WORST to BEST books I read in 2022, ranked!
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happy new year!! welcome to the yearly video in which i rank all the books i read the past year and give a mini review for each of them :) hope you find something that you like!
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Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave). I live in the Netherlands and go to university, but make booktube videos in my spare time :)
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I love how listening to TikTok is a mistake that we all made in 2022, hope we leave it behind this year 🙏🏻
I’m absolutely not into booktok. I think people should just read books based on the feeling the have when the read the back 😅 I take inspo from tiktok, but if I don’t like what the back is saying I still wouldn’t read it even when everyone is saying how great it is
@@quintym7090 omg yes, that's what I do too. I'll check the book out but the description determines everything
right? I listened to booktok and ended up getting a colleen hoover book, never making that mistake again
@@Miipmiip Same. I read We Were Liars and it was so and overhyped. I had Verity but after reading it, I cringed so hard. I don’t know if this is mentioned on booktok or not but I saw "The summer I turned pretty" on TH-cam and I couldn’t even get past chapter 5 without getting so bored. I guess romance books really aren’t my thing even though that’s all booktok recommends.
same I knew the moment I gave punk57 a chance the plot was frustrating unnecessary and predictable
nobody can even imagine how I love this woman
Cute
Aw
No, I can pretty much imagine.
Same
@@Jantonov1 🤣🤣
Best description of Book Lovers 😂 “one grumpy little gremlin, struggling with perfectionism meeting another grumpy little gremlin, struggling with perfectionism, and then being organized grumpy little gremlins together,” 🌧 🌧 ❤
If someone had described it as this sooner, I would've read it ages ago
This was my first book that properrly got me into reading lmao
Just a suggestion… it would be nice to put at the top corner what book you’re talking about. Sometimes one just forgets what book you just mentioned and by the time you’re almost done, I’m like “wait what was the book again?”
sometimes we gotta pause a video and continue watching later and by then one gotta backtrack a lot and perhaps miss the exact moment you mention the name of the book. There’s a lot of scenarios where tbh it’s just convenient to have a picture of the cover on screen or name of the book in a corner. Just saying
I actually didn't catch what the first book was
@@ivingzuniga841 No actually you're right i agree with you🤔❤️
Can we please just take a moment to appreciate Leonie's immaculate humour in her videos
Yes, I love the kind of humour she brings to these video's haha
+1
RIGHT ugh love her
“tiktok misrepresented it and I fell for it” is such a mood I can’t
Timestamps for categories of the ranking :)
0:35 : I listened to the internet but at what cost
4:23 : It's me, hi, I'm the problem. It's me.
6:45 : Nice.
Intermission - 9:34 : Did not finish
13:12 : Really great! But...
19:10 : I will never shut up about these books
23:10 : Tattoo the text on my retina
(love these titles btw)
THANK YOU
Thanks, darling
No problem 🥰
The Secret History is one of those books that have an atmosphere of mystery. I feel as though the pages are living, truly living. When I say they are living, I mean the story is still going on in some magical loop of realism again and again. I mean somewhere it is like entering into a new world, getting a renewed lease at life, being able to look at things through kind eyes. The way he loves that girl. The way she makes him feel. I really love how Donna Tartt describes love from a boys point of view for a girl. It is so accurate, it smarts but I also feel it somehow validates my entire life and those moments of being younger and being completely lost and oblivious so well. I mean I have never been better understood and I have found some kind of community when it comes to her writing style.
**SPOILERS WARNING**
and then you have goldfinch, again a master class how the central character is in falling in love with a girl while reminiscing his mother who's just passed away. A masterclass and Donna Tartt's writing its own level altogether. Easily my favourite book author of all time and also arguably the best book I have ever read.
PS - You may like sense of an ending if you liked the secret history. Different author.
I can’t get past the racism to enjoy Donna Tartt.
Personally, I don’t think what Richard feels for Camilla is love. It’s infatuation and he spends much of the book objectifying her without realizing it. But art is always up to interpretation I suppose
@@scheherazade2291 What racism?
@@CatherineMarianne When I read the Donna tartt books, she always had this weird sort of racism that emitted off all her books, especially the goldfinch. Boris was sort of played out as a "wannabe gangster", and apparently being a gangster was to say that n word?? Not once, but twice?? And how Theo described "real gangster girls" as black and latina, which was weird and stereotypical. I'm pretty sure that Donna was writing Theo to be an unreliable narrator, but it was still a bit odd. As well as every single non white character written as some "simple, working class servant" and they always had exaggerated accents and appearances that fit into basic stereotypes, no extra character design or traits. Oh well though
@@lostavenue4819 I think it is love because despite everything he loves her. You can say infatuation is linked with an ego body. Where one's ego is satiated with need to be wanted/desired by said entity.
however, i call it love because it is written so acutely, intrinsically, without any deception and defence to the reader's interpretation, lacking any form of grotesque self, i think it can be love.
YES I love The Folk of The Air books and will never apologise for it lol I think Cardan's novella How The King Of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories might just be my favourite. Those extra scenes of him and Jude>>>
I think the only people who hate the books are the ones who wanted more romance or couldn't handle the fact that Cardan and Jude actually used to hate each other...... I don't know what they think enemies to loves is but.......
Hi! As someone who didn't enjoyed the book, I want to say that it's not because I expected more romance, but because I didn't expect it to be so YOUNG adult. I'm used to reading adult fantasy so this one seemed really silly to me, with little world building, despisable characters with teenage reactions, and predictable plot. Obviously that's only my opinion and lot's of people enjoyed it, I wish I was part of them. :)
I listened to the series on audible and I feel like I missed something. I thought the books were just fine. Fun but not that special. They are so well loved though that I feel like I should read them directly- maybe the audiobook lost something for me.
me too!!! my favorites books from last year!! can’t wait to read the stolen heir now
I think the book was so steeped in historical perspectives and realistic takes on deep human issues, that it got a bit too much for those who like FANTASY fantasy. I don't usually like fantasy at all, except for Narnia, so I ADORED Jude and Cardan.
If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd make a play of it. The story is on that level. This is coming from an English teacher, by the way.
@@whisper_dvm5157 My exact thoughts on Six of Crows.. They're good but I must've missed something. Likely the reason for the hype..
I’m getting back into reading this year and I can’t tell you how much booktubers have helped me. I recently read the cruel prince series and it was so fun!! I really enjoyed it and i’m excited to read more this year ❤️❤️❤️
praise booktube honestly, I get ALL my reading plans/tbr from booktube (and try to avoid tiktok or at least only read those who have been approved by booktube)
@@MediocreAtBesd yeah same lol, I don't trust booktok but i trust booktubers with my life
Yay!!! I was hoping you would make this video this year, I love the way you describe books
Leonie posted and my day just got a whole lot better
I just wanna say I adore the vibes in this video, the candles matching your clothing, perfection
The way I have been watching her 2020 vidéos because I can't have enough of the aesthetics of this channel 🥰😍😍😍
your opinions on beach read and people we meet on vacation was EXACTLY what i thought of those two books. these two reviews have now convinced me to pick up book lovers because i feel like i might love it
Hiii Leonie, this is such an exciting video for me, I love seeing these every year, since I've seen all your videos this year so I REALLY wanna know, luv u Leonie♡♡
Your video is amazing! I don't always finish watching videos like these. Adore the vibe, the atmosphere, your humor and your taste in books! xx
The humor on this channel is unmatched 👌🏾🌟 the tier names 😂
I read bunny because of you and Jack Edwards here on TH-cam, and honestly I'm so grateful for your recommendation! It's unlike anything I ever read and I'm obsessed
it’s really interesting to me to see people loving Bunny, I read it because of Jack’s recommendation as well and really did not enjoy it - it was a total drain to me to get through and nearly DNF. I just couldn’t get on with it 😂 unlike anything I’ve ever read I would definitely agree with you though!
The candle and tier names are so awesome. Your videos are so crisp
if you see this, i just wanted to say that i’ve binged so many of your videos lately, and you inspired me to get back to reading for the first time in way too long! i got a few books from the store yesterday and i’m already really enjoying one of them. thank you for being such a joy to watch and for recommending such great books!
Okay before I continue the video I just want to say your whole look is on point. That is such a nice shirt and the way you styled it is fantastic
You are such a comfort person, It's really nice to listen to you.
I decided to read Bunny after hearing you talk about it. Let me just tell you I was hooked. I devoured it in two days and I found my long-lost hunger for books and reading. I've already put more books in my to-read list, I haven't felt so happy about books in ages! Thank you!
I am part of the group that thinks that everything Emily writes is just perfection
I love how you sum up the books so short and well
Your favorite books video was an automatic "I'm adding all of these to my 2023 tbr". I just know I always love the books you like
So glad to have you back
I’m so excited for Hell Bent it looks so good. Glad for the new video!!
i found your channel last week, and my life feels much richer since then
xxx
what a beautiful thing to say to someone
i love your set up so much omg !
Finally! I was truly waiting for that video
Your commentary on Beautiful World, Where Are You just convinced me to read it because you literally describe me PERFECTLY I felt like we were on Facetime for a sec and you were staring into my soul
Just discovered your channel 3 days ago and heard you go on about Book Lovers. I had read Beach Read and was a bit underwhelmed so had put off Book Lovers for months.
On your recommendations bought it 2 days ago, devoured it and LOVED it!! Thank you
Waiting for my edition of Bunny to arrive, bought thanks to you and it is also the first bookstan recommendation I take in years, I'm super curious about it and looking forward to accompanying your channel for another year ^^ happy new year
There's a book being re-released in August this year, I think. It's called The Phoenix King by Aparna Verma.
It's a fantasy book inspired by South Asian culture and mythology and I really loved it. I read it a while ago under the original title "The Boy With Fire".
I don't know if that's something you're interested in but I do really recommend it :)
PS: it has firebending (sort of), assassins, enemies to lovers, morally grey characters and badass women
Your videos give me sm comfort
Ah yes, These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever, a beautiful story about "friendship"
history will say they were roommates 🤣🤣
@@bear.b "oh my god, and they were roommates!"
Happy new year and thank you for your wonderful videos.
Love your videos!!❤ great descriptions and witty one liners😂
I FEEL EXACTLY THE SAME WAY ABOUT PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION, it's defo her worst work in my opinion (and that is saying something because she is currently my favorite romance author)
It was so disgustingly boring tbh
I loved it, i like friends to lovers books😂 it’s the only one i have read so maybe my opinion will change when i read her other books!
Loved this video and your feedback! Definitely made me laugh! Also, the mood and vibes were on point! Thanks for sharing!!
your earrings always are fire 🔥lovely video, entertaining as always
'They speak the way they would if AI fed them a bunch of Blockbuster movies'...😂. I so love how you describe things. Taking all these rankings to heart when choosing my next reads.
Finally someone else who has read and loved These Violent Delights! Such an incredible but chilling read
Agree, The Secret History is incredibly funny. Donna Tartt is the queen!
perfect timing 🫶🏻
girl hellbent was INCREDIBLE im so excited for you to read it!!
Those categories are so on point, I love it 🤣
I love this list Leonie! If you loved Jane Eyre then I recommend Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys as it tells the story from Berthas perspective!
i just found you and it seems like our book choices don't really overlap so I was so surprised to hear you say that Jane Eyre was one of your top books of 2022! Its been my favourite book for many many years. Im so glad you loved it too. I wrote down so many of you recommendations, thanks
oh my god you have no idea how cathartic seeing the dispossesed on this list was. ive never seen another booktuber who's read it. it's my favorite book of all time
happy new year leonie! this is not related to this video, but I just finished reading the gilded wolves trilogy and I was SOBBING through the last 50 pages! it was so heart-wrenching and I really fell in love with the characters! but I want to thank you again for recommending it, especially since it seems to be quite underrated!
aaaa i'm so glad i convinced another person to read it and love it!!
I just picked up a copy from my library today! 💛 🐺
I just love listening to you talking about books. We have very different taste sometimes, sometimes not! 🤣🤣
I love you girl😂. I found you yesterday and im on repeat with all your videos..
5 minutes in and I already LOVE YOU!
“Sometimes it can just be very cathartic to read about a woman doing doing everything women were taught not to do. And sometimes that includes murder” I died lol
which book is this
@@skinnylegend9782 a certain hunger by chelsea g. summers
Dissing My Immortal was uncalled for, it is the greatest literary work of all time
i think the same about people we meet on vacation and beach read!! you got me a lot girl
I finished reading ninth house a few weeks ago and have been waiting for the sequel to come out. Imagine my surprise seeing this month old video
The most anticipated video of all time
I am looking forward to this years wrap!
I would love to hear how you underline and mark your books, you should make a video about it!!
Dude.. bunny is just. I’m obsessed 😭
not all my favourite youtubers making my evening better...🥰
I love your reviews, thanks for share 😊 love your videos!!!
Your taste in books is just * chef's kiss* 👌👌
I'm obsessed with angst romances (full of mutual pining) and I feel like you'd recommend the best of those, if you do have recommendations please make a video like that
Your earrings are the cutest!!!
I don't know why but you remind me so much of my older sister! She has the same name, she looks quite similar to you, she lived in Amsterdam for a while,... It makes your videos even more cozy than they already are :D
Ive gotten back into reading after 5+ years of not picking up a book. Your channel is my favorite about books and has given me a lot to put on my reading list! I enjoy "so bad/weird its good" type books which is why Im currently reading the Crave series by Tracy Wolff (halfway through book 4). Its dumb and WILD.
Amazing ranking ♥ I would highly recommend Piranesi, I think it's right up your alley. It's very mysterious and environmental with a mythological dream like charm, and it does actually get deeper with character than I expected. Piranesi is my favorite protagonist I read all year.
piranesi was one of my faves of last year!
piranesi appreciation real !!
I heard about Piranesi thanks to this channel, and I gave it to someone as a Christmas present this year! I haven't read it myself though, but it sounds very intriguing
“If [A Certain Hunger] is a woman’s favorite book, you need to run very far way” I’m dying 🤣
the plant moving with your head is so cute tho
Sounds like a good year of reading. Thanks to you, I will steer clear of Gothikana. Life is too short to read bad books. Have a great week, Leonie!
More Reading Vlogs Leonie please 🥺❤️
your videos are my therapy
I loved Babel! Just loved it!
You should read North and South! It's an 18th-century romance and it's so good! It's an enemies to lovers novel and it has a great movie to it as well.
love the candle!!
burn it!! enjoy the luxury!!
i was waiting for this notification 🫶🏼
If you liked the concept of mrs death misses death, you should read death at intervals!! it is incredible, Saramago is a GREAT writer
Babe wake up Leonie posted a new video
Babe wake up Leonie posted
You have to read Defy The Night!! I cant even tell how good this is: slow burn, romance, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, a fantasy world, medical Field ( more like pharmacy) and funny lines
Hi! I live in Russia and I'm leaning english. I love reading english books. Recently I bought "The Secret History" of Donna Tartt in Orenburg. This book is in the same edition as yours!!! This is interesting coincidence!!!
P. S. Thank you for your channel. It is great, interesting and useful.
P. P. S. Sorry if I did mistakes in sentences, my english is bad yet)
Your description of the deal followed by “uncle iroh would love this book” subscribe lol you get me
I LOVE YOUR EARINGS ❤
I loved „pride and prejudice“ reference on spanish love deception 🤭🤭😁
BOOKS was the theme of 2022. I read 52 books in 52 weeks.
My very best year in reading that I can remember.
The books I read in 2022
1) "The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollope
2) "Can You Forgive Her?" by Anthony Trollope
3) "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
4) "Mark Twain: A Life" by Rom Powers
5) "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain
6) "The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain
7) "The End of the Affair" by Graham Greene
8) "Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady" by Samuel Richardson
9) "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark
10) "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote
11) "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" by Raymond Carver
12) "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
13) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy
14) "Master and Man" by Leo Tolstoy
15) "A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy
16) "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy
17) "The Raid" by Leo Tolstoy
18) "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs
19) “In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
20) "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by Victor Hugo
21) "Clara Militch" by Ivan Turgenev
22) "Mumu" by Ivan Turgenev
23) "Kassyan of Fair Springs" by Ivan Turgenev
24) "The Portrait Game" Ivan Turgenev
25) " Punin and Baburin" by Ivan Turgenev
26) "The Inn" by Ivan Turgenev
27) "The Watch" by Ivan Turgenev
28) "Acia" by Ivan Turgenev
29) "Home of the Gentry" by Ivan Turgenev
30) "On the Eve" by Ivan Turgenev
31) "Rudin" by Ivan Turgenev
32) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev
33) "First Love" by Ivan Turgenev
34) "The Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev
35) "How Russians Meet Death" by Ivan Turgenev
36) "Sketches from a Hunter's Album" by Ivan Turgenev
37) "Volodya" by Anton Chekhov
38) "Ward No. 6" by Anton Chekhov
39) "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekov
40) "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" by Alexander Pushkin
41) "The Captain's Daughter" by Alexander Pushkin
42) “Le Grand Meaulnes, or the Lost Domain” by Alain-Fournier
43) "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
44) "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
45) "Flipped" by Wendelin Van Draanen
46) "Kolyma Tales" by Varlam Shalamov
47) "An Island Hell" by S. A. Malsagoff
48) "The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy
49) "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy
50) “Strait is the Gate” by André Gide
51) “And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer” by Fredrik Backman
52) “Middlemarch” by George Eliot
Twenty (20) of my top one hundred (100) books of all time I read this year.
This is the year I found out Ivan Turgenev from Russia is my favorite author of all time and will never be surpassed. I plan on reading more of him next year too.
alexander pushkin
@@caIyps0, Alexander Pushkin is on my list of favorite books.
0) The Holy Bible: King James Version" copyright 1967
1) "Verbal Behavior" by Dr. B. F. Skinner
2) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy
3) "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4) "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev
5) Myth Adventures - series by Robert Asprin
6) The Chronicles of Narnia - series by C. S. Lewis
7) "Vilette" by Charlotte Brontë
8) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
9) "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
10) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev
11) "Roots" by Alex Haley
12) The Silmarillion - The Hobbit, or there and back again - The Lord of the Rings - Middle Earth stories by J. R. R. Tolkien
13) Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov
14) "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin
and much lower down on the list he lands again.
105) "The Captain's Daughter" by Alexander Pushkin
@@ReligionOfSacrifice i know, i read the list! that's why i commented :)
@@caIyps0, my first list is merely all the books I read in a year. The second list is where they fall in regard to the best books I have ever read.
FAVORITE AUTHORS
1) Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons)
2) Leo Tolstoy (Resurrection)
3) Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Idiot)
4) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich)
5) C. S. Lewis (The Magician's Nephew)
6) Charlotte Brontë (Vilette)
7) J. R. R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
8) Isaac Asimov (Foundation and Empire)
9) Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
10) Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
11) George Eliot (Silas Marner)
12) Anthony Trollope (The Warden)
your voice is so soothing
The last video you made had me remembering a book that I couldn't name bc I wanted to recommend it. In Dutch it's called "Speeldrift" and it's by Juli Zeh, and I'd say it's a dark academia-ish YA from early 00s. I read it when I was around 17 and really liked it
I honestly think what held you back from reading Jane Eyre is what holds a lot of people back from reading a lot of Classics, honestly-even amongst people who speak English as a first or even only language!. 😅🙃😅😅 Because culture and language and all evolves so much, over time, and most people find it difficult or intimidating to try and get into the culture or language of the past. I mean, just imagine trying to read something written in your own language but an old/dated / archaic version of it, or whatever! (It might have a similar effect, especially the further back you go. ^^) Because there could be words or phrases or spellings that are rarely if even ever used anymore, or that could mean something completely different back then than it would mean to someone at first glance now without actually knowing the specific context like from back then-if that makes sense. But, for me, the only reason I haven't read a lot of classics is just because I didn't have access to many Classics when I was growing up...and by the time I grew up enough to go out and obtain them for myself totally independently, wanting to read Classics had somehow kind of just taken a bit of a backseat to other things I wanted to read or such..but I really hope to turn that back around, going forward, soon / in the future!. ^--^
Classics, in whatever language, are always quite challenging, I feel. I'm German and speaking English as a second language, studying English as a minor to History. In one of my first courses some years ago we read the first couple chapters of Jane Eyre and analized them and just this beginning was really interesting. Haven't picked up the book since (I have so many books still to revisit) but I'm always thinking about some day finally reading it. But it's the same in German. Books that I had to read in school and, at times, really loathed became some of the most interesting reads I had in a while. And then I recently read Dostoyevskys short story "White Nights" and suddenly there's this huge world of Russian literature classics which is yet to be explored. It's sometimes intimidating but, from what I gathered, often really rewarding.
been waiting for your vedio 💖💖🌞
The 2nd book sounds soooo interesting. I'm trying to get back into reading and I'll die for 18th century romance. It is in my opinion, the only type of romance that tv and books do right, and gives you a nostalgic feel without being chaotic. If that makes sense. Anyway, great video, I'll definitely read some of your recommendations.
Ahhh, Jane Eyre 😍😍😍 One of my all-time favorites.
IM SO GLAD SOMEONE IS TALKING ABT HOW VERY "i listened to the internet but at what cost" TSLD IS !! the book was so unnecessarily long and the plot could have been over in like 10 pages had the main characters just ??? communicated ??? AND THEN OFC the very lovely 3rd quarter crisis !! also,, im sorry but people hype aaron up so much and for what ?? his whole personality trait is being tall ???? and lina's is being short ?? sorry not sorry but they had absolutely no character depth, they were quite literally words on paper.
bunny was also one of my favorite reads!! As well as boy parts by Eliza Clark :)
i belong to absolutely none of the categories that 'Beautiful World, Where Are You' should be relatable to, but there's still just something about sally rooney's writing that i think anyone can identify with. one of the best books i read this year for sure
I have loved all of Emily Henry’s books except People We Meet on Vacation! Thank you for helping me justify my opinion 😂 all my friends love this book but I could not believe in their romance