"I read the Will of the Many last year and it was one of my favorite books of 2024" we're still in 2023 but Reagan is already in 2025😂❤️

@PeruseProject

6 ай бұрын

OMG NO HOW DID I NOT NOTICE LOL

@lifebooksandeverything

6 ай бұрын

@@PeruseProject😂❤️❤️

@joalgustas6498

6 ай бұрын

It’s that BTS ARMY energy anticipating their comeback LOL

@PeruseProject

6 ай бұрын

omg so truuuuu

@broughttoyoubybaiel

6 ай бұрын

She knows who she is and you don’t.

The Last Unicorn is GORGEOUS! I've loved the story (in movie form) since I was a child, and then I discovered the book and have reread it many times since then and every single time I love it so much...so excited for you to read it :) I'm so happy more youtubers are picking this gem up!

The Last Unicorn is such a wonderful book, definitely a classic worth reading!

I love Breq and the entire Ancillary Justice series. So happy you are reading and enjoying so far!

The last unicorn is STUNNING! I am definitely reading it next year on my TBR 🎄🎁☃️❄️🎁🎁☃️📙📙💚🎅🏻🎅🏻❤️❤️📚🎄🎁☃️❄️❄️🎁🎄📚❤️🎅🏻🎅🏻💚📙📙📙📙📙❄️☃️☃️🎄📚📚📚🎄🎁❄️❄️📙📙💚🎅🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I decided to read every Fredrik Backman book this year, only 520 pages to go. I am so happy I did they were nice breaks from my normal fantasy genre. My goal this year is to thrift every Patricia Briggs Mercy Thomson book and read everything Adrienne Young has written thus far.

@TalkAsSoftAsChalk

6 ай бұрын

I love this! It sounds very fun to have such specific reading goals. I want to read every Taylor Jenkins Reid book. I've only read Evidence of the affair and Daisy Jones so far and loved both. I want to see if she is worth the hype.

You will love The Shadow of what was lost. That whole series was amazing.

The Last Unicorn 🦄 I read thT a long time ago. Great read for the winter. Loved it.

YES THE LAST UNICORN!!! Such a wintry book, read it in January if possible!!!

Your hair/makeup/outfit look great!!!

James Isington is one of my favorite authors of all time and his first trilogy is sooo good. Honestly, you are in for such a treat, and it feels like a very Raegan book. Hope you love it as much as I do.

Vanished Bird was such a wild ride. I chose it for my bookclub (which is normally more lit focused) and everyone loved it!

I've been trying to consume more BookTuber content and I love your list!! Added The Last Unicorn (which also reminded me that I need to read Howl's Moving Castle!), The Sentence, and The Deep Sky onto my own list. Happy reading in 2024!

Big thanks for the unique suggestions! I can always rely on your channel for some interesting and not all that “main stream” recommendations

00:00 I am thinking about which new fantasy series I want to start and finish for the year, which literary fiction authors I really want to get to, and which other genres I know and love so much. Assassins Fate 00:46 The first book that's on my Tbr for the year is Assassin’s Fate by Robin Hob. I loved the final two books and the final Trilogy by Robin Hob and I am really excited to see how the story is going to progress. 01:24 Robin Hob's final Trilogy in the Elderling series has been a delight to read, not only closing up some very important circles, but also opening up some story lines I was not expecting but have truly enjoyed immensely. 01:58 I'm sad to have my Robin Hob chapter come to an end, but I have several fantasy series I want to start. Dandelline Dynasty 02:13 The Dandel Line Dynasty by Ken Leu is a book that I really want to dive head first in, not only in his works but also in his translated works too. I have heard so many Fantastic things about this series and I feel like it would be something I would really enjoy. The Leness Trilogy 03:31 I read the Will of the Many last year and it was one of my favorite books of 20124 and I thought I would check out the author's backlog of fantasy works and found a completed Trilogy that sounds interesting. 04:03 The All Powerful Augers were overthroned and the Gifted, who have a strain of their powers, were able to survive as long as they accepted the rebellions for tenants. Daven, the main character, suffers the consequences of this lost war and realizes he possesses the powers of these lost Ers. The Last Unicorn 04:55 I feel like The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle is going to move me, make me cry, and have some of my favorite tropes. It is about a unicorn who ventures out of her Ical Forest to try to find others just like her. 05:40 I feel like this book is going to be stunning and I definitely want to watch the movie adaptation. Ancillary Sword 05:55 I wanted to wrap up the Ancillary Justice series by Anne Ley in the year 2024 and I want to continue reading it over the next couple months. 06:32 We are introduced to our main character, Bra, who is kind of at the end of her quest of Revenge. 06:45 Bre was once known as the Justice of Torn, which is an all-knowing Ai generated spaceship, and she existed through individuals called Ancillaries. But in the present, Bre is a lone individual and we begin to piece this story together. Parable of Talents 07:48 I read Parable of the Sewer a few years ago and loved it as much as it horrified me, so I definitely want to make sure I’m wrapping up the series with the sequel. The series is set in a near future America setting post a climate crisis, destroyed Society, government and normal life as we know it. 08:47 In this second novel, Lauren's philosophy and religion are better suited for this new world, and Octavia E. Butler provides much to contemplate on. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter 09:15 Brandon Sanderson has a lot of books coming out, so I don't want to fall behind. I've seen this book grace a lot of favorites lists this year, so I'm really interested in checking it out. 10:03 Yumi and the painter's lives become intertwined in unexpected ways, and somehow I think through ART they become connected. 10:21 This book is about art and has stunning illustrations. I'm looking forward to picking it up myself. Stormlight V 10:42 As a rule, I only include books that already exist on my bookshelf for this video. But I do want to mention Stormlight 5. Joe Abomi 10:57 Joe Abr's writing is excellent. His characters are likable despite being terrible people, and his worlds are Grim, Dark and Interesting. 11:17 In 2024, I want to finish the First Law Trilogy and the first Standalone novel within his Universe, and also start the Age of Madness by this author. I have not read the two remaining Standalone novels yet, but I definitely want to. Anne Patchett 12:00 I feel like I'm dubbing 2024 as my year of Anne Patchet and I already own many of her books, but I haven't read a single one. I hope to get to many more of her books next year. 12:36 A Patchet book is on my Tbr, and it follows the lives of two siblings within the same house. I'm really looking forward to finally diving into this book. Tom Lake 13:00 Anne Patchet's Tom Lake is a newer release and is about a mother who recounts to her daughters like the stories of her past. It sounds like a really contemplative and beautiful book and I truly feel like I am going to love all of them. The Sentence 13:43 This author is incredibly famous and has won the Politzer. I have not read a single one of her books, but I'm really looking forward to starting in the year 20124 with a book I already own and a book that also Clay picked out for me. The Beasting 14:49 This book is about a family who are falling apart, they believe they are cursed, and something is going wrong in each of their lives. We are introduced to the husband who has lost everything, the wife who is half-heartedly ignoring an advances from a fast talking cattle rancher, and the son. 15:50 All of these characters are going through their own thing, and I'm really curious to see how the whole thing unfolds. The Vanished Birds 16:10 Last year I read the Spear that Cuts Through Water and loved it. I wanted to read more by this author. 16:22 This book is more sci-fi leaning and the main character, Nia, has traversed Decades of time in a matter of months and has stumbled Upon A Lost Boy. They begin to grow close and a found family component begins to form. The Deep Sky 17:18 This book is set in the eve of Earth's environmental collap and our main character Asuka is the only one to witness a crime, making her the Prime Suspect on board. She throws herself head first into solving this crime again, this sounds very intense. 18:27 My Tbr is another sequel I've simply let too long be left unread, Fevered Star by Rebecca Ron Horse. Fevered Star 18:44 This series follows a variety of different characters from different backgrounds, all striving towards something leading up to a significant religious moment on the calendar. The Emperors Blade 19:25 Like Priority Fantasy series, I want to start another carryover from last year, but this one sounds amazing. It centers siblings within a power vacuum and power struggle. 19:48 This series opens up with the Emperor dying and his children trying to figure out what happened to their father. One son is training to be the leader of this world, but is unsure who to trust. 20:36 I hope you enjoyed this video and I will see you soon with another one.

The Deep sky OMG! I need to read it and the cover is gorgeous and I love space books ❤️🎁❄️🎅🏻🎅🏻🎁🎁🎄🎄🎄📙💚💚📚📚💚💚📖📙📙📙🎅🏻🎅🏻☃️☃️☃️❤️🎁❄️🎅🏻🎄🎄🎄📙💚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚💚💚📖📙🎄🎄🎅🏻🎅🏻❄️❤️☃️☃️📚📚📚📚💚

For the Licanius Trilogy, I recommend reading the books back to back. There is soooo much that happens in each book that, from my experience, benefits from reading them in quick succession (also, there's a nice summary at the beginning of book 2 + 3)

Me too! I love literary fiction! I plan to tackle some of the books in my for reread pile.

I’ve read all the SFF books you chose last year and they are all awesome. You’ll love them!

Hi Regan! Love your videos. I too really enjoy books about family dynamics, stories that deep dive on sibling/friend relationships or new found families. Have you ever considered making a video focused on that "genre"? I would love to get more of your recommendations! Pachinko, The House in the Cerulean Sea and The Nightingale were three amazing books I found thanks to you!

I read The Sentence last December, and it soon became my favorite book list in 2023. Louise Erdrich is now one of my must-read writers😊

I loved Grace of Kings. That series is a priority for next year for me.

I just started the Stormlight series and I will definitely read all of those books in 2024. A book I'm really looking forward to is Sky's End by Marc Gregson. It's his debut book but the premise sounds right up my alley.

We have very similar tastes and I love Ann Patchett. I’ve read almost all of her books and Tom Lake was one of my favorites this year.

So many books on this list are on my list too! Hopefully it will be a great year of reading for both of us. I definitely recommend watching the Last Unicorn movie when you read the book! There are some differences but I think they capture the same feeling.

Tom lake sounds lovely and the cover is gorgeous ☃️☃️🎅🏻📖📖📖☃️☃️❄️❄️📚🎄❤️❤️📙📙📙💚💚❤️❤️📚📚📚🎄🎄📚❄️❄️❄️📚🎄❤️💚💚💚💚💚🎄📚📚🎁🎁🎁📖☃️📙📙

I’m currently reading The Sentence and it’s fantastic!! I found Louise Erdrich through The Night Watchman in 2023 - I still think about it, it made her a must-read author for me. I’m late to the game, but I’m so glad I found her work!!

Vanished birds sounds so good!

I think you’re going to love Yumi! It was an amazing book.

I adore Louise Erdrich! Antelope Wife is wonderful historical magical realism, but my favorite is her Love Medicine Series - tragic, humorous, and mysterious!

My fave patchett so far is the Dutch house then state of wonder then tom Lake. I too have a big collection of her stuff to read through. Tom Hanks is apparently a friend of hers, I really enjoyed his narration of the Dutch house. I highly recommend state of wonder.. It's unlike anything I've read and whilst it wasn't my favourite of hers, the visuals have stuck with me years later. I can't shake it off! 🌴 Hope you enjoy your year of Ann!

The Will of the Many is going to be one of my first reads for 2024.

"The Dandelion Dynasty" is the best Fantasy series that I read so far. I hope you will have a great time with it as well. "Parable of the Talents" feels prophetic and I am so excited for you to discover the full ramificatios that already hapened in America. Simon Himenez is on my list 2024, I also want to re-read "Fevered Star" in preparation for "Mirrored Heavens".

I have read 2 Anne patchette books now I do want to read more! I loved Dutch House idk what it was exactly I’m definitely more of a fantasy reader, but I think that some of the quirkiness of the Dutch House is what made it work for me. It’s interesting this is the second TBR I’ve seen with this book on it.

I loved The Shadow Of What Was Lost ♥️

I read Maame this year and it was one of my favorite lit fic reads of the year

The Round House by Erdrich is a wonderful gut punch.

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett is one of my favorite books ever. I know you would love it!

I only listened to The Dutch House because of Tom Hanks but I ended up really liking the book. I also have so many of Louise Erdrich's books but have yet to read anything by her even though I think I'll love her work!!

I loved Joe Abercrombie’s half a king series xx

The Dutch house I love her books and I am going to read more of her books too 📚📚❄️❄️📙📙📚❄️📙❤️🎅🏻🎅🏻🎄💚☃️📖🎁🎁📚📙❤️❤️❤️🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎄💚📖📖📖🎁🎁🎁❄️📙❤️❤️❤️📙❄️📚📚📙🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻☃️☃️📖📖📖📖📖🎁🎁🎁📚❄️📙📙🎅🏻🎅🏻🎄☃️☃️📖🎁🎁🎁🎁

Some of these books I've never heard of, so I'll be looking forward to your review of them if they make it in a video ❤

I’m diving into the Stormlight Archive🤓also continuing the Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio which I have been loving. Hoping for the next book when it comes out from Ryan Cahill The Bound and the Broken. Will of the Many, Empire of Doom, The art of Destiny , the Licanius Trilogy and finishing the Trials of Empire will be priority for me .

My goals this year are to read the ACOTAR series and reread the Hunger Games series. Other that, I'll probably keep reading new releases like I did this past year, as I found that to be super enjoyable! I'm mostly a library reader, so I don't buy a ton of books, but I do have a good amount anyway. So another goal is to read my actual physical TBR and size down my bookshelf a bit and only keep things I truly want copies of.

@SaraL13.

6 ай бұрын

I feel like we were twins separated at birth lol! Your comment mirrors my own goals 🔮

The Last Unicorn was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I still love it today. The soundtrack is still so good. I read the book for the first time last year and loved it too. The movie is a pretty good adaption overall but the book does have some expanded sections (as per usual) I’m really looking forward to The Book that Broke the World by Mark Lawrence. The sequel to the Book that Wouldn’t Burn which was one of my favorites last year. The sequel is listed to be out April 11th!

thanks for so many amazing videos this year! ❤I definitely recommend reading the rest of the neapolitan novels by elena ferrante :) I know you loved the first one, so I think you'll love books 2-4 even more. it's the best lit fic series I've ever read and I read them SO quickly 😍

@PeruseProject

6 ай бұрын

I for sure want to!!!!!

Last year I read one of Ken Liu's short story collections called The Paper Menagerie and it was wonderful. I would also love to read Grace of Kings by him!

I’m going to give robin hobb a try again, I enjoyed the first two books in her Fitz series in 2020 but got lost in my TBR. Jade city in 2024 all 3 are sitting on my shelf staring at me! Also want to read a few historical fiction / lit fic as i enjoy the genres but have fallen into my fantasy hole for a few years & haven’t come out! 😂

I read both Tress and Yumi tais year, and, although I really liked Tress, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is so much better, I loved tais book so so much! I think you're gonna love it too

Some priority books for me next year are The Elements of Cadence duology from Rebecca Ross, A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher, the books of Ava Reid, Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett when it comes out, Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen, and The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden when it comes out.

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter was definitely my fav read of 2023! Cannot wait for you to read it

@Morfeusm

6 ай бұрын

Am I weird liking Sunlit Man more? 😅

Regan have you considered the Sun Eater series?? Some other booktubers put me onto it and the series has fully wrecked me. Sci Fi with a fantasy vibe, morally gray characters but not truly grimdark. This series is so good and I feel like definitely up your alley

@PeruseProject

6 ай бұрын

omg that sounds so interesting!!

@aquietlife8234

6 ай бұрын

@@PeruseProject It's on a lot of the same "best of" lists as The Will of the Many and each book gets better and better so far. Hope you get the chance to read it in 2024!!

"The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories" by Ken Liu is so good, I also wanna read "The Grace of Kings"

Oh my heart, Bel Canto by Anne Patchett is beautiful… you must add that to your list!!

oh my god i had no idea the last unicorn was a book !! it was my fave movie as a kid

Louise Erdrich is amazing. I’ve loved everything I’ve read by her.

I need to read the Actor series. That will probably take me most of the year.

Most of Ancillary Sword felt like a becky chambers-esque cozy scifi with characters drinking tea, very different from Justice, curious to see what you think of it

Excited to hear this list ✏️ Maybe this is lit fic, idk, but you might really enjoy Wolf in White Van. Pretty dark read, beautiful writing. Author is the front person for the band Mountain Goats.

@PeruseProject

6 ай бұрын

Ty for the rec!!

This is totally besides the point, but your hair looks incredible here❤😅

Thanks for convincing me to give Ancillary Justice a second try! I bounced off it the first time but I loved it the second time!!

@PeruseProject

6 ай бұрын

yay!

I am just about to start Welcome To The Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum. A debut novel by a Korean author, really looking forward to it. Whatever you all read in the coming year I hope they will be both rewarding and enjoyable.

Loved the episode. Great books🩷 what kind of microphone are you using. If you don’t mind me asking?

You should try the Half A King Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie!!! It’s one of my favorite series ❤

Happy New Year Book Lovers!

I’ve read the first eight and the last one!

Just finished The Final Empire and loved it so much! I'm diving straight into the next books and after the Brando Sando hyper fixation I'll switch to Abercrombie.

@lifebooksandeverything

6 ай бұрын

I'm about halfway through The Final Empire! This is the first Brando Sando I have read and am loving it!

@booksbykimi

6 ай бұрын

@@lifebooksandeverything it's so good! If this is what we can expect from the rest of the Cosmere universe, I know what my 2024 is going to look like!

I got “The Shadow of What Was Lost” right after Christmas, but only got the first book to see if I like it. If I like it, then I’ll get the other books in the series

For the first time ever, I'm going to be reading a Mann Booker prize winner in 2024. I have the paperback of In Ascension pre-ordered. It won 2023. Another booktuber I follow sang its praises. It is a literary scifi. I'm not into lit fic normally.

you should do a robin job and brandon sanderson reading order/guide!! i would love to start there books but there’s so many that it’s confusing

Can you do a video on book recs on fantasy standalone(or duology?)sometimes I get really intrigued by your book recs but the amount of books in the whole series would be too much for me😅(money,time problems 😢)

I should try some of Ann Patchett’s fiction one of these days, but I loved her essay collection, _These Precious Days_, most particulary one about death cleaning and manual typewriters, and one about creating Thanksgiving dinner from scratch and a copy of The Joy of Cooking as a college freshman who couldn’t get home.

The Grace of Kings was slow but enjoyable. I also want to read The Last Unicorn, hoping it will be a magical beautiful time

@xqueseraserax

6 ай бұрын

I appreciated Grace of Kings more after digging into the historical context of it, but ultimately felt it was too slow with too many disjointed POVs at the beginning. The beginning 200 pages were a slog for me. It was more focused in the second half, which I liked better, but didn’t save it from being a disappointing read. Knowing the second book is about the same in length I’m still hesitant to continue since I thought the first one could have been tightened up a lot.

Need to read so many books in 2024 ... ^_^'

Oh god yesss please read Brian Staveley

The Dutch House is narrated by Tom Hanks. Highly recommend the audio book. 5 stars. I still think about this book

i LOVE your sweater! where is it from?

I am going to try to get to my back logged tbr list. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Especially before I buy anything else. I also want to read a fantasy series. I don’t typically. Which is a good series to start for a beginner? lol

The Sentence is absolutely brilliant, but while it does feature a haunted bookstore, go into it knowing that it’s set In Minneapolis during COVID and George Floyd. It’s quite intense at times.

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett is one of my faves of all time.

The Little White Horse ( I read when I was 10 & now rereading )- stuck with me similar to Unicorn ( although now I can see how "Christian preachy it is & the number of times Goudge wrote "ejaculated ") - well I lol ALOT.

I love the cardigan you’re wearing!! Where is this beauty from? Thanks for another great video!! Happy New Year R and C!

@PuttinOnTheSpritz

6 ай бұрын

Oh and Daisy!

@PuttinOnTheSpritz

6 ай бұрын

Me literally using google image search I think I found it. Howlin Intergalactic cardigan?

Ohhh, The Vanished Birds... The whole book I thought to myself, "Solid three stars." Then the last sentence blew me away, and I started crying and bumped my rating way up. Enjoy!

2024 is the year so many of us, including me, will FINALLY get to Dandelion Dynasty

I published my first novel this year, how do I get it to you to read?

Can you read Yumi and the Nightmare Painter without having read all the other Sanderson books?

also empire of the wolf book #3 maybe dropping in February!

@PeruseProject

6 ай бұрын

Def on my list!!!!

Are you giving up on The Expanse? It's my favorite series of all time.

I do love all your videos but why is the Mirroi visitor series not in order? The yellow and red book need to be swapped xD

I am not usually a fantasy reader, but I think Sanderson may have a writing style that I might gravitate to. Can you suggest where I might start? Yumi sounds wonderful. Can it be read out of sequence? I do t know where to start with his many many books

@carlhanna8504

6 ай бұрын

This KZread video provides a recommended reading order for Sanderson's Cosmere. kzread.info/dash/bejne/X5Z3mqhyfcarpdo.html

@aarinbothra600

6 ай бұрын

I would say Mistborn Era 1! The books are great and are usually the best for getting into his works and the Cosmere.

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I know this is not in topic with books (which you have the best taste for) but if you are willing to share… I looooove your necklace, do you know where you got it from? 😍

@PeruseProject

6 ай бұрын

Its from a small business called Hart jewelry!

@perkins1198

6 ай бұрын

@@PeruseProject thank you SO much for responding!! I wish now I would’ve commented how much of a light your videos have been for me this year. 💗 a true beacon of happiness, thank you for sharing your reading and hobby journeys with us!

I do have some books i need to read in 2024 Interview with the vampire Queen of the damned Column of fire by ken follett The green mile by Stephen king

I don't know the proper etiquette for doing this. But I'm Tagging you in my What have you done? video.

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are you a capricorn lol bc same on the love of list making

@PeruseProject

6 ай бұрын

Capricorn rising lol

Funnily enough, I have only read one Louise Erdrich book in my life and absolutely hated it.

Please move Ken Liu to the top

Friends who need to buy books can contact me.❤

I think I’m in the minority when I say I did not like The Last Unicorn at all. This book is barely 200 pages long and it took me over two months to finish. It was a SLOG 😬 The only part I kind of enjoyed was going more in-depth with the Unicorn’s/Amalthea’s thoughts and feelings; everything else was just meh, so I’ll just be sticking to the film from now on which I absolutely adore 💖 But as everyone is different and unique, I’d say read it if you’re genuinely curious! 😄