BEST READS OF THE YEAR (SO FAR)

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*BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO ARE YA & ARE FOR AGES 13+ | THE INTENDED AUDIENCE FOR THIS VIDEO IS 13+

[@barbarawilson9862]

Hey hi hello.

[@shamimasad8258]

Book recs 1)Dark room etiquette 2)As long as the lemon trees grow 3)She lies in wait.

[@sydthebookdragon]

My favorite reads this year so far are “A Darker Shade of Magic” by V.E Schwab and “Wolfsong” by T.J Klune. Also very proud that you finished a series 🎉🎉

[@catcarstairs8179]

I was thinking the same thing! He finished a trilogy? Woohoo!!

[@louisity]

I agree that as humans we want to be valued. Slay slayed. 💅🏽🎮

[@leilaaustin4593]

I finished "The Dragon Republic" just yesterday and I loved it so much! I feel like "The Poppy War" books will stay with me even after I've finished the whole series and will be amongst my top favourites of the year.

[@grigotts]

This year I'm determined to finish all the series I've stopped midway. I brought the number down from 25 to 15. I feel so happy about it.

[@davidachterhof8726]

I have the poppy war in my TBR

[@bettisbooksandbabblings]

The past couple of months I realized I was by mere chance picking up so many books with grief as it's main focus. While I enjoy hard topics it starts to drag me down if it isn't balanced out, now I'm reading house of salt and sorrows and it's the perfect balance.

[@TheVictorianHours]

I loved the book Slay!! I read it last year and it was awesome!!

[@ashleyscozybookcorner5577]

❤I don't know who needs to hear this but things will get better!!!! The flowers can't grow without the rain!!

[@litol.spring]

My fave read this year is "welcome to the hyunam-dong bookshop" by Hwang Bo-reum. It's not a heavily plotted book but sure is calm and relaxing. People who enjoys slice of life story without heavy drama will love this.

[@dianaisme]

I love your videos! 😊

[@laylamoreno5643]

Shades of magic,turtles all the way down,and the graveyard book

[@BooksBooksBooksBooksBooks]

Out of Aztlan by V. Castro! It’s a collection of short stories and it’s amazing

[@alexandradavies6669]

I read Gideon the Ninth and got really into it. I can't wait to read the rest of the series! I also liked Book Lovers by Emily Henry and What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo. :)

[@deyasinigoswami4872]

My favourite books so far are: The Book Thief, Maus (graphic novel), Daisy Jones & The Six

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Nice to see you doing more regular uploads ❤

[@madelyn3702]

The Sun & The Star is for sure my favorite read of the year so far, which i already knew it would be BECAUSE ITS SOLANGELO! rick riordan always gets the default #1 spot 😂

[@amsparz]

My favorite (and probably only book) I've read so far this year is The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. It's the hunger games book that takes place 64 years before The Hunger Games and it's told in 18-year-old President Snow's POV

[@jessicaStamper]

I am late to the party also. It is on my TBR list

[@tea6351]

WHEN I TELL YOU I SCREAMED WHEN YOU BROUGHT UP THE POPPY WAR it's such a coincidence, i too have just read it a couple weeks ago and it's easily my best book of the year so far, maybe even between my favorites of all time!!

[@francescakyanda9182]

So glad you loved The Poppy War, I read it last summer and loved it so much!

[@nightshadow6878]

This year has been a great reading year just finished city of bones and six of crows. New favorites!

[@gabriellabatel]

OH, goodness, YES, I just read 6 of Crows this year and it's a BEAUTY!

[@kairitetra]

After you finish reading The Mortal Instruments books, I strongly recommend The Infernal Devices (starting with Clockwork Angel). They're so good.

[@nightshadow6878]

@@kairitetra Alright thanks for the advice!

[@timelord1040]

Ashley Poston used to work at the library I worked at. Sadly, she worked there before I did, but I thought it was a cool piece of history.

[@jessethereader]

That’s awesome!

[@ximenaallessandrij.5972]

I adooore when some favorite reads are books that I never heard about! It makes me so curious!!!! ✨

[@KatieMaddalena]

My favorite so far is Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson. I think you'd like it actually, since it also has lots of ghosts and death in it :p

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

Yesss love house of hollow 🥲

[@nouraallam985]

Some of my favorite reads this year were - Project Hail Mary - Crying in H Mart - A Man Called Ove - Fourth Wing (yeah I just had to😂)

[@madelyn3702]

i really want to read The Dead Romantics soon ! maybe during Halloween

[@xxobrittanyg]

My favorite books from this year are definitely People We Meet on Vacation, The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Song of Achilles, and Fourth Wing. 💛

[@barbarawilson9862]

I finished reading The Six Deaths of the Saint. Slow reader. It was really good. I want to try some of the other short stories in the collection now. Maybe Out of the Mirror Darkness. Enjoying the short story format rn.

[@barbarawilson9862]

Haha! How often can I say short story?!

[@kiri8826]

Where the mountain meets the moon by Gracie Lin, the storied life of a j fikry and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Gods of jade and shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and the secret society of irregular witches by Sangu Mandanna are my favorites of the year so far!

[@BRhymesss]

Just read Where The Mountain Meets the Moon this weekend and absolutely adored it. Read & loved The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches last year and can’t wait to reread it again this fall. Sandu mandanna has just announced her next witchy book coming out spring 2024. I’m so excited lol

[@alexleigh3030]

The entire bromance book club series has my heart I love them all so much

[@annikaringbooks]

I owe you everything for introducing me to The Wishing Game. It’s been my second favorite read of the year (second only to Rule of Wolves) and I hope you love it as much as I did.

[@christinfishback4245]

The two favorite books far for this year are „The Darkness outside us“ and „the Girl who fell beneath the sea“

[@ellejaysea2799]

omg they r so good

[@Lillyjoy]

I loved the Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea!!! So happy to see someone else has that as a favorite

[@HannahReadsFiction]

My new favorites are Lightlark, Fourth Wing, and A Discovery of Witches. I actually picked up Poppy War so I may start that one soon.

[@francescakyanda9182]

The Poppy War is so good!

[@studentpilotjacobkahn9886]

Needed this ❤ keep it up. You're awesome bro

[@madelyn3702]

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim was a really great read, i would totally recommend, the sequel is really good too so far but i’m suffering a tiny bit of a slump so i haven’t been flying through it the same way i was with the first one

[@BrebearMckae]

YES bromance book club

[@MrRorosuri]

My favorites are mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older, the pledge by Cale Dietrich, Darkhearts by James L Sutter, the Alchemy of Moonlight by David Ferraro and they hate each other by Amanda Woody. All 🌈

[@frannook]

These are great books!!! 😍

[@tyghe_bright]

These are not new, but probably will be new to you. If you're interested in something challenging and weird and wonderful--take a look at Kathy Acker. She was punk in literature. A post-modernist. Incomparable. I was fortunate enough to meet her and talk to her a couple of times and she was powerful and gentle, savage and cultured. My first book of hers was Blood and Guts in High School, but maybe Pussy, Queen of the Pirates or her re-take of Great Expectations would be better.

[@BookLover-bj5fx]

I have not rated a whole lot of books five stars this year. So far, my only five stars are "Squire" and "Marcy's Journal: A Guide to Amphibia"

[@weaponnotspray]

My favorite fantasy book this year has been The Fox and the Dragon. I randomly got it and the neighborhood "take a book, leave a book" library. I love it when the fantasy world is extrapolated from myth and it was great to read an epic-style fantasy that wasn't Eurocentric. Does anyone else have similar recommendations?

[@mwahaha3750]

my favourites this year are a memory called empire, a desolation called peace (so far because it's my current read), our wives under the sea, animal farm, all's well (mona awad), all systems red, and the gods themselves

[@mwahaha3750]

looking at this list, I apparently really like sci-fi

[@lizzlocke3130]

It's kind of a weird reader habit but I love books with ghosts!! My favorites are "The Ghost and the Goth," and "The Ghost of Buxton Manor." They kind of face death in a real but gentle way and like you said they end up somewhere completely different from where they started. Let me know if you do try them, that would make my day!

[@nicolethebumblebee]

My favourites this year have been A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger and Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion, didn’t know the movie was based on a book and I loveddd it

[@lizbradley7489]

Okay so far my favorite read is the dead romantics by Ashley poston I read it like three times already also I been loving in another world with my smartphone light novel

[@kavya12kohli]

I read Dead Romantics based on your recommendation and it is on my top list too!

[@barbarawilson9862]

Just added The Six Deaths of the Saint to my Kindle. It’s free! Even better. 😉 Thanks Jesse.

[@amritasengupta5251]

❤

[@TheWordN3rd]

My friend and i had a book club that we'd read a non-fiction and fiction book thar we'd pair tpgether based on subject/theme and Poppy War was one of those books. The non-fiction was The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang and I read it first, so oof did certain parts of TPW hit hard when we got to them. There were also a couple of places that didn't hit quite as hard bc as gruesome as what happened in the novel was, Kuang's description was tame compared to the actual, real life descriptions by witnesses. Highly recommend if you're interested in history or dissecting US imperialism at all.

[@ChemicalPenguinn]

I really hope the second half of my reading year is better than the first!

[@Taryn_G98]

My favorites of the year so far have been Fourth Wing, Hell Bent, The Priory of the Orange Tree, Their Vicious Games, and Book Lovers

[@lillypotter6722]

Book recommendations,, All the bright places by Jenifer Niven. The Witcher by Andrzej sapkowski take me with you where you go. Jenifer Niven. And Harry Potter (obviously)😂

[@frannook]

Yay, so many videos coming from you lately 💙 I'm reading so many great books this year! My faves might be The miseducation of Cameron Post, The Luis Ortega survival club, A prayer for the crown shy, Act your age Eve Brown, Tress of the Emerald sea, SO MANYYY

[@aliciamcdowell6173]

My favorite books this year have been The Storm Crow and The Crow Rider.

[@lillypotter6722]

My book this year is : the invisible life of Addie, Harry Potter series, a series of unfortunate events ( book5) and a few books that I am reading here and there 😂

[@bloodyobsidian]

I haven't been keeping up with your videos lately so I don't really know what you've read but, Darling Venom freaking crushed my soul into a million pieces , I was sobbing at 3am (it touches grief ;)) and I've been trying to find someone to cry about this book with me.

[@anna-maria1412]

Meanwhile me, only having read like 2 fantasy books this year and the fanfiction I wrote myself 💀

[@fridaotero7659]

I think you’re going to love Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow it’s about video games and grief but it’s way more complex than that 🙌🏻

[@courtsavage]

My favorite book I have read so far this year is actually one I heard about from you! Though I am not sure if you have read it yet or not. It's 'The Red Palace' by June Hur. It was SO GOOD!

[@millieb3823]

Hii my faves so far have been Six of Crows, Daughter of the Pirate King/ Siren Queen and Lessons in Chemistry ❤

[@daniellewilliams1459]

Hey Jesse, I’ve read awesome books as well too this year ❤ currently I would say my favorites from this year are All My Rage by Sabba Tahir, The New Girl by Jesse Q. Sutanto, The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks, and I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy . Currently I’m reading 📖 This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone btw I’m so happy you read The Poppy War I’m definitely excited to read it too.

[@caitlyn.m.t9618]

My two new favourites of the year so far are The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri, which is the sequel to The Jasmine Throne, and Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic.

[@unavezms8167]

I might be biased because it's about lesbian vampires but I loved house of hunger. Beware it gets messy and bloody pretty quick.

[@scoobydont]

You should read Sarah Hogle's other two books! They're just as magical as Twice Shy 😍😭🙏

[@FirstPrince1992]

Some of my favorite books so far this year have been Reprieve by James Han Mattson, Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland, and The Chandler Legacies by Abdi Nazemian.

[@weehavetogoback]

My favorite books so far are Finlay Donovan is Killing it, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, & Once Upon a Broken Heart. However, I didn’t like the last book in AGGGTM, so I pretend that it doesn’t exist ☺️

[@missathepandabear]

Same I wasn't a fan of a certain plot point in As Good As Dead, I liked it up until that point and then it just went to shit lol

[@kairitetra]

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson and The Infernal Devices trilogy by Cassandra Clare are my favorites so far this year.

[@lisad389]

My favorite book of this year so far is The adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi :))

[@InsanitysAddict]

I've just finished The Dragon Republic and am about to start The Burning God! We're both late to the game but I am also loving it immensely!

[@Lillyjoy]

Mine are The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea, Lightfall: The Girl & The Galdurian, Heartstopper #1-3, The Priory of the Orange Tree, The Dollmaker of Krakow, and Demon Diary 😊 I hope you read some of these!!

[@isirlasplace91]

I picked the same book from BOTM😄

[@jessethereader]

twins!

[@giovannabatalhaoliveira6902]

My favorites (that you can read haha) are Death By Shakespeare by Kathryn Harkup and American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Sina by Márcio Benjamin and O beijo do Rio by Stefano Volp (brazilians books, you could translate them to Fate and The river's kiss), but unfortunately they're only in portuguese

[@juniebooks6113]

I'm late to the Poppy War party as well. 😅 I just read it earlier this year and really enjoyed it, but I've been holding off on continuing because I know it will just break me. 🫠 My absolute favorites so far include House in the Cerulean Sea (T.J. Klune), A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman), and Amari and the Night Brothers (B.B. Alston), all of which I listened to the audiobooks for as well as The Shadow of the Gods and The Hunger of the Gods (John Gwynne).

[@ceylamin1670]

I did Finished the First Book of the Deepgate Codex Series from Alan Campbell 💓 And now am on the German Book Series of Twelve Waters (3 Books) from E.L. Greiff And can recommend if you not know it already the Chaos Queen Series from Christopher Husberg (It is in the Fantasy Genre 😌) or the Sci-Fi Book The Unraveling from Benjamin Rosenbaum. If it should be more light hearted than Ordinary Farm Adventures from Tad Williams, don't let you fool you about the Title. Written for Y.A but i'am not the youngest anymore , nonetheless i liked it ^^

[@anna-maria1412]

Oh hiiii ❤

[@jessethereader]

🖤

[@Sophie_likes_reading]

I'm currently reading yellowface by r.f. kuang it's my first book by her because it was the least intimidating one and i am really really enjoying it, I also wanna read the poppy war but i think I'll read it side by side with some cute romance to balance things out. some faves from me are the Semi-Definitve List of Worst Nightmares by the same author as house of hollow (which i haven't read so i can't say if they're similar), Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick and Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley. You keep me company while I'm stressing out over writing (i try to get back into my story and the habit of writing its not easy) and you're definitely one of my favourite youtubers and i think the first one that i started watching. ps I am also not always great at keeping up with series my reason always is "I don't wanna get burnt out from the story and get a reading slump"

[@jerrimontanez]

Book-of-the-Month is such a hit or miss for me because either I want three of the books that they’re offering that month or none of them sound interesting at all.😮

[@Carolina-rd3gh]

Have you read The Sword of Kaigen?

[@jessethereader]

Not yet!

[@stefanieross4842]

Hi, Jesse! Do you have any middle school or YA book talks or do you know of anyone who does? I am a 7th grade gifted and talented teacher looking for engaging book talks like yours! Thanks!