ranking EVERY book I read and DNFd in 2021 (75 books)

[@christy-anne-jones]

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!!! May you all have an absolutely wonderful 2022 💛

[@rararyyy]

Happy New Year, Christy! 🎉🎉🎉

[@christy-anne-jones]

@@rararyyy 😀💛💛💛💛💛

[@Jessica-wt2sm]

Happy new year, Christy! Hope you have a great 2022 with lots of good reads 📚

[@caricakes]

ugh your thoughts on klara are mine exactly. i dont think we'll ever get another never let me go level book :/ PS listen to the podcast 'maintenance phase' - they have a whole episode on 'why we sleep' and how a lot of the info there makes no sense and is basically made up :')) literally just listened to it yesterday so i found it funny you mentioned it here hahhaah anyway!! you gave me lots to put on my tbr!!

[@jasminpastari]

Happy New Year! I got back into reading last September, and now that it's a new year I'm excited to see how many books I will read throughout 2022 😊

[@christy-anne-jones]

Best of luck with your reading!! 😊💛

[@Lillyjoy]

I love all the booktubers coming out with videos about books from the year 😊😊

[@illgiveyouthebooks]

Same! I'm just starting a channel and love to see all the books that others are reading!!

[@christy-anne-jones]

😊💛💛

[@Thelaretus]

As a Tolkien fan I'm happy that, in this very personal list of yours, you've still managed to fit the Professor's work in the top tier; I think that one of the main qualities of his is his skill in writing timeless, universal tomes, although for me he's my personal favourite undisputedly. Anyway, S-tier tier list: at once personal and academic.

[@illgiveyouthebooks]

I love your content! This is such a cute idea to rank the books that you've read into different tiers. I may have to try this myself with the books that I read!

[@christy-anne-jones]

Thank you so much! It was a lot of fun, so I definitely recommend it 😊

[@Jessica-wt2sm]

I really like your perspective on DNF! I try to finish every book I read just in case the story picks up later on but truthfully, most books that I don't enjoy in the beginning just end up being a drag regardless 😅 It's cool that you don't put pressure on yourself for those kind of things, maybe it's something I can practice in the new year as well!

[@tonydeluna8095]

Happy New Year! I’m barely new to the channel and found it yesterday night. I think it’s awesome as I said, not only gaming, but I also enjoy other channels and learn about other people on what they like. Reading is a powerful tool for our brains 🧠 we need more books in our lives! Have a blessed week Christy! My favorite game is, DARK SOULS. Be safe!

[@christy-anne-jones]

Happy New Year to you as well! 😊

[@tonydeluna8095]

@@christy-anne-jones it’s nice to meet you Christy! Have a blessed day!

[@caraamethyst6956]

I absolutely love this idea! I really enjoy just browsing through people’s goodreads year but this was more fun heheh

[@ajaybahure111]

Wish you very happy new year Christy!!! Hope this year also we get many bookish and beautiful videos like you 😊.

[@christy-anne-jones]

Thank you 😭😭💛 I hope you have a wonderful new year!!

[@lemontart8601]

I really really miss your vlogs ,and the challenge that you do to read two books a day and ofcourse your wonderful cooking / baking💛 if you get time please do it🙏,as it is very calming and relaxing.

[@LorriSanga]

The Nightingale and A Gentleman in Moscow were my two 5 star rated books from this year. Great video!

[@moniqueprins6426]

Oh my gosh I'm so glad to hear you say you DNF'd Red White & Royal Blue! I thought I was the only one in the world not to connect with it and to DNF it! I have also been considering picking it up again but will wait to see if you end up doing so. 🙂x

[@Ellary_Rosewood]

I was so sad to see you put Bear and the Nightingale in the three star category! The entire series quickly became one of my absolute favorite series of all time after my sister gave the first book to me on my birthday. Russian folklore has been very meaningful to me since I was a child. Curious to see if you'll plan on reading the other two in the series, as the story really begins to take off on her journey. For me, they continue to get better and better with each one. I thought that the character development and world building were great. ❤️

[@ektaabali2194]

I LOVE this series and it definitely has a special place in my heart. The audiobooks are also amazing. So underrated! If you loved Book 1, you'll love the rest :)

[@wolfgaec06]

Thank you for doing this! I added so many books to my goodreads. Looking forward to checking some of these out!

[@mayjensen3937]

It was very entertaining watching you put your 2021 reads into a tier list! I also wrote down some of your 5 star reads that I thought sounded interesting😊 my 5 star reads of 2021 was The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Ocean at the End of the Lane and Circe 📚! Those books were all absolutely amazing and they stirred up all kinds of emotions in me❤️ it’s safe to say I’m so in love with all three of them❤️

[@elenasreadingcorner]

Absolutely loved this ranking video! I read 60 books this year and had 4 dnfs, quite proud of myself as well, especially since 10 of them had around 1000 pages 😆

[@szymongolac7853]

As a foreigner learning English I must say that your accent (+tone of voice) makes listening to you insanely captivating

[@strawberrik]

Happy New year, Christy! ♥ Your videos always make me feel warm and fuzzy and inspire me to write and create my stories. ^__^

[@christy-anne-jones]

Happy New Year!! Thank you so much for watching my videos 💛 Good luck with your writing! 😊

[@masa59125656]

happy New Year! Mike is good, it was very easy to hear 😊 Thank you again this year!

[@christy-anne-jones]

Happy New Year!! 😊

[@Samreen0987]

Ahh Christy you make my heart bloom with your beautiful bookish videos!❤

[@christy-anne-jones]

😭💛💛

[@lostinthesupermarket7]

I don't know why, but listening to Christy talk about books is one of the most relaxing things. I was laughing quite hard at 18:10 :) Overall, wonderful video! Happy New Year and Holidays, hope everyone has a wonderful day ~ Also, I recommend some of Kate Milford's books, Christy!

[@tokyoreads4019]

Happy New Year! Your channel just popped up in my feed and I’m so glad it did. It looks like you had a great reading year! I felt the same way about Homo Deus. I started it right after finishing Sapiens, but wasn’t able to get into it. I think I’ll give it another try eventually because I do love the narrator Derek Perkins!

[@Lillyjoy]

Out of all the books you read, I haven't read any of them! So it was cool to hear about that many books in one video. The Girl who drank the moon has been on my tbr though! ❤

[@jennarobertson501]

If you're looking for novels about witches, The Darkest Shore by Karen Brooks is a fantastic book (based on a true story) about women accused of witchcraft in Scotland in the early 18th century. Hannah Kent is another great historical fiction author (and she's from South Australia!). Happy New Year!

[@Jessica-wt2sm]

Always interesting to hear your thoughts on each book!! Hope this recap is something you'll continue doing each year 😊

[@sristyagarwal4127]

Hi Christy, I am preparing for competitive exams. After a whole day's of hard work and brain running in full throttle, I switch off all the harsh lights, go to my cozy corner, and play your video. Your burst of positively and infectious smile is my perfect reward for the day's work. Thank you for existing and making lives easier. Regards, Sristy.

[@christy-anne-jones]

Thank you so much for your lovely comment 😭💛 Best of luck with your exams 💛💛

[@TheSissid]

I agreed with most of your points on the books I’ve read! The Lost Apothecary was not for me at all, made me so mad because the premise was so interesting. Also, I thought the same about Atomic Habits but I finished it and can tell you it doesn’t get better ahaha

[@lucyp2109]

Had no idea Dictionary of Lost words was by a South Aussie! 😱 will definitely need to give it a read now ☺️ great video!

[@smcasas9367]

Hi, would you consider reading "Ascendance of a Bookworm"? They're very short, but there's already 16 of them translated (with 17 about to be released). I'll try a short sell here: As the title implies, the main character is a bookworm which allows her to ascend relatively quickly in society. This is one of those dreaded Isekai (in another world) japanese light novels. That is, in the first chapter she dies and is reincarnated into another world only to find that due to her new social status there are no books available which brings her to the brink of despair so she vows to rectify that situation by using her old world knowledge to go about and making books on her own. What particularly strikes me as great about the series is the world building and the complete otherness of their political system and interactions between the common people and the nobility.

[@YourTrueShelf]

Great idea to do this and use this piece of software - I would've loved to do this with last year's books - may do it as I go this year. Loved seeing everything you read last year.

[@andrewannotates]

I’m reading the subtle knife right now & then saw you had the amber spyglass next but then it was just up in the tiers and you didn’t mention it, but I can see where it is & it’s very high so I’m excited still haha

[@skandar123keynes]

Such a great video idea! You inspired me to rate my own reads from 2021. We read a lot of the same books! I definitely also need to learn to dnf books 😅

[@anuja.thruthelense]

Happy New Year 🥳 Loved it. Have some great recommendations for 2022 now.

[@christy-anne-jones]

Happy New Year!! Glad you liked the video 💛

[@tawnyachristensen7310]

Loved this!💗

[@Carolinesbookworld]

Happy new year Christy!

[@christy-anne-jones]

Happy New Year!! 💛

[@marinakhalaf446]

So excited for this video ❤️

[@carefree421]

Really enjoyed this! You got yours a new subscriber☺️🥰

[@woodsseirading967]

Happy New Year🎆 I'm looking forward to a wonderful video this year as well💛 From a big fan of Tokyo Japan😊

[@christy-anne-jones]

Happy New Year 😊💛💛

[@TheZzplanetRock]

Loved the video! In what wrap up do you talk about the lost apothecary?

[@deenaabdelwahed9103]

Can I suggest that you read Act Your Age, Eve Brown by talia hibbert? I find that a lot of readers that aren’t into romance books love this novel. Funny, engaging and romantic!

[@christy-anne-jones]

Oh that one's on my TBR! It's currently the only romance novel that is hahah, so this is a good push to read it. Thank you 💛💛

[@joanahenriques8863]

Hey Christy! I was curious to see if you have any tips on how to read so much while also being productive at your job and finding the time to have other hobbies as well (i.e., you mention videogames and watching series). I managed to read 27 books this year, but only because I had so much free time for the first half of 2021...I'd love to keep it up and even increase that number :) Also, have you read the Amber in the Ashes series? I just finished it and I thought it was incredible, you might like it!

[@circleofleaves2676]

I use Goodreads to track my reading. Whenever I click finished it asks for a rating, and most of the time I click 'no rating' because I'm still processing, and I could probably talk about my thoughts about the book, but not a rating per se. I think most of the books I rate end up being 5 stars because I'm very certain it's 5-stars as soon as I finish it. However, I definitely look at the ratings (more so, the comments) on books before I read them! I do enjoy these tier-rank videos.

[@shrutisurachita5418]

Happy new year!

[@christy-anne-jones]

Happy New Year!! 😊💛

[@blueumi5028]

Hi so I wanted to recomend this book Finvarra's Circus by Monica Sanz its a very beautiful story with a magical setting that's worth every moment. To give you an idea it has the night circus, howl moving castle and beauty and the beast vibes

[@Musikchic47]

I loved Song of Achilles. The only complaint I heard from people is they thought it was boring, but I could see if you don't like history or Greek myth you won't get into it

[@christy-anne-jones]

I think one of the things that made it so suspenseful for me was that I KNEW what would happen to Achilles. So I can understand that a little more if you aren't familiar with the myth--but there were other things I didn't remember, and that's what made it so devastating 😭💛

[@Musikchic47]

@@christy-anne-jones Same! I knew what was coming and I was just dreading it :( but great all around and there are rumors about she is going to write a Hades and Persephone story next

[@wandering0wonderland]

I really enjoy Greek mythology and loved Circe but found Song of Achilles to be really disappointing and mediocre! Unpopular opinion for sure though 😅

[@ayeshaa2518]

broo atomic habits is ridiculously amazing book

[@poorni4742]

This was fun to watch 😁

[@haanimely981]

I'm looking forward to your what I eat In a day or the more reflective ones....

[@joanasolposto2598]

Happy New Year 🎉❤️

[@christy-anne-jones]

Happy New Year!! 💛

[@kellimarie4270]

Hi! Did you see the second book to A Deadly Education came out this year? I enjoyed it, not as much as the first but still pretty good. *also in case you talk about it, I’m still watching, just don’t see it at the bottom lol*

[@circleofleaves2676]

Did you put a 4.5 star book (Circe) before a 4.8 star book (They Both Die In The End) on the visual thingamajig? (Quiet over there, pedantic viewers, hehe)

[@pageglue8486]

HNY! Loved this idea! If you’re looking for a good nature book, I loved Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven by Joe Shute.

[@christy-anne-jones]

Happy New Year!! Thank you for the recommendation 😊💛

[@comradechenkov6210]

😁 Nice Review!

[@rafaellamikayla]

wow you are so charming 🥺 new subscriber and happy 🥺

[@johnnylongtwig6398]

Do you plan on watching the Lord of the Rings to compliment your recent read? If so please put it on your channel!

[@megan-te2bu]

i found ‘there’s so such thing as an easy job’ very boring. on the cover it says ‘unsettling’ and it’s not at all

[@ysh_4]

where to use this?

[@Coldnose99]

Have you read “The Sparrow” by Mary Doria Russell?

[@MazrimCage]

I DNF'd Sapiens because he weirdly straw manned "greenies" halfway through the book and it annoyed me. Commenting on the migration of humans to Australia/NZ and the wiping out of mega fauna he said "don't believe greenies when they say we used to be in harmony with animals." No one has ever said that, are you a tabloid rag or are you an academic analysis, pick a lane.

[@centenoj85]

Atomic habits 🔥🔥🔥

[@genghisgalahad8465]

Should you even rank a DNF? I get stating reasons for not finishing it, but wouldn’t it unfair though to rank it if it wasn’t finished being read. (Passive voice, I know) it should merit a DQ to the reviewer, kinda like a social contract that if a reading has been terminated, it can’t be reviewed much less listed? DNF’s aren’t usually a thing to check off a list and accumulate, are they? To me, even if you read all of it except the final chapter of main story, not epilogue, then I’m of a mind to say you didn’t give the book a fair shot and the book doesn’t need to be on your list of having read some of it. Maybe a separate list of tried to read, but could not finish? Limbo list. Did t realize there was actually a thing of listing DNF’s. I think it’s more fair to the author to not be listed or enumerated as DNF ALONG with those books that were read. It’s like say an actor reading 20 scripts before deciding and choosing which say 2-3 projects to work on and be credited for performing in is my best analogy half baked hot take from the hip. And it lessens the burden of the reader of having to deal with after the fact. Readers shouldn’t be obligated to explain at length or formally why they didn’t finish a book. Minimum is eh. and that leaves both parties, especially the author, none the wiser. If it was read entirely, mentions and maybe even rants/negative reviews are more valid? No points, no credit, I don’t think, should be given for incomplete/unfinished reads.

[@christy-anne-jones]

I don't think it's fair to give a book I didn't finish a definitive rating. But that's why there's a DNF category of its own 😊

[@genghisgalahad8465]

Oh duh me! I mean...

[@christy-anne-jones]

@@genghisgalahad8465 It's okay haha 💛

[@agmusic3359]

I stopped watching right after you placed Homo Deus in DNF. Like WTF? It's such a fantastic read. I respect your opinion but the video ended for me there

[@cottonasmr2563]

Imagine not being able to accept another persons opinion

[@tomlab6390]

Homo Deus is an incredible book! But i have to say it took me a long time to get into it. It was really harder for me to get into it than Sapiens, but once I got in… Wow, Yuval is such a genius. I get why some people would DNF since it took me a while to find my footing. Anyway, it’s an incredible book by a wonderful author.

[@stoffersen2963]

This individual is allergic to reading anything with literary merit. Also it's insulting to have Starting Point and The Hobbit that low under all those YA books.

[@circleofleaves2676]

I've read quite a few books on that list. Saga Land is one of the books I'm currently reading. After already mentioning a contest where the loser was to hurl themselves off a cliff, it started talking about chess, and got to this bit: “Directly to the north of Iceland is a dot of an island called Grimsey, the northernmost part of Icelandic territory. With a tiny population of eighty-six, the island is sustained almost entirely by fishing, tourism and its centuries-old obsession with chess. In the Middle Ages it was said the people of Grimsey took their chess so seriously that losers were sometimes required to hurl themselves off a cliff.” I thought, no wonder their population was so small lol (I found it hilarious). I told a friend about it and said, let's promise to never take our backgammon that seriously (we play backgammon most times we hang out).