THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR! My Favorite Books from 2023 You Should Read! 

I LOVE your reading space!! It's cozy, it's earthy, it's warm, it's a dream. I have so many of these books on my TBR, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed them 🥰

I'm so proud of you for finally reading Frankenstein!!!! Is that weird to say??! I hope not, it's been a favorite of mine since high school!!

Yay!! I’ve been missing your videos! My top 10 are 1. Lightfall: The Girl & the Galdurian 2. The Saviors Book Cafe in Another World 3. One For My Enemy 4. Isla to Island 5. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea 6. Heartstopper 7. The Priory of the Orange Tree 8. The Dollmaker of Krakow 9. You’re a Mean One Matthew Prince 10. Fourth Wing They’re not in order because I can’t choose something like that 😂

Just picked Encyclopaedia of Faeries up and can't wait to dive into it! As someone who doesn't read a lot of fantasy, this seems like a great one to get into :)

The Hi to Kayla on this particular video each year will never not make me smile

Alice Hoffman is one of my favorite authors. Her writing is just so beautiful in every book she writes. ✨✨

I’ve only just stumbled across your channel and can I just say I am instantly subscribed! Absolutely adore the cosy aesthetic of your videos and how you craft your description of all of the books. I’m am so excited to have my mind opened to these new reads! ✨

✨ I love your channel and your book recommendations! I picked up so many since watching you so thank you for your lovely descriptions on books and helping me delve more into my love for reading while wanting to explore more topics and genres of books. One of the books you recommended that I absolutely fell in love with and cannot stop talking about or recommending is spinning silver. It was chefs kiss perfection!

Thank you for your videos!! You have added about 97 new books onto my list ✨️

Great list! Thank you for posting.

I love hearing you talk about books I also love because you just nail it every time!! Rules of Magic is far and away my favorite in the series, and Alone With You in the Ether was in my top five this year! Also if you love the vibes of Half a Soul you should try The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno Garcia. Happy new year!

Wendell from Encycloedia of Faeries gave me the biggest Howl vibes and I was here for it lol.

I'm so happy you loved Frankenstein. It's been a favorite since I was a kid. I love your library. It's so cozy.

Getting my good reads ready for TBR additions!!

So glad I found you on here! Excited to try your top 10!

Loved Practical Magic. You’re making Rules of Magic sound like I need to pick it up. It’s so hard for me to pick a favorite book. ✨

✨Love your vibe and the new hair ✨I always enjoy your videos! I'm not into fantasy as much but I love the classics! so glad you enjoyed Frankenstein!

OmG YES! I love that you loved Alone With You in the Ether like I did. Great list. Loved watching.

✨✨✨ Thank you for this amazing reading list!

Yes!!!! So excited that you chose Rules of Magic as your #1. She is my all time favorite #1 author. I haven’t read all of her work but I’m working on it 🤓 I think you would really enjoy the rest of the books in this series too. Now I’ve got to look at my Goodreads and see what my top 10 is for 2023. Great video 📚

🌟🌟 I have no idea what books you talked about in this video. I just listen to your voice while I'm working and it's awesome. Love you! 💜

✨ your videos have the best vibe ❤️ definitely adding some of those titles to my wishlist ☺️

I also read Frankenstein in the fall of 2023 and I also really liked it a lot! As you said, the first 20% are very dense but afterwards one just only can get gripped!🤩

Lexi I read some awesome books this past year because of your patreon , thank you. Some were on your list ✨✨✨✨

Great suggestions. Added several to my list to start 2024. 🌟

Thank you Lexy! Great lectures!!! ❤ Frankenstein was one of my favourites, when I read it, as well👏👏👏 I adore Stephen King! & recently I've discovered Grady and... I'm in love!!! 🥰

I added a few more on my TBR :) I love your recommendations. I ADORED Half a soul so now I'm very intrigued about the other book that shared that spot. Demon/dragon that sounds interesting! 🌠

Love your videos!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love Alice Hoffman books. So glad you do too! I picked up 2 books you had on your top 10 list! I’ve been a strictly historical fiction reader for years. I’m wanting to branch out. Thanks for your videos!✨

Lexi! Your space is becoming more and more exquisite! ✨ My favorite book of the year was probably The Blade Itself (the opposite of cozy haha) ✨

Loved these recommendations

SO EXCITED!! I love your library it is my dream and absolutely amazing peaceful and so amazing wonderful 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉📙📖📚📚📚📚📙📖📚📚📙📙📖📚📚📖📖📙📖📖📖📚📚📖📖📙📖📚📚📚📖📖📖📖📚

Excellent list! Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series was one of my favourites. Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful author and her books

i think 2024 is the year i'm gonna start reading an alice hoffman book. thank you for introducing amazing books to us! happy new year!!! 💖✨

Ever since you mentioned That Time I Got Drunk and Saved A Demon, I've been wanting to get my hands on it. Finally I have a copy now and will be one of my reads for 2024!! Excited!! My top 1 read in 2023 though is Nettle and Bone. I picked it up also because of your recommendation. I'm so glad I did I love it so much. 🌟🌟🌟 My star emoji is kind of different 😆

I’m so excited that you finally read Frankenstein! It’s one of my favorite classics! I’ve been thinking about picking up Emily Wilde, so now I’ll have to make sure to grab it. My favorite thing I read this year was Ashlords by Scott Reintgen!

✨✨✨ Thanks for the recommendations. ❤

Great Video Alexandra! Frankenstein made my top ten a few years ago when I read it too. I was so shocked hehe. Now I'm a frankenstein FANGIRL

Yes! I was blown away by The Rules of Magic as well. Not just one of the best books I've read this year, but of all time. Hey, I think you should read and review The Idiot by Elif Batuman and, also, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. If you ever read nonfiction, give Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler.

i appreciate you sharing that with Frankenstein we have to give it a little time before we get into it. I struggled with the language or or writing style when i started it, but you gave me hop and I'm going to pick it back up.

I also loved Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries. ⭐️🌟💫✨

🌟⭐🌟 these were the stars I found lol. My favorite book I read this year was The Hard Way by Lee Child. It's book #10 of the Jack Reacher series. I mostly read books similar to this type of book, but there are some other genres sprinkled in there from time to time. I also read Aurora Rising, which I enjoyed. I am going to add the Amina book to my TBR to add a bit of variety to my reading adventures. Thanks for always reminding me why I love reading so much. You rock!

🌟🌟🌟Now I definetly want to read the majority of the books that you mention in this video! thank you

I ❤ Alice Hoffman, I've never been disappointed by her books. Practical Magic is a must read, especially for anyone with sisters. Her YA books are wonderful as well.

✨That's a great list! I'm so glad you liked Frankenstein! It's my all time fave. I also love Alice Hoffman and my fave of hers is Blackbird House - it's SO good!! Happy New Year!

Tress was on my favorites list of the year too!! I loved it so much 🥹

I love your coffee mug!

The House of Hunger was my book of the year, I'd say.

Among my favorites of 2023 is The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. I adored it! You’ve given me some great ideas for next reads. Thank you!

✨Your videos are so relaxing. You help me unwind after a long day💜 I don’t know about my top ten, but the books that I loved the most in 2023 are The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Ariadne, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Miss You, Elektra, Project Hail Mary, and Neverworld Wake🫶 I am looking forward to read Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries this year. Also, I am currently reading The Ex Hex, and it is so good, I think it is going to be a 5 star read for me🌟

I loved The Rules of Magic as well, better than Practical Magic, although I enjoyed that too. My favorite book in 2023 is tied between The Wishing Game, and The Collected Regrets of Clover…both so lovely and touched my heart in different ways. I love your videos and recommendations ✨✨Happy New Year❤️

My favorite book of 2023 was “Small Favors” by Erin A Craig :) also your mug is super cute!

I finally read Frankenstein in 2023 around Halloween. I thought it was brilliant. It’s one of those books that you sit back and think to yourself what message it was trying to portray more than the story itself. Loved it!

✨Thank you so much for this video, Lexi! A lot of books that you mentioned just went straight to my want to read list✨ My favorite series I read in 2023 was definitely Caraval❤️

So pleased you finally got to Frankenstein and you loved it. It’s my favourite classic and I think it’s exceptionally well crafted. My favourite book of 2023 was Cloud Cuckoo Land, closely followed by The Rose Code, Pachinko and Migrations

I had never even heard of That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon, and you have totally sold me! Definitely adding to the top of my TBR!

Last year most of my 4 & 5 star reads came from your recommendation!!! Since last couple of years my reading vibe has been cozy, warm, dreamy mystery or middle grade/adult fantasy. My last years reading list is literally cozy mystery or middle grade/adult magic books and you provide best recs in this space:)

Ohh I am so excited about your number one pick! I love all of the books in that series!

The background, the chair, the decor 🤩 it looks like an archeologist’s office in my head ✨

I was inspired by you to start the Practical Magic series last year! So far I’ve only read Magic Lessons and it was incredible! Can’t wait to read the rest of the series this year and watch Practical Magic for the first time! (I’m a book before adaptation girlie) ✨

Hi Lexi! I absolutely adored One Dark Window and its sequel Two Twisted Crowns. They would make fantastic winter (nonholiday) reads, for those who are seasonal readers. 😉

Will have to give Amina a try. V cute mug!

we do not have similar taste at all, but I love watching your videos bc you are the person equivalent of a cozy read.

That Time I Got Drunk was so much fun 😂 also the audiobook was 👌

I am new to your Channel so I don‘t know if you read it, but my favorite book this year was the midnight library. Honestly changed my life!

Loved the Practical Magic movie. Midnight Margaritas :D I got Frankenstein last year, I have yet to read it though.

✨ #1 is Fourth Wing and I am shook you didn’t mention it! I was so obsessed! 😂❤

So many great recommendations! You have convinced me to finally read Frankenstein! I think this is the year I will do that! Thank you for sharing your favorite books from lat year!

Happy New Year! 🎉 Lovely video, I love it! ☕

✨✨✨thank you Lexi!

I read Half a Soul in 2023 too! I loved it so much.

✨Great recommendations!

My favorite read in 2023 was The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young. Just added a few that you mentioned to my TBR! Thanks for sharing ⭐️

Going to add most of those to my reading list. Thanks! One of the books i loved this year was Homecoming by Kate morton

need to read these books, thank u🫶🏼

Lexi your vibes in this video are giving cool witchy aunt 😍🖤✨

Rules of Magic was my favorite of 2023, too!!! It totally caught me off guard, but was the perfect vibes for early fall.

Your #1 was one of the best audiobook experiences I’ve ever had. That book murdered me in the best way and still hangs around in my heart ❤

Thanks for the video Lexi ✨️ I'm so glad you liked Frankenstein! I only read it this past year, too. My favourite read of 2023 was Essex Dogs by Dan Jones. I also have to put a special mention to Scritch Scratch by Lindsay Currie though!

Fantastic top 10 list. I have add a few to my TBR. A few of my 5 star reads this year were: The Next Best Day by Sharon Sala, Sheets by Breanna Thummler and Delicates by Brenna Thummler (next up is Lights). I just picked up Bookshops & Bonedust yesterday from B&N (I read Legends & Lattes in early Fall and loved it!). My son got me A Winter in New York for Christmas 🥰

My favorite book of the year was Fourth Wing because it got me back into fantasy which i haven’t read since I was a kid; AND it brought me and my childhood best friend back together after not talking for about 6-7 years! 🎉❤️✨

I have Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries and it's on my long TBR for this year. I've also been meaning to read Frankenstein and never have. I love how you talk about books that you enjoy! My top reads of the year are: Last Argument of Kings (Joe Abercrombie), Sea of Tranquility (Emily St John Mandel), Gardens of the Moon (Steven Erikson), When the Sparrow Falls (Neil Sharpson), How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu), Foxglove King (Hannah Whitten), Written in Red (Anne Bishop), Best Served Cold (Joe Abercrombie and 3 others tied. Plus poetry: Winter Recipes from the Collective ( Louise Gluck) & In Mad Love and War (Joy Harjo) and 2 others that tied. It's so hard to pick 10 favorites! 🙃😊⚔📚✨✨✨

Thank you for such a great video, Lexi. I now want to try and read That time I got drunk and saved a demon. My favorite books of 2023 were Divine Rivals and The Adventures of Amina Al-Surafi. I was really surprised by The Adventures of Amina because I didn't think I would enjoy a pirate book, but it ended up being such a great story. I have just started the Fourth Wing and ACOTAR series so hopefully this year will be a great reading year.

Magic lessons was amazing. Def read that one. It was written so good!!

Love this video ❤ more updates/reviews on what you are reading as you are reading it please! Our tastes/favorites overlap quite a bit and I would like to hear your thoughts more often after you read. If monthly is too much for your life, maybe quarterly? Thanks!!! PS: the name Elias is pronounced EEE-lie-as in North America (I know because that is my four year old son's name! He always tells people how to pronounce his name because I think a lot of people mispronounce it.❤) It is pronounced as E-lee-us in other parts if the world though. PPS: Alone with you in the Ether and Emily Wildes Encyclopaedia of Fairies were two of my favorites of this year as well. Cannot wait for Map of the Otherlands in a couple of weeks!!! I read The Rules of Magic last year and you're right, Hoffman's style is so unique. My #1 is a tie this year between Babel and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. I will not choose!

I would definitely love diff book recommendations videos like a video on classics a video on thrillers a video on cozies a video on rom coms just dedicate that video to a certain genre. Just an idea also reading some older book’s recommendations…. Also maybe how you pick your favorite quotes in books etc

✨my favorite book I highly recommend is Anne of Green Gables. So good ❤

I read Half a Soul based off of your recommendation here. Loved it. But, I was so disappointed when I thought I had thirty more pages left, but it was an excerpt from another book and a bunch of other extras!!! I've been had!!! 😩

Love your lists. Good to see your pretty face agian. Haven't seen many videos from you in the past few months. I might have to give Alice Hoffman another try. I love the practical magic movie and when I tried to read the book it wasn't the same. I was a bit bored. So might have to pick up one of the others. Happy New Year ✨️

So glad you enjoyed Amina! Definitely a book I want to pick up in 2024. I actually read the author's other series called The Daevabad Trilogy this year and absolutely loved it! But my favorite book of 2023 was a middle-grade called The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass. It was a beautiful story about books, community, and so much more. Highly recommend!✨️

Great picks. I loved Frankenstein when i read it back in 2017. 🦇👻📚☕❄️🥂

Love your list!! I haven’t read Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries but so many people have mentioned it so I’m curious to read it!! 👏 I’m not a big fantasy reader but it sounds interesting!

I still think about the ballroom seen in Half a Soul🥰

✨🦊✨ My favorite book caught me entirely by surprise because I don’t like tennis at all, but I loved listening to the audio of ‘Carrie Soto is Back’ by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I think the audiobook is the way to go with this one!!

🌟I’ve read many books recommended from you! My reading has picked up so much since finding your channel. I recently read the keeper of lost cities and it was so good! I’m looking forward to continuing the series. I am curious though if you ended up reading it? Some of the other books I’ve read because of your recommendations: - the Society for soulless girls (reading atm) - girls made of snow and glass - Greenglass house - a boy called Christmas - a wizards guide to defensive baking I think that’s it since finding your channel but I’m having a blast and my TBR is FULL 😂

Am I surprised to see Frankenstein in your top 10? Yes and no. Surprised that you finally read it 😉 and no because I did really enjoy too! I finished it at the beginning of the year and it was one of the best one I read. My two favourites weren"The very secret society of irregular witches" and "The final Empire" (first novel of Mistborn trilogy. Hope you have another great reading year! ✨✨✨

The rules of magic!!! Half a soul and Emily wilde were some my faves to read in 2023 as well. I really want to pick up Tress of the emerald sea this year!

Alice Hoffman is my favorite writer, her writing is just incredibly beautiful. Practical Magic is actually my favorite in the series! But loved Rules of Magic too (and Magic Lessons)

I fell in love with reading thanks to "1001 Arabian Nights" so of course I loved "The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi". Here is my top 10 books of 2023. 🥇"Speaking Bones" - Ken Liu 🥈"Blood Over Bright Haven" - M. L. Wang 🥉"The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi" - Shannon Chakraborty "The Book That Wouldn't Burn" - Mark Lawrence "Spinning Silver" - Naomi Novik "Perdido Street Station" - China Mieville "Bloodchild and Other Stories" - Octavia E. Butler "Lone Women" - Victor LaValle "Talonsister" - Jen Williams "Godkiller" - Hannah Kaner

00:00 Lexi is here to share her top 10 best books of the [Music] Year. She read 60 books, and out of those 60 books, these are the top 10 that she thinks you should try reading or not. Frankenstein has been on my TB for years, and every single year, I am intimidated by this book. But this year, I decided to start the book finally. 01:32 This book is about Dr. Frankenstein, who gets cocky and decides to create something. The story is told from the villain's perspective, and you see how the creature is being set up to be the villain. 02:24 Frankenstein is a beautiful book with quotes about life, love, and relationships. If you make it past a certain amount of time in the book, you will fall in love with the language and experience life from Frankenstein's perspective. 03:15 Emily Wild is here to create an encyclopedia of fairies, and her arch nemesis Wendell thinks they are besties. I loved the narration of this book, and I thought it was cute and really unique. 04:28 Shane Maguire's latest in her Nolla series, Lost in the Moment and Found, will be number eight on my list. I loved this novella and thought it had so many wonderful points and commentary about things that made me very emotional. 05:32 Days in June by Tia Williams is a beautiful contemporary Love Story about two authors who met when they were young and had a passionate love affair. They both became authors and ended up writing Love Letters to each other in the form of books. 06:45 Alone With You in The Ether by Olivie Blake is a contemporary love story about two people who end up meeting one day and falling in love. It's delving into some serious topics we discuss, but I thought it worked for me. 07:50 The next book is a light-hearted read, and it follows three different perspectives of sisters who come from an Upper Crust family in New York City. They navigate their life, and their perspectives shift as they get older and fall in love. 08:44 This book was brilliant, well written, and funny. I was invested equally in every story, and the character arcs and development were well done. 09:26 Two romantic, cozy fantasies are coming in at spot number four, one a little spicier than the other. I got drunk and saved a Demon by Kimberly Leming and half a Soul by Olivia at Water. 10:02 Theodora Edings has been cursed to only have half of her soul by a fairy, and she meets Elias or Ellas, who helps her to break her curse. They fall in love, and it's an enemies-to-lovers story. 10:50 This book was so romantic; I felt the imagery was beautiful, and the commentary was smart. If you're looking for a book to take you out of your world and head for a while, I recommend this. 11:38 Cinnamon is a spice farmer who wants a cozy little life farming, having a family, and hanging out with her siblings. However, she is thrown into an adventure when she accidentally saves a demon when she's drunk and falls in love with a dragon. 12:43 Another cozy fantasy, Tres of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson, comes in at number three. 13:02 Brandon Sanderson said that he was inspired by The Princess Bride, and The Vibes of the Princess Vibe is very similar tonally. 13:30 Tres is in love with Charlie, the Duke's son, and they end up becoming friends. Then one day Tres realizes she loves Charlie and wants a normal, happy little life with him. The Duke Charlie's dad sees Tr as a threat, so he sends his son off to all these different kingdoms to find a wife for Charlie. However, Charlie tells Tr that he is in love with her, so Trust decides to save her man. 14:57 Amina Alafi is a retired Adventurer and pirate, who loves hanging out with her daughter, when a woman offers her a lot of money to go find her kidnapped granddaughter. Amina rejects the offer, but then she realizes that the woman is the daughter of one of her past Shipmates. 16:06 I love stories with this, like six of crows or Oceans 11, or even the Red series, where people get back together their crew to go on an impossible mission. 16:33 This book was very reminiscent of one of my very favorite books that I was read as a kid, A,1 Arabian Nights, because each chapter felt almost like a mini tale. It was very fast-paced, well crafted, and had a wonderful story. 17:47 If you liked A1, Arabian Nights or the Vibes of that, I think you should check out this book. 18:03 The Shining by Stephen King is a horror novel at its finest, Six Crimson Crames by Elizabeth Lim is a YA fantasy, and Grady Hendrick's How To Sell A Haunted House is a commentary on sibling love. 19:09 Alice Hoffman's Rules of Magic was everything, and the movie Practical Magic is one of my very favorite movies of all time. 19:36 This book is following the members of a family called the Owens Family, who are blessed with magic and are cursed in love. The book is following three siblings and their different love stories. 20:38 Alice Hoffman writes in a way unlike any other writer, and her quotes are so touching and emotional. Her book is a very heavy book with a lot of sadness, but it's also slower paced and worth reading if you want to read a beautifully well-crafted story about people falling in love. 21:32 You can tell me your favorite book of the year, or a book you liked because I recommended it. 21:56 Thank you so much for watching this video and a huge thank you to all of my Patreon members over at Fox Andwood. I will chat with you all very soon.