I READ THE MOST POPULAR BOOKS OF 2023

THE BOOKS:

0:59 FOURTH WING
6:34 YELLOWFACE
9:35 SPARE
14:26 HAPPY PLACE

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[Kay-wpxf]

"I'm sorry for the person I'm about to become." INCREDIBLY RELATABLE

[wickerlibrary]

i find the cover of Spare SO funny. i work at a paper source (owned by b&n) and we got some copies of Spare in and the way we had to display them would scare us so often coming out from the back room because his face was like life-sized and displayed at a height where it looked for a split second like prince harry/some random man was just THERE staring at us.

[malishacorner]

This video came out at just the right time. I was having a really bad day and this is my comfort channel.

[HelloimCindy]

I personally think Divine Rivals should be just as, if not more, popular than Fourth Wing. It was such a good duology and the writing just made me so happy!!!

[dobetterwithchristian]

I loved Happy Place! So many people didn't enjoy it, but she clearly wrote it just for us. I was in tears multiple times 🥰

[kairitetra]

I also am one of the few people who hasn't read Happy Place yet, but it's on my TBR for this year lol

[eht]

When Spare first came out, the main demographic was little ol' grandmas and SO MANY came to the bookstore on release day, so excited to read it.

It greatly amuses me to picture their scandalized faces when they get to all the parts about his *ya know* 🤣

[addiewithapen]

your fourth wing review took all of my thoughts and put them into words

[skyethorne]

so so glad you loved happy place!! the way emily henry wrote the friend group and put so much care into each of the friendships and their conflicts was so special to me. it felt like the platonic love was just as important as the romantic love, rather than something there to flesh out the edges of the story like you'd see in a lot of romance novels

[alexiscardenas]

Jessie! You made Fourth Wing sound amazing and then a LET DOWN! But you gushing over a romance made up for that! 🤩

[timelord]

Happy Place was my first Emily Henry book, and it was my favorite read of 2023. I understand why people love rereading her books now, because I really want to reread Happy Place and annotate it. I sobbed so much reading it. I related to Harriet so much. It was so good!

[marissa]

I was expecting you to hate Happy Place, but I'm so glad you liked it! I thought it was so well written and everything about how hard it can be to maintain friendships as people grow up and grow apart really hit home. It's one of my favorite things I read last year.

[purplexzombie]

Fourth Wing is mind candy .it DEF needed like...another round or two of edits. I don't get people going feral for it but I do really love that it is accessible fantasy rather than so deep and difficult.

[jennarogers]

I really appreciate how you said Fourth Wing wasn’t necessary for you, but you still get why other people enjoyed it! So respectful of you to not trash it.

Also I LOVED HAPPY PLACE TOO! Probably my second favorite book of 2023. Emily Henry described grief in a way I really needed to hear, and I’ll never forget the imprint that book put on my soul.

[emmal]

I did almost run out and buy Fourth Wing when it was new, because the early descriptions sounded right up my alley.

I'm glad I waited, because the further descriptions moved it into yeah, no territory.

[melissaguild]

I work at Target. We had the sprayed edges with the dragons version of Fourth Wing. It hadn't quite popped off yet, so I had no idea what it was. A few days after I bought it, BOOM! It was everywhere

[WickedWestBooks]

Yellowface is the only book here that I want to read. I've really liked all the R. F. Kuang books I've read.

[BrandontheBeldam]

I just got the notification 😂so what’s up Early squad?!
I’m currently reading a popular book at the moment ( Gilded by Marissa Meyer) but I usually tend to avoid the books hyped up by social media. That’s just my preference

[deannascorner]

I listened to Spare on audiobook and so never really saw it in person. The scale of it compared to your face is wild - I didn’t realize it was so huge!

[gabbyreads]

I felt the same about Fourth Wing, I don’t read fantasy at all but I was surprised I actually really liked the dragons, but the characters drove me nuts 😂