“there’s so many books and i won’t be able to read them all…probably” lmaoo love the optimism

Instead of "worst books of the year" you could do "all the books I couldn't bear to get through this year".

EMILY that shade of yellow looks AMAZING on you👀

You could do a video reading thrillers until you get a 5 star 😂😂

The last few years I have been tracking my reading mostly by the amount of pages I read and not so much by the amount of books, and I found that it really helps cause that way I'm not at all tempted to choose shorter books for the stats, and I don't have to make sure I also read longer ones if that's not what I'm feeling like doing in that moment.

I went to my local thrift store yesterday and found like new copies of My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name. I only paid a little of $3 for the pair! I was so excited! I would have never picked them up on my own but after hearing you rave about them I think I’ll love them too! Thanks Emily for all of your awesome book recommendations!

You already know what you don't like in mystery/ thriller books. Maybe you should find out which tropes in your favourite mystery or thriller books are included. Use it and than start searching for new (maybe favourites!) mystery/thrillers. I wish you luck for your goal!! 🎉😊

I love stats videos! I have had fun this year as you clear out your shelves. ❤

If it wasn’t for fantasy, our stats would be almost exactly the same 😮 crazy! Goals 🎉

I have a recommendation for a mystery book with an elderly protagonist that uses the unreliable narrator in a way other than the standard mystery/thriller ways of mental health and drugs/alcohol abuse. It's called Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey. I really enjoyed it as it was quite a cosy mystery. It's also quite a short book.

For thrillers, I recommend Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll and Firekeeper's daughter by Angeline Boulley (it's YA though)

For mysteries, Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series is fun. I also enjoyed This Poison Will Remain by Fred Vargas-part of a series originally written in your native French!

The thing with thrillers is that, like fantasy, there are sub-genres: Political thrillers, crime thrillers, military, spy thrillers, etc. So you'd probably need to find which works for you. Based on what I've heard over the course of watching your videos, you might like the Mrs. Pollifax series by Dorothy Gilman. Basically, the main character is an older woman who's bored with life, and decides to become a spy for the CIA, which takes her on all sorts of adventures. There's about 14 or so books, but they're all very small, and fast paced, you'd read them in a day or two. Some violence, but nothing major.

It's in French but for mystery thrillers I recommend Fred Vargas books, her writing is great and the development of the mystery is generally really good

I love your stats videos, look forward to them every year

It's so hard to do ANYTHING during a heatwave! When I recently travelled and got hit with a heatwave in Greece, we'd wake up at 7am and go for a run/walk, get a coffee and then go back to the hotel. That could totally be a walk and audiobook situation before the heat sets in! For me it's winter so I'm cosy with my electric blanket and my chunky fantasy books hahaha, I can't wait to see you continue series soon!

Can't remember if you have read The chestnut man. Probably my favorite thriller. Would also recommend The long call by Ann Cleeves and Perfect remains by Helen Fields.

I definitely still have trouble putting down books! Also, I feel like I’m avoiding mystery/thrillers because I get so mad when I figure out the mystery early on 😅 curious to see what you come up with in Aug/Sept/Oct!

Can you make a whole video of your thoughts on the Elena Ferrante series!? Im so interested in it after watching one of your recent videos ❤

Mystery/Thriller recommendations : -Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (great audiobook!) -The Last Flight by Julie Clark -The Broken Girls by Simone St James

Scandinavian mystery thrillers by women are my fav! The Lost Village by Camilla Sten Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurđardóttir The Forgotten Girls by Sara Blædel (her books are great but all the trigger warnings) I have "The Night Guest" by Hildur Knutsdottir preordered and I think it's her first book translated into english.

You like fantasy horror, highly recommend Christina Henry. In particular, Alice or Lost Boy, but Horseman is less graphic than both if you want something milder yet still intriguing.

You just made me remember my excel! Now i want to fill it up for this year & see! Luckily i've been reading a lot for me & enjoying most

I love your stats video

If you want to get into cozy mysteries I would recommend the veronica speedwell series there is nine books already and I am currently on book 4 of the series and it is really good if you like the classic mystery feel

a big step in training myself to DNF was admitting i simply don't like thrillers. I'll pick up one or two a year (always women or bipoc authors) but they have to sound genuinely interesting (not just 'ok') to me on my own; i can't take any reviews into account

I had some surprises with books that were for 5 years in my shelves, some were quite good!

I’ve been struggling with thrillers too! I tried First Lie Wins a few months ago because I saw so much hype about it and it was a whole mess. The premise is fantastic, the execution sucks - that’s my ongoing issue with mystery thrillers 😩

You could add a "fastest dnf" section (or something similar) to your "worst books of the year" video

Mystery thriller - We Begin at the End is a favorite of mine. :)

Have you tried Daniel Suarez for thriller? His books (as best I can recall) are more sci-fi/tech thrillers. I’d start with Daemon. Also along the Silo trilogy by Hugh Howey. Mystery sci-fi, post-apocalyptic (or is it?)

Mystery thrillers are rarely my favourite books (I prefer ones with a bit of sci fi too) two great recent reads have been In the Blink of an Eye- Jo Callaghan The Mountain in the Sea- Ray Naylor (read because of your videos) I read this alongside Brilliant Abyss- Helen Scales (a non fiction about the sea) and it really increased my appreciation of both books. Hope you can find some favourites and some more I'll be interested in.

Maybe you should add "worst books I DNFed" to your end of the year series??

I know in the past you were looking for a detective series. You might like the Bree Taggert series by Melinda Leigh. The first book is called Cross Her Heart. Maybe you should try some of the thriller/suspense that that is always found in the supermarkets since the really popular ones don’t work for you. Lisa Jackson is one I really enjoy. Laura Griffin is also a pretty good one you could try. Good Luck! I hope you find some you love.

Thrillers: Intensity by Dean Koontz From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz The Dispatcher by John Scalzi

The fact you have no one stars is a flex though

Oh, I forgot to count the pages per books this year, I have to add that to my excel. My genre stadistic are 34.5% for fantasy and romance, 18.5% for scifi and the rest for terror, non fiction and fiction. I read 16% of muy tbr, that's 44% of the books I read.

For mistery/thriller, my mom LOVES Donato Carrisi, but I don't know how many of his works has been translated. It could be an excuse to try other Italian authors 😌

Mystery/Thriller recs: -- Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce series, #1: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (cozy) -- Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse series, #1: The Last Bus to Woodstock -- Elizabeth George's Thomas Lynley series, #1: A Great Deliverance (character driven series that dives deeply) -- Ruth Rendel's Chief Inspector Wexford series, #1: From Doon With Death -- Ruth Rendell stand-alone mysteries (read in any order) -- Barbara Vine stand-alone mysteries (read in any order) (psychological crime) -- Matthew Sullivan, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore -- Agatha Christie, knock yourself out! 💚

I'm very picky with Mystery/Thrillers and I really enjoyed "Look Closer" by David Ellis!

I definitely thought Divine Rivals read as "New Adult" but i think the publisher has been selling it as YA in the USA.

Have you ever tried Ashley Winstead? The Last Housewife is my go-to thriller rec. It just felt like the perfect thriller to me. I was alternately fascinated, uncomfortable, scared, angry, and-at the end-delighted. Heads up: It was inspired by the Sarah Lawrence cult scandal, so you might want to check for triggers , if you have any.

maybe see if any of your 5 star mystery thriller authors provided blurbs on other mystery thriller books or have recommended any!

Emily, have your ever read any of Marth Wells fantasy books? IIRC I saw on Goodreads that you read the first book of her Murderbot series (which is AMAZING) but she's also written fantasy which seem to be less talked about. Just curious!

Have you read Jane Harper's Aaron Falk trilogy yet? It's my new favourite mystery/thriller. I've read the first two and just got the final one.

Valentine by Tom Savage was a 5 star for me. It’s labeled as horror but it felt more mystery/thriller to me.

I’m more into espionage thrillers, one of my favorites is The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. As for sci-fi, have you tried Greg Egan? His books are amazing

I think you would like "Samotnia" by Anna Kańtoch, but unfortunatelly it's not translated to English - mystery/thriller author wakes up in a hospital after an accident, turns out he's gotten blind and he's convinced that the woman, who's claimng to be his wife, is actually not.

idk if its because you are organizing the shelves but the background have been looking extra comfy

Thank you for the video! Is there any way how we can get those graphs too? Is there some website that does it for you, for example? Also, yay for non-fiction books, I especially enjoy you reviewing those!

Since you tend to like mysteries with a Sci-Fi element, I’m curious if you would like “The Rook” by Daniel O’Malley. It’s a trilogy, but the 1st works as a stand-alone. It’s an urban fantasy/paranormal/Sci-fi/mystery. The story is a bit cuckoo, but it’s a fun time!

Maybe you'll like a sci fi mystery thriller like The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey? I also really liked In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead.

Can you send some of the summer weather to the uk please? We are stuck in the rainy season here. 😅

WHO labeled Divine Rivals adult?? It's YA for sure!!

I am reading a mystery thriller called Made For You. I think you might like it because it has a SiFi element. I am enjoying it so far, and the reviews are promising.

Not me patiently waiting to see where Yours Truly lands on the rating scale 😊 Also can’t wait to read the mystery/thriller recs! I love this genre.

Have you read Dark Corners, second story about Rachel Crall from The Night Swim?

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My average rating this year is 4.0, because I am *ruthless* about dumping books now.

Divine Rivals is YA in the US

You read very fast.. that used to be me but now I’m very distracted and less focused on reading my long awaiting TBR.

Have you ever read books by Patricia Highsmith? I loved "Strangers on a train" and "The talented Mr. Ripley". Both were written in the 1950s.

PSA - Storygraph lets you track most of these stats! It also lets you mark books as DNF

How do you get these stats?! What do I have to click on to get my own stats? 😯

What about the number of DNFs? 👀👀👀👀👀 (Or did I miss that stat in the video?)

As of today i read 79 books and my goal for the year was 130. Still no five star yet this year 😢

Do you count your DNFs as read? Including the pages you’ve read from these DNFs to your stats? I’m torn whether I’m gonna mark my DNF as “read” 🤣

Which App do you use for the stats?🌚

Here's some stats Finished 94 books 32,108 pages 341 avg length avg 166 pages per day Longest "Ducks Newburyport" by Lucy Ellmann 1,162 pages Shortest "Taken by the Witch Queen" by Luna Fury 97 pages 29.7% written by men 70.3% written by women (My stats are a bit inflated by the 7000 page challenge in January that almost k*lled me) I have eight 1☆ and one dnf that probably won't stay a dnf bc I have a problem lol

We need to find good mystery-thrillers for Emily!