TOP 10 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022! The BEST Books of the Year!
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Honorable Mentions
1. Neon Gods
by Katee Robert
Adult, Romance, Super Spicy, Greek Mythology Retelling
2. Talia Hibbert Books!
Take a Hint Dani Brown AND Act Your Age Eve Brown were both amazing!
Adult, Romance, Hilarious
3. The Glass Witch
by Lindsey Pucket
Middle Grade, Fantasy, Witches
Lindsay also has a UA-cam channel! Go give her a follow 🥰
Lindsay: / @lindsaypuckett
4. Amari and The Night Brothers
by BB Alston
Middle Grade, Fantasy, Secret Society
5. Sirens and Muses
by Antonia Angress
Adult, Literary Fiction, Sapphic, Light Academia, Themes of art, consumerism in art, and performatism
6. The Tradition
by Jericho Brown
Adult, Poetry, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
I ALSO FORGOT BABEL WHICH IS ALSO AN HONORABLE MENTION😭
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10 Favorite Books of 2022
10. Nerd
by Maya Phillips
Adult, Nonfiction, Collection of Informative Essays, Fandom Culture
9. The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
by Zoraida Córdova
Adult, Magical Realism
Please check trigger warnings for this book
8. Finlay Donavan is Killing It
by Elle Cosimano
Adult, Cozy Mystery, Absolutely Hilarious and highly recommend the audiobook
7. These Fleeting Shadows
by Kate Alice Marshall
YA, Thriller and Horror, Sapphic, REALLY REALLY WEIRD, Inheritance Story, Gothic Vibes
6. My Best Friend's Exorcism
by Grady Hendrix
Adult, Horror, Best Friends, 80s Vibes
5. House of Hunger
by Alexis Henderson
Adult, Horror, Sapphic, Vampire Vibes
4. Where the Drowned Girls Go
by Seanan McGuire
Adult, Novella, Portal Fantasy Series
3. Some Kind of Happiness
by Claire LeGrand
Middle Grade, Contemporary, Mental Health
2. Cozy Fantasy 🥰
a) Nettle and Bone
by T Kingfisher
Adult, Cozy Fantasy
b) The Very Secret Society for Irregular Witches
by Sangu Mandanna
Adult, Fantasy, Romance
c) Legends and Lattes
by Travis Baldree
Adult, Cozy Fantasy
1. Fence
by CS Pacat
Illustrated by Johanna the Mad
YA, Graphic Novel, Competition Series, Contemporary, LGBTQ
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🏆🏆🌟🌟🌟 In no particular order my favs
1) Almost American girl
2) Verity
3) It ends with us
4) It starts with us
5) Kaikeyi
6) A court of thorns and roses
7) The seven husbands of evelyn hugo
8) A good girl's guide to murder (the entire series)
It’s been a minute since I’ve watched UA-cam but I am in the mood for a lighthearted book and I felt like this was the perfect place to look😊
Ally that’s so sweet thank you!!! ❤❤❤❤
😂😂Disgusting EXORCISM!
Some kind of happiness made me sob my eyes out. I literally put myself in the mc's shoes and just...I had to put the book down multiple times to gather myself. It was something else.
🏆⭐ I also have anxiety and I am living for all the cozy books, any genre. Cozy fantasy, cozy mystery, cozy sci-fi - give me anything that will make me feel warm and happy. I think my top favorite was The House in the Cerulean Sea (yes, I finally got to it!) but Legends & Lattes, Nettle and Bone, the Spellbreaker duology, and the Murderbot Series was also really high on my list.
I love that you loved House in The Cerulean Sea!!! One of my favorite books of all time!!
I think My Best Friend’s Exorcism was the break out book of 2022 for many of us. It took readers by storm and we loved it!
❤ My top 10 of 2022 🏆 :
- Nevermoor
- Foundryside
- The Night Circus
- Gideon The Ninth
- Date With Death
- Murder in Mesopotamia
- The Lunar Chronicles
- A Winter's promise
- In My Dreams I hold a Knife
- Shatter Me
The third book in the Foundryside trilogy is in my short stack to get to soon.
Oh I hope you'll love it !
I love books that make me happy as well!! I might pick up Fence since you said that :) My favorite books of the year: ⭐️
1. The House in The Cerulean Sea 💙by Tj Klune
2. I’ll Give You The Sun 💚 by Jandy Nelson
3. The Sky is Everywhere 💛by Jandy Nelson
4. The Starless Sea 🧡by Erin Morgenstern
5. Jo & Rus 💝by Audra Winslow
6. Mashle Vol 5 💞by Hajime Komoto
7. The Vanishing Stair 💘by Maureen Johnson
8. The Okay Witch 💓by Emma Steinkellner
9. Book Lovers 💜by Emily Henry
10. Cemetery Boys ❤️by Aiden Thomas
I think we must have very similar taste in books. Your top 4 are in my top favorite books of all time and I also love graphic novels!
@@cjanney3592 Aw how nice! What are some of your other favorites of all time?
CONGRATULATIONS LEXIE! For being on ur first home so happy for you! 💜📚🌈💕📖📖📖💙💕📚💚❤️💛💛💛❤️💚💚🧡🧡🧡🧡❤️❤️💚💚🌈🌈💜💜🌈💕💙📖📖📖💕🌈🌈🌈❤️💛❤️💚❤️🧡🧡🧡💕🌈💜
I have really gotten into Cozy Mysteries and I read so many series in 2022 that is hard to pick my favs...they were all so good. 🏆⭐
Can you mention any? I'm looking into cozy mysteries but idk what to start with
@@itsmariaa18 Amanda Flowers has several good ones. The Amish Candy Shop series and she has A Magical Bookshop Series she has several others but these are good ones to start with.
A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross is my #1 fave. I think you would love it: it has strong Scottish vibes, elemental spirits, and magic created with music. It's so beautiful. There's also 2 romantic pairings with one already married, which isn't a take we get often in Fantasy. 🌟
Wait I didn’t know it had Scottish elements?!?!
Yeah, A River Enchanted made my favorites list too. I'm looking forward to the second book, it just came out.
Definitely agree! Rebecca Ross is my favourite author, and this book is some of her best writing. Highly recommend!
DEFINITELY second this book. It was so good
Oh my God how much I've missed your videos Lexy. You are always able to bring me joy with your content. Thank u ❤️❤️🥰🥰
Omg yessss share the Nettle & Bone love 💜
Not enough people know about the absolute amazingness that is this book ✨️
So good!!
I thought it was going to be my favorite book of the year, a later read bumped it out of first place, but not out of my heart.
⭐️I agree that feel-good books are the best. Nettle & Bone and Legends & Legacies and The Maid were three of my favorites. But the book I re-read four times in a row was The Wizard’s Butler by Nathan Lowell. I didn’t expect this reaction…but I still love it.
A retired American soldier, named Roger, returns home to Chicago after multiple tours of duty in the Middle East. Recovering from living in a war zone for so long, he lands a nice quiet job working as a Butler for a feeble old man. The man’s greedy niece hires him and promises to pay him something like a $5 million bonus if he keeps this old guy alive for 12 months. Although Roger doesn’t know anything about butlering, the niece wants him because of the lifesaving skills he learned in the military.
He does not see a downside to living rent-free in a mansion, including room and board for 12 months. Imagine being an average guy who notes odd things in this household. It never needs dusting or other normal maintenance. All Roger has to do is learn to cook, do laundry, and look after the old guy. But how is the house always spotless? And why does the old man seem perfectly lucid one moment and the next Roger finds him collapsed in his library. It seems magic may exist. But that is crazy, isn’t it?
*I am with you and give you a pass on the cheating lol. This year, I also fell in love with cozy fantasy, and would have a hard time choosing between Legends and Lattes and The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches as my second favorite read of 2022 (I am starting this year by reading Nettle and Bone). My favorite read was Anne of Green Gables - yes, I can't believe that it took me until 36 years old to read this book. I'm from Atlantic Canada, too - so I really have no excuse! I adored it and want to read all of the Anne books. To be fair, I read an abridged version as a kid, and I read some of the books based on the Road to Avonlea tv series that was on in the 1990s. But what a good way to summarize how I want to read in 2023 - books that make me happy! I also want to branch out and read different genres. In the first half of 2022, I read a lot of thrillers and mediocre romances because that was what was available without a long wait on the Libby app (is that just a Canadian library thing?). I realized that most of what I was reading was 2 and 3 stars (and even 1 star) - and I am DONE with this. Thankfully, you are one of the booktubers that I has a similar taste to myself - so lets go with more 4 and 5 star reads in 2023!*
I didn't read Anne of Green Gables until I was 65! Because of some personal associations, I thought I was going to dislike it. In fact I picked it up to read mostly to prove to myself that I wasn't missing anything. I decided I was wrong about three chapters in. LOL
@@FaeryLaume just one of the cosiest books that I have ever read!
My husband and I moved to PEI in 2021. I've seen the gables house and everything and still haven't read the books. I feel I like I have to now!
@@aylaosborne9548 yes. They're absolutely delightful. I am from Newfoundland and Labrador and I still haven't been to PEI...but yet I've been to south east Asia and most of Western Europe 🤦♀️ but I think visiting PEI will be a higher priority in the future with my family. I'd love to visit Green Gables! (And the rest of your beautiful province)
So many favs in 2022! 🏆 ✨
•Piranesi
•The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
•Nettle & Bone
•Part of your World
•The Witch Haven
Angela your taste is ✨immaculate✨ ❤❤❤
Piranesi was in my top ten too! Loved it!
omg I also thought I hated horror until I read a Grady Hendrix book in 2022!!! Mine was the Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
It was perfect!
My top reads of 2022
-Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
-Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
-All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
-Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
-The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
-Free Lunch by Rex Ogle
-The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
-Green Glass House by Kate Milford
-There There by Tommy Orange
Somewhat of a great reading year! I did read some stinkers to find the gems though
"Seiji" is a Japanese name and is pronounced like "Say-G" or "Say-jee" (with an accent on "Say"). 🏆✨
My fav reads of 2022 are:
- The Dead Romantics
- Thank You For Listening
- Dear Enemy (sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster)
- Finlay Donovan is Killing It
- The Folk of Air Trilogy
... and many more :)
Omgsh thank you so much on the name!! And Omgsh I really need to read The Dead Romantics!!
Congratulations on your new place Lexi!! 🎉 I hope 2023 is an amazing year for you! One of my favorites of 2022 was Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston.
Was desperately waiting for this videooooo !!! And im soo excited for ur new apartment tour lexiii ❤❤❤❤
Thanks Safia!! 😊❤❤❤
Love this video!! Please make a video on how to design/decorate bookshelves. I have so many bookshelves and whenever I try to decorate them I never like it but I love yours and other book tubers!
I loved quite a few in 2022! Notable favs were the Hobbit, the Inheritance Games (&the Hawthorne Legacy), These Fleeting Shadows, Greenglass House, The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina (tho I desperately wish it would’ve been a series) & A Discovery of Witches! 🌟💖 loved seeing all your favs and appreciated all the recs throughout the year to keep my TBR growing 🥰
We had some of the same favorite books in our top lists!!! So glad you loved Orquidea AND These Fleeting Shadows!!!! Your taste is amazing!
For sure The House in the Cerulean Sea and The Ocean at the End of the Lane, all because of your recommendations! Thank you ❤
I love the house in the cerulean sea!!
Both of these are favorites for me as well!
Omgsh thank you so much for telling me that!! That makes me so happy to hear!!❤❤❤
aaaah so many good recs!! Saving all of these. i read the vanishing half last year and adored it and figured i love ready scary books to so I’ll definitely pick up her new one
Great video as actually always from you ☺️ Congratulations to your own apartment ☺️ But now we also need an apartment tour and a new tour of your bookshelves ☺️
Nettle and Bone and legends and Lattes! So cute and my favorite in 2022! 💚💕🌈📖📖🌈🌈❤️❤️💜📚💚📚💜💜📖📖📖🌈💕💙💛💛💕🌈📖🌈💕💙💙💙💕📖❤️❤️💜📚💚💚💚💜❤️❤️📖🌈💕💙💛💛💛💙🌈📖📖📖💕💙💙💕💜
So awesome to see your pretty face in video again. I loved Inheritance of Orquidia , Secret Society I adored. So many on your list that I am putting on my list 🏆
Same here.. i love the very secret society of irregular witches.. so cozy and so wholesome.. .it's one of my fave reads in 2022 ..other faves include the midnight in austenland, the house in the cerulean sea, rock papers scissors and sweet bean paste ... btw i enjoy your videos so much .. ⭐🏆
❤️ I love magical realism as well! And now I'm super excited for Orquídea Divina for bookclub!
My favourite read of 2022 was definitely 'The Starless Sea' by Erin Morgenstern. I love this book so much. It was a phenomenal read.
People seem split between loving this book and not caring for it at all. It is definitely one of my favorite books, might be in my top ten books I've ever read. Definitely in my top twenty.
@@FaeryLaume As someone who didn't like fantasy, I only read the book because Hannah from A Clockwork Reader recommended it so highly, I was genuinely curious to see what was so special about it. If not for her, I wouldn't have picked it up at all. I thought I didn't like these kinds of books that have a relatively slower plot and are fantasy driven but I was SO WRONG! It's such a beautiful book. The prose is so poetic and atmospheric. It reads like a fairytale with a dose of mystery and I absolutely loved it. I am so glad I read it.
@@aamnahere6250 I think it was the ultimate love letter to storytelling.
@@FaeryLaume Absolutely!
I’m so happy to see a video from you, I’ve been wondering about you lately! Happy for your move. 💗
One of my favorite books I read last year is The Cartographers. It has murder mystery, family drama, and magic. I think you'd LOVE it.
I loved Spells for Forgetting, perfect autumn read.
My favorite book of 2022 was The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue! I’m so excited to read Legends and Lattes, and Fence is on my tbr. 🏆
I read that in 2021 and that was 100% my favorite book of that year. I borrowed it from the library and immediately had to go purchase my own copy afterwards I loved it that much.
I'm reading The invisible life of Addie LaRue ATM! It's so good, I just want to savour each page 😂my favourite book is Belladonna by Adalyn Grace ❤I love it so much 🏆
They're not in order but my top 10 favourite are:
•Love Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shea Ernshaw
•Goodbye, Perfect by Sara Barnard
•The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
•Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer
•You've Reached Sam by Dustin Thao
•Someone I Used to Know by Paige Toon
•The Summer of Chasing Dreams by Holly Martin
•The Serial Killer's Wife by Alice Hunter
•Dangerous Lies by Becca Fitzpatrick
•Near the Bone by Christina Henry
2022 was a good reading year ❤❤❤❤❤
Long Live The Pumpkin Queen looked so good! Maybe I’ll pick it up next fall!
Congrats on the new place! So happy for you. A few of my favorite 2022 reads were: Crying in H Mart, A Merry Little Meet Cute, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Final Girl Support Group, Arsenic and Adobo, Nineteen Minutes, Wish You Were Here, Every Summer After, Something Wilder, The House in the Cerulean Sea, Everlasting Nora, and Star Fish. Wanted to let you know that you are the reason I took the plunge and started reading Horror genre. I was also curious and intimidated by the genre, but you kept mentioning Grady Hendrix, and I ended up reading 4 books from him this year. Thank you for being lighting that fire for me to finally read horror.
Oh how exciting about Grady Hendrix!!! And thank you MM!! It sounds like you had a fantastic reading year!! 🎉❤
@@alexandraroselyn happy 2023! I’m so excited to see what this ‘Jordan’ year has in store for all of us.
2022 was my favorite year of reads. I have found some incredible stories!
I'm excited for your videos!!! I hope the moving went well!
Thank you so much!!!
The top twenty books I read this year of 2022 and where they fell on my best books of all time. This was the best year of reading I have ever experienced. 52 books in 52 weeks, and believe me some of the books were small, but of the big ones many are below.
2) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy
9) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev
27) "Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev
30) "In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
47) "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
49) "First Love" by Ivan Turgenev
51) "Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady" by Samuel Richardson
52) "An Island Hell" by S.A. Malsagoff
61) "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy
64) "The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollope
65) "Middlemarch" by George Eliot
70) "A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy
79) "Can you forgive her?" by Anthony Trollope
80) "Acia" by Ivan Turgenev
84) "The Watch" by Ivan Turgenev
88) "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark
91) "Poor Folk" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
98) "Flipped" by Wendelin Van Draanen
99) "The Captain's Daughter" by Alexander Pushkin
100) "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs
I take breaks front UA-cam every so often and I can genuinely say that I've missed your content 💚
My tbr is getting bigger with your video 😍🏆 i read Greenglass house on your suggestion and I loved it ! I am on my second book : Ghosts of Greenglass
Love your book tube channel u are an amazing person u always make me smile xxxx
Omgsh thank you so much Kristy❤❤❤
21:43 ok so as. Weird as it I'd I'm very big on making a. Folder of my favorite books for each year so for my 2022 books of the year is (not in any order)
1 To Kill A Kingdom
2 Charm book 5 of the Crave series
3 Glamoured book 6 of the shadow beast series
4 Final book 3 of the Carnival series
5 Legendary book 2 of the Caraval series
6 Beneath Devils Bridge a stand along murder mystery
7 The Ocean At the End Of The Lane
8 Caraval book 1
As you saw I in love with series that I can get closer to the characters more. An loose my self in the world more but the Caraval series really quickly became. My favorite last year
Great list Javinnie!!!
I really enjoyed My Best Friends Exorcism, the movie was good too! My top reads for 2022:
Bear Town
Small Things Like These
Gallant
The Book of Cold Cases
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
The Woman in the Mirror
A River Enchanted
Daisy Darker
⭐️ Some of my favorites were: Project Hail Mary, Into the Drowing Deep, Finlay Donovan is Killing It, House of Hunger, and A Dowry of Blood.
Your bookcases look beautiful!!!! Have you read Winter People by Jennifer McMahon? I’m getting ready to read it.
The hat 😂 good to see you back!
Thanks Brooke!! 😊❤
I really enjoyed "My Best Friend's Exorcism." It was a fun read.
Finding Fortune remained my favorite. Last year was a sporadic reading year for me due to illness and stress. This year, I am already doing better, so I’ve read quite a few more. Finally Legends and Lattes has arrived for me at the library, so I am predicting an early favorite in 2023. 🌟
Samantha I’m so sorry to hear about last year❤️ I’m sending hugs I hope this year is the best year yet!!!
@@alexandraroselyn aww thank you. I hope your 2023 is wonderful as well!
Your cozy fantasy list is definitely a keeper for those days when stress is high. I really like falling into a new low-stakes world. It’s like a warm hug ❤️
I love cozy mysteries... I might need to try this cozy fantasy genre 🙂
I was waiting for this video from you the whole week 😍 finally here... I did a similar one too 🤗 excited to try Legends and Lattes
My top books were
If We Were Villains - M.L Rio
Piranesi - Sussana Clarke
The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue - V.E. Schwab
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Galatea - Madeline Miller
A Court of Silver Flames - S J Maas
I also really loved the Shadow and Bone, The Red Queen and Blood and Ash series~
I read sooo many amazing books in 2022. I've already finished a few this year and I think The Song of Achilles will be in my favourites list for 2023. A few of your favourites are on my TBR and I'm finally going to start the Wayward Children series.
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My favourite of 2022 were
Six of Crows
Daisy Jones and the Six
The One by Johns Marrs
You Deserve Eachother by Sarah Hogle
Congratulations on moving to your own place. Love watching your videos my TBR seems to get longer every time I watch your videos. OMG Fence is my all time favourite read. You may know already but there is spin off Fence series by Sarah Rees Brennan. Currently there are two books called striking distance and disarmed. Highly recommend
“These Fleeting Shadows” is giving “The Inheritance Games”
house of hunger is definitely in my top 10 this year too -- so good!!!
Happy 2023 Alexandra 🎉 Happy to kick off the year with your list of faves. House of hunger looks VERY good, that one definitely slipped past me 👀
🏆 My favorite book of 2022 was The House In the Cerulean Sea, followed very closely by both Monk & Robot books (Becky Chambers) and Under the Whispering Door. I think those are all kind of cozy fantasy, more or less, so I think that was my theme of the year 💕
I read the Finlay Donovan series at your recommendation, and it did not disappoint! Definitely two of my favorite reads of the year. I CANNOT wait for the 3rd book to release soon! Love your recommendations. 🩷
If you're fan of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe series, read Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan. 🔥🔥
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Congrats on your new place! You’re so fun to watch! I’m not big on nonfiction either, but one with all my fandoms does sound fun!
If you like a comedic murder mystery that’s on the cozy side, I suggest the Merry Wrath series by Leslie Langtry. I haven’t read a book by her yet that doesn’t make me laugh. I’d love to hear your thoughts on her.
I surprised myself by having a cozyish fantasy romance as my favorite book of the year! His Secret Illuminations is a self-published book by Scarlett Gale with a delicious slowburn, role-reversal of traditional romance tropes (the pov character is a timid lil monk guy who is in passionate love with the big burley warrior woman), heartwarming found family, mutual protectiveness, and a mix of wholesome and kinky vibes. And it has a sequel that is also excellent (and much more openly kinky lolol)
I also really enjoyed Legends and Lattes, The Murder of Mr Wickham, the first Monk and Robot novella, and the nonfiction book "Writing on the Wall: social media, the first 2000 years"
I just finished My Best Friends Exorcism and I agree with everything you said! I don’t know how Grady Hendrix does it. Gross and disgusting one minute, heartwarming and sweet the next. I highly recommend his book Horrorstor if you haven’t read it yet!
My no 1 favourite book of the year (and of all time to be honest) is A Dowry of Blood!!! ❤️🌟
Happy new year, Lexi!🥳 I hope everything went well with your move🤍
Happy new year!!🎉
Seanan McGuire writes science fiction/horror under the pseudonym Mira Grant. I think now that you’ve realized you like horror, you should read Into the Drowning Deep. It my all time favorite book written by her. It’s about sirens/mermaids in the Mariana Trench.
Omg you’re so right!! I’ll pick up one of her horrors this year that’s such a good idea thank you!!
The Finlay Donovan books... top tier. I'm so excited for the third one to come out soon!!😭
Glad you had such a great 2022 reading year, Lexi! 🏆 Cheers to 2023 being an amazing year for you too! 🥂
And I'm so happy to see Finlay Donovan on this list! Yay! 🙌🏾
The way you said “guys” in the beginning was like a soprano singing lol it was great!
Hahahahaha thank you!
I just added so many books to my TBR 🏆⭐️
I laughed out loud at the clip of Jughead cause I was literally just thinking about why you were still wearing that hat. I thought you were doing it for Halloween cause that's when I first started watching you, so I associated it with the holiday.
Lol! I could see that hahaha but I think at this point the hat is just part of who I am as a person lol
🏆🎖️ I think all of your yearly favourites are on my TBR! 😂 A lot of what I read in 2022 were rereads, but I did love The Christmas pig a lot, as well as "A winter's promise" and Beach read which was a beautiful story.
Hope to see you soon!
My transition book into 2023 was When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill and I literally cried from joy multiple times towards the end, it never happens and I highly recommand !(+ Kelly Barnhill's writing ?!? Amazing)
These Fleeting Shadows is my favorite read of 2022 and I agree, it's very twisted - but in the best way!
My favorite book of the year was The Lightning Struck Heart by TJ Klune. I would love to see you so a vlog for more TJ Klune books.
🏆🏆 Thank you so much for all of your videos, I absolutely love them! They have become a comfort watch for me, and I usually watch them before falling asleep at night. I love your recommendations and add them to my to-be-read 90% of the time! Thank you again for all of your videos, and I hope you have an excellent 2023! 🏆🏆
Personal Recommendations
- Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
- The Time of Green Magic by Hilary McKay
OMG FENCE!!! 🤩 Didn't expect it to stay at the top until the end of the year but I'M SO HAPPY!😍 My favorite reads of 2022 are The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley and Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater 🏆
Oooo I’ll have to check them out!!
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree was my fav book of 2022!
I love it! I'm new here, and I'm a weirdo, too! Omg, you are hilarious! What kind of vampire sparkles? Give me a break.
Yess I love the Wayward Children series ♡ Reminding me, I still need to get House of Hunger. My favourite was Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell 🏆🌟
I loved that one too!
⭐️ hmmm. Favorites are hard. Piranesi, Neon Gods, and All the Feels were some of the best I read. Loved your list! You’ve given me a whole slew of books for my tbr.
Love these!!!
Favorite reads of 2022:
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
-Mizuki Tsujimura
Almond
-Won‑Pyung Sohn
The Song of Achilles
-Madeline Miller
If Cats Disappeared from the World
-Genki Kawamura
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
-Hiro Arikawa
How Do You Live
-Genzaburo Yoshino
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
-Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The House in the Cerulean Sea
-TJ Klune
*in no particular order
My Favorites of 2022
1. Imaginary Friend
2. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
3. Engines of Empire
4. Plain Bad Heroines
5. Son of Shadows
6. Once Upon a Broken Heart
7. Dune
8. The First Law
9. The Dragon Republic
10. Ahsoka
11. The Other Bennet Sister
12. The Stardust Thief
13. Everybody was so Young
14. March
15. The Historian
16. Alexander Hamilton
17. Mary-Jane
18. Piranesi
19. A Discovery of Witches
20. The Yellow Wall Paper
21. The Devil in the White City
22. King Lear
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Your videos bring me so much joy & relaxation. Thank you for doing what you do and all of the book recommendations ☕️🙂📖
love this list!! ⭐️⭐️ my favorite last year was actually an arc but one I think you'll love!! (april release) it was In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune!! best ending he's ever written! 🤯😱💛
Finlay Donovan is killing it was one of my favorites too! 😊 it was so much fun!
🏆 Fairytale by Stephen King was my #1.
Also, Finlay Donovan is Killing it is my first read of this year and I’m obsessed!
Fairytale is on my list this year!
My Best Friends Exorcism was on my list for the year too!!
It was so good!!!
@@alexandraroselyn I have also realized this year that I am a fan of horror… who knew!?!?!?!
Babel
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
Piranesi
Shadow and Bone
The Language of Spells
The Graveyard Book
Anne of the Island
Mr. Dickens and His Carol
Four Seasons in Rome
The Wingfeather Saga
So many good ones! ⭐️
This year I found out that I actually enjoy autobiographies, I was very surprised as one of my top 3 books of the year was Jennette McCurdy's 'I'm glad my mom died'. But ultimately my top 1 was Verity by Colleen Hoover, I'm still not over that book, it just stuck with me for weeks.
I really enjoyed that memoir as well!!! Let me know if you have any other recs and I’ll check them out!!
I loved Legends and Lattes! I'm putting some of these on my TBR for 2023 🏆
Ok so my new favorite author is Grady Hendrix. I’ve really enjoyed every book I’ve read of his so far! Definitely some gross factor but love his writing! He has a new one coming out soon ❤️ 📚
Sirens and muses OMG love them! MY Favorite📖💕💙💙💙💕📖📖💕💚💚💚📚❤️❤️💜💜💜💛💛📖💕💕🌈💙💙🌈💕💕📖💕🌈💙🌈📖📖📖📖🌈💚💚📚📚❤️❤️💜📖💛💛📖💕🌈💙🌈💕📖📖
My 2022 Year in review video will be up on Thursday if you want to see all my favorites, but my top book of the year was Babel by RF Kuang! I do also mention Fence because it is amazing and I love it ❤
I DIDNT KNOW YOU HAD A CHANNEL TAYLOR WHAT!!!!
Same here…loved Babel!
@@alexandraroselyn Yes! I have had it about 6 months! You were my inspiration 🥰
3 way tie for my favs: Nevermoor-the Trials of Morrigan Crow, Hotel Magnifique & Dark and Shallow Lies. 🖤 💫 🐊
Honorable mentions:
Neon gods
Take a hint dani brown
Act your age eve brown
The glass witch
Amari and the night brothers(middle grade)
Sirens and muses(middle grade)
The tradition(poetry )
Top 10 :
Nerd (non fiction)
Finlay donovan is killing it
These fleeting shadows (thriller mystery)
My best friend s exorcism
House of hunger
Where the drowned girls go
Some kind of happiness(middle grade)
Legends and lattes/very secret society of irregular witches/nettle and bones
Fence series(graphic novel)
Congratulations on moving into your own place! 🎉❤
My favourite book this year was Bunny (as per your rec) I still think about it regularly 😂
I loved Finlay Donovan! I am very excited to continue on with the series. Also, NERD sounds so good! I want to read more non-fiction this year, so I'm definitely adding it to my list. I want to read cozy fantasy, so I'll have to check out the ones you recommend!
Rules For Vanishing, by Kate Alice Marshall, was one of my favorite books of the year in 2020, and I bought These Fleeting Shadows last year! Can’t wait to see what it’s like! Watched Knives Out for the first time a couple weeks ago and loved that too, so the outlook is good haha.
Finlay Donovan is Killing It was in my top books this year too! The newest one comes out this month! ⭐🏆
My favorite book of the year was The Book Thief by Markus Zusak ❤️❤️❤️📚
Can’t wait to read some of those books. ❤
Happy new year 🎉 I love your videos
Happy new year!!