Nettle and Bone was definitely my favorite book last year, but I also really liked Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries and Tress of the Emerald Sea.

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5 ай бұрын

both of those are on my tbr!

If you like the sentient house theme, Ilona Andrews' Innkeeper Chronicles is a fun one. The main character inherits an inn, which in this world acts as a safehouse for intergalactic beings that need to hide from the rest of the human world while visiting Earth. The house can shift into anything she wants it to be and obeys her as a means to keep visitors comfortable.

Thank you for the recommendations. Thus is my top 10 of 2023: 🥇"Speaking Bones" - Ken Liu 🥈"Blood Over Bright Haven" - M. L. Wang 🥉"The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi" - Shannon Chakraborty "The Book That Wouldn't Burn" - Mark Lawrence "Spinning Silver" - Naomi Novik "Perdido Street Station" - China Mieville "Bloodchild and Other Stories" - Octavia E. Butler "Lone Women" - Victor LaValle "Talonsister" - Jen Williams "Godkiller" - Hannah Kaner

100% agree on The Anthropocene Reviewed. The audiobook is fantastic and it's surprisingly moving. As a nature lover, the chapter on the Hawaiin bird really got me with the recordings of the bird call.

This is the best list yet! So many of your favorites are my favorites too!

Yay! I’m enjoying this channel a lot! Your recommendations are really solid (currently loving NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth 3ogy, about halfway through the third book & it’ll be so bittersweet to finish it…). Thanks! ☮️💜📚

I like that you do this after most people :)

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5 ай бұрын

I'm glad :)

Sounds like a strong year! One of my December reads also ended up making it onto my favorites last-minute too. I really want to pick up Some Desperate Glory (love a sibling story!)

Thanks for posting! I added a bunch to my list from this. I read For the Wolf when it wss released and then read For the Throne the week it was released. I found For the Throne was not as good but it was still a pretty decent book.

I love these kinds of videos! Keep it up!

Sam! I’m so glad to hear thistelfoot made your favs list!!! You were so excited about it last year!

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5 ай бұрын

definitely a standout for the year!

the audiobook for Thistlefoot is absolutely perfect! January LaVoy did an amazing job.

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5 ай бұрын

oooh I'll have to keep that in mind for re-reads!

court of the undead by f.m aden was one of my favs of 2023

Totally agree to John Green audio version and The Anthropocene Review is so enjoyable!

Amina was fun! Can't wait for book two that should come out sometime this year. 🤞

I only gear bad reviews about for the wolf, so I'm glad that you liked it :) want to check it out :)

I finally read Nettle and Bone this month and I can't believe it took me so long to get to it because I'm obsessed. The lack of fanart hurts me deeply.

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5 ай бұрын

ugh same

I need to read Nettle & bone so badly 🥲

My favorite fantasy read in 2023 was Grace of Kings, so good!

My best reads recently: A Master of Djinn The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi The Sunlit Man Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Fairies Cobalt Red Decolonial Marxism

The Anthropocene Reviewed has been on my TBR for awhile now. I really should try and read it this year. 🤔 The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty (BoTM pick, yet to be read), Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher is an arc I still need to read (I'm horrible).Thistlefoot (also BoTM, BaBa Yaga reimaging is what caught my attention). For the Wolf, also on my TBR. Kaikeyi, again, on my TBR. Wow. I'm horrible with my TBR. 😂

Favorite books for me were the blood trials by n.e. davenport (nevernight and red rising somehow had themsemves book child), and kill the queen by jennifer estep (also surprisngly brutal).

I'm reading The Founders trilogy right now! I'm in the first quarter of Shorefall.

I had a really sucky year for reading i was in a slump most of it . What got me out was a little silly cozy mystery In the company of witches by auralee Wallace.

I’m reading Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard.

Last year my favorite book was probably The One, third book in the selection series. Not to be that girl, but I won’t lie, I absolutely adored twilight😂❤

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir hands down my favorite of last year.

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5 ай бұрын

that audiobook is excellent!

Did you hear about Hugo's controversy? Sounds like because it was in China that they got a bunch of nominations blocked because they were against their "norms and standards" for conduct

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5 ай бұрын

Yes 😑 not surprised. People were suspecting that happened when noms came out and even back when the location was announced people were afraid the awards would be messed with.

Hobb has a talent for writing characters who I love and feel for so much ... and also for characters who I hate with every fiber of my being. Idk the last time someone made me as angry as Kyle Haven did

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5 ай бұрын

Kyle Haven can eat glass 🥰