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[@melaniet3357]

Holly you should definitely try the 5x5 book challenge for next year! It's where you choose 5 categories (or topics/genres), and 5 books within each category so that you cover a variety of your interests while still exploring them a bit more in depth with 25 books total. It can be broad like "british classics" or niche like "running", or about a country to explore its authors, anything you like! It'd be cool to see your list.

[@HollyGabrielle]

oh wow this sounds like a really cool idea!! thank you Melanie 💚✨

[@laurabazeley4104]

You should use Story Graph, makes charts and graphs based on what you’ve read and as someone who loves organisation and a good chart it seriously motivates me to read more!

[@momentmemos]

The best books I have read this year are Circe (feminist Greek mythology retelling), Project Hail Mary (really fun and gripping and emotional scifi, also great if you are new to the genre) and the Daevabad Trilogy (fantasy taking place in the Middle East)

[@margotverhoeven9673]

I really loved “the seven husbands of evelyn hugo” from Taylor Jenkins Reid 🤩

[@khalilahd.]

Aww I love that you’re getting back to reading. I just finished Song of Achilles and really liked it if you want to give it a go. Hope you feel better! ❤

[@katarinacvancigerova3321]

2 books I can recommend: Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo - lighthearted and interesting and The kite runner - very interesting story full of surprises.

[@ania3795]

I've read The kite runner totally recommend that ;)

[@HollyGabrielle]

ahhhh thank you so much Katarina! i haven't heard of the first one actually 🙈

[@silvialogan9226]

Holly, I saw the film 'Where the Crawdads Sing' three months ago, but I never read the book. You can read Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey'. You do not have to read those books only if you want to. It was just a suggestion.

I loved “Turtles all the way down” from John Green! ✨

[@jordanco7380]

•winter by knausgaard •a little life by hanya yanagihara • the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon • the secret history by donna tartt

[@catharina9287]

My favorite book is by Daniel Glattauer: Love Virtually, and I don't read this book often, but I read it when I need it. When I had a bad few days, I read this book, since "it helps me get out of a hole". Yesterday I just read the second book in one sitting and it was as good as the first. 10/10 would recommend both.

[@bec-lou-wez3838]

A Thousand Splendid Suns is unforgettable. And The Lightkeeper’s Daughters by Jean Pendziwol (ignore the uninspiring cover, the book’s brilliant). Happy reading! 🤓 📚

[@Jade.H01]

Some book recommendations: If We Were Villains, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ariadne, Circe, Loveless, Clap When You Land, The Island of Missing Trees and The Bread the Devil Knead I hope you, your family and everyone in the comments have a lovely Christmas, Hanukkah or Posadas Navidenas if you celebrate, or if not, a wonderful end to the year ❄️

[@HollyGabrielle]

oooo thank you so so much!! and i hope you enjoy Christmas and the rest of 2022 too 💚✨

[@vanessadai7270]

"Lost Connections" by Johann Hari, which is a book about the causes of depression and how to find hope.💫As well as "Atomic Habits" by James Clear.🔥

[@gaillimhdonegan3142]

If you love a romance Emily Henry is the one, beach read, book lovers and people we meet in vacation are my faves. I also loved any of the Taylor Jenkins Reid books like daisy Jones and the six xx

[@TravelLifestyleWithAlinase]

To do lists really help out get things done ✅ 👌 Am thinking of starting to read as well in 2023. I like the books you have selected. 🥰

[@HollyGabrielle]

ah yay!! super glad to hear this 👌🏻 and I’m excited to continue reading more next year hopefully!!!

[@annabelsheridan1]

Where the Crawdads sing is definitely one of my favourite films of the year, it was so relaxing and has some really beautiful scenes xx

[@jessm.porthos]

Cute grandparents singing happy birthday!

[@HollyGabrielle]

haha they always do it over the phone as well 🙈🙈🙈

[@jessm.porthos]

@@HollyGabrielle yea my grandparents would do the same lol.

[@reverievera6411]

My book recs: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Vicious by V.E. Schwab Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller Carol by Patricia Highsmith Ace by Angela Chen One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston I could go on and on :) but that'll do for now. And I personally really enjoyed 'Beautiful World Where Are You' by Sally Rooney, but I appear to be a bit jn the minority on that one. I would recommend it. Lots of love ❤️

[@isabellapirlogea5125]

Holly, read the Neapolitan Tetralogy by Elena Ferrante. The books are incredibly good.

[@tanyapetkova7641]

i have like a thousand recommendations, but one of my most recent reads was The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (please let that be the correct spelling) and as a cat lover it just gave me such a nice feeling while reading (except when i was crying ofc), so i think you might like it!

[@louisaheaton4606]

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus is fabulous!

[@hw744]

Stoner by John Williams! One of my favs of all times :)

[@alexandrasalahoru527]

Mine tooo!!!!!!!

[@HollyGabrielle]

ahhhh ok thank you so so much!!!

[@lscgdd11]

the devil you know (a book written by a psychiatrist working at broadmoor hospital) penguin lessons (just a feelgood book about the relationship between a penguin and a man, based on a true story)

[@sarah_kale]

Omg and "The Circle" by Dave Eggers! It's sooo gripping. The movie is complete trash but the book is fantastic! Also I really enjoyed "Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro. It took me a while to get into it, but then I finished it in basically one sitting. Such a different and special book.

[@LittleVenator]

1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 2. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Khaneman 3. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway 4. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 5. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Thomas Keller 6. Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger 7. San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities by Michael Shellenberger 8. Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis 9. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder 10. Don’t Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving In Our Woke Dystopia by Dave Rubin 11. The Things Our Fathers Saw by Matthew A. Rozell 12. The War On The West by Douglas Murray 13. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath by Bill Browder 14. Fossil Future: Why Human Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal and Natural Gas - Not Less by Alex Epstein 15. False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet by Bjorn Lomborg 16. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up A Generation For Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt 17. The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 18. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 19. Walking The Himalayas: An Adventure of Survival and Endurance by Levison Wood 20. The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell 21. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley 22. The New Map: Energy, Climate and The Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin 23. The Martian by Andy Weir 24. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse 25. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 26. Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne 27. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris 28. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon 29. Diversity and Exclusion: Confronting the Campus Free Speech Crisis by Lindsay Shepherd 30. A Queen For All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee by Joanna Lumley 31. Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought by Jonathan Rauch 32. The Box-Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner 33. Alone in the Storm by Leslie Vertes 34. Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink by Anthony McCarten 35. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicone Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez

[@Noorieke]

Have you read 'Braiding sweetgrass' yet? I'm about to start it so cannot give you a full discription but it is about indigenous wisdom, science and the environment. I think you might like it.

[@asifs100]

I recently watched 'Where the crawdads sing' and I liked it to the point I might re-watch it sometime later but I haven't read the book.

[@falconfliesaway]

I came upon a lighthouse by Shanthanu Naidu, Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, A man called Ove by Fredrik Backman

[@CeciliaEloisa]

I really loved "Beautiful world, where are you", would highly recommend!! it discusses a lot of political and societal problems though, so I guess that's the reason why many people didn't like it.

[@Elena-pq8yp]

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelidis

[@kristinadimoska6348]

“Surrounded by idiots” by Thomas Erikson, is one of the best books I have recently read 😊

[@HollyGabrielle]

oooooo this sounds interesting - thank you!!! 😉👌🏻

[@aslowmonkey]

I really enjoyed Girls of Paper and Fire. A bit off the radar but it was reaaaaally good, and it's a series 👌

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[@miaalexanderthegreat]

Three Body Problem by Liu Cinxi, exciting sci-fi

[@Ina2895]

I recommend it ends with us and it starts with us by Colleen Hoover

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[@hannahfirminger5026]

I feel like you might like a man called Ove by Fredrik Backman it’s also been made into a Swedish film and is being made into an English film with Tom hanks as the main guy and they changed the name to Otto instead of Ove. My personal favourite this year was Verity by Colleen Hoover it’s a romantic thriller 18+ and please check trigger warnings before reading it

[@jodieclarke6387]

Running around the world - Nick Butter. You will love it Holly!

[@HollyGabrielle]

oooo i guess it's about running, jodie? 😉 haha

[@jodieclarke6387]

@@HollyGabrielle haha yeah! Most of the books I read are about running 🙈🙈

[@ariane1263]

Legends and lattes is so great! 😅 and i don’t even like fantasy or video Games

[@qrdeee]

recently I finished "I'm Glad My Mom Died" by Jennette McCurdy, would recommend, a very good read

[@sarah_kale]

I can really recommend "Do no harm" by Henry Marsh, he's a neurosurgeon and talks about his job in this book. I completely devoured it! Such a good read.

[@HollyGabrielle]

oh wow this could be a really cool read - thank you Sarah! 💚

[@oliviac4682]

The Silent Patient!!!

[@oliviac4682]

Also why aren’t you updating Goodreads?

[@lolbuttons]

I absolutely loved Beautiful world where are you !

[@ariane1263]

I also recommend anything by Catriona Ward ! She‘s a great author

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[@kaavyashreenarayanan8739]

Hey holly, The fault in our stars is actually an amazing book Love ur videos 💚💚

[@fahimkhalasi4115]

which type of genre do you mostly read

[@HollyGabrielle]

I don’t actually find myself reading one genre in particular actually 😅 . . . and I haven’t actually read that many books in my life (lol 😂) but maybe i’ll gravitate more towards something as I read more books!?

[@suki7333]

Holly, try the book "Born to Run". You will love it.

[@HollyGabrielle]

oooo i've read 'Eat and Run' but not this one, so maybe i've have to give it a go! 👌🏻 thank you!!

[@AWildRadcliffe]

A thousand splendid Suns is an amazing book

[@annabelsheridan1]

“It starts with us” is so wholesome and one of the best books I’ve ever read.

[@j.k.2428]

My all time favourite book is the alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I could read it over and over again.

[@marccolomayt82094]

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[@mehakwalia5990]

Love from India❤️

[@wanizakhan6370]

Where the crawdads sing is a good one

[@maxpower1337]

Milka is kinda a rebel lol

[@HollyGabrielle]

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[@yeye-ox4ps]

Game theory

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