Sounds like an exciting read, thanks for the review, great video.

Great video Josh! Lots of fun! I agree! Reacher versus Davenport or Travis Devine

Smoke going to get smoked

What a great list! ❤

I'm not familiar with them, but it sounds like a fun pair of characters to face off. It makes me start thinking of stupid pairings like Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment and Hannibal Lecter. Raskolnikov commits an ill planned, sloppily executed murder and spends months agonizing internally over his fancied role as a superior specimen unbound by the timid "laws" of God and man before being broken beneath his burden of guilt, accepting the necessity of suffering in his journey to redemption, and turning himself in to face his just lot in a Siberian purgatory. Meanwhile, Hannibal Lecter dislikes what that new viola player has done to the St. Petersburg Philharmonic's sound, casually murders said player and serves up his sweetbreads at a fancy dinner he throws for the financial board, and sits back and basks in adulation as his soiree is declared THE social event of the season. Who wins? Well, I guess it depends on one's definition of "winning." 😂 Thanks for the video, and have a good one!

You got me even more excited to read Orphan X now! :)

Hope you enjoy We Used to Live Here! I feel like its a book you love or hate. The Forgetting Moon is hardcore in the best way.

It's Evan Smoak. Calm, cool and collected, always wins. I think Smoak could win in a fistfight too. Cooler head will always win

Great breakdown Josh, got to agree. Smoak wins if he has the element of surprise. Otherwise Reece gets the win.

I had Orphan X on my Amazon wishlist for years and then just took it off a few weeks ago. I'll put it back on. It sounds right up my alley.

Evan Smoak hands down! And that’s no disrespect to James Reece.

In the Heart of the Sea is one of those books I always think about reading, but I've never pulled the trigger.

All geared up for February I see. I’ve heard a lot about We Used To Live Here as well. I’m curious to hear your review when you finish. Thanks Josh!

Looks like a great February TBR! I haven’t heard of most of these!!

Hi Josh- sounds like you have some great reads ahead. Hope you enjoy. I rarely know what I am reading in advance unless it is a group read or book event 🤣 This month only for sure is The Great Hunt - book 2 of Wheel of Time. May try to finish off my 2024 books, will just have to see.

You just reminded me that I needed to pick up Mushroom Blues, thanks for that! Great looking list buddy!

I had to go check out Tom's mustache only because you said it was the best. 😁 In the Heart of the Sea is an amazing book. Interested in hearing your review on the first book.

I can't wait to hear your thoughts on so many of these! Awesome line up

Sounds like you’re gearing up for a great month, Josh! I’ve only got 5 planned for the month. I should have it posted tomorrow.

Solid list! Can't go wrong with a suggestion from the best mustache on BookTube!

I'm really grateful you're giving the Union of Man a try. I'm excited/nervous/terrified. I hope you like it! Thanks again!

I’m also an influencee of Tom Orange. We Used to Live Here is on my TBR as well.

Oh no not a damn Eagles fan! At least kick the KC Cheats ass next week please haha. Looks like you got a good month of reading ahead of you man!

Cool list. I want to try We Used To Live Here based on Tom's experience as well but the library has 4x as many holds as it has copies, so will be a while, lol.

Sounds like a lot of fun and/or interesting stuff. Hope you enjoy! Gotta admit this hasn't started off as the greatest reading year thanks to my brain collapsing into some sort of real life triggered "Ba-dee, a-dee, that's all, folks!" meltown, so I'm attempting to read some lighter fare. And I'm very much looking forward to "In the Heart of the Sea." Have a great weekend!

Tom Orange also got me to put We Used to Live Here on my TBR. Seems interesting! Also, Forgetting Moon has been in my TBR for a bit, and it’s been getting a lot of love lately. Might have to bump it up some! I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts on After the Sky as well. Love me some Fallout.

In the Heart of the Sea is a great book! I'm looking forward to watching your and Kevin's take on it! :)

Durfee wrote a bonkers series, it’s pretty metal

Great video! I wish I had come up with a laundry list of video ideas before posting my first video 😂 I completely jumped in the deep end and just did it with no other prep haha. 🙈 I often take forever to sort out what I'm filming and how I want to structure it. 😅 It's definitely a time sink! My WHY is to hopefully a few book taste twins to get recommendations from! I usually struggle with finding people who have a lot of overlapping tastes so it can be so challenging to get reliable book recs! Also, for the videos that Jake & I do together, we get to have fun memories to look back on! 😊

Great video and great advice. I thought about starting a channel for months. Then one day I made a video and somebody watched it! I was excited. I bought a microphone and I couldn't get it to work. I just talk really loud now. But I am going to try to find a microphone that works. I do this because I am alone All day long(except for being with Bella) also I feel the need to talk about a book that I really enjoyed. And you are right about the community because other communities that I took part in, someone would Always criticize something in my video. But here, no one ever criticizes anything. At first I did watch my stats. But now, I Never look at my stats or even care anymore. I do like you say, I try to just have fun. Thanks for sharing this video Josh. -James & Bella!

Your channel name may be the most fitting name of all time. Every time I watch your videos I add just about every book you talk about to the backlog lol. I can’t keep up man I’m already overbooked!

Excellent video!👍

Great recommendation, Josh! NOS4A2 is one of Hills best works.

Clancy was my intro, in my early teens read everything by the guy straight up to Teeth of the Tiger or so, whenever it was the ghost writers took over. Aside from that, every now and then I'll pick up a Ludlum (only 9 of his left to read, so few and far in between now!), a Lee Child (think I've read half of them?), or on the more adventure side of things I'll pick up a Steve Berry or Jack Du Brul (loved these, MC's a geologist, the books are a cool blend of action adventure and science/technothriller). Cool video!

Now you’re speakin my language..😅

Great video. My favourite is The Spy Who came in from the Cold. It may get classified as a spy novel, but I still think it counts as a thriller.

Great video Josh! I’ve been wanting to try Reacher for a while.

As always, you deliver, my friend! Great video. More and more I'm hearing about The Only One Left and I just have to bite the bullet and read it! Of all the types of thrillers, I think I like the psychological ones the most... mainly because I love character work in my stories. :)

bro Nos4a2 was such a great book.. one of Joe Hills best work.. great video bro.. lots of great books

Some great books listed here. I loved the Shining!

Action thrillers, I do not normally go outside my genres of scifi and fantasy but I have enjoyed The Gray Man immensely.

Hmm. Didn't know that thriller subcategorization was such an exacting discipline. And I thought those biological taxonomists had obsessive issues. 🤪 Nah, this was actually quite informative for me. Well done, good sir. Edit: Oh, and I probably favor the psychological thrillers the most of those you listed, although I sometimes get in a mood for the supernatural stuff.

You’re rocking it for only 3 months! ❤

You really captured the soul of booktube here and I concur with everything you said. Being a booktuber should be about creating content you enjoy and making connections with others that share the same passion.

I find these types of videos hard to make, because it involves such encapsulation and condensing, but this was good! I'll take it as a model for a talk about the author life on here in the next month... thanks!

A lot of these sound great! I haven’t read any of these so I better get to work. I’m specifically interested in The Amateur, Project Hail Mary and The Running Man. Great video !!!! Thanks

Her man. Great video. Very accurate take. This is def hard work and if you don’t love it then what’s the point. I was never motivated by money or fame so I just keep trudging along and it’s so nice to see the growth. That equals success to me. Love our community ! Keep going ! Never give up! Go team ! -Joe

Love this! Great advice. I love this community as well! It's amazing!

I think this is fantastic advice! So many of us just feel like we're stumbling around in the darkness and that to have more you need to buy more when you really don't

Speaking of lighting, you really need to have some warmer lighting or use some different hues. Although I do agree you don’t need to spend a lot of money to get started, having a really white washed, grainy looking video immediately just makes me want to skip over the video entirely. It’s not very visually appealing and does not drawn me in or grab my attention. The sound quality is on par though.