Thanks to your earlier recommendation I read Strange the Dreamer and you were right: it’s fantastic! This time I might take you up on your recommendation of The Amulet of Samarkand.
Hi Hannah! I love this theme - so fun! My own favorite bobblehead is Evelyn from The Mummy (“I’m, a librarian!”). I’m probably missing some, but here’s my first draft SFF shelter books: Strange the Dreamer duology (I’m cheating with series) by Laini Taylor Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik The Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire The Hobbit and LOTR by Tolkien The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin Fangirl and Carry On books by Rainbow Rowell The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab Lore Olympus series by Rachel Smythe It by Stephen King The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins Thanks for sharing! Your recs made me look for Hollow Kingdom on audio. I own Radiance but haven’t gotten to it yet - Valente doesn’t always mesh with me.
🐛Whoa! You threw me with It by Stephen King. I was not expecting that, but talk about a good choice; it's a very long book. I often think I'd like to read that one again, but oof, is it a commitment! I love your list. Naturally Laini Taylor is on there. Why don't I know about the Scholomance trilogy by Novik? I need to look into this... I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Hollow Kingdom. Happy listening!
@@hellobookworm You know, I wondered about including a horror book, but SFF fits it! King was one of my first author obsessions after Stine’s Fear Street and VC Andrews for a bit (thanks to my aunt’s recommendation 🤦🏻♀️), so I’d have to take him with me. Thanks! Ahhh, I DEVOURED The Scholomance trilogy starting with A Deadly Education. Kind of like Harry Potter if the school were filled with monsters trying to kill the students around every corner. Novik’s fantasy books are lyrical like Taylor’s works.
@@nicoleozanich1734 Oh my goodness, I haven't thought about the Fear Street books in years. I gobbled those books up, along with Stine's Goosebumps books. Great stuff for young readers!
Hi Hannah, I've been pulling back from social media recently, but I'm glad to see a video from you. I remember when Hollow Kingdom came out but I passed my copy on to a Bobblehead friend without reading it and now I wish I had hung on to it. I loved Weir's The Martian and Project Hail Mary was a good follow-up. And LOTR is my classics read for the final three months this year. I struggled with The Hobbit three times and then finally loved it. This will be my first time with LOTR.
🐛I'm so excited for you to read LOTR, Robert! I hope earnestly that you love it. (I can confess to not fully loving it on my first read, but, well, you know how this story goes). I can't recommend Hollow Kingdom highly enough. Next time you spot a copy, snag it! Or better yet, listen to the audiobook. 💚
Never heard of Hollow Kingdom, but it sounds great! Definitely going to have to check it out. Dark Matter is a favorite of mine. I really should re-read it at some point. Project Hail Mary was so good! :) Thanks for sharing!! Great list! :)
Thank you! Hollow Kingdom is a superb book. I hope you pick it up soon. And please pop back and share your thoughts once you've read it. I'd love to know what you think of it. Happy reading!
Loved the new Fallout show, although I've not played the games. I've played Borderlands, which is similar, I think? Hollow Kingdom is definitely going on the TBR. Not to be a bobblehead, but I'm one of the five people on the planet who didn't love Dark Matter. Radiance sounds interesting, too. (Curious, it's not SciFi, but your description of Radiance made me wonder: did you read Marisha Pessl's Night Film?)
🐛Glad to hear you loved the Fallout show! Highly recommend the games (especially Fallout 4). Fallout 3 was great but needs to be remastered (a remaster is due out this year, in fact). New Vegas wasn't my favorite. I couldn't get into 76. Borderlands is great! You're right that they're similar: dark, wry humor in a dystopian world. Outlandish characters. Over the top fighting. Gore. Hyup; similar. Hah! Radiance is a singular reading experience. I don't know of any book like it. I know it's hit or miss with people, so I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts if you give it a read. All of Valente's work is worth exploring; she's truly in a league of her own. I haven't heard of Night Film but will give it a look. 📘👀
I wish I had a bobblehead of one of the three characters from the show, such as Goosey, but I settled for adding Hollow Kingdom to my library TBR 😎 I really liked the show, but what really surprised me was how often I laughed. I guess if I had to come up with a list of SFF to take with me, some of the ones at the top would be: Notes From the Burning Age by Claire North, A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, and Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
🐛Goosey! 😂🤣 I am STOKED that you added Hollow Kingdom to your TBR. A superb choice! 💚 You must share your thoughts with me when you finish reading it (or listening to it; the audiobook really is fantastic). The show made me laugh too. I felt like they captured the wry humor of Fallout pretty well, though seeing that world in real life made me realize just how dark the game is. I wish we'd seen more of the mutants than just a hand beside a stretcher. Maybe in season 2? Your list of fallout shelter books is very interesting. I'm unfamiliar with Notes From the Burning Age and Remote Control. I'll give those closer look. 😎
Ooh yes. I haven't read any of those myself, but I've heard nothing but good things about them for years. For your sake, I hope she'll add more to the set too. 📚👀☺
Great List! I think mine would have to be (in no particular order): The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman Legend by David Gemmell Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss Kings of the Wyld by Nicolas Eames Slewfoot by Brom Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir A Dowry of Blood by Gibson S.T. Magician by Raymond E. Fiest
Oooh, this is a fascinating list! Someone recently raved to me about Kings of the Wyld by Eames. I'm hoping to pick that up in the next few months. I'm unfamiliar with several of the books on your list, so I get to give them a closer look. Oooh goody goody. ☺📚
@@hellobookworm I can't recommend The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman enough - especially the audiobook which the author narrates himself. His voice is hypnotic. Enjoy. KJ
@@Naamtok I just received your gift! Thank you so much for your sweet words and your generosity. I have one book in line to listen to next when I finish my current audiobook, (Abercrombie's book, but I think you know that 😉) then I'll be diving into Buehlman's book. I'm looking forward to it so much! 🥳 Thank you!
Greetings! How exciting that you have most of these books. Do you have plans to pull any and dive in? If yes, I'm very curious which book you'll start with.
That's wonderful! I hope you get to read it soon. Please come back and share your thoughts when you do. 🦄🦋 Thank you for letting me know my recommendations were helpful. ☺ Happy reading!
Thank you, Fran. Highly recommend Straud's trilogy! There's a prequel too (didn't move me as much as the trilogy, but it's still good, and it has more delightful footnotes from Bartimaeus). I'd love to hear your thoughts once you read one or more of the books. Happy reading!
Can anybody recommend a book similar to Hollow Kingdom for me? I just started to get back into reading daily and I absolutely love two major aspects of the series: 1) Storytelling from an animal's perspective; makes very simple gestures and moments extremely moving 2) Buxton's unique approach to the zombie virus With that being said, does anybody know of some books that feature either of these elements?
Did you read Feral Creatures (the sequel to Hollow Kingdom)? I know of two other adult fiction books with animal narrators, but I haven't read them yet so I'm not sure how they compare: The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey (narrated by a magpie and looks more literary than HK) and What We Feed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri (9 short stories narrated by various animals). [No zombies in these] Also, Laline Paull wrote two books about animals (not narrated by them, but very good!): The Bees (follows a honeybee named Flora 7171) and Pod (follows several acquatic creatures like a spinner dolphin, whale, fish, etc.). [No zombies in these] I've long wished for something similar to Hollow Kingdom but have yet to find it. If you come across a book you think is comparable, please share it with me.
Hello. Thank you for the recommendations. Hollow Kingdom sounds interesting but I am a bit scared of animals being hurt... Strange the Dreamer looks good too. Might have to replace the Tolkien with Frank Herbert in my shelter though. I don't dislike Tolkien but I have always preferred the Dune universe. Can you get a Frank Herbert bobblehead I wonder?
🐛I know you can get custom bobbleheads of yourself these days. Maybe you could submit Herbert's photo as your own to get a bobblehead? Hah! I hope you won't skip Hollow Kingdom. And everyone who reads Strange the Dreamer loves it (still waiting for someone to say they didn't like it). Can't wait to hear your thoughts on both books. So, you're a Dune fan... How do you feel about the latest Dune movie?
@@hellobookworm You haven't steered me wrong yet so I will give Hollow Kingdom a go as well as Strange the Dreamer. I haven't seen the new Dune yet. The first one was... ok. Maybe I was expecting too much after all the glorious reviews, I don't know... I will see part 2 at some point of course but (whisper it) I am not the biggest Villeneuve fan. He is very good visually but I find his films oddly shallow somehow. Love the idea of custom bobbleheads though. Not sure who I would want... maybe the Thomas Pynchon with a bag on his head from the Simpsons?
@@markhayward9764 I can't claim to be a Dune fan, and I had similar feelings about the first movie. As for the second move (no spoilers ahead, I promise): I was entranced, and I did not expect to be. I'd be very curious to know your thoughts on the second movie once you get around to watching it. I'm so excited for you to read Hollow Kingdom and Strange the Dreamer. Looking forward to your thoughts on those too!
@@hellobookworm While I love the Dune books I have to confess to having a huge fondness for the David Lynch film. It is a mess and seriously weird but it is the strangeness and imagination that I liked. The new one is very... efficient. I will definitely let you know how I go though.
Thanks to your earlier recommendation I read Strange the Dreamer and you were right: it’s fantastic! This time I might take you up on your recommendation of The Amulet of Samarkand.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Leo! And I hope you get a chance to read Muse of Nightmares soon.
@@hellobookworm I will, it’s waiting on my shelves!
Hi Hannah! I love this theme - so fun! My own favorite bobblehead is Evelyn from The Mummy (“I’m, a librarian!”).
I’m probably missing some, but here’s my first draft SFF shelter books:
Strange the Dreamer duology (I’m cheating with series) by Laini Taylor
Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik
The Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire
The Hobbit and LOTR by Tolkien
The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
Fangirl and Carry On books by Rainbow Rowell
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Lore Olympus series by Rachel Smythe
It by Stephen King
The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Thanks for sharing! Your recs made me look for Hollow Kingdom on audio. I own Radiance but haven’t gotten to it yet - Valente doesn’t always mesh with me.
🐛Whoa! You threw me with It by Stephen King. I was not expecting that, but talk about a good choice; it's a very long book. I often think I'd like to read that one again, but oof, is it a commitment!
I love your list. Naturally Laini Taylor is on there. Why don't I know about the Scholomance trilogy by Novik? I need to look into this...
I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Hollow Kingdom. Happy listening!
@@hellobookworm You know, I wondered about including a horror book, but SFF fits it! King was one of my first author obsessions after Stine’s Fear Street and VC Andrews for a bit (thanks to my aunt’s recommendation 🤦🏻♀️), so I’d have to take him with me.
Thanks! Ahhh, I DEVOURED The Scholomance trilogy starting with A Deadly Education. Kind of like Harry Potter if the school were filled with monsters trying to kill the students around every corner. Novik’s fantasy books are lyrical like Taylor’s works.
@@nicoleozanich1734 Oh my goodness, I haven't thought about the Fear Street books in years. I gobbled those books up, along with Stine's Goosebumps books. Great stuff for young readers!
Hi Hannah, I've been pulling back from social media recently, but I'm glad to see a video from you. I remember when Hollow Kingdom came out but I passed my copy on to a Bobblehead friend without reading it and now I wish I had hung on to it. I loved Weir's The Martian and Project Hail Mary was a good follow-up. And LOTR is my classics read for the final three months this year. I struggled with The Hobbit three times and then finally loved it. This will be my first time with LOTR.
🐛I'm so excited for you to read LOTR, Robert! I hope earnestly that you love it. (I can confess to not fully loving it on my first read, but, well, you know how this story goes).
I can't recommend Hollow Kingdom highly enough. Next time you spot a copy, snag it! Or better yet, listen to the audiobook. 💚
@@hellobookworm That sounds like a plan. I have some tomes scheduled for this year's calassics, but I'm not gonna lie, LOTR has me pumped.
@@Robert.Sheard 💪
@@hellobookworm 😍
Never heard of Hollow Kingdom, but it sounds great! Definitely going to have to check it out. Dark Matter is a favorite of mine. I really should re-read it at some point. Project Hail Mary was so good! :)
Thanks for sharing!! Great list! :)
Thank you! Hollow Kingdom is a superb book. I hope you pick it up soon. And please pop back and share your thoughts once you've read it. I'd love to know what you think of it. Happy reading!
@@hellobookworm I will do that!! :)
Loved the new Fallout show, although I've not played the games. I've played Borderlands, which is similar, I think? Hollow Kingdom is definitely going on the TBR. Not to be a bobblehead, but I'm one of the five people on the planet who didn't love Dark Matter. Radiance sounds interesting, too. (Curious, it's not SciFi, but your description of Radiance made me wonder: did you read Marisha Pessl's Night Film?)
🐛Glad to hear you loved the Fallout show! Highly recommend the games (especially Fallout 4). Fallout 3 was great but needs to be remastered (a remaster is due out this year, in fact). New Vegas wasn't my favorite. I couldn't get into 76.
Borderlands is great! You're right that they're similar: dark, wry humor in a dystopian world. Outlandish characters. Over the top fighting. Gore. Hyup; similar. Hah!
Radiance is a singular reading experience. I don't know of any book like it. I know it's hit or miss with people, so I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts if you give it a read. All of Valente's work is worth exploring; she's truly in a league of her own.
I haven't heard of Night Film but will give it a look. 📘👀
I wish I had a bobblehead of one of the three characters from the show, such as Goosey, but I settled for adding Hollow Kingdom to my library TBR 😎 I really liked the show, but what really surprised me was how often I laughed. I guess if I had to come up with a list of SFF to take with me, some of the ones at the top would be: Notes From the Burning Age by Claire North, A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, and Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
🐛Goosey! 😂🤣 I am STOKED that you added Hollow Kingdom to your TBR. A superb choice! 💚 You must share your thoughts with me when you finish reading it (or listening to it; the audiobook really is fantastic).
The show made me laugh too. I felt like they captured the wry humor of Fallout pretty well, though seeing that world in real life made me realize just how dark the game is. I wish we'd seen more of the mutants than just a hand beside a stretcher. Maybe in season 2?
Your list of fallout shelter books is very interesting. I'm unfamiliar with Notes From the Burning Age and Remote Control. I'll give those closer look. 😎
I love Cassandra clare, shadow hunter series 12 books hope she will add more to the set. ❤❤
Ooh yes. I haven't read any of those myself, but I've heard nothing but good things about them for years. For your sake, I hope she'll add more to the set too. 📚👀☺
Great List! I think mine would have to be (in no particular order):
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman
Legend by David Gemmell
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Kings of the Wyld by Nicolas Eames
Slewfoot by Brom
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
A Dowry of Blood by Gibson S.T.
Magician by Raymond E. Fiest
Oooh, this is a fascinating list! Someone recently raved to me about Kings of the Wyld by Eames. I'm hoping to pick that up in the next few months.
I'm unfamiliar with several of the books on your list, so I get to give them a closer look. Oooh goody goody. ☺📚
@@hellobookworm I can't recommend The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman enough - especially the audiobook which the author narrates himself. His voice is hypnotic. Enjoy. KJ
@@Naamtok Oooh, noted. Thanks!
@@Naamtok I just received your gift! Thank you so much for your sweet words and your generosity.
I have one book in line to listen to next when I finish my current audiobook, (Abercrombie's book, but I think you know that 😉) then I'll be diving into Buehlman's book. I'm looking forward to it so much! 🥳 Thank you!
@@hellobookworm You are most welcome, really hope you enjoy. Keep up the great work. KJ/Naamtok
I love Hollow Kingdom! So underrated, so glad to see you talk about it!
Yaaas! Glad to have another Hollow Kingdom fan join the chat. I agree, it's totally underrated. 💚
How's life in the Vault treating you? And what must have books await in your fallout shelter?
Nice video and books! On my shelf, I have almost all of them (unread).
Greetings from Brazil 😊
Greetings! How exciting that you have most of these books. Do you have plans to pull any and dive in? If yes, I'm very curious which book you'll start with.
@@hellobookworm reading Strange the Dreamer now, Kindle version. 😉
@@rikafa Oh, that's marvelous! I can't wait to hear what you think of it. Enjoy!
Will definitely add The Last Unicorn to my TBR! Thank you for the recommendations, as always.
That's wonderful! I hope you get to read it soon. Please come back and share your thoughts when you do. 🦄🦋
Thank you for letting me know my recommendations were helpful. ☺ Happy reading!
@@hellobookworm I just noticed Quill on the Pip-Boy in the thumbnail. Love it!
@@NosferatuGuy Good eye!
I need these books for my shelter library ASAP
I'm excited for you to read them, David. Please come back and share your thoughts when you do. Any idea which book you'd pick up first?
Lovely video, AS ALWAYS!
I need to read that series by Jonathan Straud, it sounds like something I'd love! I love having footnotes in a book :D
Thank you, Fran. Highly recommend Straud's trilogy! There's a prequel too (didn't move me as much as the trilogy, but it's still good, and it has more delightful footnotes from Bartimaeus).
I'd love to hear your thoughts once you read one or more of the books. Happy reading!
mistborn trilogy 😮💨
I love those books! For years, Vin was my go-to name for any video game character I could customize ☺
Can anybody recommend a book similar to Hollow Kingdom for me? I just started to get back into reading daily and I absolutely love two major aspects of the series:
1) Storytelling from an animal's perspective; makes very simple gestures and moments extremely moving
2) Buxton's unique approach to the zombie virus
With that being said, does anybody know of some books that feature either of these elements?
Did you read Feral Creatures (the sequel to Hollow Kingdom)?
I know of two other adult fiction books with animal narrators, but I haven't read them yet so I'm not sure how they compare: The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey (narrated by a magpie and looks more literary than HK) and What We Feed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri (9 short stories narrated by various animals). [No zombies in these]
Also, Laline Paull wrote two books about animals (not narrated by them, but very good!): The Bees (follows a honeybee named Flora 7171) and Pod (follows several acquatic creatures like a spinner dolphin, whale, fish, etc.). [No zombies in these]
I've long wished for something similar to Hollow Kingdom but have yet to find it. If you come across a book you think is comparable, please share it with me.
Hello. Thank you for the recommendations. Hollow Kingdom sounds interesting but I am a bit scared of animals being hurt... Strange the Dreamer looks good too. Might have to replace the Tolkien with Frank Herbert in my shelter though. I don't dislike Tolkien but I have always preferred the Dune universe. Can you get a Frank Herbert bobblehead I wonder?
🐛I know you can get custom bobbleheads of yourself these days. Maybe you could submit Herbert's photo as your own to get a bobblehead? Hah!
I hope you won't skip Hollow Kingdom. And everyone who reads Strange the Dreamer loves it (still waiting for someone to say they didn't like it). Can't wait to hear your thoughts on both books.
So, you're a Dune fan... How do you feel about the latest Dune movie?
@@hellobookworm You haven't steered me wrong yet so I will give Hollow Kingdom a go as well as Strange the Dreamer.
I haven't seen the new Dune yet. The first one was... ok. Maybe I was expecting too much after all the glorious reviews, I don't know... I will see part 2 at some point of course but (whisper it) I am not the biggest Villeneuve fan. He is very good visually but I find his films oddly shallow somehow.
Love the idea of custom bobbleheads though. Not sure who I would want... maybe the Thomas Pynchon with a bag on his head from the Simpsons?
@@markhayward9764 I can't claim to be a Dune fan, and I had similar feelings about the first movie. As for the second move (no spoilers ahead, I promise): I was entranced, and I did not expect to be.
I'd be very curious to know your thoughts on the second movie once you get around to watching it.
I'm so excited for you to read Hollow Kingdom and Strange the Dreamer. Looking forward to your thoughts on those too!
@@hellobookworm While I love the Dune books I have to confess to having a huge fondness for the David Lynch film. It is a mess and seriously weird but it is the strangeness and imagination that I liked. The new one is very... efficient. I will definitely let you know how I go though.
it's been 14 fucking years.......14 years and i still haven't got out of the forest of tom Bombadil
Oh no! Maybe (**whispers**) skip that chapter? 😬
So many good reads, so little time
Ever and always the bookworm's plight. ☺