What were your favorite books you read in 2021? And let me know if you have any recommendations for me this year! 2:12 Honorable mentions 2:57 Atomic Habits 4:44 Steelheart 5:41 The Slow Regard of Silent Things 6:37 The Fifth Season 8:44 Titus Groan - Gormenghast 10:30 Elric of Melniboné 10:48 Kings of the Wyld 11:19 Project Hail Mary 12:07 One Piece 13:05 Joe Abercrombie Books - Wisdom of Crowds
No way! lol both of us releasing our best of 2021 on the same day. Also good luck on your writing! Can't wait to see more about your novel. Also my goal this year is to read some Murakami as well
Dude, that's awesome! And thank you, I'm excited to share more about my book later this year. I read Kafka on the Shore previously, and I'm so mixed on how I feel about Murakami but overall I like his writing. He's a little pretentious at times and can write some pretty uncomfortable stuff, but it's also just incredibly interesting and imaginative.
12:30 when it comes to one piece don't worry about that one piece fans will definitely find your videos 😂. Especially right now after Daniel and Merphy covering one piece alot of fans are looking for booktubers that speak about the series because they add a different point of view than other videos
Congratulations on beginning Gene Wolfe. It is just the best. Nothing compares. Looking forward to relevant videos. The lack of Wolfe content is a great big blind spot in the book tube ecoverse & I'm thrilled someone is finally going to dive in.
I really appreciate your channel for a lot of reasons. It is top-tier content in the book world for its high effort and creativity alone. You bring a lot of different perspectives into your reviews that aren't just a formula of criteria. I appreciate the transparency into why certain things are important to you. When I am finished with the Kingkiller Chronicles, I cannot wait to dig through all of your coverage on that series.
I want to check out Gormenghast now, and Joe Abercrombie as well. So much to read, so little time😭 While I love the amazing editing in your videos, getting more content from you even if there is a drop in the editing is fine with me. The editing doesn't need to be perfect as your content is already perfect to me!
Abercrombie has been on my TBR for so long now, I plan to get to him this year. I think one of my favourite reads of 2021 was definitely The Sword of Kaigen it just gripped me with some great characters. Excited for you to share more with us about your book and congrats on 50K, it's certainly well deserved!
Just discovered your channel. Nice work. Especially the kingkiller stuff. I've read and favourited basically all the same books as you have listed so I'm scouring your lists for new stuff with high hopes. Kings of the Wyld, I'm coming for you next . Keep it up bro.
Love your skill at summarising books. It’s actually amazing and you make me want to read everything!! 😅 I read the Saga graphic novels for the first time this year, and they were pretty great. 😊
Love your videos. A lot. Would love to see content on: Books of Babel Dresden Files Kingkiller Chronicles (never enough) Malazan 😬 Keep it up! Quality > Quantity all day long.
Always the king of editing! :) My favorite books of 2021 were 5) The Bear and the Nightingale, 4) Strange the Dreamer, 3) A Terrible Fall of Angels, 2) Rhythm of War, and 1) Empire of the Vampire. If you like urban fantasy Dresden-type books you should check out A Terrible Fall of Angels (by Laurell K. Hamilton), if you like bloody grimdark vampire stuff you should check out Empire of the Vampire (by Jay Kristoff) or if you want more thought or details on either of these I do have a video posted where I talk about them more.
Yo...50k is soooo close!! Edit: Atomic Habits is an absolute must-read imo. So interesting and relevant to everyone. My favorite read of the Last year was probably a Memory of Light.
In 2021, I finished The First Law books (which I loved!) and then got stuck with The Stormlight Archives...still not done with Rhythm of War yet! I've read three of The Reckoners books and remember they were fun to read, but not much else. I'm not a big fan of superheroes, good or evil. I really appreciate your book suggestions, Jay. Keep them coming. Thanks. Happy new year ♡.
Thank you so much for your video!! It's always comforting to know others struggle with perfectionism as well. I now have tons more TBR books!! Thanks! ❤
You are so welcome! Perfectionism really is a lot more common then I thought. Before I knew I was a perfectionist, I use to get angry at myself for taking so long on a video or re-doing my lines while recording so much and thought nobody else was having the same issues as me 😂 but it's reassuring in a way to know that many people struggle with it, and identifying it is the first step to fixing those habits. Glad I could help recommend some new books to you! :D
Just found your channel late last year and I'm really enjoying the content! I think the manga vids could work, especially how this whole manga thing is exploding these last few years. Of course you can do other non-One Peace manga reviews ;-)
My fav books of 2021 were (without counting KKC cause it was a reread): 1. Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch 2. Heir of Novron - Michael J Sullivan 3. Golden Son - Pierce Brown 4. Bands of Mourning- Brenden Fraser 5. The Martian - Andy Weir
hell yeah i live for these videos! also, hell yeah 50m. we should have a livestream to celebrate. ps: i know your internet doesn't allow it hha i'm just saying it would be cool
@@CapturedInWords omg yes 🤣 my youtube is in portuguese (i'm portuguese) and i read "mil" (=thousand) and instantly clicked on the "m" haha anywaaaaay congrats on 50k!!!! 🥳🥳
I'm also going through Elric myself right now. Like you said, its such a fun series! The later books are even weirder and even more imaginitive with the ideas Moorcock puts on page. You can clearly see which popular fantasy tropes he essentially started. I recommend "Behold The Man" by Moorcock, one of his best novels. Provocative, controversial but quite interesting.
Kings of the Wyld dominated my 2021, even though I read it a year before. I was (and still am) writing lots of music based on the book. Are you planning to read Bloody Rose? Btw, added a few books from your list to my tbr, thanks! As for my favorites last year, I'd have to say - Starless Sky (by Jacqueline Carey), The Sword of Kaigen, The Invisible Life of Adie Larue, Piranesi, the whole Red Rising Series (possibly with the exception of the first book), Wisdom of Crowds and Cytonic. There were also quite a few really good books, and only a few I didn't enjoy. All in all , a good reading year :D
i love your channel your a great youtuber and your book reviews are amazing i have now some new titels on my reading list and good luck with your novel im curious what the end result will be i have also a few book tips the rover serie from mel odom the child thief and krampus and the plucker and lost gods and slewfoot from gerald brom and also a pelgrimage of swords and the kraken tooth and city of songs from anthony ryan
Have you read Howl’s Moving Castle? It sort of reminds me of how you described the Titus book with the sprawling castle. I loved EotW. I didn’t read as much fantasy or sci-fi this year as normal-I read The Scarlet Pimpernel and LOVED it though. One of the best classics in my opinion.
I also love Abercrombie, If you haven’t yet, you should def experience the Audiobooks! Steven Pacey does an amazing job, maybe for the standalone books you could try the audiobooks. Even though they are standalones you get your regular characters in them too like Shivers in Best Served Cold. I struggled listening to the Heroes because I kept getting confused with all the different union and north men names and some were fighting for opposite sides but it was still a really good book. I have just started Red Country few days ago but I’m actually reading the book because I accidentally ordered a US copy and only wanted the UK versions on my shelf. Once I’m done the book if anyone is in BC, I could potentially mail this copy to them. Not sure if you’ve read the poppy war books but I read the first 2 last year and really liked them. I’ll get to book 3 after Red Country then going to move on to John Gwynne I think. I have both Malice and The Shadow of the Gods on my shelf, anyone recommend which one I should read first??
Actually about to start A Little Hatred soon. I also really enjoyed The Fifth Season this past year and the second book in Kings of the Wyld. Really enjoyed the characters that Nicholas Eames came up with.
I just read Kings of the Wyld last week. It was really fun. My favorites of 2021 were: 1. The Dragon Brigade trilogy (Weis and Krammes) 2. Books of Babel (Bancroft) 3. Children of Time/Children of Ruin (Tchaikovsky) 4. LPQ (Abraham)
Wow your first two honorable mentions are two of my favorites of all time. My top read of 2021 was actually Murakami’s Wind-up Bird Chronicle which I think is even better than the fantastic Hard Boiled Wonderland. And I read Book of the New Sun twice (almost, still have to hit book 4 again) in 2021, such a unique and cool series that reveals more and more with each read. I am also totally with you on perfectionism … I am an editor as well … in fact I’ve commented here before on how much I like your editing … a book that really helped me is “How to Be an Imperfectionist” which sounds pretty close to Atomic Habits, which I’ve heard of and I’ll have to check that out. I started both Fifth Season and Titus Groan in 2021 and DNF’ed both … I loved the writing of Goremghast but found it a little self indulgent … however the way you describe it makes me think I pulled the trigger too soon as it sounds like there’s a strong House of Leaves element that I didn’t get to yet so I’m placing that in my Try Again list and Fifth Season I already intended to try again … I think I was put off by the 2nd person and possibly the narration so I am going to read it instead of listen next try … I often like things I’ve DNF’ed before on second try (Malazan being an example). Anyway, great vid!
Wind-up Bird Chronicle is the next Murakami book I plan on reading, so that's awesome to hear!! Book of the New sun is amazing so far, can't wait to read more. Oh I think I heard of the book “How to Be an Imperfectionist”, I'll definitely add it to my list because I'm sure it will help me. Gormenghast is sort of self-indulgent at times, and sometimes I feel like the author spends too much time telling us interesting descriptions of the people or the castle when the plot could still use some work. I still think it is a masterpiece in it's own way, though it is flawed when it comes to pacing and over-description. But definitely worth a second look!
@@CapturedInWords Cool, definitely sold! I’ll actually try the Rupert Degas narration of Goremghast -- who also does the British version of Kingkiller as well as, incidentally, Wind-up Bird Chronicle! (In a flawless North American accent btw … I couldn’t believe it was him).
I read the Fifth Season a few years back and loved it so much that I went on to finish the next two books back to back. I have read the two books that make up the Shadow and Claw volume. I'm very interested in seeing a video on that volume.
I was watching this video with my 3 year old daughter. When you were showing clips of your girlfriend from you vlog channel she all of a sudden was like, "Mommy, is she a princess?"
Both are incredible books! The hoodie I was wearing at the beginning was from Redbubble, but I think the designer may have taken down the bridge four logo now
Thanks for the ideas. Have you read any James Rollins? High-octane thriller with historical fiction and a bit of realism-fantasy and sci-fi thrown in. I would recommend the Sigma series - starting at the beginning with Sandstorm.
I recommend you read the Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima, the Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke, the Lorien Legacies series, the Peter and the Starcatcher's series, and i'll stop there cause i don't want to give too many. Great vid, i'd read a lot of what you rec'd but definitely going to check out Titus Groan.
Still need to get on the rest of the First Law world, only finished the first Trilogy, but that already cemented Abercrombie as one of my favourite currently working fantasy authors.
I’ve read all of the books except Red Country and Sharp Ends, I just started Red Country finally the other day! I love his writing but I have to admit the audiobooks are even better, I read them while hearing Steven Paceys voice in my head now.
If you enjoted "Fifth Season", you will adore the further volumes. I loved Jemisin's creativity, her prose, and her characters. And I'll just say that the 2nd person narrative is there for a reason. Rothfuss's glimpse into Auri's Underthing existence was utterly beautiful, and I came out of that loving Auri even more (if that is at all possible.
Elric came as a shock. A friend introduced me to this about 50 years ago, and Moorcock became my "go-to" author for "sword and sorcery" with his "Eternal Champion" concept.
I have been spending most of 2021 re-reading rick riodan as i got out of reading in 2020 and didn't finish the magnus chase books or the trials of Apollo. so started them over again and have to hurry as my 14 year old daughter is catching me up! especially in light if the disney+ mini series coming somewhen. As well as this i would like to re-read book 1 & 2 of wheel of time before the second season drops. I am a bit of a re-reader and My mind keeps of wandering wanting to read the dragons of Pern and the dune series again. I have set myself a goal to read a book i have never read before by Easter! i am leaning towards the 1st Mistborne book (having remembered i brought it on offer ages ago on ebook and forgot all about it!) but i sometimes find it hard to trust my reading time to authors i have never read before!
I started reading the Slow Regard of Silent Things with no expectations, and I was still disappointed :D :D Can recommend Kings of the Wyld tho, one of my favorites
Hey Jay, as I get into reading Titus Groan - Gormenghast, I realize the story sounded familiar. Back in 2000 I watched one episode of the mini series, never watched the other episodes due to my busy schedule having an eight year old son. Don't know if you knew about the mini series. It's actually available to watch on RUclips.
While not fantasy, I must highly recommend Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy beginning with the Three Body Problem. Must read and do so before the Netflix adaptation comes out. I hope they do a better job than was done to the Wheel of Time.
Love 3 Body trilogy! I think D&D will do a great job with the show … I thought they knocked it out of the park with GOT when they still had source material and since 3 Body is done I don’t think they’ll fall into that trap again. Hopefully!
Dude that Titus Groan series sounds so sweet. From the 1940’s as well! I DNF’d fifth season it just wasn’t doing it for me. I’m gonna start reading One Piece soon.
Steelheart was the first Sanderson book I read. I chose that one because it seemed to be the series the least amount of people like out of his work. So I decided to start with the least popular one before reading Mistborn. And I really like the Reckoner's series.
I've been rereading a lot this year. I reread the original Mistborn trilogy and secret history. I've been rereading the Wars of Light and Shadow from Janny Wurts an epic fantasy series that I've been reading since 1995. The author just finished the draft of the final book. New books this year were Leviathon Falls by Corey. Great end to that sci fi series. Also I read the Old Man's war series by Scalzi. Also great sci fi. Then I read the Trouble with Peace by Abercrombie.
Here's my best books of 2021 1. Crescent city by Sarah j maas 2. In the ravenous dark by a.m Strickland it's a great standalone fantasy read 3. Best served cold by Joe Abercrombie 4. The kiss quotient by helen Hoang 5. Wizard and glass by Stephen king 6. The prison healer 7. A little hatred by Joe Abercrombie 8. the wastelands by Stephen king 9. From blood and ash 10. Legendborn Honorable mentions Cinderella is dead The comeback by ella berman The kingdom of flesh and fire is The crown of gilded bones by Jennifer l armentrout Sunshine girl by julianna margolis her memoir Supernatural cold fire
I read slow so only read 20 or so but some of my favorites were The Poppy War trilogy by R.F. Kuang, The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne, and Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. First law trilogy was great too!
I read the inheritance trilogy last year I really liked it, how would you compare Fifth Season. I think I opened it up or read a sample and it was written in first person ?? I can’t remember really but it seemed different. Was that easy to get used to?
@@annas1197 I haven't read the Inheritance trilogy just yet! The only other Jemisin I've read is How Ling 'Til Black Future Month? which was also really good. Quite a bit of the Broken Earth trilogy is written in second-person point of view, which is really jarring for a lot of people! It took me a bit to get used to but I ultimately ended up loving how it was written.
Interesting! I looked it up, and the covers even look similar to Gormenghast! Very cool, I'm definitely adding Mordew to my list, it sounds amazing and definitely like something I'd like
I just finished The Broken Earth trilogy from which The Fifth Season is the first book. You should finish the series to figure out so many unanswered questions. Like what was the function of the obelisks?
I got it from Redbubble where artists can upload their art to clothing, but unfortunately they've removed the design since. But there's a few different bridge four stuff on there!
Supererogation. Perfectionists do this. Yes it may have a time cost. But those corners that others cut.... well, they are glaring. And painful. Embrace your perfectionism. It's who you are, and it shows in your vids. Thanks. I enjoy your content.
Ypu said you are a perfectionist ( my boss yelled at me one time at me because of that hahah. Every thimg needs to be perfcet but then i am slow ) which means your book is going to be perfect
I don't know how other manga videos will do, but I guarantee you, that One Piece videos will do great, we are plenty and many and always looking for new blood to bring in our fold to become... ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
Not actually finished it yet! I was meaning to mention it in my honorable mentions but didn't get the time to, but I'll be making a handful of videos on the Books of Babel this year 😄
The art is by Seiji Anderson who made a whole project on 'Hard Boiled Wonderland and The end of the World' (can be found here: seiji.nyc/hbw) and it's a symbolic depiction of The Scientist who develops a way of reading the subconscious and recording it
I think because the stigma of manga 'being for kids' has been dropping as people realize that there's many amazing stories to be found in manga. One Piece in particular is the most best-selling manga of all time and has plenty to offer. Manga is pretty much the same as a graphic novel, so it is a type of novel just not the conventional one
Bro, why would you read Age of Madness without reading the Standalones??? Without reading the standalones you're not going to know characters like Gorst and you miss the redemption arc of Shivers. Imo the second standalone book is where First Law starts getting good.
I was in a rush to get to Age of Madness before I interviewed Joe Abercrombie and Steven Pacey earlier in the year, so I had to skip the standalones 😅 Kinda sucks I missed out on a lot, but I'm going to go back and read them soon
What were your favorite books you read in 2021? And let me know if you have any recommendations for me this year!
2:12 Honorable mentions
2:57 Atomic Habits
4:44 Steelheart
5:41 The Slow Regard of Silent Things
6:37 The Fifth Season
8:44 Titus Groan - Gormenghast
10:30 Elric of Melniboné
10:48 Kings of the Wyld
11:19 Project Hail Mary
12:07 One Piece
13:05 Joe Abercrombie Books - Wisdom of Crowds
I think you would love the rest of the Broken Earth trilogy and would highly recommend finishing it!!
No way! lol both of us releasing our best of 2021 on the same day. Also good luck on your writing! Can't wait to see more about your novel. Also my goal this year is to read some Murakami as well
Dude, that's awesome! And thank you, I'm excited to share more about my book later this year. I read Kafka on the Shore previously, and I'm so mixed on how I feel about Murakami but overall I like his writing. He's a little pretentious at times and can write some pretty uncomfortable stuff, but it's also just incredibly interesting and imaginative.
Get a room already
12:30 when it comes to one piece don't worry about that one piece fans will definitely find your videos 😂. Especially right now after Daniel and Merphy covering one piece alot of fans are looking for booktubers that speak about the series because they add a different point of view than other videos
Congratulations on beginning Gene Wolfe. It is just the best. Nothing compares. Looking forward to relevant videos. The lack of Wolfe content is a great big blind spot in the book tube ecoverse & I'm thrilled someone is finally going to dive in.
The editing of this video is stellar
I really appreciate your channel for a lot of reasons. It is top-tier content in the book world for its high effort and creativity alone. You bring a lot of different perspectives into your reviews that aren't just a formula of criteria. I appreciate the transparency into why certain things are important to you. When I am finished with the Kingkiller Chronicles, I cannot wait to dig through all of your coverage on that series.
I want to check out Gormenghast now, and Joe Abercrombie as well. So much to read, so little time😭
While I love the amazing editing in your videos, getting more content from you even if there is a drop in the editing is fine with me. The editing doesn't need to be perfect as your content is already perfect to me!
Abercrombie has been on my TBR for so long now, I plan to get to him this year. I think one of my favourite reads of 2021 was definitely The Sword of Kaigen it just gripped me with some great characters. Excited for you to share more with us about your book and congrats on 50K, it's certainly well deserved!
Hey man, cheers from Brazil. I’m seeing a lot of yours videos these days, you’re so good, keep doing it!
Hey, thanks! That makes me happy to hear! :)
Its good to see The Best Reads of 2021 from Jake and then you in the same day!!!
Most underrated booktuber channel. Keep up the great videos
Thank you! :D
Just discovered your channel. Nice work. Especially the kingkiller stuff. I've read and favourited basically all the same books as you have listed so I'm scouring your lists for new stuff with high hopes. Kings of the Wyld, I'm coming for you next .
Keep it up bro.
Love your skill at summarising books. It’s actually amazing and you make me want to read everything!! 😅
I read the Saga graphic novels for the first time this year, and they were pretty great. 😊
Looking forward to future Book of the New Sun and Elric videos!
Would love to see Elric and BotNS videos with his editing and narration...
Love your videos. A lot. Would love to see content on:
Books of Babel
Dresden Files
Kingkiller Chronicles (never enough)
Malazan 😬
Keep it up! Quality > Quantity all day long.
Always the king of editing! :) My favorite books of 2021 were 5) The Bear and the Nightingale, 4) Strange the Dreamer, 3) A Terrible Fall of Angels, 2) Rhythm of War, and 1) Empire of the Vampire. If you like urban fantasy Dresden-type books you should check out A Terrible Fall of Angels (by Laurell K. Hamilton), if you like bloody grimdark vampire stuff you should check out Empire of the Vampire (by Jay Kristoff) or if you want more thought or details on either of these I do have a video posted where I talk about them more.
Yo...50k is soooo close!!
Edit: Atomic Habits is an absolute must-read imo. So interesting and relevant to everyone.
My favorite read of the Last year was probably a Memory of Light.
In 2021, I finished The First Law books (which I loved!) and then got stuck with The Stormlight Archives...still not done with Rhythm of War yet!
I've read three of The Reckoners books and remember they were fun to read, but not much else. I'm not a big fan of superheroes, good or evil.
I really appreciate your book suggestions, Jay. Keep them coming. Thanks.
Happy new year ♡.
You didn’t enjoy Stormlight??
@@annas1197 , I'm enjoying it very much! I haven't finished the third book yet 'cause I don't have much time to read. 😉
Love the style of your videos, mate. Can't have enough of them.
Glad to hear it!
Thank you so much for your video!! It's always comforting to know others struggle with perfectionism as well. I now have tons more TBR books!! Thanks! ❤
You are so welcome! Perfectionism really is a lot more common then I thought. Before I knew I was a perfectionist, I use to get angry at myself for taking so long on a video or re-doing my lines while recording so much and thought nobody else was having the same issues as me 😂 but it's reassuring in a way to know that many people struggle with it, and identifying it is the first step to fixing those habits. Glad I could help recommend some new books to you! :D
Just found your channel late last year and I'm really enjoying the content! I think the manga vids could work, especially how this whole manga thing is exploding these last few years. Of course you can do other non-One Peace manga reviews ;-)
My fav books of 2021 were (without counting KKC cause it was a reread):
1. Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
2. Heir of Novron - Michael J Sullivan
3. Golden Son - Pierce Brown
4. Bands of Mourning- Brenden Fraser
5. The Martian - Andy Weir
Brendan Fraser????
@@annas1197 Its a joke from the man carrying thing channel
@@txy9911 ahhh ok, I haven’t watched his channel. I knew it couldn’t be an accidental mistake lol
Oh my God you're writing a book!
Can't wait for you to release it!!!
I can't wait as well!! It will probably still be a few years away though. I give a teaser for my book in my Q&A video going up monday! :D
hell yeah i live for these videos! also, hell yeah 50m. we should have a livestream to celebrate.
ps: i know your internet doesn't allow it hha i'm just saying it would be cool
Wow 50m would be incredible! Haha I know you meant 50k 😉 Thank you! If I had time this week I'd totally love to do a livestream or something
@@CapturedInWords omg yes 🤣 my youtube is in portuguese (i'm portuguese) and i read "mil" (=thousand) and instantly clicked on the "m" haha anywaaaaay congrats on 50k!!!! 🥳🥳
I'm also going through Elric myself right now. Like you said, its such a fun series!
The later books are even weirder and even more imaginitive with the ideas Moorcock puts on page. You can clearly see which popular fantasy tropes he essentially started.
I recommend "Behold The Man" by Moorcock, one of his best novels. Provocative, controversial but quite interesting.
FINALLY someone talks about Elric! Just wait for Stormbringer my friend, by far Moorcocks best book and personally one of my favorite fantasy books.
Great to see Gormenghast on your list!
I higly recommend The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany…. also, compendium of Master Li and Number 10 Ox on kindle. Loving your channel.
Kings of the Wyld dominated my 2021, even though I read it a year before. I was (and still am) writing lots of music based on the book. Are you planning to read Bloody Rose?
Btw, added a few books from your list to my tbr, thanks!
As for my favorites last year, I'd have to say - Starless Sky (by Jacqueline Carey), The Sword of Kaigen, The Invisible Life of Adie Larue, Piranesi, the whole Red Rising Series (possibly with the exception of the first book), Wisdom of Crowds and Cytonic. There were also quite a few really good books, and only a few I didn't enjoy. All in all , a good reading year :D
i love your channel your a great youtuber and your book reviews are amazing i have now some new titels on my reading list and good luck with your novel im curious what the end result will be i have also a few book tips the rover serie from mel odom the child thief and krampus and the plucker and lost gods and slewfoot from gerald brom and also a pelgrimage of swords and the kraken tooth and city of songs from anthony ryan
Have you read Howl’s Moving Castle? It sort of reminds me of how you described the Titus book with the sprawling castle. I loved EotW. I didn’t read as much fantasy or sci-fi this year as normal-I read The Scarlet Pimpernel and LOVED it though. One of the best classics in my opinion.
I also love Abercrombie, If you haven’t yet, you should def experience the Audiobooks! Steven Pacey does an amazing job, maybe for the standalone books you could try the audiobooks. Even though they are standalones you get your regular characters in them too like Shivers in Best Served Cold. I struggled listening to the Heroes because I kept getting confused with all the different union and north men names and some were fighting for opposite sides but it was still a really good book.
I have just started Red Country few days ago but I’m actually reading the book because I accidentally ordered a US copy and only wanted the UK versions on my shelf. Once I’m done the book if anyone is in BC, I could potentially mail this copy to them.
Not sure if you’ve read the poppy war books but I read the first 2 last year and really liked them. I’ll get to book 3 after Red Country then going to move on to John Gwynne I think. I have both Malice and The Shadow of the Gods on my shelf, anyone recommend which one I should read first??
Congrats on 50k!
Thank you!! 😄
Actually about to start A Little Hatred soon. I also really enjoyed The Fifth Season this past year and the second book in Kings of the Wyld. Really enjoyed the characters that Nicholas Eames came up with.
Hey Ben! Good to see you comment, hope you're doing well dude! I can't wait to start Bloody Rose, I've heard so many good things about it
Sweet list. Added most to my 'To read' on goodreads
I just read Kings of the Wyld last week. It was really fun. My favorites of 2021 were:
1. The Dragon Brigade trilogy (Weis and Krammes)
2. Books of Babel (Bancroft)
3. Children of Time/Children of Ruin (Tchaikovsky)
4. LPQ (Abraham)
Wow your first two honorable mentions are two of my favorites of all time. My top read of 2021 was actually Murakami’s Wind-up Bird Chronicle which I think is even better than the fantastic Hard Boiled Wonderland. And I read Book of the New Sun twice (almost, still have to hit book 4 again) in 2021, such a unique and cool series that reveals more and more with each read. I am also totally with you on perfectionism … I am an editor as well … in fact I’ve commented here before on how much I like your editing … a book that really helped me is “How to Be an Imperfectionist” which sounds pretty close to Atomic Habits, which I’ve heard of and I’ll have to check that out. I started both Fifth Season and Titus Groan in 2021 and DNF’ed both … I loved the writing of Goremghast but found it a little self indulgent … however the way you describe it makes me think I pulled the trigger too soon as it sounds like there’s a strong House of Leaves element that I didn’t get to yet so I’m placing that in my Try Again list and Fifth Season I already intended to try again … I think I was put off by the 2nd person and possibly the narration so I am going to read it instead of listen next try … I often like things I’ve DNF’ed before on second try (Malazan being an example). Anyway, great vid!
Wind-up Bird Chronicle is the next Murakami book I plan on reading, so that's awesome to hear!! Book of the New sun is amazing so far, can't wait to read more. Oh I think I heard of the book “How to Be an Imperfectionist”, I'll definitely add it to my list because I'm sure it will help me.
Gormenghast is sort of self-indulgent at times, and sometimes I feel like the author spends too much time telling us interesting descriptions of the people or the castle when the plot could still use some work. I still think it is a masterpiece in it's own way, though it is flawed when it comes to pacing and over-description. But definitely worth a second look!
@@CapturedInWords Cool, definitely sold! I’ll actually try the Rupert Degas narration of Goremghast -- who also does the British version of Kingkiller as well as, incidentally, Wind-up Bird Chronicle! (In a flawless North American accent btw … I couldn’t believe it was him).
I read the Fifth Season a few years back and loved it so much that I went on to finish the next two books back to back.
I have read the two books that make up the Shadow and Claw volume. I'm very interested in seeing a video on that volume.
I was watching this video with my 3 year old daughter. When you were showing clips of your girlfriend from you vlog channel she all of a sudden was like, "Mommy, is she a princess?"
Possibly the best compliment I’ve ever received. Tell her I say thank youu 💕👑
King of the Wyld and Project Hail Mary were both on my list of favorite books in 2021! Also love your sweatshirt! Where did you find it?
Both are incredible books! The hoodie I was wearing at the beginning was from Redbubble, but I think the designer may have taken down the bridge four logo now
Great video and fantastic editing. Adding Titus Groan to my to be read list. Do you mind sharing what you use to find all your art / stock footage?
The Broken Earth series has the *best* ending that I've ever read for a series. I highly recommend you keep going.
I'm excited to continue!!
Thanks for the ideas. Have you read any James Rollins? High-octane thriller with historical fiction and a bit of realism-fantasy and sci-fi thrown in. I would recommend the Sigma series - starting at the beginning with Sandstorm.
I recommend you read the Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima, the Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke, the Lorien Legacies series, the Peter and the Starcatcher's series, and i'll stop there cause i don't want to give too many. Great vid, i'd read a lot of what you rec'd but definitely going to check out Titus Groan.
Still need to get on the rest of the First Law world, only finished the first Trilogy, but that already cemented Abercrombie as one of my favourite currently working fantasy authors.
Abercrombie is amazing! The original First Law trilogy was amazing, and I definitely recommend reading more
Read the First Law standalones maaann! They're just amazing! Joe becomes a new sort of a beast in them!
I’ve read all of the books except Red Country and Sharp Ends, I just started Red Country finally the other day! I love his writing but I have to admit the audiobooks are even better, I read them while hearing Steven Paceys voice in my head now.
I loved the Reckoners trilogy!!! So good. I really need to read Project Hail Mary!
Just finished Project Hail Mary! Fantastic and great ending imho
If you enjoted "Fifth Season", you will adore the further volumes. I loved Jemisin's creativity, her prose, and her characters. And I'll just say that the 2nd person narrative is there for a reason.
Rothfuss's glimpse into Auri's Underthing existence was utterly beautiful, and I came out of that loving Auri even more (if that is at all possible.
Elric came as a shock. A friend introduced me to this about 50 years ago, and Moorcock became my "go-to" author for "sword and sorcery" with his "Eternal Champion" concept.
All of these books look so goods. I going have to get the ones I don't already own.
I have been spending most of 2021 re-reading rick riodan as i got out of reading in 2020 and didn't finish the magnus chase books or the trials of Apollo. so started them over again and have to hurry as my 14 year old daughter is catching me up! especially in light if the disney+ mini series coming somewhen. As well as this i would like to re-read book 1 & 2 of wheel of time before the second season drops. I am a bit of a re-reader and My mind keeps of wandering wanting to read the dragons of Pern and the dune series again. I have set myself a goal to read a book i have never read before by Easter! i am leaning towards the 1st Mistborne book (having remembered i brought it on offer ages ago on ebook and forgot all about it!) but i sometimes find it hard to trust my reading time to authors i have never read before!
I feel the same.... abt Abercrombie's books. I'll definitely look into Titus Groan. Sounds right up my alley
I'm adding a few of these to this years to read list. Moorcock wasn't on kindle this summer but maybe they added some since then.
I started reading the Slow Regard of Silent Things with no expectations, and I was still disappointed :D :D
Can recommend Kings of the Wyld tho, one of my favorites
Hey Jay, as I get into reading Titus Groan - Gormenghast, I realize the story sounded familiar.
Back in 2000 I watched one episode of the mini series, never watched the other episodes due to my busy schedule having an eight year old son.
Don't know if you knew about the mini series. It's actually available to watch on RUclips.
Cool video Jay! Also nice cat
Haha thank you!
Would def love a "if you like this book..then you might like this manga, show, anime, movie etc." style video
While not fantasy, I must highly recommend Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy beginning with the Three Body Problem. Must read and do so before the Netflix adaptation comes out. I hope they do a better job than was done to the Wheel of Time.
Love 3 Body trilogy! I think D&D will do a great job with the show … I thought they knocked it out of the park with GOT when they still had source material and since 3 Body is done I don’t think they’ll fall into that trap again. Hopefully!
I've heard of this series for a long time now! I'll definitely have to read it when I get the chance soon
Dude that Titus Groan series sounds so sweet. From the 1940’s as well! I DNF’d fifth season it just wasn’t doing it for me. I’m gonna start reading One Piece soon.
Book of the new sun is amazing. I'm currently on the 4th book in the series, but I love it.
I'm really loving book1 so far, can't wait to read more!
@@CapturedInWords book 2 (Claw) so far was the most fun to read. I think you'll really enjoy it when you get there.
Steelheart was the first Sanderson book I read. I chose that one because it seemed to be the series the least amount of people like out of his work. So I decided to start with the least popular one before reading Mistborn. And I really like the Reckoner's series.
KOTW was great ;)
Titus Groan is on my ever groaning TBR...
Definitely want manga videos! How far are you into one piece btw?
I've been rereading a lot this year. I reread the original Mistborn trilogy and secret history. I've been rereading the Wars of Light and Shadow from Janny Wurts an epic fantasy series that I've been reading since 1995. The author just finished the draft of the final book. New books this year were Leviathon Falls by Corey. Great end to that sci fi series. Also I read the Old Man's war series by Scalzi. Also great sci fi. Then I read the Trouble with Peace by Abercrombie.
I would recommend John Gwynee Faithful and fallen series starting with Malice :)
Here's my best books of 2021
1. Crescent city by Sarah j maas
2. In the ravenous dark by a.m Strickland it's a great standalone fantasy read
3. Best served cold by Joe Abercrombie
4. The kiss quotient by helen Hoang
5. Wizard and glass by Stephen king
6. The prison healer
7. A little hatred by Joe Abercrombie
8. the wastelands by Stephen king
9. From blood and ash
10. Legendborn
Honorable mentions
Cinderella is dead
The comeback by ella berman
The kingdom of flesh and fire is
The crown of gilded bones by Jennifer l armentrout
Sunshine girl by julianna margolis her memoir
Supernatural cold fire
The Wisdom of Crowds was absolutely amazing.
totally agree!
I still need to read A Slow Regard of Silent Things. It's been on my shelves since it came out 😅
Jay, you would absolutely love We Men of Ash and Shadow by HL Tinsley!
Just checked it out on GR and it sounds very interesting!
Atomic habits is incredible and it's one I recommend to anyone I meet.
I read slow so only read 20 or so but some of my favorites were The Poppy War trilogy by R.F. Kuang, The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne, and Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. First law trilogy was great too!
Just finished eye of the world. Wish me luck on that journey
I still need to read R.F. Kuang and John Gwynne! Hopefully I'll get around to it this year. Good luck with starting Wheel of Time!
@@CapturedInWords Thank you! Starting Great Hunt right now. I'm excited for things to branch out a bit! I'm definitely picking up Atomic Habits soon
The editing at the beginning 😂😂😂😂
The Broken Earth trilogy is excellent, and I'm glad you enjoyed The Fifth Season!
I read the inheritance trilogy last year I really liked it, how would you compare Fifth Season. I think I opened it up or read a sample and it was written in first person ?? I can’t remember really but it seemed different. Was that easy to get used to?
@@annas1197 I haven't read the Inheritance trilogy just yet! The only other Jemisin I've read is How Ling 'Til Black Future Month? which was also really good. Quite a bit of the Broken Earth trilogy is written in second-person point of view, which is really jarring for a lot of people! It took me a bit to get used to but I ultimately ended up loving how it was written.
@@ReadandFindOut sorry that’s what I meant, second person lol I’ll have to give it a shot, right now my TBR is just too long
Only one of these that I also read was Project Hail Mary. It was so good I got 5 friends to also read it.
My favorite reads...🤔...Senlin Ascends, Warbreaker, and Name of the Wind
Those are 3 of my all time favorites! Senlin Ascends is incredible, I can't wait to read more by Bancroft
You should check out Alex Phebys Mordew! It’s a gothic-livecroftian new fresh fantasy and described as very similar to gormenghast
Interesting! I looked it up, and the covers even look similar to Gormenghast! Very cool, I'm definitely adding Mordew to my list, it sounds amazing and definitely like something I'd like
I just finished The Broken Earth trilogy from which The Fifth Season is the first book. You should finish the series to figure out so many unanswered questions. Like what was the function of the obelisks?
I will definitely need to start book 2 soon!
Would love to hear some reviews on shorter mangas like Chainsawman and Hells paradise
Project Hail Mary was soooo good
Yesss!
If you haven't read Tamora Pierce yet, you should really give it a go this year
If you like Steelheart I highly recommend Worm by Wildbow it is the definitive prose superpowers story
Hey where did you get that bridge 4 hoodie? I want one now!
I got it from Redbubble where artists can upload their art to clothing, but unfortunately they've removed the design since. But there's a few different bridge four stuff on there!
Is it possible to read the age of madness without reading all the standalones? Right after the first trilogy
Supererogation. Perfectionists do this. Yes it may have a time cost. But those corners that others cut.... well, they are glaring. And painful.
Embrace your perfectionism. It's who you are, and it shows in your vids.
Thanks. I enjoy your content.
Go ahead with the manga videos man. Cammon, we're all nerds/otakus and reading lovers here
I really enjoyed Battlemage by Peter Flannery... Im sure you'll like it too
I’ve been meaning to read fifth season for so long 😩
Ypu said you are a perfectionist ( my boss yelled at me one time at me because of that hahah. Every thimg needs to be perfcet but then i am slow ) which means your book is going to be perfect
I don't know how other manga videos will do, but I guarantee you, that One Piece videos will do great, we are plenty and many and always looking for new blood to bring in our fold to become... ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
Have you read the Licanius trilogy?
Do you mind if I ask what editing software you use?
I use Adobe Premiere Pro for most stuff, and occasionally Adobe after Effects if it's needed
I've been on a Joe abrcombe binge lol
I think one piece content would do really well on your channel!
You mentioned Fall of Babel in Daniel's Award video, but not this one 😭
Not actually finished it yet! I was meaning to mention it in my honorable mentions but didn't get the time to, but I'll be making a handful of videos on the Books of Babel this year 😄
Jade legacy and Empire of the vampire! Both great…
I need to read those!
What is the image with the guy in glasses holding a water fall in his hand?
The art is by Seiji Anderson who made a whole project on 'Hard Boiled Wonderland and The end of the World' (can be found here: seiji.nyc/hbw) and it's a symbolic depiction of The Scientist who develops a way of reading the subconscious and recording it
Why are all these book channels adding in manga, One Piece, in particular?!? What is going on with that? Not really sure I would call it a novel?
I think because the stigma of manga 'being for kids' has been dropping as people realize that there's many amazing stories to be found in manga. One Piece in particular is the most best-selling manga of all time and has plenty to offer. Manga is pretty much the same as a graphic novel, so it is a type of novel just not the conventional one
@@CapturedInWords I guess, just seems a little out of place. Thanks for the clarity
You still have my dad’s book!? No wonder he’s been calling you a thief 🤔
Can you include full list in the description.
Just added the list 👍
Did 2021 actually happen? I don't recall
Maybe it was all just a bad dream?
Bro, why would you read Age of Madness without reading the Standalones??? Without reading the standalones you're not going to know characters like Gorst and you miss the redemption arc of Shivers. Imo the second standalone book is where First Law starts getting good.
I was in a rush to get to Age of Madness before I interviewed Joe Abercrombie and Steven Pacey earlier in the year, so I had to skip the standalones 😅 Kinda sucks I missed out on a lot, but I'm going to go back and read them soon