The Best Books I have Read

A follow up to a video I made a few week about that covered the worst books I have read (according to GoodReads). Had a lot of fun looking into the stats for this one.
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0:00 intro
0:27 book 13
1:35 book 12
2:39 book 11
3:24 book 10
4:39 book 9
6:04 book 8
8:11 book 7
9:52 book 6
11:52 3rd place
13:42 1st 2nd 4th and 5th
16:04 Where did my favorite book rank?
16:54 a lesser-known series
17:12 highest ranked selfpub
17:50 a book from one of my favorite series
18:14 high goodread rank but low rank for me
18:49 A Book I hate

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

The problem with watching other book tubers channels is that the tbr just gets bigger! Happy reading to you.

[@TomOrange]

The tbr never stops growing!

[@PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy]

Thanks so much for the shoutout, Tom! I’m really glad you enjoyed Return to Edan!

[@TomOrange]

No problem! Its a great series that deserves attention and readers

[@BooksWithBenghisKahn]

Loved this! I’m right with you on the Tiamat’s Wrath = perfection train and the LotR is a bore fest train. I’m glad so many people still love it, but it’s just not for me. I often feel lonely on my little LotR outcast island over here so it’s great to have someone to join me

[@TomOrange]

There must be 10s of us lol

[@alb0zfinest]

Might help if you listen to the audiobooks by Phil Dragash. They have sound effects and background music from the movies. It's excellently narrated.

[@BrianBell7]

We for sure have some similar feelings on some of these entries! Love how you are unafraid to go against popular opinion when you don't share it. That's what it's about!

[@TomOrange]

Always have to be yourself!

[@Panagiotireads]

I just finished this phenomenal new book of fairy tales entitled Sillies, Fancies, and Trifles - it was phenomenal and I think you'd love it. It would go with the lovely recommendations here. Keep up the beautiful videos :)

[@TomOrange]

Thanks for the rec!

[@cameronaustin4843]

i started reading Shadow of the Gods, got 115 pages in and stopped because we didn’t have any news on the third book and i was enjoying it way too much. now that we have a release date for book three i can get back into it

[@TomOrange]

It’s a great series!

[@IsaacFruits]

My experience with the Lord of the rings is listening to the audiobook narrated by Andy Serkis and it is phenomenal! With all the different characters/new words I could see how reading that would be kind of boring. Serkis does a great job making every single bit of dialogue, battle, and song fully engaging!

[@TomOrange]

I have heard really good things about his narration

[@this_alec]

Damn. Making me want to read Expanse with that rant about Tiamat! I’ve heard that book is amazing, but I’m so intimidated by the length of that series! Might have to get over that soon and dive in.

[@TomOrange]

While it is a long series I think it is a really easy read!

[@this_alec]

@@TomOrange Finished the video and was shoooook to hear you say you hated Circe so much! Please don’t tune out of my next video when it opens with a positive review of that book 🤣

[@TomOrange]

@@this_alec lol i know im one of the few people that do not like that book. I totally get why people do but it just did not work for me.

[@Johanna_reads]

You and I share similar feelings about Gates of Fire and Stormlight! Since Daniel Abraham was one of the Expanse authors, I do not doubt your love of the series conclusion. Abraham did an incredible job concluding The Long Price Quartet!

[@TomOrange]

Im always curious when two authors work together how the work gets split. Like does each other have certain characters or plot details they want to work on? I may have to find an interview im sure they have been asked.

[@Johanna_reads]

@@TomOrange it's probably different for different authors, but I know Janny Wurts talked about how she did this with Raymond E. Feist. I'm sure that information is available somewhere.

[@ToddsBookTube91]

Nice video Tom!

[@TomOrange]

Thanks!

[@christhewritingjester3164]

Well, that was fun! The Expanse in on my TBR, currently sitting at the 161st book, but it's still on the long list (short list is sitting at 141 books, so this is 20 books into the long list which is sitting at exactly 300 right now) and could get bumped up if there's a sale or some other reason to bump it up. I literally just added this all up to see when I would get to The Expanse. I swear this used to be at 200 books total. This is like 10 years worth of reading. Short list = books I've bought Long list = books on my wishlist And I just realized this is only audio books and doesn't include ebooks... Too many good options out there! I just started reading again in 2019, so this is clearly all my fault for not reading for 20 years before that and playing catchup.

[@TomOrange]

That is a pretty long list! I have no idea how many books are on mine. Im not nearly as organized about it as you.

[@christhewritingjester3164]

@@TomOrange Luckily it's all digital. So adding up 20 entries per page and X number of pages is pretty quick work. For the longest time I thought I was hovering around 200 books, but I subscribed to several more BookTubers last December and this is the result!

[@charlieroberts5961]

Death's End was amazing but I preferred The Dark Forest. I can see why people have problems with DF though, first quarter or so of the book is a bit weaker. What an incredible series though. I haven't watched the show yet and don't think I want to. Top ranked books on GR that I gave 5 stars are Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (novella but still), The Sword of Kaigen, Memories of Ice, Midnight Tides, The Dark Forest, and East of Eden.

[@TomOrange]

Im starting Memories of Ice soon!

[@jan2bratt]

Okay, I'm unsubbing from you if you hate LOTR. No just kidding. I love it but I read it very early in my reading journey and it helped form my reading habits from then on. But I can perfectly well understand how some might find it boring compared to today's modern writing. I'll have to get to the Expanse some day but am reading Sun Eater series now and so it will be awhile.

[@TomOrange]

No LoTR hate just not the same praise and love as others. I really need to read Sun Eater. It has been on my list for years at this point.

[@jan2bratt]

@@TomOrange Hopefully it will be finished by the time you get to it and you won't have to wait although I have no idea how many books are planned.

[@TomOrange]

@@jan2bratt I believe there is one more planned book so 7 total but that could change

[@bartsbookspace]

Project Hail Mary should have a higher Goodreads rating! I mean, who in their right mind is not giving it 5⭐️s!? 😂

[@TomOrange]

Im am currently trying to get my girlfriend to read it to get her out of a reading slump.

[@bartsbookspace]

@@TomOrange I think it’s a great book to achieve that! 🤞