My top 10 of 2014 (first and last were actually the first and last of my year) - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Maurice E. M. Forster - Divergent by Veronica Roth - The Bully Book by Eric Kahn Gale - Paper Towns by John Green - An Abundance of Katherines by John Green - A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
My favourite books were: Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi Dangerous Girls, by Abigail Haas Split, by Swati Avashi Last Night I Sang To The Monster, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Reality Boy, by A. S. King Everybody Sees the Ants, by A. S. King Speechless, by Hannah Harrington Grande Sertão: Veredas, by João Guimarães Rosa (this is a Brazilian classic) Animal Farm, by George Orwell
All great choices! Do you have goodreads? We have a similar taste In books so I'd love to be following you on there :) ( in a non-stalker "yay I love books" sort of following!! )
Mine were: The chaos walking trilogy by Patrick Ness Dash and Lily's book of dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafon The program by Suzanne Young Just one day and just one year by Gayle Forman A monster calls by Patrick Ness Paper towns by John Green Perfect chemistry by Simone Elkeles Gone girl by Gillian Flynn The maze runner trilogy by James Dashner Light by Michael Grant :)
Just One More Day - Mitch Albom Wonder - R.J. Palacio The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein Eleanor and Park - Rainbow Rowell And of course The Encyclopedia. It is so so so beautiful and I loved it.
I'm trying to work at a publishing company once I finish college! I'm sure it's stressful at times but I hope you enjoy working there; it seems like it could be amazing! Also some of the best books I read in 2014 were Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Amy Poehler's Yes, Please, and Gabriel Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera :)
Some awesome books I read this year: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirsten Cronn Mills The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden Noggin by John Corey Whaley Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman the Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman ( read the first one last year but the rest this year) Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (one of my all time favorites!)
I'm so glad that Garth Nix and the Abhorsen books are getting renewed interest by a whole new generation of readers. These are some of my most favourite books, and he is a fellow Australian which is nice.
I'm so excited you mentioned Sabriel, it's been my favourite book for a long time (I got Clariel for Christmas and was so excited I nearly cried! The cover is gorgeous) but no one seems to have heard of it which is sad because it's such an excellent book (and trilogy, Lirael's actually my favourite) and I want to talk to people about it. Hopefully, you mentioning it might spark some more interest!
I love the Abhorsen books so, so much and it always surprises me how under appreciated they are (or seem to be). They are just so good, and I'm glad to see someone else find them and like them as much as I have.
My copy of The Encyclopedia of Early Earth arrived in the post this morning after you recommended and it is such a gorgeous book! I've had a wee flick through because I want to read it all at once when I can properly enjoy it, but, honestly, so beautiful. Thank you so much for recommending it!
The Encyclopedia of Early Earth was definitely one of my favorites of 2014. I read it after seeing your recommendation and adored it!! It's just so beautiful and just fun to read as well since it's so big!
I am all over those books that you compared to Avatar the Last Air Bender! Oh my goodness, I still love that series. My favorite book this year was most definitely Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It was so fantastic and I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would based on the premise.
Out of the books that I read in 2014 my favorites were Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Leob and Time Sale, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, and Maus by Art Speigelman.
Fantastic list, Sanne! Sabriel is one of my all time favourite YA books so I was super excited to see that you were reading it on Goodreads. I'm so happy to see that it made your list of top 10 books for 2014. I've started my own book challenge for 2015 (50 books), thanks so much for the inspiration :-D
I've only just found your account today and I find it so amazing! I love seeing all the books other people have. It makes me excited and hopeful that one day I'll have such a huge collection! Your videos are awesome :)
My favorite book of 2014 was definitely Red Rising. It's a dystopic YA but with a fresh twist. IT mixes classical culture and science fiction, plus, it has a lot elements that we already love like the Greek and Roman Gods of Percy Jackson, the social commentary of the Hunger Games and the amazing battles for power of A Song of Ice and Fire. Book 2 in the trilogy comes out tomorrow!!
The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde, The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson, The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (first of his I have read, not that I think it is the best) and both One Day by David Nicholls and landline by Rainbow Rowell as they were the first books of that type I was able to enjoy which I'm glad about because they allow me to sort of break in between other books and really develop a sort of connection to the characters as people rather than focusing all my energy on these huge ideas and issues constantly.
Such an excellent blend of genres, you can see how varied your tastes are and I know I would like to check out more books within each genre. I can't wait to read Sabriel and the ensuing books - have had the boxset for a year and am dying to read it! Seriously, what's stopping me?
I just started reading We Were Liars a few hours ago, and I'm loving it already. The language is just amazing! Jane Eyre is still sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read, and has been for ages... Perhaps I'll get around to it soon!
I remember your past video where you talked about lean in. It's cool to see that it made your top list! Reminded me again, that I really wanted to read it :D
I'm SO JEALOUS you've got the third Shades of London book. Ugh, I adore that series, I absolutely cannot wait to see how everything ties up. I think my faves of the year were We Were Liars, Wither, everything I read by Dawn O'Porter, The Lover's Dictionary, and then my absolute number one, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Reading goal for 2015: more graphic novels!
Oh my GOD. I remember reading the Old Kingdom Trilogy way back in the day, potentially 8-10 years ago, and I remember loving them. So much. The bells in particular absolutely fascinated me. Will definitely have to go back and read the lot of them (I think it's been long enough that I wouldn't remember the plot fully, so it'll be like reading for the first time again!). On the subject of Garth Nix, his Seventh Tower series was also one I really enjoyed when I was in my early teens. Once again, can barely remember the plot, but I do remember that he nailed the worldbuilding. So glad to know that he's back with Clariel (which I'll definitely be reading).
I absolutely fell in love with Fangirl this year, which really surprised me, because I'd read Eleanor & Park just before, and really couldn't get into that. The best books I have to have read this year though is the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness. So, so refreshing and different.
My Favourite Books in 2014 (in no order of preference): 1. Fables graphic novels series - oh so good! I love its retelling of fairy tales! 2. World War Z - my first zombie novel and I love it! 3. When the Emperor was Divine - Japanese-American during World War II. Lyrical prose. 4. Clean Sweep (Inn Keeper Chronicles #1) by Ilona Andrews - So good! Sci-fi + Urban Fantasy! 5. Indexing by Seanan McGuire - Another innovative retelling of fairy tales! 6. Sparrow Hill Road (Ghost Stories #1) by Seanan McGuire 7. Night Terrors (Shadow Watch #1) by Tim Waggoner - I didn't expect to like it! It's so good! 8. Midnight Cross Road by Charlaine Harris 9.Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Love this epistolary novel!
Top 5 for me (after that it becomes a painful process) The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern The Assassin's Curse + The Pirate's Wish duology by Cassandra Rose Clarke Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Graceling by Kristin Cashore
I love, love, love Sabriel. It was one of my favorites growing up. And even more awesome is the fact that Garth Nix went to university I'm studying at now. Anyway awesome video and some really good recommendations too. :D
"We Were Liars" sounds intriguing, think I'll look for it next time I'm at a bookstore. My favourite read in 2014 was Rivka Galchen's debut collection of short stories, "American Innovations" (don't let the title dissuade you, since it is oddly titled). I've been recommending it to everybody. I found her narrators' (all 20- or 30-something year old women) perspectives and personalities were terrifically strange and fascinating, I enjoyed her unusual style of writing.
Booktube has really inspired me to get into graphic novels. These two look great! My favourite read of 2014 was probably The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
I love Jane Eyre one of my favorite books of all time. I read 20 books this year which for me is alot! Some of my favorites where Beloved by Toni Morrison (such a good book), Kite Runner (Freaking love this book), Eleanor and Park, Speak and probably a Dance with Dragons( I am a game of thrones fan). I love your videos.
I haven't read anything by Caitlin Moran yet, but I've absolutely loved every interview I've seen of her, so I'm really looking forward to your video! Will definitely be checking out some of her stuff this year.
The best books I read this year were The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, and The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker.
I'm not someone who willingly reads or watches horror but I was so curios to check out Throught the Woods.....and man it was scary! And beautiful! And despite being freaked out by it I wanted to know more about those stories! Just great!
The Abhorsen trilogy is definitely my favorite fiction series ever. I don't hear about them a lot and you mentioning it makes me so excited. My favorite novel out of the series is Lirael, mainly because there's a dog involved. :D
I absolutely loved the ending of Jane Eyre, I think it was my favourite ending of any book I read last year! And I'm really looking forward to reading The Shadow Cabinet. I read the first two books two summers ago when I was living in Whitechapel and it definitely made it all the more creepier being surrounded by all the places mentioned! Fangirl was awesome too, and I'm not off to check Sabriel :)
I would highly recommend the comic "I Kill Giants", it's only 7 issues and you can get them all collected in one graphic novel. It is a great mix of fantasy and real life problems in a young girls life.
We Were Liars was one of my favorites as well, it was so beautiful and mysterious I absolutely loved it! One of my other favorites was A Storm of Swords, the third book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, it just built off of the other two book, and so much happens its was spectacular!
My friend read The Dinner (in English) in a Dutch literature class while on exchange in Amsterdam and it sounded really interesting. Thanks for reminding me of it!
I read both Fangirl and Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell, loved both. I also highly enjoyed Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Highly recommended. Then of course the Walking Dead Compendium One. Zombies. Yes. I haven't read too many books during 2014, but hoping to change that 2015. Have a good year everyone :)
If you're interested in reading more Dutch books, I would definitely recommend reading 'Dit zijn de namen' by Tommy Wieringa, absolutely loved that one! (And I'm usually not that fond of Dutch books) 😊
My favourite books are The soul finder series by joss Stirling The night World Series by l.J smith The maze runner series by James dashner The mediator series by Meg Cabot.
Erin Kelly's novel of the TV series Broadchurch is great! Also, The Martian by Andy Weir surprised me. Astronaut Mark Watney is one of my most favorite fictional characters.
I am planning to read more dutch / flemish books this year as well (I read zero last year), and het diner is one of the first ones on my list! I loved your selection btw :)
I watch your videos: I really like how you talk about the books and I made a list of books that I have to read thank to your reviews and your suggestions! THANK YOU
I'm reading Lirael now after having read and LOVED(!!!) Sabriel last year. I wouldn't say Ancelstierre is "modern" though.. I think it's sort of around our WWI era...(at least in Sabriel & Lirael) but whatever! I also love the series so far. All your 2014 favourites sound interesting and I might pick a few of them up myself for 2015 :)
Hi Sanne! I'm an American living in Belgium and have been learning Dutch for the last 4 years. I have acquired quite a high level of proficiency (I study courses instructed in Dutch at the university), but still find that creating the structure of the language doesn't come naturally for me when I attempt to reproduce it myself (in writing or in speech). Reading really helps me to learn new vocabulary and to become more natural. I was wondering if you would recommend Het Diner for a non-native reader or do you think it might be too difficult to be an enjoyable read (enjoying the reading process is key! I read so much for uni in Dutch and that's not always enjoyable, so in free time I would like it to be enjoyable ;) )? Do you have any other recommendations for books by Dutch (or Belgian) authors for non-native readers?
I loved Fangirl, I read it while I was on work experience in Spain and was pretending to be Spanish... Reading it in English probably didn't help though! Also I got Encyclopedia of Early Earth for Christmas and spent Christmas afternoon reading it - it's absolutely gorgeous, and I had't read any graphic novels before so it's thanks to you and your review that I read and loved it! Thanks! :-)
You look great in this video Sanne! You read some great books last year. I STILL need to read fangirl lol ugh gosh and the graphic novels look so cool! Im trying to get into graphic novels more.
Love this video :) My favourite books this year were: The Unadulterated cat by Terry Pratchett Fortunately the milk by Neil Gaiman The Delicacy by David Foenkinos The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion Croqueta y empanadilla (Croquette and Pastry) by Ana Oncina
On your reccomendation I read We Were Liars this year and I loved it too!! I've just bought a second E.Lockhart which hopefully I'll get to tackle this year:D
I am self publishing a novel soon, so obviously I was kind of bummed to see your policy, for every new author's sake as novels as a profession has become even tougher
the encyclopedia of early earth was my favorite graphic novel last year! unfortunately i haven't been able to find a copy anywhere but our library, but hopefully one of he bookshops will get it soon :)
Love love LOVE Jane Eyre - it's my favourite book! My favourites of 2014 were "To All the Boys I Loved Before" by Jenny Han, which really appealed to the romantic in me, "You Against Me" which is this really gripping story about a party going wrong and a boy being accused of rape (plus it's really feminist and deals with rape culture and stuff) and "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern just because it was so magical and beautifully written.
I've heard that The Dinner is weird and good. I'm curious about it and I'm looking forward to your review. I reread Jane Eyre when you did #JaneEyreWeek . I'm really glad I did because I didn't remember a lot of it, so it felt like a new reading experience and I really enjoyed it. A few of my favorite books in 2014: The Goldfinch, An Untamed State, Outlander and Yes Please.
U had me at avatar the last airbender haha will definitely check it out! Also fangirl seems light hearted and I get the feeling I would be able to connect lmao
WAIT! The Dinner's plot is reeeally similar to the film Carnage by Roman Polanksky, have you seen it? It's awesome, and Waltz is in it which makes it absolutely awesome and hilarious. Highly recommend it!
booksandquills I absolutely loved 'We were lairs'. Bought it on your recommendation and read it on a long haul flight London-Brazil and it stole my heart. I actually finished it once I got to my boyfriends house and it was so surprising and heartbreaking and I just wasn't expecting the ending. :D So I called Leo set him down, and explained it all to him (he doesn't read!) as I just could not, not share it with someone! Do you recommend any other books on similar lines? You make me want to read more!! Sanda x
booksandquills Can you make a video about how it is to work in a publishing companu, what you do there and your major? I'm majoring in Journalism and really want to work with books and in a publishing house. Thanks. Love your videos, XO from Brazil. Ahh btw, I LOOOOVE Jane Eyre *-*
My top 10 of 2014 (first and last were actually the first and last of my year)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Maurice E. M. Forster
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
- The Bully Book by Eric Kahn Gale
- Paper Towns by John Green
- An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
- A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Girl... John Green... STAHP.
+tharcblack great top 14!
Fangirl is my favorite book! It's so good.
My favourite books were:
Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
Dangerous Girls, by Abigail Haas
Split, by Swati Avashi
Last Night I Sang To The Monster, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Reality Boy, by A. S. King
Everybody Sees the Ants, by A. S. King
Speechless, by Hannah Harrington
Grande Sertão: Veredas, by João Guimarães Rosa (this is a Brazilian classic)
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
All great choices! Do you have goodreads? We have a similar taste In books so I'd love to be following you on there :) ( in a non-stalker "yay I love books" sort of following!! )
Mine were:
The chaos walking trilogy by Patrick Ness
Dash and Lily's book of dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The program by Suzanne Young
Just one day and just one year by Gayle Forman
A monster calls by Patrick Ness
Paper towns by John Green
Perfect chemistry by Simone Elkeles
Gone girl by Gillian Flynn
The maze runner trilogy by James Dashner
Light by Michael Grant
:)
Just One More Day - Mitch Albom
Wonder - R.J. Palacio
The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein
Eleanor and Park - Rainbow Rowell
And of course The Encyclopedia. It is so so so beautiful and I loved it.
I'm trying to work at a publishing company once I finish college! I'm sure it's stressful at times but I hope you enjoy working there; it seems like it could be amazing!
Also some of the best books I read in 2014 were Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Amy Poehler's Yes, Please, and Gabriel Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera :)
Some awesome books I read this year:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirsten Cronn Mills
The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang
Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
Noggin by John Corey Whaley
Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman
the Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman ( read the first one last year but the rest this year)
Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (one of my all time favorites!)
It must be a blast (and I imagine also very stressful) to work in a publishing company
I'm so glad that Garth Nix and the Abhorsen books are getting renewed interest by a whole new generation of readers. These are some of my most favourite books, and he is a fellow Australian which is nice.
I'm so excited you mentioned Sabriel, it's been my favourite book for a long time (I got Clariel for Christmas and was so excited I nearly cried! The cover is gorgeous) but no one seems to have heard of it which is sad because it's such an excellent book (and trilogy, Lirael's actually my favourite) and I want to talk to people about it. Hopefully, you mentioning it might spark some more interest!
I love the Abhorsen books so, so much and it always surprises me how under appreciated they are (or seem to be). They are just so good, and I'm glad to see someone else find them and like them as much as I have.
Cannot wait for the Caitlin Moran interview oh my gosh, I love her!!
My copy of The Encyclopedia of Early Earth arrived in the post this morning after you recommended and it is such a gorgeous book! I've had a wee flick through because I want to read it all at once when I can properly enjoy it, but, honestly, so beautiful. Thank you so much for recommending it!
The Encyclopedia of Early Earth was definitely one of my favorites of 2014. I read it after seeing your recommendation and adored it!! It's just so beautiful and just fun to read as well since it's so big!
those graphic novels MY GAWHS
I love love love that you include graphic novels in your book hauls need to get these you mentioned!!
I am all over those books that you compared to Avatar the Last Air Bender! Oh my goodness, I still love that series. My favorite book this year was most definitely Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It was so fantastic and I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would based on the premise.
Out of the books that I read in 2014 my favorites were Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Leob and Time Sale, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, and Maus by Art Speigelman.
I read Fangirl too, as well as Eleanor & Park and let's just say Rainbow Rowell is my new fave
4hotpink10 YESSSSsss!!!!!!!
Fantastic list, Sanne! Sabriel is one of my all time favourite YA books so I was super excited to see that you were reading it on Goodreads. I'm so happy to see that it made your list of top 10 books for 2014. I've started my own book challenge for 2015 (50 books), thanks so much for the inspiration :-D
I loved E. Lockhart when I was in high school. That's so cool that you got to meet her!
I've only just found your account today and I find it so amazing! I love seeing all the books other people have. It makes me excited and hopeful that one day I'll have such a huge collection! Your videos are awesome :)
My favorite book of 2014 was definitely Red Rising. It's a dystopic YA but with a fresh twist. IT mixes classical culture and science fiction, plus, it has a lot elements that we already love like the Greek and Roman Gods of Percy Jackson, the social commentary of the Hunger Games and the amazing battles for power of A Song of Ice and Fire. Book 2 in the trilogy comes out tomorrow!!
Oh my god-I work at a bookstore, and ALL my co-workers rave about The Dinner! It's on my tbr list now.
The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde, The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson, The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (first of his I have read, not that I think it is the best) and both One Day by David Nicholls and landline by Rainbow Rowell as they were the first books of that type I was able to enjoy which I'm glad about because they allow me to sort of break in between other books and really develop a sort of connection to the characters as people rather than focusing all my energy on these huge ideas and issues constantly.
Such an excellent blend of genres, you can see how varied your tastes are and I know I would like to check out more books within each genre. I can't wait to read Sabriel and the ensuing books - have had the boxset for a year and am dying to read it! Seriously, what's stopping me?
You're my favourite booktuber! You always keep things short and concise. Love your videos :)
I just started reading We Were Liars a few hours ago, and I'm loving it already. The language is just amazing! Jane Eyre is still sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read, and has been for ages... Perhaps I'll get around to it soon!
I remember your past video where you talked about lean in. It's cool to see that it made your top list! Reminded me again, that I really wanted to read it :D
You should,it's a great book :)
I'm SO JEALOUS you've got the third Shades of London book. Ugh, I adore that series, I absolutely cannot wait to see how everything ties up.
I think my faves of the year were We Were Liars, Wither, everything I read by Dawn O'Porter, The Lover's Dictionary, and then my absolute number one, The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Reading goal for 2015: more graphic novels!
I fell in love with the name of the star when i had read it last year, but i had no idea it was a trilogy. Cant wait to read the next two!
So glad you loved Sabriel! I read it for the first time this year and I LOVED the trilogy so so much!
Oh my GOD. I remember reading the Old Kingdom Trilogy way back in the day, potentially 8-10 years ago, and I remember loving them. So much. The bells in particular absolutely fascinated me. Will definitely have to go back and read the lot of them (I think it's been long enough that I wouldn't remember the plot fully, so it'll be like reading for the first time again!).
On the subject of Garth Nix, his Seventh Tower series was also one I really enjoyed when I was in my early teens. Once again, can barely remember the plot, but I do remember that he nailed the worldbuilding. So glad to know that he's back with Clariel (which I'll definitely be reading).
I absolutely fell in love with Fangirl this year, which really surprised me, because I'd read Eleanor & Park just before, and really couldn't get into that. The best books I have to have read this year though is the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness. So, so refreshing and different.
My Favourite Books in 2014 (in no order of preference):
1. Fables graphic novels series - oh so good! I love its retelling of fairy tales!
2. World War Z - my first zombie novel and I love it!
3. When the Emperor was Divine - Japanese-American during World War II. Lyrical prose.
4. Clean Sweep (Inn Keeper Chronicles #1) by Ilona Andrews - So good! Sci-fi + Urban Fantasy!
5. Indexing by Seanan McGuire - Another innovative retelling of fairy tales!
6. Sparrow Hill Road (Ghost Stories #1) by Seanan McGuire
7. Night Terrors (Shadow Watch #1) by Tim Waggoner - I didn't expect to like it! It's so good!
8. Midnight Cross Road by Charlaine Harris
9.Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Love this epistolary novel!
All your book reviews are so classy and interesting. Like how you don't just stick to one real specific genre.
It makes her videos more inventive and makes them seem more trustful.
The Shades of London series sounds so cool!
Great list! :)
Top 5 for me (after that it becomes a painful process)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Assassin's Curse + The Pirate's Wish duology by Cassandra Rose Clarke
Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
I love you're book reviews,they seem very classy and the books are always amazing! I love you're accent too! 😘
I read the letter for the king by tonke dragt - it was originally written in Dutch and I loved it!!
I love, love, love Sabriel. It was one of my favorites growing up. And even more awesome is the fact that Garth Nix went to university I'm studying at now.
Anyway awesome video and some really good recommendations too. :D
"We Were Liars" sounds intriguing, think I'll look for it next time I'm at a bookstore. My favourite read in 2014 was Rivka Galchen's debut collection of short stories, "American Innovations" (don't let the title dissuade you, since it is oddly titled). I've been recommending it to everybody. I found her narrators' (all 20- or 30-something year old women) perspectives and personalities were terrifically strange and fascinating, I enjoyed her unusual style of writing.
I love your copy of Jane Eyre! I bought it a while ago but I've been looking everywhere for such a pretty copy.
I read We Were Liars on holiday last year and loved it! I also enjoyed Fangirl, a cute and easy read!
Booktube has really inspired me to get into graphic novels. These two look great! My favourite read of 2014 was probably The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
I love Jane Eyre one of my favorite books of all time. I read 20 books this year which for me is alot! Some of my favorites where Beloved by Toni Morrison (such a good book), Kite Runner (Freaking love this book), Eleanor and Park, Speak and probably a Dance with Dragons( I am a game of thrones fan). I love your videos.
I haven't read anything by Caitlin Moran yet, but I've absolutely loved every interview I've seen of her, so I'm really looking forward to your video! Will definitely be checking out some of her stuff this year.
My favorite books in 2014 were Space by James A. Michener, Cosmos by Carl Sagan and Filth by Irvine Welsh. Happy 2015!!
The best books I read this year were The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, and The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker.
Sabriel sounds SO interesting! Fantastic video :) X
I'm not someone who willingly reads or watches horror but I was so curios to check out Throught the Woods.....and man it was scary! And beautiful! And despite being freaked out by it I wanted to know more about those stories! Just great!
The Abhorsen trilogy is definitely my favorite fiction series ever. I don't hear about them a lot and you mentioning it makes me so excited. My favorite novel out of the series is Lirael, mainly because there's a dog involved. :D
Have you read The Go Between? It's hard for me to wrap my head around, so I'd love a video on it.
We both have the same favorite read of 2014! And honestly, it's all thanks to you because I picked it up after I watched your review!
I absolutely loved the ending of Jane Eyre, I think it was my favourite ending of any book I read last year! And I'm really looking forward to reading The Shadow Cabinet. I read the first two books two summers ago when I was living in Whitechapel and it definitely made it all the more creepier being surrounded by all the places mentioned! Fangirl was awesome too, and I'm not off to check Sabriel :)
I would highly recommend the comic "I Kill Giants", it's only 7 issues and you can get them all collected in one graphic novel. It is a great mix of fantasy and real life problems in a young girls life.
We Were Liars was one of my favorites as well, it was so beautiful and mysterious I absolutely loved it! One of my other favorites was A Storm of Swords, the third book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, it just built off of the other two book, and so much happens its was spectacular!
Ahhh I must buy Into the Woods IMMEDIATELY, the illustrations look absolutely stunning and it pains me that I still haven't read it!
My friend read The Dinner (in English) in a Dutch literature class while on exchange in Amsterdam and it sounded really interesting. Thanks for reminding me of it!
I read both Fangirl and Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell, loved both. I also highly enjoyed Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Highly recommended. Then of course the Walking Dead Compendium One. Zombies. Yes. I haven't read too many books during 2014, but hoping to change that 2015. Have a good year everyone :)
If I had to pick my top favorite of 2014, it would probably be All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. So beautiful!!
I recently bought Jane Eyre so hopefully I'll complete that this year!!
I just read The Dinner and REALLY enjoyed it.
If you're interested in reading more Dutch books, I would definitely recommend reading 'Dit zijn de namen' by Tommy Wieringa, absolutely loved that one! (And I'm usually not that fond of Dutch books) 😊
My favourite books are
The soul finder series by joss Stirling
The night World Series by l.J smith
The maze runner series by James dashner
The mediator series by Meg Cabot.
Erin Kelly's novel of the TV series Broadchurch is great! Also, The Martian by Andy Weir surprised me. Astronaut Mark Watney is one of my most favorite fictional characters.
I am planning to read more dutch / flemish books this year as well (I read zero last year), and het diner is one of the first ones on my list! I loved your selection btw :)
My favorite read of 2014 was The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton. So good! Long, but really good!
I read the dinner for school and I quite liked it!
I've just read the Dinner as well! It was amazing!
I watch your videos: I really like how you talk about the books and I made a list of books that I have to read thank to your reviews and your suggestions! THANK YOU
I'm reading Lirael now after having read and LOVED(!!!) Sabriel last year. I wouldn't say Ancelstierre is "modern" though.. I think it's sort of around our WWI era...(at least in Sabriel & Lirael) but whatever! I also love the series so far. All your 2014 favourites sound interesting and I might pick a few of them up myself for 2015 :)
The Dinner is a slow burn. And it's awesome.
Didn't read many books this year, but my favourite BY FAR was Winger by Andrew Smith. AMAZING.
My favourite book was definitely We Were Liars, so thanks for the tip Sanne!
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Hi Sanne! I'm an American living in Belgium and have been learning Dutch for the last 4 years. I have acquired quite a high level of proficiency (I study courses instructed in Dutch at the university), but still find that creating the structure of the language doesn't come naturally for me when I attempt to reproduce it myself (in writing or in speech). Reading really helps me to learn new vocabulary and to become more natural. I was wondering if you would recommend Het Diner for a non-native reader or do you think it might be too difficult to be an enjoyable read (enjoying the reading process is key! I read so much for uni in Dutch and that's not always enjoyable, so in free time I would like it to be enjoyable ;) )? Do you have any other recommendations for books by Dutch (or Belgian) authors for non-native readers?
I just finished Eleanor & Park and cannot wait to read Fangirl next!
I loved Fangirl, I read it while I was on work experience in Spain and was pretending to be Spanish... Reading it in English probably didn't help though! Also I got Encyclopedia of Early Earth for Christmas and spent Christmas afternoon reading it - it's absolutely gorgeous, and I had't read any graphic novels before so it's thanks to you and your review that I read and loved it! Thanks! :-)
You look great in this video Sanne! You read some great books last year. I STILL need to read fangirl lol ugh gosh and the graphic novels look so cool! Im trying to get into graphic novels more.
Love this video :)
My favourite books this year were:
The Unadulterated cat by Terry Pratchett
Fortunately the milk by Neil Gaiman
The Delicacy by David Foenkinos
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Croqueta y empanadilla (Croquette and Pastry) by Ana Oncina
On your reccomendation I read We Were Liars this year and I loved it too!! I've just bought a second E.Lockhart which hopefully I'll get to tackle this year:D
I am self publishing a novel soon, so obviously I was kind of bummed to see your policy, for every new author's sake as novels as a profession has become even tougher
I read We Were Liars and absolutely loved it! Brilliant book!
the encyclopedia of early earth was my favorite graphic novel last year! unfortunately i haven't been able to find a copy anywhere but our library, but hopefully one of he bookshops will get it soon :)
Love love LOVE Jane Eyre - it's my favourite book!
My favourites of 2014 were "To All the Boys I Loved Before" by Jenny Han, which really appealed to the romantic in me, "You Against Me" which is this really gripping story about a party going wrong and a boy being accused of rape (plus it's really feminist and deals with rape culture and stuff) and "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern just because it was so magical and beautifully written.
Definitely reading The Dinner sometime this year! Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books!
I always want to read whatever you recommend. You make all the books sound amazing :D Hot Key Books is one lucky publishing company.
I've heard that The Dinner is weird and good. I'm curious about it and I'm looking forward to your review. I reread Jane Eyre when you did #JaneEyreWeek . I'm really glad I did because I didn't remember a lot of it, so it felt like a new reading experience and I really enjoyed it. A few of my favorite books in 2014: The Goldfinch, An Untamed State, Outlander and Yes Please.
Now i really want to read Jane Eyre and i'm can't wait for the review of How To Build a Girl...it seems very interesting!
I'm so happy I found your channel! !
Love the books! Going to add some of those to my reading list! Xx
Ps your hair is looking gorgeous!
U had me at avatar the last airbender haha will definitely check it out! Also fangirl seems light hearted and I get the feeling I would be able to connect lmao
WAIT! The Dinner's plot is reeeally similar to the film Carnage by Roman Polanksky, have you seen it? It's awesome, and Waltz is in it which makes it absolutely awesome and hilarious. Highly recommend it!
Sabriel was my first book i loved
I read my favorite book of 2014 partly based on your praise of it: The Virgin Suicides! :D
booksandquills I absolutely loved 'We were lairs'. Bought it on your recommendation and read it on a long haul flight London-Brazil and it stole my heart. I actually finished it once I got to my boyfriends house and it was so surprising and heartbreaking and I just wasn't expecting the ending. :D So I called Leo set him down, and explained it all to him (he doesn't read!) as I just could not, not share it with someone! Do you recommend any other books on similar lines? You make me want to read more!!
Sanda x
booksandquills Can you make a video about how it is to work in a publishing companu, what you do there and your major? I'm majoring in Journalism and really want to work with books and in a publishing house. Thanks. Love your videos, XO from Brazil.
Ahh btw, I LOOOOVE Jane Eyre *-*
Maybe you can read one of my favourites books in Dutch and English. Renate Dorrestein Hart van Steen (Hart of Stone)
A PREQUEL TO THE SABRIEL TRILOGY??!! omg.
Gah! Can't wait for The Shadow Cabinet! Need it!