The BEST Books of 2023 | 10 Phenomenal Reads!

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20:24 #2
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[sokiepokiee]

I love hearing everyone’s favorites of the year ❤

[PumpkinMozie]

Between how cute she looks here, how excellent the background ambiance is, and all the great book recs…this video is flawless 💕

[margarethaines]

Best Top Ten Video of 2023!! Love your analyses and enthusiasm. A good number of your top books are on my shelves and I have renewed motivation to grab them and get reading!

[SydBookWorrom]

Oh my god I’m so excited I found you, I think we have very similar tastes and I’m taking NOTES✍🏼👀

[kalibutler]

That drink was holding on for its life 😂

[KSoGoode]

Tori Tori Tori.... You got me wanting to change my TBR.... bravo sis!!! I like the way you explain these books. Almost all of these have been added. Really cant wait for your 2024 videos and thangs! I'm most excited for Tyranny of Faith and the whole trilogy. Im not gonna read it til February thou. That and Empire of the Damned are my focus in Feb. And i have got to get into Red Rising. I'm all here for dark and depressing. And I LOVE your braids!!

[nkcish]

Thank you for introducing me to These Burning Stars! I only read a few fantasy books every year because I find most are all action and world-building without enough substance, but not this one! What a great debut.

[TheBookishMom]

I am not tired at all of you talking about Wayward Pines, it keeps reminding me that I want to read it!
Amina is one of my absolute favorite books of the year as well! As a mom, I agree with everything you said there!

[AmrutaRanade]

LOVE your excitement for your favorites ❤

[SharnettASL]

I would probably never pick up any of the books on the list, but I truly enjoy hearing the way you talk about books in general. I just love how passionate you are.

[MIZZ.BLKNRD]

Thank you for this video❤. I ended up reading How High We Go In The Dark and The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi. I didn’t end up caring too much for HHWGITD, it was just too depressing for me. But TAOAS was excellent and is one of my favorite books of 2024 so far.

[Thxlbx]

Love seeing Richard Swan getting some love. Cannot wait for the last book to come out!

[louisity]

I feel your joy talking about these books.
I can't wait to share my great reads of 2023 in my channel. 😄

[tysbookcorner]

Great list Tori! I really need to read The Priory of the Orange Tree. It’s just been sitting on my shelf looking at me and I’m just looking at it 😂 It just intimidates me so much!

[sonoftherighthand]

The Grace of Kings has been sitting in the middle-top of my TBR for a while now but has somehow never quite made it all the way up. Your excitement is contagious, though. Might have to bump it up higher.

[chloesa]

I'm more sci-fi than fantasy but I always add more fantasy books into my TBR because of you LOL. Thank you for your 2023 Tori, I'm excited for 2024! Have a happy new year!

[Bittenbyaradioactivebook]

I already apologize for the wall of text that is to follow.
I'm so happy to have found your channel just 2 or 3 days ago. I was actually reading a fantasy blog of a friend of mine and she mentioned These Burning Stars as one of her top books. She also mentioned that she heard about the book on your channel.
And after seeing your Top 10 now, I'm super-excited to see your reading journey in 2024 and hopefully many years to come.
Tyranny of Faith is my personal favorite book of 2023. It build so much on the already excellent foundation from The Justice of Kings. And it's so well done to tell the story through the eyes of Helena, who is shaping up to become one of my favorite characters of all-time.
Jumping back 2 years, The Helm of Midnight was my favorite read of 2021. As you already said, the structure is so unique and I loved the other two timelines, especially the main character of the second timeline. I'm really interested what you think of book 2. I've read it this year and really enjoyed it, but it wasn't as perfect for me personally compared to Helm of Midnight.
Jumping back another 2 years, The Ruin of Kings was my favorite book of 2019. This has to be one of the most intelligent fantasy series of all-time. I can't imagine how much intricate planning went into the series. And it just starts there. I'm currently reading The House of Always, book 4 and it is just unbelieveable how much this series still grows in complexity with every volume.
And of course in 2018, The Wall of Storms by Ken Liu was in my Top 3 reads. Unfortunately I read Grace of Kings and Wall of Storms close after their publication, but didn't follow through when Veiled Throne was released. The good thing is that I can now re-read the first two books and finish of the series.
I was a bit skeptical about the Red Rising series and just dipped my toe into Red Rising 2 years ago and liked the experience, but wasn't mind-blown. But as so many people told me how much the series grows, I'm also reading Golden Son at the moment, so I have a little catching up to do until I get to Lightbringer.
And to make a long post even longer, I'll just leave some of my favorite reads of 2023 here for you as well. Will of the Many by James Islington was such a hyped book this year and normally I don't click with those, but I really enjoyed my experience with it. I was also super impressed with Dark Water Daughter by HM Long. A great atmospheric read with 2 great protagonists and really interesting world-building. Next to the third Richard Swan book, the second volume is one of my most anticipated books of 2024 now.
I also read The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie this year and really loved it. Still need to catch up with the remaining books in the First Law world. I also read another 2 great second books in series with The Shadow Throne in Django Wexler's Shadow Campaign series and The King's Blood in Daniel Abraham's Dagger & Coin series.
Hope you have a great reading year in 2024 and look forward to your videos. :)

[amoura]

Ive been looking forward to this video from you all month!!!! Fantastic top 10! Wishing you an amazing 2024 reading year!

[caleighspiers]

We have the exact same taste in books and 8/10 of these are on my 2024 tbr!!

[CraftingVicky]

New subscriber. Just added the series Pines to my TBR you convinced me :) and burning stars. I think I'm in my sci-fi year! I haven't read sci-fi for a long time and now have 2 read so far.... glad for new recommendations. My 1st book was the "How high we go in the dark" I just ADORED that book. Loved the fact that they had a thread together.