I love how the majority of your top reads were ones picked by Ian haha! For real though, it's cool to see this other side of reading beyond rom coms and booktok picks
I was able to read 101 books in 2024. My goal was to read 50 books. I like watching your videos because you are very passionate about books and having a Bible verse attached to each video. Happy New Year 😊🙏✝️✝️✝️
My favorites (in no particular order): -A Court of Wings and Ruin -Tress of The Emerald Sea -Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas -Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas -Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez -Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez -The Shepherd King duology by Rachel Gillig -Educated by Tara Westover -Dinner for Vampires by Bethany Joy Lenz Honorable mention: Untangle Your Emotions by Jennie Allen
Woah out of all the books I've witnessed you reading this past year that number one spot was a total surprise you've kept your love of Pet Semetary pretty under wraps. I loved Pet Semetary when I read it a number of years ago, Stephen Kings storytelling in this book is just amazing. The horror elements are done fantastically and amp up so well and that ending was perfection!! Specifically the last sentence 😗👌 I loved this and love to see how you and Ian booktube together, it's perfect love watching you both and have a great 2025!! x
I've read most of your top ten. King's Billy Summers actually made me shed a tear at the end. The secret history is a modern day classic, so intelligently written.
A book I was so surprised about that I think you would actually enjoy was Spinning Silver. What I expected from this story was SO different than what I got. Such a great story!! One of my top favorite I read in 2024. (Pet Semetery is up there too, my first King book, and I only read it because you liked it! Ha, I was too scared to try, so glad I trusted you! ❤
Happy New Year to you both! Pet Semetary was also my top book of the year and also my first Stephen King read. I've moved onto 11 22 63 now and will defiantly take me a while haha I can't wait to see what the new year brings for your channel x
My top ten books for 2024 were A Court of Wings and Ruin, Somewhere Beyond The Sea, Witch Hat Atelier manga series, Yona of the Dawn manga series, Funny Story, Divine Rivals, Out On A Limb, Yours Truly, Amari and the Despicable Wonders, and Happy Place.
I’m so glad that I found your channel this year! ❤ I’m part of a book club with my work but I pushed myself to read 100 BOOKS THIS YEAR!! 😮 It was so fun getting lost in so many stories. My favorites this year are: 1. Emily Wildes Encyclopedia of Faeries 2. Once Upon a Broken Heart 3. Beach Read 4. Powerless series by Lauren Robert’s 5. A novel love story by Ashley Poston 6. Divine Rivals 7. The bodyguard by Katherine Center 8. The naturals series 9. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik 10. Throne of Glass You are my favorite booktuber and I hope you have a wonderful new year!! ❤ 2.
I need to give Recursion another try. I was listening to the audiobook, but only when I was at work, which was sporadic at the time, which made the book feel disjointed. I loved Dark Matter and want to love Recursion too!
4 of my 10 best I read bc of u and Ian's book swap type videos! -1.22.63 -Dark Matter -Red Rising -Lovely War Something about hearing your thoughts on each other's favorites was what convinced me.
My top books of the year were the prison healer trilogy, just for the summer, a lady's guide to fortune hunting, things you save in a fire, what you wish for, and the lost bookshop
My favorite historical fiction is all the light we cannot see. I LOVE these characters more than anything. The heartbreak you feel has stuck with me for the last 10 years
1-8: Anne of Green Gables Series. Cute fun books. 9-12: Mayfield Family Saga. Cute love stories that end the way you want. Sorry know it’s more than 10 books but these two series are cute and light reads and I think you would like both.
I can feel you when you said the characters in "The Prince of Tides" was like family. You should also read "Once Upon A Broken Heart." I am reading it and it is so good!
Awesome! I’m reading pet sematary right now. I thought it was starting kinda slow, but at around page 100 it really picked up and I started enjoying it a lot. Cheers!
So excited to see The Maidens on here! I actually liked it more than The Silent Patient, but I never hear people talk about this Alex Michaelides book 🤯 The plot twist is actually INSANE and the dark academia vibes are immaculate
I did a video on my top ten… but here it is. 10: Murder on the Orient Express 9: Three Musketeers 8: Enders Game 7: Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery 6: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter 5: The Blythes are Quoted 4: Mistborn 3: Seabiscuit 2: Lightbringer 1: Rhythm of War
Try Bride by Ali Hazelwood And The Love of my Afterlife by Kristy Greenwood Both are so underrated and intriguing. I was on the edge of my seat, couldn’t put these books down!
There is an ACTUAL 1800s "Pet Cemetery' out in the middle of the desert in Tooele County UT near the Simpson Springs pony express station, and lots of mustangs in the area too, if you guys ever wanted to go on a nature adventure!
A book I would suggest that you might like kind of like the invisible life of addie LaRue is A Short Walk Through a Wild world by Douglas Westerbeke. It was such a fun book and so diffrent than what I expected. It would be number 11 on my top 10 list.
I dont have a top 10, only a top 5. 😅 And here are my Five faves: 1. Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary by JD Greear 2. A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers 3. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4. Endurance by Alfred Lansing 5. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy ☺️
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra (audiobook is a must), Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Grace Year, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Bodyguard, Verity, Project Hail Mary, The Women, Shatter Me, Red Queen
My top 10 books of 2024 are A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher, Magical Midlife Madness by KF Breene (I highly recommend the dramatized adaptation. It’s the funniest thing I read this year), Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller, What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez, Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean, A Bright Heart by Kate Chenli, The Mystwick School of Musicraft by Jessica Khoury, and Witchy Whiskers by Danielle Garrett. Next year, I am hoping to read my first of Brandon Sanderson’s or Joe Abercrombie’s books. I also hope to finish Morning Star by Pierce Brown. I might reread Red Rising and Golden Son. Hope everyone has a Happy New Year!!
I loved The Maiden’s thanks to your videos ❤ I also loved Red Rising 1-3 and I read book 4 and 5 but idk if I am going to continue with this series because the first 3 ended so beautifully that I just don’t like where the series goes after book 3. I got fable but I never really used Goodreads so I have no reading wrap up and I am frustrated trying to add all the books that I read in 2024 from my list in the Libby app. Also thanks to you and Ian, I am reading The Lovely War and I am loving go it and so far I think that it was that cover that was keeping me from reading it because I am not a fan of that cover.
I absolutely loved Billy Summers. I guess I have to read Pet Semetary now that you have it listed better than Billy. Love your videos Ashlynn! Thanks for what you do!!
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah was the best book I read in 2024! It was so good. I’m in a big book hangover because of it. if you haven’t read it, please do.
I found Lovely War as well as Blake Crouch through yours and Ians videos, and I definitely trust your taste! I have to say for anyone interested though that Lovely War is NOT just a romance. A huge proportion is about racial injustice within the US army, which took me by surprise but to me thats a selling point! The black characters are also based on people that actually existed, and reading about their real lives afterwards made the book that bit more heart breaking.
If you want a beautifully written tragic story I highly recommend The Warsaw Sisters by Amanda Barratt, it was so good and I can't rave about it enough!
Hi Ashlyn I love your videos! I have a book to suggest. It is called The Healers Apprentice. The romance is so cute. The main character, Rose falls in love with one of the duke's sons after he comes injured. The dukes son falls in love with her too, but he is betrothed to another woman. And there is someone who is after Rose. I read the book in a day I couldn't put it down.
You need to read Misery by Steven King! I read Pet Semetary and loved it and now I'm in the middle of 11/22/63. So far 11/22/63 is amazinggg. Billy Summers is definitely next on my list.
My top 10 books in no particular order are: Academy of Villains by Ever King, The Rose Bargain by Sasha Peyton Smith (I got an ARC for this), Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Morning Star by Pierce Brown, Icon and Inferno by Marie Lu, A Million Junes by Emily Henry, Skyward by Brandon Sanderson, When in Rome by Sarah Adams, and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. There were so many I almost couldn’t choose.
I really only read 3 books this year (started more but got overwhelmed lol) and they were Play Dead by Ted Dekker, Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli, and Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I highly recommend Ted Dekker. He’s a great Christian author who writes thrillers and mystery as well as some fantasy books and he’s so good at writing
Great list! Lovely War was on my top 10 when I read it in 2022, so so good. I really want to read your sci-fi picks even though I’m not a big sci-fi reader! Also hoping to read The Secret History and Game of Thrones in 2025 since I didn’t get to those this year. And I’m sure Ian is so proud that Stephen King made multiple appearances on your list 😂 Here’s my top 10 of 2024 (from least to most favorite): Just For The Summer Remarkably Bright Creatures Tress of the Emerald Sea The God of the Woods Seven Days in June Piranesi The Things We Cannot Say Words of Radiance Beartown Six of Crows
You are the reason I buddy read Billy summers with my boyfriend at the beginning of this year and it was our first 6⭐️ read of the year! Now we are engaged and buddy reading The Storied Life of AJ Fickry
My top ten books of the year in no particular order (because I literally can't lol), 10. The spirit Bares it's teeth by Andrew Joseph White 9. Prime time romance by Kate Robb 8. Repeat after me by Jessica Warman 7. Incidents around the house by Josh Malerman 6. Ready player one by Ernest Cline 5. Dark matter by Blake Crouch 4. House of Frank by Kay Synclaire 3. Once upon a broken heart by Stephanie Garber, (this trilogy got me back into reading) 2. Travis Baldree duology ( I'd pick one but I can't ) 1. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (I know Ian didn't like it but I think about Sadie all the time, at my core I am Sadie )
Here's my 10 Tales of the body thief by Anne rice book 4 in the vampire chronicles Clytemnestra by constanza casanti Queen of the damned by Anne rice book 3 in the vampire chronicles Good luck with that by kristan Higgins Miss memory lane by colton Haynes memoir Her too by bonnie kistler This could be us by Kennedy Ryan One summer in Savannah by terah shelton Harris Out of shape by gracie gold memoir The maid by nita prose Honorable mentions Interview with the vampire by Anne rice Lizzie Blake's best mistake by mazey eddings The violence by delilah s dawson Binding 13 by chloe Walsh Be my baby by ronnie spector memoir
My 2024 faves (no order) were: The Wedding People The Will of the Many The Only One Left Four Weekends and a Funeral Rogue Protocol The Women The Twilight Garden Big Swiss A Game of Thrones His & Hers
I’m surprised your number one book was Pet Sematary. I definitely didn’t see that coming. I thought Billy Summers or one of the Red Rising books would be your number one. Can’t wait to see what books you read in 2025!
great list Ashlynn, the Red Rising Saga is incredible, I still need to read Light Bringer but I've been putting it off bc I know it's going to destroy me 😅 I definitely need to prioritize 11/22/63 this year, I love anything to do with time travel. My top 10 1. Demon Copperhead 2. The Covenant of Water 3. Red Rising Saga (fave is Golden Son) 4. Divine Rivals 5. Real Life 6. Heartstopper Vol 5 7. Piranesi 8. The Safekeep 9. She Who Became the Sun Duology 10. The Will of the Many Honourable Mentions Funny Story, The Great Reclamation, Hamnet, The Hobbit, Evenings & Weekends, How to Say Babylon, Between the World & Me, In The Dream House, Braiding Sweetgrass
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I love how the majority of your top reads were ones picked by Ian haha! For real though, it's cool to see this other side of reading beyond rom coms and booktok picks
Can we take a moment to comment on Ashlynn’s reading taste growth? No way a year ago would she have read Pet Semetary 😂
That's exactly what I though too! I love how much Ian has influenced her!
I adore Ashlynn’s sweet personality and her quotes from the bible!!
You are one of the booktubers that give good recommendations that I appreciate. Hope your channel grows
I was able to read 101 books in 2024. My goal was to read 50 books. I like watching your videos because you are very passionate about books and having a Bible verse attached to each video. Happy New Year 😊🙏✝️✝️✝️
My favorites (in no particular order):
-A Court of Wings and Ruin
-Tress of The Emerald Sea
-Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
-Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
-Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
-Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
-The Shepherd King duology by Rachel Gillig
-Educated by Tara Westover
-Dinner for Vampires by Bethany Joy Lenz
Honorable mention: Untangle Your Emotions by Jennie Allen
Babe wake up a new Ashlynn video has dropped ❤❤❤
Woah out of all the books I've witnessed you reading this past year that number one spot was a total surprise you've kept your love of Pet Semetary pretty under wraps. I loved Pet Semetary when I read it a number of years ago, Stephen Kings storytelling in this book is just amazing. The horror elements are done fantastically and amp up so well and that ending was perfection!! Specifically the last sentence 😗👌 I loved this and love to see how you and Ian booktube together, it's perfect love watching you both and have a great 2025!! x
I've read most of your top ten. King's Billy Summers actually made me shed a tear at the end. The secret history is a modern day classic, so intelligently written.
A book I was so surprised about that I think you would actually enjoy was Spinning Silver. What I expected from this story was SO different than what I got. Such a great story!! One of my top favorite I read in 2024. (Pet Semetery is up there too, my first King book, and I only read it because you liked it! Ha, I was too scared to try, so glad I trusted you! ❤
I read that this year too and felt the same! Such a great book.
I actually finished this book yesterday!! It was amazing, it was EPIC and it was such a rollercoaster ⚔️🩶🪙
I read Billy Summers in 2024 because of you and Ian and it officially hooked me on Stephen King’s writing!
11.22.63 is just a masterpiece, I adore that book 🤩
The Hidden Path to Manifesting Financial Power ebook made me realize so much about attracting wealth, it’s insane
Jesus loves you :)
Happy New Year to you both! Pet Semetary was also my top book of the year and also my first Stephen King read. I've moved onto 11 22 63 now and will defiantly take me a while haha I can't wait to see what the new year brings for your channel x
My top ten books for 2024 were A Court of Wings and Ruin, Somewhere Beyond The Sea, Witch Hat Atelier manga series, Yona of the Dawn manga series, Funny Story, Divine Rivals, Out On A Limb, Yours Truly, Amari and the Despicable Wonders, and Happy Place.
Amazing list!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
love love love when you upload girlie!!! will def be putting some of these books on my list for 2025 📚🎉
You're literally the reason I read GOT and Pet Sematary this year!!
I’m so glad that I found your channel this year! ❤ I’m part of a book club with my work but I pushed myself to read 100 BOOKS THIS YEAR!! 😮 It was so fun getting lost in so many stories.
My favorites this year are:
1. Emily Wildes Encyclopedia of Faeries
2. Once Upon a Broken Heart
3. Beach Read
4. Powerless series by Lauren Robert’s
5. A novel love story by Ashley Poston
6. Divine Rivals
7. The bodyguard by Katherine Center
8. The naturals series
9. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
10. Throne of Glass
You are my favorite booktuber and I hope you have a wonderful new year!! ❤
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Just watching your intro cheered me up heaps, you are a ray of sunshine girlie!
I love how you read a lot of these favourites thanks to your husband😍
I need to give Recursion another try. I was listening to the audiobook, but only when I was at work, which was sporadic at the time, which made the book feel disjointed. I loved Dark Matter and want to love Recursion too!
Ohhhh yes I could totally see that! I hope you love Recursion when you get back to it!🥰
YAY!! love an update from ashlynn🙌🏼🫶🏼
I love your channel and the content you create. ❤📚
4 of my 10 best I read bc of u and Ian's book swap type videos!
-1.22.63
-Dark Matter
-Red Rising
-Lovely War
Something about hearing your thoughts on each other's favorites was what convinced me.
I watch you and Ian for lots of books recs. Love seeing books that aren't the comic art cover romance books. Thank you Ashlynn! Happy Reading in 2025.
Wow!!! You have inspired me to definitely use the fable app in 2025 🎉 alright let’s do this!!
You gained a new subscriber! Love your channel. 😊
I picked up Lovely War in November because of your rec and it was SO good!! One of my top 5 of 2024!
Love ur videos ashlynn!!
Billy Summers, The Secret History, and Pet Sematary were all favorites of mine this year, too. 🎉 Great list!
My top books of the year were the prison healer trilogy, just for the summer, a lady's guide to fortune hunting, things you save in a fire, what you wish for, and the lost bookshop
My favorite historical fiction is all the light we cannot see. I LOVE these characters more than anything. The heartbreak you feel has stuck with me for the last 10 years
1-8: Anne of Green Gables Series. Cute fun books.
9-12: Mayfield Family Saga. Cute love stories that end the way you want.
Sorry know it’s more than 10 books but these two series are cute and light reads and I think you would like both.
I'm reading Recursion right now! It is so twisty and dark, and I am enjoying it!
The books I loved this year were as long as the lemon trees grow, white mulberry, yellowface
i can’t wait to read Billy Summers!!! thanks for the King rec, been needing exactly that :)
If you are seeing this comment, it might be a sign to check out hidden signs of the universe by olivia cooper, much love and thank u ❤
The Secret History is my favorite read of 2024!
I can feel you when you said the characters in "The Prince of Tides" was like family.
You should also read "Once Upon A Broken Heart." I am reading it and it is so good!
Ahhhh I love Recursion and Pet Sematary too!
yayyyyyy u posted! early
Awesome! I’m reading pet sematary right now. I thought it was starting kinda slow, but at around page 100 it really picked up and I started enjoying it a lot. Cheers!
So excited to see The Maidens on here! I actually liked it more than The Silent Patient, but I never hear people talk about this Alex Michaelides book 🤯 The plot twist is actually INSANE and the dark academia vibes are immaculate
Right?! It deserves so much love!
I did a video on my top ten… but here it is.
10: Murder on the Orient Express
9: Three Musketeers
8: Enders Game
7: Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery
6: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
5: The Blythes are Quoted
4: Mistborn
3: Seabiscuit
2: Lightbringer
1: Rhythm of War
Me who only read 10 books this year 😂😭
No, but you and Ian have been giving such solid recs all year. So many books; so little time.
One of the best lists I've ever seen
Great picks!
Try Bride by Ali Hazelwood
And
The Love of my Afterlife by Kristy Greenwood
Both are so underrated and intriguing. I was on the edge of my seat, couldn’t put these books down!
There is an ACTUAL 1800s "Pet Cemetery' out in the middle of the desert in Tooele County UT near the Simpson Springs pony express station, and lots of mustangs in the area too, if you guys ever wanted to go on a nature adventure!
NO WAY!!!!!!!!!
hey! one thing i've been thinking about; knowing Jesus is reading the bible but also reading books too- would love to know more about your balance etc
if more people read the ebook Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki, the way we understand attraction would transform overnight
A book I would suggest that you might like kind of like the invisible life of addie LaRue is A Short Walk Through a Wild world by Douglas Westerbeke. It was such a fun book and so diffrent than what I expected. It would be number 11 on my top 10 list.
I dont have a top 10, only a top 5. 😅 And here are my Five faves:
1. Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary by JD Greear
2. A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers
3. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Endurance by Alfred Lansing
5. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
☺️
Definitely going to take some great recommendations from this. I also loved 11.22.63! You should definitely try and watch Game Of Thrones!
Not sure why more people aren’t talking about book titled Guarded Laws of Money Manifestation. It’s such a rare find.
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra (audiobook is a must), Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Grace Year, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Bodyguard, Verity, Project Hail Mary, The Women, Shatter Me, Red Queen
The bodyguard by Katherine Center was in my Top 10 too! It was so cute!
The Red Queen and Shatter Me series are on my TBR list 😊
@@Jessica_Noel Katherine Center has become my favorite romance author. Definitely planning on reading her to zero.
My top 10 books of 2024 are A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher, Magical Midlife Madness by KF Breene (I highly recommend the dramatized adaptation. It’s the funniest thing I read this year), Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller, What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez, Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean, A Bright Heart by Kate Chenli, The Mystwick School of Musicraft by Jessica Khoury, and Witchy Whiskers by Danielle Garrett.
Next year, I am hoping to read my first of Brandon Sanderson’s or Joe Abercrombie’s books. I also hope to finish Morning Star by Pierce Brown. I might reread Red Rising and Golden Son. Hope everyone has a Happy New Year!!
The nightingale was my favorite of the year and I also read it in January!
I can’t wait to read it this year!
I loved The Maiden’s thanks to your videos ❤ I also loved Red Rising 1-3 and I read book 4 and 5 but idk if I am going to continue with this series because the first 3 ended so beautifully that I just don’t like where the series goes after book 3. I got fable but I never really used Goodreads so I have no reading wrap up and I am frustrated trying to add all the books that I read in 2024 from my list in the Libby app. Also thanks to you and Ian, I am reading The Lovely War and I am loving go it and so far I think that it was that cover that was keeping me from reading it because I am not a fan of that cover.
I absolutely loved Billy Summers. I guess I have to read Pet Semetary now that you have it listed better than Billy. Love your videos Ashlynn! Thanks for what you do!!
It was so hard to pick which was my favorite between them😭 also, thank you so much for your kind words!
I can't wait to see your reaction to Light Bringer!
Just letting you know, I got Recursion as a Christmas gift for my boyfriend after you talked about it in your vlog.
Aww no way!!🥹
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah was the best book I read in 2024! It was so good. I’m in a big book hangover because of it. if you haven’t read it, please do.
the truth about attraction in the ebook Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki is so powerful that most people don’t know what to do with it
I found Lovely War as well as Blake Crouch through yours and Ians videos, and I definitely trust your taste!
I have to say for anyone interested though that Lovely War is NOT just a romance. A huge proportion is about racial injustice within the US army, which took me by surprise but to me thats a selling point! The black characters are also based on people that actually existed, and reading about their real lives afterwards made the book that bit more heart breaking.
Favorite book of 2024 was ‘The Shining’ for me :)
If you want a beautifully written tragic story I highly recommend The Warsaw Sisters by Amanda Barratt, it was so good and I can't rave about it enough!
Excellent list!!
Hi Ashlyn I love your videos! I have a book to suggest. It is called The Healers Apprentice. The romance is so cute. The main character, Rose falls in love with one of the duke's sons after he comes injured. The dukes son falls in love with her too, but he is betrothed to another woman. And there is someone who is after Rose. I read the book in a day I couldn't put it down.
You need to read Misery by Steven King! I read Pet Semetary and loved it and now I'm in the middle of 11/22/63. So far 11/22/63 is amazinggg. Billy Summers is definitely next on my list.
My top 10 books in no particular order are: Academy of Villains by Ever King, The Rose Bargain by Sasha Peyton Smith (I got an ARC for this), Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Morning Star by Pierce Brown, Icon and Inferno by Marie Lu, A Million Junes by Emily Henry, Skyward by Brandon Sanderson, When in Rome by Sarah Adams, and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. There were so many I almost couldn’t choose.
I’m definitely reading those❤❤
I really only read 3 books this year (started more but got overwhelmed lol) and they were Play Dead by Ted Dekker, Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli, and Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I highly recommend Ted Dekker. He’s a great Christian author who writes thrillers and mystery as well as some fantasy books and he’s so good at writing
I still smile every time you or Ian talk about Billy Summers because of the secret reading.... WHERE'S BILLY?!
3 Stephen King books in your top 10? Yay!! I loved 11/22/63 AND Pet Sematary. I need to read Billy Summers though😊
i'm definitely gonna have to pick up lovely war, i've been rediscovering my love for historical fiction
Great list! Lovely War was on my top 10 when I read it in 2022, so so good. I really want to read your sci-fi picks even though I’m not a big sci-fi reader! Also hoping to read The Secret History and Game of Thrones in 2025 since I didn’t get to those this year. And I’m sure Ian is so proud that Stephen King made multiple appearances on your list 😂
Here’s my top 10 of 2024 (from least to most favorite):
Just For The Summer
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Tress of the Emerald Sea
The God of the Woods
Seven Days in June
Piranesi
The Things We Cannot Say
Words of Radiance
Beartown
Six of Crows
There are a lot of books i read like comic book novels and short stories and manga like the great gatsby and many more.
Beach Music by Pat Conroy -- one of my favorite of his.
You are the reason I buddy read Billy summers with my boyfriend at the beginning of this year and it was our first 6⭐️ read of the year! Now we are engaged and buddy reading The Storied Life of AJ Fickry
AWWW really?!?! Oh my gosh I’m so honored 😭😭💞
@ yes!! I’m excited to see what you and Ian read this year! Happy new year! 💕
My top ten books of the year in no particular order (because I literally can't lol),
10. The spirit Bares it's teeth by Andrew Joseph White
9. Prime time romance by Kate Robb
8. Repeat after me by Jessica Warman
7. Incidents around the house by Josh Malerman
6. Ready player one by Ernest Cline
5. Dark matter by Blake Crouch
4. House of Frank by Kay Synclaire
3. Once upon a broken heart by Stephanie Garber, (this trilogy got me back into reading)
2. Travis Baldree duology ( I'd pick one but I can't )
1. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (I know Ian didn't like it but I think about Sadie all the time, at my core I am Sadie )
I read first law by joe Abercrombie this year and it’s automatically going to the top of my list. But there were some great ones for me.
My favorite book of the year was A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin💖
Here's my 10
Tales of the body thief by Anne rice book 4 in the vampire chronicles
Clytemnestra by constanza casanti
Queen of the damned by Anne rice book 3 in the vampire chronicles
Good luck with that by kristan Higgins
Miss memory lane by colton Haynes memoir
Her too by bonnie kistler
This could be us by Kennedy Ryan
One summer in Savannah by terah shelton Harris
Out of shape by gracie gold memoir
The maid by nita prose
Honorable mentions
Interview with the vampire by Anne rice
Lizzie Blake's best mistake by mazey eddings
The violence by delilah s dawson
Binding 13 by chloe Walsh
Be my baby by ronnie spector memoir
Billy Summers! Yes!
I have watched Ian’s videos on which Stephen King book to start but I would love to watch you do a video on which Stephen King to start with ?
Im so scared to read iron gold! I loved the first 3 books but im scared ! I dont want to see my fav characters suffer 😅😢
My 2024 faves (no order) were:
The Wedding People
The Will of the Many
The Only One Left
Four Weekends and a Funeral
Rogue Protocol
The Women
The Twilight Garden
Big Swiss
A Game of Thrones
His & Hers
I’m surprised your number one book was Pet Sematary. I definitely didn’t see that coming. I thought Billy Summers or one of the Red Rising books would be your number one. Can’t wait to see what books you read in 2025!
i would read game of thrones!!!
Please read Pat Conroy’s The Lords of Discipline. It’s great!
great list Ashlynn, the Red Rising Saga is incredible, I still need to read Light Bringer but I've been putting it off bc I know it's going to destroy me 😅 I definitely need to prioritize 11/22/63 this year, I love anything to do with time travel.
My top 10
1. Demon Copperhead
2. The Covenant of Water
3. Red Rising Saga (fave is Golden Son)
4. Divine Rivals
5. Real Life
6. Heartstopper Vol 5
7. Piranesi
8. The Safekeep
9. She Who Became the Sun Duology
10. The Will of the Many
Honourable Mentions
Funny Story, The Great Reclamation, Hamnet, The Hobbit, Evenings & Weekends, How to Say Babylon, Between the World & Me, In The Dream House, Braiding Sweetgrass
If you liked the maidens you should read the Fury of the same author
Are you & Ian going to pickup Blake Crouch’s Run? Think it was rereleased October 2024?
what's the recommended age rating for the maidens?
Have you read the women yet? Such a great historical fiction!
I would read Donna Tartt’s grocery lists
Same girl💀
Happy New Year’s eve!!! last day of 2024🤍✨🎉🥂
ahhhh
Have you read Stephen Kings Fairy tale or Carrie? Two of my favorites
I haven’t read Carrie yet!