I had a good reading year this year. My favorites were: Maybe You should talk to someone by Lori Gottlieb (A nonfiction) The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (also a nonfiction / memoir) Un certain Sourire by François Sagan A Fantasy of Dr. Ox by Jules Verne (a classic distopian that I really think you should try!) Also, in regards of Elif Shafak, I've read many books by her and they're always 4-5 stars Last one I read was "How to stay sane in an age of division" which I think you should also try My favourite book by her is "The bastard of Istanbul" and I have the book you mentioned next on my to-read list!
Shafak 's newest one "There are rivers in the sky" is my 2024 fav read. "The Island of Missing trees" was my #1 book a few years ago. Amazing storyteller.
Look, I read multiple recommendations from you this year, and you were so right about I Who Have Never Known Men AND Blood Over Bright Haven. I think my fave his year was All Fours; it was very relatable for me as I went through a life shift three years ago.
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak was one of the most lovely books I’ve read in awhile. I felt deeply, emotionally, touched several times. It’s one of the only fictional books I’ve read that’s felt more spiritual and truthful than religious texts.
Love your channel, Emily! My 2024 favorites were: Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grann) What Feasts at Night (T Kingfisher) The Haunting of Maddy Clare (Simone St. James)-thank you so much for mentioning this book in one of your videos! Foster (Claire Keegan) Looking forward to more great reads in 2025❤
If I were objective I would say that The Will of the Many was the best one this year. However, The House in the cerulean Sea came at a time when I really needed that kind of sweet, wholesome story. And then Somewhere beyond the sea. Those were the books I needed. Sweet, innocent. They truly healed my soul. Sometimes it's not about the objective qualities, sometimes it's about how the books make you feel.
I will admit, you git me to pick up the Neapolitan Series, I did not have you will power I read them all in the same month. Definitely one of my favorite series of all times, thanks for never giving up on this recommendation
I loved Unraveller by Frances Hardinge 🕸️, she's super underrated but her fantasy books are all super accessible and unique (and they never have random forced romances in them)
You should ABSOLUTELY read The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak! I haven't read any others but it was SO good and also a genre that I don't read much of at all!
My best of the year. -The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec -Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See -The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston. -The Bird King by G Willow Wilson -The Unmothers by Leslie Anderson -The Lost Village by Camilla Sten -Star Scrapper by J.N Chaney -No Gods No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull -The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I read '10 Minutes 38 Seconds...' on your recommendation and really liked it, so Elena Ferrante and 'I Who Have Never Known Men' are on my list to pick up early next year based on your recs.
I'm always going to be so happy that you liked The Goblin Emperor. Is Wedding People a romance book? It's not a genre that I prefer but the premise sounds interesting.
My top 5 books of the year are: - *Pride and Prejudice* by Jane Austen - *In Other Lands* by Sarah Rees Brennan - *Fellowship of the Ring* by Tolkien - *You Should be so Lucky* by Cat Sebastian - *Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Elves and Faeries* by Heather Fawcett I had amazing year but these books really stood out to me and they are the only ones that I gave full 5 stars (I had a lot of 4.5/4.75 reads). Also I read the Goblin Emperor last year and I loved it as well! It's definitely cosy to me even tho there is so much sadness thst I felt for the main character. Loved, LOVED the setting, I'm always a sucker for steampunk and now I need more books with goblins and elves (or maybe just worlds with different races than humans?), it's so cool!
Okay I loved The Will of the Many, one of my favourite books of the year and I have been hesitant to pick up James' other series but your endorsement of it has made me decide it might be time to pick it up in the New Year. Happy Holidays, thanks for all the great recommendations!
Best of the year (in no particular order): * Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer (especially Annihilation) * The Will of the Many by James Islington * Villette by Charlotte Bronte * Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa * One Dark Window by Rachel Gilling * The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy * The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley * The Beach by Alex Garland * The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez * The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff * A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher * Th1rt3en by Steve Cavanagh
@@BookswithEmilyFox I love (or at least like) all her books and have to say this is one of her best! She has such a unique sense of humor and a real way with twisted fairy tales with a feminist perspective.
Oooh I'm so excited to start this video because your best for 2023 is my best for 2024 (Blood Over Bright Haven). You bet I will read whatever you give first place 😂 (unless I read it already of course...I've already read a few of your recommendations this year and I'm currently 90% through Will of the Many, and while it is no Blood Over Bright Haven, it is still very good)
@@BookswithEmilyFox seriously! i think it currently holds the #1 place for favorite book of all time. It was an absolute masterpiece and I probably wouldn't have picked it up if not for your raving recommendation, so I am very thankful that you put it on my radar!
Love your books and added a few to my TBR. My top reads of the year are from your book recommendations. « my brillent friend » I read the 4 books and « I who have never known men » thank you again for all the recommendations.
@@BookswithEmilyFoxdefinitely The Wedding People! I was already curious about it but now I’m convinced. I’m very on the fence about The Shadow of What was Lost but I’m a bit scared about the length of the books in the series considering that the first one is the shortest at 600 pages 😭 but I already had a handful of books on my list that you mentioned here (The Tainted Cup, The Will of the Many, and finishing the Neapolitan Quartet!)
It's a great pick, I'm sure you'll love it! Sounds like you already have thick books/long series so maybe wait until you've read the will of the many to see if you enjoy his writing first!
I adored the wedding people !! Listened to it and it was so fun :) Maintenant je cherche d’autres livres similaires mais je ne sais pas par où commencer !
My best books : Betty - Tiffany Mc Daniel / The serpent and the wings of night C. Broadbent / Porcelaine sous les ruines - Ada.Vivalda / Small things like these - C. Keegan / Verity - C. Hoover / La tresse - L. Colombani / Nettle and Bone - T. Kingfisher !!
Other birds OBSESSED another favorite of mine this year and the cover is beautiful 🎅🏻🎅🏻🎄💚💚🎄🎅🏻❄️❄️🎁❤️❤️❤️❤️🎁🌨️🌨️🎁❤️💚☃️🌨️🌨️🌨️❄️🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎄🎅🏻📙📚📚📚📚📙📖📖📖📙📚📚📙📖📙📚📙📙📚📚📙📖📖
My top 5 this year: Playground by Richard Powers Blood Over Bright Haven by ML Wang Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Stoner by John Edward Williams The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
One of the best I read this year that I don't think you've read yet is Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie. This is the first standalone after the First Law Trilogy, which I'm pretty sure you've read! It's full of female rage and revenge, and it's so good!!
‘Eye of the needle’ was my first Ken Follett, I really enjoyed it - and as I type I realise I don’t think I ever saw you mention Ken Follett, maybe it’d be a good first approach to his books for you as well
My favorite books this year was the 1st and 2nd book of the Bloodsworn Saga: The shadow of the gods, and The hunger of the gods.. haven't read the 3rd one yet. Norse mythology by Neil Gaiman. Project hail mary, Andy Weir. And legends and latte, Travis Baldree.
My Brilliant Friend is on my priority TBR for 2025, really need to get to that series! The Tainted Cup was great 😊 Sadly I didn’t love All The Colors of the Dark but I feel like I’m the only one, haha. I don’t mind a slow burn kind of book but didn’t really connect with the writing or story sadly! And the rest of these are either already on my TBR or on it now because of you, haha. I was surprised by my top 12 list because there’s definitely some fantasy as expected but then there’s also a good mix of different genres! My top 12 (in chronological order) is: Tress of the Emerald Sea The Hate U Give Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands Six of Crows Words of Radiance Seven Days in June Piranesi Just For The Summer The Things We Cannot Say Remarkably Bright Creatures The God of the Woods Beartown
One of the best books I’ve read this year is Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, I’m mentioning this specifically bc I know it’s on your shelves so you won’t have to buy it 😂 there were many extremely weird scenes in this book so you might not give it 5 stars like me, but it’s definitely worth reading!
Mon livre préféré cette année est français... Rivages de la colère. Pour être en colère aussi! Ah -- My favorite book this year is unfortunately not translated to English. "Rivages de la colère"
J'ai vraiment hâte de lire le livre de Chris Whitaker ! Il a l'air si bon. J'ai telllllement aimé la série d'Elena Ferrante! Je vais la relire un jour, c'est certain. Un de mes livres préférés de 2024 est Boy's Life par Robert McCammon. Bonne année 2025 (en lecture et personnelle) !
Hard disagree on Amy. She did everything wrong 😂 but she had good points, yes. They’re both the worst imo, and I disliked them both deeply, but for very different reasons. I love that book so much. I’ve read it like 6 times
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What are the best books you’ve read in 2024?
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs and The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
Easily Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. And for nonfiction, Eve and Wild Swans.
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I had a good reading year this year. My favorites were:
Maybe You should talk to someone by Lori Gottlieb (A nonfiction)
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (also a nonfiction / memoir)
Un certain Sourire by François Sagan
A Fantasy of Dr. Ox by Jules Verne (a classic distopian that I really think you should try!)
Also, in regards of Elif Shafak, I've read many books by her and they're always 4-5 stars
Last one I read was "How to stay sane in an age of division" which I think you should also try
My favourite book by her is "The bastard of Istanbul" and I have the book you mentioned next on my to-read list!
Shafak 's newest one "There are rivers in the sky" is my 2024 fav read. "The Island of Missing trees" was my #1 book a few years ago. Amazing storyteller.
Look, I read multiple recommendations from you this year, and you were so right about I Who Have Never Known Men AND Blood Over Bright Haven. I think my fave his year was All Fours; it was very relatable for me as I went through a life shift three years ago.
Merry Christmas!
Thank you!! Merry Christmas ❤️
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak was one of the most lovely books I’ve read in awhile. I felt deeply, emotionally, touched several times. It’s one of the only fictional books I’ve read that’s felt more spiritual and truthful than religious texts.
The Goblin Emperor is a cosy fantasy for me. Love it.
Love your channel, Emily! My 2024 favorites were:
Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grann)
What Feasts at Night (T Kingfisher)
The Haunting of Maddy Clare (Simone St. James)-thank you so much for mentioning this book in one of your videos!
Foster (Claire Keegan)
Looking forward to more great reads in 2025❤
+1 to Killers of the Flower Moon!
If I were objective I would say that The Will of the Many was the best one this year. However, The House in the cerulean Sea came at a time when I really needed that kind of sweet, wholesome story. And then Somewhere beyond the sea. Those were the books I needed. Sweet, innocent. They truly healed my soul. Sometimes it's not about the objective qualities, sometimes it's about how the books make you feel.
I will admit, you git me to pick up the Neapolitan Series, I did not have you will power I read them all in the same month. Definitely one of my favorite series of all times, thanks for never giving up on this recommendation
I’m reading The Tainted Cup right now and loving it…might be a last minute favorite of the year
I loved Unraveller by Frances Hardinge 🕸️, she's super underrated but her fantasy books are all super accessible and unique (and they never have random forced romances in them)
You should ABSOLUTELY read The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak! I haven't read any others but it was SO good and also a genre that I don't read much of at all!
That’s the other one I have on my shelf. I will give it a shot next year!
I love that book!
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due is my best book of the year
My best of the year.
-The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
-Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
-The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston.
-The Bird King by G Willow Wilson
-The Unmothers by Leslie Anderson
-The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
-Star Scrapper by J.N Chaney
-No Gods No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
-The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I LOVED The Witch’s Heart! It was my first read of the year and I ate it up.
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It was my 13th and stayed with me the whole year too!
I only heard about three of these but just from the titles they sound really interesting 👀
I read '10 Minutes 38 Seconds...' on your recommendation and really liked it, so Elena Ferrante and 'I Who Have Never Known Men' are on my list to pick up early next year based on your recs.
I'm always going to be so happy that you liked The Goblin Emperor.
Is Wedding People a romance book? It's not a genre that I prefer but the premise sounds interesting.
Merry Christmas ✨️🎄✨️
My top 5 books of the year are:
- *Pride and Prejudice* by Jane Austen
- *In Other Lands* by Sarah Rees Brennan
- *Fellowship of the Ring* by Tolkien
- *You Should be so Lucky* by Cat Sebastian
- *Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Elves and Faeries* by Heather Fawcett
I had amazing year but these books really stood out to me and they are the only ones that I gave full 5 stars (I had a lot of 4.5/4.75 reads).
Also I read the Goblin Emperor last year and I loved it as well! It's definitely cosy to me even tho there is so much sadness thst I felt for the main character.
Loved, LOVED the setting, I'm always a sucker for steampunk and now I need more books with goblins and elves (or maybe just worlds with different races than humans?), it's so cool!
One of my top favorites that I read this year was The Tainted Cup. Currently reading Wren Hunt and am enjoying it.
I loved The Tainted Cup ❤
My favorites of the year were Against the loveless world and My brilliant friend
Okay I loved The Will of the Many, one of my favourite books of the year and I have been hesitant to pick up James' other series but your endorsement of it has made me decide it might be time to pick it up in the New Year. Happy Holidays, thanks for all the great recommendations!
You’ll have to tell me how it goes!
Best of the year (in no particular order):
* Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer (especially Annihilation)
* The Will of the Many by James Islington
* Villette by Charlotte Bronte
* Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
* One Dark Window by Rachel Gilling
* The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
* The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
* The Beach by Alex Garland
* The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
* The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff
* A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
* Th1rt3en by Steve Cavanagh
I'm thinking of reading A Sorceress Comes to Call in my first vlog!
@@BookswithEmilyFox I love (or at least like) all her books and have to say this is one of her best! She has such a unique sense of humor and a real way with twisted fairy tales with a feminist perspective.
Oooh I'm so excited to start this video because your best for 2023 is my best for 2024 (Blood Over Bright Haven). You bet I will read whatever you give first place 😂 (unless I read it already of course...I've already read a few of your recommendations this year and I'm currently 90% through Will of the Many, and while it is no Blood Over Bright Haven, it is still very good)
It will be hard to beat blood over bright haven!! I’m curious, which book will be my number one of the year 🤞🤞
@@BookswithEmilyFox seriously! i think it currently holds the #1 place for favorite book of all time. It was an absolute masterpiece and I probably wouldn't have picked it up if not for your raving recommendation, so I am very thankful that you put it on my radar!
Love your books and added a few to my TBR. My top reads of the year are from your book recommendations. « my brillent friend » I read the 4 books and « I who have never known men » thank you again for all the recommendations.
I was waiting for your video to complete my 25 books for 2025 template!!
Which books are you going to add?
@@BookswithEmilyFoxdefinitely The Wedding People! I was already curious about it but now I’m convinced. I’m very on the fence about The Shadow of What was Lost but I’m a bit scared about the length of the books in the series considering that the first one is the shortest at 600 pages 😭 but I already had a handful of books on my list that you mentioned here (The Tainted Cup, The Will of the Many, and finishing the Neapolitan Quartet!)
It's a great pick, I'm sure you'll love it! Sounds like you already have thick books/long series so maybe wait until you've read the will of the many to see if you enjoy his writing first!
Voyage of the Damned! I wish more people were talking about it! It’s so good (fantasy/murder mystery/sci-fi vibes).
I adored the wedding people !! Listened to it and it was so fun :) Maintenant je cherche d’autres livres similaires mais je ne sais pas par où commencer !
My best books of the year: Maame by Jessica George, The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
My best books : Betty - Tiffany Mc Daniel / The serpent and the wings of night C. Broadbent / Porcelaine sous les ruines - Ada.Vivalda / Small things like these - C. Keegan / Verity - C. Hoover / La tresse - L. Colombani / Nettle and Bone - T. Kingfisher !!
The Sun Eater series took over my life this year. I read it 3 times. I loved The Wall. I looved Annie Bot!!
Other birds OBSESSED another favorite of mine this year and the cover is beautiful 🎅🏻🎅🏻🎄💚💚🎄🎅🏻❄️❄️🎁❤️❤️❤️❤️🎁🌨️🌨️🎁❤️💚☃️🌨️🌨️🌨️❄️🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎄🎅🏻📙📚📚📚📚📙📖📖📖📙📚📚📙📖📙📚📙📙📚📚📙📖📖
My top 5 this year:
Playground by Richard Powers
Blood Over Bright Haven by ML Wang
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Stoner by John Edward Williams
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Favourite reads for me were Flowers for Algernon and also The Ferryman by Justin cronin. Merry xmas!
My best books of 2024 were The Tainted Cup, My Husband by Maud Ventura (original is in French) and The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean.
Dracula by Bram Stoker, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, and Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud
One of the best I read this year that I don't think you've read yet is Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie. This is the first standalone after the First Law Trilogy, which I'm pretty sure you've read! It's full of female rage and revenge, and it's so good!!
I need to get to that!
‘Eye of the needle’ was my first Ken Follett, I really enjoyed it - and as I type I realise I don’t think I ever saw you mention Ken Follett, maybe it’d be a good first approach to his books for you as well
My best book of the year was, by far, Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson!
My favorite books this year was the 1st and 2nd book of the Bloodsworn Saga: The shadow of the gods, and The hunger of the gods.. haven't read the 3rd one yet.
Norse mythology by Neil Gaiman.
Project hail mary, Andy Weir.
And legends and latte, Travis Baldree.
My Brilliant Friend is on my priority TBR for 2025, really need to get to that series! The Tainted Cup was great 😊 Sadly I didn’t love All The Colors of the Dark but I feel like I’m the only one, haha. I don’t mind a slow burn kind of book but didn’t really connect with the writing or story sadly! And the rest of these are either already on my TBR or on it now because of you, haha. I was surprised by my top 12 list because there’s definitely some fantasy as expected but then there’s also a good mix of different genres! My top 12 (in chronological order) is:
Tress of the Emerald Sea
The Hate U Give
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
Six of Crows
Words of Radiance
Seven Days in June
Piranesi
Just For The Summer
The Things We Cannot Say
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The God of the Woods
Beartown
My top read of the year was A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon followed by One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Please read Betty by Tiffany McDaniel next year!
Justice of Kings series!
My favorite book of the year (that I believe you haven't read yet) was Sea of tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
One of the best books I’ve read this year is Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, I’m mentioning this specifically bc I know it’s on your shelves so you won’t have to buy it 😂 there were many extremely weird scenes in this book so you might not give it 5 stars like me, but it’s definitely worth reading!
Maybe the jar will choose it next year 😅
after Blood Over Bright Haven, my favorite book (series) was The Jasmine Throne
I’ve only read the first book in that series. Is the rest good??
The salt grows heavy by cassandra khaw
Mon livre préféré cette année est français...
Rivages de la colère. Pour être en colère aussi! Ah
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My favorite book this year is unfortunately not translated to English. "Rivages de la colère"
J'ai vraiment hâte de lire le livre de Chris Whitaker ! Il a l'air si bon.
J'ai telllllement aimé la série d'Elena Ferrante! Je vais la relire un jour, c'est certain.
Un de mes livres préférés de 2024 est Boy's Life par Robert McCammon.
Bonne année 2025 (en lecture et personnelle) !
Have you noticed you’re loving books from Read with Jenna?
I can’t shake the image of the pyramid scheme for the magic system of The Will of the Many now. 😂
Style
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Hard disagree on Amy. She did everything wrong 😂 but she had good points, yes. They’re both the worst imo, and I disliked them both deeply, but for very different reasons. I love that book so much. I’ve read it like 6 times
I recommend The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson. Great read 😊
12:03 I'm watching this video having started gone girl today after years of DNFing it so I hope I will feel the same way as you 🥹