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You should try reading Eileen Wliks her books. She's really good too.

hihihi!!! i loved ur video, im a first time viewer. just wish u were a bit more critical + showed more passages from the book as examples (still, great video, kept my attention, subscribed.) i mostly read classics, and ive loved them since i was 13 (attributed to the decorative prose in them, usually love the work of aesthetes bcos of this) but i do want to see myself get more into y/a, n/a and books that aren't a hundred years old. i prioritise well-written-ness, i can read a well written book with a shit plot, but usually not the opposite. most of the books ive found seem to have the opposite, or are just very bad in both categories (sometimes so bad i cannot stop reading them). i also love romances in theory, but i get very icked by shitty writing so i cant really find any i enjoy. so, i hope i can find books i like from this channel-- and ill definitely check out the grief of stones. i havent read it yet BUT a friend recommended earthlings by sayaka murata to me, and maybe you'll like it aswell ?

🦩It sounds like a fun side premise of The Invisible Corpse: somebody committed to acting kindly, even though it's against his nature 🕺

A few things I want to say about this review 1. In my mind (pretty sure this has some grounding in cannon) nova is like five foot and Adrian is like six foot some thing 2. My only qualm with the end is we never got to see ruby react to nova being nightmare 3. Calum and Winstons’ deaths K I L L E D me 4. Where does nova live now?? Like????? 5. Marissa Meyer announced a sequel SERIES 6. Go Utes/Lh

I loved The Grief of Stones, so happy you liked it as well!! Lol you were so frustrated with the preface of Amina Al-Sirafi, I had to go reread it to see how bad it was 😂

Ooh, Rivers of London...I forgot about that series

My favorite Urban Fantasies are 1) Ann Bishop's The Others series. 2) Jim Butcher 3) The Iron Druid Chronicles series 4) Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake series 5)Patricia Briggs any of her series

With Amina, the preface very much sounds like the author doesn't trust their own skills at getting the message across without Pre-warning us. 'this was one of the strangest books I ever read' - I'll take it 😂 on a reread I really like how Tippy shows us that sometimes we have to work on being our best selves and it's ok that our instincts aren't always to make the right choice. Sometimes we have to choose not to headbutt everyone even if it would be the easiest(most satisfying?) option.

lolol I agree with you. I was like what? Who? Where? Ugh just return lol

Ohhh interesting that you recommended Legendborn for Xanthous Orange (that's me!) because all the other reviews I'd seen had given me the idea it was more character focused and not so much for me...

just discovered your channel and i really love your enthusiasm and the system u created for recs!!! kissed from brazil 🇧🇷 ❤

One author in this space that I would strongly recommend is Nina Kiriki Hoffman, especially her Chapel Hollow (3), LaZelle Family (2), and Magic Next Door (2) books.

So many interesting books to check out. Thanks!

Great list of recommendations. Lots of interesting future reads. I love Rivers of London and I'll have to move Jacka up the tbr. His Alex Verus series is another good urban fantasy.

One of the reasons for the popularity of the Dresden Files books, apart from longevity, may be the TV series that was based on them.

I really liked your test and the system! I am itellectual character type and even I couldn't say it better! Hope I'll like your recommendations as well

🦩Wow! So many books - so little time! 📚

For those interested, it's not just my hunch that says that Urban Fantasy is a more female-author genre than Epic Fantasy! Here's the numbers from Tor in 2013: web.archive.org/web/20150430072612/www.torbooks.co.uk/blog/2013/07/10/sexism-in-genre-publishing-a-publishers-perspective

ooo the spot on/surprise/disappointment is such an interesting one! I might have to try that! Also omg, wow I'm so glad that the average rating was so high for our collab!

Does it work with hoopla?

Does it work with hoopla?

I love this booktone recommendation series!! I need to pick up Rachel Aaron asap 😊

One of my favourite ways to discover new books to try is to look up themes and tropes I enjoy. Quite often I'll find themed recommendation lists on CZcams, or via Google. I also use the site TV Tropes sometimes by looking up a favourite book, then searching through the list of tropes assigned to it and clicking on those pages to find more books featuring those tropes. (It can definitely be a rabbit hole though, I've lost hours at a time to trawling through TV Tropes!) I've found some of my absolute favourite books that way, including plenty of older or underhyped ones.

I enjoy listening to what other people like, but I haven't found that to be a good source of recommendations for me. I find individual ratings nearly useless. Ratings are bimodal for too many people, either 1-star or 5-star, and for reasons that make no sense to me. I've seen way too many 5-star ratings that talk about how the book is OK, has a problem with the plot, and has characters that are neither likable nor believable. And (fewer) 1-star reviews that seem to be occasioned by some trigger (bad language, wrong protagonist age, or whatever) that is entirely irrelevant to me. And aggregate ratings for small sample sizes are nearly random, while for large sample sizes seem to be driven by publication date and hype more than by anything related to the writing (by my lights, anyway). What I've found works well for me: For new authors to me, I find that browsing Audible sales for things that sound interesting gives me a decent (money+effort)/reward ratio. I get some duds, quite a few decent to good books, and some brilliant stuff that I never expected. I also tend to read the excerpt on Amazon or listen to the sample on Audible for new authors. And I definitely read substantive reviews, but for content, not so much for ratings. For existing authors, I keep a rated list of next books in series based on how much I've liked the series so far. This has been quite effective for me. In cases where I haven't rated my desire to buy the next book, looking at my old reviews of books from the same author has been really useful as well. In large part, I do this because some authors/publishers are really good at writing blurbs that sound _great_ for books that ... are not great for me. Part of why this works for me is that I go through a lot of books (193 books so far this year), and I don't mind getting books that I rate 3s. For me, a "3" is good enough that it was enjoyable in the moment, even if not likely to make any sort of long-term impact. So trying something cheap is both low-risk and economical. If you're only reading 10-20 books per year, it's probably worth doing more research of the sort you recommend here.

Thank you for mentioning us! To clarify about the personalized recommendations: when you import your books from Goodreads to MeetNewBooks, we carry over your ratings, so you won't need to rate your books again. If you have a large collection, it may take a few minutes for the personalized recommendations to update. Additionally, we organize recommendations by shelves, so if you have separate shelves for fantasy, romance, fiction, or non-fiction, we'll generate recommendations for those too.

Great advice!

oooo okay, I just read Illuminae and really liked it so intrigued to see how Gemina goes for me.

The average Goodreads rating is something to consider, but there are some books where this just doesn’t work for me. Especially if it is a book that is much older than Goodreads. If the audience is far more into the contemporary books of the genre then sometimes, if it is a very old book, it almost would be more fair to consider it different genre altogether. A 2024 SF romance is a far cry From A Canticle For Lebowitz. For someone like me, who likes a little bit of old and a little bit of the new, I have to keep that in mind.

I'll use Gnooks for sure! Great discovery, Chloe. Thanks for the tip :D

Super useful video. I added a bunch of possible books to my list using the tips and moved up some to the top of my want to read pile.

Thank you for the mention! Your advice for Goodreads is valuable, I often feel like it’s too complicated for me😂

Thanks for the shout out! I love how you separate books you really want to read from books that you've heard about and need to look into more. Mine usually all end up on the same shelf, but maybe I'll start doing something like that too! I thought the "genres" that appear on the book page on goodreads where the most popular shelves people have added it to, but I don't really know how those populate 😆 I'll have to check out the other booktubers too! ❤

Awesome vid and thanks so much for the shout out! I’m amazed at that graph you put together with GR average ratings vs your own and finding that cut off where you likely won’t find 5-star reads for you. Never heard of those sites, and Gnooks and Literature Map both seem cool! Before I started watching Booktube it was a struggle to find new favorite reads, but ever since diving in the tbr mountain has forever been rising higher before me-a great problem to have! Loved the energy and passion here 💪

🦩Yes- the "Readers Also Enjoyed" section on Goodreads is a very nice tool. 📚

That's a hot take right there.

Can you get the nook app on it?

2nd best book of all the twilights imho. As a man its much better than the 1st book.

The funny thing about Shards of Honor is that its core is Star Trek TOS fanfiction story that Bujold wrote before. You can see rough outlines of it in the final text with how Beta Colony is so similar to Federation of Planets and how Barrayar inherits traits of TOS Klingons.

I have a very specific experience with Mirror Dance. I read it when I was a teenager and when certain climatic event happened I was apparently so distraught that I stopped reading the book and immediately forgot that I didn't finish it. I continued to read the series for the like next ten years and only discovered that peculiar trick of my memory when I decided to re-read the whole series in English (previously I read it in my native language) and was quite surprised that I had zero recollection about book plot after this certain moment. Bujold's work is just apparently that amazing that it managed to inflict a minor PTSD moment on a impressionable young me.

I just started the second book, thank you!

Howl is such a joy. I read it over twenty years ago and carried my book with me through multiple countries and houses. I loved sharing it with my kids and they are DWJ lovers now, happily reading my whole collection.

If you like solving mysteries by talking to dead people you might like Pushing Daisies (TV show)

I read the Feynman book once in the 1980s and one and a half times in the 1990s, and at that time I found it quite compulsive reading; but I haven’t picked it up again in the 21st century.

🦩Yeah - I DNFd the Feynman book too. 📚

Crippling anxiety: ❌ Tripling Anxiety: ✅

Ah I'm now excited and nervous that you're going to be reading The Imaginary Corpse! I really hope you like it. I am currently on a one woman mission to spread the joy that is Tippy!

I am so happy you read Paladin’s Grace, even though it was just ok for you! You are right, humor is very subjective, for me all T. Kingfisher books just hit the right spot 😊