My Favorite Books of 2020!🥳
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- Опубліковано 13 січ 2021
- Hi friends!
Here's my 2020 list of favorite books! What was your favorite book of 2020?
Books Mentioned:
YA / Adult List
13. Still Life with Tornado
by AS King
YA, Surrealism, Abuse, Gaslighting
BEST HARD HITTING NOVEL
12. My Dark Vanessa
by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Adult, Contemporary / Literary Fiction
MOST LIKELY TO CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE
11. Fangs
by Sarah Anderson
Adult, Graphic Novel, Vampires, Werewolves, Romance, Comedy
FUNNIEST BOOK
10. Bunny
by Mona Awad
Adult, Literary Thriller, Experimental Writing, Surrealism
BEST PLOT TWIST
9. Wild Beauty
by Anna Marie Mclemore (pronouns They/ Them)
YA, Magical Realism, Romance, LGBTQ, Latinx Rep
MOST BEAUTIFUL WRITING
8. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by Victoria Schwab
Adult, Fantasy, Love Story, LGBTQ
BEST FANTASY
7. A Million Junes
by Emily Henry
YA, Romance, Magical Realism, Shakespeare Retelling
BEST ROMANCE
6. Middlegame
by Seanan McGuire
Adult, Sci Fi, Fantasy, Story within a story, Siblings, Alchemy
MOST UNIQUE BOOK
5. Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
Adult, Sci Fi, Video Games, Adventure, Face Paced
MOST LIKELY TO GET YOU OUT OF A READING SLUMP
4. Lock Every Door
by Riley Sager
Adult, Thriller
MOST BINGABLE BOOK
3. The Astonishing Color of After
by Emily XR Pan
YA, Magical Realism, Grief, Asian Rep.
MOST LIKELY TO REREAD
2. If We Were Villains
by ML Rio
Adult, LGBTQ, Friendship Group, Dark Academia, Shakespeare
BEST DARK ACADEMIA
1. The House in the Cerulean Sea
by TJ Klune
Adult, Fantasy, LGBTQ, Found Family
MOST LIKELY TO ADD A SPRINKLE OF MAGIC TO YOUR LIFE
Middle Grade List:
5. The Seance Tea Party
by Reimena Yee
Graphic Novel, LBGTQ, Ghost Story, Friendship
MOST LIKELY TO MAKE YOU SMILE
4. The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures
by Jaclyn Moriarty
Fantasy, Comedy, Brilliant!
BEST COVER / MOST FUN BOOK
3. The House with the Chicken Legs
by Sophie Anderson
Russian Folklore Retelling, Fantasy, Family
MOST LYRICAL WRITING
2. Howl's Moving Castle
by Dianna Wynne Jones
Fantasy, Whimsical, Romance, Comedy/ Adventure
MOST WHIMSICAL
1. King and the Dragonflies
by Kacen Callender (pronouns He/They)
Grief, LGBTQ, Magical Realism
BEST ALL AROUND BOOK
✨FAVORITE BOOK OF THE YEAR✨
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uh oh...... my tbr list just grew by A LOT XD
Omg you would LOVE Fangs and If We Were Villains!
Sameee😭✨
"The House in the Cerulean Sea" deserves ALL THE LOVE💖💖💖
YESSSSS
Lexi this was SUCH A GOOD LIST! Lock Every Door was in my top books for last year 👌🏻 so good! I really really need to read If We Were Villains 🙈 And omg yes House in the Cerulean Sea is top tier! 😭✨
Omg I know you will love If We Were Villains - it is PEAK Dark Academia!
That coffee mug is HUGE!!!
The way your eyes shine when you talk about your favorite tropes and characters 😭💖
I read the House in the Cerulean Sea on your recommendation and I LOVED it. It’s on my top 5 list for the year as well 💛
I really appreciate the list you put in the description ♥️🥰
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue broke my heart but I loved every minute
Omg same!!
Your hair, make up, outfit was just ✨flawless ✨and the content as always exceptional 💗
Also you holding a mug and a book at the same time throughout the video is serious arm strength.
Hahahaha THANK YOU FOR HYPING ME UP CINIA!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
Amazing list! ♥♥♥ Seance Tea Party sounds darling!
Thank you!!
I have 10 books on my TBR pile now it’s going to be bigger lol. I love your videos your happy energy and positive vibes just makes my energy super excited and happy. Love you.....
Omygosh! Fangs made the list! I loved Fangs! ❤️❤️❤️
I had a tie for my top spot: Lonesome Dove and Song of Achilles! You have me adding many books to my list for 2021!
I’ll have to look into Lonesome Dove! And Song of Achilles is an all time favorite book for me!!
Wow! I love your list! 💖💖
0:32 Girlll that paper cut zoom in and voice made me respect you more and deserves a film award 😂
Perfect Timing 💖💖💖😍
I've been looking for some great book recommendations 💖
Your fashion style is so cool and cute💖💖💖
Oh my gosh you look amazing! So artistic. 😍
Oooh I need that Fangs graphic novel!
I’m so glad you ended up loving A Million Junes! That book doesn’t get enough recognition 👏🏻
You put your march book as percy jackson I'm so happy right now. I'm on the last books of heroes of olympus can't wait to read trials of apollo
Yay!!! I’m so excited to read it!!!
I read The War That Saved My Life last month and it is one of the best middlegrade I've ever read. It's like Anne of Green Gables although the main character doesn't have Anne's positive spirit nor imagination. She is thoroughly broken and the story is about her heal again in this newfound family. Beautifully written, played with all my emotions and just plain perfection in my opinion.
Some of my favorites of this past year were In the Dream House, If We Were Villains, Tiny Beautiful Things, The Starless Sea, Autobiography of Red, and Watch Over Me 💕 Also, you look especially stunning in this video ☺️ Sending gratitude your way for your day-brightening content! ☀️
Lexi I just love watching your videos my fav book of the year 2020 was the whole twilight series including midnight sun💖
Also I finished reading My Dark Vanessa and omg WHAT A BOOK. I think that the author made such an amazing way for you to see different kind of perspectives when it comes to pedophilia, sexual abuse and the sexualisation of young women just like you said. It was so realistic that I felt that I was in every single scene.
And a million junes what a beautiful book. So many beautiful quotes. Just an amazing and whimsical journey
Yes yes yes!!! So well said! It’s such a painful read but it sheds so much light on so many problems in society!
❄My top 5 favorite books of 2020 were :
🌟Keeper of The Lost Cities 💖😍
🌟The House in the Cerulean Sea 💖
🌟 Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson 💖
🌟Seeking Persephone by Sarah M. Eden 💖
🌟I love you so Mochi by Sarah Kuhn 💖
"The Polar Bear Explorer's Club" is also an amazing middle grade book💖
Oh I have that!! I’ll have to pick it up next winter!
King and the dragonflies is EVERYTHING 😍♥️
An all time favorite at this point!!
The house in the cerulean sea is one of my favorite books of 2020. When my boyfriend saw seance tea party he said, “babe they made a book about you”. The purple beach cruiser, black cat, her wardrobe, everything lol. I love seance tea party and my 6 year old loves it too! ❤️
Your outfit is giving me all the flower power vibes, gorgeous! 😍🌹
Ready Player One is one of my favorite books. I am a big 80s junkie so reading all those references I was like oooo yaaay. Also this year I too read Howl's Moving Castle this year for the first time and loved it! I also loved Kiki's Delivery Service, and I read an ARC of The Paris Library that is coming out sometime this year. I thought it was an AMAZING historical fiction book, And another favorite is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.
I love your bookshelves gosh
Thank you💕
Thanks for all this titles,you make my tbr bigger and bigger. Now you have a very loyal follower even here in Italy, thanks for all yours beautiful videos :)
I just added some of these to my TBR. I would have done this when I first watched the video but for some reason I was not adding anything to my TBR for a long time. I would add everything I could to my Audible wish list but forgot about GoodReads! Hopefully I'll be able to add to GoodReads more now. I'm gonna try.
I couldnt wait for the house in the cerulean sea & addie larue to come out in germany- I just had to listen to them on audible!!! I LOVED BOTH OF THEM SO MUCH - they are being released in april and may this year AND I WILL BE BUYING AND REREADING THEM AGAIN - I also just ordered King and the dragon flies😊Thank you so much for your video- love from Berlin/Germany💜💛🧡💚💙
I've either read, or plan on reading, all of these books. I had to laugh at you narrowing it down to 18 books. That's where I'm at. I read substantially more books than usual last year and I just can't narrow it down to a top 10. So I decided to narrow it down to a favorites list in several categories - favorite adult/YA, favorite middle grade, favorite graphic novels.
Yes!! It’s just so hard to create a top ten when there are so many amazing books in the world!🥺❤️✨
You truly were the person to get me inspired to read middle grade. I was wondering if you have ever read Some Kind of Happiness
favorite
Omg I can't believe I just found this channel. I love your personality so much and book taste. I'm definitely a new subscriber.
You have a classy looking library. I love your set.
I love the cover for Lock Every Door. I prefer that over the cover where there's an eye peeking through the peep hole in the door and that is so creepy 😱😱
Omg I haven’t seen that one!!! Now I need it!
Your recommendations are so unique.
i love you lexie
Thanks Geovanna!! Your comments always make me smile 😊
I loved Fangs! I bought it because of your recommendation.
YAY!!!
From your list some of my faves were Addie LaRue and Cerulean Sea 🥰❤️
Other favs of 2020 (I couldn’t narrow it down😇!)
Little women, crooked kingdom, in the dream house, hollowpox, starless sea, a torch against the night, this savage song, the graveyard book, cemetery boys, becoming by Michelle Obama, Daisy Jones & the Six, the girl who drank the moon, the diviners series, between the world and me, lord of shadows, with the fire on high, shadow rising
I am going to have to read the King and the Dragonflies, if we were villains, middlegame, and the astonishing color of after now!!😊
I loved how you described My Dark Vanessa. Great thoughts on a very dark book. Hearing other booktubers call this a romance makes me cringe.
I’m new to booktube, and just came across your videos! Loving your videos, and subscribed 💕
Hellooooo!
Just discovered your channel, this is pure gold!! Awsome!
Keep up the fantastic work!!
Thanks for the words of encouragement friend!!
Love “House in the Cerulean sea” so much ❤️
House on the cerulean sea was one of the best books ive ever read. It made me SO HAPPY.
It made me so happy tooo!!!
Hi! I just discovered your channel. I love it. Your passion for books is infectious. Your channel is easily a new favorite. 📚📚📚📚📚📚
Aw thank you Amber!!💕💕
I read If we were villains in 2019 and it's a 5 star favorite of mine. Also I read Dig by AS king in 2020 and also a favorite book five stars, so weird so unique
Yes I loved Dig!!! That one was another incredible read!!
“Ready Player One” was my fav of 2019! Such an addictive read. And for 2020, I’d have to say “The Lightening Thief” by Rick Riordan. It started me on the journey to read all of his works and I loved it!
I was having a rough day so I decided to make some coffee and watch this video. Let me just say, this video made me feel so much better! I was able to free myself from my stress for a bit. Thank you for putting out amazing content! 🙌🏻
P.S. I LOVED ADDIE LARUE! 📖✨It was my favorite book of 2020!
I'm a little late here, but -- my favorite read of 2020 was Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn. Other favorites were Dear Edward,A Nearly Normal Family, and Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. Totally agree on Lock Every Door and Addie LaRue
not gonna lie, that battle scar did make me smile a bit ;)
I loved The House in the Cerulean Sea too. It truly is an amazing book. House with Chicken Legs is one of my fave middle grades 💛💛💛
It’s one of my favorites too!!! Clearly we have good taste!😉
Your book recommendations are always the best! Wonderfully curated. As is this whole look / outfit. Does Addie laRue without the dust jacket have shapes/embossing on it or am I just seeing things?
If you want a great middle grade book series, check out May Bird and the Ever After. My favorite books when I was like 12 and still love them at 26!
I have been wanting The House with the Chicken Legs for so long. I finally just purchased it. Can’t wait for it to arrive! 🎉🎉📖📖😍📚
Omg Christine I bet you’ll love it!!
I read "Greenglass House" at the end of last year because I heard you talk about it and I loved it. It definitely went on my top 10 list.
Omg Emily!!! That makes me so happy!!!
Have you read any of the other ones in the series?
@@janalively1773 This question probably wasn't meant for me, but as I was notified of it, I'll give it a whirl. I read the second book, and though not quite as good as the first, I still really liked it. The third and fourth were just okay, and I couldn't even get into the fifth. I would recommend reading the second one if you liked the first. It still follows Milo as main character. Maybe you'll have better luck with the rest.
@@emily_robinson oh I don’t care who replies!!! I’m loving this book because my usual books are suspense books like ones by Ruth Ware but I’ve also been enjoying romance like The Hating Game and Beach Read lately. This one is a very nice change for sure!! Thanks for responding!
@@janalively1773 Good choice in Ruth Ware. The second Greenglass book still has all those cozy vibes.
I don’t mean to ignore your content 😂 but that top/dress pattern is so beautiful 🤩
Omg thank you!!!!
Yes! We are dangerous! aahahaha my tbr is getting bigger! ahaha my dark Vanessa is a book that I need to read but I'm scared to do it! Fangs! yes! Bunny is on my list also! Addie Larue was something!
YESSS LOCK EVERY DOOR. such a fun reading experience!!!
also you're looking like a vintage 70s queen today and i LOVE
Thank you Ali!!!❤️❤️
My favourite book of the year were actually two. Crooked kingdom and daisy jones and the six 🥰
Omg i love your humor 😂🤍
Love this so much!!! But but but!! WHERE did you find that MUG???
I have bought half of these because of your recommendations now I need the other half lol 💕✨ Such a great list!!
All Riley Sager books are binge-able. I read Lock Every Door in July and Home before dark in August and both are 5 stars, I liked a little more Home before dark don't know why. We shared some favorite of the year: Bunny, Middlegame, My Dark Vanessa and The invisible life of Addie LaRue 🤗
I agree with you about The House on the Cerulean Sea - a great book! My favorite middle grade book was Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker. It is not an easy read but ultimately very hopeful - I highly, highly recommend it.
Oooo ok I’ll add it to my goodreads thank you!!
House in the Cerulean Sea was my #1 too!
I just put fangs in my list 😅I’m reading it now
I definitely want to Read Howl's Moving Castle and my favorite book I read in 2020 was The Girl Who Drank The Moon.
Omg that book is absolutely stunning as well❤️
Yessss my dark Vanessa 🥺
We had two same favorite books: The house in the Cerulean sea and Howl's moving castle 💙
I see you love whimsical books too❤️❤️
Loved your list. I read The Invisible Life of Addie Larue and recommended to several people, I loved it. My favorite book of the year was A Promised Land by Barack Obama. Thanks for sharing, I stopped reading fiction around 2005 and so 2020 was the first time in a long time I've read fiction. It was extremely helpful along with your videos. Thanks.
My favorite book of 2020: Punching the air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam❤❤❤I can't recommend it enough. This book made me cry and sob😭😭😭💕💕💕
I’ll have to check it out!!
Oh no... my TBR just got way longer... Best. Problem. Ever. XD
Lock Every Door was the best!
I really liked Home Before Dark by Riley Sager. It was the most bingeable book for me in 2020. I also liked Anna K, Fortunately the Milk, and The Hate U Give!
I really want to read The Hate U Give!!!
@@alexandraroselyn it was good! I actually listened the the audiobook
You need to Read "Mary's Monster" by Lita Judge!! It is a poetic graphic novel about the life of Mary Shelly and how Frankenstein came to be. It is beautiful and absolutely heartbreaking. Each page features a beautiful grey-toned watercolor illustration and a breathtaking poem. It is simply the best thing that I have ever read in my life. It is definitely a MUST READ. Loved it.
l love If We Were villains it's one of my favorite books of all time❤️❤️❤️❤️
"Keeper of the Lost Cities" by Shannon Messenger is my favorite series ever! 💖
It is so underrated and more people should read it because it is FANTASTIC 💖💖💖
I would love you for my school librarian!
I’m anxiously waiting for your Christmas book haul!!! Will you be uploading one soon??? Please says yes!! My fave book of the year was LegendBorn. Addie Larue was a close second.
Hi!! I’m so sorry it’s late!! I’m just waiting on my last couple of books to come in that I ordered but it should be up by the end of the month!!
@@alexandraroselyn no worries! I know it’ll be WELL worth it!!!
I'm finding my dark vanessa quite difficult to read. It's so good but parts of it are so difficult to read!
Thank you for another great book list! Also your top is gorgeous! Do you remember where you got it?
Yes actually!! I got it from Anthropologie!!
She’s probably mentioned it before but does anyone know where her mug is from?
My favourite books of 2020 were The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
(ok, I know the last one is a play, but I'm counting it because of how much it made me laugh 😄)
You are perfect ❤️
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Laughing so much at your intro! 😂 Paper cuts are the worst!
Also yesss - Howl's Moving Castle is my favorite Ghibli movie!!!! 🥰 How closely do the book & movie match? o.O
I think they match pretty closely!! There are more characters in the book- we see a lot more of Sophie’s family- and then all of the characters are aged up. But I thought they were pretty similar!
@@alexandraroselyn I think my husband bought the book, so I'll have to put it on my TBR! ^-^
Oh jk, he bought The House of Many Ways...which is apparently the third book...oops!
The movie Ready Player One changed so many things about the book I started questioning whether I even read the book. Book was great, movie not so much.
Loved Addie Larue
I read "Lock Every Door" and I was somewhat disappointed. It was fine...but I was expecting it to be super scary or even containing ghosts. But no. Ah well. Maybe something else of Sager's will be better.
A couple of books that I really loved, this year, were "Where the Crawdads Sing" and "The Forgotten Home Child". I know you've read "Where the Crawdads Sing", so I won't talk about that, but "The Forgotten Home Child" is amazing. I love reading historical fiction and this one hit a little close to home. It's about poor children/orphans who were brought from London to Canada to be sold to families and used as laborers. They were the Bernardo Children. This book is about a group of children who were friends on the streets of London. They were placed into Bernardo's orphanages and then sent to Canada. Once in Canada, all of the children in this little group were purchased by different families and ended up in different areas of Southern Ontario, each experiencing some level/type of abuse from their "owners". This book is very thought provoking and hit home, to me, because my paternal grandmother was adopted, but would never talk about her background and who her biological family was. It made me think that maybe she was one of the Bernardo Children.
Great 👍 video. Alexandra Roselyn 🌹 is a woman very apassionate to tell your reviews . I like her so much! Congratulations for your work, because I have known about books very interesting. Greetings from Sonora, México.
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I love you and your amazing channel love this video please stay safe love from John and you have added to my tbr so thank you 🙏
Thank you John!!
@@alexandraroselyn no worries 😉
Great as always ☺️ Wondering if you got the 2 books I sent you for Christmas? I hope so 😀
Hi Kay!! I probably did!! I’m saving all of the Christmas boxes for my haul which I’ll be filming later this month!! But thank you so much in advance!!!❤️❤️❤️
Can you please tell me about "what matters in life, is your decision" novel which is available in Amazon.
Hey
Need help!! Should I buy hardbacks or paperbacks? I'm planning a mega book haul but I can't decide. If its hardback than I have to reduce the number of books but paperback I can buy many. Help me decide
Ahh the age old question!! I’m not sure because I’ve changed my mind over the years! I love the way hardbacks look but I actually love the way paperback feels! I don’t think you can go wrong! 🥰
You’re absolutely beautiful!!!!!
Aw thank you so much!!❤️❤️❤️
Finally 😜😆
I couldn't finish My Dark Vanessa. It was just making me so mad. But I had been listening to the audio, maybe I could get through the physical version.