 Once again, feel free to place your bets on how many of these I'm actually gonna read. All doing good. Today we're going to be discussing the 24 books I must read before I turn 24. So I do two big kind of TBRs every year. I do a yearly TBR, so I did a 2023 TBR and I do a book I have to read before I turn that age. It's gonna get out of control. Like when I'm like 30 am I still be doing this? My birthday's at the end of January so I tried to do this a good amount of time after my year TBR that comes out in January but also enough time for me to actually read the books. I think one year I did this in like September and like that's just not, it's not realistic. It's not realistic. It's not realistic. It's just not realistic. So yeah we're gonna be discussing 24 books actually before I turn 24 but before we get into the video I want to say the biggest thank you to the sponsor of the video which is Serious Readers. You guys know I am obsessed with my Serious Light. 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I've kind of separated them into genre but like there's like two books per genre but let's just go per genre. First we have got some horror books and if you know me you know my flavour of horror is campy not too scary not I can't deal with my my horror being clever or trying to like say deep things with hidden meanings because like I'm fighting for my life on the trenches just being able to read it I don't have time to theorise. So my first is My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. This wasn't originally on the TBR that I made I made the list last night and I looked at this this morning and I was like hang on you have to go on there because I have a feeling I'm gonna be obsessed with this. I mean time to stop being so obsessed with me. I feel like Mariah Carey. So I just know this is set like in the 80s and we've got a girl who she thinks her best friend is like a demon inside of her and we're gonna exercise that. I read my first Grady Hendrix last year and I really enjoyed it it wasn't like a five star but I feel like we have the potential me and him to get a five star because I feel like he's my flavour of horror not too serious over the top ridiculous campy I have a feeling I'm gonna love his books that other people love and even his books that other people don't love I'm so excited to just make my way through Grady Hendrix I feel like I need to read all of his books so I'm really hoping that I will get to this before I turn 24 by the way turning 24 I actually thought I was still 22 the other day oh my gosh then we have The Drift by CJ Tudor this is a release that's come out this year and I think this does lean more horror so on the description of this it says an overturned coach full of students all of them are trapped a stranded cable car full of strangers one of them is dead an isolated chalet full of friends soon they'll be enemies so we're in this snowstorm and it says here a locked room mystery a dystopian thriller a nail shedding horror so it's kind of I guess like a combination of all of them but I've had really good things about this I've only read I think one CJ Tudor and that was the chalk man which I did enjoy but I'm really excited to see what I think of this one and I love a good isolated book you know isolated in the snow that added danger the tension the drama she's giving me the drama she's giving me the drama I like drama drama drives me at times I think without drama what's the fun in life so I'm super excited I've had such good things about that and then one that I feel like a lot of people were reading like last year and I'm a bit late to the party on but I really want to get to is sleuth that by Brom I don't really know what this is about I'm gonna be honest Connecticut 1666 we've got I think like a demon called sleuth that and I think there's like there's like pictures in this I've just heard so many good things about this I'm very intrigued I love the kind of vibe the kind of atmosphere to this and oh my god guys I have the past couple days or like maybe the past week even I haven't been excited to read you know you go through fits and spouts of being like oh my god I'm loving reading right now and you go through fits and spouts of being like I don't want to read like I'm not excited to read I'm not excited for the books I've got on my tbr like I'm not feeling it and the holding the stuff and talking to you about it is making me excited to read it's making me excited to read I've had such wonderful things about this I feel like it's gonna give me the atmosphere the drama that I want next I have a few mysteries and they happen to be probably the two longest mysteries on my tbr I'm putting them on here to try and make me read them first we have night film by marisha pestle this is like a classic I feel like everyone in their mom has read this this is one that I feel like a lot of people read when I wasn't really reading but I mean it is long move it into a date but I've heard always such wonderful things about this it's a mix media mix media it's a mix media I love mix media guys I love mix media I just feel like a mystery with a mix media element just it gives me the drama it's always what I'm asking for just give me the and I don't really know what this is about let's read this back together because it's quite short on a damp october night the body of beautiful ashi cordova is discovered in a manhattan warehouse though her death is ruled a suicide investigative journalist scott mcgrath suspects otherwise the last time mcgrath got too close to the cordova dynasty he lost his marriage and his career this time he could lose his mind so that already there's like web pages what's here oh like files and stuff how exciting does this look oh my god there's pages I feel like this is definitely one that I should get around too soon see what I make of it see what I think about what everyone else has been saying about it and then another mystery that I really want to get around to is the enigma of room 622 by joel joel dicker so this is set a luxury hotel I do I love a hotel as a setting I can't lie I love a hotel as a setting in a mystery they're at this hotel there's no room 622 and that's because an unsolved murder happened there and I believe our main character kind of wants to solve what happened and I feel like it's going to be like a clever mystery when I think of this I think of something similar to like the seven deaths of an Holocaust which I didn't love but like a clever murder mystery and about a mystery that's going to do something is going to go somewhere so again it's long that's why I put it on here to try and get me to read it then we have a few sci-fi on the list first we have a sea of tranquility by Emily St John Mandel I recently read station 11 and did enjoy it there's something about Emily St John Mandel's books that aren't ever like a five star for me but although I'm hoping this could be because I've had such wonderful things but they're always like they make me think more than many other books do they kind of get in my head and like root around and like I don't know I imagine them as like little bugs barring down my brain I don't know oh Jesus gross I can never describe an Emily St John Mandel plot to you because I'm like reading this it seems part of it's set in 1912 part of it's sent two centuries later we've got detectives a girl I don't know parallel worlds a girl I can never give descriptions at Emily St John Mandel's books but I would love to get around to this soon and see what I make of it because I've heard such wonderful things and having read both the glass hotel and station 11 the way that they were intertwined I don't think this one's intertwined the same way that those were but the way that they were intertwined and related to one another made me really intrigued just to read more from her I can't really describe it I could make a lot of links in how they were similar and different and it made me want to see how this kind of applies to that as well and then one that is wrapped up I've got quite a few on this list that are wrapped up actually one that's wrapped up is someone in time which is an anthology of time travel romances which is pretty specific for all these books on this anthology uh to be all these short stories to be time travel romances but this has a lot of authors I love in it I know Theodor Kost is in it and after reading Snow Whitelands witchcraft I just need more Theodor Kost in my life she doesn't have any more novels I she has a few more like short stories that I haven't read but there's not much out there so I'm like grabbing at any Theodor Kostness that I could get I think Shona McGuire may have a short story this as well I really want to read this I just feel like it's I haven't really had anyone speak about it I don't read a ton of anthologies but I mean it's more Theodor Kost and just the idea of all these books being time travel romances I'm really intrigued as to how all the different authors will kind of take that idea and make them different from one another at least I'm hoping they will because I feel like it's difficult to get not make it one note you know so I'm intrigued next we have fantasies and one fantasy I'd really like to get to is Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg this is one of the only like cozy fantasy books I still have on my TBR that I haven't read I've been burning through them quite fast I don't know a ton about this one I know it's set in 1846 I think there's something about this like house this magical house but I kind of don't want to know I kind of don't want to know anything about it I kind of want to go into it blind I've heard really good things when people have read this I think I saw this on Lexi's channel oh my god we've got a map guys we've got a map of the house I love them doctrines of magic let me not look at too much so yeah this is just the next cozy fantasy on my list I would love to get this in we also have Amari and the Great Game by BB Alston this is the sequel to Amari and the Nightbrothers which I loved and I would love to make progress in this series I haven't put a ton of series stuff on here because I couldn't like I couldn't prioritize what I wanted to do I'm finding it hard to prioritize what I'm going to get around to soon I need to do a series wipe out uh video soon because I haven't been making progress for this year yet not good but yeah I loved Amari and the Nightbrothers we're following Amari whose brother goes missing in the first book and she gets sucked into this like supernatural investigation bureau that he kind of worked at it's this supernatural world she never knew existed and she finds out that she has powers and yeah I'm super excited for this next one they're just a lovely like comforting read I love them they're such a nice read so I don't know if it's going to be a trilogy or more in the series but I'm really excited then two that I wrapped up that I would like to get to first we have Daughter of the Moon Goddess by School in Tan I feel like I need to get to this soon this is one that literally I feel like everyone has loved who's read it everyone has loved it is the most beautiful book that I own in existence it is wrapped up maybe I'll get it soon and wrapped up who knows but yeah I just know we've got I've I've forgotten the plot of this it's been too long isn't it we've got the Daughter of the Moon Goddess and her mother was exiled and she's like trying to get back to her mother something like that but I just had beautiful writing gorgeous prose I think the whole trilogy is oh yeah I have the whole trilogy I have the second one I bought the same fairytale edition of the second one before I even read the first because I was just so determined to love this series but it's a geology which is like it should be fairly easy if I start to finish she says that doesn't always work out but like she says so yeah hope I'm gonna love that one and then we have Unraveler by Francis Harding now I love Francis Harding I read A Skinful of Shadows last year and it was like a favorite I am obsessed with her writing and her style I think is it this is the problem when a book is wrapped up for ages I when I don't look at it and I don't see it I forget the plot but I just love Francis Harding's writing the first chapter of this I remember I wasn't gonna buy it I saw it in Waterstones like right when it came out and I was like I can wait to get it I mean I could have waited to get it because I haven't read it you know quickly I sat down and I read the first chapter of this which was all told in this you you know what's that second person terminology isn't my strong suit I was like off school quite a lot as a kid in primary school and I feel like I missed the lesson where we learn about perspectives like second person first person whatever no is it third person I don't even know I feel like I missed that lesson and I've never been able to get it in my head because I didn't get it in the roots when I was like eight you know I mean like I didn't lay the foundation for it and so I've never been able to like remember the correct names from perspectives but it was told in this really interesting way it was like if you ever come to this place but where like it was instructing you how to travel there and it was just a really interesting perspective I don't think the rest of the book is written like that but it just had that magic it gave me that drama so then I have a few that I would class I guess as contemporaries although maybe these I don't know if these class I think on Goodreads their class is like contemporaries but I don't know if any of them lean more thriller for these two we have all the rage and some girls are by corny summers these the two backfist corny summers that I haven't got round to yet and I'm really excited to try out both of them corny summers is one of my favorite authors we know this we've talked about this a lot recently so yeah I don't know too much about the plots one I think it's about a popular girl who starts getting like frozen out and accused of bullying and like I don't know ono gets bullied I don't know and then I think this one is about a girl who is sexually assaulted by the sheriff's son and it's about her speaking up but that costing her everything I guess it's like a small town maybe where like everyone turns on her for saying that so yes I really am excited to read more corny summers then I also put on this list as long as the lemon trees grow which by the way guys I think this is like one of the highest rated books I've ever seen on Goodreads it's got such a high rating especially for a fiction book sometimes you get non-fiction that's rated high but this is like I don't even know I think it's like a 4.5 or something ridiculously high so we're following Salama who lives in Syria she is a pharmacy student as war breaks out it's about her and her family and I guess the people around her and just the human stories of what's happening I have just heard such wonderful things about this I think it's going to be heartbreaking emotional but I'm really excited to read it and see what I think I have two categories left we have non-fiction which is a pretty big category and then I also have a few 2023 releases that haven't come out yet or I haven't got my hands on yet so let's get into the non-fiction first because we have quite a few first we have In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado which another book I have just heard wonderful things about I think it is like a semi-autobiographical book about the protagonist's abusive relationship she was in with another woman and I think it's like told through mini essays or kind of mini chapters imagining this relationship through different lenses and this is just another book that I have heard nothing but wonderful things about it's another like super highly rated book but I've heard it is also kind of a difficult read so it'll be one that I read at the right moment but I feel like it's one that I need to get around to then we have two Book of the Month books that I haven't gotten around to yet that I really want to we have Bitter Sweet, Howl's Sorrow and Longing Makes Us Whole by Susan Cain and Tell Me Everything the Story of a Private Investigation by Erica Krauss I don't consume a ton of true crime I don't want you guys to think that I don't really consume podcasts about true crime but I'm interested in looking at true crime from like an ethical perspective and I feel like books about true crime often are so this one I guess is kind of part memoir and part kind of literary true crime I'm not sure where those divisions blur but it's about this woman's life as a private investigator and it's just one that I've been meaning to guarantee for ages it came out about a year ago so hoping to get around to that and then also came out about a year ago is Bitter Sweet I would just be interested in learning more about this it's not really a perspective I've ever read a non-fiction about I know she has another book that was maybe more popular yeah quiet I'm really interested in the idea of like the having space for sadness in your life and the importance of that to then feel happy and like appreciate the happy moments so yeah really intrigued to read both of those then we have reach for the stars by Michael Craig this is like it looks like a hefty boy but I mean the font is pretty big and it's like all interviews so I feel like it'll reach fairly quickly this was an archives very kindly sent and this is all about noughties 90s and noughties pop in the UK we're following spy scars I don't even know five s club seven like all of these sugar babes it's camp it's camp I don't know what to tell you he's interviewed all these people who are pretty key like managers artists from this time and I just think like if you like brick pop oh my god iconic girls allowed but girls allowed this era they might have been a bit later than 2006 oh steps we've got steps so yes I am so intrigued I've never seen a book about this topic and I would love to learn more so definitely excited for that and then my final one is I could be Christy a very elusive woman by Lucy Worsley I did a video which is one of my favorite videos ever done and it's like no these so if you want to go watch it I did a video about when I could see disappeared and the true story behind what happened is one of my favorite videos I've ever done so I'll leave a link down below please check it out if you haven't seen already but I consulted this book a lot I read the chapters about like leading up to and about her disappearance and it was so helpful I think Lucy Worsley is an incredible historian and I feel like she really gets to the heart of who I could it is and I was reading about how a lot of acotas biographers before this are men and I don't think they always had the most sympathetic lens to certain things and I don't know I just loved the way this was written it was written so also what I'm looking for like it's so accessible you know it wasn't like high brow but it was really getting to the meat of what truly happened and the truth behind acotas relationships and feelings and I just loved it I was obsessed with the little chunk that I read I may be read maybe 60 pages of it already so I'll leave it a little while and then I will read the whole book um but yeah I'm excited to learn more about the whole of acotas life because I don't know a ton about it and then let's quickly chat about the 2023 releases that I either don't own yet or haven't got my hands on yet we have we have five here we have the once and future sex by I can't I didn't write the authors down for any of these Eleanor someone you'll see it here this is all about women in medieval history women and the truth behind women in medieval history and about how a lot of our perceptions of what women's roles were at this time and famous women from this historical period don't match up a lot of the women that we know were like strong headstrong cutthroat ruthless and the idea of women for that time period doesn't necessarily match up with that so I'm really intrigued to read this I love the cover this is definitely one of the little fictions I want to get my hands on most then I only wrote Vera Wang's unsolicited is it advice for murderers I can't remember but it's I have seen a lot of people reading this lately I need to get my hands on it the paperback it's only out in paperback in the UK it's like five pounds so like I need to just get it like how often do you spend five pounds without thinking about it I need to just get it but yeah I've heard such good things I think on Goodreads I mean it's only just come out but it's got like a 4.5 average rating it's got like a high average rating and we're following this grandma who discovers a body in her restaurant I believe she like walks in and there's like a dead body in her restaurant it's been murdered and I think she decides to like instead of like calling the police uh investigate it for herself so I decided to go and investigate it so yes I'm super excited for this one then we have Death of a Bookseller this is I think kind of like a thriller about these two people who work in this bookshop and I believe it's like these tensions and insidiousness between them and one of them starts acting weird and maybe like wants to kill the other one I don't know I've heard this one is a bit more like literary than other thrillers you know it's a bit more of like a highbrow thriller but I've heard good things from people who have read it and I think it's a very different book and it's one that I think is getting a big push here in the UK in terms of publishing so I'm intrigued to see what I think of this one we also have The Golden Spoon which all I'm going to tell you is that that it is Grape Bush Bake Off Meets Made of Mystery it this one hasn't had the best reasons it's got like a 3.5 average rating already I don't think it's going to be highbrow but I did just place an order for this it doesn't come out in the UK till like September so I just placed an order on Book Depository RIP and didn't before it goes extinct to get this so I just have ordered this one this is Grape Bush Bake Off Meets Murder Mystery I'm getting excited just thinking about it like listen it's not it's that I'm not expecting higherbrow from this I'm expecting Camp Fun Silly that's what I want from it that's what we're hoping for so yeah it has one of the best reviews but I feel like I might love it and then finally on I guess a similar note we have Love Theoretically by Allie Hazelward Allie Hazelward is my favorite romance author to ever exist I love her yeah this is her next book that's coming out this year and I just I'm gonna read it I'm gonna read it I love Allie Hazelward I love her again like I recognize her books aren't the best written romance ever they're fanfiction I say this every time and I love fanfiction when I was a kid you know I read I grew up reading fanfiction and so that's what I want that's what I want it seems this is another fake dating one which surprises me that she's doing that so soon after Love Hypothesis but maybe she wants to kind of recapture the success of Love Hypothesis I don't know but um not me acting as if I can see like the inner motivations of Allie Hazelward but I don't need to know the plot I just know Allie Hazelward romance there's the cover doesn't it look cute that's all we need to know so there we have it that is the 24 books I'm hoping to read before I turn 24 at the end of January next year I always feel like when I make this list I'm absolutely gonna do this like I'm absolutely gonna read all of them like how could I not and then I proceed to not like I say I'm always hoping for at least half if we get over half it's a win it's a dub if we get over half so let me know how you think I'm gonna do how many of these you think I'm gonna read down below thank you guys so much for watching if you got to the end of video comment is there a spoon emoji I don't know why there would be but if there is I'll look it up but if I've left this in it because there is a spoon emoji if you got to the end 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