thank you for the wonderful recomendations. Unfortunatelly my english is not good enough that I could cash the titles and autors. The image was mirroed so I could not read the titles. If it were not too much for you, could you please write the titles, it would be very helpful.
I have followed your recommendations for six (maybe more?) years now and these videos are a goldmine. I rarely find these books on my streaming service (having had to listen to books since 2015 due to burnout and a following inability to focus on text for long) so I save them for the times I can read on paper. I’m never disappointed. I too look over my ratings at the end of the year and judge them again, as I same as you want to know that they stand the test of time and distance. Thank you for a thoughtful and interesting selection this year, as always!
Crossroads was my best read this year but for some reason it was barely talked about in the UK, I think maybe because it was released around the time of the Booker prize finalists and Sally Rooney's book. I think I'm one of few people who seemed not to have enjoyed Bewilderment, it is bewildering! Adding Pew to my TBR, it sounds very mysterious.
The employees and inferno were also in my favorites list. Especially inferno, after having my baby in November and struggling with mental health issues after that, I am at awe at how brave and honest she manages to be…
Inferno is just so fantastic, it's been great to see so many people enjoy it this year. I hope you are feeling much better and your baby is doing well too xx
Happy New Year Sophie! Great video and books all seem amazing. You should go to Greg's channel at Supposedly Fun for his review of The Power of the Dog since you liked it. He does a book vs movie.
I've been looking forward to Bewilderment so much that it's been sat on my shelves ever since it came out. I want to keep it for a moment I will enjoy it most. But now I'm thinking about it, I have no idea what that moment would look like... So wouldn't recognise it if it stared me in the face...
I heard a thing recently about not saving too many things for the perfect time, wear the expensive perfume on a day in or eat off the best plates. Maybe it's a bit of that!
Wow, so many interesting titles on this list! I have several of these on my TBR, both fiction and non-fiction, but hadn't heard of Sanatorium or The Need, both of which sound great. Agree with you on Crying in H Mart, it was brilliant and so hard-hitting.
Ohh you have excellent taste lol. I say this because so many of these I loved and some made my favorites as well. Excellent and I recently ordered Boy Parts. Can't seem to get it over here in Canada yet, so I'll see it in a month from Book Depository. So many people recommended it to me. Along with Tell Me I'm Worthless, another I had to order because it is nowhere here! The Need is super excellent. Love this trend of unhinged women in lit, usually with surrealistic horror elements and motherhood, or fractured identity. You sure do an excellent job summing up a lot of books. I took way longer than this lol wild.
My best books of 2021 Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa The Promise by Damon Galgut Bewilderment by Richard Powers My Policeman by Bethan Roberts Hidden Valley Road Empire of Pain Standard Deviation ( funniest book) We Begin At The End ( best thriller) The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage The Glorious Heresies Shelter by Jin Jung Writers and Lovers Valentine A Passage North Swimming in the Dark The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle My Dark Vanessa The Prettiest Star ⭐️ The Yield Memorial Luster Seating Arrangements ☘️👋🍀📖👓📚☕️🫖📕
I am still fighting my way through The Fell. The stream of consciousness style is killing me. I actually find myself skimming it, which is the last thing I want to do with a Sarah Moss book, so I keep putting it down. She has just gone on her walk, so I’m hoping it will pick up from here. After adoring Ghost Wall and Summerwater, I was startled to find myself so put off by the writing in The Fell. 😢
i loooved the first half of At Night All Blood is Black, but the (maybe necessary) change of tone and pace in the end, as well as the resolution, just couldn't match up to what came before for me. not heard of the Need but it sounds fantastic ~
Great year for you and 46% of non fiction is huge (I'm barely at 20%) I will buy Crying in H-Mart (I have heard so much about it) and Gone Girl (is this the title ?) about this artist with spina bifida - have a great 2022 reading year !! take care
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Are you going to do another excel reading spreadsheet for 2022? xx
I'm not this year I'm afraid- I have a video for this weekend talking a bit more about why.
I love how you describe books. I immediately get interested in them and your descriptions have no spoilers. Great job as always, Sophie!
Thank you! I do try to avoid spoilers as much as I possibly can!
thank you for the wonderful recomendations. Unfortunatelly my english is not good enough that I could cash the titles and autors. The image was mirroed so I could not read the titles. If it were not too much for you, could you please write the titles, it would be very helpful.
I will put these ones into the description :)
I have followed your recommendations for six (maybe more?) years now and these videos are a goldmine. I rarely find these books on my streaming service (having had to listen to books since 2015 due to burnout and a following inability to focus on text for long) so I save them for the times I can read on paper. I’m never disappointed. I too look over my ratings at the end of the year and judge them again, as I same as you want to know that they stand the test of time and distance.
Thank you for a thoughtful and interesting selection this year, as always!
Crossroads was my best read this year but for some reason it was barely talked about in the UK, I think maybe because it was released around the time of the Booker prize finalists and Sally Rooney's book. I think I'm one of few people who seemed not to have enjoyed Bewilderment, it is bewildering! Adding Pew to my TBR, it sounds very mysterious.
I saw Crossroads in Waterstones the other day and hadn't even heard of it!
Amazing list 😍 Bewilderment was one of my faves too!
It's so good!
Great list!! Hope you enjoy your reading in 2022 xx
The employees and inferno were also in my favorites list. Especially inferno, after having my baby in November and struggling with mental health issues after that, I am at awe at how brave and honest she manages to be…
Inferno is just so fantastic, it's been great to see so many people enjoy it this year. I hope you are feeling much better and your baby is doing well too xx
I have seriously never been led astray by your recommendations. Always spot on. Here's to another year of great reads!
Yay! It's so lovely to hear that :)
Happy New Year Sophie ☘️👋🍀🎉🥳
Happy New Year!
I've never heard someone really explain Boy Parts and it sounds so interesting, and The Employees has genuinely went straight on my Amazon wish list!!
Happy New Year Sophie! Great video and books all seem amazing. You should go to Greg's channel at Supposedly Fun
for his review of The Power of the Dog since you liked it. He does a book vs movie.
Thanks for the recommendations Sophie.
You show the books back to front!
My pleasure and sorry! My camera battery died so I had to film on my phone :)
Hi Sophie. Thanks. I’m reading The Fell at the moment and want to read The Employees and Crying in H Mart. 😊
Just added loads of these to my wish list, sound great!
Hope you enjoy them!
I've been looking forward to Bewilderment so much that it's been sat on my shelves ever since it came out. I want to keep it for a moment I will enjoy it most. But now I'm thinking about it, I have no idea what that moment would look like... So wouldn't recognise it if it stared me in the face...
I heard a thing recently about not saving too many things for the perfect time, wear the expensive perfume on a day in or eat off the best plates. Maybe it's a bit of that!
Just added almost all of these to my tbr - thanks for the recommendations!
Yes! I've achieved my aim haha
Wow, so many interesting titles on this list!
I have several of these on my TBR, both fiction and non-fiction, but hadn't heard of Sanatorium or The Need, both of which sound great.
Agree with you on Crying in H Mart, it was brilliant and so hard-hitting.
They are both books I absolutely adored, very different but both ones I am pushing onto people!
Ohh you have excellent taste lol. I say this because so many of these I loved and some made my favorites as well. Excellent and I recently ordered Boy Parts. Can't seem to get it over here in Canada yet, so I'll see it in a month from Book Depository. So many people recommended it to me. Along with Tell Me I'm Worthless, another I had to order because it is nowhere here! The Need is super excellent. Love this trend of unhinged women in lit, usually with surrealistic horror elements and motherhood, or fractured identity.
You sure do an excellent job summing up a lot of books. I took way longer than this lol wild.
Thank you! And I do try to be as brief as I can be but it's a struggle!
I've just started the fell, and I bought ill feelings today 😊
My best books of 2021
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriofa
The Promise by Damon Galgut
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
My Policeman by Bethan Roberts
Hidden Valley Road
Empire of Pain
Standard Deviation ( funniest book)
We Begin At The End ( best thriller)
The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage
The Glorious Heresies
Shelter by Jin Jung
Writers and Lovers
Valentine
A Passage North
Swimming in the Dark
The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle
My Dark Vanessa
The Prettiest Star ⭐️
The Yield
Memorial
Luster
Seating Arrangements
☘️👋🍀📖👓📚☕️🫖📕
Not many people on UA-cam talk about The Power of The Dog but it's soooo beautifully written!!
Woow such a good list!
I got spillover for Christmas so will be reading soon
Oh fantastic, it's such a good read.
I read Boy Parts because you recommended it and it's also one of my favorites from 2021!! :D
I also read Sanatorium and Inferno because of you! Thanks for all of the great recommendations :)
Amazing! I'm really glad you have picked up a few good ones from here!
I am still fighting my way through The Fell. The stream of consciousness style is killing me. I actually find myself skimming it, which is the last thing I want to do with a Sarah Moss book, so I keep putting it down. She has just gone on her walk, so I’m hoping it will pick up from here. After adoring Ghost Wall and Summerwater, I was startled to find myself so put off by the writing in The Fell. 😢
Ah oh no! That's okay for one not to be for you though :)
i loooved the first half of At Night All Blood is Black, but the (maybe necessary) change of tone and pace in the end, as well as the resolution, just couldn't match up to what came before for me. not heard of the Need but it sounds fantastic ~
I actually quite liked the change of pace personally! I felt a bit frantic reading it!
@@SophieIslington glad to hear it works for some ppl! =)
Great year for you and 46% of non fiction is huge (I'm barely at 20%) I will buy Crying in H-Mart (I have heard so much about it) and Gone Girl (is this the title ?) about this artist with spina bifida - have a great 2022 reading year !! take care
It is pretty good! I really want to match 50% for next year! It's Golem Girl and it's amazing, please get it!!!!
@@SophieIslington ok !
everything is inverted 🤔, I am not Da Vinci.
Sorry! It's because my camera died so had to film on my phone.
are you gonna do a stats video?
I am, I have one coming for this Saturday.
@@SophieIslington yay cant wait!
Great list but.... I find it difficult to read the titles :)
I'm sorry! My camera battery died so I had to film this one on my phone.
I don’t know if you know or not, but your titles are backwards. Oops!!!
Who is the author of The Need?
It's Helen Phillips :)
Hi
hello :)
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