Black Sun, Children of Time, Gideon the Ninth, Endymion, and the first three books from The Stormlight Archive is on my list of the best books this year! And I started reading Discworld, and this series is the best thing that happened to me in 2021.
My top 10 are: The great hunt ( wheel of time book #2), I loved it more than the first book Klara and the sun Tender is the flesh Earthlings The poppy war The fifth season Piranesi Dijnn Patrol on the purple line Pachinko Hidden valley road( inside the mind of an American family)
The first book of the stormlight archive Factfulness Pachinko Homegoing Legendborn The vanishing half Kindred What happened to you? The body keeps the score The house in the cerulean sea (so comforting)
This part made me laugh cuz i never really thought about how I have dozens of screenshots of booktube recommendations in my camera roll of people I’ve never met 🤣🤣
Yay thanks, Emily! By the way, I'm about to finish the Eye of the World and I am liking it as well! Many facepalms regarding Mat, too. That dagger story...
A Thousand Splendid Suns is my favorite book of all time! Such an incredible book, and Hosseini does an amazing job of using the tragedy to tell the story and not just making the story sad for the sake of being sad
Haven't found any new favourites this year but the best ones I've read were Jade War, A Monster Calls, The Poppy War and Hunted. And I mostly enjoyed all the books I've read so tis was a really good year for me)
I had a goal this year to read more. As someone who use to be an avid reader, I just haven’t read much the past few years but 2021 has been a really good year for me. I read a lot more this year! So my favorites this year are: A Little Hatred - Joe Abercrombie Parable of the Sower - Octavia E Butler Nos4a2 - Joe Hill The Heir and the Spare The Humans - Matt Haig The Maze Runner Grown The Sundown Motel The Long Walk - Stephen King Near the Bone - Christina Henry Apt Pupil - Stephen King The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker Dune - Frank Herbert The Wolves of Calla - Stephen King The Push - Ashley Audrian From your video I’d like to read Kindred in 2022 and I have a goal to read some authors for the first time including Brandon Sanderson.
Sounds like a great reading year for you!! My son is a huge Brandon Sanderson fan and loves the Stormlight Archive series - glad you're enjoying it! He loves The Wheel of Time, too - read the whole series in 2020 - his pandemic project! Oh, and he loves Joe Abercrombie, too! I wrote down The Sword of Kaigen for my son, since you seem to enjoy the same kinds of books - thanks! I've been meaning to read Octavia Butler for years and have Kindred on my Kindle - I plan to read it next month for a local book group. The Girl with the DRagon Tattoo was excellent - the rest of the series is good, too ... though I wouldn't call it cozy! ha ha Parts of it are very graphic. The movies are good too (the original Swedish ones, not the Hollywood versions - they're OK but not as good). Totally agree with A Thousand Splendid Suns and Khaled Hosseini generally - such a great writer! Ha! And my son just started The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter this week!
I really enjoy The Wheel of Time show. These books were my favorite when I was a teen, and Matt became my favorite character after book four. And in the show, I like him the most.
That moment when I see the title of the video and think "I lost an arm on my last trip home" without ever having read Kindred and you know you watch too much Emily 😂 Nu favourite of the year was "The Song of Achilles" close with "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo", but I still have a few more days to find more favourites 🤞💕
A correction: at least in Swedish (the original language) the series is also called Millennium and the first book is called Men who hate women (Män som hatar kvinnor). And thank you! This gave me motivation to pick up the book, it’s been on my shelf for a while now…
I read The Parable of the Sower by Butler this year and it cemented her as one of my faves. I had previously read Kindred but I felt such a connection with POTS that I was devastated when it was done and even more so knowing that she was writing a third book in the story before she passed. Words of Radiance is one of my favorite books I’ve ever read mostly because the character arc of Kaladin was so well written. With 4 books in the series out now, it’s still my favorite out the bunch.
The WOT Tv show started pretty well, it was intriguing. Then there was an episode or 2 that seemed slightly unfocused but the most recent 2 episodes have been really good, the last episode is set to come out around christmas I think
I'm currently midway through the eye of the world and I enjoy it. It gives me MAJOR LOTR vibes but in a more pleasant reading! Agree with you on both Mat and Min... Keeping on reading and adding more books to my TBR watching this... 🤦♀️😂
I read Kindred this year too. It was amazing. I struggle with whether or not I should buy a physical copy, because it was hard to read sometimes and I'm not sure I'll revisit it. But I do want it to be part of my collection and want to be able to pull it off a shelf for friends to borrow it.
@@BookswithEmilyFox I agree about the covers lol. They often don't look like sci fi novels, they look like dramas or thrillers, and I probably wouldn't have picked them up if someone had not told me about her. I like the 1999 Patternist series covers, it'd be nice to get a modern update in that vein for all of her books, showing beauty and the "magic".
Didn't read that much but my favourite this year were: - The House in the Cerulean Sea - The Hero of Ages (Sazed is now one of my fav characters of all time) - Ann of Green Gables - A Thousand Splendid Suns
Gave the Eye of the World a good solid try and finally finished it in 2020, but didn't enjoy myself! Always have to remind myself it's ok not to like that book/Robert Jordan's writing hahaha. I am so excited to read the Sword of Kaigen and to continue with Joe Abercrombie!! So much fun and Glokta is my fav too, whatta man.
Sword of Kaigen was definitely one of my favourites this year, too! UGH JUST,,, SO GOOD 😩 Towards the middle part of the book, my heart was broken, it still hurts when I remember 💔
Glad to see you're enjoying the wheel of time! Mat is a massive screw-up in the beginning, but he gets a lot better as the books go on. Oh and the girl who predicts their futures is named Min, and you do get a lot more of her!
Read my first Sanderson book this year (skyward) and LOVED IT SM 🥰 I would like to try some of his other works but 1k pages is scaryy 😂 Also definitely trying out a Becky Chambers novel in 2022!! Great recs, thank you!
I read a Thousand Splendid Suns a couple of years ago and I completely cried my eyes out in the middle of the night because I just HAD to finish that story. Husband rolled over 'sad book again?' 😂 But yes, that's a masterpiece!
I'm doing a series challenge next year as well. On top of rereading (and hopefully finishing) The Wheel of Time, I'll be reading one finished trilogy per month
I also really loved The Eye of the World I also was surprised that it was not as dry as other classic fantasy books.😊 I've watched the first 4 episodes of the show and it is amazing! Currebtly reading The Great Hunt as well. But Malice and all other books of The Faithfull and the Fallen serie by John Gwynne are on number 1 from what I read this year they are so good!❤
The eye of the world as you recommended in the video had I read this year it's really one of best Shangri-la as I have read in this genre thanks for the recommendation in the video
My top 10 are: The great hunt ( wheel of time book #2), I loved it more than the first book Klara and the sun Tender is the flesh Earthlings The poppy war The fifth season Piranesi Dijnn Patrol on the purple line Pachinko Hidden valley road( inside the mind of an American family)
I also read “The Girl with the dragon tattoo” this year and it was so good! In Sweden (where the author is from) they’re called “the millennium trilogy” and the first book is called ”men who hates women” 👍
In Dutch the title also translate to "men who hate women". And we also call it the milennium troligy. There's this gorgeous edition with actual dragons on the covers that's on the wishlist. And there's also a second trilogy written by David Lagercrantz. Haven't read those three books yet but they have matching covers with dragons :P
The best books i read this year are The Bell Jar (Plath), The Night Circus (Morgenstern), The Diving pool (Ogawa), Her body and other parties (Machado), One Last Stop (McQuiston) 🥰😊😊
I've really been enjoying the Wheel of Time tv show, enough that I bought the first 3 books and plan on starting them in January. I'm also currently reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Fellow French Quebecer from Montreal here! (I think you're in Montreal... anyway) My favorite books this year were: - Royal Assassin (much better than the other two) - The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo - The hate U give - Pride and Prejudice - The Blade Itself and Before They are hanged - Gone Girl - Skin Game (Dresden FIles #15) which was my favorite Dresden (very uneven series because of the machismo)
Kindred and the sword of Saigen are also on my best Books of the year. I continued the wheel of time series this year and the great hunt was again of my favourites The girl with the dragon tattoo is now high on my TBR The first law was part of last year's favourites. I also started reading comics and absolutely loved Saga, something is killing the children and the nice house on the lake. Also read warbreaker and elantris this year and were favourites Michael Crichtons book also came in my top reads again with Timeline
Im going to try giving The Eye of the World a try again this coming year. I've tried it a few times since I've always LOVED fantasy books, but I never really got that interested in the characters. Ive heard so many good things though so im going to give it another try! Although I have plans for a LOT of big books in 2022 soooo...hopefully it works hahaha.
2021 is my first reading year and I read 26 books. Most of the books I enjoyed because they are from your favorites so it’s hard to pick favorites. Given that, my favorites this year are: - Skyward - 1st book I finished this year - Pride and Prejudice - the only romance & classic of the year - Invisible Women - maddening but enlightening - Project Hail Mary - I liked it more than The Martian because of the friendship factor
So far I've liked the WOT TV show. I think it could use a little more character building of the guys from Two Rivers but it has been interesting. I think since you liked the book you will like the show.
I agree with Sanderson - I don't know how he can deliver several 1000+ page novels without making a single, solitary thing about them boring. And I've even read them a couple times!! I don't reread - too many books to get to. It's astounding. So good. I'm happy you liked WOT and aren't grouchy at it like I was. I got very fed up with the pacing and how many different fat innkeepers we had to meet. I made it to book 5 before realizing I just couldn't spend any more time on it for now. People kept saying book 5 is awesome "then it gets really tangenty and slow from 6-8." I figured if I was struggling that much at "the good ones" I'd better just leave off there lol. Sword of Kaigen is on my list too. It caught me off guard how much I ended up loving it. I almost DNFed at 30%. I love Joe Abercrombie. I can't wait for you to get to Best Served Cold. Rage of Dragons made my list also - I loved the training sequences and mock battles - so fun! I didn't totally care for where the series might be going based on the ending, so I haven't been in a hurry to get to the next one, but I loved this for what it was.
Hey Emily, thanks for your video. Can I interest you in "Chronicles of the Pied Piper of Hamelin: The Pied Piper, Snowphia and the Missing Children?" It's like Harry Potter, but instead of wizards you have music magicians, instead of muggles you have Earthlings...
These last three months I've had a lot of five stars. I've been binge- reading Saramago's work. And it's AMAZING!! Also, I've tried asian lit. Definitly a challenge with the names. I recommend The vegetarian by Hang Kang and No longer human (don't remember the name of the author now). ❤🤗🇦🇷
Best books I've read this year 5. The Dark Forest 4. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest and three way tie between The Hero of Ages, Words of Radiance, and Daisy Jones & the Six. All three are perfect books imo.
Omg I love yours videos (watched them all). Not a sify or fantasy reader but would love to get into it so if u want to make a video about that I’ll be more than happy to watch them 😁😁😁 bisous ma belle
I also loved Rage of Dragons. I liked book2 even more. A book/series I read last year that might be something you enjoy based on the Fantasy you enjoyed this year is Marilia, the Warlord by Morgan Cole. I read all three books, I got eARCs for them. I think more people should read it, it's either an Indiepub book, or a smallpress.
I've only read Dawn so far from Octavia E Butler and that was such a mishap for me that now I'm a bit afraid to read something else from here but I will probably give her one more chance, maybe Kindred. My best two books are Oryx and Crake from Margaret Atwood and Project Hail Mary. Honorable mention is The three body problem but the second and the third book were much worse so I don't have now the best feelings towards the first book :D
I really want to reread the stormlight archive because I read 1-3 so quickly that I didn’t feel ready when Rhythm of War came out. It’s just sooooo time consuming
My favorites of this year: 11/22/63 by Stephen king One hundred years of lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin The great alone by Kristin Hannah Anxious people by Fredrick Bachman We Begin at the end by Chris Whitaker
For the Eye of the World, Mat gets so much better. Just wait to have his POV, really my favorite character ever. The girl who can see glimpse of the future, kind of, is Min and you will definitely see more of her. For the TV show, some aspects are great, some less so. With the first 7 episodes, the part of book 2 we've seen is more something that happens at the beginning of book 2 that is been moved to happen between events of The Eye of the World
Best books would be Malice by Heather Walter, Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talía Hibbert, When Villains Rise by Rebecca Schaeffer, and I guess Rhythm of War. Oh, I just finished WoT show and... I liked it? I liked the lore/world/magic but I could careless about the characters. The only ones I like are Moiraine and Lan.
I read thousand splinded suns its totally worth it ,I loved it .I did read when the mountains Echoed by Khaled Hussaini it was nice but at the same level as the first book .
Hi! I'm currently reading Six of crows and I feel like it's info-dumping so much. I don't understand the word meanings, so I keep pausing my reading to look up what a word means or who a character is. Should I have read the shadow and bone series first? I was told that Six of Crows was ok to read as a stand-alone.
About Sanderson, I’ve read The Final Empire and it became if not my favorite, my second favorite book of all that I’ve read and now I’m extremely scared to read the second one because how good the first was, I’m afraid lol
It's not one of your best of the year videos if there isn't a book by Becky Chambers. It's one of my faves of the year too and I hope we are both raving about the sequel at the end of 2022!
WoT is my favourite of the year, the second book. I'm finishing the 3rd right now. I've watched the TV series, it started not too good, then got better by the 3rd episode, but after that it's slowly downhill, by episode 7 (currently latest out) I'm disliking it. Ep 8 will tell if this turns into hatred. It went too far from the book, changed the characters to make them more digestible (sellable), cranked up the romance in it (also for views I'm sure), created new romances too, seems like a romance story by now. They tuned down the fantasy (cause expensive) and world and story (because there is no time left for it after so much romance plots). Some choreography and characters look awkward. Just not good. They changed too much, some they reasoned with not being able to fit that much into a season, but by now that's an excuse and some changes weren't because of that. Such a shame, we were looking forward to it so much...
I’m basically hate watching the series at this point. I’m almost done with book three and I’ve been genuinely shocked by some of the choices they have made, mainly romances they have created, but also the shaming of “the men dirtying the one power” nope, there is definitely two and your half is still fine, clam down.
Here's my list of best books of 2021 Crescent city In the ravenous dark by a.m Strickland Best served cold The prison healer A little hatred Wizard and glass by Stephen king The wastelands by Stephen king Supernatural cold fire The kiss quotient The comeback by ella berman great read Cinderella is dead Ties that tether Black sun The gilded ones Lore Wings of ebony Red country
The Wheel of Time tv show is fantastic, but the first 2 or 3 episodes are unfortunately the worst. Really should have been a single 2 hour episode but oh well. Episode 4 onwards are GREAT
I never considered myself a book purest in regards to adaptations, like there will always be something left out or done differently. But… I don’t know if the writers of the show read the books, they did a good job adding diversity to the cast but they did some characters dirty like two of the three more prominent characters played by black actors are “the bad guys” … why? They also left out some important characters letter in the story and I’m curious as to how they will write them in when they learned they messed up. They also made the true source one instead of the “female” and “male” half’s and comes off very trying to be woke and shaming men for being dirty.
What are the best books you've read in 2021? :D
Black Sun, Children of Time, Gideon the Ninth, Endymion, and the first three books from The Stormlight Archive is on my list of the best books this year! And I started reading Discworld, and this series is the best thing that happened to me in 2021.
My top 3: This Tender Land (historical fiction/magical realism), Guns of the Dawn (fantasy), and Sea of Rust (science fiction)
In Persuasion Nation - George Saunders
The Slaves of Solitude - Patrick Hamilton
The Easter Parade - Richard Yates
My top 10 are:
The great hunt ( wheel of time book #2), I loved it more than the first book
Klara and the sun
Tender is the flesh
Earthlings
The poppy war
The fifth season
Piranesi
Dijnn Patrol on the purple line
Pachinko
Hidden valley road( inside the mind of an American family)
The first book of the stormlight archive
Factfulness
Pachinko
Homegoing
Legendborn
The vanishing half
Kindred
What happened to you?
The body keeps the score
The house in the cerulean sea (so comforting)
We love a good creepy screenshot 📸
This part made me laugh cuz i never really thought about how I have dozens of screenshots of booktube recommendations in my camera roll of people I’ve never met 🤣🤣
Excuse me Emily for bringing this up here, but your lipstick in this video looks gorgeous! Could you let us know what shade it is? 😅
I think we all have some in our phones!
It’s Maybelline lip pencil in Own Your Empire!
Yay thanks, Emily! By the way, I'm about to finish the Eye of the World and I am liking it as well! Many facepalms regarding Mat, too. That dagger story...
A Thousand Splendid Suns is my favorite book of all time! Such an incredible book, and Hosseini does an amazing job of using the tragedy to tell the story and not just making the story sad for the sake of being sad
You don't have too many faces. You are a hero with a thousand faces. We are happy to follow you on your journey into 2022.
I love the Warbreaker tie ins with Stormlight.
I enjoy your list, it’s a nice mix of genres too.
Haven't found any new favourites this year but the best ones I've read were Jade War, A Monster Calls, The Poppy War and Hunted. And I mostly enjoyed all the books I've read so tis was a really good year for me)
It was a monumental year of reading for me. And 2022 is looking to be even bigger. Glad to be a part of this community
I had a goal this year to read more. As someone who use to be an avid reader, I just haven’t read much the past few years but 2021 has been a really good year for me. I read a lot more this year! So my favorites this year are:
A Little Hatred - Joe Abercrombie
Parable of the Sower - Octavia E Butler
Nos4a2 - Joe Hill
The Heir and the Spare
The Humans - Matt Haig
The Maze Runner
Grown
The Sundown Motel
The Long Walk - Stephen King
Near the Bone - Christina Henry
Apt Pupil - Stephen King
The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Wolves of Calla - Stephen King
The Push - Ashley Audrian
From your video I’d like to read Kindred in 2022 and I have a goal to read some authors for the first time including Brandon Sanderson.
Sounds like a great reading year for you!! My son is a huge Brandon Sanderson fan and loves the Stormlight Archive series - glad you're enjoying it! He loves The Wheel of Time, too - read the whole series in 2020 - his pandemic project! Oh, and he loves Joe Abercrombie, too! I wrote down The Sword of Kaigen for my son, since you seem to enjoy the same kinds of books - thanks! I've been meaning to read Octavia Butler for years and have Kindred on my Kindle - I plan to read it next month for a local book group. The Girl with the DRagon Tattoo was excellent - the rest of the series is good, too ... though I wouldn't call it cozy! ha ha Parts of it are very graphic. The movies are good too (the original Swedish ones, not the Hollywood versions - they're OK but not as good). Totally agree with A Thousand Splendid Suns and Khaled Hosseini generally - such a great writer! Ha! And my son just started The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter this week!
Recently got The Kite Runner and waiting for Kindred on the mail because of your recommendations! I may read one of them before the year ends.
I agree with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo! I've also read it this year and LOVE it! I'm currently reading the sequel
I really enjoy The Wheel of Time show. These books were my favorite when I was a teen, and Matt became my favorite character after book four. And in the show, I like him the most.
He’s definitely likeable but he drove me crazy haha
Best of the year for me was The Count of Montecristo. Was not expecting to be hooked so quickly and love it so much.
Thank you for recognizing the importance of the " the book hold". Have a great day.
That moment when I see the title of the video and think "I lost an arm on my last trip home" without ever having read Kindred and you know you watch too much Emily 😂 Nu favourite of the year was "The Song of Achilles" close with "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo", but I still have a few more days to find more favourites 🤞💕
I am so glad that you enjoyed Words of radiance, it is a true masterpiece
I can't wait to continue!
A correction: at least in Swedish (the original language) the series is also called Millennium and the first book is called Men who hate women (Män som hatar kvinnor).
And thank you! This gave me motivation to pick up the book, it’s been on my shelf for a while now…
I read The Parable of the Sower by Butler this year and it cemented her as one of my faves. I had previously read Kindred but I felt such a connection with POTS that I was devastated when it was done and even more so knowing that she was writing a third book in the story before she passed.
Words of Radiance is one of my favorite books I’ve ever read mostly because the character arc of Kaladin was so well written. With 4 books in the series out now, it’s still my favorite out the bunch.
The WOT Tv show started pretty well, it was intriguing. Then there was an episode or 2 that seemed slightly unfocused but the most recent 2 episodes have been really good, the last episode is set to come out around christmas I think
I'm currently midway through the eye of the world and I enjoy it. It gives me MAJOR LOTR vibes but in a more pleasant reading! Agree with you on both Mat and Min... Keeping on reading and adding more books to my TBR watching this... 🤦♀️😂
I read Kindred this year too. It was amazing. I struggle with whether or not I should buy a physical copy, because it was hard to read sometimes and I'm not sure I'll revisit it. But I do want it to be part of my collection and want to be able to pull it off a shelf for friends to borrow it.
Totally understandable. Also, her books deserve prettier covers! Some editions are good but all the ones I could find are not cute.
@@BookswithEmilyFox I agree about the covers lol. They often don't look like sci fi novels, they look like dramas or thrillers, and I probably wouldn't have picked them up if someone had not told me about her. I like the 1999 Patternist series covers, it'd be nice to get a modern update in that vein for all of her books, showing beauty and the "magic".
Didn't read that much but my favourite this year were:
- The House in the Cerulean Sea
- The Hero of Ages (Sazed is now one of my fav characters of all time)
- Ann of Green Gables
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
I LOVE Sazed :D
Gave the Eye of the World a good solid try and finally finished it in 2020, but didn't enjoy myself! Always have to remind myself it's ok not to like that book/Robert Jordan's writing hahaha. I am so excited to read the Sword of Kaigen and to continue with Joe Abercrombie!! So much fun and Glokta is my fav too, whatta man.
Sword of Kaigen was definitely one of my favourites this year, too! UGH JUST,,, SO GOOD 😩 Towards the middle part of the book, my heart was broken, it still hurts when I remember 💔
You are looking extra beautyful in this video wow!😍
And also very nice recs!!!
Glad to see you're enjoying the wheel of time! Mat is a massive screw-up in the beginning, but he gets a lot better as the books go on. Oh and the girl who predicts their futures is named Min, and you do get a lot more of her!
Read my first Sanderson book this year (skyward) and LOVED IT SM 🥰 I would like to try some of his other works but 1k pages is scaryy 😂
Also definitely trying out a Becky Chambers novel in 2022!! Great recs, thank you!
I read a Thousand Splendid Suns a couple of years ago and I completely cried my eyes out in the middle of the night because I just HAD to finish that story. Husband rolled over 'sad book again?' 😂 But yes, that's a masterpiece!
I'm doing a series challenge next year as well. On top of rereading (and hopefully finishing) The Wheel of Time, I'll be reading one finished trilogy per month
I also really loved The Eye of the World I also was surprised that it was not as dry as other classic fantasy books.😊 I've watched the first 4 episodes of the show and it is amazing! Currebtly reading The Great Hunt as well. But Malice and all other books of The Faithfull and the Fallen serie by John Gwynne are on number 1 from what I read this year they are so good!❤
The eye of the world as you recommended in the video had I read this year it's really one of best Shangri-la as I have read in this genre thanks for the recommendation in the video
I'm glad you enjoyed these!
My top 10 are:
The great hunt ( wheel of time book #2), I loved it more than the first book
Klara and the sun
Tender is the flesh
Earthlings
The poppy war
The fifth season
Piranesi
Dijnn Patrol on the purple line
Pachinko
Hidden valley road( inside the mind of an American family)
I also read “The Girl with the dragon tattoo” this year and it was so good!
In Sweden (where the author is from) they’re called “the millennium trilogy” and the first book is called ”men who hates women” 👍
Yeah I mix the name of the series with the name of the first book 😅
@@BookswithEmilyFox no worries, haha❤️
In Dutch the title also translate to "men who hate women". And we also call it the milennium troligy. There's this gorgeous edition with actual dragons on the covers that's on the wishlist. And there's also a second trilogy written by David Lagercrantz. Haven't read those three books yet but they have matching covers with dragons :P
Bought Kindred from seeing it on your video. I also loved the Becky Chambers book as well. Just got the last The Diviners by Libba Bray.
Well time to place a big book order, because…. Self care 💁🏻♀️
Words of radiance is the best!! And definitely need to read Sword of Kaigen soon!
The best books i read this year are The Bell Jar (Plath), The Night Circus (Morgenstern), The Diving pool (Ogawa), Her body and other parties (Machado), One Last Stop (McQuiston) 🥰😊😊
I've really been enjoying the Wheel of Time tv show, enough that I bought the first 3 books and plan on starting them in January. I'm also currently reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Need to check out you Sanderson video. I am overwhelmed with starting something.
Fellow French Quebecer from Montreal here! (I think you're in Montreal... anyway)
My favorite books this year were:
- Royal Assassin (much better than the other two)
- The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- The hate U give
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Blade Itself and Before They are hanged
- Gone Girl
- Skin Game (Dresden FIles #15) which was my favorite Dresden (very uneven series because of the machismo)
Kindred and the sword of Saigen are also on my best Books of the year.
I continued the wheel of time series this year and the great hunt was again of my favourites
The girl with the dragon tattoo is now high on my TBR
The first law was part of last year's favourites.
I also started reading comics and absolutely loved Saga, something is killing the children and the nice house on the lake.
Also read warbreaker and elantris this year and were favourites
Michael Crichtons book also came in my top reads again with Timeline
omg how did you know about the screenshots 😁 i have way too many!
Im going to try giving The Eye of the World a try again this coming year. I've tried it a few times since I've always LOVED fantasy books, but I never really got that interested in the characters. Ive heard so many good things though so im going to give it another try! Although I have plans for a LOT of big books in 2022 soooo...hopefully it works hahaha.
Just finished a Psalm of wild built and it was so lovely I want to read more. I picked up Becky chambers because of u so ty
I haven’t read any of these books, but you have me wanting to check out Emergency Skin immediately 🥰
2021 is my first reading year and I read 26 books. Most of the books I enjoyed because they are from your favorites so it’s hard to pick favorites.
Given that, my favorites this year are:
- Skyward - 1st book I finished this year
- Pride and Prejudice - the only romance & classic of the year
- Invisible Women - maddening but enlightening
- Project Hail Mary - I liked it more than The Martian because of the friendship factor
So far I've liked the WOT TV show. I think it could use a little more character building of the guys from Two Rivers but it has been interesting. I think since you liked the book you will like the show.
I agree with Sanderson - I don't know how he can deliver several 1000+ page novels without making a single, solitary thing about them boring. And I've even read them a couple times!! I don't reread - too many books to get to. It's astounding. So good.
I'm happy you liked WOT and aren't grouchy at it like I was. I got very fed up with the pacing and how many different fat innkeepers we had to meet. I made it to book 5 before realizing I just couldn't spend any more time on it for now. People kept saying book 5 is awesome "then it gets really tangenty and slow from 6-8." I figured if I was struggling that much at "the good ones" I'd better just leave off there lol.
Sword of Kaigen is on my list too. It caught me off guard how much I ended up loving it. I almost DNFed at 30%.
I love Joe Abercrombie. I can't wait for you to get to Best Served Cold.
Rage of Dragons made my list also - I loved the training sequences and mock battles - so fun! I didn't totally care for where the series might be going based on the ending, so I haven't been in a hurry to get to the next one, but I loved this for what it was.
Hey Emily, thanks for your video. Can I interest you in "Chronicles of the Pied Piper of Hamelin: The Pied Piper, Snowphia and the Missing Children?" It's like Harry Potter, but instead of wizards you have music magicians, instead of muggles you have Earthlings...
These last three months I've had a lot of five stars. I've been binge- reading Saramago's work. And it's AMAZING!! Also, I've tried asian lit. Definitly a challenge with the names. I recommend The vegetarian by Hang Kang and No longer human (don't remember the name of the author now). ❤🤗🇦🇷
Best books I've read this year 5. The Dark Forest 4. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest and three way tie between The Hero of Ages, Words of Radiance, and Daisy Jones & the Six. All three are perfect books imo.
Omg I love yours videos (watched them all). Not a sify or fantasy reader but would love to get into it so if u want to make a video about that I’ll be more than happy to watch them 😁😁😁 bisous ma belle
I litteraly just bought, The girl with the dragon tattoo and cant wait to read it!
I also loved Rage of Dragons. I liked book2 even more.
A book/series I read last year that might be something you enjoy based on the Fantasy you enjoyed this year is Marilia, the Warlord by Morgan Cole. I read all three books, I got eARCs for them. I think more people should read it, it's either an Indiepub book, or a smallpress.
Happy to hear book 2 is even better!
I've been wanting to read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. It's been on my TBR for so long just just so huge I keep putting it off!!
I've only read Dawn so far from Octavia E Butler and that was such a mishap for me that now I'm a bit afraid to read something else from here but I will probably give her one more chance, maybe Kindred. My best two books are Oryx and Crake from Margaret Atwood and Project Hail Mary. Honorable mention is The three body problem but the second and the third book were much worse so I don't have now the best feelings towards the first book :D
My goal for next year is also to complete more series! I start way too many and never finish them
I really want to reread the stormlight archive because I read 1-3 so quickly that I didn’t feel ready when Rhythm of War came out. It’s just sooooo time consuming
My favorites of this year:
11/22/63 by Stephen king
One hundred years of lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
The great alone by Kristin Hannah
Anxious people by Fredrick Bachman
We Begin at the end by Chris Whitaker
Anxious People is also on my list of favorites 😊
Have too many creepy screenshots..... * looks into printscreened album on her phone*
I feel called out :')
For the Eye of the World, Mat gets so much better. Just wait to have his POV, really my favorite character ever. The girl who can see glimpse of the future, kind of, is Min and you will definitely see more of her. For the TV show, some aspects are great, some less so. With the first 7 episodes, the part of book 2 we've seen is more something that happens at the beginning of book 2 that is been moved to happen between events of The Eye of the World
Thank you that's super helpful info!
Lol ‘Em we really need to have a chat about what qualifies as a cozy mystery 🤣🤣
Emly drop us the lipstick name it's so pretty!
It's Maybelline lip pencil in Own Your Empire :) amzn.to/3EemMvd
I was surprised to see A Thousand Splendid Suns on here! Very different from your other favourites lol.
I try to read from every genre so once in a while something out of my comfort zone makes its way in my best of the year haha
Sword of Kaigen is brilliant!
Becky Chambers books are so cozy. Cozy sci-fi.
Yes!! I haven't read anything else quite like it!
Best books would be Malice by Heather Walter, Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talía Hibbert, When Villains Rise by Rebecca Schaeffer, and I guess Rhythm of War.
Oh, I just finished WoT show and... I liked it? I liked the lore/world/magic but I could careless about the characters. The only ones I like are Moiraine and Lan.
Loved Stieg Larsson and Khaled Hosseini when I read it ages ago 😘
Im a little late lol
@@BookswithEmilyFox a little??????😂
@@BookswithEmilyFox but better late than never
i get emotional just *thinking* about sword of kaigen 🥺💘
Excellent Book Review.
I never thought about the fact that other people also take creepy screenshots of book recs 😭 I thought I was alone
"So many of you have screenshots of me on your phone" I feel so called out 😂
Circe was the best book I read this year, I also loved Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton and Beach Read
I read thousand splinded suns its totally worth it ,I loved it .I did read when the mountains Echoed by Khaled Hussaini it was nice but at the same level as the first book .
I’ve still never read Brandon Sanderson 😩
Emily, have you read And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini? Another spectacular book by this author, highly recommend!
Not yet!
Hi! I'm currently reading Six of crows and I feel like it's info-dumping so much. I don't understand the word meanings, so I keep pausing my reading to look up what a word means or who a character is. Should I have read the shadow and bone series first? I was told that Six of Crows was ok to read as a stand-alone.
I read Shadow and Bone before and I feel like I would be very lost without it because of all of the different terms and world building etc
I havent read yet a book by Sandersin...you look stunning
About Sanderson, I’ve read The Final Empire and it became if not my favorite, my second favorite book of all that I’ve read and now I’m extremely scared to read the second one because how good the first was, I’m afraid lol
The second book has some slower parts but I still loved it and then book 3... the ending is just something else!!
I am the weirdo who loves book 2. It’s great and three is fabulous too, perfect ending.
I love Sazed so book 2 worked for me too!
I am enjoying the TV show well enough ^.^ don't take my word for it, but I don't think they included Book 2 in the first season after all...
Please continue the (original) Millennium trilogy . Stieg Larsson was an amazing writer.
I plan on it :)
I do indeed have screenshots of my fav booktubers to remind myself of their book recs. I promise it’s not as weird as it sounds🤣❤️
Honestly we all do 😂
It's not one of your best of the year videos if there isn't a book by Becky Chambers. It's one of my faves of the year too and I hope we are both raving about the sequel at the end of 2022!
WoT is my favourite of the year, the second book. I'm finishing the 3rd right now.
I've watched the TV series, it started not too good, then got better by the 3rd episode, but after that it's slowly downhill, by episode 7 (currently latest out) I'm disliking it. Ep 8 will tell if this turns into hatred. It went too far from the book, changed the characters to make them more digestible (sellable), cranked up the romance in it (also for views I'm sure), created new romances too, seems like a romance story by now. They tuned down the fantasy (cause expensive) and world and story (because there is no time left for it after so much romance plots). Some choreography and characters look awkward. Just not good. They changed too much, some they reasoned with not being able to fit that much into a season, but by now that's an excuse and some changes weren't because of that. Such a shame, we were looking forward to it so much...
I’m basically hate watching the series at this point. I’m almost done with book three and I’ve been genuinely shocked by some of the choices they have made, mainly romances they have created, but also the shaming of “the men dirtying the one power” nope, there is definitely two and your half is still fine, clam down.
My top books this year were Jurassic Park, Home Before Dark, Everybody Sees the Ants, The Little Woods, Pelosi, and It.
Kindred was really good!
Palace of illusions by chitra divakurni bannerjee was so good
Here's my list of best books of 2021
Crescent city
In the ravenous dark by a.m Strickland
Best served cold
The prison healer
A little hatred
Wizard and glass by Stephen king
The wastelands by Stephen king
Supernatural cold fire
The kiss quotient
The comeback by ella berman great read
Cinderella is dead
Ties that tether
Black sun
The gilded ones
Lore
Wings of ebony
Red country
Words of radiance was my favorite book this year😣
In Germany the stieg Larson trilogy is called “ millennium” too. 😊
Yes I mixed the name of the first book with the name of the series 😅
@@BookswithEmilyFox but in Germany the Titel is just 1 word title 😅 really creative 😁
My #1 book of 2021: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
It is sooo amazing!!!❤❤❤📚
The Wheel of Time tv show is fantastic, but the first 2 or 3 episodes are unfortunately the worst. Really should have been a single 2 hour episode but oh well. Episode 4 onwards are GREAT
Hi what color you wearing on you're lips I'm really liking the color
Did you perhaps saw my tweets screamsss. I screenshot books i want to read so i won't lose them😭
kindred broke me
In Romania is also called the Millenium series.and the first book is Men who Hate Women
Yes I mixed it up! In French it’s also the name of the first book
I never considered myself a book purest in regards to adaptations, like there will always be something left out or done differently. But… I don’t know if the writers of the show read the books, they did a good job adding diversity to the cast but they did some characters dirty like two of the three more prominent characters played by black actors are “the bad guys” … why? They also left out some important characters letter in the story and I’m curious as to how they will write them in when they learned they messed up. They also made the true source one instead of the “female” and “male” half’s and comes off very trying to be woke and shaming men for being dirty.
where are all the glokta stans at
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