my top 10 books of 2024

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@derekb.4292 Күн бұрын

It's always cool to see such a nice variety of genres in a list of top books.

@TomOrange Күн бұрын

Dude this list is fire. Emily Henry over The Three Musketeers. This is why I love booktube. You never know what books you are really going to like. My book of the year was Pet Semetry

@JKC1138 Күн бұрын

This is an eclectic list! Definitely some titles I wanna get to like The Wager and the rest of the Dune series. My favorite book of 2024 was Middlemarch, which funnily enough I finished right at the end of the year, haha.

Күн бұрын

My favorite book in 2024: The Shards by Brett Easton Ellis

@Dylan13Collins Күн бұрын

Yeah, you definitely gained a follower from me. Youve read some books im not interested but book of the new sun and children of dune are 2 of my top 5 books I've ever read! Absolutely incredible stuff! If you like book of the new sun, specifically the being a little confused following this dark story that gets weird and almost dreamlike, try Ice by Anna Kavan. Read it this year and its right on par with those other 2 books for me. Its another book that is hard to explain. Ice has 2 avenues driving the plot: 1) a man is obsessed with a woman until he has her and the back and forth of that 2) a wall of ice is slowly moving across the world and killing everyone in the way. So there is this constant tension throughout the book with these dreamlike hallucinations. Absolutely incredible stuff!

@readingwarlock Күн бұрын

Cool to see romance books on your top 10 list! I’m not a big romance reader but I read Book Lovers by Emily Henry last year and loved it-might pick up Beach Read next. My favorite last year was A guide to being born by Ramona Ausubel. ✨

@jaredghramm Күн бұрын

My favorite book this year was definitely The Crippled God. Such a sweeping, emotionally charged, beautiful, epic ending to the greatest series I've ever read. My favorite non-Malazan book this year is one that I read only a month or two ago actually, called Heroes Die by Matthew Stover. Toasty, if you get the chance, you MUST read Heroes Die at some point in your life. It absolutely blew my lid off and yanked me out of my post-Malazan heartbreak. Ignore the cover, though as it's pretty terrible (famously so), it doesn't do justice to the level of writing that this book achieves even in the slightest. I'd recommend getting it on kindle as the second book in Acts of Caine is almost impossible to find on paperback for some reason, in case you are picky about having all of the books in one series in the same format. Happy New Year!

@cindyo6298 Күн бұрын

Hello, my favorite book of the year was Thirst for Salt, it's a melancholy romance, I really recommend it, beautiful atmospheric prose. I've been wanting to read My Cousin Rachel because I loved Rebecca, but Frenchman's Creek sounds lovely as well and I've never heard of it.

@Tanya-vx4pc Күн бұрын

My favourite non fiction last year was The Gene by Siddharth Mukherjee. it's demanding but so rewarding for a science dunce like me. My favourite fictions include- Conclave and Precipice by Robert Harris (oh the man can write thrillers and character studies like no one else!) and a special one was Hearts Aflame by Johanna Lindsey - a romance that had me hooked from start to finish. Plus it was a viking romance and anything viking or roman has me excited in anticipation. I'm sure there were others I liked too, but I've been bad at noting my reads. I'll be better at recordtthem this year; even if for nothing else than to let you know about my favorites next year😂. Oh and I definitely loved David Grann. His killers of the flower moon was great too!

@leopercara3477 2 күн бұрын

Great list. My favorite was The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel.

@iSamwise Күн бұрын

Yessss glad to see True Crime on this list. Klavan has some more fantastic thrillers so if you ever need another recommendation, let me know!

@Faye_L Күн бұрын

Excellent list! My favourite book of the year was Bunny by Mona Awad. Very much written for a niche audience, and that audience was me.

@insaneck Күн бұрын

Great video. Not sure if you've since read on from Children but I hope you finish the series including the last 2 written by his son, would love to hear your thoughts. I read 111 books this year and my favorite was Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut, one of those books that I can't believe I don't hear more people talking about, or maybe I'm just crazy, 10/10 for me.

@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD Күн бұрын

Top book Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. I need to get to Children of Dune. I love the first 2 books.

@bananapeel892 17 сағат бұрын

I read The Shining for the first time this year. Not only was it my favorite book of the year, but it’s one of my favorite books I’ve ever read. Also, do you plan on reading God Emperor of Dune? I hear that one is really good. I haven’t read it yet myself, but I plan on it.

@iSamwise Күн бұрын

Wait, the cover Owen uses for 3 Musketeers is for the kids illustrated version I read when I was nine! Has Owen been a fake reader all this time???

@toastytowns 23 сағат бұрын

You didnt realize I only read picture books yet?

@iSamwise 23 сағат бұрын

@ why use big word when small word do trick?

@Laura_574 Күн бұрын

Interesting list. Just bought My cousin Rachel after seeing some of your videos. I think I will try it in February. Let’s see how it goes since I dnf’d Rebecca… 😬 I have to pick two favorites for 2024: non-fiction - Atul Gawande: Being Mortal and fiction - L.M. Montgomery: The Blue Castle.

@toastytowns Күн бұрын

now you have me nervous if you dnf’d Rebecca…. Thanks for the recs!