You have the most beautiful smile- I clicked on the thumbnail because of your smile 😊

For once the KZfaq algorithm came through and brought me to this video. Love your style, new sub! Can't wait to see what you read next year!

OMG love your mood! We have added every single book to our TBR! ♥♥

Your love and excitement for reading just shines through! Definitely going to put some of these on my reading list.

The love you have for these books shines through - what a wonderful video, thank you 🥰

you're so articulate when talking about your favs!! i'm always just yelling incoherently haha. city of brass is at the top of my list for 2021 reads!!

I had my Goodreads account open and ready before you even suggested it, because I knew that you would have amazing suggestions!!! Jade City and The Poppy Wars are at the top of my list for next year! I also added Leviathan Wakes based on one of your earlier videos. Thank you for putting out this Best of 2020 video, because it makes my TBR list a guaranteed collection of incredible reading experiences for 2021!!!

Your enthusiasm for these books is completely infectious! You’ve sold me on Jade City and To Be Taught if Fortunate. I’ve already got some of the others on my tbr shelf and now I’m even more excited to get to them. Oh and I loved the Passage too! I really need to continue on with that series. This was a great video!

Your videos are so relaxing and uplifting 💚 thank you so much for sharing these books - I can't wait to read some of them 💜

you were so excited talking about all your books, and that made me smile all the way through- love your bookshelf too- I couldn't stop looking at your background!! happy reading in 2021 xx

this is the first video ive seen of yours and I love it so much! you explained these so well and got such a beautiful smile!!

Listening to you talk about the books is so fun. Your joy is contagious. Thanks for the recommendations

Your summaries of each book are amazing! I’ve added a few to my TBR!

You are making me sooo excited to read these books! Thank you so much! ❤️

I love the passion you have when u talk about the books. I have added some books to my TBR because of u. Thank u

I love your energy! You get me so excited about these books! I just started reading Addie Larue yesterday. EVERYONE says it's fantastic. I can't wait! Same for Poppy Wars. I've heard the whole series is great! That's probably next on my list. My fave this year by far was The Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Great sci-fi. I love a unique and well-told story. My plans for the new year include reading more books. I only completed half of what I read the year before. I also plan to re-read some classics, (including Octavia Butler!). I read many in grade school and college. That was 20+ years ago. It's time for a revisit.

I love your passion for books. I am so happy to see some books I have not heard of. I added several to my TBR. I am so glad to have found your channel!

Love the energy in the video! I’m definitely going to add some of these recs to my tbr

I'm so glad you had a great reading year, Tori! And thank you for the shout out, haha. I'd put Parable of the Sower on my top 10 list as well, along with Tolkien's The Hobbit and Fellowship of the Ring, which I read for the first time this year. City of Brass was one of my favorites last year. I'm happy you enjoyed it as well. Kingdom of Copper is even better, I think, so you're in for a treat continuing the series. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season and an even better 2021!

Omg I want to read every single one of these books!! Thank you for this video, so excited to have a great reading list to kick of 2021! Also Parable is one of my fav books of all time, what a list!

I've been watching a lot of these favorite books of 2020 videos and yours was recommended to me. You are so sweet and genuine and your passion for books is so heartfelt. New subscriber.

I just subscribed! Your speaking style is amazing. You are so articulate and the way you summarize the book makes me want to read every single one.

Your energy is amazing! Lol you made me want to read all these books, especially jade city and the octavia butler book

This is the first video I've seen of yours, and I love how enthusiastic you are about stories :) Also I really like your outro. It stands out from what most other KZfaqrs do.

You come across so passionate and articulate about these books! It’s so wonderful to watch. Thank you for the recommendation!

I just found ur channel and I love the way you make each story sound interesting without giving spoilers xx

You’ve done it again. Four of your books are in my all time favorites: The City We Became, Jade City, The City of Brass and The Poppy War! I’ve added the other titles to my TBR list. Thank you for your thoughtful and insightful reviews. Happy Holidays.

Great list! I loved Parable of the Sower and most of your list is on my tbr for next year so now I am even more stoked to get to 2021 going :) Thank you for the amazing content you put up this year!

Wow! I’m so glad I found your channel! Your reviews are very thorough and descriptive - I will definitely be checking out some of these books 👍👍

Eeep I cant wait to watch your Jade City video! It was my top book of the year 💚

New subscriber 😊 So nice watching someone genuinely excited and happy about books! Love that your reviews are simple and straight to the point 👌🏼

I don’t usually read fantasy, but I stumbled upon this video and you made each book sound amazing! Your enthusiasm is infectious!

I loved the Parable of Sower! I'm so glad you listed this one as your top 3. This book impacted and has stayed with me since I read it at the beginning of the year.

I love your enthusiasm and excitement about these books! I loved the City of Brass and Crescent City (it made me cry, towards the end). I cannot wait to get to Jade City! Will definitely be an early 2021 read for me and I'm so excited. Happy Christmas and a brilliant New Year Tori :)

I only just found your channel earlier this week but I already love you!! Your energy is so good and I love the way you describe books! It also looks like we have a lot in common in our taste in books. I’ve read Addie LaRue (that book MESSED me up hahaha!!) and a few of these were already on my TBR, now almost all of them are!!

Thank you for this video! You completely convinced me to make sure all of those books are on my TBR, and I am super excited to get to them!

Your top 10 are great! I'm really in the mood for epic fantasy lately, so several of these are already on my list to get to soon

I’m reading, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. It’s truly a masterpiece and it teaches not to take anything for granted.

I just love your personality. Thank you and merry Christmas

Thanks for this list - Im so glad to have found your page this year. Looking forward to more videos from you in the new year! ✨🪐

From this list I’ve only read (BUT LOVED) Addie Larue but the rest are already on my TBR and I’m now 10x more excited to read them! Great video 💕

Love that KZfaq suggested this video. I think we have similar taste in books. I really enjoy the way you talk about books and I have a feeling I'm going to get some great recommendations from you as I go through your videos. Subscribed!

So glad I came upon your channel! I truly enjoyed listening to your favorite books. I may have some different opinions regarding some of the books but your enthusiasm and passion for reading is infectious. I have The Poppy War on my tbr table as well as Jade City. I read Crescent City and only kinda liked it. And as for Addie...well, that's a whole other kettle of (boring, not feeling the connection to) fish. I am v interested in The Traitor Baru Coramant.

Love your energy!! Definitely gonna try your list!

Wow, great video. I love how you explain the books. I've added most to my list to read. Thanks!

I really enjoyed the journey that House of Earth and Blood brought forth! I was so intimidated by it in the beginning but once I got into the groove of reading it, I couldnt stop! I’ve seen nothing but rave reviews for Jade City so I really need to check that one out. Just hearing you gushing about it has convinced me hahahah.

Loved this video! Thank you for sharing your favourite books this year! I am definitely adding the invisible life of addie larue to my tbr. There was so much hype around this book that I decided to not bother so thanks for changing my mind! I have recently read the Book of the Unnamed Midwife and really enjoyed it so thank you for the recommendation :) you are officially my go to Booktuber for apocalyptic/post apocalyptic novels :)

Thank you! I added some new books to my "must read" list! I read Sarah J. Maas's ACOTAR series during 2020 and I loved it so much! I also cried like a baby reading the last book. About a few months ago, I got "Crescent City" and I haven't started it yet but I'm excited to read it! I'm definitely excited to read some of these other books you mentioned, especially "Parable Of The Sower". Thank you!

I would love a shelf tour. Look at those books in the background

Just came across your channel! Love your energy right from the start. Immediately put The Passage on hold at my library and added others to my TBR on Goodreads :) I have yet to read The Poppy War! I really need to read that this year! Love your book descriptions and your enthusiasm!

Hard agree with several of these books and I loved how much your love for these books came across! Subscribed!

This is such a great lineup!! I loved a lot of these and have others on my TBR. Great reading year!

Don't generally venture over to the Booktube side but your energy is infectious! You made me so interested in these books and what you have to say about other books. Keep going. Thank you for beefing up my need to read list.

Love your library if that's your personal library! Cool! Love reading books! Thanks for sharing your favorites.

To be taught if fortunate was so so incredible. One of my top books of the year this year, too. Love your videos!! Happy holidays 💜💜

Love the presentation. Great speaking skills, ability to summarize, and smile! New sub 😄

Just found you today and I'm glad I did. Your enthusiasm for these books is so contagious! I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to your future videos.

Thank you so much for these amazing recommendations for 2021 for me now!

I'm so glad your video popped up on my sidebar! You are so lovely, and I'm excited to check out some of these books! I read To Be Taught, If Fortunate, and loved it as well! And I just started The Poppy War! :)

I don’t really read fantasy, so a lot of the books you talk about aren’t my cup of tea. But the way you talk about them, your enthusiasm, eloquence, and general good vibes just made me subscribed!!

First, just want to say this is my first time finding your channel, and already I think you might be one of my top booktubers. I have no problems with any of them that I've seen, I just feel like my reading tastes don't click as well with others(particularly since a lot talk about YA which I'm normally not as interested in), but I definitely feel like I might anjoy your recs more. But also, I have a few of these on my to be read list, and now I'm super excited to get to them. I'm working full time on top of school, so my reading has taken a back seat, but I will definitely get to them, and maybe check out the others.

Thank you so so so much for putting the book title and author on the screen. I wish more booktubers would do this!

Such an incredible list. I did have some on my list but now I've added more. Your recommendations have always been on point. Happy Holidays!

Alright, alright, I’ll read the Poppy War. I’ve seen it mentioned in all the book tube videos I watch but your selling points were the best so far, I can’t wait to get to this book. You also convinced me to read Addie Larue, there was so much emotions in your voice. I want to be touched by this book as well ! Thank you for your amazing videos and I wish you the best holidays. ❤️

Yes!! A new person to watch I'm so glad to have found your channel! 😄😄

Love your selections! I am reading the Poppy War next. I bought the whole series because I am sure I will love. Jade City also one of my top reads as well as the Daevabad trilogy.

Fantastic list! I have several of these sitting on my shelf and ready to read next year. Now I'm even more excited to read them. N.K. Jemison was a major find for me this year. I read her Broken Earth trilogy and immediately bought The City We Became and her Inheritance Trilogy. I am incredibly excited for next year's reading material.

By sheer happenstance I found this channel and because of Tori, I am inspired to pick up a book. My life is so intense right now that all I want to do is sit in front of the tv and decompress by mindless viewing. But after I saw her worst and best reviews of 2020, I want to run to the book store and start reading her recommendations. I think I will start from her no.5 of her top 10 books she recommended for 2020 and work my way to no1 . I highly doubt I will be able to read as many books and as fast as her, but the way she was so excited describing her top 10 inspired me to want to read instead of becoming a vegetable in front of the t.v. Thanks Tori for your dedication to your readers to do the brunt work for us so we don't have to waste our time reading books that leave us feeling empty rather than fulfilled! Your my go-to reviewer from now on!

🥳Happy New Year.🎊 Thank you for the recommendations. I am an Octavia Butler fan.🥰 Looking forward to more of your insights into 2021.🌷

great list. This is the second video of yours I've watched and all the books in this list that I've read, I've loved so it makes me want to read the rest. I'm actually in the last 100 pages of the Poppy War and I'm looking forward to finishing that trilogy.

I have never had a booktuber match my tastes as much as you. So excited. Didnt even know that Becky Chambers had a novella out.

So happy I found your channel! Your recommendations are a dream, thank you!

something i’m noticing in v.e. schwab’s writing is that she’s very imaginative. she thinks up these different ideas and grows and nurtures them over time until they eventually come to life and thus breathe life into us as the reader. i first had this epiphany with her work “this savage song”, book one in the “monsters of verity” duology; which i found to be so brilliant in its characters and who these monsters of verity were born from and what that means for humanity. reading “the invisible life of addie larue” made me further understand how limitless v.e. schwab goes when it comes to her craft, as a story like this feels like something we might already have read before and in fact, it did remind me faintly of “my name is memory” by ann brashares, which is one of my favorite books of all time. what made “addie larue” stand out on its own, however, is that there was such a careful way in how schwab wrote her characters because we were visiting all these different cities and jumping between all these different timelines but ultimately, it was the characters that we tied ourselves to in order to feel grounded. it’s because of this that i wholeheartedly agree with what you said about how it felt like we were with these characters, we were with addie, as she and henry dealt with these heartbreaks and feelings of hopelessness. luc himself made me feel further attached to this story as well because as someone who’s literally the personification of darkness, he also described himself as the “god of promises” at one point in the novel and how these promises came into play when he interacts with addie makes for such an incredible way of storytelling. i just enjoy everything about v.e. schwab’s works, so i loved to see you gush about this one in particular 🖤

I really, really loved The Traitor Baru Cormorant, but I read it years ago and still haven't gotten to the next book in the series. I'm so happy to see someone else loving it because I think it's pretty spectacular, especially with it being a debut. I have the next book, and your mention of the series has served as a reminder that I need to just brace myself and jump in (I don't doubt it will be just as good, but I'm genuinely afraid of the inevitable heartbreak it will bring). And wow, if Jade City nudged off Baru, I am definitely putting that on my TBR. I also just read Addie LaRue and I felt very similarly. I love your thoughts on books, and I'm so glad I found your channel!

The City We Became and Parable of the Sorrow are both on my list! Looking forward to your full review of Jade City.

I loved The City We Became! I'm interested in Jade City and have heard nothing but great things about the Poppy War that I'm ready to get on that train with you. Great video!

Amazing list! I'm definitely going to read the Poppy Wars this year!

The Daevabad Trilogy is my top trilogy of all time! Made me happy to see it on your list 💖

Thankyou Tori for your passion for sci fi, fantasy and speculative fiction. I have many of your favourites on my shelf - Jade City, City of Brass, The Poppy War. I’ve read all of Beck Chambers except the novella so I really need to pick that up. Addie La Rue may have to be bought with my Christmas money. I read my first Octavia E Butler this year with Kindred and was disappointed I hadn’t picked her up earlier. Thankyou again and I look forward to your videos in 2021.

Woah I was expecting Ninth House on here knowing that you were doing a reread recently! I read The City We Became, The City of Brass, and my hold for the library comes in very soon for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

I’m so grateful for subbing your channel in 2020 🥳 It has definitely helped keep me sane, I can’t wait to see what you read in 2021🎄😊

Omg your bookshelves are amazing!!!!

By the way, you are gorgeous. Just had to say that hahahah. I just started reading again after my stroke 8 years ago. I about to finish two books this year (mainly this month). It’s really sad because I used to read so much and hearing you read 73 books this year was so shocking! I am almost done with Under the Knife by Kelly parsons and so far I’m happy it wasn’t first book to get back to reading after all this time. It is so wonderful and sadly I only have 64 pages left. The other book I just finished was Carrie by Stephen King and I loved the original movie so much and reading it didn’t change any of my thoughts. I loved the book and the movie so much. And I’m happy that this is the first video I found of yours and I know I have 9 more books to get! I already have Addie book so I can’t wait to read it. Have a wonderful days though out this year and have a Happy new year!

I also loved Addie LaRue so much. It was my #2 as well! Happy New Year! Hope your 2021 is filled with many more wonderful books.

Ooh i just found your channel loved your top 10 and how much you hyped it up till you got to #1.. THIS is how i like my top 10’s to be, like you legit put thought and care into crafting that list. And it shows! One of my most favorite series I found recently is the An Ember in the Ashes series by Sabaa Tahir, I blasted through the first two books in a couple days now i’m onto the third!

I just found your channel and I love your videos! Your summaries are so relaxing to listen to 😄

I absolutely love all the books that you described and put them on my endless TBR

I am so happy I just found your channel today! I also loved House of Earth and Blood and City of Brass (my current read, I’m halfway through but loving it so far!) Jade City sounds intriguing 😍 I’ll have to check it out! I’m excited because after City of Brass, I plan to read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue since I got it for Christmas! Can’t wait to watch more of your videos! -Ellen

Love these recommendations! And how well you describe them! New subscriber 💛

Love your passion and your reviews are incredible - thank you. Reading ‘The Book of Echoes’ presently. It’s good & just finished both of Celeste Ng’s (loved both).👍💐

My first time watching a video of yours and when you said The Passage?! YESS it’s an all-time favorite of mine, ok now to watch the rest of your picks! ❤️

I’m glade I discover your channel. I love your choices and you passion. I have read the passage trilogy long back and it still my number 1 dystopian king of novel. I love Amy so much tell the last page of the trilogy. I have read both the “the invisible life of Addie” and “to be taught if fortunate” and they are my recent favourites . All the rest are added in my TBR or just being added after this video 🤗

Thank you for all the great recommendations and review, lover your channel, keep it up:)

Loved the video, some of my favorites from this year have been confederacy of dunces, the unseen world, Piranesi, my sister the serial killer and Apeirogon

Hi Tori - just found your channel! Loved hearing about this batch of books - I'm going to have to check them out. Jade City may have to be first up for me - it sounds awesome!

I’m starting The Poppy War in the next couple days. Thanks for getting me even more excited.

Alright TOTALLY picking up The Passage soon! You’ve sold me! You’ve also got me wanting to pick up the traitor baru cormorant! Basically anything you love I’m just so excited to pick up haha ❤️ I just got parable of the shower and eeeeeek now you have me HYPED to read it! YAY THE POPPY WAR!!! 🎉🎉🎉

I am soo happy to have found you! HII!!! Please post more! I love you already!

Hi Tori! I can’t believe I only just found your channel! I read The Passage in 2019, and loved it too. It was so enthralling! It seems like we have similar reading tastes. 😍 I own The Poppy War but haven’t picked it up yet. I feel like I’m going to have to do this soon based on your recommendation haha and Jade City too!

I just love your vlogs and I love your top 10 list. Looks like I'm running to the bookstore after Christmas. Please keep your passion for the books...they make me want to be a better reader. (P.S. I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED, Addie Larue and The Poppy War...outstanding!)