The Best Books of 2024😍✨

[@SamanthasBooks]

I loved the Rebel Blue Ranch series and Funny Story too!☁☁☁

[@onpagewithlinds]

You have single handedly convinced me to read "Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop" - I hadn't heard of it until this video and now it's one of my most anticipated reads, so THANK YOU! 😊

[@kindlesandcandles]

Ooooh night swim was SO good. The audiobook was excellent too. I did NOT expect to cry in a thriller but that one squeezed some tears out. Really, really well done.

[@sonderture]

I read The Raven Boys so many years ago and it still has me in its grip ugh My favourite book this year is How High We Go in the Dark, so so so devastatingly beautiful and tender. I don't think I will ever get over it.

[@BernasBookishAdventures]

What a great video, I loved hearing your views about all the books ⛅️

[@MarcelleLeiturasPreguicosas]

my favorite is My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Just for the Summer, and Will of the Many

[@ReadingNymph]

It is so lovely when you get a book that just resonates with you. Healing fiction is something we need to promote more of 😊 Some of my favourite were Garden Spells, I Who Have Never Known Men and The Marlow Murder Club😊

[@Gnarly_Burger]

Reading Fredrick Backman is like watching This Is Is. It breaks you down in the most gut wenching way and yet there is still hope and human connection that makes it feel okay.

[@rose_dreamer]

This is such a great list! I added The Lost Story to my tbr, it sounds so good. My best book was Assassin's Fate by the impeccable Robin Hobb ☁️☁️☁️

[@nikka501]

Beartown and Bloom were in my top 10 this year, I'm obsessed with both. The second in the Beartown series, Us Against You, is also up there for me (haven't read the last one yet, I'm not ready to be finished with it!) I also loved The Spellshop, and Bright Young Women. Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop is going on my TBR for next year, it sounds amazing.

[@jadeklassen2002]

Ahh I need to pick my top 10! Love your video!

[@Bookswithcharlotte]

I need to as well but just choosing 10 is so hard 😂

[@bitati1949]

Hi Syd, I don't usually comment but I feel like I need to this time! Thank you so so much for doing your videos, and I have to say you're officially the most compatible booktuber for me to watch, I like what you like and I love it! Definely taking a good amount of these books to my 2025. I hope you have the most splendid time in the holidays! Sending a lot of love from Brazil🫶🏾✨️

[@SydBookWorrom]

This made my day!! Thank you so much for taking time to comment, love!!💓

[@jessisaysknee5831]

I just came back to this video to tell you I started Welcome to the Hyunam Dong Bookshop on Christmas Eve because of this video and I just finished it and wow. It was exactly what I needed, so I wanted to say thank you! 😭🥹

[@StashaA.]

I absolutely loved Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone and it's thanks to you! 😘 I wouldn't hear for this book if I hadn't seen your review. I laughed out loud so many times. I had to stop reading twice to literally wipe away my tears. 😂

[@mae_amelia]

Beartown was my favorite book I read this year! I literally read it back in January and I still think about it all the time

[@RKStumblingbear]

I watched an interview of the author and translator of Welcome to the Hyynam-Dong Bookshop earlier this year. It was lovely. It is on Margaret Pinard's channel.

[@elsa-pt7gz]

this is the first video i’ve watched of yours but you and i definitely have a VERY similar reading taste and i’m so happy to have found someone like that!!! my favorite book of last year was everyone in my family has killed someone, and i think this year it has to go to a thousand ships by natalie haynes

[@kerrylagerwall222]

Some of my favourite books of 2024 were The Frozen River, Into Thin Air & Beartown.

[@MattMilu]

YES!!!!! Your number 1 book was awesome!!! You summed it up perfectly!!!!

[@eri_lol2002]

My favorite book this year was Illuminae from the Illuminae Files (all 3 books actually) I went into it just expecting an average sci-fi but it hit so hard and I fell in love with all the characters and have not once stopped thinking about the series. it was an experience and a half and I loved every moment

[@lindseystinygardenadventur6308]

My favorites this year was Circe and Shark Heart. 🦈 I’m really excited for Isola coming out this February!

[@jilliannoble00]

My favorites were Bright Young Women, Words of Radiance, We Used to Live Here, & Martyr! I’m really excited for 2025, there are loads of great books coming out and I can’t wait!!

[@michelleizoco]

A great wrap up to a great year! So many great picks on your list this year and I'm so looking forward to your what the new year will bring. Happy holidays!!!

[@LibraSweetPea]

I finished Bloom at 1 am this morning. I loved it, couldn't put it down. I also bought The Way of Kings yesterday! ☁️

[@niamhcavanagh1843]

☁️☁️ I excited after this video...I have 4 days off at Christmas and some of your faves are on my tbr so I will be settling in, getting cosy and just reading 📚 ☺ Happy Christmas 🎄

[@moniquebaham]

My best book of 2024 was definitely The Spear Cuts Through Water. Everything you said, I agreed with 100%. But I also LOVED Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop. What a surprising treat that book was! ❤❤❤ 🌧️

[@lindseyrinehart9021]

My favorite book of the year was All the Colors of the Dark.

[@felina2014]

My favourite books of 2024 are One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns, The Briar Book of the Dead, The Reappearance of Rachel Price and The Frozen River.

[@LibrariesandLattes]

Beartown is on my 2024 favorites list too and it was also on my top list from 2022 (I re-read it this year)! This series is just so good but yeah so heartbreaking. And Stormlight Archive in general is on my list as well, although Words of Radiance is my favorite 😊 And Funny Story was an honorable mention as well haha. So many good picks here! I really want to read The Will of the Many and Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop. So hard for me to pick a top book but some of my top books this year (that I didn’t already mention) were Six of Crows, Piranesi, and Seven Days in June ❤️

[@grimviolins]

I adddooooooooorrrrred The Lost Story 😭😭😭 It was one of my two favs. The other is Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

[@diw2756]

If you like the healing aspect of ‘ welcome to the Hyunam-Dong’ perhaps you can also try ‘Dallergut Dream Department Store’ by Miye Lee😊equally good!

[@cherylNA]

I love your sweater! And yessss Beartown. Just wait until you read the rest of the series.🥺☁️

[@paperpagespossibilities]

I love the description of Healing Fiction. Just the idea of it and the book that was labeled such makes me want to find a bunch of books in that 'genre'. I have Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop on my must read list for 2025 now.

[@AlyssaL731]

BEARTOWN IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS OF ALL TIME 😭😭😭😭😭

[@gabbyreads]

Ohhh I haven’t read Ripe yet but now I’m intrigued 👀

[@Bookswithcharlotte]

Same here😂 I’ve just added it to my list of books I need to read

[@mychaoticshelf]

I keep harping on this series but The Warded Man by Peter Brett is my #1 of 2024!! I’m almost done with the sequel and omg it’s been a rollercoaster to so the least! It feels historical but with demon magic. I would die for these characters!! Can’t recommend enough HOWEVER I will say it reads like it’s written by a man (just a heads up // in my opinion) Happy reading Syd Syd!!

[@SydBookWorrom]

i cannot wait to get to that one because of you!!!😍

[@jessicahope1180]

☁️ I will be reading all the ones on this list that I haven't already read 🎉 so excited for 2025 reading!

[@lindadashner9205]

☁️⛅️ My favorite book this year was The Frozen River. I am currently reading Blue Sisters and I really love it!

[@logo891201]

I'm excited to read welcome to the hyunam-dong bookshop just by the description. Have you seen the paperback cover? If I like it I'm going to have to get the hard and soft. One is in the night and one is in the day.

[@pamelakibildis1177]

Great Video Sydney and my Favorite Books of 2024 Are Actually Two A River Enchanted & A Fire Endless Phenomenal Adventures While Reading Both Highly Recommend Them & pair them with their audiobooks cause the narrator was phenomenal 📖😊🎧 Merry Christmas Sydney Caleb Avi Juno and Sammy ✨🎄📖🎁✨😊

[@elenaf7498]

Where did you buy your sweater! I Love it!😍

[@_ashleylh]

Will of the Many and Blue Sisters. ❤❤ Our tastes are so similar - I think that the only thing we disagree on is the Emily Wilde series 😅 so you are my go-to for book recs! For something that you didn't mention that I read and loved this year is "A Dowry of Blood". Oh and "Oona Out of Order"! My biggest surprise of the year for sure!

[@janeliu5316]

Love the recommendations! Side note, do you have a pattern for that adorable knitted dragon please? 🙏 thank you! ❤

[@tlalonde]

Favorites are The Frozen River, The Reformatory and They never Learn. I loved Beartown, night swim also is a fantastic book. I just finished welcome to the Hyunam-dong bookshop. I told my friend it was like sitting with old friends drinking a warm cup of hot chocolate.

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I need to read the stormlight archive 😅

[@BethsAL]

New follower I love your recommendations 🙏

[@BookishBaddie]

I think I really need to read The Hyunam-Dong Bookshop because it was on everyones best book list!!! 😍😍

[@BookReviewsWithBecky]

I released my top ten video earlier this week! Can't wait to see yours! ☺

[@grnmtgrl]

New sub - love your recommends!

[@awpageofabook]

I knew we were in for a good list when the first book was Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone

[@alisonbennett1589]

Just saw this pop up on my YT. We have similar taste so I will you some of my favorites. Escape Room by Megan Goldin, All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker, No Exit by Taylor Adams and The Life We Bury by Allen Eskins to name a few.

[@GoldenHourWhimsy]

My favourite series this year was the Mead Mishaps series by Kimberly Lemming - starting with “that time I got drunk and saved a demon” Such fun cozy, spicy fantasy books!!

[@linds1122]

The Will of the Many and Beartown are also in my top 10

[@Showtunediva]

I felt the same way about Daydream by Hannah Grace that you felt about Horror Movie. I have do still read Horror Story!

[@Megan.eco-Instinct]

☁🌨😶‍🌫 My fav has to be *Orbital* by _Samantha Harvey_ followed closely by *I Who Have Never Known Men* by _Jacqueline Harpman_ and another at the top was a little surprising to me; it is A Psalm for the Wild-Built by _Becky Chambers_ . That book is really such a simple novella but one that *has so much to say* .

[@vmr26]

My best book of the year was that handmaid's tale, followed by east of Eden, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and a book by a Colombian author that to be honest I don't know if it is translated called "This wound full of fish". I don't know if you have read any of these because I just found your channel 😊

[@cleg78]

I loved Bloom but I have to say I loved Guillotine just that bit more. Delilah S Dawson how she packs so much in to these books is crazy but everything is there and it is amazing. I am reading a full novel from this author in the new year as just running out of time now.

[@izzzzzzzzy19]

my best book of the year is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 🌿😊

[@Feyolareads]

Best books of the year for me: The Will of The Many and Dungeon Crawler Carl

[@daryanthelibrarian]

omg yes let's make some commotion for ripe

[@remamouchref4083]

The shooting starfish book

[@LykinReads]

I want so much to love Paul Tremblay’s books but it is just not happening for me 😢

[@mikwrites]

Anything Syd reads, I read

[@eimajhteb8288]

Adding bloom, ripe, and beat town to my TBR! Can bear town be read as a stand alone? I believe it’s a series??

[@SydBookWorrom]

@@eimajhteb8288 it can be read as a stand alone! The future books are connected but follow different characters/situations

[@eimajhteb8288]

@ awesome! Thanks for the reply :)

[@angiedee3093]

Beartown can totally be read as a stand alone but the other two books are also excellent. The second in the series is outstanding. Don’t put off Beartown but also if you love it, keep going.

[@renee_3364]

Death Valley by Melissa Broder. Definitely weird and probably not for everyone but it really struck a personal chord for me

[@juliacash8135]

☁️ ☁️ My best book of 2024 was Academy of Villains by Ever King. This is such a good book that I think everyone should read. I really think you’d like it!

[@KatieColson]

Healing Fiction 🥹🥲🥹🥲🥹

[@KatieColson]

Also, let us take a moment for the crotchet dragon because 🤩🤩🤩

[@LynnT2280]

My favorite book was Women

[@spiritedreviewexc]

i cant wait for Bear Town! *edit* my turn to read Bear Town. Should i not read it in public though? I had some bangers, but i feel like you might have read the ones that I would have picked, and this one is NOT a standalone like i thought it would be. I just grabbed it off the Romance shelf in the libary, being like, I need a romance book so sure, this one...and well im obsessed Its called Dreaming of a Heart Lake Christmas by Sarah Robinson, it might be a bit chessy hallmark-like, but im old ok?

[@miyayume_eclectic_dream]

I tried romantasy...but this one is more fantasy romance in my opinion. Noone has heard if it because I was looking for review on booktube, the good and the bad, and found just two. It is Elven Prince by Tara Greyce. Yes, it can be read befor Fierce Hearth it will not spoil it for you because the author knows how to write and not repeat herself. I read in sad order.

[@setsuna3914]

Butter by Asako Yuzuki

[@Bookswithcharlotte]

I’ve just got this on my kindle as I’ve seen so many great reviews ❤

[@lisajenny9]

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[@karliemosher3871]

You MUST read Dallergut's Dream Department Store! It's also a Korean cozy story that sounds like it has the same type of vibes as Hyunam-Dong Bookshop, which is on my early 2025 TBR list. I can't wait to read it!

[@starlasell5698]

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[@kimberlyreads]

Okay I will accept that Bloom was phenomenal 🙌 Even people with questionable taste can be right sometimes. (IM KIDDING. DONT HATE ME 😂😂😂) And also Horror Movie was 💩. OKAY BYEEE. 😇

[@SydBookWorrom]

HAHAHAHA I love you and our opposite tastes🤭🤭🤭

[@lena_blue]

Lol I have seen you say Delilah S Dawson’s name wrong so many times, I have to say it, you are missing the other L ❤

[@surpriseitsus9622]

😂 oh stop. That is not important enough to make the comment.

[@nidiamacedo6247]

thank you, I was losing my damn mind and possibly entering my villain era every time Syd said Delia in her videos. I didn't want to be THAT annoying girl who corrects everyone but I am her, I'm sorry.

[@nidiamacedo6247]

@@surpriseitsus9622 imagine she meets Delilah to say how much she liked her book and she calls her Delia 😂we're just looking out for each other. pointing something as wrong shouldn't be considered rude.

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