BEST BOOKS OF 2022 

I absolutely love watching you throughout the year and then watching the wrap up and thinking “I remember when WE experienced that”

Saw a quote today that reminded me of you: "Think not of the books you've bought as a 'to be read' pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood." My favorite book was probably either "How Are You Going to Pay For That?" (Nonfiction) or "The Bear and the Nightingale" (fiction). Have a great weekend, Emma!

I LOVE that you read what you fancy and not just what is ‘popular’ at the moment. Watching your videos has allowed me to expand my own book choices and literature education 💗

my best of this year (in no particular order): Fiction: - The Master and Margarita - Giovanni's Room - The Housekeeper and the Professor - The Remains of the Day - Beloved - Death In Spring - Scattered All Over the Earth - Notes from Underground - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Wise Blood Non-Fiction: - And the Band Played On - Escape: How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and Survived the Internet - Boys in ZInc

This is the best gift I could've gotten after finishing my finals

My favorite book of 2022 was War and Peace which you and Carolyn totally convinced me to read and I'm so glad I did! For 2023, you inspired me to read around the world and I'm so excited.

i was just searching "best books of 2022" on yt and this video pops up!! ty emmie for another wonderful year of books and coziness

Emma, you GOTTA read Clarice Lispector's Near The Wild Heart!!! It's the only thing I could think listening to you talking about you faves this year. I read it when I was a literature student and this book changed me in ways I still can't put in words. It's beautiful, you'll love it. Also, your excitement about Pedro Paramo makes me want to read it this year! Right now I'm in a Kawabata wave (my favourite from 2022 was Beauty and Sadness), so let's see where it leads me

Stuck reading 50 pages of dreadfully dry and boring economics curriculum (I'm studying geography and not all aspects are as fun and interesting), and I'm grateful that I have videos like this that I can run in the background. Thank you, Emmie, for helping me get through my own reading.

Emma you should do audiobooks for classics Your voice is so soothing to listen If u do make audiobooks I would be the first one to buy it Ps. My fav book in 2022 was seven husbands of Evelyn hugo and pride and prejudice

I’d say my favorite book of 2022 would have been “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë. I’ve always told myself that I’d eventually read it and then when I finally read it with a book club, I’ve been kicking myself wondering ‘why haven’t I read it ten years ago?’. I’m definitely on board with reading more classics this year, especially ones from your ‘A GAME OF TOMES bookclub’ video.

A Farewell to Arms is one of my all time favorites. Can’t wait to hear what you think. Thank you for recommending Book of Hours- it’s been so special to me and helped me be there for my best friend who just lost her dad to cancer better than I could have ever been before reading his poems. Happy new year of reading! 💛✨

Oh my god FINALLY!! I look forward to this video from you every year ❤ you always have the best recommendations 😊

This video and this comment section is a gold mine! Thank you everyone for the beautiful and personal recommendations, here’s to a wonderful new year of reading❤

I love how your list was full of books that are personal to you in one way or another! You really inspire me to not just read, but rather to fall in love with literature too and connect with it. I’m getting back into skiing for the first time since COVID lockdowns and I’m travelling to Alberta in a few months so I might consider reading Icefields! It sounds really cool. Also I definitely agree with you that winter is an incredible season :D Thank you for making videos btw, I really value your thoughts!

So many of your top books are high up on my 2023 tbr thanks to the way you spoke so eloquently and passionately about them throughout the year. I can’t wait to read them. My favourite book of 2022 was Tess of the D’Urbervilles, closely followed by Of Mice and Men and Jude the Obscure.

LOVE THIS! My best books of 2022 list: -Burial rites by hannah Kent. -The starless sea by Erin Morgenstern. -The Shadow Of The wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. -The strange and beautiful sorrows of ava lavender by Leslye Walton. -She rises by Kate Worsley. -The song of achilles by Madeline Miller.

I'm very happy to confess that my favourite book this year has been no other than 'The Bloody Chamber' by Angela Carter and I very much owe the discovery of that book to this channel, so a huge THANK YOU to Emma!

always such a joy to listen to ur voice and eloquence. thank you thank you for bringing light to my days, i was feeling down just now ❤️

your best books of 2021 video was the first one i ever saw, i'm so happy to be here to watch your best of 2022 as an avid subscriber now lol

Thank you for working overtime getting these videos out 💕

Emmie, I am always impressed by how diverse your reading interests are. You are interested in so many subjects and forms of literature. (I have a hard time reading - or at least finishing - books where the subject matter doesn't interest me.) My current read is 'Case Study' by Graeme Macrae Burnet. It's fantastic.

I'm always fascinated by the books you mention from your around the world reading challenge! Would love to get a peek at the list - how you go about finding books, what countries you've read from thus far, etc. 👀

Oh I love seeing Machado here! I'm Brazilian and he's my favorite author of all time ♡ also strongly recommend Dom Casmurro, if the translation to English is available ;)

My favorite book of the year was "Last Words from Montmartre" by Qiu Miaojin. It's a collection of letter written by an older woman to a much younger one, discussing their relationship. It can be read in any order since the letters don't follow a chronological timeline, and they eventually lead to the author's suicide. It is by faaar one of the best books I read this year.

Now you become one of my favorite booktubers. Is this, reading around the world, from Machado to Murakami. Great video. Happy 2023.

I had to skip over the part where you talk about the ice palace because I'm reading it right now. Thank you for make me discover such an amazing book 😍

It’s so refreshing to hear about so many books that aren’t that popular and can’t be found on ‘typical book tube’. 🎉 I wrote down a few of your suggestions to check them out. Thank you! You’ve gained a new subscriber 😊

I’ve been in a reading slump for the longest time but thankfully I got back into reading in the second half of 2022 and my favorite books are definitely Phantom of the Opera, Song of Achilles, Picture of Dorian Gray, and Mexican Gothic !! Also your videos have given me the motivation to read classics and read more in general so thank you 😊

Oh I just finished a big chemistry exam today and this is such a cool surprise after the wild ride!! Thank you Emma ❤️💛

That blazer suits you beautifully! I've been putting a whole bunch of books on my tbr, all thanks to you 💜 The best book I read in 2022 was an Edgar Allan Poe short story collection. Some of the stories really blew me away and even the not so great ones, were still often enjoyable reads.

My favourite was One Hundred Years of Solitude, recommended by you 😊 Thank you again, Emma. Lots of love and Happy New Year ❤

I've been waiting for your 2022 wrap up!

I absolutely love your recommendations. I read "Blind Owl" and "Snow" because of you and I loved it so much!! Now I'm reading "Heaven and Hell" in English which is a struggle because it's not my first language but the writing is sooo beautiful. Thank you for recommending such good books!

I had a bit of a tie in 2022 between Pedro Páramo and both of Susanna Clarke's novels. Also really hoping to read Things Fall Apart and Season of Migration to the North (and maybe also Icefields) this year, and I might give a couple more of these recommendations a try as well 😊

My favourites were 1. One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. Anxious people by Fredrik Backman 3. Rabit cake by Annie Hertnett 4. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 5. Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger 6. Where the Crawdads sing Dalia Owens 7. A little life by Hanya Yanagihara 8. Daisy Jones and the six by Taylor Jenkins Reid 9. Graveyard book by Neil Gaiman 10. The girl who drank the moon by Kelly barnhill

hi emma!! on the topic of dark tourism, for my creative nonfiction class last semester we read "Dark Tourist" by Hasanthika Sirisena, which is a collection of cnf essays about their life but specifically the essay "Confessions of a Dark Tourist" reminded me of The Disaster Tourist. Hasanthika is also a professor at my university, and they are absolutely lovely, and I very much recommend their collection if you are interested at all in continuing to read about dark tourism.

My best of 2022 - Jane Eyre - little women - a street car named desire, it was so different then the books I’m used to read. - animal farm - come tell me how you live, a book by Agatha Christie

thank you for this year emmie. i have discovered your channel in 2022 atit really saved me many times. i know it may sound abstrack, but i have been dealing with many anxieties and traumas, and having you on youtube helped me a lot. i wish you to you everything what is best and magical in this world. i wish you to love and to be loved. i wish for you to be joyfull and positive about life. you have no idea how grateful i am to fing you this last year. thank you. Adriana

I really enjoyed hearing your personal list of your best books of 2022. When you started talking about Icefields and your attachment to winter, the cold and glaciers, I thought again how much you need to read The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. It was one of my personal top top books of 2022 and is a classic. It is set on a planet called Winter and a good part of it involves an extended journey across a glacier. It is in the sci fi genre I think but is one of those books that transcends genre. Happy new year!

great list! I remember you talking about almost all of these in past videos, so fun to see how you eventually ranked them :D

Some of my highlights this year included (all 5/5 reads): Bel Ami by Maupassant Under the Skin by Michel Faber Madame Bovary by Flaubert Solaris by Stanislaw Lem White Noise by Don DeLillo

Heaven and Hell also became one of my favourites this year, after buying immediately after your recommondation (I wanna read so many translations in other languages just to experience the writing again and again!!) :D considering how you also read Paradise Lost this year, it really seems like fate brought you two together my other favourites: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, The Wall, Miss Iceland, Natsume's Book of Friends and Hamnet happy new (reading) year, everybody!

☀️ A book from your best books from 2021 became one of my faves for 2022. Leave the World Behind! So good! 🥰

I love your lists, they are so personal. One of my favorite books this year that I think you'd really enjoy is The Fell by Sarah Moss. My favorite was probably Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason. Reading a Farewell to Arms now! Excited about new book club picks.

I am SOOO excited to watch this i always end up loving many of your favourite books! This year my favourite book was One hundred years of solitude and it defined my summer so i can't wait for something else to define my 2023

this is the first video i'm watching of yours, every single book you've mentioned is something i think i would enjoy. i love your voice and how relaxing your videos seem :]

Oh I just realised I've been watching your channel regularly for a year now! Thanks for sharing Emmie xx 🌻✨💛

love watching these wrap ups and remembering back to the videos you told us about the books for the first time. My best this year were : the body keeps the score ( loved it and my therapist loved it for me ) the secret history the priory of the orange tree

thanks for your all your videos. As a book -and cat- lover, you're always entertaining and interesting. Your voice also has a very calming effect, i swear that it helps with my anxiety.

Always love these wrap-ups, your descriptions are so enthralling! I added a couple of these books to my TBR! My faves of 2022: -House of Leaves -All Quiet on the Western Front - Beowulf And the best discovery for me this year: the work of the 19th century Swedish writer Selma Lagerlof. I started with the Bannished, the story of a man who returns to the small village of his childhood after he seemingly did something irredeemable during a polar expedition that went wrong... I didn't think I would enjoy this book so much at first, but the way Lagerlof weaves the themes of redemption, purity and corruption, the landscape etc... ah! It prompted me to read her most famous work: the Saga of Gosta Berling, which is by far my favorite book of the year. Each page is a painting, a poem and an opera at the same time. Totally epic, I would love to know what you think about it if you've read it!

I NEED to know what nail polish you have on. I’m obsessed I love getting fantastic book recommendations from your videos! hope u have the best reading year in 2023. & wish you the best

My favorite book of the year was Pedro Páramo and I picked it up because of you, thank you so much 🥰

What a great way to end my week! I needed another vid from you. Your channel is seriously a refuge for me from the stress of my life. ❤

Really great video! My goal this year is to read more fiction (as opposed to the non-fiction I usually read) and a lot of these picks sound really exciting : ) Love love love all the themes you mentioned regarding exploration of memory and ice being used as metaphor. One of my favorite examples is Marilynne Robinson's novel "Housekeeping". The book heavily uses ice as a symbol for the past being unstuck in time. There's so much rich imagery in the book, it's probably one of my favorites.

Thank you for another great video, Emma

I finally read “Interview with the Vampire” that has been on my shelf for years because of this post. So gorgeous writing, I agree. Need to watch the movie again. Thanks! ♥️

Can always count on emmie to provide calm and refreshing content. Added season of migration to my tbr.

I had several favorites this year that I read because of you. The Blind Owl. 100 Years of Solitude. The Broken Wings. A couple that I read on my own that made it on to my "best of 2022" list were Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and The Passenger/Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy.

I didn't get to read very much this past year but my absolute favourite was Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy. It also has a lot to do with the cold and ice and grief, I absolutely fell in love with the writing and there are so many quotes in it that I can't stop thinking about. I can't wait to try and get to some of the books on your list in the coming year😁

emmaaa i've been waiting for this video! this was a fantastic list! hope u have a good reading year in 2023 too 💖

Lately I have been watching various videos of this style and couldnt relate to the books shown by those people, I found you and its like a breeze of fresh air to see someone not reading what is on trend and books with decent content😁

The Body Keeps the Score is one I almost sent you until I saw you mention it once. It’s one of my top 3 books ever. But so is The Count of Monte Cristo so I’m glad I still got to send you that. 😊

I read The Ice Palace after you recommended it and I really loved it. Such a unique and fascinating story!

I don't read nearly as much as I would like to, but since I started watching your videos, specially the ones from your "Reading around the world" challenge, I was inspired to add more variety to my reading list and it has been a great experience, so thank you so much. On that note, I would recommend one of the best books I read this year, by a Moldovan author: - El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes- by Tatiana Tibuleac, (The summer my mother had green eyes) Unfortunately, it hasn't been translated into English yet, but maybe someone here reads in Spanish or French and may enjoy it. Thanks again for all the great recommendations and the inspiration to travel with books :)

Thank you so so much for recommending Heaven and Hell because it is absolutely one of my fav books in 2022. And well, I can't help myself from starting Paradise Lost as well 😂 I'm obsessed, even though this is much harder because English is not my native language. But I listen to the audiobook and it is *amazing*

Made my day to hear you rave about Interview - the my fave vampire book - and the rest of the series is really fun too.

Your voice is just so soothing,like a melody to ears n your aura is so like calm and sweet...🌸🕊️

My favourite book this year was One Hundred Years of Solitude, which I picked up in part due to this channel. So, many thanks for that!

I love listening to you after a long day and just yes books

This year, the phantom of the opera is one of my best reads in 2022. I've watched you talk about it so much then i finally read it, and love it so much. Such a brilliant book!

Im so happy you loved IWTV, my favourite one is The Vampire Lestat. Hope you enjoy it!

Excited to add to my tbr in the new year.

I read the phantom of the opera this year after you recommended it in your favorites video and OH MY GOSH fav of the whole year

my favorite read this year was the secret history by donna tartt :)

My favorite book I read this year was Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler. It’s short little novella that was the basis for the movie Eyes Wide Shut (one of my all time favorite movies). Also, being a movie nerd I also dug Red Carpet by Erich Schwartzel a nonfiction all about Hollywood’s reliance on the Chinese theater market and how that influenced the way modern blockbusters are made. Looking forward to following your reading journey in 2023.

when you talk about your favourites, I literally just add them all to my tbr list. Some of my favourites from 2022 were definitely 100 Years of Solitude, Beloved, Les Miserabes and House of Leaves but it's hard to only pick a few 🖤

Soooo curious of your take on hard-boiled wonderland very soon 😍 I think I read it at the right time. Having read quite a lot of Murakami's other (mostly later) writings, didn't expect to love it as much as I do!

My favourite book of the year was 'The Fifth Season' by N.K. Jemisin and it has made me want to read everything she has ever written. There is something so beautiful and real in how disturbing it is. I thought I'd hate the setting but it is one of those that sound odd in a summary but offer so much potential for learning if you spend time inside them. The characters are unusual and daring, everything is multi-layered and I cannot wait to read it again and again to uncover all of it. Definitely one of the most intelligent books I have ever read.

Definitely try read the Count Of Monte Cristo this year, it was my fave for 2022. Good classics always teach you important life lessons. This one taught me to stop sending people to jail on false pretenses.

Love the books! Interview with the vampire sounds intriguing 🧛‍♀

the starless sea, circe, and cloud atlas were my favorites this year !! looking forward to reading more Ali Smith and author-based reading for 2023 (and ur recs too, of course) :^)!

Bacause of you I’ve read Icefields by Thomas Wharton… But my favourite is Every Blade of Grass by Thomas Wharton. Love your roundups, thanks so much!

You're wonderful and I appreciate you. I read a 'A Reading Diary' by Alberto Manguel last year and that, along with your channel made me fall in love with books in a serious way again. So thanks. No greater gift really.

Dear Emmie, I?m reading "Paradise lost" thanks to you. Honestly, I thought I was going to find it boring and complicated, but to my surprise I'm really enjoying it. What a beauty of a book. You should record a chapter just talking about this wonder of Milton. Thank you so much! Kisses from Argentina 🥰

Great recommendations! Just added a bunch of books to my 2023 list. My absolute favorite of 2022 was Anna Karenina (Btw, I should thank you and Carolyn for that 😊)

Thanks!!! Your videos inspire me . I taught english for years and lost some inspiration cuz its work. But now in re reading and readin like i did in undergrad a long time ago. Thanks so much. Chuck.

The Ice Palace is going straight on the tbr, sounds amazing!

My favourites were War and peace (I'm still not over it) and History of the Rain (Niall Williams)

Not sure if it was this year or last, but reading Alexis Wright’s ‘The Swan Book’ was one of the highlights of my degree. First time in maybe 4 years that I’ve discovered a book of that caliber (even emailed my professor to thank him!), truly unique. If your world literature project has yet to reach Australia, I’d encourage you to consider it, especially as it’s more specifically indigenous Australian literature.

Emmie! You have to read Ice by Anna Kavan. I picked it up mistaking it for The Ice Palace... and woah it was not. It is unhinged and I think you'd love it. Especially the icy setting! Also you inspired me to tackle War and Peace this year and I can't thank you enough.

As a brazilian, i'm glad to see The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas in your list. Love Machado de Assis too.

My number 1 definitely was The phantom of the opera thanks to your constant love and recommendation! I really loved it, Emma, so thank you for introducing us to a lot of amazing books ❤❤

There you are, our favourite book-tuber Emma💚, and also the comments section jst feels like a close-knit coterie of readers unified by our love for books. U guys inspire me, hopefully will read more this year. Some of my fav's this year - Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, crime and punishment by Dosteovsky, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami and 1984 by George Orwell.

What mic are you using it’s sooo good

BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE AHHHH

I love murakami!! He’s art is so addictive and original. I’m not a fan of fantasy, but his “magic” and unrealistic things are definitely my thing. I also love the fact that his characters are normal people, just like most of us. Not princesses, rich people or stars.

i really wanna read paradise lost this year. you made it sound so good

Thank you for this wrap up. I do like your taste in books and I mostly noted all the books you mentioned, here. And about my favourite reads in 2022, I'm going to pick two SIGNIFICANT ones. "Lady Life" and "I Will Never See the World Again" by Ahmet Altan. The first one is a novel, and the other is a non-fiction book. I HIGHLY recommend them. They introduced me to Turkish Literature and encouraged me to read more of it.

You inspired me to get back into reading this past year, thank you!! Also, I LOVE your necklace. Where did you get it?