The LAST big book haul of 2024! Fantasy, Manga, Historical Fiction, Lit Fic

[@esmayrosalyne]

Andrew really didn't have to go THAT hard with his Kickstarter... everything about it is just so so so stunning!! And ooooh that book Clear sounds super interesting, had never heard of it either. Also love the bullet journal haul, excited for more content around that next year. 🤩

[@ToriTalks2]

There were SO many goodies! I'm super psyched for the bullet journal content too.

[@NerdyKathi]

It's going to take me years to read everything on my shelves but I can live with that. I laughed so hard when you showed us how small Persuasion was. Small print is the bane of my existence with books. I'm sure you'll find Persuasion one day. Great haul. I'm looking forward to trying The Dagger and the Coin after I finish LPQ.

[@ToriTalks2]

I don’t understand how the printing houses ever decide to print the text that small! It’s crazy 😂 I hope you love LPQ, it’s such a phenomenal series. 💜💜

[@tammaraliberty]

I'm 64 and I have enough books in my home library to read that I need to live to 128. Goals.😊

[@ToriTalks2]

Heck yeah! I mean, I feel like there's a comforting thing underneath the anxiety of not being able to read all the books in time. Having a big library is a good feeling. :D

[@tammaraliberty]

@ToriTalks2 indeed!

[@ericmason8087]

I too have so many books 😂😂😂

[@reading_by_myshelf]

I SO need to make 2025 a read my shelves year! Do you have any suggestions on how you tackled that effectively?

[@ToriTalks2]

Honestly just being really strict with myself on how many books were coming in, having friends pick out reads for me from my shelves, creating a list of my physical TBR so I could see what I had, and keeping myself super focused on mood reading and just grabbing what I wanted to read!

[@reading_by_myshelf]

@ thank u!

[@TedReadInstead]

I love how you're modeling a love for books with your kids! As a retired teacher, I can confirm that what they see at home will be with them through their entire lives and if parents love reading, it just "catches on". :) Thanks for sharing your book haul. So many wonderful books for you to explore! (Of course, I will speak highly of Roosevelt and anybody else named Ted.... well, except Bundy! LOL)

[@ToriTalks2]

Thank you so much! They’re growing up surrounded by books 🥰

[@CraigReadsBooks]

Thanks for the shout-out and tag. I was shocked to see I had a channel tag! Didn’t even realise I’d set that up (clearly tech-savvy here). I’ve definitely gone overboard buying books this year did the math and realised I’ve got about 20 years’ worth of unread books… which really puts your own mortality into sharp focus. Will it stop me buying more??? Not a chance 😂

[@ToriTalks2]

Haha you do have a channel tag, and I found it! I think having more books than you can read in a lifetime is somewhat comforting under all the anxiety... XD

[@CraigReadsBooks]

@ it used to give me so much anxiety, but now I just accept that some of the books will forever be ornaments 😊.

[@thegreatwaugh]

Great book haul! Those kickstarter books look amazing!

[@ToriTalks2]

Don’t they?

[@akbookdragon7071]

Ooh Hawksong! What a throwback. I love that book so much. Hope you love it too! Zane is one of my favorite love interests to this day. And man another throwback, Seabiscuit. That book is so good. Its extra special to me because a teacher of mine bought it for me at a library book sale and ive treasured it ever since.

[@ToriTalks2]

Another Hawksong fan, that's so cool! I look forward to it. Thanks so much for sharing!

[@bulbasaurusthe7th841]

KJ Parker! I am reading the Saevus Corax books now (only book 3 left), they are ridiculously witty. I have no idea what I expected, but man was I surprised by it. That series really hinges on the main character being a... curious character and the author gives him this really specific kind of a voice.

[@ToriTalks2]

Yes! I can't wait to try my first Parker novel. I'm glad you loved the Corvax books so much, those sound so good.

[@larryladeroute971]

There is a website called Fantastic Foction that I use to look up the works of all my favorite scifi and fantasy authors. It shows Hunting Party to be book 1 of 7 in the Serrano Legacy. Elizabeth Moon is an author I also want to read some of. She has a ton of books.

[@ToriTalks2]

Oh awesome, thank you so much! She does have a lot of books, and I've heard really positive feedback on them.

[@shemiahwalker]

I love time travel

[@The.dog.and_books]

Oh gosh, Hawksong! I loved that when i was a teen!

[@ToriTalks2]

I'm surprised by how many people are commenting about it! Super cool.

[@AFictionalEscapist]

Living for the mini font size rant ... I took so long to find a copy of Moby Dick for this very reason 😅

[@ToriTalks2]

I love a good non-toxic rant XD Ooof, Moby Dick is a commitment, good luck!

[@dragonrambles]

Yes, Hunting Party is book 1. If you come across Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon, you should pick it up too - great book.

[@ToriTalks2]

Good to know, thank you!

[@JackalopeHope]

If it helps at all in your Buying Persuasion Saga, I highly recommend the Broadview edition. It’s an academic edition (paperback) with some extra notes and such in it, but I don’t remember them being particularly expensive (I had to buy several Broadview editions of things for classes in my master’s program). Plus, they hold up well! I’ve read the heck out of my copy and it’s still in great condition.

[@ToriTalks2]

Awesome, thank you so much!

[@mattkean1128]

The Andrew Meredith books look GORGEOUS. Emma truly has no chill. I had to yell at her several times while reading 😅. Your shirt reminds me of the cover of The Case of Cem that's still on my tbr, It's supposed to be very good.

[@Amnic2017]

Well now I have more books I want to read 😂 Glad I found your channel!

[@ToriTalks2]

Haha whoops! Sorry not sorry XD Thanks so much for watching, I hope you enjoy the new reads. :D

[@jlodomauthor]

So many of these sound fantastic. Persuasion is my favorite Austen, hands down.

[@ToriTalks2]

That’s what I’ve been hearing! I’m really looking forward to it 🥰

[@AndrewDMth]

Such a great haul!! Other readers have said Fleeting Word is best read after Gloves of Eons.

[@ToriTalks2]

Noted! I’ll put it in that order 🔥

[@joshramirez7]

As a Teddy enthusiast, I have had The Old Lion on my radar for awhile! 🐻

[@ToriTalks2]

Nice! I'm looking forward to it. Not sure when yet but eventually!

[@safinan8008]

Super excited about 2025 🎉 reads!! 😊

[@ToriTalks2]

Me too! What are some of the books you’re excited to read?

[@shemiahwalker]

Too cool

[@Montie-Adkins]

My most recent purchases: The Will of the Many by James Islington which appears to be about a spy dug deeply into an enemy society. I wanted a taste of Warhammer 40K so I got the one people always say to read first, Horus Rising by Dan Abnet. TORI, I saw you talk about Seasons of Albadone and got and read the book and now it looks like it will be my favorite book of 2024.

[@ToriTalks2]

YAY! I’m so happy you enjoyed Albadone so much. Isn’t it a gem? So good. I’m glad you liked it. I’ve got Will of the Many on my TBR for January hopefully 🙌🏻

[@jvissente]

18:51 That kallattian hardcovers are dope!!! Will they become available outside of kickstarter? And Fleeting word?

[@AnEruditeAdventure]

JEALOUS (but not surprised) that your Kallattian Saga books arrived before mine. 😂 -T

[@sayatheblakat]

Dude Hawksong!!!

[@ToriTalks2]

Throwback!!! I can't wait. :D

[@MacScarfield]

Can recommend «The Siege» Trilogy by KJ Parker, and have his «The Folding Knife» on my 2025 TBR! I also hope to get to the «Hanuvar» series, but that one is more of a MBR then a TBR for 2025, sadly, with my current TBR List! 😅Theodore Roosevelt is perhaps my favourite US President, such a larger then life character! My own November Haul: The final two novels in Mary Gentle’s «The Book of Ash» series (90s Alt-History Military Fiction), «The Wild Machines» & «Lost Burgundy», as well as a Hardback Edition of Tolkien’s «The Fall of Numenor», Matthew Harffy’s «Forest of Foes» (Historical Fiction set in Anglo Saxon Britain), «The Lion & the Sword» by Roberta Cray (90s Fantasy inspired by Alexander the Great’s Conquest of Greece: Something of a hidden gem going by the few, but very enthusiastic reviews I found of it, anyway, I just saw that glorious cover by the lauded Tolkien Illustrator John Howe, and just had to have it!😄).and «The Women of Troy» by Pat Barker (retelling of the aftermath of the Iliad from the perspective of Briseis, the «War Bride» of Achilles)! So far in December I have received: «Sun Eater» 3-6: «Demon in White», «Kingdoms of Death», «Ashes of Men» & «Disquiet Gods» by Christopher Ruocchio (Space Opera) «Anitra» by Hilde Susan Jægtnes (Alt-History Fiction, about an imagined granddaughter of the Composer Edvard Grieg living in Pre-WW2 Fascist Rome, torn between her creative dreams of creating a Grand Mythological Opera with the support of the totalitarian regime and her lesbian lover, a Jewish Musician...) «Mannen som bar solen» («The Man Who Carried The Sun») by Kristian Bang Foss (Historical Fiction set during the Nordic Bronze Age at the onset of the Late Bronze Age Collapse) I also expecting any day now the Broken Binding Special Edition of Professor Philip Chase’s «The Way of Edan», which the Good Professor was so kind to show me a preview of during his Scandinavian Holiday this Summer! 😎🙌 Cheers Tori!

[@ToriTalks2]

An amazing list! I think you’ll enjoy Hanuvar, the first book was great. And I love the variety too! Hope you have an awesome year of reads.

[@toinenosoite3173]

About the new book by Anthony Ryan, do not read it before reading Covenant of Steel! Both trilogies are in the same world, and there are some things overlapping, as the new one is after the first one. That is my clear impression after having read the new book. Have fun with the Dagger and the Coin! Well, I have been one of those who have said that it is even better than LPQ. PS. Jane Austen is one of my favourite English authors ever - so much irony and humour in them!

[@ToriTalks2]

Good to know, thanks for the heads up about Tide of Black Steel. I will definitely read it after Covenant. I'm SO pumped about Dagger and Coin!

[@AndrewsWizardlyReads]

I hope you enjoy Hanuvar #2

[@ToriTalks2]

I intend to :D

[@AndrewsWizardlyReads]

But the title says 2025 😂 I’m now convinced you are a time traveler. Tell me about the future

[@ToriTalks2]

Haha I fixed it XD What is time, anyway?