Best of 2023

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Books mentioned:
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer
On Juneteenth Annette Gordon Reed
What the Wind Knows Amy Harmon
Elantris Brandon Sanderson
Tress and the Emerald Sea Brandon Sanderson
Dune Frank Herbert
11/22/63 Stephen King
This Tender Land William Kent Kruger
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
Passing Nella Larsen
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
A Radical Act of Free Magic HG Parry
The Rights of Magicians HG Parry
The Labyrinth of the Spirits Luiz Ramos Zafon
The Shadow of the Wind Luiz Ramos Zafon

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@novelideea 6 ай бұрын

Hooray for Braiding Sweetgrass!! Love when more people find her work & applaud it! What the wind knows was a favorite the year I read it. Happy to see Elantris winning over more people, too ☺️ DUNE!!!! I feel like Kermit the frog in front of the curtain when he’s excited for the guest on muppets that night! 😂 dune is just THE BEST!♥️ I still need to read Labyrinth of Spirits. What a great lineup 🎉

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

We love many similar books- and I love Kermit and muppet analogies as well! I quote sesame street and muppet show a LOT 🤣

@WellTraveledBooks 6 ай бұрын

'the fullness of history' is such a wonderful way to put it! I really want to get my hands on Passing, I am so glad to hear that you enjoyed it.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Yes I was surprised how much I loved Passing! Thanks for being part of my community this past year- here’s to a great new year!

@GloriaZThompson 6 ай бұрын

Love this list! So happy to see Amy Harmon made your list. Also, 11/22/63 made it into my favorites too.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Yay! I look forward to watching everyone’s videos - it’s a great week to be on BookTube! Thanks for reading that with me! ❤️

@BookishTexan 6 ай бұрын

Using On Juneteenth in history class is a brilliant idea. I don't remember in what grade I read Flowers for Algernon, but it had a powerful impact on me and is one of the books I read in school that I appreciated the most.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

I think Flowers would be a great discussion book for an English class! Maybe even my church group especially as a movie. Since I do sometimes get to Galveston with my students I may someday have a live history lesson with on Juneteenth 😊

@glendaw5221 6 ай бұрын

Quite a variety and a few chunkers! I admire you for delving into a subject or world in which you have to learn so much detail. I’m concerned about Nikki at Red Dot Reads. I haven’t seen her videos pop up in a long while. I hope you have a great 2024.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

I love my big books- and some powerful small ones too! I did hear from Nikki in December but I should reach out again- I think teachers especially get busy at end of semester! Happy 2024!

@BernasBookishAdventures 6 ай бұрын

Hi Kristen! I loved your list and the ones I did not read mostly look like books that I would also like 🤗 11/22/63 is my favorite King book and it is very different from his horror books 😉 Flowers for Algernon was one of my favorite books of 2021 too, it is a vey powerful book for sure.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Yes we tend to like the same books! Here’s to our finding even more in 24!

@MsReadsAlot 6 ай бұрын

Flowers for algernon is such a great read. 😊 I need to reread shadow of the wind . Great list!

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Yes! I hope to re read or now listen to the audiobooks for the shadow of the wind series! So good!

@TheNutmegStitcher 6 ай бұрын

So glad I listened. Maybe Flowers for Algernon will help me develop empathy and compassion for a person I've recently encountered. Her choices and consequences have shocked me as we've tried to help her. She seems incapable of thinking beyond the immediate, and her life is brutal, crushing to observe (and her children. Oh, my goodness. I can't imagine). I have no clue as to how to help, and mostly just want to run from her situation. I need inspiration and a capacity for understanding someone with limited abilities, whether those are by nurture or nature. On my short list. Thanks for the recommendations.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Oh no that sounds so hard! Prayers for patience 😘

@BooksAndJams 6 ай бұрын

Love seeing Elantra’s on your list. I’ve heard mixed things. Hoping to get to it (and love it) this year.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Yes! I am definitely a love it girl - guessing you will love it too! (Think it’s the one I picked for you though I also think you’ll love words of Radiance as that was better than way of kings to me!

@jaimeehingerton2397 6 ай бұрын

Great list for 2023! You really read a variety of different types of books which always makes your favorite lists interesting to know why they made the list. Hope your January is off to a good start 😊

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

I can read rather random but was a great year! So far so good- how is your year going?

@jaimeehingerton2397 6 ай бұрын

@@EntertheBook Already some ups and downs but nothing which can’t be handled 💪 😊

@EveningReader 6 ай бұрын

Happy new year, Kristin! I've got Braiding Sweetgrass high on my list to read this year, and I put On Juneteenth on my TBR. I thought 11/23/63 was a great read--I read it for a book club long ago. Someday I'll get myself to read A Little Life. I have it but just can't convince myself to read it. I read Passing last year, too, and thought it was so good.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

We tend to have similar reading and experiences! I think you’ll love all those - but yes have to be in right mood for Little Life. I took a long time and it ended up good timing. Thanks for being part of my BookTube community.

@marymcdonald7810 6 ай бұрын

I never read Flowers for Algernon but saw the movie Charlie several times

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

The book is well done - thanks for watching and taking time to comment 🧡

@tinaparmer6545 6 ай бұрын

Shadow of the Wind is a must read for me this year. I heard the second one wasn’t as good. Glad to hear the third one is. My Little Life rips your heart out but so well written. I really loved Demon Copperhead; Black Cake, and Viola Davis’ memoir this year.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Your tops all are ones I’d like to read too! I say it’s well worth sticking through the whole Forgotten Library series!

@AmeliaHuckleberry 6 ай бұрын

I love hearing your lists :) My favorite on your list is Flowers for Algernon and I plan to re-read it. My favorites that I personally read this year are Educated by Tara Westover, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, and The Girls by Emma Cline. (Honorable mentions: Covenant of Water; Tom Lake; How Not to Kill Yourself; Mrs. Craddock). PS: I am just finishing North Woods by Daniel Mason and highly recommend it!

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

Yes Flowers was so so thoughtful and well done. I liked Educated and Jude- not read the girls so have to look that up as well as North Woods- thanks!

@mariasmiles68 6 ай бұрын

I really want to get to Braiding Sweetgrass this year, especially since it is from Milkweed here in Minneapolis. I read Shadow of the Wind years ago for bookclub not realizing it was a series, and now I want to read them all. 📚

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

I didn’t realize shadow of the wind was a series til someone told me then I didn’t like the second one all that much- just a three star ok book but I did finally get the third and loved it again and the last one was magnificent!

@mariasmiles68 6 ай бұрын

@EntertheBook I feel like that is why I don't read that many series, but I remember really liking the 1st one, so I am intrigued enough to give it a go. I have to remember that it is ok to dnf. And, I found Dune second hand because I thought my son would like it, but now I want to try that one too even though it is outside of my normal comfort zone. You are very convincing.

@EntertheBook 6 ай бұрын

@@mariasmiles68 my advice on Dune is to get over 100 pages in because they take that long to set up but the payoff comes and is worth it! For shadow of wind it’s to get thru second book for big pay offs. 😊