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Here are my favourite books of 2021! These not necessarily all books that were published in 2021, but are just the best books I read this year! I read a lot of wonderful books in 2021, so it was difficult to pare these down to 10 (*cough* I may get away but shoving a few series in here hahaha)
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This year's top 10 books (in no particular order):
10: Dune - Frank Herbert
9: Dôra, Doralina - Rachel de Queiroz
8: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
7: Rilla of Ingleside - Lucy Maud Montgomery
6: Torto Arado - Itamar Vieira Junior
5: Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
4: Pequena Coreografia do Adeus - Aline Bei
3: Ciranda de Pedra - Lygia Fagundes Telles
2: Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa
1: Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
This is my first time watching your videos and I love that you said Pachinko is one of your favourite books of all time and made you cry - this was exactly my opinion of Pachinko! I will look forward to reading song of Achilles now... I've heard so much hype about this that it's made me wary of picking it up. Great video, thanks for the recommendations!
My top 10 Books this year:
10. Knausgaard: My Struggle 1
9. Dostoyevsky: Devils
8. Manga Demon Slayer
7. Susanna Clarke: Piranesi
6. Orhan Pamuk: Red Haired Woman
5. Comic/graphic novel Saga
4. Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis
3. Manga: Junji Ito: Lovesickness
2. Brandon Sanderson: Words of Radiance (technically Stormlight Archive)
1. Fonda Lee: Jade Legacy
Hi 🙋🏻♀️ I’m Turkish and glad to see that you like Red Haired Woman 🥰
@@Nisad77 hi! I love his books so much! This was already a fourth one I read from him! 😍
I am waiting for translation of his last book Nights of Plague next year!
It's so weird to see The Secret History in a best books of the year video. I loved the dedicated vlog you did of this novel.
Why weird ? It’s my best book of the year ❤️
@@Dynsdead Because most people in booktube don't like or hate it.
The house in the Cerulean Sea is my favourite read of 2021 too! I really liked it and I have spoken so much about it and recommended it to so many people! Wishing you a wonderful 2022!
These kind of videos always make me so happy and pumped up to read...but then I get overwhelmed with the amount of books on my TBR. Anyways, awesome video as always♥️💛
My top 10 in 2021 :
10. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
9. Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
8. Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
7. Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
6. Furious Love by Nancy Schoenberger and Sam Kashner
5. Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
4. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
3. Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney
2. Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
1. The Hating Game by Salley Thorne
this year isn't really a great reading year for me but thanks to your book club, i absolutely love piranesi and the song of achilles ❤
Fingers crossed that we can read some really wonderful books together next year, Landrita! 😊💛💛
You mentioned my #1 book of the year! On Earth We're briefly gorgeous is my favorite read! Loved it❤❤❤📚
My favourite book for this year is "The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot". I just love how the book asks questions about life and death...the conversations between Lenni and Father Arthur is just sublime!
The Petraliclus thing made me cackle XD I loved your selection!! I think we have very similar tastes and I love hearing all your recommendations and opinions
Her videos bring me so much calm and comfort 🥺 thank you for that ❤️
I always read the books you talk about in your channel and they are all great books. I recommend you reading " The Little Book of Hygge ". It is about the Danish philosophy of comfort, happiness, and well-being. It will give you a sense of coziness.
Ooh thank you so much for the recommendation! 😊💛
Oo I read the little book of hygge this year and I agree it was very fun! I liked all the cute visuals and the way it quantified happiness with actual data
My top 10 books this year:
10. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - Cho Namjoo
9. It ends with us - Colleen Hoover
8. Conversations with Friends- Sally Rooney
7. The Atlas Six - Olivie Blake
6. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
5. Milk fed - Melissa Broder
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
3. Exciting Times - Naoise Dolan
2. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
1. Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
Thank you for your constant uploads and book vlogs 😆🥺
Thank you so very much for watching them! 😊💛
Today being the first time I've seen one of your videos and having read half the books on your 2021 Top 10 List, I think I will have to follow your recommendations in the future.
Just finished The House in the Cerulean Sea and it was my absolute favourite and highlight of this year. Thank you for this great recommendation!
Your books are so beautiful! Each and every book is such a treat to eyes.😍 And as always loved your video and needless to say, some books are already added to my TBR list😁. Keep growing girl! 📖❣
House in the Cerulaean Sea is definitely one of my favourite books I read this year and I too went and bought a physical copy after reading the ebook! :')
I have a lot of these books on my TBR and I'm hoping to get around to reading them next year :)
Happy holidays!
Happy Holidays!! Thank you so much for being here 💛
This is my first video of yours and my eyes immediately zeroed in on your copy of Gloomhaven in the background - excellent taste :)
My favorite book from this year has to be With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo. 2021 was really the year of YA contemporaries for me, I read so many good ones but that one really stuck out to me the most. I love all of your picks Christy, they sound so whimsical and magical!
The golden compass ! Love love love that movie and have never read the book
I also have read this year Piranesi and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and both became my favourite reads this year. I also really loved The Edible Woman, To The Lighthouse, Rebecca, The Bluest Eye and Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb, a hungarian author
Hi Christy, have you made a video on Japanese contemporary lit? The book that made your list sounded so fascinating and you seem to really love them, so your recommendations would be wonderful for newbies who are interested - like me! 🙂 Absolutely love your content! Seasons greetings to you and yours!
I agree! I've recently started reading or at least trying to read more Japanese Lit. I feel my reading life is mostly overflow with American and European Lit...I would love to broaden my reading experience
So many great recommendations. My shopping cart is overflowing! Ps loving all the games in the shelving, Root is one of my favourites.
I loved loved Song of Achilles, it made me cry for sure, but i loved Circe more ❤️. My fav book of the year was One hundred years of solitude by G.G. Marquez. It blew me away ❤️.
Have you read Helene Wecker's "The Golem and the Djinni" (2013) and this year's follow-up "The Hidden Palace"? I have a feeling you'd like them. Thanks for the video! "The Secret History" is a masterpiece btw.
Love all the books you mentioned! We have very similar reading tastes! I think you would also love The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea. It’s dark, atmospheric & metaphorical!
Sooo many great books here!! ❤️ Great video, too!! The House in the Cerulean Sea is also nr.1 for me this year. Btw, Linus is in this 40s, so not THAT old, I hope! 😂 PS. I think epistolary is pronounced ePIstolary 😬
Hi Christy! Just to say, I love your content. Very warm, friendly and conversational. I'm considering joining your Patreon tier, but, whenever you have time, I was just wondering whether I could ask you a question, about the book club you manage? Many thanks, and keep up the good work!
I loved House of Hollow! Im reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell in January so excited
💛♥️💛Most books in these are all on my TBR. Just waiting to get my hands on my copies.🥰❤️❤️
A few of these books are definitely intruiging and I will be putting them on my Amazon shopping list for a future date! Thanks!😊
I was desperately waiting for you to say "the house in the cerulean sea", I literally gasped at the end of the video hahahahaha
The editing is superb!!!!
I'm sure I already have most of the books in my tbr but haven't started reading any of them!
I just finished The House in the Cerulean Sea because you recommended it. And oh my goodness! The tears of joy were nearly constant. It was so stellar!
My top 10 books of 2021
1. The forgotten beast of Eld
2.Little Women, Good wives( Little women #2)
3.The kingdom of back
4. Kim Ji-young born in 1982
5.Ella Enchanted
6. Sweet home ( manhwa and webcomic)
7. Classic Christmas stories: A collection of timeless holiday tales
8. The mysterious affair at styles
9. Peter Pan
10. The fisherman and his soul
Bonus: The Christmas Pig and Fangirl (manga vol. #1)
I wish you didn't have to avoid spoilers in your recommendations, because I really want to know what specific part of "The Song of Achilles" you forgot that hit you so hard! (I can think of several that could have done the trick, lol)
You should definitely read the Book of the Ancestor series by Mark Lawrence. Namely, Red Sister, Grey Sister, and Holy Sister. It's brilliant!
I hope House in the cerulean sea is made into a movie!! It's a brilliant story
Lovely video, Christy, as always! 🌸
Thank you for sharing these picks with us…i will be chkn out number 10, 2, and 1 i already had Piranesi on cue and I’m currently reading Fox 🦊 & I by Catherine Raven i also want to thank recommendations from the comments you guys rock!
I've read Gai-Jin by James Clavell in 2021. The action is set in Japan in 1867.
I just got out of my reading slump so I don’t have a top ten but I am reading Percy Jackson series and Harry Potter and so far it’s really good!-My daughter Liliana
Added a few of these to my cart on Amazon :) Tysm for the recommendations :)
Yaaay! Hope you like them 😊
I am going to pick 'THE SECRET HISTORY BY DONNA TARTT' according to your recommendation.
I really hope you enjoy it!! 😊💛
I love your videos so much !!!! ❤️
Sadly, i havent read a new book this year.
I read all lovecraft stories again and some graphic novels, but not one single "real" book...
Yesterday i started with lord of the rings and after that i bought all edgar allen poe stories.
This year will be different!
I've been seeing The Song of Achilles on a lot of people's lists. I really want to give it a go, but I'm not sure if I should or not as I don't really know anything about the original Greek myth😬
I think it's even more fun if you don't know anything about the original myth 😊
It's very accessible for a beginner, I'm not familiar with Greek Mythology either. The back of the book is also a very helpful resource for further back story on characters etc, I referenced it while reading. I found Circe a lot stronger of a book than Song of Achilles though so would almost suggest beginning with Circe instead.
I also read House in the Cerulean Sea this year. It was beautiful, and sad, and funny - Lucy and Talia in particular cracked me up, especially when they visited the hardware/garden store and the record shop.
Pachinko (on your recommendation) is waiting for me at the library. Because of medical nonsense, and public holidays, I won't be able to get to the library until day 13 (they hold them for 14 days) so I hope I get there and I don't have to go back on the wait list!
When you got to book #4 and said technically it's 3 books because it's a series, I thought you were going to say LOTR.
I'm looking over the books I've read (Goodreads challenge) this year and some of them seem like last year or the year before, for some reason. I've read 45 books this year and it's hard to pick a favourite. If I'm going with favourite *new reads, then probably About Grace by Anthony Doerr. If I'm going with favourite *re-reads, probably The Waves by Virginia Woolf.
Patroclus...there's no early "L" like Patrolocus 😊
Completely random, but is that Gloomhaven in the background?
Thank you so much for al your wonderful book recommendations and videos! My favourite read of 2021 is Greenwood by Michael Christie. ❤
Great list. Definitely agree about Piranesi being amazing!
Here's my top 10 (in mostly random order):
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
Alanna by Tamora Pierce
The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (re-read Murderbot Diaries as well)
A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
You looking so gorgeous in this red dress ❤️
Awh thank you!
I've actually written a book of poems and would be beyond honoured if you could review it. I'm just starting out, and I don't have like a huge following or anything, but the book is named "MOONCHILD SOULS" and is available on amazon. And I would absolutely just be over the moon, if you read it and (hopefully) like it 💜 and if you are at all interested, or read this comment and reply positively ; it'll mean the world to me.
About Song of Achilles , i do not understand why everyone is likeing this book ... O my god i was sooo bored reading it... why im asking why do you like this book?
I recommend u to list the books on comment box
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You are phenomenal!
😊💛💛
i love your accent.
You should read one piece!!
No offense but you always seem to talk about the same books in your videos 😂
Your accent sounds like an American trying to sound British
She is Australian, hence the accent
the secret history is the worst book ever.
My top ten for 2021:
10. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse - Charlie Mackesy
9. The ballad of songbirds and snakes - Suzanne Collins
8. A boy called Christmas - Matt Haig
7. Little women - Louisa May Alcot
6. Imperium (+ Lustrum) - Robert Harris
5. Caraval (+ Legendary) - Stephanie Garber
4. Pride and prejudice - Jane Austen
3. The lord of the rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The lies of Locke Lamora (+ Red seas under red skies + The republic of thieves) - Scott Lynch
1. The secret history - Donna Tartt
Number 10 for sure 😉👍🏼🫖☕️📚
the secret history 😍
House in the Cerulean Sea was my favourite too! And as someone who used to work in government, the descriptions of Linus' work were at times a little uncomfortably close to the truth hahahaha.
My top ten books of 2021:
1. Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
2. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
3. Megaliving! by Robin Sharma
4. Ickabog by J.K. Rowling
5. The selection Trilogy
7. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
8. Wings of Fire by APJ Abdul Kalam
9. The Midnight Library
10. Kafka on the Shore by Murakami
Thank you for posting now! It’s perfect for my “staying in bed late on Boxing Day morning with my coffee watching UA-cam videos” day!
Also, I’ve been meaning to ask for the longest time (and sorry if you’ve answered it on another video) - what red lipstick do you wear?!
Happy new year!
Yeah she did answered in another video. And she also said they stopped making it.
Don't know what she is wearing now anyway 😃
Yaay! Hope you have a wonderful boxing day 💛😊
The shade is discontinued now, I think, but this is the brand of lipstick: www.bourjois.com/au/product/lips/rouge-velvet-lipstick-06-abricodabra 😊 (closest shades are 06/07)
Firstly can I say thank you for some *amazing* recommendations this year - lonely castle in the mirror definitely makes my list. I've read 5 of these already and the other 5 are duly noted 😊 I already own the cerulean sea and the fifth season, so those ones can go first. Thank you for such wonderful content, I'm so glad I found your channel this year.
My absolute favourite book this year was "The Garden of Evening Mists" by Tan Twan Eng. It's such a beautiful book, that had me tearing up 2 paragraphs in to it. Which is a huge accomplishment as I am not a crier, usually, while reading.
Mistborn Trilogy- Brandon Sanderson (he is the author who completed The Wheel of Time series for the sadly deceased Robert Jordan...yes the very enjoyable, monumental series that Amazon is currently mutilating).
Oh wow! I think The House in the Cerulean Sea is also my favorite book of 2021! Can’t wait to read TJ Klune’s next book 🧡
this is the first video of yours that I've watched and i audibly gasped when i saw that we had the same exact top 2 books of the year so i just had to subscribe
Thank you so much for mentioning his dark materials! It’s one of the very few fantasy series that I have read and absolutely loved and I see no one talk about it! (And I cried when I read the ending too)
Thank you for your recommendations!! I LOVE Philip Pullman and his Dark Materials Series. Not sure how’s it’s categorized as Middle School level 🤔. Anyhow, a book I would like to HIGHLY recommend is “Hyperion” by Dan Simmons. It’s quite astonishing. 😃
I also adored the Broken Earth Trilogy this year.
You should add affiliate links to all the books you recommend! It would be helpful but it’s just a suggestion 😊
I need all of these books on my bookshelf immediately! 💫 Keep rising to be who you want to be! 💫 #keeprising #risingtobe #aswerise #riser
I discovered your channel this year and I'm so glad I did. I love your videos and especially your vlogs. They are the best. My favourite books were The midnight library, the invisible life of Addie Larue and Nevermoor.
Thank you so incredibly much 😊💛
My favorite "book" this year was His Dark Materials. Amazing! However, the House in the Cerulean Sea was one of my most overhyped disappointments, sadly.
Completely agree. I was so close to DNFing quite a few times, but I prevailed - only to cringe very hard at the end :(
My favourite books of 2021 were Pachinko, North & South and Villette. ❤
If you enjoyed The secret history, then you have to check If we were villains, it’s a must read if you like dark academia
Great selections. I found two to start straight away. Happy new year!
A book I absolutely loved this year was "An I-Novel" by Minae Mizumura. ☺ It was originally written in Japanese, and it's the author's semi-autobiographical account of her life as a Japanese expatriate and graduate student in the US. It examines the main character's relationship with writing and the Japanese language, and shows her making the decision to write her first book. Since we don't have the concept of I-novels in English publishing, it was a really interesting read.
Most of these books are on my tbr list 💖
My top 10 books this year:
10) We Were Liars
9) Friend Request
8) The Night Circus
7) A Series of Unfortunate Events (read for the first time)
6) Pollyanna Grows Up / Anne of Green Gables (tied)
5) The Sun is also a Star
4) The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
3) The Travelling Cat Chronicles
2) The Velveteen Rabbit
1) The Hate U Give
Loove The Hate U Give and now I brought my class to reading it for our final exams💪🏼🥳
@@marion8252 nice, it's legit one of the best books I've ever read in my life 💖
My favorite book that I read this year was easily Star Mother by Charlie N. Holmberg. It's one of the most beautifully written books I've ever read, the world-building is phenomenal, and it's full of so much heart and love. The ending made me sob, so given what you said in this video, you might enjoy it as well ;)
Such a fantastic roundup. Most of these books are on my list, but I've added a few more! Piranesi has made it onto my list of top 10 all time favorites!
So Nice 😍👍🌷🌷🌷⚘❤
YOURE ACCOUNT NEEDS MORE HYPE. I LOVE IT
I started reading 'The house in the cerulean sea' because you recommended it so many times. I quite liked it at the beginning, I wasn't like blown away by it or found it extraordinarily good, but I really enjoyed it. But after I found out about this whole thing with the Canadian residential schools I couldn't continue reading it. We discussed the topic of residential schools at school and for me it's impossible to understand how this cute story could be inspired by such an inhumane, terrible, traumatic tragedy. I think the way in which this trauma was turned into a book is just soo inappropriate and I can't continue reading it. I don't want to offend anybody, but I just can't overlook the background of the book.
This gets mentioned every time I speak about The House in the Cerulean Sea, and I think it's a really important discussion point about allegory and what authors can and can't be inspired by. I actually gave my thoughts in a previous video--the moment is at 10:12 if you'd like to watch it 😊💛 ua-cam.com/video/mjoVe4CJpPA/v-deo.html
@@christy-anne-jones Yes, I already watched that video and I think that you made some good points☺️ However, I think that what you said about the book being an allegory and that children can learn about the Sixties Scoop through the book, I don't agree on. Because although the children in the book also get taken away from their families, The House in the Cerulean Sea is like a very romanticized version of a residential school and kinda implies that as long as the kids are treated with love, they are happy with their lives there... I can't really explain it that good, but I don't think that children would learn anything about how the conditions in the residential schools really were (violence, rape, ...). We learnt about this at school (while I was reading the book) and many of us were close to tears by the things the historian we talked to told us about the experiences his indigenous interviewpartners had made. I don't want to offend you of course and I can imagine that it's a bit "hard" to like have a favourite book that has such a
problematic side, because you love it so much for other reasons and you always have to kind of justify that against people with my opinion😅❤️ But I just wanted to mention it for people who haven't seen that previous video and might want to know about this.😊
Hello! 10 kinds of books were very helpful.
Thank you for reading the book!
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I recently found your channel looking for some reading recommendations (I havent read much for a few years following some eye surgery that has made reading a bit uncomfortable, but I'm really wanting to get back into it this year). Here is my problem - be it a blessing or a curse - I find I am eable to enjoy ANY book - even a "bad" one - if someone else enjoyed it and is able to explain why. So unfortunately now my list of books to read this year is soooooooooooooooo long there is zero chance I'll be able to read all of them. Thankfully I have already read 2 on this list - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and the Dark Materials series. Dark materials I read as a YA, I have re-read the first one many times, but I cried so much at the last one that I've never re-read it (I actually cried AGAIN just now when you spoke about it!). I swear reading that trilogy changed my life, and it remains one of my favourite reads of all time - I would like to add my recommendation for it (but be prepared to sob).
Thank you so much for all the recommendations - they will certainly keep me busy! So glad I found your channel. K
My top 5 this year is:
5- Anne of green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
4- Flatland - Abbot
3- Exit West - M. Hamid
2- Piranesi - S. Clarke
1- Sherlock Holmes - A. Conan Doyle
Happy 2022 everyone
My top ten in reverse order:
(A mix of fiction and non-fiction)
10. The Bone Shard Daughter - Andrea Stewart
9.The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
8. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt
7. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
6. Starsight - Brandon Sanderson (second book of the Skyward series)
5. Blindness - Jose Saramago
4. Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst - Robert Sapolsky
3. The Night Circus - Erin Morngenstern
2. Notes from your Therapist - Allyson Dinneen
1. Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
I just noticed my top two are related to how anxious I've been this year 😂
I ask until i get an answer: is this "Through the Ages" on the bottom of that shelf?
Great list, thanks for sharing Christy! Will have to look into some of your recs, have you read also the Foundryside series? That was one of my most recently read favorites from last year. Meanwhile my inner board game geek is smiling at your bottom shelf - you have the Suburbia collector's edition as well! I think I also see Clank, Gloomhaven, and maybe Legacy of Dragonholt? 🤣🤓
Great recap of your faves. I will definitely be checking some of those. For your North American viewers, The Northern Lights is published as The Golden Compass but is every bit as wonderful despite the alternate title!