The Best Books I've Read in the Last 5 Years 🌟🖤 | The Book Castle | 2024 

So many books and so little time. The problem with watching other book tubers channels is that it only increases the tbr! Happy reading to you and best wishes to your channel.

2019 feels like 10 years ago for me 😓😭

P.S. A few of my best reads were; The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah, The Lighthouse Keepers Daughter by Hazel Gaynor (any bk. by her) and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson and Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher was my absolute fave bk. I read in 2023!

I really want to look back through my notebooks and see what my favorites of these years have been. Some of these books I’ve read, many more I want to read. I do know The Secret History and If We Were Villains are going to be on my recap for 2022 and 2023 respectively.

Omg yes, Song of Achilles 😭

This was fun! I’ve read so many good books because of you (They Were Sisters, Miss Benson’s Beetle, etc) so thank you so much! I love your thoughts on books. Also, your blouse is so pretty!!

I'm currently reading Miss Benson's Beetle because of your review. I'm loving it. Good plot.

Thank you Alice !

Hi, Alice, I just wanna tell you that you keep me and my friend company while we work. Your vides are great, you're so soothing and pleasant to listen to. So thank you

❤📚 Loved your reviews. Many of these were also favorites of mine. I have Hamnet on my shelves, but I still need to read. I did add This Green and Pleasant Land, and They Were Sister to my "want to read " list!

Wha... I can't believe the Anna Karenina video was 5 years ago. I'm absolutely crushed by this 🫠. But it's nice to realize that I've been enjoying your videos for so long!

I’m so glad I came across your channel ❤ I also love the books you mentioned. My favorite are Nightingale, love and other words and currently reading/loving starless sea.

Alice, you need to read "The murmur of bees" by Sofia Segovia, translated from Spanish. The story is set in Mexico in the early 20th century amidst the deadly Spanish flu pandemic. It has such a spring-summer vibe, I think you're gonna like it! 💛🐝

OMG, you influenced me a lot i guess. I bought a lot of these books because of you (and really liked every book that I have read so far).

Great books!

If you have not seen the TV series And then there were none,I highly recommend it if you are able to watch it. It was a great adaptation,all moody and beautiful!

Great video, Alice! I have Emily Wilde sitting on my shelf- I plan to get to it soon! My favorites: Hamnet by O'Farrell, Florida by Groff, Fangirl by Rowell, Stories of Your Life by Chiang, The Overstory by Powers, Miss Benson's Beetle by Joyce, A Gentleman in Moscow by Towles, The Secret History by Tartt, Nothing to See Here by Wilson, If We Were Villains by Rio, Tom Lake by Patchett, and Ninth House by Bardugo. Favorite series (can't pick one because the whole thing is so good): Empire of the Wolf by Swan, The Expanse by Corey, and Red Rising by Brown. My ABSOLUTE FAVORITE BOOK of the past 5 years would be Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin- OH PLEASE try it, I think you'll love it too.

I haven't read Kindred but I did read The Time Traveler's Wife. (A man drifts back and worth through time.)

Hi Alice! You do such GREAT reviews, really good. I have 4 of the bks. you mentioned waiting to be read. Problem is my eyes are too big when it comes to books. I might get sidetracked at the library, buy a new/ used one, read that, get sick, have A surgery, UGH! Right now I am reading Where The Crawdads Sing. Just started it today. I kept putting it off because I HATE swamps! Just abhor them. My friend who recommended it to me told me to "get on with it, it is much more than that!" So I did. Have been aching to read Emilie Wildes... but misplaced it for months when they remodeled my apt. and had to move out for a week! I didn't misplace it the MOVERS did! They didn't speak english!!!!😑 So!

I just finished The Salt Path which you showed last week. It was interesting 😃

Do you have a video of a tour of your bookshelves? Your home looks beautiful what I can see of it hahaha

Some of my favorite books for the last five years: The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden, Circe by Madeline Miller, Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran(which was a re-read), The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, Sweet Bean Paste by Durien Sukagawa, The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini, The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill, The Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner, Nettle and Bone by T Kingfisher, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna, Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett, and The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

This video was a lot of fun to watch and I want to check out some more books now ^^ I also loved Garlic and the Vampire❣Such a sweet story and perfect for autumn. However, I was kind of bored by Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries. I think the main problem was that I did not care enough about the main characters :/ My list of favourites would be too long, but some of the best books were: Clockwork Princess, Chain of Gold, Chain of Iron by Cassandra Clare The Illuminae Files by Kaufman and Kristoff His dark materials trilogy by Philip Pullman Lonely Castle in the Mirror and almost all of Alice Oseman's work

Have u read Cottage by The Sea by Debbie Macomber it’s so good I could read it again

I loved Miss Benson’s Beetle so much. I wasn’t able to put it down at all. I hope to find more books like this. Please do recommend if you know any 😊❤

Read Hamnet and was glad when it was over. Everyone loves it so what's wrong with me?

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Always the book is better, i think the ONLY movie ive ever seen that was better than the book was the shawhank redemption.

My dad died during the pandemic in 2020. Some days it feels like yesterday, some days it feels like 20 years ago. It's all a fog to be honest. I read and then their was none a bit ago, I liked it.

Mine favoritter de siste fem årene: 2019 Educated, Tara Westover Beartown, Fredrik Backman Og hver dag blir veien hjem lengre og lengre, Fredrik Backman 2020 Know my Name, Chanel Miller Us Against You, Fredrik Backman Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens Light in the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process, Joe Fassler (Ed.) Wonder, R. J. Palacio Mio, min Mio, Atsrid Lindgren The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah 2021 En mann ved navn Ove, Fredrik Backman The House in the Cerulean Sea, T. J. Klune Hatchet, Gary Paulsen Illuminae, Amie Kaufman The Wild Robot, Peter Brown 2022 The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah Alt skal brenne, Sofia Nordin Vinnerne, Fredrik Backman 2023 How to stand up to a dictator, Maria Ressa The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein Ready Player One, Ernest Cline The Fault in our Stars, John Green Wellness, Nathan Hill Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

2019 was a decade ago but it was also yesterday 😅

Hi Alice Here are my Favorite Books from the same years: In 2023: Nell Plants A Tree by Anne Wynter - A Cute Children’s Picture Book about a little girl who wants to plant a tree. Maame by Jessica George - I really love this book. Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen - A Cute Story about a Lion who lives at the Library and Reads Books. My Favorite Books from 2022 Research On The Edge Space by Angela Royston - Non Fiction Book on Space. I love anything that has to do with Space. Rebecca Of Sunny Brook Farm by Deanna McFadden Into The Planet: My Life As A Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth - Non Fiction Book My Favorite Books From 2021 The Other Side Of Everest: Climbing The North Face Through The Killer Storm by Matt Dickinson - Non Fiction Book - this is my all time favorite book The Paris Dressmaker by Kristy Cambron The Connors Of Connor Prairie by Janet Hale - Non Fiction Book Miss Austen by Gill Hornby. My Favorite Books from 2020 The Girl Who Reads On The Metro by Christine Feret-Fleury Queen Victoria: Twenty Four Days That Changed Her Life by Lucy Worsley The Water Dancer by TA Nehisi Coates The Christmas Shoes by Donna Van Liere Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen Those are all of my Favorite books from 2020 to 2023 Your favorite books looks so good. I have read And There Were None by Agatha Christi. I really enjoyed this book as well. Take Care & Happy Reading ❤️🤗📚🔰📖❤️