my top 10 favorite books of ALL TIME 📚✨😭 fantasy, romance, contemporary, & graphic novels!

[@OKSooo_TV]

Omg. I’m new to BookTube and most booktubers I’ve come across are early twenties and I don’t know what the deal is but they ALL have the same exact books on their shelves and recommend the same top 10s exactly. Rinse and repeat. This is the first channel by a 24 yr old that I’ve found that’s surprisingly different and I actually wrote down some books to try. Cause if I have to sit through one more Sarah J Maas worship video I’m gonna lose it. This is refreshing and love the vibes and the shelf!

[@AndreaLunes]

I get you!! I feel the same way. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@MelReads]

aaahhh i LOVE that you managed to get different recs here💖

[@goodmornindreamer]

I'm 28 and new to booktube as well and LOVE seeing other recommendations as well even if my wallet doesn't 🤣

[@mimz_]

🔥 I knew you'd talk about Addie, strange and middle game. I'm the same with Addie. Another book I'm a broken record for is "i fell in love with hope" by lancali. I'm making it my life's mission to do everyone a favour by recommending this book to them!

[@MelReads]

you know me so well🥲 i'm going to have to check out i fell in love with hope- i've never heard of it👀

[@maryann83]

🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@theodoraa.9670]

really grateful that you added the subtitles for non spanish speakers!

[@MelReads]

i got you guys😮‍💨🫶🏻

[@danak08]

YES reread vlog of strange the dreamer!!

[@MelReads]

hehehe 😮‍💨💃🏻

[@BookGoesMyHeart]

My favorites include The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Book Thief, The Shadow of the Wind, Circe, Love & Other Words and The Hobbit 😊

[@MelReads]

this is the coziest list, i love it😮‍💨🫶🏻

[@findmeinthenextpage]

We seem to have the same taste in books 🤣

[@allisonhendon2961]

🙋🏼‍♀️ I would definitely be down for a reread video of Strange the Dreamer 🔥

[@MelReads]

say less hehe🏋🏻

[@shelliesallas-leveratt169]

I LOVE HeartStopper so so much!!!

[@MelReads]

the best boost of serotonin!!

[@scionsilverbeat8149]

*Favourites* Medoran Chronicles Gentlemen Bastards Vicious The Raven Cycle The Will of the Many Emily Wilde Stormlight Archive

[@MelReads]

vicious vicious vicious🏋🏻✨

[@emmaclare9066]

I read The Poet X this year bc of you and it's easily one of my new favoruites!!! So well written and I wasn't expecting it to give me a crisis but I had to keep pausing to journal as my mind was spiraling lol. Heartstopper means more to me than I can express and the Brown Sisters is one of my favourite romances. I tend to say I liked the romance of Dani better but that Eve was so relatable and my favourite character so I constantly switch between which of the two books are my top of the series.

[@MelReads]

omg yessss, so so happy you loved the poet x and that it became a new favorite😭🫶🏻

[@elizabethc.9910]

The Discovery of Witches Series is one of my all time faves. The audiobooks are amazing, and the narrator is one of the absolute best I've ever listened to. I highly suggest giving them a listen while following along in the book (my preferred way of enjoying books). Also I read Strange the Dreamer in January 2923 and the whoe reading experience just gave me this overall feeling the whole time I was reading it that I don't know how to properly explain, it was like this feeling of Awe, or Comfort or Wonder like you were reading a dream that you had before but couldn't remember it but it was crazy and amazing?!? I don't even know, what I mean is so hard to put the magical feeling into words but it was somthing ive never felt before, but I LOVED it so so much! It is definitely a book that I will love forever and be a top 10 for sure! ❤

[@MelReads]

mmmm let me sample the audios, because i'm still in book 2 of all souls👀 strange is the most wonderful experience! in many ways, it feels like the warmest hug🥺

[@katschrodinger954]

Totally agree with you on the the All Souls Trilogy and the narrator! They switched to a different person for book #4 and I couldn't listen to it as she was awful. Thankfully, Jennifer Ikeda is coming back for book #5 that is being released on the 16th of July.

[@mininjas]

Great video! I love your speaking cadence, it's easy to listen to

[@nataliemorales979]

I love the discovery of witches! Deborah Harkness has a new novel coming out in this world and I CANNOT wait 🥰🥰🥰

[@MelReads]

i need to catch uuuuup😭🏃🏻‍♀️

[@bubblesofrain]

🔥Would love to see Strange the Dreamer rereading vlog, and part 2 of this video❤

[@MelReads]

definitely need to work on that reread vlog👀💃🏻

[@astoldbykat]

I read Middlegame for the first time in February, and it immediately made it to my All Time Faves list. THAT. ENDING. My jaw literally dropped because I didn't think I could be anymore shocked until that number came up. Some of my other all-time faves....literally anything by Tamora Pierce, but especially the Circle of Magic series. I've been reading her for almost 24 years, and every re-read is as good as the first time. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, one of the best modern gothic novels with a historical bent. Cemetary Boys by Aiden Thomas, which tore my heart open and healed it again. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao, which is so full of female anger and the only book to ever do a love triangle correctly. Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede, which helped child me understand that not every princess is scared of the dragon. The Blood Books by Tanya Huff, for giving a vampire series that doesn't revolve around romance and a heroine who takes no shit. Also adding Little Women by Louisa May Alcott because I've been re-reading it every year since JHS.

[@MelReads]

OKAY THE ENDING!!!! the repetition of "we got it wrong" throughout the book is my joker😭😭😭 cemetery boys SUPREMACY🏋🏻💃🏻 such a fantastic list you've got going!!

[@patrickc3419]

Mine, in no specific order: -The Oath -The Grapes of Wrath -One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest -Beowulf -The Wind in the Willows -Monster -Watchers -The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon -Vanish

[@MelReads]

i remember LOVING beowulf when i read it in school, but haven't revisited in yeeeaaars!!

[@Libriecappuccini]

The discovery of witches is one of my favourite series of all time! Every year I reread the series and in July will be published another book 😍😍😍

[@MelReads]

can't wait to put shadow of night in my june tbr!! that tbr jar better get the memo🤧

[@Libriecappuccini]

@@MelReads let’s pray to the TBR gods

[@melissapalmer9140]

Love all the Acevedo books I've read....only one of hers I haven't read yet is her adult one. I also loved A Discovery of Witches...going to read #4 soon before the 5th one comes out!

[@MelReads]

i need to catch up with all souls, because my bookmark inside book 2 has been there TOO long🤣

[@AfromexicanBuddhist]

Love love love Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I’ve been chasing the feeling this book gave me since reading this. I’m an existential crisiser myself so I agree on what you said! 😊

[@caspiansvensson]

I don't know if it helps finding your lifes purpose, but think about how many people you reach with you channel and how many lives you effect by recommending books. I bet there are people that ahs watched you and read a book your recommended and it altered the way they saw themselves, the world and other people and myabe even changed the course of their life somehow. That is not nothing.❤‍🔥

[@lostinmyimagination7485]

🔥 loved this. Will for sure try at least 2 of these books! Gonna save this video for a rewatch and reminder.

[@MelReads]

hope you LOVE them💃🏻

[@fireheartgalathinyus4952]

A Discovery of Witches supremacy! I can't wait to read the new follow up book

[@MelReads]

shadow of night is staring at me for my june tbr👀

[@_melomie_]

Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo is so freaking good! I just finished the audiobook for my second read and it’s amazing makes me cry every time.

[@MelReads]

ughhh i seriously need a reread😭

[@shedreamsinwords]

What a great list of books! Addie is one I have to revisit very soon and I can’t wait to read Strange the Dreamer 😍 Eve was also my favorite in the Brown sisters series because I could also relate to her experience. It would be fun to revisit this list and see if & how it changes over the next couple of years🥰

[@MelReads]

eve brown was the warmest hug🥹

[@jcoff85]

So many of your favs are mine as well, but I particularly love The Poet X!!! It's probably my favorite audiobook of all time.

[@MelReads]

the audio is just beautiful!🧚🏻‍♀️✨

[@megantempleton5814]

I love Chloe Gong! The series especially hit for me at Foul Lady Fortune on.

[@MelReads]

ughhh i NEED to read foul lady fortune😭 it's been rotting in my shelves since before it came out!

[@isirlasplace91]

🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️I want a Strange the Dreamer reread vlog!!!🙏🙏🙏

[@thereal_tjbookish]

🔥thank you sm for this video Mel❤the vibes were IMMACULATE as always

[@deannaelsea9923]

🔥🔥🔥 I love Discovery of Witches

[@MelReads]

matthew OWNS my heart🏋🏻

[@pattypage6723]

Glad to find your channel! Nice to have some new ideas on a top 10.. Have got a couple of them coming.

[@goodmornindreamer]

New to your channel and will definitely have to look into these recommendations 😍 Also LOVE slam poetry and went to an event every week while in college. I never performed but loved being in the audience and the energy in the room

[@Loveyourshelf]

I love your energy!

[@ErisOfTartarus]

re-read flog of strange the dreamer !!!!!!!!!!

[@BryceQ]

We have the same taste in books ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@dianka414]

I got 5.5/10 on the list hehe. Giving myself half a point for Eve Brown since I said a contemp romance but didn’t know which one to pick lol. Can’t believe I forgot Addie but also feel like I should give myself half a point for that as well cuz I totally knew it, just didn’t spend enough time compiling the list 🤭 Pero like, there were so many more on my list that I know u love, so u shud def do a pt2 so I can do another comparison with the rest of the books on there 🤓

[@MelReads]

listeeen, a part 2 list would be super difficult, but i'm up for the challenge hehe😮‍💨💃🏻

[@sheilakae_]

Strange the Dreamer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@abbigalenguyen2693]

Part two please!!!

[@ingrysanchez2567]

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[@MelReads]

💃🏻✨

[@Rollypollyrory]

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[@MelReads]

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[@laurac3985]

I thought you might mention The Shadow of the Wind, since I think I remember that you love that one. Great video! 😃

[@MelReads]

it's definitely a fav!!

[@MadiCovington]

ahhh!! seeing a fellow booktuber love A Discovery of Witches makes my heart so happy. not enough people talk about it 😩 it’s what got me back into reading 🥹🤍

[@marthabrick7123]

Discovery of witches series is amazing love love love I have reread many times

[@savagejazz4958]

🔥🔥 i read the women by Kristin Hannah n omg this book made mi sob like it was so good that picked up another book by the author called four winds and im also loving the magnolia parks series im currently reading into the dark and im loving it

[@MelReads]

magnolia parks is my everything too😭😮‍💨🫶🏻 i have yet to read anything kristin hannah, but i've heard amazing things!

[@savagejazz4958]

@MelReads magnolia parks is everything im obsessed and the women made mi sobbbbbb like it was such a good read n I just got the four wings by the name author as the women n so far im loving it

[@Ssaihra]

Top10 are hard but good selection, eu think I'd read all my favorites to chosse only 10 and even then would be hard.

[@MelReads]

my core list isn't hard to choose, but after these 10, expanding on the next 10 would be the MOST difficult🏃🏻‍♀️😭

[@Ssaihra]

@@MelReads Totally agree!

[@aanntruongg]

I have just found my new all time favorite recently, Beartown by Fredrik Backman. It's so gooddd

[@boomshakalaka008]

Wheeeeeeeeewww... That poem you read in Home Body got me... DEFINITELY added that to my TBR. I relate with that feeling immensely. 💙

[@hmkwak5583]

Thank you for your videos! I recently got into watching booktubers, and yours is my fav~ I'm so happy to read and add so many great books to my tbr thanks to you~ :)

[@killdawgswife5798]

I absolutely loved Empire of the Vampire this year and The Catastrophic History of You and Me loved that boom so much. Gave me the feels, emotional. Love your energy and Im most interested in the Dani Brown book. Gotta read that one..

[@ChrissyW02]

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[@fabiolaalmazanolivar3034]

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[@lilianamariatomaz]

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[@josieann4390]

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[@jorenyer8489]

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[@sunixdhi]

addie, the thing w this book and me is that once i picked this up and for some reasons i couldn't get into it. and dnfed if obv, i thought i would pick this someday but you might have guessed by now the day hasn't arrived yet. so please tell me how do i motivate myself to read this!! 😭 because i so wanna it's just i'm nervous that i might not end up loving it as much as you did.

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

Yes the poet x is amazing 😩

[@MelReads]

elizabeth knew it would hit the right spot😭🏋🏻

[@jujuca_.]

please do a part 2. I really enjoy these videos

[@MelReads]

🫡🫡🫡

[@jujuca_.]

I just love Addie Larue!!

[@MelReads]

the most wonderful book😭🫶🏻

[@isirlasplace91]

Mel shows favourite books, Is adds to cart 💁🏻‍♀️🔥

[@MelReads]

the vote of confidence?? tysm😭💖

[@isirlasplace91]

@@MelReads I love your recs!!!💝

[@isirlasplace91]

@@MelReadsI ordered The Poet X, Home Body, Middle-game, and Strange the Dreamer!! I saved The Way of Kings to buy later because I'm scared to read it😂

[@EssentiallyBooked]

I love your love of the Poet X! One of my favorites too!!!

[@chocolateoreo6489]

I’m sending you love❤ I adore seeing you happy and posting (:

[@MelReads]

🥹🫶🏻✨

[@chocolateoreo6489]

@@MelReads 😊🫶

[@ArielAntenna]

GIRL imma go reread Strange The Dreamer again thanks 😭

[@Reading_Tamishly]

We have some similar favs ❤

[@MelReads]

i love that🥺🫶🏻✨

[@ccBeautyTree]

❤ love your channel!!!

[@MelReads]

tysm🥹🫶🏻

[@haunanireads]

Most of my favorite books are because of you 🧡

[@ripeundead8239]

Hi!!!!! I'm early!!!

[@MelReads]

hiii🥹🫶🏻

[@LisaManning765]

Here. For. This.

[@MelReads]

hehe 💃🏻✨

[@pauieeepau]

Awesome list🔥

[@dianamisty2967]

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[@MelReads]

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[@hannahandherstories]

🔥 🖐️

[@MelReads]

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[@MissMaristella]

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[@MelReads]

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[@ScorpioMoon213]

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[@MelReads]

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[@LadyUndertheSea]

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[@MelReads]

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[@ashleybrandi]

I love Rupi poems sooo much! ❤ def recommend her other books!

[@MelReads]

i've read them all, and they're all amazing!! home body defo takes the cake tho💃🏻

[@ashleybrandi]

@@MelReads Yes! I agree!