ALL THE BOOKS I'VE READ THIS YEAR! | Midyear Book Freakout Tag!

[@alexandraroselyn]

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[@astoldbykat]

1. Favorite Book so far is "Iron Widow" by Xiran Jay Zhao. It's my only 5-star read so far this year. 2. Favorite Sequel is "The Sinister Booksellers of Bath" by Garth Nix. 3. New Release Yet to Read is "The Sunbearer Trials" by Aiden Thomas. 4. Most Anticipated Release is The Memory Thieves by Dhonielle Clayton 5. Biggest Disappointment is "A Lesson in Vengeance" by Victoria Lee 6. Biggest Surprise was "Gideon the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir. I didn't expect to love it as much as I did 7. Favorite New Author is Margaret Rogerson; I've gone through all their books this year and loved them. 8. Newest Fictional Crush is Wendell Bambleby from "Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries" and Gideon Nav from "Gideon the Ninth. 9. Newest Favorite Character is Zofia from "The Gilded Wolves" by Roshani Chokshi and, of course, Gideon Nav. 10. Book that Made You Cry is "Anne of Green Gables. 11. Book that Made You Happy is "Sorcery of Thorns" by Margaret Rogerson, because despite the stakes I was laughing SO HARD. 12. Most Beautiful is either my hardback of "Emily Wilde's Encylopaedia of Faeries" by Heather Fawcett or the simple but striking cover of "Iron Widow". 13. Books I Need to Read Before the End of the Year are...a lot, but especially "The Book of Life" by Deborah Harkness and "Dracul" by Dacre Stoker. 14. Content Creators are Lexi (of course), Darling Desi, A Clockwork Reader, thisstoryaintover, and number of accounts on Instagram.

[@amyandfamily664]

What a great Native ad!

[@tish_has_plans_to_read]

Omg that ad was amazing!! 🤣❤️❤️❤️

[@Sama-yd4cl]

I didn’t know someone could connect books and deodorant until Lexi 😂 this is why I love her so

[@Cinia18]

The native Ad was everything !!

[@Sadie896]

Lol, omg... I'm totally getting Chucky Doll vibes!! Great video, love the commercial! 🙂

[@kaitlintereshchenko3517]

Your native ad had me cracking up, you are the best!

[@MrsGracieRose]

Pleeeeease share where your rainbow shirt is from!! 😍

[@KatieColson]

YES Alone With You in the Ether! Same! Absolutely stunning

[@manvidikshit74]

You look like the personification of every 90s sitcom and I love it! Great video, Lex :))

[@laurenschenck5355]

Alone with you and the either one of my favorite this year so OBSESSED 🌞📚🏝️🌞🌊🌊🌊🌞📚📙📙📙⛱️💛🌊🌊🌞🏝️🏝️🌞🌊🌊🌞📚📙📙⛱️⛱️🌊🩵🩵🌊🌞🏝️🏝️🏝️📖⛱️💛🌊🩵🩵🌊📚🏝️📚🌞📚

[@laurenschenck5355]

SO EXCITED!! 💛🩵🩵💛🏝️💛📚📚📖📙📙⛱️🌞🌞🌞💛🌊🌊💛🏝️📚📚📖📙⛱️🏝️🌞🏝️💛🌊🩵🏝️📚📚📖📙⛱️🌞🌞🌞🏝️🩵🌊🏝️🏝️📙📚📚📖⛱️🌞🌞🏝️🏝️

[@evablue1444]

Yes Fall! That would be a great video... books for fall. Not a summer gal. Can't wait for cozy Fall reading.

[@mamieanthoineney2321]

Yeah for another lover of Fall. Even more brownie points if you love Winter, too.

[@Wildflowerwishes]

Ok that was such a cute ad! I use native but it makes me want to buy more! Lol. I loved it! 😂 such a great job! 💖

[@priisawallflower]

THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU, LEXI--I SWEAR, OUR TASTE IN BOOKS ARE SO SIMILAR! I LOVE THAT YOU LOVE 'ALONE WITH YOU IN THE ETHER' BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITES AS WELL. AND ALMOST ALL BOOKS THAT YOU MENTIONED, I'VE ALSO READ AND LOVED. THIS JUST FILLS ME WITH SO MUCH JOY AND VALIDATION 🥹🥹💖

[@tawnyachristensen7310]

Fun Freakout! 💮

[@laurenschenck5355]

Hope you have a beautiful weekend Lexie and thanks for week of videos 🌊🏝️🩵🏝️🌞🌞🌊🏝️📙📙💛⛱️⛱️📖⛱️🏝️📚🌞🌞🌞🌊🏝️🩵🌊📙📙💛⛱️📖🌎🌞🌊🏝️🌊📚📚🌊

[@grishmavasoya374]

And I’m a winter girl, been waiting for it since march! Winter is coming ❄️

[@KristinKravesBooks]

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon is also the book that made me happiest this year! I think the audiobooks are still on Scribd!

[@FaeryLaume]

I just finished What Lies in the Woods. Last year I read Rules for Vanishing. Now I want to read all her books. You've talked about that popular book club before and I thought you'd joined. It surprises me that someone's place in the book club has to be fought for every month. That seems like a difficult way to create a comfortable atmosphere of readers. I could understand if there was a rule about missing meetings and losing your spot, but ..... the idea of a monthly lottery makes me uncomfortable. Hmmm. I've read a lot of five star books so far this year. If I need to choose just one, I'm gonna go with A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers because it was exactly the right book, at exactly the right time, telling me exactly what I needed to hear. It's always special when that happens.

[@emilyc9266]

So hard to pick just one favorite but some of my favs/5 ⭐️ reads this year include Fourth Wing, All the Dangerous Things, Happy Place, Weyward, and Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers!

[@alyssacascos8665]

Your rainbow outfits🥹🌈❤love you Lexi!

[@Pagesandperfumes]

I usually skip the native talk from most channels but this was creative 😂❤

[@strdst2208]

Yes yes yes please read fourth wing!!! I think it's my fav book so far this year. I also recently loved the Stationery Shop and The Kind Worth Killing🌼

[@Micmezle]

I enjoyed the heck out of Fourth Wing, I strongly agree with your statements on Half a Soul. I want (nay, need) to read That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon. There's too many favourites this year and we're only half way through. The Push, Kiss Her Once For Me, Nothing To See Here, How To Flirt With a Naked Werewolf, Fairy Tale (if you are reading this comment, clearly you can see that I am cheating A LOT but I would like to say that this is only a few of the ones I've really enjoyed.) Paladin's Grace, Mistborn, Silver Under Nightfall and In The Lives of Puppets. Thank you for coming to my book talk. :p

[@maddy-zzz]

My favorite book so far this year is The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. The Song of Achilles is a close second though.🌼

[@CheDeco15]

I’ve been meaning to pick up The Very Secret Society of Irregular Wishes! I think I’ll take your comment as a sign to finally read it! 💜

[@traciumbreit3762]

🌼🌼🌼 I love watching your videos, they bring me joy 💛

[@lisadw499]

Another fun video. 🌼

[@cherylNA]

🌼🌼🌼 I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Pineapple Street as well.💛

[@barbaralemon4170]

Ok 9:39 just finished The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. I think you did well to caution about triggers.I had to stop for 3 days halfway through because the triggers were so hard to process! 😮 But with the help of Stephanie Foo’s book on healing with cPTSD, I was able to deal with the trigger and move on. The Grady Hendrix books are becoming my new favorites. Despite the triggers, I would give the book 5 enthusiastic stars. 😊

[@caitlyn.m.t9618]

My favourite book I have read so far this year is Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic. I absolutely adore this and it did become a new favourite. I immediately ordered in From the Depths and other strange tales of the sea which is part of the same series, and the next I have my eye on is Holy Ghosts: Classical Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny. And the types of books I want to read by the end of the year are anthologies. I think the next one I'll pick up, assuming I'll get to it before certain collections arrive is my Bram Stoker collection.

[@tanyaembly7630]

More books put on my TBR. 🌼

[@marlachildsartwork]

🌼 Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott is probably my favourite so far this year.

[@ParadoxKismet]

Fun video! I loved hearing about your favs! My favorite book I finished reading this year was The Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie - a grim, dark fantasy. The Ten Thousand Doors of January is probably my second favorite. I enjoyed it so much. The most beautiful book I purchased this year is a special edition of The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell - it's a UK full decorated hardcover edition. I haven't read it yet. Poetry wasn't in the mix but my favorite poetry collection so far is Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Gluck. Gorgeous. Thanks for your content! You always make me smile!

[@FromDebttoDreams]

My favorite so far this year is Remarkably Bright Creatures! I'm currently reading Finlay Donovan is Killing It -- and LOVING IT

[@brennasullivan8273]

Chandler Ainsley is my go-to book tuber. I don't have a favorite book yet this year, but I did find a favorite new series/author. The Off-Campus series by Elle Kennedy. It's already been binged.

[@RivetingReads]

Grady Hendrix really is the best 🎉 I loved How to Sell a Haunted House too!

[@FaeryLaume]

You and others recommend That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon, and I knew the original version was no longer available. I was kicking myself for not grabbing it when it was first offered as an e-book. Then, hehe, I scrolled through my Kindle the other day and, OMG, there it was! I HAD bought it! I was so happy to have been mistaken. ;) Reading it now and it's silly and sweet and funny and I'm loving it.

[@alysha.k2011]

Very favorite: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

[@beckyduff]

I just put a hold on Alone WithYou in the Ether... there's a 10 week waiting period on Libby, so we'll see if I get to it by the end of summer! Pineapple Street only has a 6 week wait! So far this year I really enjoyed The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

[@sofsofsof9338]

My favorite was words of radiance by Brandon Sanderson and my second favorite a River enchanted by Rebecca Ross

[@ReadingNymph]

Always love a Mid year freak out video! It's hard to choose just one fav book 😅 but Finlay Donovan is Killing it made me the happiest 😊

[@CheDeco15]

I’ve heard great things about this book from so many people! It’s definitely on my TBR! 💜

[@jazminbenard3144]

That book is so good! They also have a sequel out as well , i just started reafding it

[@Lillyjoy]

I love how you still include books in a sponsorship about deodorant 😂 my favorite books of the year so far are The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea and The Dollmaker of Krakow ❤️

[@jessicaprenovost4478]

Well I've reread the first 3 HP books and harry potter will forever be my favorite. As far as first time reads for the year, Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow has been my favorite. 🌼

[@leighdanielle]

I’m on this cozy mystery kick! I’m reading Murder she wrote books hahahaha

[@rijd2304]

A fun book I read was "The Dating App Confessions" by Tindell. And a self-help satire called "You Suck" by Amigo.

[@noeljordan0889]

🌼 Love watching your channel and always look forward to your content…especially when it’s about Summerween or Halloween book recommendations!! Give me all the creepy:) Also, thanks for the book recommendation of These Fleeting Shadows…loved it!!❤

[@krisprepolec5616]

🌼 your look is giving me reading rainbow vibes, and I love it ❤ My favourite book I have read this year is Legends and Lattes, followed closely by Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone.

[@CheDeco15]

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone is my fave of the year as well! I’ve heard rumblings that it’s going to be a series which would be really cool. 💜

[@teresalovesbooks]

Yay love this side of KZbin that’s why I have a little channel ❤

[@itsjustamanda5619]

🌼🌼 love your content! That native ad 👌 lol

[@laurenschenck5355]

Half a soul so good I read it and amazing beautiful book loved it so much 🏝️🌊🌊📚🌞🌞🌞📚📚🌈⛱️🩵💛📖📖💛🩵⛱️🌊🏝️🌞📙🌞📚🏝️🏝️⛱️⛱️💛📖📙📙📙🌞🏝️🏝️📚💛💛

[@KatieReadsKoziesAndMore]

🌼 Favorite book of the year was Outland by Dennis E. Taylor. This is book one in the Quantum Earth Series. University students in western USA are working hard to finish school projects. All have a different specialty, and all their talents are needed when Yellowstone shows signs of going supernova. This was action packed and had all the feels.

[@mariesmelik8549]

I loved the southern book club's guide to vampires! I now want to read all of his books! also Fourth wing is on my TBR as well.

[@BooksMichelle]

Awww thanks so much for the shoutout Lexi, you're so sweet ❤ Meeting you in NYC was AMAZING and one of the highlights of my year so far 🥰 Also I just finished Fourth Wing and I LOVED it so please let me know your thoughts when you read it! 😍

[@procaffeinate_withbooks]

Your sponsor pitch in this video was bang on 😅😅 my favourite book this year so far is a tie between: All That Consumes Us, and A study in drowning... But I will try to answer the rest sometime soon ❤ untill then happy reading 📚

[@lauramccauley7065]

🌼 Favourite book this year is a tie between Finlay Donovan is killing it and Daisy Darker. Both ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Haven't read a five star yet this year 📖🙁

[@villaverde6486]

Love daisy darker!

[@BandanaBookmom]

Ohhhh I love the Mid Year Freakout Tag! How is it time for this already?!

[@jayceereads]

My favorite book this year is If We Were Villains! Dark Academia at its finest.

[@CrystalPistal99]

I just love your shirt here Lexi. Also Native deodorant is really good! I usually use Old Spice Swagger and found I had to re apply it or I'd smell odor and I don't have to do that with Native so it's worth the price for me! Also their body wash is amazing. I have chronic dry skin and it's the only wash I've found that doesn't dry me out. Thanks for coming to my Native Ted Talk lol.

[@lilidahl92]

My favorite book this year so far is Queen Charlotte! It’s also a Netflix series part of the Brigerton series. And I absolutely adored that book sooo much!!

[@hectatereads105]

Love this video! My absolute favorite book this year is either Tress of the Emerald Sea or The River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross 😊

[@KeaLynn]

I think my top three in no particular order this year so far are Remarkably Bright Creatures, Seven Days in June, and Love & Other Words. Although I did read every heart a doorway because of you and LOVED it. I added a hold to Alone With You in the Ether thanks for the rec. 🥰 have you read the new TJ Klune book yet?? 🌼

[@mandamae4516]

Favorite book so far this year... Probably Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow! Although I also really loved Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries. 🤔😊

[@inmimisday]

Best ad ever 😂🌸

[@Amystudio]

I have read and have the exact 3 Grady Hendrix books and I love all 3, my first was also Mbfe which I read in October last year, I can’t get enough of this author. If you are ever able to join one of his presentations please do, he is hilarious!

[@llw24]

It's always a good day when Lexi posts!

[@nicolecarta5983]

Great recap Lexi! BTW- I thought of you while shopping today and came home with Alani Peach and frozen mangos. ALSO- if you like apple cider.. you have to try the Alani Witch's Brew. Oh my word! Yummy fizzy cider girl!!

[@laurenschenck5355]

I am so proud of you Lexie you read amazing beautiful books mid year well done keep it up xoxo 🌞🏝️🌊🏝️🌞🩵🌞📚🏝️🏝️📙📙📙📙⛱️⛱️💛📖🌞🌞📚🌊🌊🏝️🌞🌞📚🌊🌊📚📙⛱️💛📖📖💛📙🌊📚🩵🩵🩵🏝️📙⛱️💛🩵🩵📚🏝️🏝️🌞🩵

[@jennifer_left_a_comment]

🌼 i’ve had a few favorites this year.. if i really, really have to choose one, i’d say godkiller by hannah kaner. i was also very positively surprised by pineapple street. did not expect to like it and had such a good time reading it. happy reading to everyone!

[@verucabeckwith3014]

I knew you were going to say Grady Hendrix! 🩷

[@Wildflowerwishes]

🌼 favorite so far was finishing The Bear and the Nightingale series in the winter. And I also really enjoyed A Rover’s Story during middle grade March. It was super cute. Oh! But I loved Garlic and the Vampire! I can’t pick one favorite 🫣😅 I’m a seasonal reader and I love readathons- so these stick out to me the most so far this year 💖 Loved this video! And hope you get into the book club!! 💞🌼

[@laurenschenck5355]

The luminaries I need to read it so gorgeous and amazing inside and out stunning and looks like a diamond piece of art 📚🏝️🏝️🌞📚📚📚🌊🌊⛱️🩵🩵🩵📖📚📚💛🩵📙🌊🌊⛱️💛💛🌞🏝️🌊🏝️📚📚📚🌞🌞📚📚🌊⛱️🩵🩵💛💛🌞🏝️🏝️📙📚🩵

[@elisabetebalcavage9635]

Love your videos ❤❤ My favorite book so far this year is Fourth Wing 🐉

[@lauraa1345]

I absolutely love the midyear freak out tag🤩 I think my favorite book I've read so far this year was The Knive Of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness🌼🌼

[@booksbeanies5425]

Favorite book of the year so far has to be The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle!

[@whisper_dvm5157]

🌼 I’m currently reading The Book that Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence and it’s shaping up to be my favorite book of the year so far. Gives strong Piranesi vibes. Very surreal world and you are just dropped in to figure it out as you go along. Here’s the Goodreads summary: “A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities. A girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust where nightmares stalk and no one goes. The world has never even noticed them. That's about to change. Their stories spiral around each other, across worlds and time. This is a tale of truth and lies and hearts, and the blurring of one into another. A journey on which knowledge erodes certainty, and on which, though the pen may be mightier than the sword, blood will be spilled and cities burned”

[@dreamcat9985]

i just want to run and read all of the books lexie recommends.

[@esliet]

Beautiful Lexi great video, and Native is now on my list. The Narrow sounds like one I want to read also 🌼

[@Cherryyfairryy]

My absolute favorite book I've read so far is the Strange the Dreamer duology. They're both 2 of my all time favorite books now. I finished it over a month ago and I still can't stop thinking about their world. If you haven't read them, you need to! I just know you'll fall in love.

[@ladykbear]

Oh I Loved Half a Soul ❤

[@dustiejacobs3665]

🌼🌼🌼My Favorite Book this year is A Thousand heartbeats ❤️❤️ I loved every minute of it and crave more

[@JohnSaxon-vw5vi]

I have the same muppets vibe as you and love them in my books 📚 five stars ⭐️ video ❤❤

[@Lenaandthepages]

🌼I always look forward to your mid-year freak out video - you are just such a sunshine in the world! I read Grady Hendrix in the same order and am now completely committed to all future pre-orders.😅

[@deighz33]

Outside of all the Sarah J. Maas books I've read this year, my favorite read has been Happy Place by Emily Henry. It was so good and I already look forward to rereading it. 😊

[@gingerbibliophile]

You’re look is so adorable today! Not that you aren’t always beautiful! This video was so much fun and reminded me that I really need to get my hands on a Grady Hendrix book! If you need more weird comedy, I always suggest Christopher Moore. I’d say start with A Dirty Job which thankfully had an even funnier sequel!

[@paperbacksgalore]

My favorite book so far is either Kaikeyi or A Curious Beginning

[@Elvispersoon]

I think my favourite book by far that I've read this year is the Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch. It is historic fiction set in Russia, and it follows three generations of women in three significant time periods in Russia, the Russian Revolution in 1917, the siege of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) in 1942 and the purges of Stalin in the time of the Sovjet Union, ending with the Fall of the Iron Curtain in the early 90s of the last century. I didnt expect the book to make me feel as deeply as it did, but it left me thinking for sometime afterwards and I highly recommend!😊

[@ronda9317]

Now that you graduated are you a librarian? I am behind with books and updates, i love your channel and excited to check out your friends. Love from washington state

[@brandim1230]

The glass witch by Lindsay Puckett. I loved the book so much. I can't wait to read her next book. When it comes out in September 🌼

[@femkegoossens381]

My favorite book(s) this year were the grapic novel serie Lore Olympus from Rachel Smythe ❤

[@amypotter1000]

🌸 (couldn’t find a daisy. Lol)

[@AmataRayne2492]

🌼 I don't have a daisy emoji, but I can send you a buttercup! Love it! I enjoy watching your freak out videos, Lexi! They're really fun. Best books this year for me: 1. Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull (about the founding of Pixar) 2. The Magician's Daughter by H.G. Parry 3. All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and CL Herman 4. Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton 5. The Cursed Princess Club, Vol. 1 by Lambcat (YOU HAVE TO READ THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL!!! You would love it!)

[@Maggie_writes]

Favorite book of this year is without a doubt The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. Also Lexi I love the outfit!! 🌼🌼🌼

[@ashton_s.]

I’m between four for my favourite book so far this year. Maus by Art Spiegelman, Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire, The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin and Wingbearer by Majorie Liu. I’m leaning towards Maus because it made me want to start reading historical fiction and lead to me finding a new favourite author (Madeline Martin).

[@LalAxCrazyMe]

🌼 I finally got around to reading Educated by Tara Westover this year and boy did that leave an impact. I still can’t stop thinking about it! Definitely my favorite so far.

[@Bookdiva1182]

Have you read The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix? So good! Love all the recommendations! Your videos are so inspiring! 🌼

[@adelaidereading]

So excited!

[@vivien681]

My 2 favourite books this year so far are The secret life of Addie Larue and Six Crimson Cranes! Amazing reads 5 ❤

[@vivien681]

*invisable

[@joannievh2071]

I am finishing the Harry Potter series yet again... so would have to say my favourite book this year has been the Half blood prince. 🤷‍♀️ Did really enjoy the first mistborn book but disliked the second so much I still have to get to the third one! 😂 Finished Frankenstein which I really liked... Have you finally read it? 😉😉 Also, bought Pineapple street thanks to you! One of my next read! Great videos! ❤ 💐🌹🥀🌺🌷🪷🌸💮🏵️🪻🌻🌼 No daisies?! Left you all the flowers!

[@MeganDunroe]

My favorite book so far this year would have to be You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose! Soooo good!! Very twisty thriller that had me obsessed.