Allie being excited about Whet is my favourite part of this. Also obsessed with all this Dramione talk ❤

I LOVED every second of this!!

Margaret with the Lost Queen shout outttt!

I say this with so much love because I'm a fan and I trust both of your recs, but please please please add more Black authors to your TBRs this year 🙏

As soon as I saw you guys were hanging out I was SO EXCITED to see what video would come out of it hahahah

Manacled added to my list of things to read this year! I am a huge Harry potter fan, and I’ve never read any fan fiction 👀

Look at this room full of beautiful People!!!! I follow all of you and appreciate you all so so much ❤❤❤

Kristen must read spark of the ever flame!

You can get Percy pigs from world market. They are called frank ferkel

I am currently reading The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

The Knight & the Moth was already one of my top anticipated reads but the tidbit about slutty little eyeliner… I need that book now! 😅

I’m shocked nobody mentioned fourth wing or iron flame. But, the tbr grows! Thanks, ladies!

When the heck is red god coming out!? DYING

I read a book in 2024 and I will not stop talking about it (sorry y'all). It's Beartown by Fredrik Backman. It's technically a trilolgy but you can read the first book as a standalone (but don't, the other two are fantastic). This book takes place at a ice hockey town (you don't need to know any thing about hockey because I don't and I'm still obsessed). There's no one write the way Backman write in this book. The way that he handle and dive into sexism, victim blaming, love, marriage, friendship, family, parenthood, grief, trauma, community, obsession, identity, expectation and neglect.... is phenomenal. The character works is also amazing (all these people have lived rent free in my head since then). I have never walked away from a book feeling so heavy and broken but also light, hopeful, seen and healed at the same time. I think you will love it (I hope soooo). Kris might be mad at me though but I love y'all.

I am the same, I have to have recaps, after so many books and stories, by the time a second or third book comes out I kind of forget what the story was. Yikes!!!

i LOVE the Juno face balm - it smells delicious and works so well!

What a dream video! ❤

Just an FYI - you got me so intrigued with Manacled, that I found it. Its an audiobook on Spotify. Can't wait to listen to it!

2022: Morningstar (Red Rising Series)...but I read soooo many good books that year. 2023: Cradle Series by Will Wight...this just sucked me in and I read all ten books. 2024: Will of the Many....but again, so many good ones like Artificial Wisdom & Wind and Truth 2025: Really excited for Red God, Will #2, and The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. I'm surprised you didn't ask the ladies where they'd be if there was no more TikTok?

This was so good! I added many to my TBR!!!

I want to read so many of these!! Thank you ladies 💗

I must know where allie got her pants

This video was absolutely the best!

The way I immediately liked before even watching😂 love this crew! Also yes, we need more “if you don’t like it, don’t tell me” energy in 2025 This made me go back to look at my last few years. For 2022, my favorite was a tie between A Court of Silver Flames and The Shadow of the Gods. 2023 was The Fifth Season, and 2024 was probably The Spear Cuts Through Water (but so hard because I also read Morning Star, The Fury of the Gods, Blood Over Bright Haven, and Royal Assassin last year😅)

All the book girlies together! Loved this so much 🥰

Don't mind me just watching this and pretending we're all still together cozied up in your library

I love this video so much! I got some of my favorite books that I read in 2024 from these women.

literally every person I get recs from in one video - perfection

This is a squadddd

I clicked on this sooo fast!! Thank you for these long form videos!!❤❤

I freaking LOVE everything TJ Klune!

Loving the LOTR page to screen, I’m having so much fun taking our time with it over the whole month. I feel like it’s making me a lot more thoughtful with it! I also need to get to the expanse at some point but I don’t know if it’ll be this year lol

just stumbled upon your channel and was not expecting a Ray Peat pro-metabolic carrot salad recommendation in the middle of booktube 😂 I love it so much! 💕

I have a similar goal to you both, to just enjoy what I'm reading and not feel like I need to be continually hustling to get to the next book. To that end I have cut my reading goal for the year from 100 back to 40-50 and I am also wanting to read more of my physical TBR. Priority reads are The Will of the Many (James Islington), finish TJ Klunes Wolfsong series, Pachinko and maybe read the Broken Earth Series (NK Jemisin).

I also treat my face like a baby’s bottom 😂 also because of a Hailey Bieber rec but it’s Avene Cicalfate which may or may not be French diaper cream

You might need booms for those heavy mics!

Oh yes When the Moon Hatched is for Kristen

I hope you love The Lost Queen! I’m obsessed ❤with

I literally laughed out loud at so many points of this!!!! Ok ok I love dune but you cannot tell me it beats LOTR for world building 😅😅

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So many great tips! 🎉🎉🎉

Totally agree with Kristen about YA romance. I feel like it’s more romantic than adult books. I think it’s the tension and slow burn that usually accompanies YA because it doesn’t rely on the smut and focuses more on feelings and emotion, imo.

Have either of you checked out the last binding series by Freya Marske? It’s regency, magic and romance. May be something you may like

Is there list linked/written somewhere?

Maddie can’t wait for your take on ASOIAF! Have been reading and loving them!

This is awesome Maddie! I feel like you should make this an app where the book info populates and we can fill in our experience. 🤩

Lol I finished it today and what a disappointment of a book. The only good story arch was Adolins the rest of it was blah blah boring ptsd cry cry boring, for a 1300 page book there is barely any action. The overall consensus from every review I’ve watched is that it’s not very good, and a lot of it is cringe.

Barnes and Noble has a Moleskin Book Journal -- has alphabetic tabs. The journal goes into a box.

Kristen I LOVEEEEEE Ella Enchanted. It is dramatically different from the movie it may as well be a different story. It is SO romantic but is very much YA. The tension, the cozy fantasy I beg you to look into this as a possibility. (Tried to listen to the audio and the narrator was not it but I don't even know how many times I have read this novel at this point.)

TJ Klune’s Wolfsong series, Throne of Glass, and the Outlander series are a must for me this year! The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon was surprisingly one of my favorites last year! I hope you like it too 😊