YOUR Favorite Books of the Year!! (that's right, ranking my SUBSCRIBER’S favorite books of 2024!!!)

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  • Опубликовано: 7 янв 2025

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  • @MrGSpock667
    @MrGSpock667 17 дней назад +22

    Small Things like These is a great Christmas book. If you're considering reading it, now is the time. The cadence is incredible. I was shocked when I realized over and over again that I had been reading for only 30 seconds, but my mind had constructed so many visuals and I knew the story so much deeper than 30 seconds prior.

  • @radiantchristina
    @radiantchristina 18 дней назад +12

    Great list !!! Stoner was not only my top read of the year, but it is also now in my top all-time favorite reads. There were a few on the fiction list that I have not read that sound very intriguing to me. Thanks for putting this video together.

  • @van1296essa
    @van1296essa 15 дней назад +9

    So pleased intermezzo made it so high up! Was so pleasantly surprised by that book this year, Rooney did not disappoint (except with the lack of pizza

  • @teddybearbooks
    @teddybearbooks 18 дней назад +16

    Yessssssss love how so many people love I Who Have Never Known Men!!!! (That’s my fav book this year) YOU NEED TO READ IT ANA!!!!!!! Truly so amazing and profound while also being such a quick read

    • @blooodytwins
      @blooodytwins 17 дней назад +1

      saaame

    • @nelexx8627
      @nelexx8627 12 дней назад

      Please explain. I wanted to love it. It‘s right up my alley - or it should be. But nothing happens and no deep thoughts are being had. The protagonist doesn‘t know life how it used to be and she doesn‘t encounter anyone who did either. I thought this would be a clash of ideas and upbringings or reflections on modern life. Ultimately she just hikes around alone for the rest of her life.
      Personally I much preferred ‚The Road‘ for those reasons

  • @Jimi6was9
    @Jimi6was9 13 дней назад +3

    Thanks!

  • @mattkean1128
    @mattkean1128 17 дней назад +7

    I read the Bluest Eye this year, and her writing is always so sublime, even when the subject is difficult.

  • @andrewmsmith1969
    @andrewmsmith1969 18 дней назад +8

    Just finished reading Doppelganger - very impressed, and even more important now than when it was written. I was very taken with No Logo when it first came out, but lost track of her for a couple of decades

  • @scarletbagpipes5072
    @scarletbagpipes5072 17 дней назад +4

    Great list thank you. Yes please. Let's get up that non-fiction alley.

  • @kathycurwin3123
    @kathycurwin3123 15 дней назад +1

    My top 5 of this year: 1) The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters 2)Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro 3) The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See 4)The River we Remember by William Kent Krueger and 5) Recipe for a Good Life by Lesley Crewe. All fiction. I read Doppleganger and really liked that too.

  • @iv0rysh0es39
    @iv0rysh0es39 16 дней назад +3

    Love how the whip sfx always makes a guest appearance.

  • @spicypiscey5056
    @spicypiscey5056 17 дней назад

    Love your videos Anna! Thanks for all the entertainment & reading inspo this year. Sending love to you

  • @Goolop77
    @Goolop77 16 дней назад

    Ana I’m so happy to hear you’re interested in Lonesome Dove! It was my fav this year (along with into the wild, thanks for getting me into Mr Krakauer!)

  • @ny2phillyholloway592
    @ny2phillyholloway592 18 дней назад +2

    I loved every second of this video!! East Of Eden was the first Steinbeck book I read but, Grapes of wrath is my favorite. Rose of Sharon is my hero💖

  • @_thebeigelord
    @_thebeigelord 17 дней назад

    Hi Ana! I love your channel, and just wanted to let you know that I read 'East of Eden' after you recommended it a couple of years ago and I LOVED IT SO MUCH, I owe you a gift basket. It was so wonderful, it made my best of youtube video for 2024, so thank you girl :) Keep making unique videos, you're wonderful!

  • @Miiiirreeelllaaaa
    @Miiiirreeelllaaaa 18 дней назад +2

    My favourite this year was definitely black swans by eve babitz!!! I read this at the beach in Sicily and it was just a whole vibe :)) loved this video!!!

  • @sitka0516
    @sitka0516 12 дней назад

    a tree grows in brooklyn will always be a fav of mine- shout out to my high school english teacher for recommending it to two anxious 14 year old girls. i buddy read it with my best friend and it rocked our worlds. glad to see it going around on the internet this year!

  • @jibby1986
    @jibby1986 18 дней назад +10

    It is kind of English. Demon Copperhead is a modern day retelling of David Copperfield.

  • @ARC4162
    @ARC4162 16 дней назад +1

    'Giovanni's Room' is Perfect.

  • @400skuxx
    @400skuxx 17 дней назад +4

    If anyone is gonna read julia foxs memoir, seriously consider listening to the audiobook. She narrates it herself and its such a whirlwind of a journey.

  • @Macabre.beetle
    @Macabre.beetle 11 дней назад

    I loved Small things like these it was excellent happy to see it at the top! I would love a recommendation video for audiobooks!

  • @joelharris4399
    @joelharris4399 18 дней назад +3

    Books that stood out to me this year: "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes. There is a reason it is considered a classic and it did not disappoint. Leonard Cohen's moving poetry collection, "Stranger Music." When it comes to the brevity of language, its directness, Eileen Myles's "a working life". Don't let the simplicity of their prose fool you though. It is purposeful and part of their poetics, not to mention authentic, coming from a working class background

  • @carolinafalconcordara9452
    @carolinafalconcordara9452 16 дней назад +1

    I read a lot this year but if I had to choose my top 5 books of 2024, I would say the following (read them all in spanish, but hope the translated versions are great):
    1. House of the spirits (Isabel Allende)
    2. Our share of night (Mariana Enriquez)
    3. Blind Sunflowers (Alberto Méndez)
    4. The summer that melted everything (Tiffany McDaniel)
    5. Cousins (Aurora Venturini)
    I also really enjoyed many Amelie Nothomb's, Ernaux's and Murakami's..
    As for non-fiction I adored "That wich has no name", by Piedad Bonnett, and "With the end in mind" by Kathryn Mannix, and regarding poetry, definetly "Joana" by Joan Margarit.
    Hope this inspires future readings for somebody! I loved hearing everyone's favourites.

  • @patricialux6197
    @patricialux6197 17 дней назад +1

    Between Two Kingdoms is an intense memoir, beautifully written, compelling read. I just read a book that amazed me. I, me, read a western! Such an unexpected, unusual selection for me----that i agreed to check it out & its so long: Lonesome Dove!!!! Loved it, so so fantastic, great book! Wow!! Also, before that, i read East of Eden...loved it. Steinbeck is one of my favorite authors now. Reading everything. Now, Grapes of Wrath. I cant believe YOU havent read it!!? What a talented beautiful writer!!

  • @jeffrowlette
    @jeffrowlette 12 дней назад +3

    You're quite a character 😃
    Enjoyed it 9/10

  • @oohpiee
    @oohpiee 18 дней назад

    love the end of the year of the list especially with our opinions!!!!!! the group project was definitely a success!!!

  • @sarahogborn8024
    @sarahogborn8024 17 дней назад

    I actually feel you would love the Count of Monte Cristo so much!!! I’m almost done with it and it really is such a great read!

  • @katieg2449
    @katieg2449 17 дней назад

    I do feel represented on this list bc even though I didn’t read Small Things Like These this year I am gonna reread it on Christmas and that will make it one of my favorite books of the year if you think about it.

  • @MoniqueBourgeois
    @MoniqueBourgeois 16 дней назад

    I must say I enjoy your personality and your taste in books:)

  • @rubyanddelilahandnani
    @rubyanddelilahandnani 15 дней назад

    Most of them I own already, but have yet to read. Sula was amazing. Need to reread asap.

  • @Will2Wisdom
    @Will2Wisdom День назад

    Ana Wallace Johnson!

  • @myriam8190
    @myriam8190 15 дней назад

    Yesss to the Top 100 non fiction of all a time list video, please!

  • @enie8751
    @enie8751 18 дней назад +5

    THE SECRET HISTORY ❤❤❤ my all time favourite !!!
    My favourite non-fiction: MADHOUSE AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Julian Sancton. The story of the Belgica, a ship on a polar expedition in 1897. Just great !!!

    • @nathaniel6421
      @nathaniel6421 18 дней назад +1

      See my comment on The Secret History. I do not get it?

    • @enie8751
      @enie8751 18 дней назад

      @@nathaniel6421yes, I saw your comment. For me THE SECRET HISTORY is unique. No other book has ever captivated me so much. It’s hard to explain. The atmosphere of this book touched me so deeply. I think you either feel it or you don’t.

  • @mame-musing
    @mame-musing 18 дней назад +2

    Yes, I cried. Read several of the books on your list. “Stoner” by John Williams was a first time read and it now ranks among my favorites after decades of reading. “Small Things Like These” by Claire Keegan is a prime example of good things being in small packages.
    “Hidden Valley Road” what a genetic nightmare fell on the Galvin family.
    Thanks for compiling this list from your subscribers, I enjoyed hearing about books that were usually not printed in 2024. Great outro ☘️🎶

  • @fmarginalia
    @fmarginalia 17 дней назад +1

    Doppelganger is literally a MUST read

  • @elisemusu
    @elisemusu 18 дней назад +1

    I've been devouring books by Barbara Comyns..... ♥

  • @kristenp6547
    @kristenp6547 17 дней назад

    Today I finished what I'd consider my favorite book of the year - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. Rounding out my top 3 are Address Unknown by Katherine Kressman Taylor (small but mighty and impactful) and A Gentlemen In Moscow, Amor Towles.
    Your viewers have great taste! Lots of excellent books on this list.
    I believe Demon Copperhead is a retelling of David Copperfield, which may be why you're confused. It's on my list for 2025.

  • @probablycryinginbed
    @probablycryinginbed 13 дней назад

    my number one is on the savage side by tiffany mcdaniel❤

  • @ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged
    @ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged 17 дней назад

    I literally finished I Who Have Never Known Men today and it is amazing and brilliant and I almost don’t know what to do with myself.

  • @deirdre108
    @deirdre108 13 дней назад

    Starting in January of this year I reread for the fourth time “Earthly Powers” by Anthony Burgess. This is one of the great novels of the 20th century and in fact spans most of that century. EP is highly unappreciated and barely survives in the shadow of “A Clockwork Orange” but is much superior to it.

  • @RJ-se4kp
    @RJ-se4kp 17 дней назад

    Yellowface R.F Kuang and pop. 1280 Jim Thompson are my best this year

  • @Luckygingerslots
    @Luckygingerslots 15 дней назад

    I’m reading the graphs of wrath right now and it’s a lot

  • @alexandrialibrary483
    @alexandrialibrary483 15 дней назад

    I need your hair blowout routine because your hair looks gorgeous.

  • @jide7722
    @jide7722 18 дней назад +3

    read a lot of good books this year but found no new favorites 🙃

  • @anubhavtiwari3153
    @anubhavtiwari3153 15 дней назад +1

    Is it only me or anyone else who has not read any of these books?

  • @Contraband_Pigments
    @Contraband_Pigments 18 дней назад +1

    Surprised to see Far From the Madding Crowd on this list. Don't tell Jennifer @InsertLiteraryPunHere. As she said recently, "It's not that I hate his sentences. His sentences hate me." 😅

  • @damianp564
    @damianp564 17 дней назад

    Interestingly, Naomi Klein references bell hooks in Doppelganger.

  • @runitdown3462
    @runitdown3462 17 дней назад

    I didn't know RUclips could do dubbing 😮

  • @Handmedownmac2
    @Handmedownmac2 9 дней назад

    THOMAS HARDY STAN CLUB

  • @iammehowru
    @iammehowru 17 дней назад

    I wish i understood the love for Down The Drain. I love Julia Fox, I oove celebrity memoirs, I hated that book 😢

  • @gramatprieks
    @gramatprieks 16 дней назад

    I cannot understand how to choose between Secret history, Bluest eye, Stoner or Small thing like these, for example. Each of these books have its own worth and meaning. For me, it's definitely Stoner. Much more longer book than Small thing like these, and about intellectual, but for me it gave much more material for thought. Small things like these felt too simplified, there was no depth, just banal Christmas story. Longer book maybe would give deeper and stronger perspective and look at those problematic parts of Irish history

  • @simransachan1876
    @simransachan1876 18 дней назад +1

    IM SO EARLY!!!!

  • @liea9892
    @liea9892 14 дней назад

    You’re very very stylish

  • @jazzgirlie
    @jazzgirlie 17 дней назад

    Not anywhere near done with this video, but has to comment to say I hated Doppelgänger. DNFed shot halfway through :/

  • @MrPunky1
    @MrPunky1 18 дней назад

    Who is Digging for God?

  • @nathaniel6421
    @nathaniel6421 18 дней назад +27

    I read the Secret History by Donna Tarrt after it kept being recommended by book tubers who I like. I was... Disappointed? I do not get the hype? All the characters are insufferable. You never find out about the poor man that was murdered really. The group are egotistical, unlikeable bottom holes. Lots of people rate this book, I wonder if I have missed something?

    • @teneshaanderson4761
      @teneshaanderson4761 18 дней назад +8

      I think it’s a matter of taste

    • @Yoeri22
      @Yoeri22 18 дней назад +30

      The fact that the characters are insufferable is the point of the book actually

    • @iammehowru
      @iammehowru 17 дней назад +17

      It's just not for you, and that's okay! My favourite books all have insufferable main characters and focus on things you wouldn't expect in a story, so the secret history is right up my alley. A lot of people also like it outside of those things for the beauty of the writing. But if it didn't speak to you, it doesn't mean anything is wrong with you or with the book!

    • @xxzcfdxc
      @xxzcfdxc 17 дней назад

      Same I was very disappointed. Goldfinch on the other hand was pretty good

    • @ebrutuncay6181
      @ebrutuncay6181 17 дней назад +1

      I could not agree more. I hated the characters. I know we are not supposed to love them to enjoy a book but in the end I finished it just to be done with.

  • @sannasjoberg3488
    @sannasjoberg3488 12 дней назад

    Great video! 💌 Why are you (as a non Irish person) making fun of the Irish accent though? Several times. Genuinely asking what is funny/the point.