I've read 800 books on Booktube, here are my best recommendations with reviews! 

If you could only choose one book to recommend per genre, which one would you pick?

So happy you love Anne Bronte! For whatever reason, I just wasn't able to finish a single book by the other sisters, I think Anne is incredibly underrated in comparison to her sisters

This feels nostalgic. I remember i started watching your channel because of the "I read 400 books" 🥺

In terms of horror, I loved My Best Friends Exorcism! Book Lovers is on my favorites list for romance! I read it because of you. 10 Minutes is on my mental TBR. My Brilliant Friend is an all-time favorite as well. ❤ Great video!!

Dear Emily, thank you so much for My brilliant friend series. A just can’t get enough, I gifted it to all my friends, even my therapist lol! A recommended it to everyone I know and everybody loved it. All thanks to you

I credit you for helping me grow my personal library by the hundreds! Hahaha! I kinda of had a summer reading list and now it has changed/grown. You videos are so much fun!

Did I just like 👍this video before seeing it? Yep!

I don't hear many people say they read much less enjoyed The Tennant of Wildfell Hall. It's one of my super beloved favorites! Anne Bronte is definitely underrated compared to her sisters.

I was glad to see that you recommended Flowers for Algernon. I hardly ever hear anyone mention that book and it is easily one of the most impactful books I’ve read in my lifetime.

I absolutely adore your channel and love how you highlight books that aren't as popular and I've gotten great recommendations from you (i.e The Neopolitan Quartet).

Thank you for doing this concise round up! I have added quite a few to my TBR.

I have finally added I Who Have Never Known Men to my pile of possibilities. It will probably be August when I get to it because July will be full of vacationing. I feel like you’ve been hyping up that book for forever.

I’ve been following you on Goodreads for years now and we have very similar tastes. You HAVE to read “the curious incident of the dog in the night time”. It’s unique and suspenseful and has one of the best/most unique endings I’ve ever read. Love watching your channel! ❤

I actually taught Flowers for Algernon to my adult advanced ESL class, and they loved it. It initially started out as a short story which you can find for free online in pdf form. That is usually the one taught in schools because it still hits the more moving topics but leaves out the more adult scenes they added in the novel. Regardless, it is fantastic, and I am glad you liked it too!

This was a great video! I finallly added some to my tbr!

I miss your makeup videos BUT I have recently been reading more lately and I'm obsessed with your booktube channel. Btw your English is amazing!! I would have thought it was your first language ❤

I’ve followed you for years and it’s been great wyaching your taste develop

Looking forward to future videos like this. I also found a couple of recommendations as well. My least favorite genre is mystery/thriller but I also read Razorblade Tears and LOVED it. ❤

I just bought I who have never known men and Flowers for Algernon because of you :D Definitely think they are up my alley!

I know I’ve said it before but I just absolutely love you in blue with a red lip! It looks so classy

Your taste is very wide! Love that. So many videos are all one genre and that gets old. But your video was very fresh.

What a great list of recommendations! You always recommend books that are different then the bulk of creators, (🤣 me included I feel like I follow main stream a lot lmao) also your lip color is amazing! You have the perfect complexion and hair color you can really pull off vibrant red so well! I’m jealous 🤣

I love videos where you talk about many books 😃

Great mix of recommendations. I've added Blood over Bright Haven to my (ever-growing) want to read list. The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo is a cracker.

Oh no. I knew I wasn't going to watch this one. My "to read" increases even more (I loved the video)

Not me guessing the books right for half these categories! Great recs!!

I feel like there needs to be a good balance with open endings. I'm the odd one out with loving them, but that doesn't mean that I love all of them. I think there are endings that are way too open, but i find it frustrating and exciting when there's something i have to use my imagination on in the end

I think my favourite thing about I Who Have Never Known Men is that how you interpret it could radically change depending on how your life and such is going when you read it, making it infinitely rereadable. When I first read it I had such great, complicated feelings about it: a sense of freedom, acceptance, positivity, and definitely a bleak beauty when you find yourself in a strange and unsettling situation. Perhaps the next time I read it, I will find it dark, harshly emotional, filled with loss. I have no idea, and that's absolutely amazing to me. Also, Piranesi has become my favourite book of all time and I'd swear it changed something in my brain. I'm reading it again right now and it just inspires me; it's such an odd little book that's hard to categorise, and I adore how it slips free from many of the constraints of genre to exist on its own. 💚

Piranesi and Algernon are 2 of my most favorite books 🩷🩷🩷

All on the want to be read pile. No idea when I'll get to them. I also really loved Kindred its soo good! Need to read more by Butler. I did get Dawn already because yo loved that so much as well. Looking forward to reading it.

For fantasy, I always recommend the Poppy War Trilogy to people because I loved it so much (even though the end broke my heart). I loved the complex characters, and the political intrigue. I will probably pre order Blood over Bright Haven, as it got a publisher now. You have made me want to read it, as it has been quite a while i have not read a fantasy book that I end up loving. I need to try this author, because I heard a lot of positive feedback around The Sword of Kaigen as well

Finally got my copy of Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes from Chapters! It was unavailable for SO long!! Can't wait to read it =D

I recently read sour candy and it was so interesting to me

I guess this is my cue to pick up Jacqueline Harpman after buying her book on your recommendation! 🤗

Your discussion of Sour Candy got me thinking that you might like Slewfoot by Brom

I also loved the books by Emily Henry.

Modern clasic: "The Color Purple" Alice Walker Thriller: "Wrong Place Wrong Time" Gillian McAlister Horror: "What Moves the Dead" T. Kingfusher Romance & Horror: "The Hacienda" Isabel Cañes Historical Fiction: "8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster" - Marinae Lee Fantasy: "Black Sun" - Rebecca Roanhorse (The whole "Between Earth and Sky" is amazing) Because you already said Octavia E. Butler for SF: "The Broken Earth" by N. K. Jemisin While "The Fifth Season" is more Fantasy, the rest of the trillogy is more SF. Speculative / Weird: "Tainaron. Mail from Another City" - Lena Krohn. "Piranesi" is my favorite book of all times, but I have another beloved Magical Realism: "Once Upon A River" Diane Setterfield

Classic-Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, Mystery-Maisie Dobbs mysteries by Jacqueline Winspear, Romance-Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter Solstice, Fiction-Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, nonfiction-Private Equity by Carrie Sun. You make me want to read My Brillant Friend series.

10 Minutes, 38 Seconds is a great book to read for Pride Month, if you know you know 👀

Hey I see your every video ❤

I just purchased Men Who Hate Women 😅 I’m super excited!!

I love the Neapolitan novels, i haven’t read the last one yet.

Book Lovers is my absolute favorite book of last year. I fell HARD for Charlie 😂😂.

For anyone who liked Flowers for Algernon, you might want to check out the 2010 French film "La tête en friche"/"My Afternoons with Marguerrite". It's delightful.

you inspired me to do the same!! classics: little women mystery/thriller: the kind worth killing romance: funny story (just finished it today and first time ever loving a romance book lmao..) contemporary: interesting facts about space historical fiction: i’m just realising that i’ve never read one i believe?? but i’m looking forward to reading my brilliant friend, i just bought the entire series bc of you! fantasy: the priory of the orange tree sci-fi: vicious (technically it’s also a fantasy but…) non-fiction: i’m glad my mom died

I'm currently reading I who have Never Known Men through Everand. So far it is interesting.

Piranesi is getting an animated movie!!

Tennant of wildfell hall great choice

I’ve read 9 of these🎉❤

Agreed that Anne is my favorite of the Brontë sisters. Love that book. I can’t say I enjoyed Blood over Bright Haven though. 🫣

I got a copy of razor blade tears last year but haven’t read it yet 😭

I have never went to my Libby app and picked up books as fast as I can while watching a youtube video before 😂

I Who Have Never Known Men was good… I think? One of those that is just heavy even after you finish it. I think I really loved it but might have to read it again now that I know how it ends since I read it so fast to find out.

I realized I kinda know Emily's taste by now because I guessed some of the books 👏🏻👏🏻😂.

my problem with "Blood over bright haven" is that I figured out the plot twist in the second or third chapter, so the revelation really didn't hit for me. the best part was the first chapter, if I read that as a short story I would have given it 5 stars

Hi Em, what's on your lips? Love your video btw

I will forever be known as the kid who cried while reading Flowers For Algernon in middle school (I’m in my forties now). My teacher asked if there was problems at home 🙄

Let's see how I've done (spoilers I've read 7/13) 1🎉 Flowers for Algernon (read it in high school) 2🎉The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (read it bc of this channel it is my fav classic!) 3😢Razorblade Tears (havn't read it, but I have read Blacktop Wasteland) 4😢 The Girl Woth the Dragon Tattoo (kinda been meaning to read it since 2008ish... but not really) 5🎉Sour Candy (read bc of this channel) 6😢 Book Lovers (I like romance a bit more than you, but Emily Henry hype is off-putting to me) 7😢 10 minutes 38 seconds (havn't gotten to it yet but definatly by the end of the year) 8😢 My Brilliant Friend (I havn't read it but I did get my mom to read all 4 bc of you!) 9🎉 Blood over Bright Haven (I read this the first time you reccomend it!) 10🎉 Kindred (hell yeah 5☆) 11🎉 I Who Have Never Known Men (read it in 2023 bc of this channel!) 12🎉 Piranesi (so good! read bc of this channel) 13😢 Men who hate Women (another one I'll get to by the end of the year) I might try to get to all the ones I missed bc I'm over halfway already.

Piranesi is a very marmite book, you love it or you hate it, I’m in the latter category

Wow 19 minutes ago I'm early

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Where is in cold blood?

Fun fact for you (if you didn't know it already) - "The girl with the dragon tattoo" is in Swedish called "Men who hate women" (Män som hatar kvinnor) 😃

did i just preorder Blood over bright haven cause Emily cannot stop recommending it? yes. will i regret it? stay tuned hahah 😂

Men Who Hate Women is such an important book, we read it for my feminist book club and it was super tough but it’s one of the non fiction books that has changed the most the way we see the world

I didn’t love I Who Have Never Known Men 🙈 It was super interesting for the first half and then got repetitive and boring for me. I’m sorry…I know you’re judging me 😂

Out of the 13 books you recommend I've read 5, and out of those 5 I dnf'd 3 (Razorblade Tears, Kindred, I who have never known men), gave Sour Candy 2 stars and Flowers for Algernon 4. Now I'm really concerned about Piranesi... 😅

Wait, wait, wait... what about "English is not my first language "???

Does this mean that you have almost read the amount that is considered a library? 😮

Day 100 of recommending Tainted Cup to Emily because it has SciFi and an older woman as main character.

made a note of the books recommended , 🫰🏻my semester break is set now to read these ❤

That is amazing Emily you read 800 books on booktube! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺📚📚📙📙📙📚📚📙📙📚📚📚📖📖📖📖📖📖📚📙📙📚📚📙📙📖📖📖📚📙📙📚📚📙📙📚📚📚

I already read a lot of your recommendations and I always liked it a lot 🫶🏻