Ahhh Gabby 😭😭 my little heart melted watch you talk about blue sisters. Love seeing you and Rachel’s relationship. You too are the best. Dropping everything and grabbing blue sisters off my shelf to read tonight ❤
Why am I crying too? I’m a middle sister and I felt your tears! Cannot wait to get to Blue Sisters! Hoping to get to it before the end of 2024. Great “best list”, Gabby! Hugs
The Measure is such a thought provoking book. Hubby and I had many conversations about this one. I always describe A.J. Fikrey as a "true gem". And it is.
Gabby ❤️❤️❤️ Your relationship with your sister is so beautiful and lovely. I am also really close with my sister and love to read books about sisters. I’ll move Blue Sisters & Once There Were Wolves to the top of my 2025 tbr.
I truly think The Haar is one of the most exceptional horror novels ever written and it's certainly my favorite by that author and probably my favorite horror novel ever. I'm glad to see it and the author get their flowers this year, because they certainly deserve it!
Blue Sisters is also my favourite book of the year, I was in love with it the minute I read that opening quote🥹 The Measure was my top favourite book of 2022, I'm so happy to see it make it onto your list! And almost the entire rest of your list is now on my 2025 tbr 😄
My favourite book of the year is We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It is actually the only new all time favourite of this year and I would have never read it if it hadn't been for my thesis supervisor which is INSANE. I've had a couple of 5 and 4 stars as well but none of them have made it to my favourites of all time. 2024 in general was terrible reading wise, so I hope 2025 will be much better in that regard.
Gosh Gabby! You and I share that book as favorite for this year. I loved that book and am an older sister too. This book broke me to pieces. Sending you hugs from one big sister to another. ❤
Notes on an Execution Anxious People The Reformatory We Used to Live Here Pet Sematary Fantasticland None of this is True The Groomer Not In order^^ but those are some of my favorites this year!😊
Bright Young Women is my favourite book of the year! (As of now) ❤ I know I’ll be rereading this book the moment I finished reading for the Book Troop because of how powerful this book was! 😍
Such a great list! Glad to see Forget Me Not showing up! 😝 Top favorites this year for me are: Monstrilio, The Other Side of Night, Victorian Psycho, and The Memory Police. I need to get to The Centre and The Storied Life of AJ Fikry soon!
I love the sister trope too Gabby unfortunately im an only child but thats why i hold my friendships so close!! love best friends and sister tropes keep it coming. I definitely plan to read blue sisters!
Bury your gays was my top read of this year!! And that airplane scene was genuinely one of the scariest most unsettling thing I’ve listened to! I love how similar our tastes are! 💕💕
As someone who is one of the triplets (we are all girls) I can totally understand the bond and emotions you feel about sisterhood 🥹 Haven’t read the book yet but now I don’t think I’ll go to next year without reading Blue Sisters
I found and read Once There Were Wolves from you and I am so glad I did 😭 I loved it so much. I’m excited for her new book, Dark Wild Shore, in March!!!
Blue sisters is my number 2 & I spent that whole book crying off and on. Ufff so much therapizing in there. I LOVED IT. - I teared up when you did. FELT THAT IN MY CHEST 🥺♥
I read the least that I have in more than 10 years. Only 80 books. My favorites by far: Just For The Summer (Abby Jimenez), The Wedding People (Alison Espach), Pen Pal (JT Geissinger) , This Could Be Us (Kennedy Ryan) btw, I loved loved Forget Me Not by Julie Soto, but I read it last year.
Either already read or added the books to my tbr 😂 Love the recs! My Top 10 1. A certain hunger by Chelsea g summers 2. Sex and Sunsets by Tim Sandlin 3. The butterfly garden by dot Hutchison 4. Thin girls by Diana Clarke 5. Art of Racing in the rain by Garth stein 6. This delicious death by Kayla cottingham 7. Appetite for innocence by Lucinda berry 8. At the coffee shop of curiosities by Heather Webber 9. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite 10. Fat talk by Virginia sole smith
I love that you have such a beautiful relationship with your sister. My sister and I have always been apart - we're 10 years apart and we live in different States but we are still attached. My sister is such a bright funny person that I love to spend time with her and appreciate my time with her so much since we don't get much time together. Will have to pick Blue Sisters up!
Watching this made me want to add so many books to my tbr. I just got Blue Sisters from the library…I’m both scared and excited. I am the youngest sister of 3 so I’m curious to see how hard it hits me. Also, I got Memory Police because of one of your videos!!
Thank you for your list. I think my top two books of the year are The Best Life Book Club by Sheila Roberts and a middle grade called The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night. That one was so adorable and creative! I'm in the middle of a reading slump right now but I'm thinking of reading the A.J. Fickry one to pull me out of it.
The Measure was my #1 last year. Right when I was finishing it my sister in law died at 22. I got a tattoo that had combined one of her tattoos with a short and long string
This is such a great list of diverse reads! It was such an awesome year for The Book Troop - two picks made it into my top five! 1. How High We Go in the Dark 2. The Four Winds 3. Any Man 4. We Used to Live Here 5. Listen for the Lie
I read quite a few of the same books you read…different rankings though on several, which is fair…my top 5 are From Here To The Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough…Butcher by Joyce Carol Oates…Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll…Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult….and number one for me this year is The Reformatory by Tananarive Due…that book had me fully immersed and I just loved it…
Bright Young Women is on my best books list as well. So powerful. And it made me so mad. 😅 I will def check out some of these books - especially your No 1. 💜
So far My top fav books of 2024 11.22.63 Stephen king We used to live here Marcus Kliewer The unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica N0S4A2 by Joe Hill Enjoyed the vid defo adding some of your favs to my tbr for next year 😀
First off you look stunning gabby love the outfit and also I hope u have a great Christmas 🎄 heres my top favorite books of the year 1.Xmas break by j.e rowney 2.I'll be alone for Christmas by Kristin mulligan 3.Hoilday homicide by Michelle powers 4.Four found dead by Natalie D. Richards 5.Heartstopper series 6.Fangirl manga series
Here's my picks Tales of the body thief by Anne rice book 4 in the vampire chronicles One summer in Savannah by terah shelton Harris The wild truth by carine mccandless memoir Out of shape by gracie gold memoir Queen of the damned by Anne rice book 3 in the vampire chronicles stars in your eyes by kacen callender Her too by bonnie kistler Clytemnestra by constanza casanti The violence by delilah s dawson Lizzie Blake's best mistake by mazey eddings Miss memory lane by colton Haynes memoir Good luck with that by kristan Higgins The maid by nita prose Honorable mentions Glitterland by alexis hall Pack up the moon by kristan Higgins Interview with the vampire by Anne rice Be my baby by ronnie spector memoir
There was so many books on this list I agree with, especially "Bright Young Women" but I would give "We use to live here" 1star. I felt it to be repetitive and the ending was very predictable.
I wondered when your favorite books video would be posted and when I checked my phone I got the notification! Made my morning 😆😊✨ Also where is your flannel jacket from it’s sooo cute?! 💙❤️🤍🖤
If you liked Bright Young Women I highly suggest you read the true story of one of the survivors of Ted Bundy and read A Light in the Dark. Then listen to the Morbidly Curious Book Club podcast interview with the author/survivor.
Bright young women is V actually on my worst 10 books of the year. And honestly nothing to do with the writing or author. But the feelings as a result of reading it. My heart hurt, I felt hate, and I didn’t have B a fun time 🤣
I do find BYW incredibly problematic, taking very identifiable victims and distorting their lives in many ways (but keeping specific gory details from their murders that she says is exploitative when other media does it). Knoll did say in a video interview with the Book Report Network that she never reached out to the families (saying she would’ve felt wrong, even though I’m sure this bestseller coming out about your relative without warning is probably worse!), and considering how she portrayed the families, that feels really unethical. I feel like it could’ve been good if it had been truly fictionalised versus being yet another piece of media twisting the victims stories and lives, this time claiming to do it for feminist reasons
Who knew this would be such a tough watch, family is so wrapped up in each of your choices, my sister took her own life, media and conversations about sisterhood are unbelievably painful for me. It’s emotional to see you speak so positively about it
Ahhh Gabby 😭😭 my little heart melted watch you talk about blue sisters. Love seeing you and Rachel’s relationship. You too are the best. Dropping everything and grabbing blue sisters off my shelf to read tonight ❤
Thank you 😭💙💙💙
Why am I crying too? I’m a middle sister and I felt your tears! Cannot wait to get to Blue Sisters! Hoping to get to it before the end of 2024. Great “best list”, Gabby! Hugs
Aw thanks Kat 🥹😭 hugs!!!! I hope you love Blue Sisters too!
The Haar absolutely blew me away, it was so incredible and horrifying and moving! ❤
The Measure is such a thought provoking book. Hubby and I had many conversations about this one. I always describe A.J. Fikrey as a "true gem". And it is.
As someone who is an Older sister and also being the one with an invisible illness, I am putting Blue Sisters on my TBR asap.
Gabby ❤️❤️❤️ Your relationship with your sister is so beautiful and lovely. I am also really close with my sister and love to read books about sisters. I’ll move Blue Sisters & Once There Were Wolves to the top of my 2025 tbr.
Thanks so much!! 🥹 I hope you enjoy them if you end up reading them!! ❤
I truly think The Haar is one of the most exceptional horror novels ever written and it's certainly my favorite by that author and probably my favorite horror novel ever. I'm glad to see it and the author get their flowers this year, because they certainly deserve it!
Great wrap-up! Love your enthusiasm.
added sooooo many of these to my tbr! i love how moved you are while talking about blue sisters and your relationship with your own sister 💞
I finished Blue Sisters today and I loved it. My top this year is one you DNF:) All the Colors of the Dark 😊
I loooved Bury Your Gays. One of my top books of the year too & made me want to read Camp Damascus like now.
The Haar is my favorite book of 2024! I love it so much! Thank you for the recommendation Gabby!!
Loved this! Your enthusiasm for these books is contagious and expanded my TBR list.
I love how you describe these books❤❤
My favorite book of the year is The Wedding People.💙
My top 3 books are
1. Where he can’t find you by Darcy Coates
2. The Diviners by Libba Bray
3 Howl’s moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones
How lucky Rachel is to have you as a sister, and vice versa. ❤ Great video, Gabby.
Oh gabby!! You just made me cry..as an elder sister i truly understand how you feel. Love you xoxo ❤
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Omg I hated The Measure!! 😂 can’t wait to read Blue Sisters though- waiting for it to come out in paperback ❤
I hope your reading in 2025 is just as great, Gabby. Happy New Year! 😊
Ughh I need to pick up blue sisters immediately!!
Blue Sisters is also my favourite book of the year, I was in love with it the minute I read that opening quote🥹 The Measure was my top favourite book of 2022, I'm so happy to see it make it onto your list! And almost the entire rest of your list is now on my 2025 tbr 😄
I’m so glad to hear that!! 🥹💙
Thank you for The Haar recommendation. I ❤ it.
I loved this! So many of these are on my tbr and I’m even more excited to read them now! 🩷💕
My favourite book of the year is We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It is actually the only new all time favourite of this year and I would have never read it if it hadn't been for my thesis supervisor which is INSANE. I've had a couple of 5 and 4 stars as well but none of them have made it to my favourites of all time. 2024 in general was terrible reading wise, so I hope 2025 will be much better in that regard.
I love guessing what is going to be in your top books every year it’s so fun! ❤
Favourite books for me this year have been: Finding Me by Viola Davis and I’ll Give you the Sun by Jandy Nelson. Also, super cute outfit Gabby! :)
Thank you!! ❤
I know I’ve said this before but I still LOVE your outro song so much, I dance to it every time 😂
Haha aw thanks Ali!!! 😂😍🤩
Gosh Gabby! You and I share that book as favorite for this year. I loved that book and am an older sister too. This book broke me to pieces. Sending you hugs from one big sister to another. ❤
I'm so glad you loved it too! 😭❤ sending hugs!!
Notes on an Execution
Anxious People
The Reformatory
We Used to Live Here
Pet Sematary
Fantasticland
None of this is True
The Groomer
Not In order^^ but those are some of my favorites this year!😊
What a great list!!! 😍🤩
The storied life of AJ Fikry is my favourite book 💜
Bright Young Women is my favourite book of the year! (As of now) ❤
I know I’ll be rereading this book the moment I finished reading for the Book Troop because of how powerful this book was! 😍
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@@gabbyreads I want to read Bright Young Women
I randomly think about incidents around the house and cry. Definitely my top horror book of the year I couldn’t believe how much I loved it 💙💙
Me, too!
That book is so emotional 😭
Such a great list! Glad to see Forget Me Not showing up! 😝 Top favorites this year for me are: Monstrilio, The Other Side of Night, Victorian Psycho, and The Memory Police. I need to get to The Centre and The Storied Life of AJ Fikry soon!
Ahhhh I love Monstrilio! 😍 I hope you enjoy those books too! 🥹🥰 thanks for the rec with Forget Me Not!! 😍
I love the sister trope too Gabby unfortunately im an only child but thats why i hold my friendships so close!! love best friends and sister tropes keep it coming. I definitely plan to read blue sisters!
Bury your gays was my top read of this year!! And that airplane scene was genuinely one of the scariest most unsettling thing I’ve listened to!
I love how similar our tastes are! 💕💕
The airplane scene lives in my head rent free 😂🤯
As someone who is one of the triplets (we are all girls) I can totally understand the bond and emotions you feel about sisterhood 🥹
Haven’t read the book yet but now I don’t think I’ll go to next year without reading Blue Sisters
Bright young women is my number 1 this year ❤
That’s so exciting!! 🤩😍
Oh my I’m crying too. Great list Gabby I need to read several of these that I have not read.
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Forget me not making the list yessssss!!!
I found and read Once There Were Wolves from you and I am so glad I did 😭 I loved it so much. I’m excited for her new book, Dark Wild Shore, in March!!!
Ahh I’m so glad to hear that! I can’t wait for hew new book 😍
@@gabbyreads Migrations was also amazing if you haven't read it yet.
I still need to read Bright young woman 😅
Happy new year Gabby to U and Ur family ❤
Blue sisters is my number 2 & I spent that whole book crying off and on. Ufff so much therapizing in there. I LOVED IT.
- I teared up when you did. FELT THAT IN MY CHEST 🥺♥
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I read the least that I have in more than 10 years. Only 80 books. My favorites by far: Just For The Summer (Abby Jimenez), The Wedding People (Alison Espach), Pen Pal (JT Geissinger) , This Could Be Us (Kennedy Ryan) btw, I loved loved Forget Me Not by Julie Soto, but I read it last year.
Either already read or added the books to my tbr 😂 Love the recs!
My Top 10
1. A certain hunger by Chelsea g summers
2. Sex and Sunsets by Tim Sandlin
3. The butterfly garden by dot Hutchison
4. Thin girls by Diana Clarke
5. Art of Racing in the rain by Garth stein
6. This delicious death by Kayla cottingham
7. Appetite for innocence by Lucinda berry
8. At the coffee shop of curiosities by Heather Webber
9. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite
10. Fat talk by Virginia sole smith
Gabby!! You’re making me frickin cry!!!
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I love that you have such a beautiful relationship with your sister. My sister and I have always been apart - we're 10 years apart and we live in different States but we are still attached. My sister is such a bright funny person that I love to spend time with her and appreciate my time with her so much since we don't get much time together. Will have to pick Blue Sisters up!
Great list! I wrote it down. My fave book of 2024 is the Silent Patient. So twisty and a great ride.
I love the silent patient too! 😍
I really loved The Centre as well. So excited that you loved it too. It’s an underrated book for sure.
Watching this made me want to add so many books to my tbr. I just got Blue Sisters from the library…I’m both scared and excited. I am the youngest sister of 3 so I’m curious to see how hard it hits me. Also, I got Memory Police because of one of your videos!!
Ahhh I think you’ll love it too! 🥹😍 and no way! I’m so happy to hear that! ❤
My only sister died at birth. I had 2 brothers, but I always wondered how things might have turned out if she had lived.
Love the variety on your list and that so many of your Book Troop selections made it.💯
Thank you and ahhhh same! So happy the book club was a huge success for me this year for the first time ever! 🥹🤩
Thank you for your list. I think my top two books of the year are The Best Life Book Club by Sheila Roberts and a middle grade called The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night. That one was so adorable and creative! I'm in the middle of a reading slump right now but I'm thinking of reading the A.J. Fickry one to pull me out of it.
My favorite book this year was a tie between Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes or We used to Live here!!
The Measure was my #1 last year. Right when I was finishing it my sister in law died at 22. I got a tattoo that had combined one of her tattoos with a short and long string
This is such a great list of diverse reads! It was such an awesome year for The Book Troop - two picks made it into my top five!
1. How High We Go in the Dark
2. The Four Winds
3. Any Man
4. We Used to Live Here
5. Listen for the Lie
Thanks Casey!! And ahh what a great top 5! I’m so glad you loved Any Man so much 😍
Listen For The Lie made my top 10 too!
I read quite a few of the same books you read…different rankings though on several, which is fair…my top 5 are From Here To The Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough…Butcher by Joyce Carol Oates…Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll…Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult….and number one for me this year is The Reformatory by Tananarive Due…that book had me fully immersed and I just loved it…
Bright Young Women is on my best books list as well. So powerful. And it made me so mad. 😅
I will def check out some of these books - especially your No 1. 💜
So far My top fav books of 2024
11.22.63 Stephen king
We used to live here Marcus Kliewer
The unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
N0S4A2 by Joe Hill
Enjoyed the vid defo adding some of your favs to my tbr for next year 😀
I will have to give Bright Young Women another chance. Thanks Gabby. Cannot wait for Winterween! Merry Christmas!
Ready to take notes 📝🤓
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Yayyy! Can't wait to watch!
i have a younger sister, but i have not read blue sisters!! should i?? is it really worth the hype?? 💙
I agree that every romance trope is good when it's gay 😅
First off you look stunning gabby love the outfit and also I hope u have a great Christmas 🎄 heres my top favorite books of the year
1.Xmas break by j.e rowney
2.I'll be alone for Christmas by Kristin mulligan
3.Hoilday homicide by Michelle powers
4.Four found dead by Natalie D. Richards
5.Heartstopper series
6.Fangirl manga series
Since you enjoyed Bright Young Women, you should read This Girl's A Killer by Emma C. Wells! I just finished it and loved it!! 🤩🤩🤩
the way you talk about Rachel makes me sad that my sister and I are not closer :(
My top 3 were the nightingale, redeeming 6 (part of boys of Tommen series) & the dead romantics ❤
Gabby! 🥺❤️❤️❤️ (my version of a virtual hug lol)
*hugs* 🥹🥹😭🥰
Can you do a top 10 horror books you've read this year video???
Great list
Here's my picks
Tales of the body thief by Anne rice book 4 in the vampire chronicles
One summer in Savannah by terah shelton Harris
The wild truth by carine mccandless memoir
Out of shape by gracie gold memoir
Queen of the damned by Anne rice book 3 in the vampire chronicles
stars in your eyes by kacen callender
Her too by bonnie kistler
Clytemnestra by constanza casanti
The violence by delilah s dawson
Lizzie Blake's best mistake by mazey eddings
Miss memory lane by colton Haynes memoir
Good luck with that by kristan Higgins
The maid by nita prose
Honorable mentions
Glitterland by alexis hall
Pack up the moon by kristan Higgins
Interview with the vampire by Anne rice
Be my baby by ronnie spector memoir
Hey Gabby! Please make a video on science fiction books 📚 too...🙏🙌
There was so many books on this list I agree with, especially "Bright Young Women" but I would give "We use to live here" 1star. I felt it to be repetitive and the ending was very predictable.
I wondered when your favorite books video would be posted and when I checked my phone I got the notification! Made my morning 😆😊✨ Also where is your flannel jacket from it’s sooo cute?! 💙❤️🤍🖤
I can’t wait to get to the measure.
I downloaded it on Everand
This book has made a lasting impact on my life
Hi Gabby what R U reading at the moment
If you liked Bright Young Women I highly suggest you read the true story of one of the survivors of Ted Bundy and read A Light in the Dark. Then listen to the Morbidly Curious Book Club podcast interview with the author/survivor.
Bright young women is V actually on my worst 10 books of the year. And honestly nothing to do with the writing or author. But the feelings as a result of reading it. My heart hurt, I felt hate, and I didn’t have B a fun time 🤣
I would like to know all good books with asexual characters!!
I do find BYW incredibly problematic, taking very identifiable victims and distorting their lives in many ways (but keeping specific gory details from their murders that she says is exploitative when other media does it). Knoll did say in a video interview with the Book Report Network that she never reached out to the families (saying she would’ve felt wrong, even though I’m sure this bestseller coming out about your relative without warning is probably worse!), and considering how she portrayed the families, that feels really unethical.
I feel like it could’ve been good if it had been truly fictionalised versus being yet another piece of media twisting the victims stories and lives, this time claiming to do it for feminist reasons
you talk at the perfect speed
Who knew this would be such a tough watch, family is so wrapped up in each of your choices, my sister took her own life, media and conversations about sisterhood are unbelievably painful for me. It’s emotional to see you speak so positively about it