I finally got my hands on "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" and I believed everyone when they said how amazing it was, but it still blew me away. The writing and characters are so so captivating. I haven't finished it yet, but I already know it's one of the best books I've read in 2021
My favourite book of the year is The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Forget about plot, forget the characters. It’s all about the prose. Beautiful writing, disturbing and poignant.
i sadly didn't read a TON this year, but my top 3 books of the year are: 1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin 3. John by Annie Baker (my favorite play i've ever read!!)
one hundred years was a difficult read (my favorite page was the family tree) but so rewarding in the end. one of those books that everyone should read before they die, in my opinion
The silent patient and the heart principle were two of my favorites this year. Definitely check out the heart principle if you liked the love hypothesis.
@@katmancilla5777 I did a romance reading challenge and it was on my list. I loved it soo much !!!!! Definitely a wonderful story of romance, but also touches on some serious issues 🙏
My favorite book this year was Educated by Tara Weaver. I listened to it on audio book and was just so stunned so many times by her story. It was crazy to think this was real and was happening not too long ago. Highly recommend this memoir!
Coming back to this two months later and can say "The Sound of Gravel" was the perfect recommendation! Liked Educated a bit more, but still wow a crazy story!
my favorite book this year was on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong! he quickly became my favorite author, i read that book three times this year, and it's so intricately written that each time I read it I get something new from it !!
Favorite books this year: -the house in the cerulean sea -the love hypothesis -Aristotle and Dante dive in the water of world -seven days in June -daisy Jones and the six -the secret history -any way the wind blows (Simon snow series) -not my problem -not here to be liked -one last stop
@@itzbrittanybxxxh7330 10 stars out of 5 honestly one of my favorite books ever, not only Tj klune's writing is captivating and perfect, the characters are to die for, the plot is terrific, the pacing and the atmosphere, I cried hundred times reading it and it isn't even sad, there's nothing I could fault at this book, if you need a wholesome touching read I strongly recommend it
Hi, I got into reading just this year. My favourite book was The Song of Achilles hands down. Nothing came close to the first book I read this year, it was exciting, adventurous, romantic, heartwarming and heartbreaking. Loved it.
@@katmancilla5777 already have. I'll give it an 8.5/10. It was amazing but I just wasn't as emotionally connected as I was with Pat in TSOA. But the book solidifies M.M as a phenomenal author. Can't wait for what she writes next.
my favorite books of the year were ‘Dune’ by Frank Herbert and ‘The Song of Achilles’ by Madeline Miller. ‘Dune’ was simply a masterpiece and while it isn’t for everyone, it was definitely for me and i will forever be in love with the novel ‘Song of Achilles’ stole my heart ripped it in two and glued it back together and it was all worth it.
Dune was really a masterpiece. It was the best book I read in 2021 along with The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Both books had me so gripped and transported me to another place and time.
My favorite book in 2021 was “The Starless Sea” by Erin Morgenstern. I usually don’t re read books, but I’m already re reading it because I truly never wanted it to end. I highly recommend this book if you love fiction!
Great video as always I added a tons of books in my wishlist! My top 5 was : 1- It ends with us, Colleen Hoover 2- The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid 3- The nightingale, Kristin Hannah 4- Into the forest, Jean Hegland 5- The silent patient, Alex Michaelides
I also read Know My Name and Educated. Both memoirs were some of my favorites this yr. Know My Name felt so real to me. It was refreshing to read a book by an author from my age/generation. Not only a powerful story but such beautiful prose
Everything I Never Told You is also one of my favorites of the year! I did a top 15 and the "first" places include Anxious People, Convenience Store Woman, Stories Of Your Life And Others, The Discomfort of Evening and The First Wife: A Tale of Poligamy
circe by madeline miller was my very favorite from this year! also loved 7 husbands of evelyn hugo, my dark vanessa, the house in the cerulean sea, BUNNY, and verity :]
everything I never told you is one of the best books i've read in my entire life. I was expecting a domestic thriller, but I got caught up on this most amazing family drama. it's SO beautifully written that the books i've read after this at the time just fell flat to me
My fave 2021 reads: Verity, American Dirt, The Lost Apothecary, and Daisy Jones and the Six. I have Know My Name and haven’t read it yet, but I just added it to my TBR! Thank you! I love your videos and enjoy your book recommendations.
Favorite book was In Five years, it was just a beautiful book about friendship and loving freely and with our expecting anything from it. Just loving to feel those different types of loves. It made me so emotional. I just loved it and the quote ‘Love doesn’t require a future’ really has stuck to me.
It's a little older but I swear you will LOVE "what it means when a man fall from the sky". Levar Burton read one of the short stories on his podcast and I immediately went out and bought the book and it did not disappoint
I’m halfway through Women of Troy! I was expecting it to be more like A Thousand Ships (which was one of my faves of the year too!) but it’s actually feeling more like a sequel to Silence of the Girls! Can’t wait to hear what you think.
Thank you so much Noelle for captioning your videos! The extra effort is noticed and appreciated so greatly. My favorite books this year beyond a doubt were "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" and "Crying in H Mart". God The way I had to put both down after reading and stare at the ceiling just processing it all was...painfully exquisite??? Crying in H Mart also made me immediately pick up the phone to call my parents so there's that haha.
I found Noelle's videos through Jack Edwards and omg I'm in love with Noelle, her voice is so beautiful I could listen to her talk about books all day. Noelle if you see this you're beautiful and so glad I found your channel
My favorites: Fantasy - Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson Novel - Circe by Madeline Miller Historical Fiction - The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
omg that vampire class sounds phenomenal! i'm currently reading dracula for the first time and it is /such/ a vibe. so far my fave scene is when the russian sailor is writing his log about strange happenings on his ship (hmm i wonder who could be the cause of this). happy new year!!
Here are my top 10 of 2021 in no particular order: The Reading List - Adams Florence Adler Swims Forever - Beanland Cloud Cuckoo Land - Doerr The Pull of the Stars - Donoghue Wild - Strayed The Sweetness of Water - Harris The Yield - Winch The Performance - Thomas Crow Lake - Lawson The Mercies - Millwood Hargrave
My five favorite books I read in 2021: "Piranesi" by Susanna Clark "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan "Concrete Rose" by Angie Thomas "So You Want to Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo "There There" by Tommy Orange
My first read of 2022 was “Convenience Store Woman” and I enjoyed it! Never knew a convenience store would be a setting that was so relaxing to read about
This year I was mesmerized by The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante. The way she depicts friendship among women is so raw and real. Loved all four of them so much! Happy new year!!
My favorite series this year that consumed me this last month was the Ravenhood series, best known for the first book Flock. Seriously captivating and great twist and turns!!
My favourite book was Where the Crawdads Sing!! I was captivated the whole time and lovedddd the main character! That book stuck with me all year and I believe it will the rest of my life
Malibu Rising was my absolute favorite book of the year. I also re-read all the Harry Potter books and those are always my favorites. Bird Box, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and The Hunger Games were also up there with the honorable mentions.
here are my favs of 2021 🥺🥰 (not in order of preference after 3 cause i can't choose ) 1 A Little Life & Crying in H Mart 3 TGCF by Mxtx 4 Any Way The Wind Blows 5 Beautiful World Where Are you 6 Act Your Age, Eve Brown 7 Giovanni's Room 8 Milk Fed 9 The Love Hypothesis 10 Ari Dante book 2 11 Bunny
My own top 10 for this year :) Highly recommended: 1.A thousand splendid suns 2.Orbiting Jupiter 3.Zoo Station 4.Kite Runner 5.The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 6.Daisy Jones and The Six 7.Ready Player One 8.The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 9.Everything I never told you 10.The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
I love that you won't shut up about The Heart Principle because I, also, loved this book SO MUCH and have seen so many "this isn't a romance!" negative reviews of it, which drives me nuts. It's very much a romance, where the main character is torn from her need for love by her need to help her family, and that is so deep and emotional in a way that a lot of romances aren't, but that doesn't make it NOT a romance. Thanks for sharing all of your favorites; I definitely found a few more to add to my TBR!
My main 2022 reading goal is to have the number of unread books I own decrease, whether that’s through finally reading them or unhauling the ones I’m no longer interested in.
There was more but these stood out the most from 2021 1. Carry by Toni Jensen 2. Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller 3. Depression, Anxiety, and Other Things We Don’t Want To Talk About by Ryan Casey Waller 4. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa 5. When The Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
My favorite reads this year were: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Im Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid The Hating Game by Sally Thorne The Song of Achilles by Madalyn Miller
I LOVED Everything I Never Told You, so I'll definitely try a couple more of your recs. Know My Name sounds so interesting. And If We Were Villains has been on my radar for a while.
I fell in love with Patti Smith’s works this year so shoutout to Just Kids for the introduction. Red at the Bone was also surprisingly moving and My Year of Rest and Relaxation caught me off guard and unbalanced me in the best way.
I read a TON of tordotcom speculative novellas & damn, they're pretty much all great! My top 5 this year were: 1. A Psalm For The Wild-Built - Soft & Whimsical Sci-Fi Novella - I think you'd actually really like this! 2. In The Dream House - as you know, Carmen Maria Machado, an icon. 3. Act Your Age Eve Brown - if you know, you know 4. The Poppy War - favorite fantasy 5. Seven Day in June - biggest surprise of the year - stunning!
My ultimate favorite book this year was actually a mix-up. 😅 I wanted to get my hands on a copy of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, so I ordered it online. Little did I know, I actually ordered THE Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan, a little known spiritual novel. 🤪 decided to roll with it & as it turns out, this book is waaaay underrated. It is a short little lovestory about a soldier who defuses hot air ballon bombs in Alaska and an Alaskan native girl. There is no shortage of Alaskan folklore, shamanism and even a triangle relationship. It’s so different, yet so good!! 🤩✨💫
my favs were Plain Bad Heroines, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, The Hundred Year House, and In the Dream House. i also loved The Echo Wife, They Never Learn, Beach Read, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Great Expectations is my favorite book! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!! I also read Dracula for the first time this year too! Carmilla was one of Bram Stoker's inspiration, and is one of my favorite short stories of all time! 💕📚
Probably my favorite book of the year is himself by Jess kidd. It was written so beautifully. I’m also starting her body and other parties you recommended and it’s BEAUTIFUL. In five years was also so good and a gut wrencher. I also read paradise lost one semester and was shocked I liked it too!! It’s crazy how much you end up sympathizing with Satan and seeing the dynamics of women in the poem.
From my top 3 books, 2 are very heavy with the other being YA fiction 🤷♀️: 1) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 2) Maus 1&2 by Art Spiegelman 3) Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson
I always said I hate fantasy books but I read legend born this year and have never been more excited to read more in the new year! It really is about getting past the first 100 pages and then there’s no stopping
my favorite book is A Little Life. Literally, Hanya has my heart. Her writing is so eloquent and beautiful! I don't know what does that says about me tho lol
“great expectations” by dickens is currently my read, and i’m about to finish it and i’m loving it!!! and honestly it’s great to heard your thoughts about the ghosts part, because i feel the same!
I’m so happy I found your channel in 2021!! Here were my top reads of the year: - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (yes I’m late to the party, but WOW favorite romance to date) - I Will Teach You to be Rich by Ramit Sethi (helped me to leveled up my finances as I pay my way through grad school) - Infinite Country by Patricia Engel 🇨🇴 - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer was music to my environmental scientist heart - Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran (best memoir with audiobook read by the author, stunning immigration story with punk rock and books as his influences, what more could you want?!) - Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (best YA of the year, dovetails nicely with Braiding Sweetgrass with its indigenous wisdom) - It’s Okay that you’re not Okay by Megan Devine (highly recommend for any grievers, this helped me cope with the loss of my dad this year) - How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith!!! I wish he was my history teacher, the audiobook read by him was so enlightening - What Happened to You? by Dr. Bruce Perry (on trauma, highly recommend the audiobook read by him and Oprah) I am going down the comment section and adding so many exciting reads for 2022!
i started my reading journey back in july after having some dark times and my favorite books i read this year were - Ensayo sobre la ceguera (Blindness) - José Saramago - Siddharta - Herman Hesse - The Sorrows of Love - The School of Life - Normal People - Sally Rooney - Las elegidas - Jorge Volpi
love your recommendations and you look absolutely amazing as per usual! my top picks this year were: - dominicana - the 7 husbands of evelyn hugo - the midnight library - pachinko (LOVE intergenerational stories) - city of girls (7 husbands energy - being transported to another era is just *chefs kiss*) this year i really want to focus on more POC stories and read more books in Spanish as well!
I want to thank you so much for all the recommendations but especially for the cancer warning, I’ve been through it and having the theme come up in entertainment is always very triggering as most of the time we all know what happens to that person and/or not done in a respectful/tasteful way. It also simply brings you back to that time and you wouldn’t want to read that at bedtime cause it will definitely make not sleep and spiral down into bad thoughts. Xx
One of my favorites was This Will All Be Over Soon by Cecily Strong. It’s a memoir about her going through 2020 and 2021. It’s dark but truthful. She really talks about grief and struggling with mental illnesses during the panorama (you know what I mean). She doesn’t really talk about Saturday Night Live so don’t read it if that’s what you’re looking for. There’s one chapter where she talks about being in a toxic and abusive relationship, so beware of that if you’re thinking of picking it up.
My Favourite book of 2021 is The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I read it while listening to the Audio narrated by Julia Whelan (Also my favourite narrator). This book has become my favourite book of all time and it will take an exceptional book to bump it off the my top spot. I hope you have an amazing 2022!!
i LOVED know my name by chanel miller like her writing was immaculate and i'm also from the bay and i remember the fallout from both that case and the gunn high school suicides and how it impacted our school district
I read 57 books this year! So proud of myself! My favourite would be Lust for Life by Irving Stone, a historical fiction all about Van Goghs life. Absolutely incredible read!!
Fav books of 2021 (in chronological order): 1. Anna Karenina 2. Emma 3. The goldfinch 4. Frankenstein 5. Les miserable 6. A midsummers nights dream 7. Romeo and Juliet 8. Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo 9. Conversations with friends 10. A tale for the time being
My favorite book was The Push by Audrey Audrain. I related to it so much as a mother of teenager and the difficulties in raising her and how it impacts my self. Plus, the twist at the end was AMAZING!!
The Push, Finlay Donavan is killing it, my best friends exorcism, southern book clubs guide to slaying vampires, and Dave grohls memoir were my most memorable books of 2021
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I finally got my hands on "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" and I believed everyone when they said how amazing it was, but it still blew me away. The writing and characters are so so captivating. I haven't finished it yet, but I already know it's one of the best books I've read in 2021
Sameee. This book made me feel SO much, and each of the characters remain in my heart even to this day. I think it was my favorite this year.
I listened to the audiobook and I'm still not over how perfect everything about it was
Yes! This one was my number one this year. Loved it.
you just convinced me to finally buy it :D
@@julia_1421 omg yay! I really hope you'll love it 🤞
My favourite book of the year is The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Forget about plot, forget the characters. It’s all about the prose. Beautiful writing, disturbing and poignant.
YES!! I finally sat down with this book after years of recommendations and oh my GOD it blew me away. Absolutely stunning.
me too omg! i read it 'cause i wanted to watch the show but duuuude it slapped me in the face with its awesome-ness fr
I read that one last year and absolutely adored it! Then I reread it this year 😁
ughhhh i needed to read it for october i need to get to it stat!
is the book better than the show? i mean, they're the same, but does the book give more of an impact than the show?
I would just like to say that my boyfriend got me the Noelle necklace from Ana Luisa and it is even more beautiful in person😭
Aww, how lovely 😭
I also received the Noelle necklace for Christmas and I have worn it every day since. I love it!
@@norarose6180 Good for you!!
Ur bf is a keeper 😅💚
i sadly didn't read a TON this year, but my top 3 books of the year are:
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
3. John by Annie Baker (my favorite play i've ever read!!)
Giovanni's Room is a masterpiece !
omg Giovanni's room for me too!!
I read Giovanni's room this year too. Not a favourite, but I still enjoyed it
I can't help adding to the love Giovanni's room is getting, it's so good
one hundred years was a difficult read (my favorite page was the family tree) but so rewarding in the end. one of those books that everyone should read before they die, in my opinion
My absolute favorite book this year was East of Eden. I couldn't believe how much I loved it and how a 600+ page book left me wanting MORE.
I also read it this year. It's incredible and I'm so glad I did
I read it a few years ago & I STILL LOVE IT SO MUCH.
Favorite books of 2021 :
- the silent patient
- the secret history
- love hypothesis
- heiress
- My dark vanessa
- anything by Sally Rooney
The silent patient and the heart principle were two of my favorites this year. Definitely check out the heart principle if you liked the love hypothesis.
@@katmancilla5777 I did a romance reading challenge and it was on my list. I loved it soo much !!!!! Definitely a wonderful story of romance, but also touches on some serious issues 🙏
I read all of those last year apart from Heiress and loved them!!
My favorite book this year was Educated by Tara Weaver. I listened to it on audio book and was just so stunned so many times by her story. It was crazy to think this was real and was happening not too long ago. Highly recommend this memoir!
If you loved that one you have to read “The sound of Gravel.” I promise!
This was my favorite as well!! Everything about this story stunned and inspired me!!
That was one of my fave books as well. But still, the squirmish that i am, i had to skip some parts of the book due to how graphic it was.
Agreed, I read both this and Know Your Name by Chanel Miller this year. Both are incredible memoirs
Coming back to this two months later and can say "The Sound of Gravel" was the perfect recommendation! Liked Educated a bit more, but still wow a crazy story!
my favorite book this year was on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong! he quickly became my favorite author, i read that book three times this year, and it's so intricately written that each time I read it I get something new from it !!
Favorite books this year:
-the house in the cerulean sea
-the love hypothesis
-Aristotle and Dante dive in the water of world
-seven days in June
-daisy Jones and the six
-the secret history
-any way the wind blows (Simon snow series)
-not my problem
-not here to be liked
-one last stop
I’m about to read the house in the cerulean sea today! How many stars would you give it??
@@itzbrittanybxxxh7330 I gave it 5 stars. So sweet and touching. Got me out of a reading slump
@@itzbrittanybxxxh7330 10 stars out of 5 honestly one of my favorite books ever, not only Tj klune's writing is captivating and perfect, the characters are to die for, the plot is terrific, the pacing and the atmosphere, I cried hundred times reading it and it isn't even sad, there's nothing I could fault at this book, if you need a wholesome touching read I strongly recommend it
I really didn’t get on with the Aristotle and Dante sequel😭 I so wanted to love it too
Ahh I read The Love Hypothesis and The Secret History too last year and LOVED THEM SO MUCH
“Act your ave ege brown” is really ringing in my head rn
Hi, I got into reading just this year. My favourite book was The Song of Achilles hands down. Nothing came close to the first book I read this year, it was exciting, adventurous, romantic, heartwarming and heartbreaking. Loved it.
Circe, by the same author, is just amazing too! Definitely read it!
@@katmancilla5777 already have. I'll give it an 8.5/10. It was amazing but I just wasn't as emotionally connected as I was with Pat in TSOA. But the book solidifies M.M as a phenomenal author. Can't wait for what she writes next.
my favorite books of the year were ‘Dune’ by Frank Herbert and ‘The Song of Achilles’ by Madeline Miller.
‘Dune’ was simply a masterpiece and while it isn’t for everyone, it was definitely for me and i will forever be in love with the novel
‘Song of Achilles’ stole my heart ripped it in two and glued it back together and it was all worth it.
Dune was really a masterpiece. It was the best book I read in 2021 along with The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Both books had me so gripped and transported me to another place and time.
I adored Dune too!! 😄😊
My favorite book in 2021 was “The Starless Sea” by Erin Morgenstern. I usually don’t re read books, but I’m already re reading it because I truly never wanted it to end. I highly recommend this book if you love fiction!
I loved:
-The house in the cerulean sea
-Several people are typing
-Mistborn trilogy
-The Song of Achilles
-Devotions by Mary Oliver
last three are favorites of mine!!!
Devotions is basically a holy text for me.
Great video as always I added a tons of books in my wishlist!
My top 5 was :
1- It ends with us, Colleen Hoover
2- The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
3- The nightingale, Kristin Hannah
4- Into the forest, Jean Hegland
5- The silent patient, Alex Michaelides
my favorite books this year were mostly memoirs (Crying in H Mart, Know My Name, Educated)--heavy reads but so impactful!
I also read Know My Name and Educated. Both memoirs were some of my favorites this yr. Know My Name felt so real to me. It was refreshing to read a book by an author from my age/generation. Not only a powerful story but such beautiful prose
Everything I Never Told You is also one of my favorites of the year! I did a top 15 and the "first" places include Anxious People, Convenience Store Woman, Stories Of Your Life And Others, The Discomfort of Evening and The First Wife: A Tale of Poligamy
your taste in books seems so interesting, I'm curious about the rest of the top 15:) I definitely added some of them to my tbr
circe by madeline miller was my very favorite from this year! also loved 7 husbands of evelyn hugo, my dark vanessa, the house in the cerulean sea, BUNNY, and verity :]
My top 5: 😍😌
-House in the Cerulean Sea
-7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
-The Martian
-Greenglass House
-Daisy Jones & the six
everything I never told you is one of the best books i've read in my entire life. I was expecting a domestic thriller, but I got caught up on this most amazing family drama. it's SO beautifully written that the books i've read after this at the time just fell flat to me
My fave 2021 reads: Verity, American Dirt, The Lost Apothecary, and Daisy Jones and the Six. I have Know My Name and haven’t read it yet, but I just added it to my TBR! Thank you! I love your videos and enjoy your book recommendations.
Know My Name was also my favourite of all time for 2021, it was so touching and devastating yet, written so beautifully ✨
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies was a fave in 2021. My favourite story was Peach Cobbler
Know My Name is by FAR the best read of 2021. So beautiful and so powerful.
I’m currently getting my bachelors in Humanities and Art History and you make me want to get a masters in literature. I love your videos so much ♥️
Favorite book was In Five years, it was just a beautiful book about friendship and loving freely and with our expecting anything from it. Just loving to feel those different types of loves. It made me so emotional. I just loved it and the quote ‘Love doesn’t require a future’ really has stuck to me.
Just finished that last week! It was phenomenal :)
I really look forward to seeing everyone's favorites for the year.
I'm really interested in the influences of Dracula. Could you maybe consider making a video about it?
It's a little older but I swear you will LOVE "what it means when a man fall from the sky". Levar Burton read one of the short stories on his podcast and I immediately went out and bought the book and it did not disappoint
My favorites this year:
1.) A little life
2.) Little Women
3.) I'm thinking of ending things
I’m halfway through Women of Troy! I was expecting it to be more like A Thousand Ships (which was one of my faves of the year too!) but it’s actually feeling more like a sequel to Silence of the Girls! Can’t wait to hear what you think.
some of my favorites were:
Spanish love deception
November 9
Beach read
Thank you so much Noelle for captioning your videos! The extra effort is noticed and appreciated so greatly.
My favorite books this year beyond a doubt were "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" and "Crying in H Mart". God The way I had to put both down after reading and stare at the ceiling just processing it all was...painfully exquisite??? Crying in H Mart also made me immediately pick up the phone to call my parents so there's that haha.
one minute and SHOCKED that Know My Name was your favourite too! I cannot believe it was Miller's first. Unreal
I found Noelle's videos through Jack Edwards and omg I'm in love with Noelle, her voice is so beautiful I could listen to her talk about books all day.
Noelle if you see this you're beautiful and so glad I found your channel
My favorites:
Fantasy - Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
Novel - Circe by Madeline Miller
Historical Fiction - The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
Listen, if Noelle likes it, I read it. This is basically my TBR for 2022 with the exception of things I have read already.
omg that vampire class sounds phenomenal! i'm currently reading dracula for the first time and it is /such/ a vibe. so far my fave scene is when the russian sailor is writing his log about strange happenings on his ship (hmm i wonder who could be the cause of this). happy new year!!
“Act Your Ave Ege Brown” haha love it
Here are my top 10 of 2021 in no particular order:
The Reading List - Adams
Florence Adler Swims Forever - Beanland
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Doerr
The Pull of the Stars - Donoghue
Wild - Strayed
The Sweetness of Water - Harris
The Yield - Winch
The Performance - Thomas
Crow Lake - Lawson
The Mercies - Millwood Hargrave
My five favorite books I read in 2021:
"Piranesi" by Susanna Clark
"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
"Concrete Rose" by Angie Thomas
"So You Want to Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo
"There There" by Tommy Orange
Second Piranesi! Such a great read.
My first read of 2022 was “Convenience Store Woman” and I enjoyed it! Never knew a convenience store would be a setting that was so relaxing to read about
it was mine too! it was definitely not what I expected
This year I was mesmerized by The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante. The way she depicts friendship among women is so raw and real. Loved all four of them so much!
Happy new year!!
I read Know My Name after you mentioned it in a video and it was also one of my favorites of the year!
I also absolutely loved Know My Name. So hopeful, yet you also feel the anger. Beautiful!
My favorite books this year were Maybe You Should Talk To Someone and The House in the Cerulean Sea.
My favorite series this year that consumed me this last month was the Ravenhood series, best known for the first book Flock. Seriously captivating and great twist and turns!!
One of my favourite books this year was The Soulmate Equation. Such a fun read, and just what I was looking for in a romance!
it was so cutee
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies is also among my faves!!! 😍 the best short story collection I've ever read!
My favourite book was Where the Crawdads Sing!! I was captivated the whole time and lovedddd the main character! That book stuck with me all year and I believe it will the rest of my life
Thank you for leaving the pug snores in, they made me smile ☺️
My favourite books of this year
1. Latitudes of Longing
2. To the Lighthouse
3. Educated
4. The Sense of an Ending
5. The Bell Jar
Malibu Rising was my absolute favorite book of the year. I also re-read all the Harry Potter books and those are always my favorites. Bird Box, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and The Hunger Games were also up there with the honorable mentions.
here are my favs of 2021 🥺🥰 (not in order of preference after 3 cause i can't choose )
1 A Little Life & Crying in H Mart
3 TGCF by Mxtx
4 Any Way The Wind Blows
5 Beautiful World Where Are you
6 Act Your Age, Eve Brown
7 Giovanni's Room
8 Milk Fed
9 The Love Hypothesis
10 Ari Dante book 2
11 Bunny
My own top 10 for this year :)
Highly recommended:
1.A thousand splendid suns
2.Orbiting Jupiter
3.Zoo Station
4.Kite Runner
5.The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
6.Daisy Jones and The Six
7.Ready Player One
8.The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
9.Everything I never told you
10.The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
I love that you won't shut up about The Heart Principle because I, also, loved this book SO MUCH and have seen so many "this isn't a romance!" negative reviews of it, which drives me nuts. It's very much a romance, where the main character is torn from her need for love by her need to help her family, and that is so deep and emotional in a way that a lot of romances aren't, but that doesn't make it NOT a romance. Thanks for sharing all of your favorites; I definitely found a few more to add to my TBR!
My main 2022 reading goal is to have the number of unread books I own decrease, whether that’s through finally reading them or unhauling the ones I’m no longer interested in.
There was more but these stood out the most from 2021
1. Carry by Toni Jensen
2. Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller
3. Depression, Anxiety, and Other Things We Don’t Want To Talk About by Ryan Casey Waller
4. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
5. When The Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
My favorite reads this year were:
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Im Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
The Song of Achilles by Madalyn Miller
I LOVED Everything I Never Told You, so I'll definitely try a couple more of your recs. Know My Name sounds so interesting. And If We Were Villains has been on my radar for a while.
The winter promise series was amazing!! I wish that series had more of a fan base because I thought it was amazing
I’m so glad I came across this video. I’ve read a few of your favourites and I’m excited to read a few more!
It was thanks to you Noelle that I read Everything I never told you. It was absolutely brilliant and I found it so sad.
I fell in love with Patti Smith’s works this year so shoutout to Just Kids for the introduction. Red at the Bone was also surprisingly moving and My Year of Rest and Relaxation caught me off guard and unbalanced me in the best way.
I read a TON of tordotcom speculative novellas & damn, they're pretty much all great!
My top 5 this year were:
1. A Psalm For The Wild-Built - Soft & Whimsical Sci-Fi Novella - I think you'd actually really like this!
2. In The Dream House - as you know, Carmen Maria Machado, an icon.
3. Act Your Age Eve Brown - if you know, you know
4. The Poppy War - favorite fantasy
5. Seven Day in June - biggest surprise of the year - stunning!
My ultimate favorite book this year was actually a mix-up. 😅 I wanted to get my hands on a copy of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, so I ordered it online. Little did I know, I actually ordered THE Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan, a little known spiritual novel. 🤪 decided to roll with it & as it turns out, this book is waaaay underrated. It is a short little lovestory about a soldier who defuses hot air ballon bombs in Alaska and an Alaskan native girl. There is no shortage of Alaskan folklore, shamanism and even a triangle relationship. It’s so different, yet so good!! 🤩✨💫
My favorite was the picture of Dorian gray and the invisible life of Addie larue those books were fantastic and Mesmerizing
my favs were Plain Bad Heroines, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, The Hundred Year House, and In the Dream House. i also loved The Echo Wife, They Never Learn, Beach Read, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
I JUST found your channel and 1. The aesthetics of your bg, 2. your voice. 3. your face, 4. the way you talk about books. Im in love. Respectfully.
the Kiss Quotient absolutely stole the show for me this year!!! I read it about three times back to back; I couldn't get enough!!!!
Great Expectations is my favorite book! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!!
I also read Dracula for the first time this year too! Carmilla was one of Bram Stoker's inspiration, and is one of my favorite short stories of all time! 💕📚
"Her Body and Other Parties" was def one of my favorite books of 2021 too! "In the Dream House" was a great one also!!
Probably my favorite book of the year is himself by Jess kidd. It was written so beautifully. I’m also starting her body and other parties you recommended and it’s BEAUTIFUL. In five years was also so good and a gut wrencher. I also read paradise lost one semester and was shocked I liked it too!! It’s crazy how much you end up sympathizing with Satan and seeing the dynamics of women in the poem.
I like you and your taste in books. I’ve read half of those books and looooooove them, so now I’ll read the rest and I’m sure I’ll enjoy them
I need all of these books on my bookshelf immediately! 💫 Keep rising to be who you want to be! 💫 #keeprising #risingtobe #aswerise #riser
Please take this as a compliment- I think you talk just like Owen Wilson and it's amazing
From my top 3 books, 2 are very heavy with the other being YA fiction 🤷♀️:
1) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2) Maus 1&2 by Art Spiegelman
3) Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson
I always said I hate fantasy books but I read legend born this year and have never been more excited to read more in the new year! It really is about getting past the first 100 pages and then there’s no stopping
my favorite book is A Little Life. Literally, Hanya has my heart. Her writing is so eloquent and beautiful! I don't know what does that says about me tho lol
“great expectations” by dickens is currently my read, and i’m about to finish it and i’m loving it!!! and honestly it’s great to heard your thoughts about the ghosts part, because i feel the same!
I’m so happy I found your channel in 2021!! Here were my top reads of the year:
- Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (yes I’m late to the party, but WOW favorite romance to date)
- I Will Teach You to be Rich by Ramit Sethi (helped me to leveled up my finances as I pay my way through grad school)
- Infinite Country by Patricia Engel 🇨🇴
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer was music to my environmental scientist heart
- Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran (best memoir with audiobook read by the author, stunning immigration story with punk rock and books as his influences, what more could you want?!)
- Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (best YA of the year, dovetails nicely with Braiding Sweetgrass with its indigenous wisdom)
- It’s Okay that you’re not Okay by Megan Devine (highly recommend for any grievers, this helped me cope with the loss of my dad this year)
- How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith!!! I wish he was my history teacher, the audiobook read by him was so enlightening
- What Happened to You? by Dr. Bruce Perry (on trauma, highly recommend the audiobook read by him and Oprah)
I am going down the comment section and adding so many exciting reads for 2022!
Some of my favorites of the year were:
Lost apothecary by Sarah Penner
Malibu rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Pretty girls by Karin Slaughter
My favorites: The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton, Kneaded to Death by Winnie Archie, The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie 💚
i started my reading journey back in july after having some dark times and my favorite books i read this year were
- Ensayo sobre la ceguera (Blindness) - José Saramago
- Siddharta - Herman Hesse
- The Sorrows of Love - The School of Life
- Normal People - Sally Rooney
- Las elegidas - Jorge Volpi
Noelle is doing a row your boat dance when she talked about Book Lover. So cute 🥰
love your recommendations and you look absolutely amazing as per usual! my top picks this year were:
- dominicana
- the 7 husbands of evelyn hugo
- the midnight library
- pachinko (LOVE intergenerational stories)
- city of girls (7 husbands energy - being transported to another era is just *chefs kiss*)
this year i really want to focus on more POC stories and read more books in Spanish as well!
My top 5 (no order) was:
- Addicted / Calloway Sisters
- A Little Life
- In The Dream House
- Far From You
- It Ends With Us
I want to thank you so much for all the recommendations but especially for the cancer warning, I’ve been through it and having the theme come up in entertainment is always very triggering as most of the time we all know what happens to that person and/or not done in a respectful/tasteful way. It also simply brings you back to that time and you wouldn’t want to read that at bedtime cause it will definitely make not sleep and spiral down into bad thoughts. Xx
One of my favorites was This Will All Be Over Soon by Cecily Strong. It’s a memoir about her going through 2020 and 2021. It’s dark but truthful. She really talks about grief and struggling with mental illnesses during the panorama (you know what I mean). She doesn’t really talk about Saturday Night Live so don’t read it if that’s what you’re looking for. There’s one chapter where she talks about being in a toxic and abusive relationship, so beware of that if you’re thinking of picking it up.
I just received Know My Name from Amazon. I can’t wait. The Push was my #1.
OMG I'm so excited for Book Lovers!!!
My Favourite book of 2021 is The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I read it while listening to the Audio narrated by Julia Whelan (Also my favourite narrator). This book has become my favourite book of all time and it will take an exceptional book to bump it off the my top spot. I hope you have an amazing 2022!!
i LOVED know my name by chanel miller like her writing was immaculate and i'm also from the bay and i remember the fallout from both that case and the gunn high school suicides and how it impacted our school district
I read 57 books this year! So proud of myself! My favourite would be Lust for Life by Irving Stone, a historical fiction all about Van Goghs life. Absolutely incredible read!!
I finally read Song of Achilles in 2021 and it's my new all-tine favorite tbh!!!!
Great recommendations! I love how Noelle exercises all her facial muscles and munches her words so theatrically when talking. I am here for it.🙂
Fav books of 2021 (in chronological order):
1. Anna Karenina
2. Emma
3. The goldfinch
4. Frankenstein
5. Les miserable
6. A midsummers nights dream
7. Romeo and Juliet
8. Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
9. Conversations with friends
10. A tale for the time being
You never fail to get me back into reading after a reading slump (this ones been along one) thank you ❤️❤️❤️
My favorite book was The Push by Audrey Audrain. I related to it so much as a mother of teenager and the difficulties in raising her and how it impacts my self. Plus, the twist at the end was AMAZING!!
The Push, Finlay Donavan is killing it, my best friends exorcism, southern book clubs guide to slaying vampires, and Dave grohls memoir were my most memorable books of 2021