves the lies of locke lamora and I am so curious now 👀
my reading year was kind of meh too. i read books that i liked but i feel like i was less motivated. i was also sick a lot this year. wishing you the best for 2024 and always!
Your cocoa looks so yummy! ☕️ I've heard great things about Attack on Titan. The Acendance of a Bookworm sounds SOOOOO good! 👌 My #1 was Wolfsong by T.J. Klune - LOVE that whole series! 💖📚
Hello! Since you love junji ito, there’s a webtoon/manhwa you should definitely read, it’s called “Tales of the Unusual”. Same vibes, there’s also loose continuity between the short stories, it was a pleasure to read
So happy to see Everyone in my family on the list, I loved it too, it was so much fun! You intrigued me with the lies of loc lamora, I'll have to check it out!
Hi gavin! thank you for the video🫶🏼 feels like a graduation gift, I graduated yesterday and wanted to tell you! I'm a radiologist now🖤 and so happy I can read a lot from now on, I'll be following your recommendations 🩻
Oh my gosh! I’ve read the Ascendance of a bookworm light novels and have been recommending it like crazy because I haven’t seen many people talk about it! Such a good story! So glad you liked it!
Not book related but cute sweater!!! But more related to the video - this is a great list, I read Percy Jackson for the first time at 25 and genuinely loved it, it was so much fun! Ascendance of a bookworm sounds hilarious, definitely checking that one out
Omg I cannot believe you’ve read Ascendance of a Bookworm! It’s one of my favorite fantasy series and the volumes they released this year have been nothing short of emotional damage in the best and worst ways.
I have a top 20 books…top 10 romance and top 10 everything else. I did just recently read The Reformatory by Tananarive Due, which came out this year and was a nominee for Horror in Goodreads Awards. You mentioned her story as one of your favorites in Out There Screaming, so I think you might like this book!
Merry Xmas Gavin. I love your hoodie. My reading year started off strong but has fizzled out. My faves were project hail mary, perfume and Anne of Green Gables
I‘m so so happy you added Percy Jackson onto your list. I read it this year for the first time because of you and I loved it so much. It gave me life. So thank you so much for that 💜💞
My Top 10 :D 1. "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" 2-3. "Six Crimson Cranes" and "The Dragon's Promise" (duology) 4. "Graceling" 5-6. "These Hollow Vows" and "These Twisted Bonds" (duology) 7. "People We Meet on Vacation" 8. "The Stranger in the Lifeboat" 9. "Defy the Night" 10. "The Silent Patient" HM: "Night"
We appreciate you and the videos you make. Pace yourself. & is ok to put yourself first. We will support you. No matter what. Nice video as always. & junji is always a yes. ❤😊
Well now I wanna read Shiver. Ohh yes!! Percy Jackson is so good!! I keep hearing such good things about Out There Screaming, I should really give it a go.
Hey my lovely, I am dreading pulling all my end bits together as I think our years matched. Crap books are easy but the besties of the bunch are difficult xx
So glad to see Red Rising on your list, that series is one of my favorits. You should reed the rest of it as well, Lightbringer was a real highlight of this year. 2023 was a bit of a disappointment for me bookwise (too), but my top ones are: Good Omens, The Scratch Daughters, When the Crow's Away and The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics. There's not enough place to say how I loved them all and how they saved this year. I wish you all happy holidays and I hope 2024 will be a calm and happy year for everyone ☺️☺️🐱📖
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone is my favourite book of the year! Being an Aussie I read it at the beginning of the year and I have been on a one person mission to get everyone to read it lol
This year has definitely revived my love for fantasy novels! Red Rising and Lies of Lamora Locke are both books I've had for a while and haven't gotten to yet.... 🙄😅
The Nightingale is so good. I cried like a baby. I think you will really enjoy it. I’m really looking forward to her new release The Woman - back to a strong female protagonist in a historical war setting.
My manga reading year also SUCKED went through a lot of mental health struggles..but the manga I did read did help me through it when I had the energy to read.
In reading order the House in the Cerulean sea, Howls moving Castle, Legendborn, Legends and Lattes, The Sunbearer Trials, The Holiday Switch, Fake Dates and Mooncakes, Once upon a Broken Heart, The House Witch, The Ballad of Never After.
Here is my top 20 favorite books of 2023 (sorry for long list) 1) The Enchanted Hacenda by JC Cervantes 2) Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan 3) Wild is the Witch by Rachel Griffin 4) Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee 5) Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett 6) The Love Con by Serenia Glass 7) Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 8) The Only One Left by Riley Sager 9) The Box in the Woods/Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson (loved both books from Truly Devious series) 10) Good Girl Bad Blood by Holly Jackson 11) Well Traveled (Well Met series) by Jen DeLuca 12) The Heart of Betrayal (The Remnent Chronicles #2) by Mary E Persons 13) The Forgotten Kingdom (The Lost Queen #2) by Signe Pike 14) The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang 15) The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan 16) The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh 17) The Simple Wild by K.A Tucker 18) Tilly and the Lost Fairytales/ Tilly and the Map of Stories by Anna James 19) Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi
My top 10 reads have been: ❤ Happy Place ❤ A Tempest at Sea ❤ The Last Tale of the Flower Bride ❤ Flawless ❤ Foxglove ❤ Practice Makes Perfect ❤ Twisted ❤ Beach Read ❤ A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality ❤ Anna Karenina
My top five books that I read this year are as follows: 5. The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean 4. Dragonfall by L R Lam 3. Starter Villain by John Scalzi 2. Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman 1. Weyward by Emilia Hart
Top 10? Whew... That's like the amount I read the whole year so best I can do is give my Top 3. 1. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 2. The Girl who fell beaneath the Sea 3. Legendborn
I can't give you a top 10 yet because I may read one soon. But my top 3 are: 1. The Will of the Many by James Islington 2. The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent 3. Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson These are also some of my favorite books of all time.
I really would love to see you read all of Tamora Pierce’s books. The early ones haven’t aged well (second wave feminism of the 80s) but there’s so much that made really positive impacts on me as a little girl
@@nanimaonovi2528 Hard disagree. The Protector of the Small books are my fave series, and even if I cry over some animal deaths I don’t think that means you shouldn’t read YA books that include it
My top 10 books are probably: 1. Moriarty the Patriot by Ryosuke Takeuchi, illustrated by Hikaru Miyoshi 2. The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro 3. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu 4. Babel by R.F. Kuang 5. Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves 6. Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amelie Wen Zhao 7. Threads that Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou 8. Heaven Officials Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu 9. Twisted Wonderland vol 1 10. Malice by Heather Walter
I loved Everyone in my family has killed someone! I haven’t seen the live show yet because I was at a baby shower while it was happening but I’m off to go watch that now that I’ve gotten a reminder :) My top ten this year are probably: Once There Were Wolves Happy Place Howl’s Moving Castle Anne of Green Gables Wundersmith Half a Soul The Dead Romantics The Night Circus In an Absent Dream & either Wrong Place, Wrong Time or Sorrow & Bliss for my 10th place I had some great books this year but hope next year is a better reading year for us both
Hai Gavin! My top 10 are Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang, Dead Silence by S. A. Barnes, Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott, Revenge by Yoko Ogawa, The Bone SHard Daughter by Andrea Stewart, Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Pumpkin Spice by Tagan Shephard and Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo.
My fave books of 2023 📚 Manga Standalone: I want to eat your pancreas Manga Series edition: Spy x Family 10 Fantasy: Lost in the moment and found Mystery: Confessions Gothic: A Dowry of Blood Horror: Crossroads Contemporary: Anxious People 2023 release: Thursday Murder Club: The Last Devil to Die Short stories: Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone Classic: The Yellow Wallpaper Non-fiction: Inferno: A memoir of motherhood and madness
It was in my best of 2022. I pondered adding it again cause I loved the Golden Age arc but then I’d also have to include One Piece and Blood on the Tracks (also in my 2022 best video) and decided I didn’t want to make a repetitive list 😊 but I would love to make a favourite manga so far video at some point
OMG I lovedddd Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone! It was such a fun read! I listened to the audiobook and loved every minute of it! This is one that made me talk out loud to myself about the messy details lol. Gah so good! Definitely in my top 5 fave books this year!
Here's my list 1. Spare by prince harry 2. Reminders of him by colleen hoover 3. Delilah green doesn't care 4. The fiancee farce 5. The mind series by s.t abby 6. What my bones know by Stephenie foo memoir 7. Tell me everything by minka Kelly memoir 8. Someday maybe 9. Any man by amber tamblyn 10. The woman in me by britney spears memoir Honorable mentions Heart bones by colleen hoover Pageboy by elliot page Your a mean one Matthew prince Blood sugar by sacha Rothschild Lucky me by sachi parker memoir Crazy is my superpower by a j mendez memoir
Top 10 books: killing stalking series, counting the cost, perfectly nice neighbors, mad honey, after that night, the hike, it happened one summer, poirts last case, none of this is true, the last one.
I did read Everyone in my family has killed someone by Benjamin Stevenson last month and it's definitely five stars read for me. It even might be on my top 10 books of 2023 😊 There are still couple books I want to read before I decide my top 10 books. Edit: I almost forgot 😅 Benjamin Stevenson released new book and I'm so excited to read that one too.
It wasn’t the best reading year for me either. I don’t even have a full list of 10. In no particular order: 1. Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree 2. Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury 3. The September House by Carissa Orlando 4. A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher 5. Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 6. The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher 7. System Collapse by Martha Wells 8. The Hacienda by Isabel Canas.
Some great recommendations here for me to look into I like the sound of the adult fantasy and Percy Jackson. This year for me has been a rotten one in terms of book picks for some reason but if i had to recommend one it would be The Other Side of Mrs Wood. An atmospheric victorian story about a famous medium striving to stay on top with new talent coming onto the scene. Great video gavin 😊
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I downloaded and read the Night Sun just now and can someone please explain? I didn't get the story at all...
Gavin being honest and vulnerable about reading year >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
We appreciate your effort and hard work. You'll always have our support.
I’m so excited to see you happier and healthier next year, Gav! It’ll be so fun growing with you and the community you’ve built! I still want to go on a trip with you and the rest of us so that’s definitely a future goal! Here’s to a better year for all of us ❤️🫶🏼
gav's mugs of coffee always look divine. I'm so reading the lie of lock lamoura after this
I love seeing the mix of genres in your favourites!!
I just wanted to thank you again for all of your amazing haunted places vlogs. They helped me so much while I was sick this year, they took my mind off things and were so entertaining!
ahh i've been wanting to read ascendance of a bookworm! so glad you loved it. has me even more excited for it!
I’m holding myself back from buying every single volume right here right now and believe me I would if Christmas wasn’t next week haha
I'm a bit sad that Gavin didn't look super enthusiastic about neither of the books, but I feel it. My reading year was kind of meh too... hoping for a better 2024 for everyone
My favorites of 2023:
1. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2. Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree
3. The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
4. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
5. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
6. Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn
7. Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
8. Hellbent by Leigh Bardugo
9. One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
10. And then there were none by Slagatha Christie 😁
My favorites of 2023: I didn't get to read a lot this year (15 books) but hoping to change that for next year.
1. Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
2. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
3. The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
4. Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
5. Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller
6. Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
7. Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
8. The Thorns Remain by J.J.A. Harwood
9. Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller
10. A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
That was my favourite book of last year as well! I can’t wait for the next one, and for the Australian movie/limited series.
Great list , putting several on my TBR list
I'm so excited to see you thriving next year!
Hmmmmmm my favorites: Legendborn and Bloodmarked, What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall, the Devil's Night series by Penelope Douglas, Night Shift by Kiare Ladner, Mooncakes, Nomadland by Jessica Bruder, White Horse by Erika T. Wurth and several more! Here's hoping your 2024 reading year is the best yet. xoxo
Love your hoodie btw
So pleased to see Junji Ito on your list! I gave a few of these books on my tbr so I will be bumping them up to the top 😊 Godkiller and Morgan is My Name are currently at the top of my list of best books I read this year.
The Whistling by Rebecca Netley was my favourite book of the year. The narrator on the audiobook really made it fantastic for me. Also, the Ghost Woods by CJ Cooke is what I’m reading now and loving it.
Hazel Blye and the Deep Blue Sea was one of my favourites of the year - it's taught me so much about healthy grieving and the magical realism was just perfect. but Mermedusa was a definite close runner up! Oh to live in Eerie on Sea
YES! So happy you finally read red rising! The next few are much better!
Thank you for adding to my never ending TBR. I hope the new year brings much peace and joy.
I'm still compiling my list as I have a feeling my current read Howling Dark will make it on there. I'll be starting the new arc of Red Rising with Iron Gold in 2024. Some cool-sounding books here to add to the TBR. -Cheers Gavin!
afternoon plan binging your reading whole series videos. BTW I love your mug xx
Wow surprised you really enjoyed attach on titan vol 1. I read vol 1 and was a bit disappointed because it didn't hold a candle to the anime and the animation of the action scenes. But I know a lot of people adore the manga! I really need to read monday's not coming it is on my shelf as well! Red rising was one of the best things I read in the year that I read it. I finally have my hands on heartstopper vol 5 and cannot wait to read it this month!! Love seeing that out there screaming made your favourites and I need to read my copy ASAP. Same goes for me and Uzumaki! It'll be my first Junji Ito. Everyone loves the lies of locke lamora and I am so curious now 👀
my reading year was kind of meh too. i read books that i liked but i feel like i was less motivated. i was also sick a lot this year. wishing you the best for 2024 and always!
We have the same number one ! Also yes it has such a similar feeling to knives out (which I loved too)
I loved it too! And it's so underrated, I was surprised to see it here, I haven't seen it almost anywhere
Your cocoa looks so yummy! ☕️
I've heard great things about Attack on Titan.
The Acendance of a Bookworm sounds SOOOOO good! 👌
My #1 was Wolfsong by T.J. Klune - LOVE that whole series! 💖📚
Hello! Since you love junji ito, there’s a webtoon/manhwa you should definitely read, it’s called “Tales of the Unusual”. Same vibes, there’s also loose continuity between the short stories, it was a pleasure to read
So happy to see Everyone in my family on the list, I loved it too, it was so much fun!
You intrigued me with the lies of loc lamora, I'll have to check it out!
Oooof, red rising is only going to get so much better, IT’S AN AMAZING SERIES. IVE YET TO READ LIGHTBRINGER IM SO EXCITED
Hi gavin! thank you for the video🫶🏼 feels like a graduation gift, I graduated yesterday and wanted to tell you! I'm a radiologist now🖤 and so happy I can read a lot from now on, I'll be following your recommendations 🩻
The Shepherd King duology was fantastic! Knocked my socks off. Also, Saint Death's Daughter was fabulous and I can't wait for the sequel.
Oh my gosh! I’ve read the Ascendance of a bookworm light novels and have been recommending it like crazy because I haven’t seen many people talk about it! Such a good story! So glad you liked it!
I can’t wait for you to keep reading the Attack on Titan manga series Gavin, I think you will love it 😊
Such a great list!! Looking forward to picking up Percy Jackson myself.
I have not read a single one of these books haha but my fave of the year was the Six of Crows duology.
Not book related but cute sweater!!! But more related to the video - this is a great list, I read Percy Jackson for the first time at 25 and genuinely loved it, it was so much fun! Ascendance of a bookworm sounds hilarious, definitely checking that one out
SOPHIE HAS A NEW BOOK?! 😱 Omg this year has completely got away from me reading wise. I must get my hands on the new Sophie book asap! 😊😂
You adding Percy Jackson to your Top books of the year makes me so happy. I'm glad you enjoyed it!! 💙🌊🔱 Good luck with your reading in 2024!!
Loved "Everyone In My Family has killed" someone as well!❤
Gav, I have almost completely fallen off the BookTube wagon. 2023 has been a LOT. But I miss your face so I'm back. 😊
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone was sooo good, and we had such a fun book talk!! Adding Black Iris to my TBR.
Omg I cannot believe you’ve read Ascendance of a Bookworm! It’s one of my favorite fantasy series and the volumes they released this year have been nothing short of emotional damage in the best and worst ways.
Context: I read the light novels.
I have a top 20 books…top 10 romance and top 10 everything else. I did just recently read The Reformatory by Tananarive Due, which came out this year and was a nominee for Horror in Goodreads Awards. You mentioned her story as one of your favorites in Out There Screaming, so I think you might like this book!
I'm reading book 2 of Locke Lamora and I am loving it!
Merry Xmas Gavin. I love your hoodie. My reading year started off strong but has fizzled out. My faves were project hail mary, perfume and Anne of Green Gables
I‘m so so happy you added Percy Jackson onto your list. I read it this year for the first time because of you and I loved it so much. It gave me life. So thank you so much for that 💜💞
My Top 10 :D
1. "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo"
2-3. "Six Crimson Cranes" and "The Dragon's Promise" (duology)
4. "Graceling"
5-6. "These Hollow Vows" and "These Twisted Bonds" (duology)
7. "People We Meet on Vacation"
8. "The Stranger in the Lifeboat"
9. "Defy the Night"
10. "The Silent Patient"
HM: "Night"
We appreciate you and the videos you make. Pace yourself. & is ok to put yourself first. We will support you. No matter what. Nice video as always.
& junji is always a yes. ❤😊
Seeing Uzumaki in your top 5 made me so happy!! 😍👏 I also really enjoyed Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone! It was a fun time 😊
Well now I wanna read Shiver.
Ohh yes!! Percy Jackson is so good!!
I keep hearing such good things about Out There Screaming, I should really give it a go.
Hey my lovely, I am dreading pulling all my end bits together as I think our years matched. Crap books are easy but the besties of the bunch are difficult xx
2024 will definitely be your year, it’s the year of the dragon and you will come back fighting in every sense of the word xx
I need to know where you got that heart sweatshirt!❤
So glad to see Red Rising on your list, that series is one of my favorits. You should reed the rest of it as well, Lightbringer was a real highlight of this year.
2023 was a bit of a disappointment for me bookwise (too), but my top ones are: Good Omens, The Scratch Daughters, When the Crow's Away and The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics. There's not enough place to say how I loved them all and how they saved this year.
I wish you all happy holidays and I hope 2024 will be a calm and happy year for everyone ☺️☺️🐱📖
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone is my favourite book of the year! Being an Aussie I read it at the beginning of the year and I have been on a one person mission to get everyone to read it lol
This year has definitely revived my love for fantasy novels! Red Rising and Lies of Lamora Locke are both books I've had for a while and haven't gotten to yet.... 🙄😅
The Nightingale is so good. I cried like a baby. I think you will really enjoy it. I’m really looking forward to her new release The Woman - back to a strong female protagonist in a historical war setting.
My manga reading year also SUCKED went through a lot of mental health struggles..but the manga I did read did help me through it when I had the energy to read.
In reading order the House in the Cerulean sea, Howls moving Castle, Legendborn, Legends and Lattes, The Sunbearer Trials, The Holiday Switch, Fake Dates and Mooncakes, Once upon a Broken Heart, The House Witch, The Ballad of Never After.
Merphy Napier has been trying to convince everyone to read Lies of Lock Lamora for YEARS! and I think you just convinced me to pick it up! 😂
Hahahha i would recommend reading this in the dungeon next to an oubliette! 😂
Here is my top 20 favorite books of 2023 (sorry for long list)
1) The Enchanted Hacenda by JC Cervantes
2) Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
3) Wild is the Witch by Rachel Griffin
4) Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee
5) Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
6) The Love Con by Serenia Glass
7) Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
8) The Only One Left by Riley Sager
9) The Box in the Woods/Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson (loved both books from Truly Devious series)
10) Good Girl Bad Blood by Holly Jackson
11) Well Traveled (Well Met series) by Jen DeLuca
12) The Heart of Betrayal (The Remnent Chronicles #2) by Mary E Persons
13) The Forgotten Kingdom (The Lost Queen #2) by Signe Pike
14) The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
15) The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan
16) The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
17) The Simple Wild by K.A Tucker
18) Tilly and the Lost Fairytales/ Tilly and the Map of Stories by Anna James
19) Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi
My top 10 reads have been:
❤ Happy Place
❤ A Tempest at Sea
❤ The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
❤ Flawless
❤ Foxglove
❤ Practice Makes Perfect
❤ Twisted
❤ Beach Read
❤ A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality
❤ Anna Karenina
My top five books that I read this year are as follows:
5. The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
4. Dragonfall by L R Lam
3. Starter Villain by John Scalzi
2. Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
1. Weyward by Emilia Hart
Top 10? Whew... That's like the amount I read the whole year so best I can do is give my Top 3.
1. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation
2. The Girl who fell beaneath the Sea
3. Legendborn
Oh Gavin just wait until the end of Golden Son!
I need to give Red Rising and Black Iris a try
I read Lies of Locke Lamora last year. You're making me want to reread it 😅😅
I can't give you a top 10 yet because I may read one soon. But my top 3 are:
1. The Will of the Many by James Islington
2. The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
3. Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
These are also some of my favorite books of all time.
Oh my, I DNF Locke many moons ago, should I try again? Nahhh there’s plenty in my TBR list as it is
I really would love to see you read all of Tamora Pierce’s books. The early ones haven’t aged well (second wave feminism of the 80s) but there’s so much that made really positive impacts on me as a little girl
I’ve already read all of the Song of the Lioness series, does she have other books I could check out?
Maybe skip Page for harm to kittens/babies and read The Immortals, Trickster Duology or Circle of Magic.
I second the Trickster's books. So good
@@nanimaonovi2528 Hard disagree. The Protector of the Small books are my fave series, and even if I cry over some animal deaths I don’t think that means you shouldn’t read YA books that include it
@@yoogrldude Remember the Junji Ito vlog? I am protecting Gavin's soft heart! Everyone else go read all the Tamora Pierce.
My top 5 are:
1. Babel
2. Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
3. Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow
4. Earthlings
5. Heartstopper 5❤
My top 10 books are probably:
1. Moriarty the Patriot by Ryosuke Takeuchi, illustrated by Hikaru Miyoshi
2. The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro
3. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
4. Babel by R.F. Kuang
5. Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves
6. Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amelie Wen Zhao
7. Threads that Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou
8. Heaven Officials Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
9. Twisted Wonderland vol 1
10. Malice by Heather Walter
They Call Her Sofia by Doris Ladino is a good one!
I loved Everyone in my family has killed someone! I haven’t seen the live show yet because I was at a baby shower while it was happening but I’m off to go watch that now that I’ve gotten a reminder :)
My top ten this year are probably:
Once There Were Wolves
Happy Place
Howl’s Moving Castle
Anne of Green Gables
Wundersmith
Half a Soul
The Dead Romantics
The Night Circus
In an Absent Dream
& either Wrong Place, Wrong Time or Sorrow & Bliss for my 10th place
I had some great books this year but hope next year is a better reading year for us both
Hai Gavin! My top 10 are Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang, Dead Silence by S. A. Barnes, Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott, Revenge by Yoko Ogawa, The Bone SHard Daughter by Andrea Stewart, Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Pumpkin Spice by Tagan Shephard and Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo.
I LOVE that hoodie! May I ask where it's from?
Absolutely, it's merch from the TH-camr 'Swoop'. Just search their channel and their shop is linked!
@@GavinReadsItAll Thank you
My fave books of 2023 📚
Manga Standalone: I want to eat your pancreas
Manga Series edition: Spy x Family 10
Fantasy: Lost in the moment and found
Mystery: Confessions
Gothic: A Dowry of Blood
Horror: Crossroads
Contemporary: Anxious People
2023 release: Thursday Murder Club: The Last Devil to Die
Short stories: Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone
Classic: The Yellow Wallpaper
Non-fiction: Inferno: A memoir of motherhood and madness
*adds everyone in my family has killed someone to my tbr*
So glad junji ito made it into your top 10!
9:34 Animorphs Video needs to have more worthy opponents
I saw the Uzumaki movie and found it super disturbing, then got the book. My mind never recovered.
thought berserk would be here, maybe next year after you finish the full series!
It was in my best of 2022. I pondered adding it again cause I loved the Golden Age arc but then I’d also have to include One Piece and Blood on the Tracks (also in my 2022 best video) and decided I didn’t want to make a repetitive list 😊 but I would love to make a favourite manga so far video at some point
OMG I lovedddd Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone! It was such a fun read! I listened to the audiobook and loved every minute of it! This is one that made me talk out loud to myself about the messy details lol. Gah so good! Definitely in my top 5 fave books this year!
Here's my list
1. Spare by prince harry
2. Reminders of him by colleen hoover
3. Delilah green doesn't care
4. The fiancee farce
5. The mind series by s.t abby
6. What my bones know by Stephenie foo memoir
7. Tell me everything by minka Kelly memoir
8. Someday maybe
9. Any man by amber tamblyn
10. The woman in me by britney spears memoir
Honorable mentions
Heart bones by colleen hoover
Pageboy by elliot page
Your a mean one Matthew prince
Blood sugar by sacha Rothschild
Lucky me by sachi parker memoir
Crazy is my superpower by a j mendez memoir
I really wanna read the lies of Locke lamora and black iris!!
Top 10 books: killing stalking series, counting the cost, perfectly nice neighbors, mad honey, after that night, the hike, it happened one summer, poirts last case, none of this is true, the last one.
#1 book of 2023 was The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers
I did read Everyone in my family has killed someone by Benjamin Stevenson last month and it's definitely five stars read for me. It even might be on my top 10 books of 2023 😊 There are still couple books I want to read before I decide my top 10 books.
Edit: I almost forgot 😅 Benjamin Stevenson released new book and I'm so excited to read that one too.
Attack on Titan, fabulous!
It wasn’t the best reading year for me either. I don’t even have a full list of 10. In no particular order:
1. Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree
2. Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury
3. The September House by Carissa Orlando
4. A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
5. Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
6. The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
7. System Collapse by Martha Wells
8. The Hacienda by Isabel Canas.
Some great recommendations here for me to look into I like the sound of the adult fantasy and Percy Jackson. This year for me has been a rotten one in terms of book picks for some reason but if i had to recommend one it would be The Other Side of Mrs Wood. An atmospheric victorian story about a famous medium striving to stay on top with new talent coming onto the scene. Great video gavin 😊
I downloaded and read the Night Sun just now and can someone please explain? I didn't get the story at all...
But... But... What about the Shrek romance?🥺
omg, please keep reading Red Rising. Golden Son is wayyy better than book 1
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I just tried reading The Night Sun and honestly, I couldn't disagree more. I just didn't like this one at all. 🤷♀️