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If you came to me and said,
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Leah, I'm only ever going to read 10 books in my entire life.
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What should I read?
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Here are the 10 books that I would recommend to you.
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I did a very similar book recommendations video about a month
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ago for the 10 books I think you must read this year.
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However, as much as there are so many books out there that I feel like everyone should read in their lifetime,
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I really tried to narrow these down to 10 where I truly believe
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that everybody reading them could get something out of them,
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even if it's not their predominant genre,
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even if they've never tried that genre before.
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In this stack we do definitely have fiction,
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literary fiction, modern classics, non-fiction and poetry.
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Also a little bit of fantasy
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and I am just in love with all of these books
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and I think if you're going to only read 10 books in your life,
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babe it has to be these.
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Just before I go through these books,
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if you yourself have any recommendations that you think I should read in my lifetime,
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if anyone else should read in their lifetimes,
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please comment them down below.
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So we'll tell you see I suppose if you've read any of these and you also agree,
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please let me know.
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I'm always happy to discuss all of these books,
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they are some of my favourites ever but we are just going to get straight into the recommendations.
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Kicking it off with a book that it took me a long time to finally get to.
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I was intimidated by this book for a really really long time
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And I had absolutely no reason to be
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That is the goldfinch by donna tart the secret history by
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donna tart is one of my favorite books of all time And I really wanted to love this.
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However, I knew it was long I didn't really know what to expect
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But oh my god when I say
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that this is one of the best reading experiences i've ever
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had for a literary fiction book in my entire life I mean it
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if you do not know what the goldfinch is about we essentially follow our protagonist theo the book begins
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when he is 14 years old.
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One day him and his mum decide to go to a museum
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and as they are wandering around this museum a catastrophe happens and his mum dies.
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The Goldfinch is a story so steeped in grief following Theo essentially throughout his entire life.
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We've really become accustomed to him and all of his decisions in life,
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the way he navigates his life.
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Very much talking about the lengths that we go to in order to carry on especially in the face of adversity.
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It is such a moving, poignant, really heartbreaking read.
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One that is so beautiful.
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Donna Tarr as a writer is just so masterful.
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I mean, everyone knows that by now with The Secret History,
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but this is just truly beautiful.
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When I read this, I really soaked it all up in.
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I took my time with it.
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That's definitely the best thing to do with this book.
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Obviously, it's quite long, but you will probably fly through it.
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The audiobook is also great.
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However, the last,
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I would say 100 pages of this book are some of
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the best 100 pages I've ever read in any book in my entire life.
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It was astonishing you cannot help but resonate with them
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and for that it has to be a book that everybody reads in their lifetime.
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Up next at the time of me filming this this is the most recent book
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that I finished so for it instantly to be in a 10 books
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that I think everyone should read in their lifetimes video it was insane it is Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burr.
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This book has just been published so I think
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if you just want to be ahead of the curve in the literary fiction genre you should read it anyway
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but this is definitely the literary fiction book of 2026.
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I did not know exactly what to expect going into this book
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and I really recommend going into it knowing as little as possible.
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So all I'm going to say is in Yesteryear we are following our protagonist Natalie who is an influencer
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but she is also a tradwife.
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Think the Nara Smithification of TikTok.
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She is a character that at once feels incredibly morally grey but also very human and very raw.
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She talks about her inauthenticity towards her job and being an influencer.
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Also very much in being a mother and being a partner and being a woman in this world.
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It is so full of nuance.
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But one day she wakes up in the 1800s and she has to live the life that she has been profiting from.
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There is so much to unravel with this book.
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I feel like there are gonna be an abundance of conversations surrounding it just because of how rich in discussion it is.
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I found myself so compelled by her story and by her character,
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even when I really, for the most part,
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did not agree with her at all.
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It does talk at length about religion and conservatism and how politics really goes into the act of influencing and social media.
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Kind of, I suppose, the discussion surrounding the surveillance and also the scrutiny of living a life online.
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And can you be entirely authentic if you do that?
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I feel like this book is incredibly current,
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incredibly relevant, and it's perfect for the weird girl fiction lovers.
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I'm so intrigued to see if the weird girl fiction,
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if this is going to pave the way for influencing and the dark side of being an influencer in that sphere.
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It was just such a fascinating and really compelling read
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and I am honestly just expecting it to pop up in so many videos for the rest of the year,
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so many posts, everyone's favourite books of the year.
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I'm very excited to engage in a lot of conversations surrounding this
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and I feel like because it's really current and a one that everyone should read.
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Up next we have a poetry book that I'm actually currently reading
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but the reason that I feel like I can confidently recommend this is because it's from one of my favourite poets.
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This book in particular is a collection from so many of her other smaller collections.
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So I've read a lot of these poems already and that is Devotions by Mary Oliver.
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I am a massive believer that even if you do not read poetry,
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you need to be reading a Mary Oliver.
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She creates this grand love for the natural world, for nature.
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She devoted her entire life to writing about nature and she does it in a way that is so beautiful.
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And beautiful doesn't even cut it.
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I feel like they're just so transcendent.
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There really aren't enough words to be able to describe the way
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that her poetry makes me and hundreds and thousands of other people feel.
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They are endlessly so eloquent and they really do make you feel so at home and so at ease with nature.
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Reading this in say the spring or the summer in a patch of grass,
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the best experience, the best reading experience you can probably ever have.
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I also deeply believe that these are really accessible.
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So like I said, if you do not read poetry,
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if you're maybe a little bit intimidated by the poetry genre,
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this is such a great one to start with.
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I have fallen in love with every single poem from her
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that I've ever read but this collection is also like the best of the best
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so I would highly recommend picking this up.
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It is beautiful, the perfect time of the year to do
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so and I really just truly think if everybody read Mary Oliver's poetry and the way she talks about nature,
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the world would honestly just be a happier place.
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Love her.
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Next we have my favourite book of all time
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and being a reader
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and somebody asking you what is your number one favourite book of all time can sometimes feel a little bit complicated.
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There are an abundance of books and I feel like it's going to be like
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that in my entire life where I read a book and I'm like this is my favourite.
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No this is my favourite.
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No this is my favourite
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but this book truly to my core is my favourite number one book of all time
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and if you're not new here you'll know exactly what that is.
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It is Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector.
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I'm a little bit more dubious recommending this to everybody because I feel like Clarice Lispector is very unique in her prose.
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It is very stream of consciousness and I know not everybody loves that.
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However I would absolutely urge you one to try Clarice Lispector just
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because in my opinion she's the greatest writer that has ever existed.
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Also this book is so beautiful.
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If you are a young girl in your 20s,
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I believe that she wrote this when she was 23,
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Near to the Wild Heart talks at length about what it is like to be a young woman in this world,
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navigating your 20s, navigating your partnerships and your romance,
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what you want to do with your life.
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Clarice Inspector's books are quite philosophical but again in a way
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that I do feel like are quite accessible if you are intimidated or new to that scope.
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She does consider at length in all of her books the afterlife,
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how you can live a life that is completely moral.
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Is it possible to be completely moral?
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Morality versus mortality.
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All of her books are so singular and so unique and so eloquent,
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but this one has to be my favourite.
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Every quote in this left my jaw on the floor.
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I really read this at such a pivotal time in my life
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and I truly would recommend it to everybody no matter what age you are.
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But I do think if you're a young woman in your early 20s specifically,
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there is just something in this book that will resonate with you
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so deeply and she's just the best writer that I have ever encountered in my entire life.
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She resonates with me on a level that no one else ever truly has.
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To my core this is undoubtedly the best book that I've ever read in my entire life.
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My favourite.
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So obviously
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if I'm doing a book recommendations video of what 10 books
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I really feel like everyone should read at least once in their life this has to be one of them.
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Whilst we're talking about favourite books this book was my top favourite book of 2024
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and that was It Last Forever and Then It Is Over by Anne DeMarcon.
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Absolutely another one where I really do recommend going into knowing as little as possible
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but I do feel like all you should know is that we are essentially following a girl in the afterlife.
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She doesn't know how she got there,
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she cannot remember her name or her life previous,
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all she can remember is that she loved this one thing.
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As the reader, as we're reading it initially we have no idea what this one thing
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that she is infatuated with is and it makes the whole book so enamouring,
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it is so compelling, it is so bittersweet,
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there are real moments in this full of so much joy but equally full of so much heartache.
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At once, it is a post-apocalyptic read,
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but on the flip side,
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mirroring that, it is a read so steeped in humanity
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and what it is like to be human
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and how our memories really carry us and what happens when we can no longer remember.
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The second that I finished reading this in 2024,
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I was like, yeah, not only is this the best book that I've read this year,
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but it is also one of the best books I've ever read in my entire life.
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All of these doggies, too,
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are quotes that I just fell in love with.
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There is truly not really any other book like this that I've ever read.
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It's so singular, it's so haunting and it is just truly a book that everyone should read.
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It's also just under or just over 100 pages just over.
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Please read it.
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One that I do feel like is so deeply popular but for such an apparent reason is Beartown by Frederick Buckman.
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First and foremost if you have not read any Frederick Buckman,
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babe you need to.
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If you don't start with Beartown I would recommend starting with my friends.
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That was on my past book recommendations video.
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If it wasn't in there,
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it would have been on this list.
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But Beartown is the first book in a trilogy that is
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so astounding that it is quite literally one of the highest rated books on Goodreads I've ever seen
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and it's everyone's favourite book ever.
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When you really strip back to its bones what this book is about,
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it's actually quite simple.
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We are set in a town called Beartown.
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It is a tiny town at the edge of a forest
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and ice hockey is the primary love of everyone in this town.
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When it comes to the characters,
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there is such an ensembled cast.
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We follow some of the people on the ice hockey team,
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we follow their parents, we follow the teachers,
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we follow everybody in this town.
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It would be rather difficult to pinpoint one sole protagonist in this book series
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because we follow everybody and Frederick Buckman does it in a way that is superb.
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I really feel like there is something so masterful
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when crafting a book that even your secondary characters feel like real primary characters bringing the book forward.
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In this book without a doubt we do discuss heavier topics.
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I would definitely recommend trigger warnings however it is dealt with so much care and so much nuance.
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The core of this book is human,
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it is so incredibly raw,
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again the way that Frederick Buckman writes characters,
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he's another author where all of his characters feel like real people in my brain.
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In spite of these books having so much packed into them they are quite accessible
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if literary fiction is not your predominant genre but just loving the character arcs,
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this book series honestly wrecks me.
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Also is one of the most astounding beautiful things I've ever read,
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one of my favourite book series ever and you need to read it.
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Next we have two non-fiction books.
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Now I am not a massive non-fiction reader however there are a handful of ones I have read
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that I truly believe everyone would get something out of if they were to read them.
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Firstly we have one that is definitely a little bit more niche however I am
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so deeply fascinated by this topic and it is something
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that everyone can resonate with and that is Philosophy of the Home by Emmanuel Coquia.
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I read this I want to say again 2024,
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a five-star non-fiction book for
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which is unheard of there is something about the conversations the discussions
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and as the title suggests the philosophy of a home
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that really really captivates me evidently it is such a privilege to have a home
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but experiencing having a home and moving
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and all of the tiny minute details of a home
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that oftentimes we wouldn't even consider is something
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that I love exploring this I did read as research for my own fictional novel
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that I'm writing however even outside of that I was just
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so completely enamoured
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and again the dog is I was completely completely astounded by
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this book to give you a brief idea of the contents
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of this book what we are exploring in this book we
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have moving love bathrooms household articles wardrobes twins white powder social media bedrooms
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and corridors pets forests and gardens kitchens and the new home
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or the philosopher's stone it was just honestly breathtaking I feel like it's a book
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that I'm going to return to multiple times in my life
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and it just makes you look at your home in such a different way.
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Also with somebody who doesn't read predominantly non-fiction,
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this at times read like fiction,
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which is why I think I enjoyed it a lot more than I would have
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if it read like an actual hardcore text.
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It was so good, everyone needs to read it.
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And the second non-fiction book that we have on this list
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that again I feel like everyone needs to read at least once in their life,
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I've spoken about this book an ungodly number of times.
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That of course is The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Joan Didion.
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Joan Didion.
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I am so in love with this woman and everything she writes.
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I'm in love with what her mind was.
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But if you do not know anything about the year of magical thinking,
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it is a memoir on grief when she lost her husband.
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And it is so poignant.
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It is so raw and it is so difficult to read.
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As somebody who did experience grief quite young,
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reading this in my early twenties,
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it really shaped the way that I carried my grief,
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the way that I navigated grief.
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And I feel like it is a book,
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again, I'm going to be returning to my entire life.
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If you are somebody who has experienced grief, I cannot recommend enough.
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You need to read this book.
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I will never ever stop shouting it from the rooftops because it's so important grief often feels like such an isolating Experience,
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but unfortunately and also slightly magnificently It is something
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that every single person every single living thing on earth
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that has ever experienced at any time ever Has experienced it can
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and it often does feel so isolating and everyone's journey with grief is so individual and so singular However,
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it is so important for the community aspect and reading this when you're going through grief is life-changing
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literally life-changing we only have two more books to recommend
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but this next book is the shortest book on this entire list
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and also is one that i feel like i've spoken about a lot more
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so in the sense that i cannot believe more people aren't reading this
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and more people are not talking about it
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and it is hex by jenny fagan another one i suppose of my niche interest is witchcraft
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and reading about witchcraft whether it is a non-fiction or historical fiction
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and this is a fictionalized account of gilis duncan who was the youngest girl ever prosecuted for being a
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which as you can imagine,
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based on that prospect, it is so heartbreaking and it's just so confronting and it is unfortunately still so relevant.
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It is quite shocking how relevant a book like this is to our current day and age,
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but even separating it from that,
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we follow her one night,
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her last night, and it is breathtaking.
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It is so eloquent.
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The writing is absolutely astonishing.
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This is a book that I believe is like 80 pages.
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You can read it in one sitting.
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I really don't know why more people don't read this.
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It is heartbreaking, like grab the tissues,
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don't get me wrong, but it is such a beautiful read that again I feel like everyone should read.
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And last but certainly not least we have one of my favourite fiction books from recent years
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and that is Marta by Kavir Akbar.
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This book is so clever,
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it feels like it's one of those literary fiction reads that really transcends time.
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At times it also does lean slightly historical fiction.
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In Marta we are essentially following a protagonist who has recently lost both his mum and his dad,
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so as you can imagine grief is again a topic of discussion.
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Parting losing his family and all of his grief and really trying to navigate where he is in his life now,
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what he wants to be,
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what he wants to do,
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he becomes deeply infatuated with the idea of becoming a martyr.
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Because of the premise
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that we are following of course at times it does feel slightly hard to read
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because it's so confronting and he really just goes through the lengths of wanting to be a martyr,
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wanting his life and wanting his death more so to mean something.
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He is such a compelling character to follow.
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He is a character that I personally really resonated with
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and then as the book proceeds he one day unexpectedly meets this person.
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I really truly feel like that is all you should know before going into this.
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Of course again because of the subject matter if you need to read trigger warnings I would definitely recommend doing that.
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At times it is heavy however more so than anything it is beautiful.
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It is so eloquently written.
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It is incredibly heart-wrenching.
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At times it even feels slightly miraculous and it is such a feat in storytelling that I think everyone should experience.
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So those were the 10 books that I truly believe everyone should read at least once in their lifetimes.
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As always if you've read any of these,
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if you love them, if you even didn't like them please let me know.
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As I also said at the beginning if you have a book recommendation
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that you are a firm believer everyone should read at least
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once in their life please also feel free to comment it down below.
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I absolutely always take your guys's recommendations but
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if there is definitely a book that you feel like I need to read in my lifetime,
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I'm probably going to prioritise it above everything else.
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As always too, if you did enjoy this video and you are new here,
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it would mean the absolute world if you would consider subscribing and sticking around.
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And yeah guys, that is it from me.
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Thank you so much for being here and for spending some time with me today.
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I really, really hope you enjoyed and I will see you again very,
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very soon with another video.
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