BEST BOOKS OF 2023 🎉⭐️ I read 107 books this year, here are my favourites
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0:00 my favourite books of the year!
1:50 Corridors
4:44 The Raven Boys
8:47 The Hotel
10:39 Even if this Love Disappears Tonight
13:07 The Catcher in the Rye
16:42 Orlando
18:56 Good Morning, Midnight
22:51 Macbeth
24:27 Ember and the Ice Dragons
26:00 A Farewell to Arms
29:26 1984
31:39 The Brothers Karamazov
35:39 Grendel
38:00 Dance Dance Dance
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I read 15 books this year, which passed my goal of 10! Slow readers unite :) It's also the most I've read in years, grad school really did a number on my reading-for-pleasure habit haha.
One Hundred Years of Solitude was by favourite read by far, but honourable mention to The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, which I picked up because of this channel :)
One hundred years of solitude is probably my favorite book ever! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Congratulations on reaching (actually, on passing) your reading goal, great job! 😁
I'm a slow reader, too! I read 11 in 2023. Also, I loooove One Hundred Years of Solitude 🤍
Congrats! 🎉
And you picked really good books! I also read One hundred years of solitude and Bras Cubas this year, they're so good and unique 😍
Congrats! I barely made my goal of 30 books for the first time since being a teen. And it was the first year I was able to have an attention span for several books over 300 pages. Will check Bras Cubas out
1984 is so good that if I was on a plane with my parents that was about to crash and there were only three parachutes on board, I would give the first parachute to me, the second to my copy of 1984 and the third one to 1984 as a backup in case its other parachute failed. I'd probably be devastated later when I'd realise books can't use parachutes but I'm not good under pressure to be honest.
This is the funniest (and somewhat creepy) comment I've read in a long time 😂
Good lord this made me laugh😂😂😂
This is so funny but as a reader I get it
Too funny!! I want to read Dance Dance Dance now if someone loves it that much
😂😂what about your parents?
I read... 8 books this year! but it's the first year in many, many years since dropping out of school that I've read any. so I'm proud of it in my own way :,) congrats on your amazing number emma!
8 books is amazing!! Which one was your favorite?
i read 29 books in 2023 which is a pretty big feat for me since i’m dyslexic.
my favorite book was definitely “sula” by toni morrison, i highlighted and underlined almost every line [“..she wanted to be in a very small, very bright place. small enough to contain her grief. bright enough to throw into relief the dark things that cluttered her.”] i think that female friendships teeter between unconditional love and obliteration, the main characters, sula and nel, survive through each other.
the second one is “in the dream house” by carmen maria machado which is a queer memoir told in fragmented metaphors of houses/homes. it is gorgeous and heartbreaking, it reads like poetry and the pages might as well turn themselves.
the third one is “slaughterhouse five” by kurt vonnegut, i rarely read classics but this is a book i think about almost every day. i think that the violence we drive into ourselves (especially after a traumatic event) goes unnoticed until it becomes bigger than us. this book explores that and it’s also quite whimsical, which breaks the tension of atmosphere.
the raven cycle is so good!! each book gets better and better, i’ve reread at least one of them every year for the past eight years!
You speak so calmly, naturally, and beautifully that I could listen to you talk about your favorite books for hours! This is coming from me who is dealing with severe concentration problems and shortened attention span - sometimes even watching a 30 second video is tiring and impossible for me. But when it comes to your videos, i don't even understand how time passes... Thank you Emma for these wonderful videos and wish you the best!
I read the entirety of The Raven Cycle in 2023 and I don’t think I’ve ever loved a series as much as I love this one. The atmosphere, the relationships, the storyline but especially the characters are so incredibly well developed and written and I just love it all so much
When I've heard you saying 'The Catcher in the Rye", my eyes filled momentarily with tears. After reading this book I've purchased my first and the only bookish t-shirt and I wear it now when I'm listening to you. Luckily, I don't burst in tears by just looking at my t-shirst beacuse this book really got me. This book and Normal People by Sally Rooney are the most powerful tearjerkers I've ever read.
I read 63 books in 2023 and the only book I gave a solid 5 star was " Woman Eating" by Claire Kohda. It was just phenomenal.
Damn! 107?? And here I was proud of my 81. First book done this year--"Like Water for Chocolate". 🙂 Set the goal at 90 this year we'll see how it goes. Always a pleasure, Emma! Stay safe and warm!
I was feeling smug about 68 😅 somehow I'm still being left in the dust lol
Y'all must be kidding us. That's a hell lot of books! I'm proud of y'all
@@aIparica, these last two years I've read 1,500 pages to 2,000 pages per month except for December I peter out at the end for some reason, but can't really complain. In 2022 I read 52 books in 52 weeks and in 2023 I read 73 books, but that December of 2022 I must have cleared my head and came up with some ideas and in 2023 14 books that I read fell in the top 40 books of all time and so over one third of my favorite books were read last year.
It isn't how many books you read so much as what you read and what you got out of it.
Follow authors, genre, people who you trust who recommend books to you, and make a list of your favorite books to help guide you. I ended 2021 with finally making a top 100 favorite books of all time and it seemed to help me focus on Russian for 2022 and then classics in 2023.
These are my top 14 books for the year 2023.
1) “The Insulted and Humiliated” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2) “Vilette” by Charlotte Brontë
3) “Chesapeake” by James A. Michener
4) “Poland” by James A. Michener
5) “Even If This Love Disappears Tonight” by Misaki Ichijo
6) "Childhood, Boyhood" by Leo Tolstoy
7) “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” by Anne Brontë
8) “Teacher Man” by Frank McCourt
9) “Demons” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
10) “The Complete Poems of Anne Bronte” by Anne Brontë
11) “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair
12) "Caribbean" by James A. Michener
13) “Hawaii” by James A. Michener
14) "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
that is so many!! ah so exciting - how'd you find it? hope you're getting some lovely winter weather!
@@emmiereads Sadly, we had two inches of snow and now we're getting rain. It was nice while it lasted. Chocolate for Water gave some 100 Years of Solitude vibes but I'll admit I didn't like it as much. Felt bad for Tita though and her mom and boyfriend were terrible humans!
Dance Dance Dance was actually one of my favourites of 2023!! I've always loved Murakami but this book in particular felt so strangely intimate and tender for some reason. LOVE
Omg being a Taylor Swift fan, I got the reference too quick😂😂😂 for Brothers Karamazov "would've could've should've" song😂😂
I bought this book last year, not knowing it was also one of the books you'll regret. Actually, now I'm thinking there's a lot of 5 star reads you recommended that you regret reading. I guess tragic books are that good, huh! Now I'm skeptical to reading Brothers Karamazov but since you said 5 stars, I might try it when I'm in a good mood, only to regret it lol😂
My absolute fave book of all time is actually one I read in 2023- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke! Others on my all time fave list are: The Catcher In the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Nothing to See Here, The Year We Fell From Space by AS King.
I LOVE Piranesi - it's a very special book!!!
Vino for the worst, tea for the best. 🤷
Woman of culture, our dearly beloved🌸✨
My fav book of 2023 was The Secret History by Donna Tartt. 😊
Nothing brings me joy and peace quite like hearing you talk about the books you love :) You have such a special love for books it's incredible and you don't come across that every day!
holden IS just a KID I love that you loved one of my fave books and authors of all time!!
The Catcher in the Rye also became one of my favs in 2023! Its one of those books that will always be special to me. I read it to try and follow along with the book club. I also picked up Even If This Love Dissapears Tonight, A Farewell to Arms, and Grendel in 2023 because of your recommendation. thanks for the video! it was so exciting getting to hear your faves
Can only agree. Your Game of Tomes Bookclub made me pick up so many five star reads! Thanks a mil for that :)
added catcher in the rye and orlando to my TBR! also, when you talked about Ivan, I almost teared up. I LOVE HIM
I always really loved the variety of your reading and honestly even though I dont rlly have the exact same taste in books as you, you continue to solidfy your place as my fave book youtuber! Sometimes it bores me too much when ppls faves list is just fantasy or just literary so you having classics, YA, middle grade, fantasy, literary in your faves is so refreshing. You actually inspired me to read Orlando this year and even tho I only gave it a 3.75 rating Im rlly glad I read it as it was such an experience, also one of my faves series is the raven cycle so im so happy you enjoyed the raven boys and hope you continue to enjoy the series:) x
yes to everything about catcher in the rye!!!! justice for catcher in the rye!!!
i really love and adore your long videos i felt like i'm already living in the world of each book
I love the way you described the catcher in the rye, I also loved the book.
SHE'S FINALLY HERE Honestly been checking my youtube feed for this everyday since January 1.
My favorite book this year was IT. I just loved how King made Derry feel so alive and with all the lore about the town and all the people living in it. I ordered The Shining next, and then Kafka on the Shore.
Orlando was also in my best books of this year and I read it thanks to you and Carolyne's game of tomes. Thank you for making me read my first Virginia Woolfe ♥
you are so welcome - so happy to hear that:')
I’ve recently been watching your channel again after a while of not being super into reading (and youtube recommending me less book videos) and I’ve been enjoying it so much💕 I didn’t end up reading much this year, but my favorite book I did get through was The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. I listened to it as an audiobook in a week at the most and it was just one of those books where I felt like I lived an entire lifetime along w the main character which was so great. Thanks for an awesome video! :)
This video feels like a podcast or a warm tea . Even though it was hard year for me and I didn’t read too much books but I enjoyed 💖
It makes me so unbelievably happy to hear you talk about Brothers Karamazov and especially about your love of Ivan. I absolutely adore him too, and I had a feeling you might when you and Carolyn first announced you’d be reading it haha. The first time I read that book, and especially when he first sits down alone with Alyosha and the two talk, my world absolutely changed. Like you say, reading Ivan is like being seen and being felt; it is unreal. Rereading that book along with the game of tomes bookclub this year, I got to relive that and it was incredible. Impacted me now more than ever, so thank you for that.
My favourite new book of the year was definitely Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis. I’m not even sure why - i just feel in my bones that nothing caught me in its web so fully. Its sequel was good too, albeit more twisted and uncomfortable.
Will deffo be taking a few of this amazing list as inspo for 2024s TBR - hope you have a lovely year 🫶
I think it's so funny that you have such a passion for hotels and corridors and there are actually books about that weirdly specific (in the best way) passion and even some are written by someone who lives near you!
Your enthusiasm about your favorite books is so contagious, I'll have to check out some of them!
The entire list of the GoT this year is so good, I hope I can catch up on some of these too 🤞🏻
Some of my favorites of 2023 were 100 yrs of solitude (I also love me some solitude lol), Everyone in my family has killed someone, The bear and the nightingale etc...
Happy new year Emma!
And somehow, Emma, you have made me excited to read a book about hallways. 😅🔥👏
Ok, now I want to pick up Orlando and read it immediately 🥺
Oh, I just love your videos, Emma. Even if you hadn't a second channel focused on ASMR I would know that you love it because of the style of your videos... so cozy, such a calming voice, amazing lighting, little taps in the mug... just everything 🥲❤️
You talking about all the hotel books you read this year reminded me ~!! A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles is a great book set entirely in a hotel (if you ever want more hotel books to read).
I love how you read older books and not only new releases. Dance dance dance is the only Murakami I haven't read yet and you made me want to pick it up ❤
i love the way you recommend your favourite books, your excitement always shines through! i've started reading murakami chronologically following your example and i still need to get to hard boiled wonderland before i read dance dance dance...
anyway my favourite book of 2023 that wasnt a reread was definitely the membranes by chi ta-wei! such interesting takes on climate change, body autonomy and intellectual property, i specifically loved the essays by the translator and the author at the end of the book (:
hope you find many more favourite reads in this new year!
Dear Emmie...
i really love your voice and the way you talk about the books❤✨‼️
I'm so glad you liked the brothers, one of my favorites
Tender is The Flesh was one of my favorite books I read in 2023. It touches on so much, so many topics. I loved it
the way my jaw dropped so far down when you mentioned the raven cycle, that series is one of my all time favourites and changed my life in so many insane ways, its so perfect and timeless and full of so many times of deep pure love, and is what got me to have a deep appreciation for the found family trope, i will never not enjoy it ill be reading it and crying when im on my deathbed.
I wrote one of my final papers this year on hotels and interiority through Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, and Ali Smith's Hotel World and I LOVED hearing about your thesis. I have so many more ideas now on how to explore this theme!
Emmie, thank you soo much, this was one stunning presentation with wonderful classics❤. I've had enough of extra ultra modern novels or sci-fi books. This was really nice and really different. I enjoyed this video😊🎉
Orlando is one of my favourite books as well, I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
emma you make me happy truly
107 books! Wow! I read 56 and i'm happy. I totally agree with you about The Catcher in the Rye.
I get so excited whenever you upload your favourite books of the year 😃i always find new favourites year after year so i can't WAIT to see this year's ones!
Emma you have a wonderful voice, I think you are truly my favourite youtuber, I find peace when I hear you talking about books. I study literature in Italy and I am always inspired by your videos. Thank you for all the effort you put into the work you create for us!!
number of books in my tbr just increased by 4 including a reread. the way you talk about these books are so soothing
i absolutely loved this video. I adore listening to you talking about these books with such passion and love. You really analize books in such a particular and fascinating way; how you describe the feelings you've got while reading these books makes me want to run to the bookstore and buy them right away!! your videos are always soooo enjoyable. Sending u lots of love from Argentina!
I basically added every book that you shared to my list of hopefuls! These all sound right up my alley!
You're such a joy to watch and listen to Emma ❤ I hope you're always happy and peaceful beacause that's how you make us feel 💖
The Catcher in the Rye is SO misunderstood you are 100% right. I loooove that book.
One of my favorites of all time 🥺
My absolute favorite read of the year was Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - by Satoshi Yagisawa. It is a short read only 150-ish pages but it helped me so much this year, I've read it at least five times now, just loving the atmosphere it gives. There is another being released in July 2024! So excited for it!
Thank you so much for your videos. They are a cozy corner for me to hang out in when I have had a long day, just being able to have someone who has similar interests means so much, always be yourself, you're the only one there is after all! Chao.
this was bad for my to-read list...in a good way! always love your recommendation videos.
I read Ember and the Ice Dragons this year because of you and it also made it to the best books of 2023 list! ❤
soooo delighted that you went from almost unhauling the raven boys to reading it and loving it so much that it got a place on this list. i had feeling that you would love it, but i also know that the raven boys is very nostalgic to me, so i never know how much that colours my judgement of that book. everything you have to say about it is exactly how i also feel about that book. i'm so glad you got to have that same enjoyment with this book
The Waves was one of my favourite books this year too! Great to see other people with wonderful taste in this comment section haha
@@halfgodfairy8654 ❤❤
Here's to another year of great books & tomes ❤❤❤
Your thesis sounds amazing. I also love hotels. Almost every job I've had has been in hotels. There is something about the hallways that gives me not dread, but a sense of comfort and familiarity.
Omg yes thank you thank you thank you for putting the catcher in the rye on this list!! I soooo agree with you it’s one of my all time favs!!! J.D. Salinger is a genius. Also I feel the ravens boy choice on a deep level
Great list Emma!! Agree so much with the classics on here, mostly because I haven’t read some of the others. Just a comment - to me, A Farewell to Arms was precisely about the war, a very strong statement on the futility and hopelessness of war and how it affects people, and the relationship between Henry and Catherine was just a metaphor for that. I think that’s why they don’t feel like deeply drawn characters. The starkness of his prose contributes to it’s power.
Best wishes with your reading choices in 2024. Just finding my way around this whole book tube thing.
I re-read The Catcher in the Rye this year thanks to your book club, and it became my best book of the year, maybe my best of all-time.
I love your vibe. ❤❤ You always inspire me to read
this was such a good list, Emma! there were a couple of my personal favourites, like 1984, but also a couple that I’m itching to read (hopefully this year), like Grendel and Dance Dance Dance. My top three from 2023 was After Dark by Haruki Murakami, Six Tragedies by Seneca (translated by Emily Wilson), and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Loved this video Emma! I also read Catcher in the Rye, Farewell to Arms and the Brothers Karamazov, because of you and Carolyn. Thank you so much for recommending these books. Re 1984, you may want to read We Had to Remove This Post by Dutch writer Hanna Bervoets. There is overlap in some of the subject matter.
My absolute favourites of the year were legends & lattes, babel (!!!!!), perks of being a wallflower, the count of monte cristo (which I know you're reading for sure hehe), the dragon republic (2nd book in the poppy war trilogy) and the tenant of wildfell hall. If you only have to choose one, go with either babel or the tenant, they're both absolutely stunning. Thanks for another amazing video Emma 🥰
Adding so many of these to my tbr. I loved Orlando when I read it a couple years ago. My favourite book of the year is Interview with a Vampire, which I read because of your recommendation, such a fantastic book
Love your videos and the way you talk about books and literature!
My favorite of the year was Loaners: The Making of a Street Library. Also enjoyed Can't Spell Treason Without Tea and What We Lost in the Swamp (a poetry collection)
Just found your channel and WOW-each time you listed a new book, I’d think, “Okay good, I’m not interested in this one and we can skip it.” THEN you’d light up and describe it in a way that made me want to read it too (literally all of them!).
My favorite of 2023 was Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan. Doesn’t fit with this list super well as far as I can tell, but I’d love to hear your thoughts if you end up reading it. Looking forward to more videos (& reading some of these!) ❤️
I’m SO glad you read and liked Raven boys
Very excited about this video! I always find a couple that stick with me. 🩷🌸
so glad
THANK U FOR THE CATCHER IN THE RYE LOVE. There is so much slander but the book is very dear to me
Hi Emma! Wish you all the best for 2024 ❤
thank you love, you as well!!
I always really enjoy your channel and videos despite quite literally having the polar opposite taste in books than you lol. Typically, if you like a book, I usually dislike it and vice versa. But I love your vibes and your calming voice. And, every once in a while, we both enjoy the same book. In this video, it’s The Raven Boys. The Raven Cycle is probably my favorite book series of all time and I’m so happy you enjoyed it!
i'm so happy you loved catcher in the rye! you must read salinger's other books (there are only three others, sadly). raise high the roof beam by salinger was one of my favourites of the year, along with middlemarch by george eliot and the dark interval by rilke. also, if you're interested in memory-i'd highly recommend swann's way by proust. i'm currently working through it and it's some of the most beautiful, immersive, dazzling prose i've ever read. i hope you have a wonderful year, full of wonderful books!
Orlando was one of my favorite books of this year as well, and I’m SO looking forward to reading more Woolf!
My two other favorite fiction books this year were The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington and Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson. Written on the Body is now an all time fave, just gorgeous ❤✨
i always thought the raven boys was right up your alley and voted on the instagram polls for you to keep it, so i'm very happy to see you liked it so much that it made it onto this list! it truly is a great book. i hope you have a fantastic week 🤎
"A farewell to arms" and "She and her cat" moved me. I also enjoyed "The beautiful and damned" by Fitzgerald although I almost felt tipsy from reading about all that drinking. 🍸
just as cozy as 'the best books of the year' video should be! i'm going through a song of ice and fire series right now and each of them was a favourite this year. also the nightingale by kristin hannah is definitely a favourite and an impressing story about WW2.
I've never felt the need to read book about corridors...but now I do! Sounds so interesting!!
I love so much those minutes - sipping my tea and listening to you. I smiled a lot, was attentive a lot, thought about life.. You make my days! ❤ And my suggestion is finish "Three body problem" series!
love the way you talk about books
I Hope you’re feeling better and I hope your new years is well. You keep inspiring me to make my own channel 😊 thank you for your content!
Your notes on "The Hotel" and how you can differently occupy the space made me think of the Hotel Mille-Collines in Rwanda. You might enjoy "A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali"
Also, I've been really into books that explore characters who are afraid of being perceived after reading "The Bee Sting" by Paul Murray (fave book of 2023, maybe fave book released in the past decade) so when you mentioned that as a character note from "Good Morning Midnight", I was instantly excited. My other best books of 2023 were "The Remains of the Day" and "the Magic Toyshop"
as someone who has read House of Leaves and the Shining, just the mention of `hallways` gives me creepy flashbacks 😅
yessss! will never get over house of leaves
Orlando is one of my top 5 ever. I usually reread it every year.
yes for catcher in the rye! I had to read it in high school with a teacher I hated and I usually ended up not enjoying books we read that year because of that. but for some reason, I couldn't help but love the catcher in the rye
Ohhh Orlando sounds incredible, I really want to pick it up now!
Even if love disappears tonight is on my tbr for the year. I love getting my heart shattered 🤣
I read 109 books this year, my biggest goal reached ever! Many of them I found through watching this channel, too. My favorite book of the year though is one my dad recommended, Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett. It's about a Cathedral being built in the 1100s, but it follows all kinds of different people and the various struggles politically and between the different classes at the time. It was just so captivating and kept me needing to know what happened next
Dance Dance Dance is also one of my absolute favorites. I wasn't surprised because I already adored "A wild sheep chase" which I read a couple of months earlier. So I fully expected to love Dance Dance Dance even more! ❤
Dance Dance Dance sounds so interesting! Could I ask if I have to read the previous 3 books in the Rat series before reading this? I’ve not read any Murakami at all but Dance Dance Dance really intrigues me
@@sup3rcut you don’t really have to read the first two but you definitely should read wild sheep chase before dance dance dance. I would recommend the first two but not as your first murakami so I’d say start with a wild sheep chase
@@sup3rcutI mean you could... But I wouldn't recommend it. Because we follow the same character in all 4 storys.Hear the wind sing/Pinball is a very short book. And A wild sheep chase is necessary for the story - and it's also really amazing!!!
Three of the books here I read a long, long time ago. They've stayed with me over the years, over the decades, over the loves lost and the lives passed by. I cannot shake the vision of Holden watching his sister, Phoebe, go around and around on that goddamn carousel. I sometimes awake from the nightmare of Hemingway's description of the Italian retreat, where they started to shoot their own men. Or confuse my own two brothers with Alyosha and Dmitri. Your insights in these three books reawakened all those old wounds and moments of bliss. You speak about Salinger, Hemingway, and Dostoyevsky with the passion of a reader who knows what lies in a writer's soul. And many lives from now, when you feel the weight of years, you'll see how your witness to these words shaped the person you become.
my favs were tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, the starless sea and blankets. the starless sea and blankets have beautiful and snowy ambiance
Emmaa it would be so nice if you do a video about your thesis!! The topic seems supper interesting:)
Great video, made a list to add to my tbr. Btw love the cup!!
Guessing which books would be on Emma’s yearly favorites list is my new personal March Madness. 10/14 baby!
..."mm, cat hair. That's actually very symbolic." 😂😂
Thank you so much for highlighting Dance Dance Dance for me, Murakami is my favourite author and coming back to reading after a long time i'm a little scared to go back. Particularly The Wind up Bird Chronicle where i've no doubt changed around it. I'm sure i didn't read (Dance) back then and considering my life now and your description, I think it could be perfect for me to read right now.
Orlando by Virginia Woolf was one of my highpoints of the year too! Loved Tilda Swinton's portrayal of her in the 1992 adaptation.
I will say, I was not expecting to tear up watching this. I desperately need to read The Brothers K. (also, someone once compared me to Ivan and I'll take that as a huge compliment now that I've heard that quote)
i am in love with your videoss, i really like the vibe of your channel and also your taste in literature is very similar to mine!! im really enjoying seeing u talk abt ur books! it would be really nice to see you talking abt your favorite murakamis books and why u like them. i am kinda skeptical abt this author so i would love to see ur take on him!!