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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- Can you guess what our listeners most popular favourite book of the year was?? We had an absolute RIOT going over all of your reading statistics! Plus we had to share what books we got for Christmas!
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Ariel talking about Nova Scotia makes me want to vacation there! The tourism department should cut her a check lol
Just to add more weight to this: go go! It's beautiful! 😍
it's so funny to listen to you saying "I've never heard of that book" when is something hugely popular in my circle 😅
Right? It just shows we all end up in different bubbles in the internet!
Wanted to share my bookish memory this year! A few of my friends all around the country have started a "Sisterhood of the Traveling Books" We've all picked a book and annotate it as we read. Once we're done, we ship it off to the next person to do the same. The idea is once everyone has read it, we'll just have a book full of everyone's thoughts and favorite quotes. It's so fun getting to share books this way and reading my friends' hilarious little quips while reading makes the reading experience even better. Do recommend!
Love this idea, I might use it with my Bestie!
Listen, I would not call Small Things Like These a Christmas novella. It is set during Christmas, but that isn't important. It's such an understated, sad and tense story. Forget about the Christmas, read it soon! It's very short but SO POWERFUL. I read 122 books this year and it made my top 10! It’s part of the Sad Irish Fiction sub genre 😂
I totally agree - was my favourite of the year too. I went on to read two more of Claire Keegan's in 2023 and loved them both. Hoping to read the rest this year. 😊
For the alien book seeker - We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchison
I'm one of the Manacled people and I have zero regrets
A Christmas novella is such an understatement for Small Things Like These!
The niche sub-genre "sad Irish books that made me hate nuns" made me laugh as it was 100% a reference to this book! 🤣It is set at Christmas but it sure as hell aint Christmassy so not sure I'd recommend saving it til then! Great writing though.
@@pollyebaker87 Hahaha yes that made me chuckle
I worked at Hugendubel this Christmas season and me and my colleague unpacked a lot of accessories among others the book brush Ariel mentioned. My colleague loved the brush so much they bought it themselves for Christmas. I think it's so random and weird that Ariel mentions this specific item from a German bookstore in the podcast 😂
Happy New Year from a German viewer/ listener, I love the pod ❤
PS: Hugendubel is the biggest bookstore chain in Germany. You can find their stores in every bigger German city :)
That audiobbook stat tells me I have friends who have discovered the joy of listening to books while at work 😄
That's my reason! 😂
0:05 Intro
4:39 🎄Christmas book haul
41:06 listener reading stats!
41:43 How many books did you read this year?
42:37 What genre did you read the most this year?
43:37 Where did you get most of the books you read this year?
44:50 What format did you read most?
45:53 How many books did you DNF (did not finish) this year?
47:16 Rereads!
48:42 If you set a reading goal this year, did you accomplish it?
49:20 📚What was your favourite book of the year?
1:01:50 Did you participate in a buddy read this year?
1:02:55 Are you part of a book club that meets physically?
1:04:15 If you set a number goal, what was the number?
1:05:47 tell us a non-number goal you had fun working on this year and let us know how it went!
1:09:06 Did you find a new sub-genre that really got you excited this year?
1:15:38 A memory/tale of a new bookshop you went to this year
1:24:39 Mashed potato books
1:25:02 Do you wish you'd been better at spending time reading rather than going on your phone?
1:26:03 What reading trend did you notice this year?
1:27:37 What prediction do you have for the book world for next year?
1:29:52 Any final reading thought?
I think these are the listeners' top 5 fave books if I'm not mistaken
・Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow (43 ppl)
・A Psalm for the Wild-Built / A Prayer for The Crown-Shy (40 ppl)
・Babel (28 ppl)
・Demon Copperhead (18 ppl)
・Our Wives Under the Sea (18 ppl)
The cloths ... In Japan they don't have hand dryers and don't reliably have paper towels to dry hands so EVERYONE carries small cloths to dry their hands after washing them when using public toilets. And, as with everything in Japan, they sell them everywhere and they are all super beautifully designed.
Sad Irish fiction - claire keegan would be included in that. If you don't want to wait til next Christmas, Foster by her is amazing (i preferred) and she specialises in short fiction (novellas) so easy to fit in.
12 other people besides me loved Project Hail Mary the most?! OMG that is incredible, y'all have immaculate taste!
Omg Ariel you pronounced "Hugendubel" (from the bookshop story of the person travelling Germany by train) so well!
I discovered this podcast at the end of 2022 and during 2023 I listened to ALL the episodes, mostly while taking my evening walk❤ with this episode Im up to date now! Thank you for giving me so much joy during this year🎉 Happy 2024! Greetings from Panama🇵🇦
Thank you for this bonus episode! ❤ Your podcast has been a tremendous joy for me in 2023 and I hope you never get tired of making it!!
Your conversations are wholesome and make me feel cozy AND cosy inside 😅😂😅 haha
The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier that someone mentioned in the subgenre section might be right up your alley (both of you)! It's literary fiction with one strange anomaly that happens... a plane from France wants to land in New York but that exact plane - passengers and all - already landed six months earlier. It's a duplicate! Very realistic writing and every chapter is about a different character at first, then we follow the fallout of the plane with the duplicates suddenly appearing and what the anomaly could mean. 🙂
Adding moon of crusted snow and the sequel to my TBR immediately ✍️✍️✍️
Lol at the butter tart thing. I’m Canadian living in south Texas and at the grocery store here they have “mini pecan pies” aka butter tarts but don’t call them that it’s wild
mmmmmmmmm...butter tarts.@@erintrolley3074
21:45 wasn't expecting to hear you talk about one of the best pastries in the world (in my not at all unbiased opinion as a Portuguese): The Pastel de Nata. Delicious. Highly recommend it. Also really good pronunciation there Ariel. Really impressed!
i’ve seen “i who have never known men” around a bunch on my fyp this year, so i assumed it was a fairly new release. had no clue it was first published in the 90s!
hehehe i think that y’all’s viewership may overlap a decent amount with allisonpaiges’ bc several of those favorites mentioned are some of her faves throughout the past few years 💗 her, y’all, and lena norms are my cozy bookworm parasocial relationships so it’s cute that y’all kinda have a similar viewership 📕🐛💖 happy new year to you both!
omg!!! I am also in Chicago and just started creating a spreadsheet not that long ago off all the indie book stores in the city to visit! I need to find the person who sent that in so we can compare notes! Re: A Room of One's Own - my fav book store memory was also there this year! I was visiting Madison with my friends and my bestie was borrowing a funny hat I own that has Bigfoot embroidered on it with the words "bigfoot is real and he tried to eat my ass" LOL. anyways when she was checking out the clerk mentioned the hat and she said oh, it's my friend's hat and pointed over to where I was still browsing. I didn't think much of the interaction because that hat always gets lots of comments and I was engaged in the very hard task of winnowing down my book pile from 3 to 2. When I finally went to go check out, the clerk recognized me and was like, "do you like bigfoot bc I have a book rec if you do!!" I was taken aback and of course said yes, let me hear it, thinking it would be a really good quasi non fiction or something. NOPE! It was a smutty lesbian monster romance called Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen!! I haven't read it yet but this quote from Lilly Wachowski has me so excited to get to it! "Well, I guess Bigfoot-Lesbian-RomCom-Mystery-Horror is my new favorite genre! So much fun!”
One of the most popular first contact novels- _Childhood's End_ by Arthur C. Clarke
A Christmas haul and DIGGING INTO DATA!? This video is an amazing Christmas gift for me 😍 thank you!!
For the person reading alien encounter books: Under the Skin by Michel Faber!!!
I am with the other 44 people! Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is so good 💕💕💕
Me too! Truly one of my favorite books of all time, I’m already planning to reread it soon!
In regard to Legends and Lattes...he also has a book called Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree
really enjoyed this conversation, this was an hour and 35 minutes very well spent, happy new year 🥰
Moon of the Crusted Snow and Moon of the Turning Leaves are both amazing reads!
Fourth Wing is new adult, so not quite YA. Personally, I think the greatest thing about the series is that both the author and main character have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and it's become as popular as it is! 😃 And it all started with the new imprint Red Tower Books wanting to release new adult fantasy titles with limited runs of special stencilled edges on the trade editions. The podcast First Edition had a great interview with the publisher about how the Fourth Wing phenomenon came about.
Woo hoo!! Unexpected but wonderful surprise 🥰
I second Manacled and Our wives under the sea!
What I'm learning is that raeleen and I have completely different tastes in books, she didn't like any of my favourite books hahaha
Can y'all share the spreadsheet results link? I'd love to read through more of people's reading challenges for ideas I can try for next year!
For the person looking for earth based alien encounters, I highly recommend No Word from Gurb by Eduardo Mendoza translated from Spanish!
Really love these end-of-year episodes! Such a fun and lovely way to end the year 🥰
What you are looking for is in the library - I just started reading that before bed last night! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. I'm really enjoying it so far and I think you will too ☺
So exciting!! 🎉 Such a fun way to end the year 🙌
I love Saga too!
But I haven't catched up since it came back from the hiatus bc I feel like I would have to re read all the previous issues and I don't know if I have energy for that 😅
Yay!! Love this bonus episode every year. Also, Emily Wilde is a cute cosy adventure about a girl cataloging all the world fae. But, not Sarah J Maas style fae, like creepy Irish faerie tale fae. It's all told in letters and diary entries and was a top book for me this year.
So so fun! Loved hearing all the little stories from the survey
I just bought ‘What You Are Looking for Is in the Library’ during Barnes’ hardcover sale a couple days ago! I read the sample pages online and the writing was just so cozy. I had to have it. 😊 And ‘Days At the Morisaki Bookshop’ has been on my wishlist. Can’t wait to hear what you both think of these books if you ever decide to talk about them on the podcast. :)
Ugh I LOVED our wives under the sea!!
The only good quality book content on the internet right now.
I’ve been to that bookshop in Bath and it’s honestly my favourite bookshop I’ve ever been to. It’s such a vibe!
I'm so interested to see what Raeleen thinks of I Who Have Never Known Men - it's one of my favourite books from last year (I didn't necessarily love it as I was reading it, but haven't been able to stop thinking about it since and want to reread it again really soon). I think that I'd have probably been more inclined to recommend it to Ariel, so I'm interested to see what Raeleen thinks. My other favourite reads of last year were The Haunting of Hill House and Foster by Claire Keegan, which I'd definitely recommend to Ariel: it's kind of what Anne of Green Gables would be if written as literary fiction for adults, and is under 100 pages. Also, Small Things Like These falls much more into the category 'sad Irish novels that make you angry at nuns' than it does Christmassy novella - do not go in expecting a Christmassy good time because you will be very disappointed (it's still an amazing novel which I'd 100% recommend, it's just not that 😂)
56:03 I saw a TikTok of a girl lovingly binding a copy of Manacled for her friend for Christmas and she absolutely loved it
When I filled out the form I forgot that I was in Dublin this year and stumbled on a bookshop in a little side street called The Gutter Bookshop, inspired by an Oscar Wilde quote. It was such a cute little bookshop and it was so nicely curated. They have a website as well with some interesting categories and staff picks. I was meeting my brother and I showed up late and was like “I found a bookshop” and he was like “what a shocker 😂”
In regard to Dragons: I recently read When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
I think the crossover between Books Unbound listeners and AllisonPaiges (YT channel) subscribers is so clear to me from the books on this list. And if you haven't watched her videos before but loved a lot of the books on this list, 10/10 recommend checking out her recommendations.
OH I have an alien/on earth/grappling with meaning of life suggestion! And it just so happens to be one of my favorites- also has a fantastic movie version. “Mysterious Skin” by Greg Araki.
This was so fun and unexpected! I’m an avid listener but rarely do I read physical books, so I didn’t fill out the survey. Fav aO3 book of the last (3?) years has consistently been Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Falling in Love by isthisselfcare. Manacled has a ton of trigger warnings…I prefer more of a fun adventure. So if manacled’s warnings up top stop you, I suggest you try this one!
I’m fascinated by the categories you use. Methinks I’m going to compile a more thoughtful reading log this year.
Did you do reader stats before the pandemic? I'd be interested to know what the split was on physical books, ebooks and audio before Covid.
22:47 can’t wait for you to make one of those recipes in your newly remodeled kitchen 🍳🥘🧑🏻🍳
If you live in Paris or near Paris in France : everyone, and I mean EVERYONE can have a library card. It's free, you don't need to live IN Paris or to be french or student or whatever. The card grant you access to every library in Paris (except a very few specific ones)
I'm surprised I'm the only one who said The Stolen Heir by Holly Black, because I see that book more than Fourth Wing on social media... 💔
A Psalm for the wild built meant SOO much to me this year so thank you for introducing me to it! 🥹 A perfect story of what its like to stuggle with finding who you are in your late 20-30s ❤
Sooo much this!! It came to me at exactly the right time (early 30s, questioning my career path) and made me feel understood and so much less alone 🥰
Attention City of Kingston, Ontario: You need a good indie bookstore! You’re a university town, for heaven’s sake, plus you have loads of tourists with money to spend. Is it because you’re such a pretty city that nobody thinks you have a brain? 🧠Get it together, Kingston!
Waiting for Rae to mention your favorite book like 👀👀 😂😂
I only found your pod this year and didnt have the energy to find the survey with my crazy holidays, but I'm glad my would-be answers were represented by others! I was a huge fan of mycological horror and Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies! I'd also add Sorrowland as a top fave; I borrow 99% of my books (this year's goal is to read stuff I own); and I mostly read audiobooks because I can listen at work.
Also another vouch here from me for Our Wives Under the Sea!
Moon of the Crusted Snow is excellent. So ‘now.’ So believable. I’m in USA. The sequel won’t publish here until 2/27/24. Can’t wait!
You guys are such great gift givers, i'd love to be like you more
Now I'm wondering if the people who chose "I Who Have Never Known Men" as their favorite book were themselves influenced by BooksWithEmilyFox here on TH-cam, because she talks about that book constantly
I came to the comments to say the same! As well as the also mentioned The wall by Marlen Haushofer. I can recommend both of them 😊
I was! Haha
1:15:05 A Good Year by Polis Loizou is a fantastic novella about a pregnant woman, superstitions, and the trickster forces that emerge around advent.. highly recommend
You guys need to include a fanfic related question in the next survey :DDD
Fascinating that so many people loved Pslam for the Wild Built/Prayer for the Crown Shy because the 1st of those 2 was my least favorite book this year! By a lot!
I really wanted to love those books and expected I would because I really really like Becky Chambers' Wayfarers series, but for some reason that duology fell really flat for me. :( I liked the robot, but not so much the monk. (Glad I got them from the library instead of buying them!)
This was a really fun video! Thank you, ladies!! Happy New Year! 🎊🎆
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Demon Copperhead won the Women’s Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2023.
I recently saw Barbara Kingsolver in person talking about this book, so now I have two more books to read: David Copperfield and Demon Copperhead!
So how many different titles were named as people’s favourite!? 😅
So fun to survey yr fans!
The Haruki Murakami manga series was also turned into a movie: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman , i recommend it it's super fun and trippy :)
I was waiting for my favourite book to be named but I guess either I was the only one who liked it or there weren't any big numbers beyond the T pile. My favourite book of 2023 was When We Cease To Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut.
Is the Monday episode still coming out today?
Love love loving your matching polka dot shirts
I feel like most of the books that you guys don’t recognise are books that were made more popular because of Jack Edwards here on YT
weird way to find out that my speaker is waterproof XD
Whoever said sad Irish fiction please respond to this with book recs because that sounds sick 😂
Yessssss my favourite book!!!!! I who have never known men!
YAAAAASSSS!!!! I was one that voted Tomorrow X3 as my fav of the year!! If you did too you're my people and you get it ✨
Mmmmm pastel de nata ….
"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." _John Wooden
My favorite book of the year was The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama 🌳