10 books with AMAZING worldbuilding! ☁️📖
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Hello everyone and welcome to another reading recommendations video! Today, I'm recommending you 10 books with amazing worldbuilding! These are mostly speculative books (fantasy, sci-fi and magical realism) with wonderful worldbuilding and imagery. In my opinion, great worldbuilding goes hand-in-hand with great prose, imagery and figurative language. For me, I don't want information overload; what I like is atmospheric writing that feels real and believable and unique.
Hope that you're able to get some good book recommendations out of this list! Hopefully you find some books with amazing worldbuilding that you love as well. Hope you enjoy the video and take care 💛
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0:00 - intro
0:41 - my world building criteria & sandbagging (lol)
1:30 - books 1-4
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9:19 - books 5-10
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I feel like publishers don't need to do anything more in terms of promotional work than just ask you to talk about a book you have enjoyed. I have added so many books to my TBR just because of your infectious enthusiasm.
I love the Murakami-esque world building where fantastical elements just show up in the real world in a very matter-of-fact way.
It’s called magical realism! Tons of great Latin American authors do the genre amazingly
Favourite worlds by far. I love him so much.
@@mrincorrect848 any recommendations?
@@liamariavoelker4162 100 years of solitude*(really anything by Marquez), Pedro Paramo(my favorite), like water like chocolate and the house of the spirits.
I LOVE "His Dark Materials" so so much!
I’ve seen the majority of these books from other booktubers and was never really interested, but the way you describe all of these stories make me want to read them immediately. 😭😭 Especially the His Dark Materials series!
I always finish your videos with new books in my TBR, it’s inevitable 😂 thanks for you content!!!
Wow! What a cool concept for a video! Thank you! I've not been interested in the Priory of the Orange Tree until your description. Same with Jonathan Strange and Mr, Norrell.
I just started watching your videos lady month, first off I love your videos. They’re always super cozy and informative. Also I bought the house in the cerulean sea and the priory of the orange tree, just getting ready to start the house book
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke also has such vivid world building despite the setting being so limited and meandering (as much as I can say without spoilers 😅), it’s absolutely one of my favourite books of all time!
I looooove it but I need to stop recommending Piranesi AND Jonathon Strange for every single recommendations video, so I just picked one 😅
One of my favourite books as well.
Just followed your recommendations and picked up all of them…but I’m saving some of them for my “Century of Books” challenge next year. Thank you !
Thank you Christy for this new video with a very interesting topic ! 💛
Thanks for the video - looking forward to catching up with these books. 📚
Hope you enjoy reading them! 😊
Beautiful video as always, because of you I bought Neil Gaiman book's. Thankyou for sharing your thoughts with us Christy.
Just started this video and love your criteria for world building. I'm hoping Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series makes the list.
Love Name of the Wind! I read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell this year it was the second book i read and im still thinking about it 💫 Im reading Lonely Castle in the Mirror next month 😊
Christy you would be an amazing literary critic! What engaging and thoughtful commentaries!
Thank you so much!! 😊
I can't help but go "yay!" every time I see a new upload from you. Thank you for your content, it really helps me learn and relax at the same time :)
I'm so glad you enjoy my videos! Thank you for being here 😊💛
Yeah, thank you
So many great books on this list! Name in the Wind and, the fifth season are on my tbr!
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Give me pages after pages of description and detail. Loved His Dark Materials and LotR as a kid, visualizing every bit of the world in my head.
Another favorite is Carlos Ruiz Zafon's "Cemetery of Forgotten Books" -series. I could feel myself walking down the streets of old Barcelona when reading them. :)
Ooh I agree with you, have read several of the books you recommend, and have three I havent read yet...The fifth Season, A hundred years of Solitude Snd Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. I must give that last book of more chance, sounds much more interesting after you've described it! Thank you! I'm reading The Daevabad Trilogy right now and it's world building is really unique and interesting. Highly recommend! Definitely want to read The Name of the Wind. I ordered She Who became the Sun recently but canceled it when I read about how much violence there is in it.
I just love the way you say “ world building “
I loved Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, as well as the His Dark Materials trilogy. Have you ever read anything by Neil Stephenson? The world building in The Baroque Cycle is brilliant.
I find this gem(channel) when the UA-cam recommend me the ``Murakami schedule video``.I watched and I felt in love.I like your stile, Christy - the songs, the colours and the passion for those books.This kind of thing is very touch. You are a true writter. Love from Brazil(and, in the future, Canada). Bye.
Great recommendations Christy, I suggest you read Elizabeth Knox's The Invisible Road series aka Dream Hunter and Dreamquake, they are phenomenal!
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Add "Lonely castle.." in my tbr. I like "Welcome to Night Vale" - it has weird, but amazing world!
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Thanks for the tips
Reading is a badass exercise for the brain. I enjoy channels that have book content and not just gaming. Both are unique in their own way. But it’s cool to know that you like, Final Fantasy.
PS. I have been waiting sooooo long for the sequel to The Name of the Wind 😩. Loved it !
Tell me about it. I miss Kvothe's quirckyness
I’ve heard so much about The Fifth Season!
It's absolutely brilliant! 💛
I was waiting for your video yayyy
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I agree with you on His Dark Materials and The priory of the Orange tree. Incredible world building and excellent representation of female protagonists in fantasy genre. I was also thinking the same abt HDM on how is this for children, it's all very grown up stuff. 😅
Love this video, Christy! Some of my favorites are on here (Priory is probably my favorite fantasy novel!!). And you’ve encouraged me to read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I have a copy, but I’ve been putting it off because I’m a bit intimidated!
It is intimidating, but the pay-off is more than worth it! I read it from Christy's recommendation as well. The amount of attention to detail that went into this book really does make it feel like like it truly happened in English history, and although the style is quite academic it's never boring. For me everything about it is amazing, 5/5.
@@joannab.8066 thanks, I definitely will read it! Have you read Susanna Clarke’s other book, Piranesi? That’s one of my favorite fantasy books!
@@hannarchy_ No I haven't read it yet, but it's definitely on my tbr! I hope it becomes one of my favourites too
Have you read any Brandon Sanderson? His world building is renowned in his fanbase, high fantasy on the levels of Pratchett and Tolkien
You should make videos on how to analyze books. You have so much knowledge, you'd love to learn with you :)
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Great video.
I love the worldbuilding genre. Specially the ones with fantasy or sci-fi.
I love world building too!! 😊💛
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yes to his dark materials!!
If you haven’t read it yet, you should read the Caraval series by Stephanie Garber. Also, I enjoyed Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell as well.
Beautiful 🥰
i personally really enjoy the world building of the winternight trilogy
I have been putting off reading Brandon Sanderson books for the longest time for no good reason. I recently started reading Warbreaker (guys, it's a free ebook!) and my goodness, now I know what an amazing worldbuilding is. I'm seriously impressed and I can't wait to completely immerse myself into the Cosmere world!
After Warbreaker, while it is still in your mind I would read the Stormlight Archive next.
10:16 the reaction 😂
I clicked on this video hoping Dune (the first book at least) would be mentioned. Nonetheless, I recommend that and also The Goblin Emperor for books with great world-building 😄
It's on my list! I really want to read it 😊
hello! this is kinda of unrelated to this video, but i notice going theough your videos that you like kdramas! i strongly recommend extraordinary attorney Woo!
I Love Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I rated it 5 out of 5. For me, however, the world building in Clarke’s Piranesi is even more extraordinary. Susanna Clarke is a gift to readers. I’m glad you included her.
amazing
My favorite book 📖 is A Slave To The Internet by Nyamwago wa Njoroge
I didn't liked N. K. Jemisin's books tbh but I agree with the fact that she created a new world for this saga
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What movies do you watch?
you need to read my novel, Dragon Fire, but my new novel, Book of Answers, (sci-fi) has some crazy worldbuilding
My favorite world is the world in One Piece!! It's sooo fantastic. There's a video called "The Breathtaking World of One Piece" and it shows you the BEAUTY and INSANITY of the One Piece world.
The world building of One Piece is spectacular and I love it. It's definitely the best and most creative worldbuilding of anything I've read--the sheer volume of it alone makes it enthralling, but I also love how clear the rules of the world are and how intriguing the mystery of the world is! (it's not a "book" but maybe I should have included it here?? hahah)
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Good books
I think you would really like Momo by Michael Ende ☺️
I second that!!
Wow really!
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also! i live in the south usa (aka bible belt) and in 2006/6th grade we were reading his dark materials and it got banned while we were reading it and my teacher got fired and we think that's why bc we read it anyway.
I did not enjoy the lonely castle in the mirror. It is written for young teens in my opinion. I just couldn’t relate and found it to simple.
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I personally didn't like the priory of the orange tree
No pude conectar con ningún personaje, todo era demasiado conveniente y en vez de mostrarte la historia te lo contaban... todo se sentía demasiado irreal, inverosímil para mí.
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Sime Books are very interesting
I think the word "world-building" has too broad a definition. Imagery, atmosphere, and mood are very different from scale, geography, and politics.
The former is very much tied to emotional depth and is at its core elliptical and open to interpretation. The latter is analytical and definitive, quantifying measurements and names in very technical language.
They are more so two opposing methods that conflict with one another so I don't see the value in combing them into a single group.
Lonely Castle in the Mirror is basically, an adaptation of Peter Pan.
I don't think it's similar to Peter Pan at all. The only real similarity between them is that they're both portal fantasies 😊
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One piece has better world building
I've really enjoyed listening to your thoughts and book recommendations lately. I share enthusiasm for some of your favourite books. If you are interested in books that create detailed and immersive worlds, I recommend one that no one talks about anymore. Shardik by Richard Adams of Watership Down fame.
Shardik is a fantasy novel about a remote community in the Beklan Empire that has historically worshipped a bear god and what happens when a giant bear that embodies their conceptions of their god is driven by a forest fire to their island.
Shardik is one of my favourite novels. The world building in this book is amazing and the writing is beautiful. And the plot is designed to make you think deeply about the nature of religious belief, material success and other topics. Here is a link. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shardik
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