What were your top ten reads of 2019? Byzans on the App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/byzans/id1438086209 Byzans on Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lanars.byzans&hl=en

@alexandraslibrary

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel Greene 1. The Iliad 2. Jurassic Park 3. The Odyssey 4. Blood & Fire 6. Frankenstein 5. The Mistborn Trilogy 6. Metamorphosis 7. Beowulf 8. American Gods 9. Inferno 10. Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

@Cthulhu1991

4 жыл бұрын

I like 11.22.63 but he got a few historical things wrong, such as Edwin Walker's political affiliation. And the phrase "don't mess with texas" did not exist in the 1960s. So while I did enjoy the book, it was not "top ten" for me. With all the alleged research he did, you'd think you could get party affiliations right.

@thejohnsanger

4 жыл бұрын

1. Oathbringer- Brandon Sanderson 2. Wrath - John Gwynne 3. The Hod King - Josiah Bancroft (serious check this series out) 4. The Sword of Kaigen - ML Wang 5. The Rage of Dragons - Evan Winter 6. The Hero of Ages - Brandon Sanderson 7. Nemesis Games - James SA Corey 8. Dark Age - Pierce Brown 9. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon 10. Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erickson Great list! Cheers Daniel!

@thelasthandbook6704

4 жыл бұрын

Byzans is mobile only? Really? 🙄 edit: There's no way to leave reviews or to rate books, it appears. So it is basically a mobile only discord. Okay. edit2: When I search "Cosmere" it picks up EVERYTHING Brandon Sanderson has written, including the entirety of the Reckoners series. Steelheart et al ain't Cosmere. It also returns results from Simon R. Green, Eliot Brooks, Ken Liu, LE Modesitt, Jr. and a whole bunch of other authors. And places their results AHEAD of a few of Sanderson's Cosmere books. Also, Stormlight Archives does the same. Who knew Starsight was in the SA? Apparently, Byzans. 🙄 And note that searching "Stormlight Archives" on GoodReads returns only books in that series, though the sorting is a little wonky. Maybe somebody might find a use for this in concert with GoodReads, but as currently constituted it is no replacement. Not even close. And why bother at all with Byzans when there's Discord and loads of Fantasy themed servers out there doing exactly the same thing this app appears to? Don't get it. Uninstalled.

@fredrikgranstrom6743

4 жыл бұрын

READ BERSERK

"Knocked my socks off!" Does Daniel own any socks any more?

@Hadrian1616

4 жыл бұрын

...or pants?

@myrdraal2001

4 жыл бұрын

@@Hadrian1616 I wouldn't mind finding out but he's got a girlfriend.

@turtleanton6539

4 жыл бұрын

Nope

Daniel: Puts Season of Storms in the thumbnail Sapkowski: “Am i a joke to you?”

Can I just say I discovered your channel this year and its quickly become my favorite thing to watch on KZread Ps. You should do some niche recommendation videos!

@Hadrian1616

4 жыл бұрын

....and a cooking show segment. 😋

@Hadrian1616

4 жыл бұрын

Fantasy Good Morning America

@levikemper9158

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Im new here but I love your content and I love how you add your personal taste and have the awareness to know some things are based on taste! Keep up the great content!

@valeriejackson5997

4 жыл бұрын

x2

Bruh that Byzans app sounds kinda neat ngl.

@David-un4cs

4 жыл бұрын

I'm tempted to abandon Goodreads.

The bit about search Cosmere on Goodreads is painfully true.

The only bad thing about this video is that it didn't come out yesterday, when I hadn't finished my christmas shopping.

Best Villain Best Hero/Heroine Best Story Best Worldbuilding Best Magic System Best new author Best Author Best new race/species

“I got through the entire rant about deadbeat and realized I never said the word “deadbeat” so.... deadbeat.” 😂 you are delightful Daniel

Dang it. I just recorded my video with damn near the same title today...but our lists are very different, so it's all good. Thanks for a couple of the ones I haven't gotten to yet; the positive feedback has them moving up my 2020 TBR (namely Book of the Ancestor). Also, any list with multiple Stephen King entries is going to get my thumbs up.

As a Mark Lawrence fan I am so happy he has crept into your book reading heart. I've read the Broken Empire trilogy, and have almost finished book 2 of the Red Queens War, and your reviews of the Holy Sisters trilogy has me excited for it, but also thanks to you I'm soon to be reading the first Mistborn trilogy, and First Law will follow some point, and the rest of all the other books recommended.. Have a great holiday break!

You’re my favorite book channel as of right now and I’ve been getting a lot of fantastic fantasy recommendations from you, keep up the good work!

Ok so I just downloaded Byzans and I think I'm obsessed. I'm gonna spend all day getting it caught up with my goodreads

Because of you I got into First Law, Gentleman Bastards, Riyria and for that I appreciate what you do here.

...and today everyone's TBR list got a bit longer. Thanks Daniel for the Mark Lawrence rec. They are 70% off on Audible right now. Loving the Byzan's app btw. 🤘

Fantasy Awards looks sick! I'll be sure to vote!

I just got to A Memory of Light and about to burn through it very quickly. Your channel encouraged me to keep going with the series back when I started it in 2016 and you pointed out new things to appreciate about the series. Thanks, man!

So glad you liked LeGuin. She is my favorite writer ever.... Check out Mathew Woodring Stover (Caine series) and Jacqueline Carrey (Sundering duology)

Abercrombie interview!!!! We want it!!!

@Hadrian1616

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. This. Omg

@coleton7048

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel needs to read the First Law stand-alones before doing that.

@deanryanmartin

4 жыл бұрын

We want it. We want it. We want it.

Loved this video Daniel. Some great picks on here that I’ve yet to pick up.

Daniel, this video was great.

I found out about Byzans from you, and I love it

How did I just find this channel? I LOVE the video styles. Another favorite booktuber.

Since this ranking is "read" not "published," I'm very surprised that "Once and Future King" didn't make the cut. Are all of these books really better than that classic? Inquiring minds want to know!

Love your work Daniel!

love love LOVE your videos!

I am so glad you put Le Guin on this list! I love the Earthsea cycle! And I have almost all of your other books on my tbr! :D

Great list! Definitely a bunch of books I want to check out. I didn’t love Dragon Republic, but man does Kuang know how to have her characters discuss complex philosophy.

I CAN. NOT. WAIT. for you to get to Skin Game, I am so excited for your review

Much respect for having a list video and putting the individual entrants in the description. Many people would just force you to skip through the video (and it may just be to do the amazon links) but still thumbs up!

I'm so happy Prince of Fools is so high on your list, because that is one of my most favorite books ever, and it brings me so much joy. I'll definitely have to check out the few that I haven't read!

I discovered BookTube around August of this year through yours and Merphy's collab on how to get started in reading fantasy, and it has revived my love of reading like nothing else! I have so much fantasy on my TBR that I want to read it's ridiculous. I just wanted to say thank you for helping to get me back into reading for enjoyment, from one Ohioan to another!

holy shit. holy sister for #1??? im so happy you loved it

WARNING: No books were dropped in this video. Not even one. 🙄 Smh, "they're right there!" I shouted at the screen to no avail. 😑

@treweis1141

4 жыл бұрын

That is not the point

@turtleanton6539

4 жыл бұрын

What a teaser!

Thanks for these awesome recommendations, I’ve listened to a few of them so far and loved them. I love sci-fi more than fantasy and just wondered if you plan to do a top 10 sci-fi book/series at some point. Modern titles preferably 😁

Mark Lawrence has a new Abeth book coming in April. About the ice tribes. Cannot. Wait.

A Wizard of Earthsea is one of my favorite novels of all time and like any good book, I learn something new about myself and the world every time I read it.

Im glad I discovered your channel, I had a big "lecture boom" this year, Im now reading more books than ever, I alway watch your videos for a good recomendation and reviews 👌

What an exciting list! The Dresden Files is a wonderful series, Dark Tower, Wizard Of Earthsea and Abercrombie... Gonna add Mark Lawrence to my TBR list And if you liked Earthsea, LeGuin’s book Left Hand Of Darkness, it’s a personal journey of extraordinary depth

For 2020, I would love to see your take on the Dandelion Dynasty Series by Ken Liu. Extremely underrated in my opinion.

Hearing him talk about Dresden as a king of comedy fantasy, I really can't wait for him to pick up the Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novellas after getting further into Malazan. Dresden's great, and I don't know which he'll prefer, but I'd love him to talk more about comedic fantasy!

Jane Yellowrock series. great fun. I am listening to Dresden files again, right now. Yes!

I'm going to take this chance, once again, to emphatically recommend King's Revival. If you liked 11/22/63 it has similar themes, just as phenomenal in writing, but you actually get that better development of the character. Can't recommend it enough. 11/22/63 and Revival were like perfect companion books too me and are easily my 2 favorite King works.

@maucaw

4 жыл бұрын

Second this. Revival it's one of my favourite recent King book!

@colburn0004

4 жыл бұрын

@louchiel lariosa I can be a testament to it being possible to like New King over Old King. I started with Dark Tower series and have since basically read everything since and some before and I still don't really like a lot of his older stuff that is mostly revered.

Great video. Thank you for your content. I loved “Ninth House” as well so I just finished the Shadow and bone trilogy and it was enjoyable for YA. Per your number 1, I am starting Red Sister today. 👍🏻🙃

I know your TBR is probably as long as mine, but if you are open to yet more reading suggestions I would definitely recommend 'Malice' by John Gwynne, the first book in the 'Faithful And The Fallen' series. It's superb.

@ravenevermore7338

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!

Listened to rage of dragons thanks to this review, did not disappoint. Can't wait for the next installment!!!

It would be cool to see top 10 of the decade

Great vid, Please keep the book cover up while your talking about it though, much easier to screenshot for later/ scrub through the video, :)

I just want to say thank you, through you I discovered Poppy War which I never saw on any top 10 lists or any recommendations out there and I cannot put it down now!

I just finished Earthsea. Loved it.

Great that Daniel can be unbiased towards many things (excl. Terry Goodkind & WoT ...hey we're not all perfect ;P). I like that he mentions he wasn't originally a big fan of Mark Lawrence at the beginning but has changed his mind with the new books.

I really hope you get to Under the Dome, it’s one of my favorite big Stephen King books along with Desperation, 11/22/63 and The Stand.

I really enjoyed this nice to see the EarthSea series get some love. Two other oldies but goodies and yes I am showing my age!, Piers Anthony, (fantasy) his Xanth series, the first 2 I read years and years ago were Ogre, Ogre and Nightmare- full of wacky humor and puns. Jack Chalker- Well of Souls series (scyfy).

Memories of Ice?

Yeah yeah love this.

You’re making me so excited to start The Poppy War!! And Dresden Files!! 2020 is gonna be amazing. I humbly agree with your Ninth House feelings; I’m of the same mind! :) Also holy crap congrats on 89k!!!

I am going to advocate for a book for your top published in 2019. Gideon the Ninth! It's the book I've enjoyed the most this year, and Amazon just named it as their top Sci Fi/Fantasy book for the year. I particularly recommend the audio book as it is just plain entertaining, and the narrator, Moira Quirk, is nothing short of brilliant. Other books I loved this year: Middlegame; Ninth House; An Unkindness of Magicians.

Just read the Book of the Ancestor series in about a week, really enjoyed it. Not that it really diminishes from achievement but it’s not that hard to have all the events and characters come together over a long stretch when one of your characters is a master manipulator extraordinaire. So you have to give Glass some credit for that.

I would love to have a list of the books you feature in this and your other "top 10" reviews.

Daniel Greene, you're dope for putting A Little Hatred at number 3. I haven't picked that book yet, still unavailable here, idk, but books by Joe Abercrombie are certainly in my 2020 Priority List.

Category suggestion: Best Trope subversion in fantasy/sci fi

Couldn't agree more on Holy Sister. The series has actually taken up my #2 Favourite Fantasy Series.

My moms name is Nona so I got her and I Red Sister for Christmas for us to buddy read early next year. Can’t wait!!

That outro music bops tho

Can we have a book of the ancestor spoiler review?

Just throwing it out there, a best of the decade would be an awesome video too. But that one maybe don’t limit it to ten. There are a lot of books. For me the best book I read this year has been Shadowmarch by Tad Williams. The whole series was good but the promise of the first book for me made it the best. I would recommend his books as well as others of his he has written.

read anthony ryan. especially raven's shadow series. draconis memoria is good too

@judyranalli937

4 жыл бұрын

Manu Blood Song is on my top 10 favorite books of all time.

Welp, looks like I'm reading the Book of the Ancestor trilogy. Thanks for the reccomendation!

Well now I’m definitely looking forward to reading Book of the Ancestor. My new favorite word of the day (brought to you by the letter F) “Flub” Ha, ha, - thanks Daniel.

Wow, we have such different takes on books. The Wolves of Calla was what broke me from the Dark Tower series. I dropped it halfway through and have never gone back to finish it.

Good god, I’m hungover as hell and that spin on five almost made me puke

@WisecrackJax

4 жыл бұрын

Pickle juice! It’s high in electrolytes and is great for hangovers.

@irockmajorly

4 жыл бұрын

@@WisecrackJax hahaha such a wholesome comment.

I am so glad I found your channel from when you were on Merphy Napier's channel this year! You're content is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@s4jood

4 жыл бұрын

Omg SAME! And now it's 11pm and I'm binge watching every episode I can before I fall victim to exhaustion.

At first, I thought you said your sponsor was ‘Byaz’ and I got a little nervous.

@Hadrian1616

4 жыл бұрын

Lord Grimdark strikes again...

Honestly, I don't think you're missing much with Leigh Bardugo's work. The only book of hers I really enjoyed was Six of Crows; the follow-up, Crooked Kingdom, was...a letdown for me. I generally feel like her writing in and of itself has gotten better, but she really needs to just let the Grishaverse die. Moving on to books like "Ninth House" is probably the smartest move for her career. I also agree that your #2 pick is one of King's best books. Even his most-loved books often make it obvious that he writes himself in to corners, but this one had a solid ending.

Well I unfortunately failed in reading a book every month, so I only read like five books (Wheel of Time is a long read yall and I also wanna pass Math) But my favorite was Dragon Reborn. Currently on The Shadow Rising and I just love how Dragon Reborn seems evenly focused on the main trio ft Rand al Thor in the background. I especially love Egwene and it sold me on Mat as a character even though I already liked him since EOTW. Close second is the Hero of Ages.

@josephhirning2372

2 жыл бұрын

Man, hero of ages left me ....hollow.

I'm super glad to hear that the "cop out" King is starting to figure out an ending before his books publication dates. Took him long enough.

"almost mathematical crafted" well, Lawrence has a PhD in Mathematics, so mabye that helps

I was sad to see no Riyria here. But I do understand that you love grimdark a lot more than I do. I just re listened to Tim Gerald Reynold's narration of both Riyria Chronicles and Riyria Legends and Royce and Hadrian are, imo, the best characters and have the best relationship arc. I hope you finish the series. I actually like the Chronicles better than Revelations but I like caper/road stories and they are just so well done.

Love your vids! Always get good recommendations from you! Plus youre cute haha

Hi there, great work with the channel. Pretty sure the category was suggested already but you definately need to do Best Fantasy Debut and may I also suggest The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan as a winner? :) anyway it's original, refreshing and well worth a read!

I need to read Rage of Dragons! I've heard really good things about it.

do a whats on your shelf video

Speaking of military fantasy - have you tried Butcher's "Codex Alera" series? It was a solid read!

You should check out Jack Whyte's novels. Historical Fiction. A Dream of Eagles series is great.

Brian Lee Durfee's first book is The Forgetting Moon. I highly recommend it!!!

Love wolves of the calls Stephen kings version of 7 samurai.

Cuck-teasing with memories of ice in the thumbnail. You got me!

Ouuu Ninth house sounds super good

Daniel you should read the rest of the red queens war

Just stumbled across the channel yesterday, great videos! I'm surprised I haven't seen the Riyria Revelations in any of your lists yet. They are super fun fantasy. I would say Age of Legends first, but it's more fun to hit Riyria first as the Age series is a bit of a prequel. Also, hell yeah on Dark Tower, one of the first series I really got into. Great stuff.

@Hadrian1616

4 жыл бұрын

Riyria, represent!

@TheShaner

4 жыл бұрын

And then I dug deeper and found the Theft of Swords review ... My bad, off to watch that one now!

@Hadrian1616

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheShaner ...he has a prestigious interview with Michael J Sullivan himself omg.😃

@TheShaner

4 жыл бұрын

@@Hadrian1616 Been watching it for the last 40 min :-)

@Hadrian1616

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheShaner ....good man. I see you are a man of culture. 🙂

Great ist and some on my TBR list. Just wondering if you have been watching Castle Rock TV show and are you doing a video on it?

I am so happy Wizard of Earthsea made this list 😭❤

Daniel has been captivated with "First Law"'s characters endlessly...not enough to read the standalone novels, though right? Am I recalling that correctly, that he hasn't read them yet? My personal favorites: -The whole dang Cosmere (if I had to pick one, it'd probably be The Way of Kings, though any of Stormlight or the original Mistborn books come pretty close) -The First Law series (Haven't read A Little Hatred yet, but my current favorite is probably Red Country, because I'm a sucker for Westerns) -Dancer's Lament (The first and sadly best Malazan prequel I read this year, loved seeing two legends come together and their humble beginnings as instruments of chaos)

I read dragon republic after I watched your review, and maaan. This book left me frustrated in the best possible way. Loved it loved it loved it.

Ahhh I'm currently reading ninth house!!

Hmmm, I wonder if the next list will have books Daniel dislikes but many other reviewers like. This was nice list though. I will definitely check out the red sister series at some point.

Daniel, can you feedback to the Byzan folks that there are multiple Mistborn chat rooms? 1 for The Final Empire. 1 for Mistborn. 1 for Mistborn trilogy. I know that last one is probably fine but I am finding several book series chat rooms with unintentional duplicates. Thanks hero. 👍

Still a better Top 10 than KZread Rewind 2019

If you liked the ‘Book of the Ancestor’ series you might also like the ‘Nevernight chronicle’ series by Jay Kristoff. I read it straight after the ‘Book of the ancestor’ series and almost dnf it but it became my favourite read of 2019

So proud you learned how to sat Leigh Bardugo. Now I have some amazing recs for 2020