I read 87 books last year...here are the ones you should pick up

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  • Опубликовано: 18 янв 2025

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  • @fiddleleaffiction
    @fiddleleaffiction 9 часов назад +51

    YESSS happy 6 years on booktube! 💛 Seriously so grateful for you, Emma, I can’t even put into words. I’ve been going through an unexpected and unwanted divorce through part of 2023 and the entirety of 2024, and I play your vlogs at night and in times of anxiety because they’re so peaceful and comforting. Thank you endlessly for sharing your love of literature with the world, I’ll never be able to thank you enough for the calm you’ve brought to my heart when I’ve most needed it.

    • @soniaahmed-i2h
      @soniaahmed-i2h 8 часов назад +1

      I hope you're doing well ❤️‍🩹

    • @krisxxxxw
      @krisxxxxw 8 часов назад +1

      Sending love ❤❤

  • @picketfenced5771
    @picketfenced5771 5 часов назад +16

    Girl you look gorgeous. I hope you’re doing better. I feel like this newfound peace and happiness is radiating from you and making you glow. Also, your hair looks awesome, it grows super fast

  • @annagardiner8351
    @annagardiner8351 8 часов назад +22

    “Books to get you out of a reading slump” **pulls out count of monte cristo**

  • @milaces1323
    @milaces1323 8 часов назад +4

    Happy 6 years on RUclips Emma! I've been here for 5 of those years and it feels like a lifetime, times goes by very fast when you're enjoying some good books 😊

  • @hanismdy
    @hanismdy 14 минут назад

    Happy 6 years Emma! Just wanna let you know, your channel is one of the best thing youtube ever recommended me five years ago and it changed my reading life to the better. I really thankful for this channel, may it grows and continuously spread the love for books and literature ✨️🎉

  • @jenn9049
    @jenn9049 8 часов назад +13

    i only joined the family in the summer . but it feels like i've been here forever and it feels like home . happy 6 years of the channel Emma!

    • @AdriFVA
      @AdriFVA 3 часа назад

      Yay! So cool to see people still joining in. I've been here the 6 years and I hope you will stay for the next six and onwards. Welcome 💓

  • @vismoix
    @vismoix 8 часов назад +2

    happy 6 years !!! you inspired me so much to read translated works and most of my favourite books of all time are your recommendations.

  • @aaaamnaaaa
    @aaaamnaaaa 3 часа назад +2

    Before I even watch, the thumbnail is GORGING 🔥☀️
    Edit: Eating + Gorgeous = Gorging (it made more sense in my head, I was apparently at a literal loss for words)

  • @karin.007
    @karin.007 4 часа назад

    happy 6 years!! I wanted to say I appreciate you and your videos so much; you have made me think about my reading more retrospectively, and I love you for it. I take reading recs from you regularly - I bought the translation of Count of Monte Cristo you specified the second I saw that giddy reader smile on your face, and I'm so excited to love it this summer, when I have time to read it. Thank you so much Emma, here's to many more years!

  • @AdriFVA
    @AdriFVA 3 часа назад +1

    Love you Emma! Thank you for the past 6 years of content and parasocial companionship lol I've loved being a part of this community and enjoyed - almost - every recommedation. (Can't stand Castle in the clouds and I'll fight you to the death in my head every time you mention it. Thank you) 💞

  • @SanthwanaMichael
    @SanthwanaMichael 3 минуты назад

    Happy 6 years Emma! You have introduced me to some of my most beloved books

  • @delaneyreed5697
    @delaneyreed5697 7 часов назад +2

    The spyxfamily anime is SOOOO GOOOOOOD!! ALso, so excited to read with you and Carolyn this year!🩵

  • @jadebatugo
    @jadebatugo Час назад

    i’m new to your channel but happy six years! i’m excited to go back and watch a bunch of your previous videos

  • @premadimauro2691
    @premadimauro2691 2 часа назад +1

    I am probably one of your oldest viewers 77 years old. My poor brain is having a hard time keeping up with your fast speaking voice. I enjoy you so much so I will continue to keep my brain in pace with your words. Thank you so much for your channel 🎉🎉❤❤

  • @haerhawk
    @haerhawk 8 часов назад +1

    Congratulations on 6 years emma. I wasn't there for all of it but I was there long enough for it to change my life(chose english as my major because of you)

  • @badanya
    @badanya 7 часов назад

    it's been 5 years since i followed you you have come a long way Emma! i really don't comment often but i watch almost all videos of you. happy 6 years on booktube 💗 love you

  • @clubesobrelivros
    @clubesobrelivros 8 часов назад +1

    6 years 🎉🎉 congratulacions Emma, your vídeos are great!!!

  • @whimicalquests
    @whimicalquests 9 часов назад +1

    Huge congratulations on completing 6 years on RUclips emma! 🎉 Here's to many more years!!

  • @sianieisme
    @sianieisme 7 часов назад +1

    I love that you loved Eva Ibbotson - I adored her books growing up and I never hear anyone talking about her! I really want to rediscover her work but I remember enjoying The Morning Gift and The Secret Countess too. She also wrote some fantastic middle grade fiction. Journey to the River Sea is quite similar to A Company of Swans in that it's about a British girl moving to Manaus but it's more of an adventure/mystery novel. Her other middle grade stuff is fantasy/gothic - I'm an English teacher and always recommend them to fans of Harry Potter. Rowling may have plagiarised The Secret of Platform 13 which is a beautiful tale of a magical train platform which leads to a secret world. Would recommend ❤

  • @malissamoench8587
    @malissamoench8587 9 часов назад +3

    Thank you for the videos, Emma! Can't wait to relax to this much anticipated video. I've been rewatching your ASMR videos, too, and would love if you brought them back!

  • @mercury5136
    @mercury5136 6 часов назад

    Congrats on your 6 year anniversary! I've been here for 3 of those years, and it's been such a fun, cozy time ❤

  • @Cubehead27
    @Cubehead27 8 часов назад

    Happy 6 years Emma! 🥳 Been here for a bit under four of them and couldn't be happier, thanks for bringing the joy back to reading for me ☺

  • @aaron_osborne
    @aaron_osborne 3 часа назад

    Happy 6 years your skits are always fun.

  • @ginnieliebherr4245
    @ginnieliebherr4245 8 часов назад

    Six years! Congrats! Been here since 2020. So many great recommendations from you

  • @Nightjewel-rp1bl
    @Nightjewel-rp1bl 7 часов назад

    Congratulations for the 6 years anniversary🎉🎉your channel is a oasis of calm and enlightment energy on the net, i hope i can still enjoy your content in the future✨️

  • @turtlebright
    @turtlebright 2 часа назад

    Such a fun way to categorize all your 2024 reads! ❤ Some made it to my 2025 TBR.

  • @heatherdorsey4770
    @heatherdorsey4770 7 часов назад

    Congratulations on six years!!! 🎉 Thank you for introducing me to Amie McBride and her book "Regrettably, I'm about to Cause Trouble." It was wonderful! I had the best time listening to the audiobook. I see she has another book out, and I can't wait to read it!😊

  • @lewisfishr
    @lewisfishr 57 минут назад

    so upsetting you didnt enjoy senlin ascends. the quartet is so much fun and i love it, it gets less straight up steampunk in the sequels, and more philosophy. you could also try the hexologists also by josiah bancroft!

  • @sianieisme
    @sianieisme 7 часов назад

    If you like ballet/performance/musical fiction then you might also enjoy Noel Streatfeild. I don't know how famous she is outside of the UK - her most well-known work is Ballet Shoes which is about three sisters who are adopted by a professer and discover acting/dance. She wrote middle grade fiction mainly between the 1930s and the 1950s and most of it is about children discovering a love for the stage. I haven't read them since I was a teenager but I remember them being generally very wholesome and lighthearted.

  • @kaizen2049
    @kaizen2049 8 часов назад

    This is the most I've seen someone read in a year! Mind-blowing well done emnie ❤❤❤

  • @martinelanglois3158
    @martinelanglois3158 8 часов назад

    Congratulations ! Happy anniversary ! 🎉
    I love how creative you are in this video: the various sections, the visual... 87 books read and time just flew by. 👏
    Thank you for the work you do and for doing it your way.
    ❤📚

  • @samina6361
    @samina6361 8 часов назад

    i get so happy whenever you upload

  • @emmuhlii
    @emmuhlii 3 часа назад

    If it was 30 years long id still watch!! You inspired me to start my own channel and congratulations on 6 years thats crazy! Ive been watching you for almost 3 years now 🎉❤

  • @deren9704
    @deren9704 5 часов назад

    i’ve been watching every single video you upload since the pandemic and every week i look forward to the notification happy 6 years emma 🎈🥂

  • @TheCryptids-ys8ho
    @TheCryptids-ys8ho 41 минуту назад

    Happy 6 years on booktube! Have you ever read any of Kerstin Giers other books? I haven't read castle in the clouds, but the ruby red series holds a special place in my heart

  • @shrouuuq
    @shrouuuq 5 часов назад

    I can’t believe that I was following you since 6 years and I’m still! You’re my favourite RUclipsr your videos are so calming and inspiring, and brings peace to my day ❤❤❤

  • @stardustajm8618
    @stardustajm8618 Час назад

    Happy 6 years!
    Similar to you and cozy mystery, I don't get cozy fantasy. I just don't get the point of having a fantasy world and writing about a coffee shop haha

  • @moniquebaham
    @moniquebaham 6 часов назад

    I really loved your format for this “year in reading“ video. I would love to see more like this and fewer Tier Lists, if I’m honest. Happy 6th year anniversary!🎉🎉🎉

  • @Bonitolibro
    @Bonitolibro 5 часов назад

    Happy booktuversary Emma 🥳 I’m so thankful for all the amazing books I’ve discovered through your channel ❤️

  • @mattkean1128
    @mattkean1128 7 часов назад

    Definitely several Jon Kalmam Stefansson books i want to get to this year. These Heaven and Hell books, and Your Absence is Darkness. Congratulations on 6 years Emma ❤

  • @barbaralemon4170
    @barbaralemon4170 6 часов назад

    I am hooked on the Will Trent series by Karin Slaughter. These books will pull me right out of a reading slump every time.

  • @pendragon2012
    @pendragon2012 6 часов назад

    Happy anniversary!! Man, are you ever thorough! P.S. I just started The Snow Leopard!

  • @ximenarojas6389
    @ximenarojas6389 4 часа назад

    I really liked brans dream when the three eyed raven talked to him for the first time. It kinda blew up my mind. Probably the only dream chapter I remember trading

  • @Gomesbeatrizx
    @Gomesbeatrizx 5 часов назад

    Hii emma! I am currently reading a book I think you will absolutely love, it's called Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It's non-fiction and talks all about nature and plants through indigenous views. Really recommend the audiobook, the author reads it herself! Lots of love always xx

  • @anoukreads1
    @anoukreads1 7 часов назад

    LOVE these powerpoint videos!

  • @allyswecker9856
    @allyswecker9856 6 часов назад +1

    VONNEGUT FINALLY GETTING HIS FLOWERS ON THIS CHANNEL BRINGS ME SO MUCH JOY THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU PLEASE CHECK OUT CATS CRADLE BY HIM AHHHHHH

    • @allyswecker9856
      @allyswecker9856 6 часов назад

      ALSO HAPPY 6 YEARS!!!! im sorry i have not known such joy in a long time ive been commenting abt vonnegut for so long lmao. did u know Slaughterhouse 5 is based on Vonnegut's real life experience? God he's so amazing, one of the greatest humanitarians to ever live

  • @Antiloottioy
    @Antiloottioy 5 часов назад

    Congratulations on 6 years!! If you feel like giving spy novels another try, how about the Slough House series by Mick Herron, I like that one. Non fiction recs that I liked and read last year are Written in Bone and All That Remains by Sue Black. So if you like reading about death and bones and human remains, I recommend. I started this year by inhaling a series of Sherlock Holmes adventures written by Bonnie MacBird to the point that I now don't know what to do with myself any more.

  • @taycbrown
    @taycbrown 6 часов назад

    Love the Phantom reference at 27:16 🫶

  • @AD-ig2br
    @AD-ig2br 6 часов назад

    I am currently reading Isabel Allende's House of Spirits (thanks to French Booktube) and I am LOVING it.
    For me, it's Zola meets Remedios Varo (a Spanish Surrealist painter who lived in Mexico).

  • @TakaTakaMuTaka
    @TakaTakaMuTaka 4 часа назад

    You have a great speaking voice. Thank you for using it.

  • @PatrikOrjes
    @PatrikOrjes 8 часов назад

    Congrats on 6 years on RUclips! 🥳
    I have this small suspicion that this video might be increasing my TBR by quite a lot. 😂

  • @Marginallist
    @Marginallist 8 часов назад

    Congratulations 🎉 you've been such an inspiration ❤️

  • @c_r_i_ss_y
    @c_r_i_ss_y 8 часов назад

    Love love this video idea ❄️💙 let’s make this an annual tradition too.
    Also, huge lol: I was having a cuppa and spit it out with the Middlemarch comment. Same here.

  • @dieuraltemorla1658
    @dieuraltemorla1658 7 часов назад +1

    Emmas take on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell is so different from mine. I really enjoyed the book because of the atmosphere, while I - so far - have not enjoyed a single Dickens except A Christmas Carol.
    Comparing Susanna Clarkes writing with Dickens makes me shiffer, and not in a good way.

  • @noonesland2471
    @noonesland2471 8 часов назад

    If I have to recommend a non-fic, it'd be "Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty", just such a nice read about a very niche topic!

  • @yassminezaki9564
    @yassminezaki9564 6 часов назад

    I read regrettably I am about to cause trouble because of you and I liked it. It's a fun time ♥️

  • @-Anouck-
    @-Anouck- 8 часов назад

    aaaahhh !! Congrats on 6 years :) If you're gonna read more sci-fi I really really recommend 'A Memory Called Empire' by Arkady Martine and 'Folding Beijing' by Hao Jingfang

  • @Shygrief
    @Shygrief 6 часов назад

    Haha)) Same with Middlemarch. Thank you for pronouncing it 😂 . I felt so guilty because it was written spectacularly well, but I couldn't understand why I was so bored 🙈.

  • @jackjennings1707
    @jackjennings1707 Час назад

    Wow you look great Emma!

  • @SalafiOnyx
    @SalafiOnyx 8 часов назад

    Emma, for migraine, try drinking 10ounce water with a bit of salt in it. Worked for many many people as migraines might be caused by electrolytes imbalance

    • @river3516
      @river3516 8 часов назад

      usually don't appreciate people giving medical advice in YT comments but I'll bite - you mean drink salted water every day, like 10 ounces every day? and do you speak from personal experience or..?
      genuine question because I've been having bad migraines for years, tried almost everything, have even read a whole book about migraines, and have never come across this before

    • @SalafiOnyx
      @SalafiOnyx 7 часов назад

      @river3516 yes in the morning. its from a doctor. And there's a big study where 13 000 people cured their migraines through getting rid of electrolytes imbalance.
      I reduced my migraines by not skipping meals and thus eating more sodium. (I also avoid refined sugar)

    • @river3516
      @river3516 6 часов назад +1

      @@SalafiOnyx thank you for replying! I'll do my research and give it a try; might as well at this point

    • @SalafiOnyx
      @SalafiOnyx 6 часов назад

      @river3516 Stanton Migraine Protocol
      May Allah cure you (and me) 🌷

  • @spexi513
    @spexi513 4 часа назад

    Ditto on the dream thing . In 📚 anddd for me personally in real life too

  • @yannick8372
    @yannick8372 8 часов назад

    Bless me with a bookish girl like Emma 😊

  • @vanessawei3533
    @vanessawei3533 8 часов назад

    Please real the last book in the trilogy, Heart of Man. It has more stories than the second one, meanwhile really shows how the main character develops. And I love the ending so so so much

  • @writerchic676
    @writerchic676 8 часов назад

    Omg you know it’s gonna be a good one when there’s a PowerPoint 🥰

  • @thaliafernandez1378
    @thaliafernandez1378 8 часов назад

    I reread Entwined this year and Frankenstein. 5 stars both of them of course 😍

  • @ShikiPirs
    @ShikiPirs 7 часов назад

    Book besties, I have a question for native English speakers here) If some of the books I pick up I don't read fully, just some parts of it, some chapters or some paragraphes and then I can skip several pages or even chapters and then continue reading parts of this book (to see what happens to the characters or what happens after the major plotwist), can I say that I FLIP THROUGH THE PAGES of the book or FLIP THROUGH THE BOOK , or the only correct way to describe it is to say that I SKIM THROUGH THE BOOK/SKIM THROUGH THE PAGES OF THE BOOK? Please tell me which ones of these 4 options are correct?

    • @rebeccaxo2232
      @rebeccaxo2232 3 часа назад

      Hi!
      You can say all 4 options in my opinion. However, I feel like when people say “skim”, they mean that they read every page, but they just skim over it, like they run their eyes quickly over the page and only intake the main points of the story. In this case “flip through” might be the most appropriate thing for you to say (as you’re skipping chapters/pages), but they both sound correct.

  • @AloBal-n1g
    @AloBal-n1g 5 часов назад

    Love you queen ❤

  • @grenouilleco
    @grenouilleco 8 часов назад

    Underrated, unique and strange sci-fi rec: Lambda by David Musgrave

  • @rich_in_paradise
    @rich_in_paradise 8 часов назад +1

    re Place of Dreams, you will hate Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell (only mentioned because you said previously that you wanted to read more David Mitchell)

  • @ReadBooksMore
    @ReadBooksMore 8 часов назад

    Todays bot of the day brought to you by what the hell magnetic aura is. Dead internet theory gets more real by the day lmao
    Anyways congrats on 6 years!! ✨

  • @abual-yamanal-shukri7627
    @abual-yamanal-shukri7627 9 часов назад +1

    I hope you read the Libyan novelist Ibrahim Al-Koni.

  • @hannahmiller4716
    @hannahmiller4716 4 часа назад

    Hi Emmie!
    How are you?
    How's life treating you?
    I recommend "When The Moon Hatched" by Sarah A. Parker! It's a YA fantasy romance book! I'm obsessed!❤❤❤😊😊

  • @lacherryberry4329
    @lacherryberry4329 6 часов назад

    ❤ㅣlove book 📚📚 review thanks you Emma ❤

  • @floriaes
    @floriaes 55 минут назад

    Oh Emma, you’re going to hate Paprika.

  • @BeeWild12
    @BeeWild12 7 часов назад

    Who is the narrator of the audiobook of The Witches? So I can find it :)

  • @annisartinakos3881
    @annisartinakos3881 9 часов назад

    Impossible...yet...applaudable.

  • @dhaifinaarifah
    @dhaifinaarifah 9 часов назад +1

    i’m early today hahaha and it’s 1am in malaysia 😭

  • @nexhikociu
    @nexhikociu 4 часа назад

    Kadare is a masterfoul writer but his mastery lays in his writing style, not the greates storyteller.
    And that you get by reading him in his original language.

  • @siobhan110
    @siobhan110 8 часов назад

    happy 6 years, our queen!! 🤍

  • @tadeutassis
    @tadeutassis 6 часов назад

    6:42 any chance of new asmr videos in 2025?? 🥺

  • @charliemalkin1451
    @charliemalkin1451 2 часа назад

    Amazing thumbnail

  • @BMTitus
    @BMTitus 7 часов назад +1

    I hope next year there will be Lady MacBethad, and Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell's 1984 on the list. I liked them and I would like to be validated by a Book Tuber.

  • @AloBal-n1g
    @AloBal-n1g 4 часа назад

    Your shoulder my god😅

  • @cristinamontoya1042
    @cristinamontoya1042 43 минуты назад

    omg I read this book around the same time you guys were reading it and omg I love Haruki Murakami and this one kind of disappointed me with all the breasts, boobies, unnecessary.

  • @Natan.Barros
    @Natan.Barros 6 часов назад

    Ur so gorgeous

  • @nayay.1881
    @nayay.1881 9 часов назад

    can i get a hi from you? 🥺

  • @beatrizmiranda576
    @beatrizmiranda576 4 часа назад

  • @saranshnegi6535
    @saranshnegi6535 9 часов назад

    Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy 🥺🥺✨✨😭😭

  • @TheSundayCall
    @TheSundayCall 8 часов назад

    What's the "thing" with your hair?

  • @JohnSeney-t1i
    @JohnSeney-t1i 3 часа назад

    87 books, an actually believable number! Thanks for your honesty which you have always had the atmosphere of!! 👍 "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold" is still the "spy novel" that devastates everyone who reads it and is too realistic for anyone to just "enjoy" it. Great movie, too.

  • @anapaulaquatorzevoltas845
    @anapaulaquatorzevoltas845 4 часа назад

    AFFF. Tradução???????? Sério isso????

  • @toyo.saketoba
    @toyo.saketoba 9 часов назад

    Waaaaa!!

  • @AafrinFathima19
    @AafrinFathima19 9 часов назад

    woohooo

  • @ardenne24
    @ardenne24 8 часов назад

    First 🎉

  • @SavriyaKumawat-z7l
    @SavriyaKumawat-z7l 8 часов назад

    not gonna lie, i wasn’t into this whole “energy” stuff till my friend handed me Magnetic Aura-she wouldn’t shut up about it and now i see why, everyone i know who read it seems more chill and magnetic in this effortless way. it’s not a magic fix but it definitely hits different. finding a copy is a hustle tho, they don’t stick around long

  • @KhushbooC-h4f
    @KhushbooC-h4f 8 часов назад

    you ever meet someone who just has this natural vibe, like they’re on a different level? i found out most of my friends like that all read Magnetic Aura and they swear it’s not about pretending, just being real and not letting negativity drag you down. it’s wild how hard it is to get tho, keeps disappearing everywhere, but maybe that’s what makes it worth it

  • @KhushlbhaiSonara
    @KhushlbhaiSonara 8 часов назад

    i thought Magnetic Aura was just another self-help trend till i saw how it’s lowkey transformed my friends-like they’re way more grounded, confident, and people just wanna be around them. it’s not fake or try-hard, they just seem real and magnetic now. it’s tricky to find tho, gets taken down quick, but worth hunting for

  • @Robin-c9p
    @Robin-c9p 7 часов назад

    Congratulations!
    I have a novel to recommend to your snow-TBR: We do not part, by Han Kang. It's a gorgeous and heartbreaking book and most of it takes place during a blizzard and the snow plays a big part. It's a very sad book, but her brilliantly poetic prose is uplifting in itself.
    And if you enjoyed the mix of recipes and storytelling in Like water to chocolate I wonder I would recommend Nora Ephron's Heartburn - a very funny autobiographical novel, where every now and then she'll talk about some food in her story and stop to tell you how to make it before continuing the story. 🤍❄

  • @rachitgupta1819
    @rachitgupta1819 9 часов назад

    Hii how are you doing, Emma?🥹 I just finished reading Full Moon Coffee Shop, it's about a magical cafe which can spawn anywhere around the world and it is run by talking cats 😍🤌🏻 Its a fantasy involving astrology. I enjoyed reading it ✨

  • @yassminezaki9564
    @yassminezaki9564 6 часов назад

    I read regrettably I am about to cause trouble because of you and I liked it. It's a fun time ♥️