TOP BOOKS OF 2021 + FINAL READS
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TOP 2021 BOOKS BLOG POST (contains links to original reviews): www.sunbeamsjess.com/blog/202...
TOP 2021 BOOKS BOOKSHOP.ORG LIST (affiliate links): uk.bookshop.org/lists/top-202...
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03:18 The Best of the Best
12:25 The Unsettling
17:10 The Big Bois
23:32 Honourable Mentions
33:09 Final Reads of 2021
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Pew by Catherine Lacey
Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Honourable Mentions:
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
The Strange Bird by Jeff VanderMeer
Other:
The Martian by Andy Weir
The City & the City by China Miéville
His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
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A little bit off topic but I love your accent I find it so relaxing. I listen to your longer videos especially book ones like a podcast when I’m winding down for the night!
I love that you don’t just read what’s popular! Haven’t heard of a lot of these and will definitely be putting a few on my list. I think I will finally read Jeff Vandermeer this year
I will truly never get tired of your book videos! Such a delight 📖💕
I’m reading The Southern Reach Trilogy right now per your recommendation! I’m on the third book and it is messing with my mind, in the best way possible. The way each chapter leaves you hanging and keeps you interested, without revealing much at all, is amazing.
i missed your lengthy book videos so much i enjoy them thoroughly I'm glad you are still going to post monthly book videos on this channel
i love so much your books recommendations, it hits differently on booktube.
I have been anticipating this SO much!
My day just got better 😍 your recommendations are always thanked!
BRB, going to make myself a cup of coffee and enjoy this video. I've missed you!!
Yesssssss I was so looking forward to this!!! I love your book videos so much.
I read Piranesi based on your recommendation and I loooved it! I'm currently finishing up my thesis for my BA in literature and I look forward to joining the patreon bookclub once i am graduated :) xx
Yes ! Piranesi was my favorite fantasy book of the year! I loved it
I read all the Gormenghast books this year because of you and I'm so so grateful! Gormenghast itself I think is one of the best things I've ever read: the way that setting, character, plot and language are all so well used (flawlessly well used?) absolutely blew me away. I have such a hard time trying to describe why I loved it so much as I just feel like I don't have the language to convey how amazing Peake's use of language is. I felt the same about Titus Alone :( sad I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I loved the first two, but it's one of those ones I'm appreciating for what it is a bit more now I'm out the other side.
These kind of videos make me so happy! I adore them 🤍 I want to read them all
Love this! I am adding a few books to my list to read this year. I thoroughly enjoy Jeff Vandermeer, he has been a favourite for a year or so now! Thanks for sharing your favourite books, looking forward to the next one
AAAAHHH!! I’ve been waiting for this video🙌🏽 🙌🏽☺️💛
Jess, you introduced me to Jeff Vandermeer and he has very quickly become my favourite author. The Southern Reach trilogy is absolutely brilliant, I’ve never read anything like it, and I’m really looking forward to reading more of his catalogue. Thank you so much for all your content in 2021, and I’m so looking forward to joining your Patreon once it’s all set up!
What a fantastic video! Ahh, I got so much joy out of this!
I love these type of videos! Thank you for sharing. 🖤
Piranesi was also my absolute favourite book this year. I recommend it to anyone who'll listen and definitely picked it up on your recommendation!
she’s baaaack! 📚
excited for more book videos this year!!
I’ve missed these videos! Can’t wait to read Piranesi! ☺️
Oh my goodness doesn't it make you feel good when you guess who the killer is when reading a thriller, thank you for these reviews and a happy happy new year to you and your family.
First, thank you Love for the recommendations.🧡
Honestly, hearing you talk about books is my favourite thing to do when doing homework, it´s just like a sacred timing for me, ly
Just finished "Piranesi" (literally today) and enjoyed it SO much. I can't wait to read it again in the future and rediscover all the brilliant nuance packed in the Halls! Thank you for the rec :)
Have you read Maggie O'Farrell's "Hamnet" yet? I think I remember you hauled it in the past. Would love to hear how you get on with it!
This makes me happy ❤️📚
You read very chunky books & I am so impressed! I like big books & I cannot lie 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you for sharing with us. These are my FAVORITE videos to watch as well. Blessings to you 🙏🏾
Loved Piranesi too and I am planning on reading The Gormenghast Trilogy next! Would also be interested in the zoom thing if you are able to do it :)
I need all of these books on my bookshelf immediately! 💫 Keep rising to be who you want to be! 💫 #keeprising #risingtobe #aswerise
Finally got around to watching this video! I read Piranesi after you recommended it during vlogmas and I absolutely loved it. I agree that it's better to get into it without knowing what it's about. I enjoyed trying to puzzle out what's happening. I wonder - since you enjoyed Vandermeer and Mieville - if you won't enjoy Neal Stephenson too. He writes in different subgenres of scifi and uses a lot of high concepts and technology in his books. His writing is also dense and eschews plot in some of his books. I would be curious to see how his books work for you if you ever try them.
I love Louise Erdrich! Her classic novel is of course Love Medicine, which is worth a read, but most recently I read and loved Future Home of the Living God. I found it to be very moving as well as strangely relatable. I think you would really like it.
Great video.
Standard gym listening here! Completely agree with your holistic experience with novels, I think the special ingredient in any novel is yourself..
Love Medicine by Erdrich is incredible, the first I read of her's and it made me fall in love with her writing. It'a a collection of interconnected short stories, could be a novel, could be read separately. Amazing.
Weir’s other book Project Hail Mary is fantastic as an audiobook as well!
My town has a very poorly stocked bookstore, and I do prefer buying books in person although there’s no chances of finding Peake or VanderMeer i have wanted to read Clarke ASAP as I’ve heard so much about her and your recommendation has cemented my determination...by chance and with a lot of luck I managed to find one single copy of Piranesi hidden away and I’m thrilled
Dead Astronauts is a book on drugs ! One of the most unique books I've ever read. I think I enjoyed the city and the city more than you did but you definitely raised valid points. I loved piranesi!
reading the thursday murder club by richard osman on audio, loving the narration! Also recently listened to the pull of the stars by emma donoghue which was a lovely listen too!
Unsure if it’d be up your street but I LOVED Daisy Jones and the Six as an audiobook. It’s about a fictitious band in the 70s that’s a bit reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac. It’s read by multiple narrators for the different viewpoints of those in the band and those around the front woman. It’s my favourite audiobook I’ve listened to!
My favorite audiobook of all time too, hands down! The voice actors were unbelievable!! And the lyrics, the story! I can’t stop raving about it. It’s so good
For Erdrich, try her first novel, Love Medicine (one of my fav books of all time) or The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse!
Just found your channel. So dreamy ❤
Hi Jess! You got my attention with Piranesi. Maybe it's hard for you to judge but do you think the language is suitable for an intermediate non-native English reader? I'm used to read in English but I tend to stay soft :) (my last book in the original language was Trouble Blood by Robert Galbraith) Thanks a lot, Bianca
Really enjoyed Piranesi per your recommendation Jess, so thank you! Have you read Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi? This was my favourite book of 2021 alongside The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
I loved Piranesi also. Which book would you start with, if you had never read Jane Smiley before?
the martian and the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy are def my favs.
What do you classify as a book to keep and a book to pass on or donate? I have a hard time keeping anything I wouldn’t reread
Haha, I just had a slice of banana bread watching this. Coincidence? Thanks anyways for the book recommendations, I hope I will get round to reading one or two. I‘m just such a slow reader, wish this would come easier.
Lots of love from Germany! ♥︎
I loved Piranesi. A Zoom book club discussion would be fun.
Yeeeeeeeees!
Jess & anyone with her reading taste, I think you would like "The Women of Troy". It's a follow up to "Silence of the Girls" which I haven't read yet but plan to. Luckily this reads like a stand alone. A modern, feminist retelling of what took place after the Trojan war. So good! Amazing writing by Pat Barker. Love the pace, characters, storyline, mythological aspect - it all works.
I haven’t read Women of Troy yet but Silence of the Girls is fantastic and definitely one of my favourites from 2021! ☺️
@@Mrphy52 I'm so excited to read that one next!
Do a what I got for Christmas :)
Jess~ Listening to your reviews… thinking of when I used to get into books so much~ about a book a day… fast reading because of being immersed into the stories. Then, I had somehow developed a dizziness exacerbated by moving my eyes in reading… so I would read one quickly before getting dizzy… all this before audiobooks.
When you got to The Nightwatchman~~~~ Wow~!
My GreatGrandmother lived on that reservation ~ which makes me a descendant ~ But::::: I see that this writing is fictional, so hopefully not characterizing a false impression of the real people, who were marginalized and disenfranchised to the ‘public’ to justify the crimes against humanity against them.~ will want to get that one, perhaps it is on Kindle for my mom. Thankyou for keeping with the read about people in my region/ family. 💖❣️🕊✨
You should definitely try Tokarczuk’s Drive your plow over the bones of the dead (brilliant) or the Books of Jacob (on my reading list, but is much longer and sounds more suited to you). Would be interested to hear your opinion!
she has read drive your plow, there is a review!
@@amelia1744 oh no way! Which vid is the review in?
i’ve heard amazing things about Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir..would be so interested in hearing your thoughts if you read it! xx
Tracks by Erdrich is beautiful
If you're looking for another Louise Erdrich I would recommend Tracks!
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love medicine is louise erdrich’s best book!
Great hearing your thoughts on all these! Especially happy to listen to your praise of Pew since I loved it but have mostly only seen negative reactions to it. Very much agree that it's more like a fable.
And you make me glad I never got around to reading A Net for Small Fishes. 😅
Would love to be involved in a zoom thing if it happens.