i also wait until January to reflect on the past year. i never really understood the trend of "best of the year" lists coming out in like early December.

I love that you included quotes from Crime & Punishment!

Very happy to see your list. Here’s to a good 2024 reading year!

Adding your books to my TBR list, seriously feed up with romance books recommandations. Thanks :)

I really need to read The Convenience Store Woman!

you never miss 🙌🏼

Great books, as always! 😄❤

I read crime and punishment and it was also my favourite! I love watching your channel because it gives such fresh books, Im sick of the same rotation of hyped books. Also the Arab touch is lovely as Im from an Arab speaking country too! Salams from Algeria (also I see a little life on your shelf did you read it? 👀)

i also really loved convenience store woman! read earthlings by the same author and also would recommend it. she's so good at writing mundane yet uncanny stuff!

I also really enjoyed Convenience store woman, I found it really interesting and I want to read it again.

New to this channel! I found you through this video. You had some great selections. I love the entire Wayward Children series, but I agree that Lost and Found was the strongest. I read the whole set in April. I also really enjoyed The Body Keeps Score. Such a thoughtful discussion of trauma and the effects on the body. I’ve subscribed and look forward to more of your content soon!

Convenience Store Woman also one of my best read this year

I think, January is a month that is an in between years thing. I wrap up the last year in January and it often takes the whole month (bookkeeping, backing up stuff etc) I don‘t have time for that in December 😅😅 and nothing ever happens in January anyways (in my life at least) 😊 so, perfect time for this video

☺️ I really love the Wayward Children series. I think it's a portal thing.😂😂 I must get the new release soon! I have a question of all the doors in Lost in the Moment and Found... did you also feel there was a world you wanted more of?... For me, it was the doorway that led to the Catlike People. I agree it was a darker book. I think it was because it was themes the author survived herself. Empire of Gold! 🥰 📖☺️📚📚📚

I’m so interested in comparative religion! I never studied it in school or anything but I was always encouraged to learn more by my family. I really need to revisit the Daevabad books. I read the first one and then never wound up getting book two because I forgot! I think if you like it, you might like the Jade City series by Fonda Lee. They’re set in my city and similarly a fantasy series which draws heavily from myth, specifically Chinese myth and legend.

I strongly recommend Resmaa Menakem's "My Grandmothers Hands" if you liked Body Keeps the Score!!

I read Amina Al-Sirafi when it came out. Then I went back and read the Daevabad Trilogy. I loved all of the books. I want everyone to read it! I am also just now starting the Wayward Children series. I found your channel through your Wayward Children video. And Convenience Store Woman really got me thinking. I really loved the character growth in that one.

Thank you for the interesting video. In Poland "Crime and Punishment" is a mandatory lecture in high schools. (There is - or at least was when I was a kid - a list of mandatory books you have to read in order to pass the exams).

Im glad you read SpyxFamily. Its myfavorite manga and anime ever!

Empire of GOld was SO good, one of my all time favorite series as well! Amina al-Sarifi made my favorites of this year, which I loved finding out that it was set in the same world as Devabad.

Good to know you can read books on a bus where you live. In England where I live it is almost impossible as buses shake a lot due to potholes. And I am not exagerrating. Can read on a train but on a bus its almost impossible.

I love crime and punishment, one of the best classics I read

I've heard of the wayward children series before! Didn't know the books could have such different ideas that they cover. I'll go check it out😁😁

Spy family 🥰

I'm new to your channel. Subscribed yesterday. I'm looking for muslim booktubers cuz the non muslims ones that I follow are kind of not my type ofc.