Special thank you to the following from instagram for helping me to curate my November TBR: chelsei_the_book_worm_x_x_x, theroseelectory, annamarieinbookland, suhasinisinha, lecturesimaginaires, thereadingnovice, pearlisreadingthis, sam.enters, caitofthebooks, charlieriste, vickiwalton90, an_na_goliath, sydthekid.427, tinysaurus_regina, inkybajinkyreads, gizmobaggins, laceywiththebooks, crinklepages, duckingquack, stefypb, acapaldi707, siobhansmanybooks, novelsanddaydreams, lillyjoyphoto, kathis_catsandbooks, the.literary.cat, ambria92, sonkad Special shoutout to the one and only Katy instagram.com/Katy.gilroy/ www.thelilacscrapbook.com/ BOOK INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/wandernessbooks
wow so many of these books were such popular YA fantasies like 5-10 years ago! makes me equally nostalgic for ye olde booktube and also guilty for leaving some on my tbr for so long!
I really enjoy Michael J Sullivan's books, and I'll be really interested to see how you get on when you get around to trying the first book. I'd be scared to actively choose to read the oldest books on my TBR as well as ones I've putting off... I hope it's a project that works out well for you.
I just love how you’re so passionate you are about books and how they make you emotional. I also love how you normalise my own habits such as not reading things I’ve owned for years 😂 Also, whenever I watch any of your videos, it just reignites my love for reading and makes me want to hibernate and just read. Alas life and being a mother stops me from doing that 😢
Sounds like a nice TBR for the coming months! Some of my thoughts on these (of the ones I've read): - Dragon Republic dragged on for a bit around the middle, but last 20-30% was good. Liked the ending, thought Poppy War was much better overall. Book 3 I didn't like :< - LOVE EMILY WILDE Book 2 is even better. - Jade War is so good. My ratings for the trilogy are 3.75, 4.00 and 5.00. - I hope you're going to be pleasantly surprised with Way of Kings, but I'm not sure. I absolutely love it. The Stormlight series is where Sanderson really gets to show off his world building AND his character building. Honestly, his best characters live in this series. His pacing is great, and I absolutely flew through this book even with the absurd page count. If my own TBR didn't consist of 400+ books, I'd definitely be rereading it this year. I hope you'll have fun with your tbr! I'm very curious about your opinion on these books & others (some of the ones you've mentioned are still on my own tbr as well :> )
I hope you enjoy The Prison Healer. I finally got round to it last year and really enjoyed it. I want to finish off the series, but I stumbled across a spoiler when I was trying to find the next book titles 🙃 The Way of Kings was really good for the epic/political fantasy and I didn't realise how long it was when I was reading. Mistborn tends to be more difficult to get into as it was one of his first published books. I think he's tightened up his writing since he published that one. Sounds like you've got some exciting reads coming up. I hope you find at least one you really love!
Thank you!! That's soo annoying that you saw a spoiler, this is why I don't even browse Goodreads anymore. I feel like The Way of King's could be marmite for me, I love political fantasy but my expectations are so low given the size of it
@@Wanderness Yeah, I really wish I hadn't been looking on there but I'm sure I will still enjoy them but trying to give myself some time to forget. I get that! It is really long, It's something ridiculous like 300k words, and the books in the series have been getting longer. I hope that it surprises you and you enjoy it, but can understand why it migh be a bit much
I've been putting off Legends and Lattes as despite the general love for it, I'm not convinced I will find it interesting enough. However I also initially dismissed Emily Wilde and only read that because of the hype and I loved it. I still haven't read Kingdom of Ash either. I might wait for your thoughts on it first! 1000 is a big commitment! I really liked Vengeance Road when I read that a few years ago and that was a cover buy for me too. A Torch Against the Night was my least favourite in the series but still good. Books 3 and 4 were amazing. The first part of a Theft of Swords was a bit underwhelming but i liked the second part of the bind up a lot more.
Aww I love that you took all of our submissions and made it your tbr 🥺 To me Legends is Lattes made me feel the cozy feels, and other books I’ve tried that call themselves cozy such as Can’t Spell Treason without Tea didn’t actually feel cozy to me. I love all of your themed months 😊 I plan to read most of the books you put on your cozy fantasy tbr at some point
I'm so so glad to see you feeling better, and funnily, I've felt some of the characters from the books mentioned were autistic coded! That being said, they might not be for others, as it's a spectrum. But maybe you'll be able to find bits and pieces to relate to. 💜 I for sure had! Emily Wilde with her special interest and lack of social skills, the girl from The Phoenix Keeper and her social anxiety (though, I have to admit, it was sometimes almost caricatural), the girl from The Honey Witch with not wanting to adhere to social norms and feeling strangled by them. 💜
Ah the ToG series. So many emotions for that one. You’re defo gonna need a week at least to recover from KoA The Phoenix Keeper is a very cute read, hope you enjoy that one.
Have you read Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson? It's cozy fantasy and very different from the rest of his books. Not to give too high expectations, but it gave me Princess Bride vibes and I think you'd really enjoy it!
That makes me wonder what book is the oldest on my Goodreads tbr. I never checked it before but it looks like it's Magyk (Septimus Heap #1) by Angie Sage added in 2013 and I never picked up the book. I will have to see if my library has it. I read The Phoenix Keeper. It wasn't mind blowing and wasn't really what I expected but I enjoyed it. Kingdom of Ash was good. It made me cry (not hard to do). I'm caught up on all her series books so far and waiting for the next ACOTAR book. I don't have a ton of books planned for November but I know 3 that I am reading. A book club pick that is The Wren in the Holly Library, then two Netgalley ARC's Grimm Curiosities by Sharon Lynn Fisher and The Whispering Night by Susan Dennard. I have a ton of options to read once I finish those. I'm a mood reader so I like to wing it and try not to commit to a tbr. I didn't even do a "10 Before The End" list yet and I think I won't this year. I've heard many people talk about a few of your book picks saying they liked them so I hope you do too.
It's interesting to look back on goodreads and see what books you were interested in a decade ago and why! I'm usually a mood reader but this year I've struggled with picking something up because I've never been in the mood for anything, but this helps to limit my choices which I find easier. I really wanted to add The Wren in the Holly Library, maybe I'll do Fairyloot Romantasy February!
I've only read the first book in The Prison Healer, maybe the rest are more 'cosy' but I felt it was just mostly typical YA fantasy. Also I get that re: finishing or continuing series. I don't think I consciously do it, and definitely not '5 stars' but if I really enjoyed a book and there's a lot out in the series, I do tend to pivot haha. I think its better if its a 'new' series and I can read each instalment as soon as they come out re: like Eragon back in the day.
I also put off reading sequels 🙈 because I don’t think I can cope with them being amazing - I emotionally cannot cope with too much happiness or sadness. And it’s also so common for book 2 in a series to be pretty blah - which just ruins things. I really want to try more cozy reads but I don’t think my attention span does well with them 🙃
I really enjoyed Legends & Lattes. The prequel was good too. I also liked Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia, and the sequel. Legends was better for me but enjoyed both. Not mentioned (so far, just finished with the first set) but also really good and maybe even better than those two, are The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst. That was a 5 star for me, stand alone, and I loved it. I also really enjoyed You Can't Spell Treason without Tea and its sequel (3rd is coming out in March) by Rebecca Thorne. I enjoyed the Treason series more than Legends even! I do the same with books I really liked, put off reading the sequel. I jump on buying it, but then I worry I'll hate it and it'll ruin the first. I enjoyed the Guinevere Deception. It's was about a 3 star for me. I did finish the series, but not my favorite of all time.
The Spellshop was such a heavily recommended book! I would have bought it for November but I've added to my Christmas list instead to be good 😂 I really think there needs to be a word for sequel anxieties 😭
@@Wanderness I hope you get it! I bought the basic US copy from Amazon that has sprayed purple edges and was ok with that until I saw the Owlcrate version. Then I read it and really wanted the OC. Luckily they put it up on their site and I was able to grab it, but like it enough I'll probably keep both versions! Agreed about the sequel anxiety! I'm not sure what it'd be, but there does need to be a word! I have so many sequels sitting in my TBR. I try to read one or two every month, but lately the library has been working against me...all the books come at once so I feel like I need to read those first and never get to my owned TBR!
Your cosy and sequal month sound awsome!❤ but to start januari with the stuff you didnt pick up 🫣might get jou in a reading slump Maybe just go for a winter themed month in januari and just ...unhaul?😜
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Special thank you to the following from instagram for helping me to curate my November TBR:
chelsei_the_book_worm_x_x_x, theroseelectory, annamarieinbookland, suhasinisinha, lecturesimaginaires, thereadingnovice, pearlisreadingthis, sam.enters, caitofthebooks, charlieriste, vickiwalton90, an_na_goliath, sydthekid.427, tinysaurus_regina, inkybajinkyreads, gizmobaggins, laceywiththebooks, crinklepages, duckingquack, stefypb, acapaldi707, siobhansmanybooks, novelsanddaydreams, lillyjoyphoto, kathis_catsandbooks, the.literary.cat, ambria92, sonkad
Special shoutout to the one and only Katy instagram.com/Katy.gilroy/ www.thelilacscrapbook.com/
BOOK INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/wandernessbooks
I applaud you in trying to reduce your TBR, looking forward to your reading vlogs!
Theft of swords is awesome! ⚔️😃 Loved it!
I hope i love it!
wow so many of these books were such popular YA fantasies like 5-10 years ago! makes me equally nostalgic for ye olde booktube and also guilty for leaving some on my tbr for so long!
It was such a better time 😂
I loved spells for forgiving! I hope you enjoy 😊
thank you!
I really enjoy Michael J Sullivan's books, and I'll be really interested to see how you get on when you get around to trying the first book. I'd be scared to actively choose to read the oldest books on my TBR as well as ones I've putting off... I hope it's a project that works out well for you.
You have so many amazing books to read in the next few months ❤ also thank you for letting us your subscribers help pick books for you to read. 😊xxx
I have had An Ember In the Ashes series and The Prisoner Healer series on my shelves FOREVER and haven’t read any yet! I need to pick them up!
I just love how you’re so passionate you are about books and how they make you emotional. I also love how you normalise my own habits such as not reading things I’ve owned for years 😂 Also, whenever I watch any of your videos, it just reignites my love for reading and makes me want to hibernate and just read. Alas life and being a mother stops me from doing that 😢
Thank you so much this is such a lovely comment 💕 appreciate you ❤️
Fabulous to see you in a forward planning video, any video you put up is fabulous 🤗🤗
If you love cosy fantasy look out for a new book coming next year is: The little dragon cafe, I forget the authors name now xxx
Will certainly look out for it xxx
I'm taking inspo from your upcoming monthly TBRs 😂
Ooooo what's your picks???
@@Wanderness I'm also doing a cozy tbr for fall. So I have Emily Wilde, Rewitched, Pirates Life for Tea, and Phoenix Keeper for now
Great video, I personally loved the way of kings, but everyone is different! Xx
Thank you so much xx
Sounds like a nice TBR for the coming months! Some of my thoughts on these (of the ones I've read):
- Dragon Republic dragged on for a bit around the middle, but last 20-30% was good. Liked the ending, thought Poppy War was much better overall. Book 3 I didn't like :<
- LOVE EMILY WILDE Book 2 is even better.
- Jade War is so good. My ratings for the trilogy are 3.75, 4.00 and 5.00.
- I hope you're going to be pleasantly surprised with Way of Kings, but I'm not sure. I absolutely love it. The Stormlight series is where Sanderson really gets to show off his world building AND his character building. Honestly, his best characters live in this series. His pacing is great, and I absolutely flew through this book even with the absurd page count. If my own TBR didn't consist of 400+ books, I'd definitely be rereading it this year.
I hope you'll have fun with your tbr! I'm very curious about your opinion on these books & others (some of the ones you've mentioned are still on my own tbr as well :> )
I loved the prison healer trilogy 😍
Can't believe I've not read it sooner!
I hope you enjoy The Prison Healer. I finally got round to it last year and really enjoyed it. I want to finish off the series, but I stumbled across a spoiler when I was trying to find the next book titles 🙃 The Way of Kings was really good for the epic/political fantasy and I didn't realise how long it was when I was reading. Mistborn tends to be more difficult to get into as it was one of his first published books. I think he's tightened up his writing since he published that one. Sounds like you've got some exciting reads coming up. I hope you find at least one you really love!
Thank you!! That's soo annoying that you saw a spoiler, this is why I don't even browse Goodreads anymore. I feel like The Way of King's could be marmite for me, I love political fantasy but my expectations are so low given the size of it
@@Wanderness Yeah, I really wish I hadn't been looking on there but I'm sure I will still enjoy them but trying to give myself some time to forget. I get that! It is really long, It's something ridiculous like 300k words, and the books in the series have been getting longer. I hope that it surprises you and you enjoy it, but can understand why it migh be a bit much
I've been putting off Legends and Lattes as despite the general love for it, I'm not convinced I will find it interesting enough. However I also initially dismissed Emily Wilde and only read that because of the hype and I loved it.
I still haven't read Kingdom of Ash either. I might wait for your thoughts on it first! 1000 is a big commitment!
I really liked Vengeance Road when I read that a few years ago and that was a cover buy for me too.
A Torch Against the Night was my least favourite in the series but still good. Books 3 and 4 were amazing.
The first part of a Theft of Swords was a bit underwhelming but i liked the second part of the bind up a lot more.
Aww I love that you took all of our submissions and made it your tbr 🥺 To me Legends is Lattes made me feel the cozy feels, and other books I’ve tried that call themselves cozy such as Can’t Spell Treason without Tea didn’t actually feel cozy to me. I love all of your themed months 😊 I plan to read most of the books you put on your cozy fantasy tbr at some point
I'm so so glad to see you feeling better, and funnily, I've felt some of the characters from the books mentioned were autistic coded! That being said, they might not be for others, as it's a spectrum. But maybe you'll be able to find bits and pieces to relate to. 💜 I for sure had! Emily Wilde with her special interest and lack of social skills, the girl from The Phoenix Keeper and her social anxiety (though, I have to admit, it was sometimes almost caricatural), the girl from The Honey Witch with not wanting to adhere to social norms and feeling strangled by them. 💜
The Poppy War trilogy is on my TBR and I'm currently reading Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands.
Good luck with The Poppy War 😭
Ah the ToG series. So many emotions for that one. You’re defo gonna need a week at least to recover from KoA
The Phoenix Keeper is a very cute read, hope you enjoy that one.
Great way to ruin my Christmas break 😂
Thank you!
Have you read Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson? It's cozy fantasy and very different from the rest of his books. Not to give too high expectations, but it gave me Princess Bride vibes and I think you'd really enjoy it!
No I've been holding out for a really nice edition of it :)
That makes me wonder what book is the oldest on my Goodreads tbr. I never checked it before but it looks like it's Magyk (Septimus Heap #1) by Angie Sage added in 2013 and I never picked up the book. I will have to see if my library has it. I read The Phoenix Keeper. It wasn't mind blowing and wasn't really what I expected but I enjoyed it.
Kingdom of Ash was good. It made me cry (not hard to do). I'm caught up on all her series books so far and waiting for the next ACOTAR book. I don't have a ton of books planned for November but I know 3 that I am reading. A book club pick that is The Wren in the Holly Library, then two Netgalley ARC's Grimm Curiosities by Sharon Lynn Fisher and The Whispering Night by Susan Dennard. I have a ton of options to read once I finish those. I'm a mood reader so I like to wing it and try not to commit to a tbr. I didn't even do a "10 Before The End" list yet and I think I won't this year. I've heard many people talk about a few of your book picks saying they liked them so I hope you do too.
It's interesting to look back on goodreads and see what books you were interested in a decade ago and why!
I'm usually a mood reader but this year I've struggled with picking something up because I've never been in the mood for anything, but this helps to limit my choices which I find easier. I really wanted to add The Wren in the Holly Library, maybe I'll do Fairyloot Romantasy February!
I've only read the first book in The Prison Healer, maybe the rest are more 'cosy' but I felt it was just mostly typical YA fantasy.
Also I get that re: finishing or continuing series. I don't think I consciously do it, and definitely not '5 stars' but if I really enjoyed a book and there's a lot out in the series, I do tend to pivot haha. I think its better if its a 'new' series and I can read each instalment as soon as they come out re: like Eragon back in the day.
The phenomenon needs a name!!
Img sequel September!!!!
I love your November and December lists 🥰. But I must admit, I've never heard of any of the January picks 🤣
Oh no haha!! I guess they are really old books now and most of them aren't spoken about anymore ;P
I’ve read The Poppy war twice. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ all the way. Planning to read The dragon republic in November. So exited but also terrified.
Good luck!!
I feel like the stormlight archive books will be something far in the future. They are so long.
Literally it'll take years to finish
I'd love to know you top 5 star books, maybe top 10? X
I can definitely do this! I'll add it to the list :)
I also put off reading sequels 🙈 because I don’t think I can cope with them being amazing - I emotionally cannot cope with too much happiness or sadness. And it’s also so common for book 2 in a series to be pretty blah - which just ruins things.
I really want to try more cozy reads but I don’t think my attention span does well with them 🙃
My husband agrees with re Sanderson. He loves epic fantasy but doesn’t love Sanderson's writing.
There's just something so dull about it
I really enjoyed Legends & Lattes. The prequel was good too. I also liked Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia, and the sequel. Legends was better for me but enjoyed both. Not mentioned (so far, just finished with the first set) but also really good and maybe even better than those two, are The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst. That was a 5 star for me, stand alone, and I loved it. I also really enjoyed You Can't Spell Treason without Tea and its sequel (3rd is coming out in March) by Rebecca Thorne. I enjoyed the Treason series more than Legends even!
I do the same with books I really liked, put off reading the sequel. I jump on buying it, but then I worry I'll hate it and it'll ruin the first.
I enjoyed the Guinevere Deception. It's was about a 3 star for me. I did finish the series, but not my favorite of all time.
The Spellshop was such a heavily recommended book! I would have bought it for November but I've added to my Christmas list instead to be good 😂
I really think there needs to be a word for sequel anxieties 😭
@@Wanderness I hope you get it! I bought the basic US copy from Amazon that has sprayed purple edges and was ok with that until I saw the Owlcrate version. Then I read it and really wanted the OC. Luckily they put it up on their site and I was able to grab it, but like it enough I'll probably keep both versions!
Agreed about the sequel anxiety! I'm not sure what it'd be, but there does need to be a word! I have so many sequels sitting in my TBR. I try to read one or two every month, but lately the library has been working against me...all the books come at once so I feel like I need to read those first and never get to my owned TBR!
I thought you’d already read the dragon republic 😂
Nope!!
Your cosy and sequal month sound awsome!❤ but to start januari with the stuff you didnt pick up 🫣might get jou in a reading slump Maybe just go for a winter themed month in januari and just ...unhaul?😜
Haha good point! Imagine starting the year in a reading slump...might find some gems though!
@@Wanderness True its posseble🙏🤞🤞