Month? Do you do classes on how to read cos I'd love to be able to read that much? My brain can't currently do that.

You’re very very stylish

Favorite novellas: Mario and the Magician Heart of Darkness Fat City Of Mice and Men Invisible Cities The Postman Always Rings Twice The Call of the Wild The Nonexistent Knight The Man Who Lived Underground The Dead

A little to fartsy. Ha. Exactly

what about Carlton Mellick the third

6:28 My all time favorite by Sedaris is Me Talk Pretty One Day.

I would add Lanark by Alasdair Gray to the list.

Dictionary of The Khazars is weird

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

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

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

It was fun. Wear it out. It looks good on you.

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

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

2 years for me on dec 26th! I was a causual drinker but my anxiety was so much worse when i drank. So glad i quit for good!

BTW, Bulgakov's house in Kyiv, and the streets around it, served as a setting for his most scandalous book, The White Guard.

Not the screaming when she showed us a little life 😂

Invisible Monsters By Chuck Palniuk is classic weird!

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

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.

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

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.

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!)

Love how the whip sfx always makes a guest appearance.

Surprised there were no Palestinian authors on here, I see them on Bookstagram all the time. I enjoyed Sula a lot and want to read a few of these.

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

Loved Cockroaches

'Giovanni's Room' is Perfect.

You have the sober glow! Natural beauty ✨

Interestingly, Naomi Klein references bell hooks in Doppelganger.

Needed this. So relatable. It was like a video I made for myself lol ❤

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

Doppelganger is literally a MUST read

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.

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.

You're so inspiring and awesome!!! I will have 2 years sober tomorrow (December 22nd)

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

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

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!

I didn't know KZbin could do dubbing 😮

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!!

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

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.