Why am I crying too? I’m a middle sister and I felt your tears! Cannot wait to get to Blue Sisters! Hoping to get to it before the end of 2024. Great “best list”, Gabby! Hugs
Ahhh Gabby 😭😭 my little heart melted watch you talk about blue sisters. Love seeing you and Rachel’s relationship. You too are the best. Dropping everything and grabbing blue sisters off my shelf to read tonight ❤
The Measure is such a thought provoking book. Hubby and I had many conversations about this one. I always describe A.J. Fikrey as a "true gem". And it is.
Gabby ❤️❤️❤️ Your relationship with your sister is so beautiful and lovely. I am also really close with my sister and love to read books about sisters. I’ll move Blue Sisters & Once There Were Wolves to the top of my 2025 tbr.
I read Once There Were Wolves because I saw your Goodreads review of it and just finished it last night, sobbing 😭 It was sooo good and easily an all time favorite already. Bright Young Women and Blue Sisters have been on my TBR too so I can't wait to read them now!!
i love your relationship with rachel, i’m an older sister as well and it’s a bond like nothing else. great recs as always 💕 once there were wolves, bright young women and the haar are all already on my tbr from your previous recommendations! just added blue sisters 💕
I'm so excited to read Earthlings next year! I need and am excited to read Bury Your Gays too! I've added so many of these to my future TBR! Also really aiming to get to Incidents Around the House! It's so funny that I've read so much from Sodergren but The Haar is one of the few that I haven't gotten to yet! I'm definitely prioritizing it next year! Can't Wait! Blue Sisters sounds SO GOOD! What a great list! :)
Gabby, I loved your review of Bright Young Women, it was how I felt about it exactly! I just love your enthusiasm for books! Adding Blue Sisters to the top of my TBR pile!
Blue Sisters is also my favourite book of the year, I was in love with it the minute I read that opening quote🥹 The Measure was my top favourite book of 2022, I'm so happy to see it make it onto your list! And almost the entire rest of your list is now on my 2025 tbr 😄
Gosh Gabby! You and I share that book as favorite for this year. I loved that book and am an older sister too. This book broke me to pieces. Sending you hugs from one big sister to another. ❤
Such a great list! Glad to see Forget Me Not showing up! 😝 Top favorites this year for me are: Monstrilio, The Other Side of Night, Victorian Psycho, and The Memory Police. I need to get to The Centre and The Storied Life of AJ Fikry soon!
My favourite book of the year is We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It is actually the only new all time favourite of this year and I would have never read it if it hadn't been for my thesis supervisor which is INSANE. I've had a couple of 5 and 4 stars as well but none of them have made it to my favourites of all time. 2024 in general was terrible reading wise, so I hope 2025 will be much better in that regard.
❤ love this. I was crying with you. I am the youngest of my siblings but can totally relate. I’m very close to my two sisters. We lost my brother in an accident, it’s been 6 years but still so hard. Learning to live through the pain. He was my best friend
I truly think The Haar is one of the most exceptional horror novels ever written and it's certainly my favorite by that author and probably my favorite horror novel ever. I'm glad to see it and the author get their flowers this year, because they certainly deserve it!
I read the least that I have in more than 10 years. Only 80 books. My favorites by far: Just For The Summer (Abby Jimenez), The Wedding People (Alison Espach), Pen Pal (JT Geissinger) , This Could Be Us (Kennedy Ryan) btw, I loved loved Forget Me Not by Julie Soto, but I read it last year.
Bury your gays was my top read of this year!! And that airplane scene was genuinely one of the scariest most unsettling thing I’ve listened to! I love how similar our tastes are! 💕💕
Blue sisters is my number 2 & I spent that whole book crying off and on. Ufff so much therapizing in there. I LOVED IT. - I teared up when you did. FELT THAT IN MY CHEST 🥺♥
Bright Young Women is my favourite book of the year! (As of now) ❤ I know I’ll be rereading this book the moment I finished reading for the Book Troop because of how powerful this book was! 😍
Thank you for your list. I think my top two books of the year are The Best Life Book Club by Sheila Roberts and a middle grade called The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night. That one was so adorable and creative! I'm in the middle of a reading slump right now but I'm thinking of reading the A.J. Fickry one to pull me out of it.
Who knew this would be such a tough watch, family is so wrapped up in each of your choices, my sister took her own life, media and conversations about sisterhood are unbelievably painful for me. It’s emotional to see you speak so positively about it
Watching this made me want to add so many books to my tbr. I just got Blue Sisters from the library…I’m both scared and excited. I am the youngest sister of 3 so I’m curious to see how hard it hits me. Also, I got Memory Police because of one of your videos!!
I found and read Once There Were Wolves from you and I am so glad I did 😭 I loved it so much. I’m excited for her new book, Dark Wild Shore, in March!!!
Bright Young Women is on my best books list as well. So powerful. And it made me so mad. 😅 I will def check out some of these books - especially your No 1. 💜
I love the sister trope too Gabby unfortunately im an only child but thats why i hold my friendships so close!! love best friends and sister tropes keep it coming. I definitely plan to read blue sisters!
The Measure was my #1 last year. Right when I was finishing it my sister in law died at 22. I got a tattoo that had combined one of her tattoos with a short and long string
all right you convinced me to read 'blue sisters'. i have two sisters, i'm the oldest, and i feel you about protecting them. i also have a sister from another mister who i love dearly and consider even closer than our own sisters. we're grieving a recently-passed brother soooo that book is gonna punch me in the guts aaaaaaaaaaaah
I read quite a few of the same books you read…different rankings though on several, which is fair…my top 5 are From Here To The Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough…Butcher by Joyce Carol Oates…Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll…Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult….and number one for me this year is The Reformatory by Tananarive Due…that book had me fully immersed and I just loved it…
Gabby, I hope you had a wonderful Xmas and New Year! I got so emotional when you cried. Tell Rachel to drink parsley tea for her kidneys. I hope this year is great for your family and you. Sending you a big hug.
This is such a great list of diverse reads! It was such an awesome year for The Book Troop - two picks made it into my top five! 1. How High We Go in the Dark 2. The Four Winds 3. Any Man 4. We Used to Live Here 5. Listen for the Lie
Either already read or added the books to my tbr 😂 Love the recs! My Top 10 1. A certain hunger by Chelsea g summers 2. Sex and Sunsets by Tim Sandlin 3. The butterfly garden by dot Hutchison 4. Thin girls by Diana Clarke 5. Art of Racing in the rain by Garth stein 6. This delicious death by Kayla cottingham 7. Appetite for innocence by Lucinda berry 8. At the coffee shop of curiosities by Heather Webber 9. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite 10. Fat talk by Virginia sole smith
I love that you have such a beautiful relationship with your sister. My sister and I have always been apart - we're 10 years apart and we live in different States but we are still attached. My sister is such a bright funny person that I love to spend time with her and appreciate my time with her so much since we don't get much time together. Will have to pick Blue Sisters up!
My best book of this year is a French book who named "La cage" by Emma Segues. It's a book about scientific experiences on humans. Strange book but it was really interesting of my point of view. What's more, this is the author's first book, I'm so happy !
Just for the summer i heard about it in stephbohrer channel read it fell in love with the characters writing style and everything else it was the first book i read from this author now going through and enjoying her other books :)
Notes on an Execution Anxious People The Reformatory We Used to Live Here Pet Sematary Fantasticland None of this is True The Groomer Not In order^^ but those are some of my favorites this year!😊
So far My top fav books of 2024 11.22.63 Stephen king We used to live here Marcus Kliewer The unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica N0S4A2 by Joe Hill Enjoyed the vid defo adding some of your favs to my tbr for next year 😀
First off you look stunning gabby love the outfit and also I hope u have a great Christmas 🎄 heres my top favorite books of the year 1.Xmas break by j.e rowney 2.I'll be alone for Christmas by Kristin mulligan 3.Hoilday homicide by Michelle powers 4.Four found dead by Natalie D. Richards 5.Heartstopper series 6.Fangirl manga series
As someone who is one of the triplets (we are all girls) I can totally understand the bond and emotions you feel about sisterhood 🥹 Haven’t read the book yet but now I don’t think I’ll go to next year without reading Blue Sisters
I wondered when your favorite books video would be posted and when I checked my phone I got the notification! Made my morning 😆😊✨ Also where is your flannel jacket from it’s sooo cute?! 💙❤️🤍🖤
There was so many books on this list I agree with, especially "Bright Young Women" but I would give "We use to live here" 1star. I felt it to be repetitive and the ending was very predictable.
Here's my picks Tales of the body thief by Anne rice book 4 in the vampire chronicles One summer in Savannah by terah shelton Harris The wild truth by carine mccandless memoir Out of shape by gracie gold memoir Queen of the damned by Anne rice book 3 in the vampire chronicles stars in your eyes by kacen callender Her too by bonnie kistler Clytemnestra by constanza casanti The violence by delilah s dawson Lizzie Blake's best mistake by mazey eddings Miss memory lane by colton Haynes memoir Good luck with that by kristan Higgins The maid by nita prose Honorable mentions Glitterland by alexis hall Pack up the moon by kristan Higgins Interview with the vampire by Anne rice Be my baby by ronnie spector memoir
I do find BYW incredibly problematic, taking very identifiable victims and distorting their lives in many ways (but keeping specific gory details from their murders that she says is exploitative when other media does it). Knoll did say in a video interview with the Book Report Network that she never reached out to the families (saying she would’ve felt wrong, even though I’m sure this bestseller coming out about your relative without warning is probably worse!), and considering how she portrayed the families, that feels really unethical. I feel like it could’ve been good if it had been truly fictionalised versus being yet another piece of media twisting the victims stories and lives, this time claiming to do it for feminist reasons
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Why am I crying too? I’m a middle sister and I felt your tears! Cannot wait to get to Blue Sisters! Hoping to get to it before the end of 2024. Great “best list”, Gabby! Hugs
Aw thanks Kat 🥹😭 hugs!!!! I hope you love Blue Sisters too!
Ahhh Gabby 😭😭 my little heart melted watch you talk about blue sisters. Love seeing you and Rachel’s relationship. You too are the best. Dropping everything and grabbing blue sisters off my shelf to read tonight ❤
Thank you 😭💙💙💙
The Measure is such a thought provoking book. Hubby and I had many conversations about this one. I always describe A.J. Fikrey as a "true gem". And it is.
added sooooo many of these to my tbr! i love how moved you are while talking about blue sisters and your relationship with your own sister 💞
Gabby ❤️❤️❤️ Your relationship with your sister is so beautiful and lovely. I am also really close with my sister and love to read books about sisters. I’ll move Blue Sisters & Once There Were Wolves to the top of my 2025 tbr.
Thanks so much!! 🥹 I hope you enjoy them if you end up reading them!! ❤
The Haar absolutely blew me away, it was so incredible and horrifying and moving! ❤
I read Once There Were Wolves because I saw your Goodreads review of it and just finished it last night, sobbing 😭 It was sooo good and easily an all time favorite already. Bright Young Women and Blue Sisters have been on my TBR too so I can't wait to read them now!!
i love your relationship with rachel, i’m an older sister as well and it’s a bond like nothing else.
great recs as always 💕 once there were wolves, bright young women and the haar are all already on my tbr from your previous recommendations! just added blue sisters 💕
Oh Gabby, I really feel for you. Thanks for sharing such personal experiences. You’re such a good sister/daughter. ❤ Great video, as always
The Haar is my favorite book of 2024! I love it so much! Thank you for the recommendation Gabby!!
Loved this! Your enthusiasm for these books is contagious and expanded my TBR list.
As someone who is an Older sister and also being the one with an invisible illness, I am putting Blue Sisters on my TBR asap.
Great wrap-up! Love your enthusiasm.
I loved this! So many of these are on my tbr and I’m even more excited to read them now! 🩷💕
I’m going to have to read blue sisters right now! Thanks for telling what it was about in a way I hadn’t heard yet. ❤
Oh my goodness, you have me wanting to read every single book you recommended😍
Love hearing about your favorites!!
Just for the Summer and Bright Young Women were in my top 10 too! ❤❤
I'm so excited to read Earthlings next year! I need and am excited to read Bury Your Gays too! I've added so many of these to my future TBR! Also really aiming to get to Incidents Around the House! It's so funny that I've read so much from Sodergren but The Haar is one of the few that I haven't gotten to yet! I'm definitely prioritizing it next year! Can't Wait! Blue Sisters sounds SO GOOD! What a great list! :)
Gabby, I loved your review of Bright Young Women, it was how I felt about it exactly! I just love your enthusiasm for books! Adding Blue Sisters to the top of my TBR pile!
Blue Sisters is also my favourite book of the year, I was in love with it the minute I read that opening quote🥹 The Measure was my top favourite book of 2022, I'm so happy to see it make it onto your list! And almost the entire rest of your list is now on my 2025 tbr 😄
I’m so glad to hear that!! 🥹💙
I finished Blue Sisters today and I loved it. My top this year is one you DNF:) All the Colors of the Dark 😊
I hope your reading in 2025 is just as great, Gabby. Happy New Year! 😊
Gosh Gabby! You and I share that book as favorite for this year. I loved that book and am an older sister too. This book broke me to pieces. Sending you hugs from one big sister to another. ❤
I'm so glad you loved it too! 😭❤ sending hugs!!
Such a great list! Glad to see Forget Me Not showing up! 😝 Top favorites this year for me are: Monstrilio, The Other Side of Night, Victorian Psycho, and The Memory Police. I need to get to The Centre and The Storied Life of AJ Fikry soon!
Ahhhh I love Monstrilio! 😍 I hope you enjoy those books too! 🥹🥰 thanks for the rec with Forget Me Not!! 😍
Love the variety on your list and that so many of your Book Troop selections made it.💯
Thank you and ahhhh same! So happy the book club was a huge success for me this year for the first time ever! 🥹🤩
Omg I hated The Measure!! 😂 can’t wait to read Blue Sisters though- waiting for it to come out in paperback ❤
My favourite book of the year is We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It is actually the only new all time favourite of this year and I would have never read it if it hadn't been for my thesis supervisor which is INSANE. I've had a couple of 5 and 4 stars as well but none of them have made it to my favourites of all time. 2024 in general was terrible reading wise, so I hope 2025 will be much better in that regard.
❤ love this. I was crying with you. I am the youngest of my siblings but can totally relate. I’m very close to my two sisters. We lost my brother in an accident, it’s been 6 years but still so hard. Learning to live through the pain. He was my best friend
I just bought the Eyes are the Best Part, it's on kindle for 99p!
I read The Haar because of you, its really stuck with me
Favourite books for me this year have been: Finding Me by Viola Davis and I’ll Give you the Sun by Jandy Nelson. Also, super cute outfit Gabby! :)
Thank you!! ❤
I truly think The Haar is one of the most exceptional horror novels ever written and it's certainly my favorite by that author and probably my favorite horror novel ever. I'm glad to see it and the author get their flowers this year, because they certainly deserve it!
I read the least that I have in more than 10 years. Only 80 books. My favorites by far: Just For The Summer (Abby Jimenez), The Wedding People (Alison Espach), Pen Pal (JT Geissinger) , This Could Be Us (Kennedy Ryan) btw, I loved loved Forget Me Not by Julie Soto, but I read it last year.
Bury your gays was my top read of this year!! And that airplane scene was genuinely one of the scariest most unsettling thing I’ve listened to!
I love how similar our tastes are! 💕💕
The airplane scene lives in my head rent free 😂🤯
I love guessing what is going to be in your top books every year it’s so fun! ❤
My favorite book of the year is The Wedding People.💙
I love how you describe these books❤❤
Blue sisters is my number 2 & I spent that whole book crying off and on. Ufff so much therapizing in there. I LOVED IT.
- I teared up when you did. FELT THAT IN MY CHEST 🥺♥
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Bright Young Women is my favourite book of the year! (As of now) ❤
I know I’ll be rereading this book the moment I finished reading for the Book Troop because of how powerful this book was! 😍
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@@gabbyreads I want to read Bright Young Women
I loooved Bury Your Gays. One of my top books of the year too & made me want to read Camp Damascus like now.
Thank you for your list. I think my top two books of the year are The Best Life Book Club by Sheila Roberts and a middle grade called The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night. That one was so adorable and creative! I'm in the middle of a reading slump right now but I'm thinking of reading the A.J. Fickry one to pull me out of it.
I randomly think about incidents around the house and cry. Definitely my top horror book of the year I couldn’t believe how much I loved it 💙💙
Me, too!
That book is so emotional 😭
Thank you for The Haar recommendation. I ❤ it.
Who knew this would be such a tough watch, family is so wrapped up in each of your choices, my sister took her own life, media and conversations about sisterhood are unbelievably painful for me. It’s emotional to see you speak so positively about it
Happy new year Gabby to U and Ur family ❤
Oh my I’m crying too. Great list Gabby I need to read several of these that I have not read.
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Oh gabby!! You just made me cry..as an elder sister i truly understand how you feel. Love you xoxo ❤
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Such an amazing, varied list of favorites!!!
Watching this made me want to add so many books to my tbr. I just got Blue Sisters from the library…I’m both scared and excited. I am the youngest sister of 3 so I’m curious to see how hard it hits me. Also, I got Memory Police because of one of your videos!!
Ahhh I think you’ll love it too! 🥹😍 and no way! I’m so happy to hear that! ❤
I really loved The Centre as well. So excited that you loved it too. It’s an underrated book for sure.
Currently reading Notes on an Execution and I remember that being your top read a couple years back I believe!
So many great books- I love your taste in books! We have very similar choices. Thanks for sharing xoxo
I found and read Once There Were Wolves from you and I am so glad I did 😭 I loved it so much. I’m excited for her new book, Dark Wild Shore, in March!!!
Ahh I’m so glad to hear that! I can’t wait for hew new book 😍
@@gabbyreads Migrations was also amazing if you haven't read it yet.
Bright Young Women is on my best books list as well. So powerful. And it made me so mad. 😅
I will def check out some of these books - especially your No 1. 💜
I love the sister trope too Gabby unfortunately im an only child but thats why i hold my friendships so close!! love best friends and sister tropes keep it coming. I definitely plan to read blue sisters!
Blue sisters!!! I adored that book. It’s so heartbreakingly beautiful raw and real. I want everyone to read it💙
The Measure was my #1 last year. Right when I was finishing it my sister in law died at 22. I got a tattoo that had combined one of her tattoos with a short and long string
My top 3 books are
1. Where he can’t find you by Darcy Coates
2. The Diviners by Libba Bray
3 Howl’s moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones
all right you convinced me to read 'blue sisters'. i have two sisters, i'm the oldest, and i feel you about protecting them. i also have a sister from another mister who i love dearly and consider even closer than our own sisters. we're grieving a recently-passed brother soooo that book is gonna punch me in the guts aaaaaaaaaaaah
How lucky Rachel is to have you as a sister, and vice versa. ❤ Great video, Gabby.
I read quite a few of the same books you read…different rankings though on several, which is fair…my top 5 are From Here To The Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough…Butcher by Joyce Carol Oates…Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll…Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult….and number one for me this year is The Reformatory by Tananarive Due…that book had me fully immersed and I just loved it…
Gabby, I hope you had a wonderful Xmas and New Year! I got so emotional when you cried. Tell Rachel to drink parsley tea for her kidneys. I hope this year is great for your family and you. Sending you a big hug.
I still need to read Bright young woman 😅
Great list! I wrote it down. My fave book of 2024 is the Silent Patient. So twisty and a great ride.
I love the silent patient too! 😍
I will have to give Bright Young Women another chance. Thanks Gabby. Cannot wait for Winterween! Merry Christmas!
This is such a great list of diverse reads! It was such an awesome year for The Book Troop - two picks made it into my top five!
1. How High We Go in the Dark
2. The Four Winds
3. Any Man
4. We Used to Live Here
5. Listen for the Lie
Thanks Casey!! And ahh what a great top 5! I’m so glad you loved Any Man so much 😍
Listen For The Lie made my top 10 too!
Ughh I need to pick up blue sisters immediately!!
Either already read or added the books to my tbr 😂 Love the recs!
My Top 10
1. A certain hunger by Chelsea g summers
2. Sex and Sunsets by Tim Sandlin
3. The butterfly garden by dot Hutchison
4. Thin girls by Diana Clarke
5. Art of Racing in the rain by Garth stein
6. This delicious death by Kayla cottingham
7. Appetite for innocence by Lucinda berry
8. At the coffee shop of curiosities by Heather Webber
9. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite
10. Fat talk by Virginia sole smith
i have a younger sister, but i have not read blue sisters!! should i?? is it really worth the hype?? 💙
The storied life of AJ Fikry is my favourite book 💜
I know I’ve said this before but I still LOVE your outro song so much, I dance to it every time 😂
Haha aw thanks Ali!!! 😂😍🤩
I love that you have such a beautiful relationship with your sister. My sister and I have always been apart - we're 10 years apart and we live in different States but we are still attached. My sister is such a bright funny person that I love to spend time with her and appreciate my time with her so much since we don't get much time together. Will have to pick Blue Sisters up!
My favorite book this year was a tie between Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes or We used to Live here!!
Bright young women is my number 1 this year ❤
That’s so exciting!! 🤩😍
My only sister died at birth. I had 2 brothers, but I always wondered how things might have turned out if she had lived.
Since you enjoyed Bright Young Women, you should read This Girl's A Killer by Emma C. Wells! I just finished it and loved it!! 🤩🤩🤩
My best book of this year is a French book who named "La cage" by Emma Segues. It's a book about scientific experiences on humans. Strange book but it was really interesting of my point of view. What's more, this is the author's first book, I'm so happy !
I loved The eyes are the best part..I am going to have to buy the Haar
My top 3 were the nightingale, redeeming 6 (part of boys of Tommen series) & the dead romantics ❤
Just for the summer i heard about it in stephbohrer channel read it fell in love with the characters writing style and everything else it was the first book i read from this author now going through and enjoying her other books :)
Notes on an Execution
Anxious People
The Reformatory
We Used to Live Here
Pet Sematary
Fantasticland
None of this is True
The Groomer
Not In order^^ but those are some of my favorites this year!😊
What a great list!!! 😍🤩
So far My top fav books of 2024
11.22.63 Stephen king
We used to live here Marcus Kliewer
The unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
N0S4A2 by Joe Hill
Enjoyed the vid defo adding some of your favs to my tbr for next year 😀
Hey Gabby! Please make a video on science fiction books 📚 too...🙏🙌
First off you look stunning gabby love the outfit and also I hope u have a great Christmas 🎄 heres my top favorite books of the year
1.Xmas break by j.e rowney
2.I'll be alone for Christmas by Kristin mulligan
3.Hoilday homicide by Michelle powers
4.Four found dead by Natalie D. Richards
5.Heartstopper series
6.Fangirl manga series
Ready to take notes 📝🤓
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Gabby!! You’re making me frickin cry!!!
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As someone who is one of the triplets (we are all girls) I can totally understand the bond and emotions you feel about sisterhood 🥹
Haven’t read the book yet but now I don’t think I’ll go to next year without reading Blue Sisters
Yayyy! Can't wait to watch!
I need to read The Blue Sisters. I have an older sister.
I wondered when your favorite books video would be posted and when I checked my phone I got the notification! Made my morning 😆😊✨ Also where is your flannel jacket from it’s sooo cute?! 💙❤️🤍🖤
Forget me not making the list yessssss!!!
Great list
the way you talk about Rachel makes me sad that my sister and I are not closer :(
Gabby! 🥺❤️❤️❤️ (my version of a virtual hug lol)
*hugs* 🥹🥹😭🥰
Can you do a top 10 horror books you've read this year video???
I agree that every romance trope is good when it's gay 😅
Hi Gabby what R U reading at the moment
There was so many books on this list I agree with, especially "Bright Young Women" but I would give "We use to live here" 1star. I felt it to be repetitive and the ending was very predictable.
Here's my picks
Tales of the body thief by Anne rice book 4 in the vampire chronicles
One summer in Savannah by terah shelton Harris
The wild truth by carine mccandless memoir
Out of shape by gracie gold memoir
Queen of the damned by Anne rice book 3 in the vampire chronicles
stars in your eyes by kacen callender
Her too by bonnie kistler
Clytemnestra by constanza casanti
The violence by delilah s dawson
Lizzie Blake's best mistake by mazey eddings
Miss memory lane by colton Haynes memoir
Good luck with that by kristan Higgins
The maid by nita prose
Honorable mentions
Glitterland by alexis hall
Pack up the moon by kristan Higgins
Interview with the vampire by Anne rice
Be my baby by ronnie spector memoir
I can’t wait to get to the measure.
I downloaded it on Everand
This book has made a lasting impact on my life
I do find BYW incredibly problematic, taking very identifiable victims and distorting their lives in many ways (but keeping specific gory details from their murders that she says is exploitative when other media does it). Knoll did say in a video interview with the Book Report Network that she never reached out to the families (saying she would’ve felt wrong, even though I’m sure this bestseller coming out about your relative without warning is probably worse!), and considering how she portrayed the families, that feels really unethical.
I feel like it could’ve been good if it had been truly fictionalised versus being yet another piece of media twisting the victims stories and lives, this time claiming to do it for feminist reasons