Books mentioned in order : 1. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins 2. Angel Fall, Susan Ee 3. Shadow and bone (trilogy), Leigh Bardugo 4. Six of Crows (duology), Leigh Bardugo 5. Vicious, VE. Schwab 6. Uprooted, Naomi Novik 7. Radio Silence, Alice Oseman 8. The Folk of the air series (trilogy), Holly Black 9. The gilded wolves series (trilogy), Roshani Chokshi 10. The Yellow wallpaper (short story), Charlotte Perkins Gilman 11. The Tao of pooh (short story), Benjamin Hoff 12. The Broken Earth (trilogy), N.J Jemisin 13. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern 14. Bunny, Mona Awad 15. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 16. The Brown Sisters series, Talia Hibbert
What I LOVE about your videos and recommendations is that you always mention what kind of people would like what aspects of the book so I won't waste my time on books that aren't for me. So thank you!
When you said, “I’ve never really been sure about what I want to do with my future, and I’m always low grade having a mental breakdown over that,” that hit me so hard in the feels lol! I’m 33 and I still don’t know what I want to do with my life and also have mental breakdowns about it. 🙃 It’s good to hear we are not alone and can all commiserate together. 😂
46 here and never figured it out. I quit worrying about it and am just doing my thing and trying to enjoy life as much as possible. I read something about how some indigenous cultures believe we are here just to be here to experience the world and don't have to achieve anything to be valid as a human.
For me, it's that what I've always wanted to do with my life and what has actually been feasibly attainable in my reality have just somehow never quite aligned.🙃🫣😅👀 😢
@@jaginaiaelectrizs6341Bro, same. I know what I want to do will not be realistic to pursue or potentially provide me with any income at all so I don’t bother… it stresses me out
Six of crows is by far one of my fav book ever like the characters, the lore, the plot, the worldbuilding eveyetjing is amazing and leigh bardugo will never achive to fail me 😭😭😋
I loved Six of Crows, but the end of the second book. Damn that hurt. I hear she will write a third book in time, but I am still mad! Sorry, it's so vague, but no spoilers.
Growing up my parents had “The Tao of Pooh” on our bookshelves and I really loved Winnie the Pooh (the cartoon) so as a little kid I tried so hard to read it - multiple times - but it went right over my head. You mentioning that book brought up fond memories for me of being a 7 year old pondering Taoism 😂 I’ll definitely grab a copy now that I’m much older. Thanks for the recommendations!!!
When I read Jane Eyre for the first time in 2020, I wasn't expecting it to become my favorite book. It's so hard to explain why I adore it so much. ❤ I think I'm due for a reread.
I’m currently reading The Night Circus and I’m loving it so much! Also Jane Eyre is also one of my favorite books of all time. I’m so glad my English teacher in high school made us read it because it really changed my life
Leonie idk how else to say this but it hurts me phisically that you've never read the raven boys series😭 the synopsis makes it seem really cliché but it is actually not at all like that. it has a magical sentient old forest, a ghost, a pet raven, a family made of psychic women and also quite a bit of horror/macabre things. plus great characters with deep motivations and obsessions. i hope you give it a chance💞
Books that have skyrocketed into my top 3 are The Locked Tomb series because oh my god the lore, and the characters are so full of personality I love them with all my heart these silly necromancers.
Your love for Angelfall has really got me wanting to reread that series. I don’t know anyone else who read that and it was really one of the best series out there at the time
I read The Night Circus because of one of your videos when you talked about it and it became one of my personal favorites of all time SO EASILY, the book is a masterpiece on vibes and I'm forever happy for finding that video (and your channel) in the black hole of booktube
Made a cup of tea just to watch this video. I finished reading Jane Eyre this morning and it became my favorite too... and listening to you saying that it is your favorite book just made me feel so conected to you 😭😭😭 Thank you as always for the most perfect atmosphere, Leonie, your videos makes us slow down and enjoy the moment
I am just reading Shadow and Bone now! Finished the first, loved in enough that I went straight, STRAIGHT to the next (and I really hope I don't regret that) and ordered the third. From me, that level of commitment to a trilogy is practically a literary marriage proposal.
I LOVED THE NIGHT CIRCUS OMG!!!! I loved that sense of not knowing what was happening the entire book and I’m lowkey already obsessed with circuses so it was just pure confusing happiness
10:43 “I think the trees talk, they’re not very nice… that’s how I like my trees” had me dying inside. That line singlehandly had me wanting to read the book.
I'm glad you have such a passion for reading. In today's world, the Internet has stolen the world's love of reading. I'm glad that you and others still have the joy of reading and are hopefully inspiring others to read again. I'm going to hardships at the moment, so reading really helps me through them. I may not read the same books as you, but my love for reading is all the same. My favorite book is "Carrie" by Stephen King. It's cathartic in a way. Not in that way, but I'm glad the character has hardships of her own, like I do now.
I’m SO glad you mentioned the Yellow Wallpaper! It’s suchhh a wonderful and cathartic short story. People need to know more about this! Can’t recommend it enough!
I'm on another Hunger Games kick as I'm reading A Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes to be ready for the movie and I'm loving it. The nostalgia hit is real! 🖤
I am a bit older (43 this December) still enjoy YA Fantasy. I’ve always read, a lot in my childhood & teen years, then lesser, but got back on the hook for Fantasy with the Twilight series, long before the movies, I think book 4 was not released that time. Funny, I‘d read Hunger games, because Stephanie Meyer recommended it somewhere. Since then read a looooot (everything Ilona Andrews, Richelle Mead, Patricia Briggs,). Favorite series’s for me: Kate Daniels (Ilona Andrews), shadowfever series by Karen Marie Moning. I re-read them twice. Newest Favorite is the cruel Prince triology by Holly Black. Special place in my heart has Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Mist of Avalon and The Firebrand. I loved them when I‘d first read them 30 years ago. Not Fantasy Favorite: Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice
Highlights 📚 The Hunger Games: A classic young adult dystopian with a high-action critique of war, reality TV, and class inequality. 📚 Angel Fall: A dark and intriguing dystopian featuring a forbidden romance between a human and an angel. 📚 Shadow and Bone Trilogy: The first high fantasy book that shaped the creator's taste in fantasy, set in a fantasy version of Russia with an elemental magic system. 📚 Six of Crows: A fantasy novel with morally gray characters, taking place in an urban city reminiscent of Amsterdam. 📚 Vicious: A science fiction book with biology-based superpowers, exploring the rivalry between two students. 📚 Uprooted: A standalone fantasy with a folklore-inspired, fairy-tale atmosphere, featuring a master-apprentice relationship. 📚 Radio Silence: A contemporary fiction novel that delves into academic expectations and pursuing one's true passion. 📚 Folk of the Air Series: A highly addictive young adult fantasy series with enemies-to-lovers dynamics. 📚 Gilded Wolves Trilogy: An underrated young adult fantasy series featuring an ensemble cast, puzzles, a unique magic system, and rich mythology.
I read Angelfall after one of your videos, and really liked it even tho I'm twice the main character age. I usually not read the series one by one book, I always take break for different reads in between but I devoured this series! And I just finished Vicious last week. Also amazing read!
One of my all time favortite children's books that I've read so many times is a german book called "Hinter verzauberten Fenstern" (Behind enchanted Windows) by Cornelia Funke. It's an advent book where the main character discovers that she can actually enter her advent calender are meets all the people who live there and goes on adventures with them. I read it every advent for multiple years, I love it
I'm not sure if you already done this, but bc you mentioned ATLA, I would love to see a video where you talk about your favourite series/tvshows/films :3 Also, I read Vicious bc of your reccomandation and I absolutely adored it!! I really hope we get a third book.
LOVE to see Jane Eyre as your favorite!! I read it in high school and adored it - can’t understand how people don’t love it! Great picks and lots on my tbr!
as a Flemish-ie the dutch words and names in SoC were like little easter eggs, I also like how the names didn’t spoil anything like idk *Doodstraat* and then surprise surprise someone dies in that street Leigh Bardugo really did her research bc at multiple points in the book i thought “yeah this is basically every urban city in the Netherlands and Flanders, only if magic existed” some of my fav words: - Geldstraat - Wijnstraat - Onkel - Joost (rip) - Henk - tering Jan - Geldrenner - Boeksplein - Plumje🥹 also did anyone else read Wylan’s name as “Weiland” or is that just me?
my uncle just got jane eyre for me the other day & this made me even more excited to get into it! i’m reading a novel right now, and i’m abt to read ‘the idiot’ by Dostoevsky , but it’s on my TBR
@15:41 surprised you didn’t mention anything about Mexican gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia here. one of my top fave reads this year despite how grossed out and spooked out I got at various points. Legitimately all the freakin feels 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕😨 she was inspired by the yellow wallpaper
I need to re-read Uprooted soon; I remember enjoying it but not the specifics. The books that shaped me and my reading the most are definitely the Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce. I read them growing up, and just lived for the found family and no romance vibes. When anyone asks me my favorite book, I say, "Anything written by Tamora Pierce."
It continues to boggle my mind that Jane Eyre is still relatable, which is one of the last words I would have chosen when I read it. I suppose that says far more about me than it does about Jane, Charlotte, or Mr. Rochester. Well, I'm watching your channel and am trying to learn : )
We seem to have a lot of favorites in common. I'd love to recommend The Aurelian Cycle by Rosaria Munda which is YA, but has a revolution at its center with dragons and great characters with character development. It's a story just after the turn of a regime. Definitely worth the read!
Nothing makes me feel older than seeing youtube creators I watch, who logically I know are younger than me, saying stuff like “when I was 14 breaking dawn part 2 was in cinema” like WHAT when I was 14 the very first Twilight book was first published and I was preaching that shit to my classmates like it was the word of god. Sorry friends from back then.
Same.. . Lol (Well, not the preaching Twilight, but being 14 back then and getting struck by it when people talk now about being 14 for things like the last Twilight movie. When I was 14, I was already reading Anne Rice and watching things like Underworld; so I didn't read Twilight until the 2nd or 3rd book was out, and I had some friends beg me to read it just so they could talk to me about it. I never preached Twilight, myself, but I was often Switzerland about it[ between the fans and the haters]. Lol) Fortunately, I've never really related to this apprension against being old, although I can logically comprehend why many people do-so it doesn't really bother me, it just catches me by surprise sometimes exactly how much more time can have gone by than we actively or consciously realize sometimes. 😂 😁😁💖
Am I the only one who never was in the Twilight phase. I was in first year of highschool when the first movie came out and all the girlies at my school loved it and I was just: 🧍 ok anime go brrrrr
Same and I was obsessed with it right up til the imprinting on a baby. I was in my closet, binge reading the last book that had just come out (as one does when you're a book obsessed teen obv), and I got there and just threw the book out the closet. 😅
Uprooted is literally so underrated, that book has a special palce in my heart. You’re the first person that mentions it, I had lost hope 😂. I read it when i was maybe fifteen and it changed my brain chemistry fr
The Night circus is the book that got me back into reading and I will forever adore it for bringing magic back into my life 💛 I was so excited when you mentioned it
Angel fall easily won over Shatter me, ACOTAR, Daughter of smoke and bone (this one almost succeeded) to successfully bring me out of my slump, and it was two years ago. Also, I find that our tastes align, if not my favourite, the books mentioned in this video are all I enjoyed at some point. Good one 👍
Wow! I read quite a few good books but 'The Hunger Games' is one that I cannot ever forget. It has also been around 13 years since for me too. I think it is one of those books that etched itself on my brain and it just doesn't let anything else take the top spot. It a sad and beautiful at the same time.
sometimes I love your recommendations and sometimes I don't, but I know I can always trust your taste anyway because one of your favorite books is Night Circus and you said you like fantasy that's all vibes no plot, and that's why I love love love Starless Sea. we agree on the most important thing
I haven't read most of these and was a little doubtful about trying any, but you had me at Jane Eyre. One of my all-time favorites, so rethinking the whole list now!
12:55 I just started university after having dropped out of art school because of the pressure of having all your artwork constantly judged. Im completely sold on this book I absolutely want to read it now
My top three books 📚 and favourite ones of all time are 1 WAR AND PEACE 2 NORTH AND SOUTH AND 3 APRIL FOOLS DAY love these books 📚 for over twenty five years ❤❤❤
"12 years later? damn" Leoni I felt that sooo deeply, just realized we are the same age and when thought about my first time hearing about the hunger games, was like "damn that was so long ago" 😭 and I always avoided reading it but yeah your video is the sign for me to finally read it
I love The Night Circus SO MUCH! I read it when working front of house at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in 2014 and I carried it around everywhere with me just in case I had 30 seconds to read a bit more!
Lovely video. I may have a different opinion about the relative merits of one of the series and its adaptation, but different strokes and all that. Always good to hear what books other people love
I've tried reading the Night Circus several times, not understanding why I couldn't get into it when it had been hyped up so much. But you put it just right, it's because of the lack of plot. Now I understand my own preferences better, I'm a plot-driven kind of gal!
it’s amazing how thoroughly entertained I am by all your videos despite disagreeing with most of your books reviews 😂 even though we read the same genres you disliked a lot of the books I’ve loved and viceversa. i’m here for the vibes and they are immaculate ✨
Omg, I was so into the Hunger Games and AngelFall! Great picks. I remember being really into the Graceling series too, I'm surprised no one talks about those books anymore. Right now I love the Red Rising series (I recommend), SJM, and Emily Henry. Just read Uprooted and it's one of my book highlights this year. Love your videos!
I don't know why I thought of recommending you this book while watching this video, but the book is: Lonely Castle in the Mirror, by Mizuki Tsujimura. Is it a fantasy? I think so (yes it must be). Maybe you recommended it in one of your videos? Anyways it's not the best of the best of the best but it is really really good with an awesome ending. Right now I'm reading, I'm Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait and it is excellent.
I have just discovered your channel and thought a lot of your book choices were worth looking into. Now that I know Jane Eyre is one of your tops (my fav book ever), your opinions are now law.
even though it was required for me to read it in high school, the yellow wallpaper is absolutely one of my favorite things i've ever read (to be fair, i don't read a whole lot). it's one of those stories where you have to read it a few times to truly be able to analyze and understand what the hell is going on and i love that
Your way of speaking, your love for atla (and specifically zuko ❤), your choice on books and your specific opinions on them (even something as random as The print ) are so similar to mine! and i have absolutely loved your recommendations (the tao of pooh, yellow paper, gilded wolves, vicious and about to start one more) - what i am trying to say is that in some other world, we would have been great friends 😃 Love from India : )
I have two favorite books the hunger games trilogy and the cruel prince trilogy so I was so surprise when you was telling about them as your favorite books ♥
Leonine! I love that you said the shadow and bones wasn’t all that good. I read it because I wanted to read Six of Crows, but I’m scared to read Six of Crows because Shadow and Bones was sooooo bad. I can appreciate why you loved it at the time when you read it. I was not in the place where you read it and I think I would have felt the same as a teenager. Maybe I will try the Six of Crows based on this and given that you felt hunger games held up and I agree with that statement.
Hi Leonie! I’m currently reading a book that can fits your tastes and this spooky season. It’s a novel by Olga Tokarczuk and it’s called Drive your plow over the bones of the dead!
21:51 i had to read it freshmen year when i was 14😭 our english teacher was super into classics and we were the only class who had to read it, it’s ok tho bc i feel like it’s better as a class
Currently reading the fifth season thanks to your recommendations! If our tastes match as much as I think they do I can recommend one in return: The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler :)
I love every time you talk about Bunny because I was one of the girlies that did not like that one 😂 we have different tastes but you are one of my all time favorite book channels 💜
The Night Circus is also one of my all time favs! Along with Throne of Glass, Truly Devious, The Daughter of Smoke and Bone, and I’ll Give You The Sun ❤
I felt that “12 years ago? daaaaang” deep in my soul
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You joke, I hired a girl born in 2000! 😮😢
It made me laugh because I'm considerably older, and my reaction was: 12 years, is that all? That's nothing 😂
2023 to 1981 is the same difference as 1981 to 1939
This is a mood
Books mentioned in order :
1. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
2. Angel Fall, Susan Ee
3. Shadow and bone (trilogy), Leigh Bardugo
4. Six of Crows (duology), Leigh Bardugo
5. Vicious, VE. Schwab
6. Uprooted, Naomi Novik
7. Radio Silence, Alice Oseman
8. The Folk of the air series (trilogy), Holly Black
9. The gilded wolves series (trilogy), Roshani Chokshi
10. The Yellow wallpaper (short story), Charlotte Perkins Gilman
11. The Tao of pooh (short story), Benjamin Hoff
12. The Broken Earth (trilogy), N.J Jemisin
13. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
14. Bunny, Mona Awad
15. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
16. The Brown Sisters series, Talia Hibbert
Lifesaver 🙏🩵
The hero I needed!
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thank you saved me time!!!
So nice of you
“I think the trees talk. They’re not very nice. That’s how I like my trees” took me out lmao. Apropos of nothing, have you read the raven cycle
hahahaha my favorite quote now. "that's how I like my trees..."
I instantly thought of Raven Cycle when she mentioned Trees talking 😅
What I LOVE about your videos and recommendations is that you always mention what kind of people would like what aspects of the book so I won't waste my time on books that aren't for me. So thank you!
When you said, “I’ve never really been sure about what I want to do with my future, and I’m always low grade having a mental breakdown over that,” that hit me so hard in the feels lol! I’m 33 and I still don’t know what I want to do with my life and also have mental breakdowns about it. 🙃 It’s good to hear we are not alone and can all commiserate together. 😂
Same here!❤😢
46 here and never figured it out. I quit worrying about it and am just doing my thing and trying to enjoy life as much as possible. I read something about how some indigenous cultures believe we are here just to be here to experience the world and don't have to achieve anything to be valid as a human.
For me, it's that what I've always wanted to do with my life and what has actually been feasibly attainable in my reality have just somehow never quite aligned.🙃🫣😅👀 😢
@@jaginaiaelectrizs6341Bro, same. I know what I want to do will not be realistic to pursue or potentially provide me with any income at all so I don’t bother… it stresses me out
hey, same here, 33 and pathless
leigh bardugo is such a queen, all her books are amazing and need to be showcased in a museum 100 years later
I tried Ninth House but didn’t work for me… but I really liked her Netflix show!
agreed, I remember as a kid I did a review on RUclips of crooked kingdom and Cindy commented on it (The queen of reading Leigh bardugo)
ninth house was a fav for me lol@@Morfeusm
@@hoehoehello5736 haha yeah I believe it would be boring if we all liked the same things! Glad that book worked for you! For me it was just fine.
@@Morfeusm that’s fair haha, have you read six of crows ?
Six of crows is by far one of my fav book ever like the characters, the lore, the plot, the worldbuilding eveyetjing is amazing and leigh bardugo will never achive to fail me 😭😭😋
same!!
It’s literally peak literature. One of my only 6 star books
it's unmatched!
I loved Six of Crows, but the end of the second book. Damn that hurt. I hear she will write a third book in time, but I am still mad! Sorry, it's so vague, but no spoilers.
@@kalishaffer8210 bro I was SOBBING at the end but it felt like a satisfying end to me. I’d love to how everyone is doing now
Growing up my parents had “The Tao of Pooh” on our bookshelves and I really loved Winnie the Pooh (the cartoon) so as a little kid I tried so hard to read it - multiple times - but it went right over my head. You mentioning that book brought up fond memories for me of being a 7 year old pondering Taoism 😂 I’ll definitely grab a copy now that I’m much older. Thanks for the recommendations!!!
When I read Jane Eyre for the first time in 2020, I wasn't expecting it to become my favorite book. It's so hard to explain why I adore it so much. ❤ I think I'm due for a reread.
Me too! I think I even read it around the same time! Try other sisters too, they are all excellent!
Jane Eyre is so good that every other book now seems blah 😢
What's better than a new video by leonie when you've been sick with covid for dayyyys 😭 you're saving my life rn
That sucks. Hope you feel better soon. ❤
get well soon!!
I’m currently reading The Night Circus and I’m loving it so much! Also Jane Eyre is also one of my favorite books of all time. I’m so glad my English teacher in high school made us read it because it really changed my life
Never too old to read Radio Silence, read it at 41, and loved it!
The relaxing music is really adding to the already immaculate vibes
Leonie idk how else to say this but it hurts me phisically that you've never read the raven boys series😭 the synopsis makes it seem really cliché but it is actually not at all like that. it has a magical sentient old forest, a ghost, a pet raven, a family made of psychic women and also quite a bit of horror/macabre things. plus great characters with deep motivations and obsessions.
i hope you give it a chance💞
I just know Leonie would love that series!
Leonie mentioned in one video that she started reading it but didn't like it so didn't continue:)
@@maja_ksiazkoholiczka3508 yeah i watched that video, but still😭😭
@@maja_ksiazkoholiczka3508oh no really 😭
Man I hated the first raven boys so much haha could never get into it.
Books that have skyrocketed into my top 3 are The Locked Tomb series because oh my god the lore, and the characters are so full of personality I love them with all my heart these silly necromancers.
Your love for Angelfall has really got me wanting to reread that series. I don’t know anyone else who read that and it was really one of the best series out there at the time
my day gets better when leoni posts!!
Watership Down, Lord of the Rings, the Pendragon Cycle, Hard Times, Last of the Mohicans, Killer Angels are all books that definitely shaped my soul.
I read The Night Circus because of one of your videos when you talked about it and it became one of my personal favorites of all time SO EASILY, the book is a masterpiece on vibes and I'm forever happy for finding that video (and your channel) in the black hole of booktube
Made a cup of tea just to watch this video. I finished reading Jane Eyre this morning and it became my favorite too... and listening to you saying that it is your favorite book just made me feel so conected to you 😭😭😭 Thank you as always for the most perfect atmosphere, Leonie, your videos makes us slow down and enjoy the moment
And that’s why you’re the only booktuber I trust :)
I am just reading Shadow and Bone now! Finished the first, loved in enough that I went straight, STRAIGHT to the next (and I really hope I don't regret that) and ordered the third. From me, that level of commitment to a trilogy is practically a literary marriage proposal.
Naomi 's Spinning Silver is fabulous and plays off Uprooted. Highly recommend reading it after Uprooted.
i'm so happy that you mentioned folk of the air series!!
I really don't have the financial means to watch this video but I will persevere😮💨
Time to sail the high seas then
A new video of yours is the most perfect birthday gift I could ever get!
I LOVED THE NIGHT CIRCUS OMG!!!! I loved that sense of not knowing what was happening the entire book and I’m lowkey already obsessed with circuses so it was just pure confusing happiness
I love Jane Eyre, the way Charlotte Bronte wrote... Amazing!!!
Shame she had to change the ending though
@@Morfeusm
I think you're thinking of Villette, not Jane Eyre.
@@tiffanypetersen789 oh wow I think I remembered it wrong 😱
i recently discovered your channel and i am officially obsessed. your vibe is so comforting and i love your recommendations/reviews 🖤
10:43 “I think the trees talk, they’re not very nice… that’s how I like my trees” had me dying inside. That line singlehandly had me wanting to read the book.
Just do it, you won’t regret it
I'm glad you have such a passion for reading. In today's world, the Internet has stolen the world's love of reading. I'm glad that you and others still have the joy of reading and are hopefully inspiring others to read again. I'm going to hardships at the moment, so reading really helps me through them. I may not read the same books as you, but my love for reading is all the same. My favorite book is "Carrie" by Stephen King. It's cathartic in a way. Not in that way, but I'm glad the character has hardships of her own, like I do now.
I’ve had uprooted on my TBR forever now 🥹
I’m SO glad you mentioned the Yellow Wallpaper! It’s suchhh a wonderful and cathartic short story. People need to know more about this! Can’t recommend it enough!
I'm on another Hunger Games kick as I'm reading A Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes to be ready for the movie and I'm loving it. The nostalgia hit is real! 🖤
I am a bit older (43 this December) still enjoy YA Fantasy. I’ve always read, a lot in my childhood & teen years, then lesser, but got back on the hook for Fantasy with the Twilight series, long before the movies, I think book 4 was not released that time. Funny, I‘d read Hunger games, because Stephanie Meyer recommended it somewhere. Since then read a looooot (everything Ilona Andrews, Richelle Mead, Patricia Briggs,). Favorite series’s for me: Kate Daniels (Ilona Andrews), shadowfever series by Karen Marie Moning. I re-read them twice. Newest Favorite is the cruel Prince triology by Holly Black. Special place in my heart has Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Mist of Avalon and The Firebrand. I loved them when I‘d first read them 30 years ago.
Not Fantasy Favorite: Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice
Highlights
📚 The Hunger Games: A classic young adult dystopian with a high-action critique of war, reality TV, and class inequality.
📚 Angel Fall: A dark and intriguing dystopian featuring a forbidden romance between a human and an angel.
📚 Shadow and Bone Trilogy: The first high fantasy book that shaped the creator's taste in fantasy, set in a fantasy version of Russia with an elemental magic system.
📚 Six of Crows: A fantasy novel with morally gray characters, taking place in an urban city reminiscent of Amsterdam.
📚 Vicious: A science fiction book with biology-based superpowers, exploring the rivalry between two students.
📚 Uprooted: A standalone fantasy with a folklore-inspired, fairy-tale atmosphere, featuring a master-apprentice relationship.
📚 Radio Silence: A contemporary fiction novel that delves into academic expectations and pursuing one's true passion.
📚 Folk of the Air Series: A highly addictive young adult fantasy series with enemies-to-lovers dynamics.
📚 Gilded Wolves Trilogy: An underrated young adult fantasy series featuring an ensemble cast, puzzles, a unique magic system, and rich mythology.
I read Angelfall after one of your videos, and really liked it even tho I'm twice the main character age. I usually not read the series one by one book, I always take break for different reads in between but I devoured this series!
And I just finished Vicious last week. Also amazing read!
we have the SAME taste! folk of the air series is one of my current faves, and jane eyre is my all time favorite book. great picks!!
I love the editing style of this video, like the little flowers and stuff
One of my all time favortite children's books that I've read so many times is a german book called "Hinter verzauberten Fenstern" (Behind enchanted Windows) by Cornelia Funke. It's an advent book where the main character discovers that she can actually enter her advent calender are meets all the people who live there and goes on adventures with them. I read it every advent for multiple years, I love it
My fav is Harry Potter, It, Little Woman and Jane Eyre 🩷🩷
I'm not sure if you already done this, but bc you mentioned ATLA, I would love to see a video where you talk about your favourite series/tvshows/films :3
Also, I read Vicious bc of your reccomandation and I absolutely adored it!! I really hope we get a third book.
I'm also Dutch and reading the six of crows truly changed my brain chemistry
LOVE to see Jane Eyre as your favorite!! I read it in high school and adored it - can’t understand how people don’t love it! Great picks and lots on my tbr!
as a Flemish-ie the dutch words and names in SoC were like little easter eggs, I also like how the names didn’t spoil anything like idk *Doodstraat* and then surprise surprise someone dies in that street
Leigh Bardugo really did her research bc at multiple points in the book i thought “yeah this is basically every urban city in the Netherlands and Flanders, only if magic existed”
some of my fav words:
- Geldstraat
- Wijnstraat
- Onkel
- Joost (rip)
- Henk
- tering Jan
- Geldrenner
- Boeksplein
- Plumje🥹
also did anyone else read Wylan’s name as “Weiland” or is that just me?
im so excited to watch this video and immediately add it to my ever growing tbr 😭
PaperBackDreams introduced me to Radio Silence. I loved it and sobbed unexpectedly at a scene in the last dozen pages.
my uncle just got jane eyre for me the other day & this made me even more excited to get into it! i’m reading a novel right now, and i’m abt to read ‘the idiot’ by Dostoevsky , but it’s on my TBR
Jane Eyre is still one of my favorites too 😊
@15:41 surprised you didn’t mention anything about Mexican gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia here. one of my top fave reads this year despite how grossed out and spooked out I got at various points. Legitimately all the freakin feels 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕😨 she was inspired by the yellow wallpaper
I need to re-read Uprooted soon; I remember enjoying it but not the specifics. The books that shaped me and my reading the most are definitely the Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce. I read them growing up, and just lived for the found family and no romance vibes. When anyone asks me my favorite book, I say, "Anything written by Tamora Pierce."
this is AMAZING and the fact that I already read some books in the list (and liked them) tells me you just built my TBR
It continues to boggle my mind that Jane Eyre is still relatable, which is one of the last words I would have chosen when I read it. I suppose that says far more about me than it does about Jane, Charlotte, or Mr. Rochester. Well, I'm watching your channel and am trying to learn : )
This is my favorite channel on RUclips and it’s not even close
We seem to have a lot of favorites in common. I'd love to recommend The Aurelian Cycle by Rosaria Munda which is YA, but has a revolution at its center with dragons and great characters with character development. It's a story just after the turn of a regime. Definitely worth the read!
Nothing makes me feel older than seeing youtube creators I watch, who logically I know are younger than me, saying stuff like “when I was 14 breaking dawn part 2 was in cinema” like WHAT when I was 14 the very first Twilight book was first published and I was preaching that shit to my classmates like it was the word of god. Sorry friends from back then.
Same.. . Lol
(Well, not the preaching Twilight, but being 14 back then and getting struck by it when people talk now about being 14 for things like the last Twilight movie. When I was 14, I was already reading Anne Rice and watching things like Underworld; so I didn't read Twilight until the 2nd or 3rd book was out, and I had some friends beg me to read it just so they could talk to me about it. I never preached Twilight, myself, but I was often Switzerland about it[ between the fans and the haters]. Lol)
Fortunately, I've never really related to this apprension against being old, although I can logically comprehend why many people do-so it doesn't really bother me, it just catches me by surprise sometimes exactly how much more time can have gone by than we actively or consciously realize sometimes. 😂 😁😁💖
Am I the only one who never was in the Twilight phase. I was in first year of highschool when the first movie came out and all the girlies at my school loved it and I was just: 🧍 ok anime go brrrrr
Same and I was obsessed with it right up til the imprinting on a baby. I was in my closet, binge reading the last book that had just come out (as one does when you're a book obsessed teen obv), and I got there and just threw the book out the closet. 😅
@@tiffanymarie9750 😂😂😂
@@tiffanymarie9750 that last book proved all the haters right and I will never forgive the author for what she had done.
Uprooted is literally so underrated, that book has a special palce in my heart. You’re the first person that mentions it, I had lost hope 😂. I read it when i was maybe fifteen and it changed my brain chemistry fr
The Night circus is the book that got me back into reading and I will forever adore it for bringing magic back into my life 💛 I was so excited when you mentioned it
Six of Crows is my absolute favourite and you mentioning it reminds me to definitely read it again 🖤
I lOOve The Night Circus. The fact that you listed it as one of your favourites makes you now my go to book recommender.❤
Angel fall easily won over Shatter me, ACOTAR, Daughter of smoke and bone (this one almost succeeded) to successfully bring me out of my slump, and it was two years ago. Also, I find that our tastes align, if not my favourite, the books mentioned in this video are all I enjoyed at some point. Good one 👍
Wow! I read quite a few good books but 'The Hunger Games' is one that I cannot ever forget. It has also been around 13 years since for me too. I think it is one of those books that etched itself on my brain and it just doesn't let anything else take the top spot. It a sad and beautiful at the same time.
The brown sisters are also my favorite! I don’t see them getting much attention, I was so happy you mentioned them
I have to admit, I expected one Dutch book in the first category!
loving the love you show for these books (:
Six of crows will always be a all time favorite
sometimes I love your recommendations and sometimes I don't, but I know I can always trust your taste anyway because one of your favorite books is Night Circus and you said you like fantasy that's all vibes no plot, and that's why I love love love Starless Sea. we agree on the most important thing
VISCIOUS IS SO GOODD, IVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE ELSE MENTION ITT :DDD
I think Leonie has finally, finally convinced me to start reading Uprooted
WaaAAH YES these are my favorite videos from booktubers 😭😭 it’s like peering into someone’s soul fr
JANE EYRE, man I read that when I was so small and barely understood it. I need to buy a copy and read that.
I haven't read most of these and was a little doubtful about trying any, but you had me at Jane Eyre. One of my all-time favorites, so rethinking the whole list now!
12:55 I just started university after having dropped out of art school because of the pressure of having all your artwork constantly judged. Im completely sold on this book I absolutely want to read it now
My top three books 📚 and favourite ones of all time are 1 WAR AND PEACE 2 NORTH AND SOUTH AND 3 APRIL FOOLS DAY love these books 📚 for over twenty five years ❤❤❤
"12 years later? damn" Leoni I felt that sooo deeply, just realized we are the same age and when thought about my first time hearing about the hunger games, was like "damn that was so long ago" 😭 and I always avoided reading it but yeah your video is the sign for me to finally read it
You should definitely read Gideon the Ninth! I really think you would love it
I love The Night Circus SO MUCH! I read it when working front of house at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in 2014 and I carried it around everywhere with me just in case I had 30 seconds to read a bit more!
Lovely video. I may have a different opinion about the relative merits of one of the series and its adaptation, but different strokes and all that. Always good to hear what books other people love
I've tried reading the Night Circus several times, not understanding why I couldn't get into it when it had been hyped up so much. But you put it just right, it's because of the lack of plot. Now I understand my own preferences better, I'm a plot-driven kind of gal!
this might be the final push i needed to get me to read the night circus
it’s amazing how thoroughly entertained I am by all your videos despite disagreeing with most of your books reviews 😂 even though we read the same genres you disliked a lot of the books I’ve loved and viceversa. i’m here for the vibes and they are immaculate ✨
Omg, I was so into the Hunger Games and AngelFall! Great picks. I remember being really into the Graceling series too, I'm surprised no one talks about those books anymore.
Right now I love the Red Rising series (I recommend), SJM, and Emily Henry. Just read Uprooted and it's one of my book highlights this year. Love your videos!
I don't know why I thought of recommending you this book while watching this video, but the book is: Lonely Castle in the Mirror, by Mizuki Tsujimura. Is it a fantasy? I think so (yes it must be). Maybe you recommended it in one of your videos? Anyways it's not the best of the best of the best but it is really really good with an awesome ending.
Right now I'm reading, I'm Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait and it is excellent.
I have just discovered your channel and thought a lot of your book choices were worth looking into. Now that I know Jane Eyre is one of your tops (my fav book ever), your opinions are now law.
Started The Broken Earth. Just finished the first book and I am in love
What a cozy and calming video. Thank you.
even though it was required for me to read it in high school, the yellow wallpaper is absolutely one of my favorite things i've ever read (to be fair, i don't read a whole lot). it's one of those stories where you have to read it a few times to truly be able to analyze and understand what the hell is going on and i love that
Oh Jane Eyre is my favourite book ever🎉 so glad to see it’s one of yours too
Your way of speaking, your love for atla (and specifically zuko ❤), your choice on books and your specific opinions on them (even something as random as The print ) are so similar to mine!
and i have absolutely loved your recommendations (the tao of pooh, yellow paper, gilded wolves, vicious and about to start one more) - what i am trying to say is that in some other world, we would have been great friends 😃
Love from India : )
I have two favorite books the hunger games trilogy and the cruel prince trilogy so I was so surprise when you was telling about them as your favorite books ♥
Leonine! I love that you said the shadow and bones wasn’t all that good. I read it because I wanted to read Six of Crows, but I’m scared to read Six of Crows because Shadow and Bones was sooooo bad. I can appreciate why you loved it at the time when you read it. I was not in the place where you read it and I think I would have felt the same as a teenager. Maybe I will try the Six of Crows based on this and given that you felt hunger games held up and I agree with that statement.
Vicious is one of my favorite books I read this year! Such a page turner, I was engrossed from beginning to end
I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANYONE TALK ABOUT THE NIGHT CIRCUS. I love this book to my core.
Hi Leonie! I’m currently reading a book that can fits your tastes and this spooky season. It’s a novel by Olga Tokarczuk and it’s called Drive your plow over the bones of the dead!
I can't wait till you read Wuthering Heights!! I'm reading it for the first time and loving it
I am always so happy when I see you uploaded a video
21:51 i had to read it freshmen year when i was 14😭 our english teacher was super into classics and we were the only class who had to read it, it’s ok tho bc i feel like it’s better as a class
Currently reading the fifth season thanks to your recommendations! If our tastes match as much as I think they do I can recommend one in return: The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler :)
I love every time you talk about Bunny because I was one of the girlies that did not like that one 😂 we have different tastes but you are one of my all time favorite book channels 💜
Adding Tao of Pooh to my tbr!
I also adore Jane Eyre, Night Circus & Bunny, amazing books ♡
The Night Circus is also one of my all time favs! Along with Throne of Glass, Truly Devious, The Daughter of Smoke and Bone, and I’ll Give You The Sun ❤