I also loved And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. I recently read The Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie, its different from the other books she has read but I was I didn't not see the ending coming and all the little details came together so well.
You're the First BookTuber I've ever seen talk about The Song of the Lioness. I love all the Tortall Books, All those books are so good, I can re-read the The Song of The Lioness Quartet anytime! I'm really glad to hear you talk about them!!!
Definitely! It's always hard for me to pick top 5 or 10 books because it's so hard to compare books from different genres to each other. Glad we share the Hitchhiker love. And YES, I adore the Persepolis movie!
It was interesting to think about them writing their books at the same time and reading chapters to each other along the way. I think those two books definitely have the same feel to them. Hope you enjoy it!
Your video made me want to reread The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Also, the way you way you desribed Mrs. Dalloway made me want to pick it up. Like walking in the clouds? I definitely want to sign up for that.
Jonathan Strange is sitting innocently on top of my Harry Potter books.. big thing just waiting to be read. I've heard so many great things about it, I'm excited to start!
I just finished reading Jane Eyre for the first time today. I LOVED it. Murakami is always hard to explain... kind of surreal magical isolating worlds. I love that man! I just got The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on my Kindle from my library's e-book site. Can't wait to read it!! :) I really enjoyed this video & am always happy to see a new video from you. Hope work is going well! :)
Love your book reviews. Always come back here to watch. I went out to buy 'And Then There Were None', and 'The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency' because of your reviews!!
I read Extremely Loud first and thought The History of Love was a fantastic complement to it, but also incredible on its own. Those two books definitely have the same feel to them, but I haven't read anything else by either author so I can't really say how much they've influenced each other's writing. Definitely wanna read Everything is Illuminated also!
I love Jane Eyre as well. I would recommend (since you also like Hitchhiker's) Jasper Fforde's books, but especially The Eyre Affair which is the first book in his Thursday Next series, the plot revolves largely around Jane Eyre. His books are so so good. Also, Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series is one of my most favorite books ever. One of the series I've read that I would recommend to everyone I meet because I love them so much and they are just amazing. Also, Daughter of Smoke & Bone Trilogy by Laini Taylor and Shadow & Bone (Grisha Trilogy, #1) and the sequels (though #3 isn't published yet) by Leigh Bardugo.
My husband and I really enjoy writing out lists of our likes, ex: Top Ten Beatles Songs, Top Ten Cover Songs, Top 100 Movies (okay, that one he did alone, a bit overwhelming for me!) Anyway, this is brilliant and right up our alley. I'm going to ask him to do this with me :)
Cory Doctorow's YA dystopia novels - Little Brother, Homeland and For the win. Travel Books - Andrew Mueller - I wouldn't start from here or anything by Bill Bryson.
Woot! Woot! For Salt n' Peppa! I absolutely love these sort of recommendation type videos, and *slightly random comment* I love your voice! You have like an 'everything's going to be alright' type voice. Great video!
S.E. Hinton's the Outsiders was the book I read in grade 8 that hit me hardest as a kid. Our whole last semester was spent doing that as our class novel study. :D great video as always!
If you loved Douglas Adams' Last Chance to See, you may be interested in the tv series. Stephen Fry, who was a close friend of Adams, recreates the journey with Mark Carradine. It was really good.
Great video! So many books I love too, and many more to add to my to read list. I'm a big Murakami fan and I've read almost all of his novels (except A Wild Sheep Chase). Oddly enough, Hard Boiled Wonderland is the only one I've started and not finished. I really need to pick it up again. If you're looking for more Nora Ephron I'd suggest her novel Heartburn. PS I just clicked on your Twitter and saw we share a birthday! Hope you had a great day.
Your voice is the absolute best to listen to, and your explanation of reading Mrs Dalloway makes me so excited to read it! I've read to the Lighthouse and Orlando (and the Hours by Michael Cunningham), so Mrs Dalloway is definitely high up on my to-read list. :) Virginia Woolf is just so. great. The language, ah..
What a great video! Awesome selection of books ...quite a few of which i have not read but i tend to like the same books as you so i've got some new ideas for future tbrs
I own the first Chaos Walking book and definitely wanna read it soon! Kafka on the Shore is definitely heavy on the surrealism, but very good! I was introduced to Murakami with Norwegian Wood, which is probably his most "realistic" novel.
I hit like on this video even before watching it because I knew I was going to like it. You have such a great taste in books:) I always enjoy your hauls and reviews.
I love your videos amd hearing you speak about great books , Laraine. Going to look into Hitchhiker's guide now, noone ever managed to convince me to read it before now! I just started reading Robinson Crusoe last night, its genius.
I literally just bought that exact copy of Jane Eyre! :) I have been wanting to read more adult fiction and I think I'm going to use your list as a jumping point because my reading list have been taken over by YA for the longest time... forever it seems and I'm trying to broaden my horizon :) Thanks for the video! Great job and I'm so excited about these new reads!
Some of my all time fav books that I think you might like are: "To See & See Again: A Life in Iran and America" by Tara Bahrampour. Hard to find, but so worth it. I read it in one sitting. "Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Story of her childhood growing up in the 50s and loving the Dodgers - such a fun book. "The Charm School" by Nelson DeMille, spy novel set in Russia...sooo good & "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant....literally sighed out loud when I finished this one. :-)
I think we are, too. What's your favorite Murakami? I've read Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, and Hard-Boiled Wonderland, and I'm trying to figure out which one to read next. Stop it, you're amazing.
You don't have to have read a million books to have favourites in a genre. I say go for it. It is always an opportunity for people to read great books that they haven't seen before. :)
James Patterson - 1st Degree The Womens Muder Club Series are excellent. Short Chaters so that you can pick up and put down but really gripping storylines that you wont want to put down.
Read Dorian Gray and loved it! Gone with the Wind and The Time Machine are definitely on my classics to read list. I'll have to check out that play as well!
Ha! "Until I'm old as fu-" - I think we are friend soul mates. Boom! You described Murakami perfectly. Everything that you mentioned that I have not read has been added to my list. You are extraordinary!
Murakami is one of my favourite authors and i think you explained it just right, that's the feeling!! and how much i love The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams?! actually we have a lot in common bookishly speaking! :)
AHH Tamora Pierce! She is one of my favourite authors! I have just started watching booktubers and this is only the second time I seen any of her books mentioned in a video. I love all her books that are placed in the Tortall world. Have you read any of her other series?
I agree with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - it's an incredible read! Have you read Dirk Gently? You need to, if you haven't. RIP the Great Douglas Adams!
LARAINE. This was such a fantastic video because it is making me want to read or re-read ALL OF THE BOOKS. And I really want to read Murakami, but I can't decide where to start.
Okay, you are way, way too good at talking about books. Now I just want to raid the nearest bookstore and huddle up inside and never, never stop reading. This is dangerous. I need to at least stock up on food or something first.
Making this video made me want to reread it too! And Mrs. Dalloway, because I remember bits of it and how it made me feel, but not everything about it. Rinceyreads has a helpful review of Mrs. Dalloway, if you haven't seen it. :)
Please read Hannah Harrington's books if your interested in reading more contemporary YA. Saving June and Speechless are really beautiful! Also Katie McGarry is really promising! Her first book Pushing the Limits was one of the best things I read last year. Oh and you MUST read Tara Kelly's Harmonic Feedback if you haven't already!! :)
i wanna check out invisible cities & hitchikers guide to galaxy. My faves: the portrait of dorian grey- oscar wilde, gone w the wind- margaret mitchel, the time machine- HGWELLS,. check those out! also my fave play: journeys end by rc sheriff, let me kno wat u thnk if u read/have read any
I realy wanted to like kafka on the shore,got to 30-50 pages,reading him talk to that girl in bus made picture of D quality anime and i couldn't get it out of my head.Is it worth the struggle?
Oooh, I'd make a video answer to this... but I don't think I've read as broadly as necessary... Anyways, amazing vid, but your videos always are so... awesomeness.
Hi! I had City of Thieves for 2 or 3 years in the shelves waiting to be read..And then i watched this video, thank you! XD I made this kind of video too (my channel is in Spanish) but it was twice longer!! So you've done pretty good girl! ;) Esther.
Awesome video. Love Jane Eyre so much! really excited to read Rebecca (I just bought it a little while ago) I really want to check out The Geography of Bliss, sounds good! Have you read anything by Jodi Picoult? If not I would recommend The Pact, it's one of my all time favourites : )
I also loved And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. I recently read The Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie, its different from the other books she has read but I was I didn't not see the ending coming and all the little details came together so well.
You're the First BookTuber I've ever seen talk about The Song of the Lioness. I love all the Tortall Books, All those books are so good, I can re-read the The Song of The Lioness Quartet anytime! I'm really glad to hear you talk about them!!!
Definitely! It's always hard for me to pick top 5 or 10 books because it's so hard to compare books from different genres to each other. Glad we share the Hitchhiker love. And YES, I adore the Persepolis movie!
It was interesting to think about them writing their books at the same time and reading chapters to each other along the way. I think those two books definitely have the same feel to them. Hope you enjoy it!
I am in love with City of Thieves! I haven't seen anyone on booktube mention it before. Also you made me interested in a bunch of new books.
Also, I love your setup with all the books behind you!
Your video made me want to reread The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Also, the way you way you desribed Mrs. Dalloway made me want to pick it up. Like walking in the clouds? I definitely want to sign up for that.
I think I just added all of the books you've mentioned to my TBR. I just love how excited you are when you're talking about them! :)
Jonathan Strange is sitting innocently on top of my Harry Potter books.. big thing just waiting to be read. I've heard so many great things about it, I'm excited to start!
I just finished reading Jane Eyre for the first time today. I LOVED it.
Murakami is always hard to explain... kind of surreal magical isolating worlds.
I love that man!
I just got The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on my Kindle from my library's e-book site. Can't wait to read it!! :)
I really enjoyed this video & am always happy to see a new video from you.
Hope work is going well! :)
Love your book reviews. Always come back here to watch. I went out to buy 'And Then There Were None', and 'The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency' because of your reviews!!
Thank! And yeah, it'd be awesome to watch everyone talk about their genre favorites!
I LOVE hearing other booktubers' favorites! I always get so happy when you have a new video. Keep up the good work!
I read Extremely Loud first and thought The History of Love was a fantastic complement to it, but also incredible on its own. Those two books definitely have the same feel to them, but I haven't read anything else by either author so I can't really say how much they've influenced each other's writing. Definitely wanna read Everything is Illuminated also!
You keep making me adding books on my to-read list!! Thanks :)
I loooove your voice! Never get tired hearing you
That description of Mrs. Dalloway is spot on. Great list!
I love Jane Eyre as well. I would recommend (since you also like Hitchhiker's) Jasper Fforde's books, but especially The Eyre Affair which is the first book in his Thursday Next series, the plot revolves largely around Jane Eyre. His books are so so good. Also, Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series is one of my most favorite books ever. One of the series I've read that I would recommend to everyone I meet because I love them so much and they are just amazing. Also, Daughter of Smoke & Bone Trilogy by Laini Taylor and Shadow & Bone (Grisha Trilogy, #1) and the sequels (though #3 isn't published yet) by Leigh Bardugo.
I've been wanting to read wuthering heights for such a long time. I need to get on that!
My husband and I really enjoy writing out lists of our likes, ex: Top Ten Beatles Songs, Top Ten Cover Songs, Top 100 Movies (okay, that one he did alone, a bit overwhelming for me!) Anyway, this is brilliant and right up our alley. I'm going to ask him to do this with me :)
My school made it mandatory for us to read Aesops Fables. Loved each and every one of them!
Cory Doctorow's YA dystopia novels - Little Brother, Homeland and For the win.
Travel Books - Andrew Mueller - I wouldn't start from here or anything by Bill Bryson.
Woot! Woot! For Salt n' Peppa! I absolutely love these sort of recommendation type videos, and *slightly random comment* I love your voice! You have like an 'everything's going to be alright' type voice. Great video!
S.E. Hinton's the Outsiders was the book I read in grade 8 that hit me hardest as a kid. Our whole last semester was spent doing that as our class novel study. :D great video as always!
Excellent list! I'll definitely have to read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The covers you chose to put up alongside the video as you spoke about the book were gorgeous. Really great selections, glad I subscribed to you.
That edition is so beautiful! It's not the one I own, but it's the one I dream about haha. I'm so glad this video will be useful to you, yaaay!
Yay for Tortall love! Tamora Pierce's books are so badass! I've been dying to reread Song of the Lioness lately. DYING.
If you loved Douglas Adams' Last Chance to See, you may be interested in the tv series. Stephen Fry, who was a close friend of Adams, recreates the journey with Mark Carradine. It was really good.
I TOTALLY understand your feelings about Murakami. There are no words to describe the intensity of his books. I just lose myself in his stories....
Great video! So many books I love too, and many more to add to my to read list.
I'm a big Murakami fan and I've read almost all of his novels (except A Wild Sheep Chase). Oddly enough, Hard Boiled Wonderland is the only one I've started and not finished. I really need to pick it up again.
If you're looking for more Nora Ephron I'd suggest her novel Heartburn.
PS I just clicked on your Twitter and saw we share a birthday! Hope you had a great day.
Love the video, lots of great books here, as well as a couple of my all time favourites, and some other stuff I've been meaning to check out.
Your voice is the absolute best to listen to, and your explanation of reading Mrs Dalloway makes me so excited to read it! I've read to the Lighthouse and Orlando (and the Hours by Michael Cunningham), so Mrs Dalloway is definitely high up on my to-read list. :) Virginia Woolf is just so. great. The language, ah..
What a great video! Awesome selection of books ...quite a few of which i have not read but i tend to like the same books as you so i've got some new ideas for future tbrs
Yes, you must! I never separate Jane Eyre and Rebecca on my bookshelf because those two belong together!
I own the first Chaos Walking book and definitely wanna read it soon! Kafka on the Shore is definitely heavy on the surrealism, but very good! I was introduced to Murakami with Norwegian Wood, which is probably his most "realistic" novel.
I hit like on this video even before watching it because I knew I was going to like it. You have such a great taste in books:) I always enjoy your hauls and reviews.
I love your videos amd hearing you speak about great books , Laraine. Going to look into Hitchhiker's guide now, noone ever managed to convince me to read it before now! I just started reading Robinson Crusoe last night, its genius.
The Alanna books made me love reading. Tamora Pierce is my favorite author.
You seem like such a smart and sassy lady. I really look forward to your videos!
I literally just bought that exact copy of Jane Eyre! :) I have been wanting to read more adult fiction and I think I'm going to use your list as a jumping point because my reading list have been taken over by YA for the longest time... forever it seems and I'm trying to broaden my horizon :) Thanks for the video! Great job and I'm so excited about these new reads!
Some of my all time fav books that I think you might like are: "To See & See Again: A Life in Iran and America" by Tara Bahrampour. Hard to find, but so worth it. I read it in one sitting. "Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Story of her childhood growing up in the 50s and loving the Dodgers - such a fun book. "The Charm School" by Nelson DeMille, spy novel set in Russia...sooo good & "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant....literally sighed out loud when I finished this one. :-)
I think we are, too. What's your favorite Murakami? I've read Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, and Hard-Boiled Wonderland, and I'm trying to figure out which one to read next.
Stop it, you're amazing.
My tbr list just got a lot bigger. Thanks for so many awesome recommendations. Really excited to read hitchhikers guide now. :)
So many great books!!! I've added Last Chance to See to my TBR. It sounds amazing and a bit sad.
Will definitely check those out! I'm really excited to read Bill Bryson. I have Notes from a Small Island waiting on my shelf.
I'm so happy you mentioned Tamora Pierce!!!! I LOVE her. I prefer the Wild Magic and the Protector of the Small quartets ;)
You don't have to have read a million books to have favourites in a genre. I say go for it. It is always an opportunity for people to read great books that they haven't seen before. :)
James Patterson - 1st Degree The Womens Muder Club Series are excellent. Short Chaters so that you can pick up and put down but really gripping storylines that you wont want to put down.
you have wonderful favorite books. i have yet to read the Divergent series... but pretty soon!
Read Dorian Gray and loved it! Gone with the Wind and The Time Machine are definitely on my classics to read list. I'll have to check out that play as well!
I just added 7 new books to my wish list. Thanks so much!
Haha, thanks! Now I wish I could watch and understand your video! Definitely push City of Thieves up on your reading list--it's awesome!
Ha! "Until I'm old as fu-" - I think we are friend soul mates.
Boom! You described Murakami perfectly.
Everything that you mentioned that I have not read has been added to my list. You are extraordinary!
This is a great video! Definitely want to want to check out The City of Thieves and also Invisible Cities, they sound so good!! ^^
Murakami is one of my favourite authors and i think you explained it just right, that's the feeling!! and how much i love The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams?! actually we have a lot in common bookishly speaking! :)
AHH Tamora Pierce! She is one of my favourite authors! I have just started watching booktubers and this is only the second time I seen any of her books mentioned in a video. I love all her books that are placed in the Tortall world. Have you read any of her other series?
I remember seeing the movie version of Rebecca in cinema class back in highschool. Excellent as I'm sure the book is too
I agree with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - it's an incredible read! Have you read Dirk Gently? You need to, if you haven't.
RIP the Great Douglas Adams!
Those books sound great! Will definitely Goodreads.
I do watch The Mindy Project and I love Mindy's little brother! LOVE.
LARAINE. This was such a fantastic video because it is making me want to read or re-read ALL OF THE BOOKS. And I really want to read Murakami, but I can't decide where to start.
I remember asking this question! I LOVED this video :D Now I want to go start booktubing...
Okay, you are way, way too good at talking about books. Now I just want to raid the nearest bookstore and huddle up inside and never, never stop reading. This is dangerous. I need to at least stock up on food or something first.
I wish I had to read that book for school too. I feel like I missed out on some good learning. Time to Goodreads it!
Making this video made me want to reread it too! And Mrs. Dalloway, because I remember bits of it and how it made me feel, but not everything about it. Rinceyreads has a helpful review of Mrs. Dalloway, if you haven't seen it. :)
So glad you loved Jane Eyre! Hope you also enjoy Hitchhiker's Guide!
Work starts this Monday! :D
You should try The Maze Runner! It's a super quick read, and it's just fantastic.
Please read Hannah Harrington's books if your interested in reading more contemporary YA. Saving June and Speechless are really beautiful! Also Katie McGarry is really promising! Her first book Pushing the Limits was one of the best things I read last year. Oh and you MUST read Tara Kelly's Harmonic Feedback if you haven't already!! :)
this is my first time watching your videos and i love you already! :))
I think people are turned off by the whole cousins thing, but Mansfield is so darn good!
larainebrotista I still watch your videos, hoping to hear something new from you again... AAhhhh I miss you girl. I hope you're doing great though :)
3:23 Yes! Old as ..! Great video :)
I'd love it if you made a genre exploration video! :D
So sad and SO AMAZING. I'm excited for you to read it, I think you'd really enjoy it!
Geography of Bliss is such a fascinating read! Definitely check it out. Will Goodreads The Pact!
I agree with spacetubecleaner! I still wanna hear about your faves, even if they're not from a lot of different genres. :) Thanks, Martin!
Such an awesome video! Added several more titles to my reading list :)
YES both are SUCH great reads! And contain the word "city," haha.
Your vids are just excellent :) My fave books, if i rly have to pick, would be the Book Thief and Norwegian Wood.
Haha, I don't think I've ever been called sassy before. Thank you!
Very much enjoyed this!
this should almost become a tag!
i wanna check out invisible cities & hitchikers guide to galaxy. My faves: the portrait of dorian grey- oscar wilde, gone w the wind- margaret mitchel, the time machine- HGWELLS,. check those out! also my fave play: journeys end by rc sheriff, let me kno wat u thnk if u read/have read any
I've read Dirk Gently! Love it!
Beauuuuutiful edition--wish I owned it! :)
Thanks for the awesome recs!
I really liked this video! Thanks for sharing!
Yay for the Curly Tops in the back :)
What is the difference between Ultimate Hitchhikers and the regular book? Amazon doesnt seem to explain it much. Neither do the reviews.
ultimate has 5 of Adams' novels in it.
You should read Paper Towns, it's my favorite book ever and I think you'd really like it :)
I love your videos. I'm glad I came accross your channel :)
Can i have some of the curly tops at your back? i really love them.
I realy wanted to like kafka on the shore,got to 30-50 pages,reading him talk to that girl in bus made picture of D quality anime and i couldn't get it out of my head.Is it worth the struggle?
Oooh, I'd make a video answer to this... but I don't think I've read as broadly as necessary... Anyways, amazing vid, but your videos always are so... awesomeness.
Hi! I had City of Thieves for 2 or 3 years in the shelves waiting to be read..And then i watched this video, thank you! XD
I made this kind of video too (my channel is in Spanish) but it was twice longer!! So you've done pretty good girl!
;)
Esther.
Have heard great things about that book! Will check it out!
Yeah Rebbecca once again~ Love it *_* And I've never read Jane Eyre, so now I definitely check that out.
Awesome video. Love Jane Eyre so much! really excited to read Rebecca (I just bought it a little while ago) I really want to check out The Geography of Bliss, sounds good! Have you read anything by Jodi Picoult? If not I would recommend The Pact, it's one of my all time favourites : )
Thanks! I hope you enjoy Hitchhiker's Guide!