BEST BOOKS OF 2020🌟
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- Was so so excited filming this video and so happy to finally share all my favourite reads of this year - welcome to a somewhat emotional ride through so many of my most beloved books, enjoy!! Also Água Viva should be on here but I finished it after filming so!
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Illuminae Files tidd.ly/2KEOhbJ
Sailor Moon tidd.ly/3pz8b6A
When We Were Orphans tidd.ly/3o3BsWP
We Have Always Lived in the Castle tidd.ly/38M3saR
The Broken Wings tidd.ly/3o6dWID
Solaris tidd.ly/2WYn1aI
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead tidd.ly/3hthEcX
The Graveyard Book tidd.ly/38ORxZV
Beloved //tidd.ly/3rDGRWG
After Dark tidd.ly/3o2ebEp
Prometheus Unbound tidd.ly/3aRNLlf
The Turn of the Screw tidd.ly/3aZPgxJ
Autobiography of Red tidd.ly/2WVdO2P
The Picture of Dorian Gray tidd.ly/3hxnSIU
The Dark Interval tidd.ly/2KF1rFD
The Phantom of the Opera tidd.ly/3aV55pr
100 Years of Solitude tidd.ly/3rDHwr8
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Aww! She cried from just talking about books. I wanna hug her.
This is the kind of passion we seek.
The way she passionately persuades you to read 👏
Yes. But I don't think reading needs pursuasion. I think if you are a human, you'll inevitably feel the passion of it and enjoy reading yourself. 😊
@@senpaixd1346 Yes, and dude, you ought to read Chekhov. His work is more human than human beings. Read his short stories, they are simply out of this world, the human sentiment involved is incomparable, definitely makes you more of a human being yourself. ☺️
I’ve always been a bookworm, but you have made me more interested in not just reading books but really learning and reading them in depth and applying them to my life in positive ways. I’m going to the thrift store to get some book and I’ve never been to a thrift store so I’m excited! Also I love your earring! Happy new year Emma and God bless you 🤍🎉
I feel same Happy New year to you 💖🐰
Libraries also have sales in order to make space for newly donated books. Those sales are often very good and have wonderful translations available...for $2-5 typically. 🥰📚
Thrift dhops are greathrift but estate sales and garage sales also sell books at very reasonable prices often in "like new condition"
@@KikiFuyes! Nobody talks abt the fantastic library prices, but I've gotten two entire shelves for under $35 (!!) bc of my library.
@@zzyzxzzyzx That's awesome! 📚❤️
I love how you add snippets of footage where you read the books, that's such a unique idea😊
I love it too
the beginning of the video reminded me of this quote by Paul Celan: “Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.”
be well Emma! thank you for everything you do!
ugh I love that, thank you!
@@emmiereads of course!!
This year introduced me to you, and that's why I let this year pass as not the worst year for me.🥺🥺🌼🌼🌼
Thank you for being this amazing human that you are, you've made my worst days better by just talking about what you love.❤️
I love you 💕
@@emmiereads 😭❤️ thank you for replying I am literally screaming 🥺 you're literally my favourite person ❤️
Exactly!
I’m 45 years old now and I spent 2020 getting reacquainted with my love of books. I graduated high school from home and learned that I love love love to write. I don’t know that I’m any good at it but it helps my mental state :)
I know this video is 4 months old but I just found your channel and I think you do great work!
the passion you talk about language and stories is simply breathtaking
I love that your list has so many books that aren’t talked about by most of booktube!! Some awesome titles 🤩
I just love how you recommend a whole new sort of books that are not the talk of the town ( booktube/ bookstagram ) I just find your content refreshing and non repetitive
I love you so so much Emmie. There was a time when I used to devour books and enjoy reading but it dwindled over the past few years and I had stopped reading entirely.
I picked up reading again this year , and the main reason behind this was you . Your videos and your enthusiasm about books really sparked back my interest in books . So thank you so so much. You have no idea how eagerly I wait for you to upload a new video.
You are making me fall back in love with reading and books and every time I watch one of your videos it makes me pick up a book or multiple so I wanted to say thank you and i'm very glad I found your channel this year
my top three of the year;
1. frankenstein (my new favorite book, the number one on this list and in my heart, absolutely beautiful and infinitely discussable)
2. the poet x (elizabeth acevedo became one of my favorite writers this year, her prose just spirits me away and dives deep into my soul, it's gut wrenching, emotional and so genuine)
3. this is how you lose the time war (just wow, so weird and so good, and oof what an audiobook)
with an honourable mention to "if not, winter" which i read upon your recommendation and was truly blown away from! it festered in some deep part of my brain.. and a shout out to jane austen, whose books i devoured and were a much needed escape (especially sense & sensibility)
and lastly, thank you for your videos this year.. you have been a source of calmness and peace in the storm that has become our daily lives! see you next year x
top three books is HARD but just going by my gut I'm gonna have to say:
1. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
2. Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
3. The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited by the McElroy family !
HI EMMA!!!!!!!!!
i just wanted to say a few things:
1/ i love you and your content so much. your videos are my favorite to watch and to fall asleep to when my insomnia is stronger than usual.
2/ i just wanted to thank you for making these videos, and for dedicating your time to us, even with a brain injury. you are so special and so dedicated to us and i am forever indebted to you emma.
3/ you have gotten me through so much. my brother and dad recently got corona, and it was so hard for me and my mom to be distanced from them, and to not know if they were okay. and your videos got me through it. i had one of your videos on EVERY second of every day. whether it be an old video or a new video. your long and soft spoken yet enjoyable content made me feel so connected to someone, and so extremely comforted. and i genuinely felt like we were best friends. thank you so much. i love and adore you and hope you’re doing okay. thanks again em
thank you seriously from the bottom of my heart for your kind words, they feel like a big hug
@@emmiereads i love you. sending hugs 💗
your videos have honestly been such a comfort to me this past year. thank you so much for all the hard work you do it’s honestly been such a hard year and your videos have been such a light in my life ❤️
I'm so glad, thank you so much for so many lovely words this year, love you!!
I can’t believe I only found your channel today
awe hi!!
@@emmiereads I’ve been binge watching all your videos! I love them :)
@@filipamartins1722 same
Thank you so much for making this year just a little more bearable, your videos always make me feel so happy on so many dark days❤️
I wanna thank you, for making videos and having something to look forward to basically every week. For not making reading seem like a chore or something you feel compelled to do (some booktubers sometimes do that), but something so beautiful. And thank you for being the nicest human being. I’m very grateful for you.
the emotion in your eyes and face and the rawness with which you discuss these books is just the most beautiful warming thing. your videos have got me through the more difficult parts of this year and i cannot thank you more for that. (currently reading the phantom of the opera for the first time as a result of your videos!) lots and lots of love from the uk, you are so adored and appreciated. ♡
We all need to reconcile things at times. And you have helped me with that through your beautiful voice and amazing books. My “hope” for you is that you’re feeling that from all of us who love you and your channel. Wishing you the happiest and healthiest of New Years! ❤️
One of the best things that happened this year was to discover your channel. Your videos made me so happy in these difficult times, thank you so much. 💖
oh gosh, the intro made me so emotional... 🤍 sending so much love & praying for your continued healing into 2021.
thank you so much lovely, sending you the biggest hug
The beginning touched me deeply, what a precious human you are! 💖
I just want to thank you for all the joy and inspiration you brought me in this difficult year and I wish you a beautiful and healthy 2021! 🍀
I love people who love talking about books!
My favorite books of the year were Pachinko, the Count of Monte Cristo, and Trevor Noah's memoir. They all made me feel really deeply, either sadness, happiness, or just completely moved. An honorable mention is The Magical Language of Others, another memoir. Thanks for introducing some new reads!
i honestly could listen to you talking about books forever
Watching this while bullet journaling = maximum relaxation :)
im setting up my 2021 spread to thisssss
I discovered your channel sometime in August and it's one of the few true gems I had the pleasure to enjoy this year. I like how I remember a lot of the clips you inserted from your vlogs. Love you, love your channel ❤
this year was a complete mess for me and i have to say that discovering your channel has helped me tremendously. your voice is so soft and your videos are so calm and aesthetically pleasing, it feels like teraphy. i’ve also read lot of the books thanks to you and found so many new favs. thank u for this year emmie! 🤍 you re great
It’s so beautiful to see how you’ve grown throughout this year. Thank you so much for sharing♥️
I’m so glad I found you this year. I haven’t been here for long but you really made my quarantine better. Thanks for what you do. ❤️
Now I need to read every single book here that I haven't already😂 Love this video and love to hear your thoughts💖 Happy New Year! ✨🍾
Thank you for all the effort done this year! Been with you since September, but I feel like I know you for years and years. Your videos helped me get through some tough times and I've become a more active reader nonetheless. Happy New Year, Emma! Love you
I love how passionate you talk about these books. It made me add quite a few books to my reading/wishlist. I hope 2021 will be better for you and that you have the chance of reading many more fantastic books.
you are literally shining in this video!! 🌺✨🌺✨🌺✨ thank u for all the recommendations and also for the calm and soothing vibes that you emanate 💕
Thank you so much for this video!
This year I found you and you introduced me to my favorite books. You brought me into classics and for that I am forever grateful to you!
My top 3:
Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
The purple hibiscus- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The picture of Dorian gray- Oscar Wilde
How's Lolita?
@@triptinath5675 👎😕
Also read 100 years of solitude in 2020, and it was so great, all the characters were perfect and when someone died, you just felt it, and you missed them being there. Alot of it was so unexpected and I agree with you, that this is one book you absolutely need to reread multiple times in your life!
Thank you for introducing us to so many wonderful books over the year. I can't wait to add some of the titles I don't own to my shelves.
The passion you have is contagious, you made me cry
My 3 favourites readings of this yera where:
-The Foundation by Antonio Buero-Vallejo.
- The sorrows of young Werther by Goethe.
-The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
You are such a special human being, I’m so glad I found this channel ;-; thank you for the recs and I hope you have a wonderful 2021
A book that made a huge impact on me this year was The girl with seven names by Hyeonseo Lee, the life story of a girl who escaped North-Korea. She has some TED talks on UA-cam too and overal it made me want to pick up more books about this topic and learn more about the situation.
Oh I also read a book about people who left from North Korea and everything they had to faced. It was an amazing book about the subject, called Nothing to Envy.
thank you so much emmie! your videos have helped sparked my enthusiasm for reading this year when i didn't really feel like doing anything at all. so glad i had you and your videos as a companion this past year!!
I love your channel SO MUCH! You bring so much comfort and inspiration. You reminded me how much I love to read. I just bought phantom of the opera and I can’t wait to share in the joy! Thank you so much!
It's great that you discovered so many new favourites this year!
I actually just ordered both Phantom of the Opera and One Hundred Years of Solitude today because you speak so highly of them. 😆
I'm so grateful for having stumbled across your channel earlier this year, your videos have been a huge comfort as well as an inspiration.
I hope 2021 brings you good things and many more amazing stories to enjoy! 💛
Thank you so much for sharing this top 17 and for making me want to read more classics. I definitely want to read Rilke this year. I also read The picture of Dorian Grey a few weeks ago and I absolutely loved it, the writing was so beautiful! Happy new year and take care 😊
love your voice and your tone sooo much！！especially for a book lover and English learner who try to understand without captions. your video make me feel comfortable and peaceful
sooo happy to be spending the new year's eve with a new vid of yours!
What a fantastic video. Thank you for this. Nowadays I'm rarely shaken/stirred/inspired by what I read, so it's wonderful to see (to remember) the power that language and imagination, wielded by one mind, can have over another. Your responses are so affecting. And such an eclectic list! A glorious celebration of the ability of books to help us find new depths in ourselves. My top three books of this year were 1. Wives and Daughters (Gaskell) 2. Little Women (Alcott) - proving that classics are classics for a reason; this was the first time I'd read either - and 3. Born With Teeth (audiobook), Kate Mulgrew's autobiography, read by the author herself, another instance (to add to your examples) where reading from the page would certainly not have been the same experience.
Thanks again for this lovely three-quarters of an hour.
Your videos have been such a comfort this year. I'm so glad you loved The Picture of Dorian Gray and Beloved! I am a massive Oscar Wilde fan, and I can't wait to read even more by him this year. Also, Toni Morrison was such a talented author! I should perhaps reread Beloved. It was my first Toni Morrison book as well and it's been years since I read it. If you're looking for more Toni Morrison I highly recommend The Bluest Eye next. The way the main character internalizes a standard of beauty that she can never achieve is poignant and heartbreaking. It's such a powerful read. Happy New Year! Here's to a great 2021!
a video i’ve so been waiting for! opening up a tab for goodreads to get adding
Every time I watch one of your videos you make me grab a book afterwards. It's surely a gift you have there. ;)
I love how you chose such different authors with different mother tongues and experiences throughout their life! It helps me to gain a broader perspective when it comes to literature and shows that although 95% of booktubers like to read their American YA-stuff that you are one of the few 5% who isn't going to constantly talk about Sarah J. Maas' books for years to come. I also enjoy a YA sometimes, but diversity is worth more to me. :)
you always sell me on every single book you read. the eloquence!!!! the passion!!! happy new years emma!!
LOVE YOU SARAH, happy new year!!!!
One good thing this year was discovering your channel. Happy new year!
You've introduced me to so many wonderful books this year
one of my 2020 highlights has to be discovering your lovely channel, and via your recommendation, rilke’s writing 🤍🕊 wishing you health and happiness in the new year emma!
Hi beautiful human being! Been waiting for it! Thankssssssss happy new year lovely Emma!!!!!!! Happy happy new year! Hope you'll (everyone will) have amazing, fulfilled, and full of exploration and safety year next year!
I’m Colombian so when I was in high school (11th grade, I was 17), 100 Years of Solitude was one of the obligatory reads. God, I hated it!, I didn’t read it but we have to do a movie of the book. I’ve always being intimidated by this book, of course with 17 I was still in love with Edward Cullen and that’s what I wanted to read in school. I just want to tell you that you convinced me! I want to read it now and I’m very glad to be so privileged to be able to read it in the original language. Thanks!
Happy New Year Emma. Thank you for being there this year
Happy new year Emma! You are one of the best things i came across this year. Couldn't be happier. Stay blessed and Happy! ❤😘
i'm so glad you liked 'the picture of dorian gray'!! i kinda have the same "issue" with that book as you do with 'the phantom of the opera' - i cannot stop collecting different versions/publications of it. it's just so beautiful!
happy new year, emma!
I love you. thank you for making my 2020 better!
Ahh, no other awards [shows] can even compare; they can't even TRY!!
Literal[ture]ly a perfect video from a perfect channel.
It has been so wonderful to see everyone take in your words and warmth and recs and just have something free from any 2020 bedlam and absolutely overflowing with light and collective passion (without caring about run-on sentences).
HNY
(Also mine were The Remains of the Day, The Winter of Our Discontent, and Stoner if I had to limit and if anyone cares or just for posterity)
This sounds quite dramatic but is very true; this is my favorite UA-cam video. Like ever. And I watched 1000s of UA-cam videos over the course of the past seven years. Is just makes me so happy 🥺
Excellent year review! I feel for you and this year of hardship. I like you had a similar year two years ago and it was hard and books saved me as well. My favorites this year were The Spy and the Traitor, Lost Spells and Dolly Parton’s Storyteller (recommend audio as she tells her story). I wish for you a better year and keep the reviews coming!
for me it was
1) killing commendatore by haruki murakami
2) Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
3) The day Lasts More Than A hundred Years by Chinghiz Aitmatov
I read Kafka on the shore in March and I really really loved it and still think about it every now and then
One of the best things of my year was discovering this channel! Hearing all those beautiful things about Rilke, my favorite poet, was really lovely; I also read 100 years of solitude for an exam and I really loved it❤
With love, a literature student from Italy (sorry if I made some grammatical mistakes ahaha)
Your love of stories is so relatable and so beautiful 🥰💐
My number one book of 2020 is also One hundred years of solitude, followed by Love in the time of cholera and If Beale street could talk by James Baldwin. So glad to hear your love for Gabo (thats the friendly way we call Gabriel García Marquez in Colombia). As the books, you've also been like friend for me this past year. Thank you for sharing your life, your readings, your thoughts and your emotions. Hope this year brings amazing and more beloved books. Hugs from Latin America!!
Ps: I love Rilke too
I'm so happy that I discover your channel before 2020 ends. Happy new year Emma!
i love this so much
my top 3: - this is how you lose the time war
- little life
- beloved
This is great! Happy New Year Emma! Your videos has been highlights for me in 2020.
I love this video and tried to guess your favourites before. :D it was fun. Happy New Year, Emma. You were one of the best parts of 2020 for me. ❤️
I read "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison in high school for a project and LOVED it, I definitely want to read it again soon as an adult to see what I get from it with a more mature perspective
I am so glad that UA-cam recommended your channel! I am so glad to be here!
Such a wonderful video. I admire how well you articulate your feelings about these books and describe them. My favourite book from 2020 was Devotions by Mary Oliver, which is a collections of poems, that really healed me and helped me get through the year.
Ahhhhh I’ve been so looking forward to this!! 😍👏
Your thoughts are so beautiful... man I'm addicted. I love your passion.
Loved this video as always!! happy new year Emma 🕊 This channel makes everything better
So now I know what books I have to be adding to my 2021 reading list! Happy new year, Emmie, I'm so thrilled that I'm able to watch your videos and absolutely delight in every single one of them. I absolutely adore ALL your content and I wish I had found you sooner! My top three books of the year were probably (watch as I struggle to decide and I only read 27): Burn by Patrick Ness, Violet to Vita (The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West), and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Re: Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead - I'll have to add this to my TBR list based on your recommendation..... It's sad that even with the classics' more famous passages 'about' animal suffering, like Raskolnikov's dream in Crime & Punishment - where he's horrified by the horse being whipped, you still get the sense as a reader that it's a religious metaphor or mainly intented only as a commentary on how people mistreat each other. Then along these lines there are films like Au Hazard Balthazar by Bresson and The Rules of the Game by Renoir (countless others) in which *real animals* (i.e. in the film's production) are literally enlisted as sacrifices to this kind of poetic device. It's a glaring blindspot that's rarely remarked on.
I have one hundred years of solitude sitting on my shelf. Now I have to read it soon. 🙈
One of my favourites books of 2020 was The phantom of the opera, it was thanks to you I read it. So thank you so so much!!!❤🤗 Love your channel!! Hugs from Argentina!!!
Super interesting to see two polish books on your list :) warm greetings from Warsaw!
At 1:53, I got teary-eyed!!!Got the same feeling😢 because reading helped me as well during the ordeal that was 2020. *New subscriber here❤
One hundred years of solitude is one of my all time favorites!! Absolutely amazing
yay I've been anticipating this video :)) I honestly love so much how excited you get when you talk about the books you love
oops forgot to include my top 3:
1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2. Circe by Madeline Miller
3, Persuasion by Jane Austen
The opening speech was so beautiful.
In 2019 I suffered a brain injury as well and it was very rough as my escapes were also reading and watching movies. As a journalism student, I had to put my whole life on hold and get better little by little. I know that it might feel very rough, to be honest and I still have my rough days a year and a half later, but it will get better and soon you'll get back into the magical worlds of books and your appreciation for them will forever change for the better 😊 And you are doing great with this channel, I love how you introduce me to new books and Sailor Moon has definitely been my 2020 guilty pleasure, they were just so cool 😂
Thank you for mentioning the books in the description, you're a lifesaver!
It's the new year in korean time. happy new year, emma💖
happy new year!!
I got myself Autobiography of Red and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead for Christmas because of you. I'm currently reading Anne Carson and it's one of the best books I've ever read, so I'll never thank you enough
Ah, we have a lot of similar favourites! Beloved was my number 1 for this year! Loved reading a lot of Neil Gainman too 😊 Great wrap up!
That was so beautifully said. Thank you so much for sharing. I really enjoy your videos and your passion for good books/stories. God Bless ❤️
Yayyyy new content!! I love you! I’m currently reading the phantom of the opera after seeing your Channel ✨💕
Love you Emmie, your videos got me into reading again! Happy New Years from Iowa!
i looove your taste in books soso much!! thank you for your recommendations 💌
I find myself opening up to so many of your suggestions just from your description. I’ve never read Manga but I think Sailor Moon is a comfort I need! What influences your book choices? Very happy that your videos are a generally juicy length so thank you especially for this past year 💜