Have I Read a Book Published in Every Year of My Life?
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If being the most creative and innovative person on Booktube was a crime...I'm afraid you'd be in prison
I’m so honoured that you saw my idea and decided to make a video 🥰 I’m also so excited that my comment inspired a new series!! When I made the comment I assumed you had read a book from each year, especially with your childhood favourite series, and thought it would be fun to pick a favourite one I didn’t expect to inspire a new series 🎉🎉
Thank you so much for the idea bestie!! 🤗💕 Please tell me I got your name pronunciation at least *almost* correct ?? 🙏🏻
@@BooksandLala Perfect pronunciation! 💕
This was a great idea!!!
It’s a great idea ! I want to to do it … take me longer though as I’m getting old lol 😅
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Yes! That would be such a fun series! (Especially given that the ‘reading my childhood favorites’ series is sadly over) I would watch, for sure.
It would be such a great spin off series!!
I so badly want the follow up series trying to find a 5⭐️ from the 9 missing years!
I have recommendations! 1993: Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler), Kissing the Witch (Emma Donoghue)
1994: The Memory Police (Yoko Ogawa), Who will run the Frog Hospital (Lorrie Moore)
2004: Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
2006: Fun Home (Alison Bechdel), The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)
The thirteenth tale is one of my favorite books! And I feel like Kayla would love it too
I co-sign Persepolis
Also highly recommend Parable of the Sower and the Memory Police
fun home:'))
Also the Parabe of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler was publish in 1998.
Persepolis deserve more love. It was a great book. I loved that one!
Both Jurassic Park and Good Omens were published in 1990, both great books!!
YES, OMG! I love the idea of this new series. I really love it! Unfortunately, I just went through Goodreads and unless you're interested in trying some older historical romance or Nora Roberts, I've got nothing for any of the years you're missing. Lol. I mean, I do, but still not books I think you'd like. But this was so fun!!
Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin came out in 1990 and she is my absolute favourite author, I think you might really love the Earthsea series but Tehanu can also be read as a stand alone! it’s infinitely special 🥺
yes!!❤
Honestly I had to force my way through the original trilogy so that I could get to Tehanu. It was so damn worth it. I hate that it's the lowest rated of the series, equal to book 1. It's an incredible book.
i absolutely LOVE the idea of reading books published in x year until you get a 5 star. your creativity is unmatched!!!
Here are some suggestions to check. These were all 5 star reads for me in their respective years.
1995: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
1997: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
1998: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
2006: Terrier by Tamora Pierce
The Red Tent is one of my all-time favorite books!
Yes! I'm very into this video series idea. Also, this prompted me to look and see if I've read a book published every year I've been alive. I'm kinda shocked I've done it!
That would be such a fun series! Booktube tends to focus on newer releases which makes sense but I like the idea of breaking it up with some older titles!
1993: The Shipping News - Annie Prouxl
1997: Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
2004: Berlin Poplars - Anne B. Ragde (Norway)
2006: The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield (book about books)
These are a few books I gave 5 stars, I didn't notice if you have already read some of them ☺
Ahhh, I didn't know you could sort Goodreads like that! your video inspired me to check if I've read a book from every year of my life and I have (born in 1985), which was surprising. Not only that, I also have the 70s covered as well! It was so interesting to look at my Read list like that.
My favorite from 1993 is Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, in 1995, Jose Saramago's Blindness (which might be up your alley - weird, dark, apocalyptic concept), Jonathan Coe's House of Sleep for 1997 (also weird, more like unsettling and eerie, about sleep disorders), 2004 is Cloud Atlas (which I think is a great rec for fans of Station Eleven and I haven't reread it, but I still think about it 10 years later, I just talked about it this week with someone and it's so clear in my mind!!), and in 2006 I have a lot of favorites, Elif Shafak's Bastard of Istanbul (multigenerational Turkish women sort of novel, but it's great), Jose Luis Peixoto's The Piano Cemetery (it has a weird sort of circular structure and some interesting experimental writing) and also Cormac McCarthy's The Road, postapocalyptic classic, but very very bleak.
My iPad Goodreads app DOES NOT let me sort by year a book was first written. It shows publication year which is not helpful when a publisher decides to republish an old book. For example, Animal Farm it shows was published in 1996 but according to the physical copy I own, it was written in 1946.
It feels a little 1984ish when Goodreads changes the publication date of a book. (George Orwell wrote both Animal Farm and 1984.)
You saying you’ll be putting out videos ‘for the rest of my life, I love it here’ is maybe the best thing I’ve heard. I so enjoy watching all your videos! Booktube in general feels like home for me, and is a great place to go especially when I’ve had a rough day and it brings me up.
Also, I love this new series idea-I’m here for it. Sounds like it would be interesting.
Jon Krakauer is one of my favorite authors, so yay to the shout out for Into Thin Air!!
Yes yes yes love this idea ❤❤ 1. Because I love a Kayla series no matter the content and 2. As viewers we see the same newer books recommended over and over on booktube and it will be so good to find some awesome “new” older books to dive in to! ❤
You are so real for loving the Georgia Nicolson books 😭 They were seriously an essential part of being a teenage girl in the UK
hi, i have a few recommendations:) they werent all 5 stars for me, but i thought they might be for you.
1997: melancholy death of an oyster boy by tim burton
2002: bleach by tite kubo (if you would like to try some manga), coraline by neil gaiman (the movie is actually kind of better)
2004: the truth about forever by sarah dessen (i know you dont read that much ya but i dunno, i thought id throw it in here)
hope it helps!! im very much looking forward to this series:))
For 1990 I second the people who said Good Omens, since you liked Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I feel like you would enjoy that as well! I also second whoever said Tehanu, though I think that book is best enjoyed if you've read at least The Tombs of Atuan (and honestly also The Farthest Shore) beforehand so not sure I would recommend it as a standalone.
For 1993 there's Parable of the Sower, though I haven't yet read that myself. That's my birth year so it's definitely on the agenda, though!
For 1997, maybe To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis? It's kind of historical, very time travel-y, kind of a romantic comedy. Not sure I'd confidently present it as a five star prediction for you, but a worthy read for sure!
I love the idea of you searching for a favorite book for every year!
I'm on board for a more healthy version of reading until I find a 5 star, not stopping every other project until you find the 5 star but not close the video until you find it, no matter how long it takes. That way you can read a book for this project whenever you can.
My Recommendations -
2004: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (It's not an all time fav of mine, but I think t could really work for you)
2006: World War Z (This IS an all time fav of mine, way better than the movie, many POVs about the zombie apocalypse, you can read it like short stories)
This was really fun! ❤
1995 Assassin's apprentice by Robin Hobb
Love the series idea! The Lovely Bones is from 2002 and The Ruins was 2006.
This was such a cool concept/video idea! I still can’t handle how you get all these amazing video ideas! Love it! ❤
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler was 1993, since u loved Kindred !!!
I'd love it if you read more books that were published in the year that you had the most five stars. Like more 2015 publications, for example.
I did it. 47 and I’ve read multiple from every year. The only two years without five stars are 1988 and 2004.
2012 was such a good year! A man called Ove won in my bunch. I did my list along with you. Ty for the idea to your viewer and that you did this video! There is a slice of life here. We have two of the same, Needful Things and The Martian. :)
Bunny and Middlegame going in the ring had me biting my nails
My mother was a reader she has died. One thing that occurred to me was to find the Pulitser Prize winner the year I was born. I know she would have read that while she was pregnant. Just an interesting thought
I actually really like the idea of a series to hunt a 5-star from every year! It could take a long time but it sounds super fun!
You inspire my reading so much, I decided to check if I had favorites from every year of my life too. I have read at least one book from each year and there's 5 years that I don't have 5 star reads from
One of my projects for this year is a Countdown Challenge. I started by reading a 2022 release and I continue backwards. I hope to get to my birth year, but at my current speed (with a lot of other books interrupting), I won't get to it. That might be an interesting project for you :)
Oh my gosh for 2006 you should absolutely read The Betrayal [or Murder depending on country] of Bindy Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty. It's an Australian YA epistolary mystery about a girl in high school who is super type A and is trying her best. I highly recommend reading this book physically since the formatting is so much fun.
This series was one of my absolute favourites growing up. This is book 3 but they can be read as standalones as they each follow different students and are only loosely connected. I'm so excited because I'd forgotten these existed. I have to reread them immediately.
that series is genius because now we are getting 9 vlogs to watch. yay
This video series could be really cool! We all read so much that is published recently that going back and finding gems published earlier feels really appealing
Absolutely love this video! So interesting to look back on all the years!
This was amazing - loved it so much! Can't wait to see you tackle each year to find a favorite!
I love how you're always coming up with fun new ideas!
I loved this video concept! made me curious about my own reading. you always have the coolest ideas!
I'm guessing 30! A cool follow-up video would be to read books from years you never got to or from years that never found a 5-star favourite! Love this idea so much
I love the concept!! Yes, a different year for each video would be amazing!!
All I have to say is I love your content, I’m so happy I stumbled upon your channel over the past year ❤
1994 rec: A Morbid Taste for Bones (historical mystery) 2004 rec: The Gangster We Are All Looking For (a Vietnamese family in America)
Love the new series idea, Kayla! This was such a fun video. Will definitely be checking my goodreads to see if I’ve done this now
I love this idea! I'm excited to watch. I want to look at my own reads now.
In the Cut by Susanna Moore is 1995 :) one of my faves
This was such a cool video idea! I love how excited you got about books that held a special place for you. So fun ❤
I’m so excited for the series!!
Love this series idea!!! It inspired me to look at my own Goodreads as well to see if I had any years of my life devoid of books.
You have the best shirts! And the best videos but that was a given 🥰 love the way you ran with the channel member’s suggestion!!
please PLEASE do that series!! it sounds really fun!!
Love the new series idea!!! I think I'm going to try this to!
I really like the idea of this potential series! It sounds like it could be fun as long as it doesn't take too too long to find a 5 star.
I'm pretty sure your taste and my taste in books do not overlap much so it's doubtful if any of these suggestions would be helpful but here are some of my 5 stars from the years you're missing.
1990: The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan(1st book in the wheel of time series)
1995: The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman, Wicked - Gregory Maguire
2002: Eragon - Christopher Paolini
2006: Mistborn: The Final Empre - Brandon Sanderson
I LOVE this idea for a video series!
I have been watching you since like 2015 and I remember you talking about some of these as you were reading them. Your glowing reviews of We Are the Ants back in the day led me to read it in 2016 or 17 and it is in my top like 10 books of all time.
Edit: LOVE the idea about the read til a 5 star series!
I think having a video for each year would be a great series!
Yes, I’m so on board for the new series idea!!
That would be such a fun series!! Here for that
Love this idea so much! Very excited to see the series! I have also read a book for every year I've been alive but it's hard to rec some of my favorites because they're all Star Wars🙈
But for stuff I would actually recommend to you:
1990: I Shall Not Be Moved by Maya Angelou
1993: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
1995: Sabriel by Garth Nix
1997: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
1998: The Route of Ice and Salt by Jose Luis Zarate
2002: The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
2004: Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis; The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa
2006: The World to Come by Dara Horn; On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta; The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (mostly because I just think it'd be fun to see you read the Cosmere; you may or may not actually jive with it. Mistborn is a really good place to start with it though)
VERY hyped for this video series, I love me some backlist.
Love this idea for a series!! Can’t wait to see it!
Love this! Yes to new series!!!
Love the series idea! Sounds wonderfully random and fun.
For 1990 I'd love for you to read charmed by Marilyn singer. It's the book that first made me a reader and I own 2 copies because I love it so much ❤
I love this new series idea, i decided to also make a list and missing some in the early 2000 aswell. Some years need a reread 😅
I love this idea so much and can't wait for the vlogs!! ❤️
Looking through my Goodreads and I read a lot of series, apparently.
Five star reads I think you have a good chance of liking:
1990: Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
1993: The Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
Five star reads I'm less sure on:
2004: Let the Right One In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist
2006: The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield.
Edit: Looked again and longshot, but maybe:
1993: Use of Weapons, by Iain Banks
Probably too far outside your SF tastes, but it's interesting and a bit weird. Plot structure is similar to Memento's. (Technically the third book in a series, but they're all basically stand-alones)
Yes! We need a new series after reading childhood favorites. I would love to see this series!
Yesss, I was totally going to suggest that. That would be a good series idea!
A lot of your missing years, I haven't read from at all or I had books that I hated. However, 1990 I would suggest Good Omens. I didn't care for it but maybe you would like it.
Love this and the series idea!!
this looks so fun to do! i aspire to also have a favorite from each year since i was born!
if you choose to go ahead with this challenge, here are some recs:
1993 - parable of the sower (octavia e. butler)
1994 - notes of a crocodile (qiu miaojin)
1995 - blindness (josé saramago)
2002 - fingersmith (sarah waters)
I love "reading until I find a five star" videos, and I think that would work well for the concept
Love the series idea!!
Yes! Very for this series!! So excited!!
Love this idea for a series!!!!
YES to all the series ideas!!!
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel came out in 1994 !!
Yes we would love to see a series of u trying to find a 5 star favorite for every year u r missing
Love the idea of the new series! 😊
I’d love to see this as a series!! It sounds weird and fun series to begin for a long term series!
Yes new series please! I need more feature length Kayla videos lol
I love your suggestion. I'd totally watch that, but I suppose it's gonna take a lot of work.
Yes I’m into the new series. I will definitely watch!
Finding a 5 star read for each of those years would be amazing. No matter how you do it.
love this idea for a series!
Love this new series idea!!!!!
Two of my all-time favorites are from 2006: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
We love it here too! I’m so glad i found your channel
That would be an awesome series!!!
Divergent being better than The Hunger Games is such a bold statement lmao
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Dang, I guessed 28 to be safe. But WOW it's crazy how varied your reading years are! I haven't kept up with my goodreads enough to do this, but maybe it would be a cool idea to see it this way
The shock not to see The Raven King mentioned or picked as your favourite from 2016!!!
Okay but "books from years I've been alive" as like the ~new~ thing to take over the childhood faves itch would be fantastic. Obviously not the same at all, but a similar itch?
YES! Love the new series concept. Can't wait to see how 1990 goes...
Yes to the new series idea !
Yessss love the new series idea!!!
How is it that I'm a channel member but I'm still surprised by every video concept when it shows up? Love iiit!
Yes, yes, yes!! New series, definitely!