i asked YOU for your FAVOURITE books of 2021!

[@sundaesparkel1037]

“A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” is an AMAZING book. Such a twisty ride with such great character development and plot. Definitely recommend!!

[@17caria]

This was really fun!! Maybe next time, could you mention a few books that only one person picked as their favorites? I'm probably asking this because I read mainly back-list books! :-)

[@HaileyinBookland]

Honestly those were all over the place! I’ll try to find a way to share the data next year

[@encyclopediaofelizabeth]

@@HaileyinBookland maybe just saying the most popular genre for the ones that only one person mentioned? Maybe that's too time consuming? I think it would be a neat statistic to see.

[@joytsai8050]

Or quickly listing off the favorite books that you've never heard of? I'd be interested to discover some underrated books not commonly talked about on Booktube!

[@ruk1ax]

My Favorites of the Year were the Song of Achilles, Evelyn Hugo, the House in the Cerulean Sea and the Heartstopper Series

[@LifeofTaeShan]

I would LOVE to see a reading vlog with you reading the song of achilles!

[@debbiewoweries9912]

I am so glad that the starless sea is on here because it's my favorite book of all time!

[@ArtyGeek]

17:35 I think I was one of the people who wrote clockwork princess as I read the trilogy earlier this year lol Another favourite of mine was daisy jones and the six!

[@cameronAvery210]

The song of Achilles got me out of a reading slump. It is such a beautiful story and brilliantly paced, especially for someone who struggles with continuing to read a book if it doesn't grab me in the first couple of pages. (Struggles of being dyslexic)

[@MLLatUtube]

This was very interesting. For this year, my favorites are both fantasies, although very different: Black Sun and Under The Whispering Door.

[@jaydas8976]

My favorites this year were the love hypothesis, the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo, the poet x and the addicted/Calloway sisters series.

[@katelynfurtick4696]

A Court of Frost and Starlight is small because it’s a novella. It’s meant to bridge the original trilogy into the Silver Flames trilogy. :)

[@faizareads]

Thank you for speaking out about The House in the Cerulean Sea, not many people talk about the issue. I've only seen Jack Edwards talk about it other than you. So many of my favs made this list! And so many books that I have on my TBR! And please read Song of Achilles and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder!!

[@juliamellett]

I love Jack’s content!!!

[@faizareads]

@@juliamellett me too!

[@srijitabasu7436]

That proud moment when you realize that you've read 70% of the books on here and loved almost all of them😭

[@katxl7]

My favourite this year is probably Project Hail Mary - I want to read the Martian.

[@cliz425]

I read a good girls guide to murder this year, and it was soooo good! And I’m like you, I really don’t read mysteries or thrillers, but I could not put it down when I was reading it. The sequel was good too, and there’s a third one out that I haven’t read yet but that I’m excited about

[@vickyloves5354]

I loved this idea for a video! My favourites of the year are all older, they are How Green Was My Valley, 84 Charing Cross Road, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Since you mentioned it some times before, I'm excited to read Lovely War soon, it sounds like I'd really enjoy it!

[@alibyebaby2064]

I think a good idea for a video could be to ask people on Instagram to tell you their all time favorite books and why. Maybe you could do a video on that sometime. It may give you and us some unknown/lesser known books :)

[@isastar940]

can you make a recommendation video for new adult books that have a YA feel - so not steamy romance, but books that deal with the college experience and what it feels like to be independent. Kind of like: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell or We Are Okay by Nina Lacour - I guess I'm thinking books set in college that are written in the YA style? 😂📚

[@EternityTure]

I get positive and happy vibes from ur channel

[@sayo2280]

Listened to the audiobook of Lovely War because of you and loved it so much! Perfect way to experience that story.

[@Rileyw239]

It’s really cool seeing everyone’s reading stats for this year. Try as I might I have never been someone who can keep track of my reading. I have no idea how many books I’ve read this year just because I only kept up tracking them down for like half the year.

[@teresaneves8839]

I loved the love hypothesis, the infernal devices trilogy, they both die at the end and daisy jones &the six!

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

I’ve heard so many good things about The House in the Cerulean Sea, I think I’m going to have to read it to see what the hype was about! Really enjoyed Six of Crows, but I’ve not watched the series yet. I think 2022 might have to be the year I finally try Taylor Jenkins Reid. Song of Achilles is on my TBR too.

[@ohhfeli9424]

I 100% recommend reading the house in the cerulean sea! I‘m not a very experienced reader but I can promise this book will make you laugh and might even make you cry a little bit. I loved every second of it!

[@melenalynne]

i LOVE the concept of this video! so interesting to see the results of everyone else’s reading year :) hopefully 2022 will be an even better reading year!!

[@MoreCoffeePlease.]

My favorites all came at a high emotional cost and I happened to read them back to back 😳: Four Winds, American Dirt, and Nightingale.

[@MeeriMimosa]

My fav books this year were Six of Crows and The Night Circus

[@acousticblogging]

I love your Bookmas videos this year 😄 Thank you for spreading so much joy ⭐️🎄

[@random23287]

I loved the Song of Achilles and thought it was great and very sad, but I've got to say that Six of Crows was my favorite standalone of the year. My favorite series was The Lunar Chronicles.

[@Bloodisaure]

I got to say, the best books I've read this year are 1. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo - I never cried that much in such a small amount of pages haha 2. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden - I wanted to read this book for so long and finally found a secondhand copy. I am very glad I could read it ! I am currently on book 16 of the year, which is absolutely not much. But I have to say with picking reads carefully and taking more time for each book, I have really enjoyed almost all the books I read so far this year. So overall still an awesome reading year :D

[@carysgwenllian]

you should definitely check out A Good Girl’s Gide To Murder! Such an amazing book, I think it’s great for people who love mysteries and people who don’t as well!!

[@CharlotteGys]

I read Lovely War because of you! Loved it and gave it 5stars 💘

[@theSoharMRS]

I can’t even remember what I put on the survey for my favorite book. Three of my favorites of the year made it to the video. 😆😍

[@theaudiobookreader]

I think song of Achilles had a jump this year and reads because of the pop sugar reading challenge. I definitely read it this year because of the challenge. I think it was for the women's publisher award winner or something like that.

[@nelliandbooks]

Casey Mcquiston's One last stop was my favorite of the year!

[@someothergirl101]

The Love Hypothesis was my number 1 this year!

[@lucebooklover9827]

My favourite read this year was the Crave series by Tracy Wolff - I love it so much! Whilst it isn’t the most original, it is just so much fun. After work I currently don’t want to read anything heavy so it was awesome!! Also the rock chick series. It isn’t the best, but it is also just an entertaining and cute read ^^

[@thewitchyreader6131]

I love hearing people's favorite books!

[@theaudiobookreader]

I have to say it I also read legend born and lovely war this year because of the pot sugar reading challenge. Out of the three... I think lovely war was my favorite.

[@emilycummings896]

Thank you so much for the recommendations of Wolf by Wolf and Blood for Blood. They were my two favorite books of 2021!

[@abbey9030]

I really love this idea! It’s super unique and enjoyable !

[@rissyroooh4315]

I can’t decide if The Great Alone or Red, White, and Royal Blue is my favorite this year 😂😅

[@AwkwardBookworm]

Ugh yes love Evelyn 👀🥺 a good girls guide to murder was really good too

[@dorothyboyd400]

The "the midnight library" was a great life change book for me. I am happy it made the list. I hope you enjoy the story. It very great story for cover to cover.📖👏😄😊

[@doiknownoidont4929]

I really need some Book help!!! I don't want to spoil myself with the tv show, but I don't know if I'm supposed to read Crooked Kingdom or Six of crows first!?

[@ElizabethNicoleSchwartz]

I don't remember anymore but I think I was one of the 12 people that said People We Meet On Vacation. One Last Stop was one of my favorites as well but I don't think I said it.

[@bethanykiepert9886]

I loved this video so much!! I watch Allie Glinda videos as well and it’s my favorite series she does and I love that you brought it to the booktube world :)

[@scoobydoo_forever]

I tried the audiobook of The invisible Life out of LaRue and I didn't finish it. I thought it was boring 🙈

[@juliesbooklandreviews]

I've never been this early to your videos and I'm glad I was this time. Once again loving the Bookmas videos.

[@TheKarinaChronicles]

I couldn't remember if I put The Song of Achilles or The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo on there, but oh well... Both were not very original apparently haha 😂

[@merelvanoorschot]

Maybe people reread the infernal devices so that the last hours make sense?

[@radhika4557]

I didn't really wanna read the love hypothesis cus I thought it was overhyped, but I'm so glad I did! u shud def read it!

[@genevieveking5078]

I read some Taylor Jenkins Reid this year and I actually enjoyed her backlist book, Maybe In Another Life the most. I do still like The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo. That is my unpopular opinion for Taylor's books.

[@martynabrzostek9300]

Such a nice idea for a video! I loved it! ❤️❤️❤️

[@OceanaGottaReadEmAll]

what a great idea for a video! I really enjoyed it! :)

[@theinstabookworm6428]

It Ends With Us came out in 2016! Layla is Colleen Hoover's most recent, but she has another one, Reminders of Him, coming out in January 2022!

[@hfollman98]

This is a cool video concept! I was looking for recommendations to add to my Christmas list lol :))

[@Lillyjoy]

My favorites were the Night Circus and The Secret Garden on 81st Street! Please check out the second one if you haven't, it's a graphic novel with anxiety representation and it's so good!

[@julielafranzo5468]

When you read lovely war last year I immediately went out and bought it and read it. BEST decision of 2020

[@mandi3178]

I just finished Evelyn Hugo last night. I loved it. I had tears in my eyes. At work. Packing online orders. Lol.

[@sara.ist8795]

The most beautiful thing is to know that even reading one book is awesome as EFL student ❤️❤️🌠✌🏻love books 📚

[@jennawar13]

My work asked us for our 3 favorite reads of the year and so many of my coworkers and myself had Addie LaRue on their lists so it really is a fan favorite! But my one coworker DNFed it 😂 definitely divisive

[@majaw3671]

Either Circe or Project Hail Mary!

[@twistytrombone2453]

My favorite reads of the years were Addie LaRue, Evelyn Hugo, Amari and the Nightbrothers.

[@gouria3687]

I loved The love hypothesis too! It is my favourite book of 2021!!

[@imtahnee9187]

Favourites! Skyward, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Midnight Library 😁📚

[@andraste6746]

I love the format of this video too so maybe you could do a half year one too?

[@silm7902]

I was in a book store today and I found I was walking 🚶‍♀️ around and nothing was jumping out. Need some new suggestions. 📚 🐛

[@morganarosana]

the best book for me this is year is piranesi by susanna clarke and remote control by nnedi okorafor, I also finished three series where I liked the last book very muck firestarter (tara sim), kingdom of ash and dreams of gods and monsters

[@mrsvictoriacoburn8486]

This was fun! I’m definitely going to add Good Girls Guide to Murder to my 2022 list.

[@jpn71012]

I had a good time this year. 42 books so far for 2021 and it's not yet over. haha. I read mostly historical fiction and Asian lit. Here are some of my new favorites from this year: The Four Winds- Kristin Hannah Between Shades of Gray- Ruta Sepetys We Are Not Free- Traci Chee -from your recommendation :) Sweet Bean Paste- Durian Sukegawa Demian- Herman Hesse Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982- Cho Namjoo The Ghost Bride- Yangsze Choo Pachinko- Min Jin Lee - A must read! I Love You so Mochi- Sarah Kuhn The Book of Longings- Sue Monk Kidd Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami The Convenience Store Woman- Sayaka Murata A Thousand Flowers- Gail Tsukiyama

[@andraste6746]

I have read 211 books this year so far which is a record for me. I think my favourite book is tied between The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne and Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill.

[@Tryingtobringchange]

The Poppy War series by R F kuang is so awesome. So engrossing & epic & full of action.

[@emmal3819]

A good girls guide to murder was published in the uk in 2019 and in the us in 2020. It has 2 books that come after it and they are all amazing. They follow pip, an a level student solving a cold case in her small town for her EPQ (extended project qualification). She makes a name for her self and in the following books she has to deal with that fame and has a podcast. They are a great series and I would really recommend!! (It is also very different to one of us is lying and in my opinion a lot better)

[@WiseDragon50]

I'm a 60-70 books read this year. Reached my reading goal thrice this year. Started with 40 then 50 then 70 and have slightly surpassed 70 and Im proud of this. This year I enjoyed my books on a 3-4 scale 👍

[@river.]

i didnt knew about the voting😕

[@maddiewalvin1905]

I feel like because the author is Aussie this book didn't get a lot of marketing overseas BUT.... Honeybee by Craig Silvey is the best book I read this year and I think everyone should get on it!

[@saschascorner]

Added it to my tbr! Thanks!

[@o_o-lj1ym]

My favourites were Words Of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson and Jade War by Fonda Lee

[@barbarianvee]

Thanks for the link about House on the Cerulean Sea; like you I thought the book was just ok-- I was glad I'd gotten it from the library rather than book store. Jaw pretty much dropped reading that, though, I had no inkling from reading the book. Just...wow. I knew about residential schools, my shock is entirely that this fluff story is what the author thought of based on that and the other current events mentioned (and that he'd *admit* it.) Unfathomable, and telling, to say the least.

[@o_o-lj1ym]

Yeah that was very shocking. Big yikes for me

[@dessalokinha1]

My favorite was The Alice Network 😍 it was just a page turner!! The author intercalated two different perspectives between the chapters and every single time I felt urged to read the next one because I was always on the edge of my sit waiting to see what happened. Also, Lovely War became one of my all time favorites ❤️

[@michellefranke8858]

I LOVED you've reached sam🥰❤😭

[@johannaburton1297]

Was this from a google form or Instagram? I thought it was on instagram so wasn’t able to take part as I’m not on it but if it was taken from a google form, where did that go up as I’d love to take part next time!

[@sarahstarbell]

I can't remember what I actually put down as my favorite book, probably Evelyn Hugo, but if I had read The Invisible Life of Addie Larue when this survey was out I would've wrote that. I hadn't read it at that point though!

[@birdbrain3594]

My favourite book so far was The Song of Achilles! I'd love to see you do a vlog reading it! Tragically, Cindy from withcindy did not like it lol. I hope you like it tho!

[@birdbrain3594]

@cloudy afternoon tea with tanvi ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ 😂 thank you so much! It6my Goffin cockatoo Cheeky. :)

[@birdbrain3594]

@cloudy afternoon tea with tanvi ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ Yes, it's a type of cockatoo. Smallest of the white cockatoo species, other than cockatiels.

[@SailorJaszie]

My goal is 1 book a month and I don't think I have really reached that goal the last few years since I lost my motivation to read.--I have yet to finish The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue but I recommend this book sooooooooo much to others. I actually bought a copy for a waitress at a Dennys my husband and I stop at at least 2 to 3 times a week in NM.--The Midnight Library was really good. I got my husband, best friend and son into it.--Quite a few books by Leigh Bardugo on this list. I can't wait to read: The House in the Cerulean Sea, Six of Crows, The Love Hypothesis, Legendborn, Red White & Royal Blue, One Last Stop and The Night Circus.

[@georgiefarr1094]

My favourite was Heartstopper Vol 4 by Alice Oseman. I also loved the first three volumes, they're my favourite ( I re-read the firsr three then read vol 4) and I gave them all 4 volumes 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ but volume 4 is my favourite of 2021 💜💜💜💜

[@zfantastical6756]

The only books I read were FORGOTTEN and FOUND by PC and Kristen Cast. Very good books.

[@stevencarsley2446]

Another good video Haily

[@ErinBoBerin20]

I’m kinda sad neither of my two faves Dial A For Aunties and Arsenic and Adobo didn’t make the list 😂

[@poisonedyoyo]

The list of the books that did get through is so basic and I haven't heard of the two titles you mentioned. It would've been nice to see something in the video that's out thereonthe rings of Saturn interms of people mentioning it on this platform, but no instead it's just all the stuff that is mentioned in dozens and dozens of Booktube videos.

[@ErinBoBerin20]

@@poisonedyoyo I know Hailey read Dial A For Aunties this year and enjoyed it! That with Arsenic and Adobo were tied for my favorites because they’re both Murder mysteries combined with lots of family and Asian culture and food and I really enjoyed them both. Dial A For Aunties was especially very funny, even more so on audio!

[@andraste6746]

I really want to read both of these.

[@andrewannotates]

This is so fun!!!!

[@zoe1baby]

Near the Bone was my favorite thriller of the year👍

[@Divyyyaaaa]

But Hayley, You didnt tell us what YOUR favourite books of 2021 are, I wanted to get more books in my TBR T-T

[@annascorner84]

The House in the Cerulean Sea is one of my favorites! Absolutely love it! The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue was another good one! I'm currently reading These Violent Delights! I was into it after rradifn the prologue and went ahead and got Our Violent Ends which came in yesterday.

[@missathepandabear]

I was totally expecting house of hollow to be on this list.... Oh well

[@otterwithadarkside4422]

My favorite book was "Blood Like Magic" by Liselle Samury. I was BLOWN AWAY by this book. It was my most anticipated read of 2021 and it did not disappoint! Their is a sequel coming out in August of next year which I am honestly SO excited about! If you haven't, READ THIS BOOK!!! It has witches and witch craft and a bunch of LGBTQ+ rep. Please check it out, it's amazing and I cannot recommend it enough!

[@poisonedyoyo]

It has a cool cover but a review dissuaded me away from picking it up. Also upon learning what blood magic is, I am disgusted. Another book I had in my Amazon cart for a good while which includes it is Root Magic, but I decided to get that out of there. It doesn't help that a lot of my worst reads of the year were published in 2021. There was one in particular that was okay enough, Instructions for Dancing, but I'm unhauling it regardless, and another that was pretty nice, Across the Pond by Joy McCullough, but 2021 published books I've picked up had not gone well, most of my 1-star reads from this year were 2021, I think one was a 2020 release.

[@poornakrishnan9133]

I am not sure about the best book i read this year, but the worst books i read were 'Night Circus' and 'Addie La Rue'. They just did not click with me despite being so popular. So I am actually happy to know that Hailey did not enjoy 'Night Circus' too.

[@Cmoore-Books]

I don’t get on Instagram much and didn’t see the survey, but I am proud to say I’ve read 494 books this year. I’m hoping to hit 500 by the end of the year. I’m also working on my masters in library science. Books are my life.

[@samankhalid1279]

whatttttt? How do you that?

[@juliamellett]

That is simultaneously wildly impressive and also elicits the need to check your mental health. How ya doin’, sis? 😂

[@bibilbophile]

😳

[@Cmoore-Books]

I read all sorts of books. Novels, graphic novels, picture books, audiobooks. I plan on being a children’s librarian so I like to keep up on the latest picture books.

[@andraste6746]

You are a machine!

[@BrebearMckae]

Be warned midnight library isn’t so much a booklover type book. It’s more about about choices and regret and depression! The library isn’t really for reading books, it’s more a library of lives this character could have lived if she made slightly different choices.

[@BrebearMckae]

I LOVED IT personally. But just an FYI so you know what you’re going into a bit more 💕

[@SpinesAndSpoilers]

Bless you for not recommending The House of the Cerulean Sea. I've felt so alone refusing to have anything to do with it.

[@louielouie4395]

TLH is overhyped a lot imo, my thoughts are very similar to Jess Owens’s opinion

[@poisonedyoyo]

That is one of the most basic list of favorite books I have ever seen. Obviously my favorite from 2021 would be Sunkissed by Kasie West had I read it this year but I'm saving it for 2022. The Ravens was exceptional, but the closing chapters had a terrible choice by the authors (or one of the authors), that was so bad and I would like to see corrected in the second book but they act like it's permanent in book one. If that is not fixed, then there is NO REASON for a book two to exist other than something that was mentioned in passing on one page and never brought up again that they clearly want to explore. Honestly based on how things went, I'm saving books for 2022 I intended to read this year that might've been favorites, but Her Royal Highness is the one that comes to mind when this question is brought up for books this year. Oh Across the Pond was pretty good, and of course Cool For the Summer was something.

[@julielafranzo5468]

Super unpopular opinion but I'm not a fan of Cassandra Claire or Sarah J Maas. So glad people are finding books they love though!