 Hello friends! Welcome back to my channel. If you're new I am Megan and today we're doing a video. I'm a little bit nervous. I only feel like this is gonna go super well. Today we're doing a video inspired by a video that Kayla from Books and La La recently did that is basically how I read a book for every single year since I've been born. Kayla did this recently and I thought oh my god that is such a cool idea but I don't think I'm gonna do as well as Kayla. I haven't watched Kayla's full video because I figured it would spoil aspects for me. I kind of watched the start I was like I gotta do this and then I'm gonna go back and watch the rest because I figured it would spoil books me there in what year that I've read and I'd know I've read books for certain years so we're going in blind. So yeah I've made a list here of all the years I've been born and we're gonna try and fill this up with a book for every single year and I don't know if I've read enough books for this. Here's the thing my Goodreads, Kayla used to Goodreads for this and I'm gonna use my Goodreads as well but my Goodreads is only from I think about 2018 when I kind of really fell in love with reading. I do have an old Goodreads which we can try to pull from. It only has like 50 books I've read in it and it was back when I was like 15 and there's like there's I rediscovered it recently on a stream on my patrons and there's some questionable choices in there. I don't think this is a very good idea. Come on it'll be alright. So we'll try and pull for that if not if we can't find a book on either Goodreads that I have read for a certain year we'll try googling or try finding popular books in that year because it could be that I've read a book when I was younger that I just haven't gotten either Goodreads because I don't think either Goodreads is really up to date. I wouldn't even know where to begin like I can't remember every book I've ever read like I wouldn't even know where to begin. My child I'm gonna make a Goodreads for them so that when they're an adult they know every book they've ever read in their entire life. Is that insane? Slightly. Now Kayla also tried to find a five star for every year. I don't know if that's realistic. I don't know if that is realistic for me. What we'll do is if a book is a five star we'll keep it in this blue color that we've got and if not we'll make it like pink so that we can see what years haven't got a five star read from them but shall we just begin? We're gonna start in 2000 and go from there and I'm feeling sick. Okay whoo starting off. Oh shit I've just seen it's above. We've got quite the year 2000. I have two. I have House of Leeds and The Blind Assassin. My favorite of those is The Blind Assassin by Mark Grantwood. I would say I do I did really enjoy The Blind Assassin. The old one doesn't have anything. Okay well moving on. So we've got The Blind Assassin. Let's do books published 2000 and see if there's any five stars. At least I've read a book but we might not be off to the best start. The Blind Assassin's there not recognizing anything else that I've read. Oh god oh god okay okay okay so we're going for The Blind Assassin. How do you spell Assassin? Is it two? Is it double s? Okay but we're gonna make it that pink because it's not a five star. Okay I really did enjoy The Blind Assassin. Here's the thing before I started my channel when I was first getting back into reading I was like obsessed with reading my laptop is like trying to take off. Calm down calm down calm down calm down. I was obsessed with Margaret Atwood and then since I've started my channel I haven't really read any Margaret Atwood but she is an author that I always give a good rating like I've read The Handmaid's Tale as well of course The Huck goes last. There's loads of other Margaret Atwoods I've read and I always do tend to enjoy them but yeah The Blind Assassin was a good one I remember enjoying that. Back to here right so we're jumping straight to 2003 we needn't just scroll up anymore. I thought there was one on the Old Goodreads. Yeah by the way any ratings that you see on this Old Goodreads I don't stand by them. I don't remember reading half of them well some of them I stand by which we'll talk about but like a lot of them I don't stand by but the secret life of bees is published in 2001 it's a five star. I stand by that I remember reading that I remember I read this on holiday in Spain when I was like 15 or something and I really enjoyed it I remember having a great time reading it it's just when I was in like my Kindle era this is when I used to like the likes of like the Kindle. I can't remember anything about it it's about like women women that's all I really remember but um yes I remember that's a five star and I stand by it we have a five star everyone oh my gosh yes okay right oh yeah we don't have a 2002 here either we jump straight to 2003 anything on the old one no okay have I ever read a book published in 2002 in my have I read The Lovely Bones I don't think so I think I don't think I have come on there has to be a book I've read in my life that was in 2002 maybe I need to look for more like teen books published in 2002 the rainbow fish is the rainbow fish 2002 when did the rainbow fish come out because I've read it I read the rain fuck 1992 you lies lies anything here that I've read oh god oh god oh I don't think I've read anything I don't think I've read a book from 2002 guys not that I can find I don't think I've read one in my life okay well we have to accept defeat there no book in 2002 I did not plan on losing anything I lost what have we got next 2003 I've definitely read okay so I've read devil in the white city but that was a two star journalism practices and principles we've read also the kite runner okay I okay here's the issue with this that I thought when I was going through my old goodreads is that I used to always say the kite runner was one of my favorite books of all time before I restart reading in 2018 but for some reason on that goodreads it's a four star in my brain that's always been a five star I feel like I vividly remember finishing reading it and it was a five star so you know what I'm putting it down as a five star I'm putting the kite runner down as a five star what's gonna happen I'm gonna shoot me I doubt it you have to catch me first I'm like a whip it I don't care if people think that's cheating because it's not it in my brain that has always been a five star all of my life I reviewed that as a five star right I have a very bad bad feeling now and it's that we jump straight to 2006 on this goodreads oh my god two more years are missing old goodreads we've got a 2000 we've got multiple okay we got we've got multiple thousand fives we need to look for 2004 though it could be another year where I haven't got anything my sister's keep I don't think I've ever read that some of these books I also just don't have the best memory guys I really thought I mean I was like oh I'm gonna have done terribly at this I really thought I was gonna do better anything nothing nothing anything here that I've read um see here's the thing I was a kid in 2004 I was reading but like how am I supposed to know if I've read a kid's book that's I mean I haven't like there's no way of knowing that no okay we haven't got a 2004 but on the old goodreads we do 2005 okay right right everyone we need to take a moment and think here I gave looking for Alaska in 2014 I was 14 I gave that five stars do I stand by that no I don't know but then our other option is twilight which like here's the thing right I I don't talk about twilight a lot because I don't think Stephanie Meyer is the best I know there's problematic representation in twilight I have no idea why I gave it three stars in 2014 when I'm obsessed with this I don't know what's happened here why did I give it three stars I was obsessed with twilight I read it so much as a kid I was obsessed with the films in my brain that's like a book I would have given five stars in my life is twilight yes it's problematic we don't need to get into it but like what do I put technically looking for Alaska I gave five stars at the time do I stand by it no but I'm more likely to stand by twilight being a five star which I know like that's a whole kind of worms but I gave it a three okay let's have a think here which one would I be more not on YouTube I wouldn't vlog reading these again but I would be more likely to reread twilight behind the scenes if I mean I'm talking like 10 20 years you're like oh what was twilight like I'm putting twilight I just think she's very delusional and maybe possibly insane I know that's not you know the best okay I recognize that I recognize as a twilight kid I have you know a certain attachment to it that is perhaps not the best okay and I do not endorse Stephanie Meyer's representation of indigenous people in this book okay in fact I'm against it but we're putting it and it has in my life been a five star guys we've already got two years that I haven't got any book for let alone a five star 2006 I feel good about this let's have a look we've got a lot okay but they're all pretty low we have fight back and win by Gloria already which is our highest rated one that's a four star gum missing was a five star one as a kid I reread it gave it one star and then we've got those three stars what about on the old Goodreads anything oh quite a lot the book thief that's another one I'm making that a five star don't judge me I mean like this four stuff is I do not stand by that would be like a two star today okay like a lot of these ratings I don't stand by but the book thief I used to always say my favorite books are when I was like 14 I feel like I always said that my favorite books were The Handmaid's Tale, The Kite Runner and the book thief and for some reason it's a fucking four star why was I giving looking for Alaska five stars the book people says I don't stand by that I think that's a five star book in my recollection so we're making it a five star okay okay good glad we're all agreed I remember loving like loving the book thief I don't get why I gave it a four star this old Goodreads just every rating in that ignore it unless I qualify it for you okay okay 2007 I am slightly disturbed by the fact that the old Goodreads has like gotten us most of these books than the new Goodreads I don't read old books anymore apparently 2007 oh we're in the trenches guys Jesus Christ oh my god okay we've got call me by your name okay didn't love coming by your name we've got The Blair Years by Elista Campbell and we've got the untethered soul I think I gave The Blair Years two stars it's so long that looks like 800 pages that was when I was in my like political era when I was I wanted to go into political journalism so I read that as like research not as like a passion read basically okay old Goodreads what have you got to say the Dawkins delusion city of bones meet me at that was one of the worst books ever in my life 13 reasons why Jesus Christ 2007 was a rough year that was a rough year I by the way I spoke about this when I looked through this on a patreon live stream I always said I didn't read city of bones I didn't know I finished it I gave it three stars I always thought I dnf'd it I always thought I started it and dnf'd it um what are we gonna go for what are we gonna go for let's look I guess let's look up books published in 2007 oh have I read no I have that's the that's the one by Calla Tussini I haven't read I haven't read a thousand spendings I've read the other ones oh god I hate everything about this video Kayla I hate you do we say eclipse oh my god we can't it's bad enough me putting twilight on the list we can't we can't put another one on there it's not morally justifiable we can't do that I'm gonna write Kathy Cassidy I love Kathy Cassidy she must have ones from 2007 I used I was a Kathy Cassidy girly I wasn't a Jacqueline Wilson girly oh ginger chapter 2008 okay okay okay 2007 I read sunday girl I read scarlet I read indigo blue I don't know if I gave them five stars I read these books but I mean we don't have a problem finding books I read do we we have options is the is the problem um oh I'm just gonna put sunday girl by Kathy Cassidy because I don't really want to immortalize any of these ones on the list so we're putting sunday girl oh my god okay this is worse than I thought it was gonna be but I won't class that as a five star right we got ginger snapped by Kathy Cassidy got confessions we oh we got five star whoa god my god finally a giant rat has been awarded a gold medal we've got cracked up to be by Courtney Summers thank the lord for Courtney Summers what would we do without Courtney Summers I loved cracked up to be I wish it was the kind of book that I'd read when I was young like when I was a teenager I feel like I just would have loved it but yeah I loved cracked up to be by Courtney Summers I thought it was just such an interesting little book it's her debut as well which is insane insane so yeah oh we have a five star guys I feel like we're gonna have five stars now the early naughties I mean I was a kid it's tricky and I don't read a lot of old books I can't believe I've put twilight on there I keep looking at it and I'm like I've just made a massive mistake and now I'm really annoyed forgive me okay desperate times call for desperate measures right we're into this now 2009 oh oh we have love Aubrey one of my favorite books from when I was a child and I reread it a couple years ago in 2019 and I absolutely stand by it oh my god love Aubrey is so good like it's I you guys don't understand right no one none of you will ever read this book because it's so old it's like so impossible to get a hold of but I believe it's still to this day one of the best middle grade books I have ever read it's about a girl whose dad and sister have recently passed away in a car accident and her mother abandons her and she goes to live with her grandmother and it's just this story of her kind of coming to terms with both her abandonment and losing her family and it's just impeccable it's impeccable these are all ones hush hush evermore love Aubrey Jonas are all ones I did I did a few videos where I reread some of my favorite books for my child as you can see they didn't all stand up but love Aubrey definitely did 2010 we're on a roll now guys okay oh we have one book we have one book from 2010 and it's a five star okay yeah we have please ignore their adits by as king I love this I remember I didn't think audio book this when I was in florida on holiday once and it's just amazing I loved it and I love as king and I used to read all of as king's backlist because I think she is one of the best like YA like like traditional YA or that means she's not traditional but like her books are YA and they're perfect YA and they're exactly what I want from YA you know this is a story about I think I mean I've forgotten most but it's a story about a girl who's I think best friend has just died it's this guy and like I don't want to get too much into it but it's got that as king weirdness okay 2011 oh we've got The Night Circus The Night Circus by Aaron Morgensen Aaron Morgensen I love you please publish a book less than like once every eight years because I just need them I love The Night Circus I know it's not for everyone but I just think it's so beautiful and gorgeous and just a perfect story and I cannot wait to reread it in a couple years probably give a couple more years and then I'll reread it but oh my gosh guys we are winning so looking at the chart we are halfway through we have two years where I haven't read a book from that year 2002 and 2004 we have a few ones that are a bit questionable like the kite runner twilight and the book are like you know twilight I gave five stars when I was 10 so that counts the book we've been the kite runner although I didn't give them five stars seemingly when I when I rated them they have been books historically I've looked back on as like five star reads from when I was a young adult that I loved and read so we're standing by those ones so I think we're not doing terribly and then we've got two years sunday girl 2007 and 2000 with a blind assassin where I've read a book but they won five stars I think we're gonna get all the is that is that brave I think we're gonna get all five stars we're gonna find five stars for the other side for every single year I think we're gonna do it I believe in ourselves because it's more modern I'm more likely to have read them let's go okay 2012 oh my god we've got one we've got one let's just get the whole sentence Jesus is a lot okay we've read a lot of books from 2012 okay we have options so five stars from 2012 we have the traveling cat chronicles by hero our kawa or we have the rook by Daniel O'Malley both standouts both ones I read I think in 2020 no I read one in 2021 and one in 2022 so we've got quite a few because we're gonna smash this now I believe in us okay which one do I write down I think let's go with the traveling cat chronicles by hero our kawa it's more of like a standout for me that book Jesus Christ if you want to cry read that book Jesus this to this day is one of the like most heartbreaking books ever but also heartwarming at the same time oh it was incredible I still vividly you know a book five star all-fave like all-time favorite book is a book I think you can still vividly remember reading like you can you have a vivid memory attached to it I just love it what a book okay guys we're doing great 2013 let's see an elderly lady is up to no good gacha gacha how many have we got we've got loads okay wait wait wait we haven't got a five star yet have we I wonder if there's any more 2013 is the goldfinch oh villains villains villains and that is not correct no villains I read the series I'm vicious by V.E. Schwab another one I have a vivid memory of reading I read this on the plane to florida on that same trip where I read please ignore vera deeds god I had a lot of stars that trip I also read girls a paper and fire on that trip I read a lot of good books but yeah vicious by V.E. Schwab absolute five star I'm nervous I know a third book in this series is being published I didn't love ventral I think I gave ventral like two stars um but vicious oh my gosh I read the whole thing on this plane ride I was totally engrossed what a book guys we've done it I'd like to thank my mom and god I feel so good about this woohoo okay next I think I had a sneaky peek that's where a five star yes all the light we cannot see by Anthony Doher this is crazy that all the ones were picking I have vivid memories of reading this is one of the only books I've ever stayed up late to read let's see if we've got any other ones here oh god gee god rebel city of Indra um oh bad feminist by Roxanne Gay is great as well um and big little lies okay no but I think I'm gonna go with all the light we cannot see by Anthony Doher but bad feminist I have a vivid memory of reading as well god this is crazy but yeah this is one of the only books I have ever like stayed up through the night to read like I'm just like I can't put this down I'm staying up however late I have to to read this and I remember me and Tom were in our tiny flat that we had in first year of uni so it's not the one for those of you that have been here since the start of my channel it's not the one we lived at whilst I was at uni that you guys saw it was our first year one it was like a box it was like a shoe box it was shaped like a shoe box and it was tiny and I was like Tommy can go sleep I'm staying up I'm so sorry I'm not a big fan of war books I really don't like war historical fiction I know it's like a super big kind of like sub-genre in historical fiction and I really don't enjoy them often but there was something special about all the light we cannot see 2015 let's have a look what we've got we have got the kind worth killing ember and the ashes none yet on there let's go to the next page oh nick and charlie oh in the market for murder by C.K. Kinsey oh my gosh I don't remember seeing I we must have scrolled past it I don't remember seeing um quite life in the country um you've also got the fifth season any other five stars oh got illuminay I think I'm gonna go for in the market for murder though because it's more of my current vibe yeah okay in the market for murder is the second lady hardcastle book you guys have heard me speak about lady hardcastle series 10 000 times um I love it so much and it's just such a comfort read for me at this point I didn't realize it didn't publish for that long wow I suppose there is like 10 000 books in the series now um but yeah in the market for murder is my favorite one it was the first one they gave five star and I still think it's probably my favorite one I just think it's just the perfect murder mystery this one has like three different mysteries going on that you think might be connected or might not and it was just so good 2016 we're absolutely getting a five star for every year now okay oh we have radio silence by Alice oseman 20 oh every heart of doorway by shona maguire for 2016 anymore let's go on the next page by the way we're putting out pages and pages now of like women in cabin 10 five stars for 2016 like each year is pretty gonna be pages long oh crooked kingdom why is it saying a quiet life in the country came out I think it was republished a quiet life in the country so I think that's why it has come out a year later no I'm gonna go every heart of doorway by shona maguire because that's another favorite series of mine this is just such a special series in my opinion like it is so beautiful you know they're dark I feel like they you know they get you know I can get dark you know they get dark the way which one series but in the in the core of it is about found family and about recognizing who you're meant to be and honoring the person that you're meant to be be that the way your self-expression or the person the way you want to live your life that's really what this is about and impeccable that was beautiful you did such a good job of expressing yourself I've just changed the web view to infinite scrolls that we don't have to get caught up between pages okay 2017 what have we got oh the bear in the nightingale by Katherine Arden come on that is one of the series that got me back into reading it will probably have to be that unless there's another standout oh the seven husbands everything here go that's like asking me to choose between children strange case the alchemist daughter oh okay okay okay I mean it's not okay we've changed we've changed tact a little bit yeah if you're a regular here you'll know the strange case the alchemist daughter is one of my favorite books of all time is probably my favorite series of all time I love these girls and this found family and this story it's just like historical murder mystery with a touch of fantasy which is my favorite like cross section of genres but they are just perfect to me and I don't need to justify it to you I love them 2018 we're gonna have so many now so we all just scroll fast until we see five stars okay thunderhead oh no exit by Taylor Adams will be hard to top remember this when you're sad was a five star uh obsidio or the broken girls what did I say nice I'd still go with no exit oh the poppy wall oh shit how are we gonna choose I'm not gonna put another we'll just put the one strange casebook okay I'm not gonna go overboard but I mean that is there she must be mad by Charlie Cox Sadie by Courtney Summers oh my god heart stopper Jesus moon across the snow five stars girls are paper and fire becoming five stars do I go with no exit do I go with heart stopper um who knows I'm gonna go with no exit I do love no exit okay I think this is the perfect thriller like action thriller I will always stand by that I think this does everything an action thriller does needs to do perfectly it can't be topped we're just gonna go to these quickly now because it will be books that you know I love and that like have been my favorite books of years okay rinter of the witch was five stars in 2019 snow white lens witchcraft the five daisy jones in the six weight of the stars dig but each day you must not miss oh good girl's guy to murder with the foreign high middle game Jesus there's gonna be so many guys how do we even begin to narrow this down turn of the key black flamingo ninth house validate me I'm gonna go a good girls guy to murder another one of my favorite series I have to amend my relationship with Holly Jackson since I have shit talked about and I have to put this here to remind myself how much I love it because I'm kind of like very nervous about whatever she comes out with next because I'm like did I only love like a good guys guy to murder series can I love other Holly Jackson but I'm also very excited they just announced the casting for Pippin Ravi if you haven't seen on instagram on Holly Jackson instagram for the adaptation they're making and I'm so excited right 2020 there's gonna be 10 000 like how do how does one even begin come thumbing down let go unlimited hearts of volume 3 the guest list that's an important book house the serenity the night swim the midnight library the oh the Thursday murder club it's gonna be the Thursday murder club we'll keep scrolling watch over me horrid one by one all five stars the meaning of a riot gary I can't help myself guys and what's worse she's on her way to a special audience she hates yeah the Thursday murder club by rich dozman as you guys know one of my favorite series again I'm joking we're just putting my favorite series on this list apparently um but again the Thursday murder club all five stars to me and this first one I think is still my favorite out of the three that we've had out so far I am open to that being changed by a future one but I just think the first one's really special and there's a few more like emotional moments in the first one that I think make it stand out than just your bog standard murder mystery again 2021 now we're just going to be screwed next two years 2023 you might not have any five stars yet for anything that came out in 2023 I'm not sure if I have so that one might be tricky but these ones we're gonna have like 10 000 books to choose from the project we made out in every bow um delicates is five stars hearts of volume four might be rising true crime story there's gonna be a standout in my dreams all of life as good as dead oh okay I haven't read as many 2020 releases as one would think I feel like I feel like I've read more 2020 releases than that maybe not um what is my favorite 2021 release interesting the project Finley donovan oh the love hypothesis I'm gonna put the love hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood I am 100% Ali Hazelwood apologist I don't I don't apologize for being the hazelwood apologist I love Ali Hazelwood she does something for me I love all her romance I haven't read I haven't even bought Love Theoretically yet guys but I'm really excited 2022 actually John we don't even need we don't even need to look I know what I'm putting we don't even need to think about it we know it's babble okay we know it's babble um I love her to the day I die it's not even it's not even a question it's babble but it's true I'm the best favorite book from 2022 we don't even need to think about it okay 2023 the last one I might not have one yet now I imagine by the end of this year I will I've read a lot of 2022 releases my god um I haven't read a lot 2023 releases I have read Ghost 19 highly suspicion unfairly key oh I have the mysterious case of Alpine Angels phew okay I was worried for a second there I hadn't had a five star but I have I did really love the mysterious case the Alpine Angels it's just such a solid mystery it's so fun with the mixed media there's a lot of like lines connected and that you've got to link up but I loved it okay that's our final list guys I have only four years where I haven't got a five star book from that year I mean I don't twilight I'm kind of like I keep looking at it and like a shiver running over me because I don't want anyone to be mad and like I know I probably wouldn't give it a five star if I read it today so maybe that one doesn't count no it does I gave it a five star many times when I read it when I was 10 okay but yeah four years where either I haven't read a book from that year as in 2002 or 2004 or I haven't read a five star either 2000 or 2007 so maybe in the future we're gonna try I guess and get a five star from all of those years so that we can fill this out because now I'm like I have I'm a completionist guys if you don't know this like once I start a tv series it's hard for me to stop when I start listening to a podcast I feel like I've listened to all the episodes I'm a completionist so I feel like in the future we're gonna have to find five stars published in those years which I feel like might be a bit tricky I'm a little bit nervous for that but maybe that will be something that we do next year I don't know or later this year but yeah I think I actually did better than I was expecting once we got onto this side like the 2012 side of the board like it was pretty easy it wasn't difficult to find books I'd given five stars the struggle really is between 2000 and 2007 because I haven't read a lot of books published in those years but yeah I hope you enjoyed this video I loved this so much this was so much fun let me know how you think you would have done and how do you think how did you think I would do how did my results compared to your expectations of mine I would love to know all that down below thank you guys for watching to the end I don't know how long this is gonna be yet and I'll see you soon in another video bye