 Hello friends, how are you doing? So I have recently been feeling like I don't do a lot of book recommendation videos. Sometimes I do like specific ones for genres but I don't do a ton of just like book recommendations and I just don't feel like I want to do more of them because obviously I do a lot of reading vlogs but I want to share with you maybe some books that I haven't talked about in a while or I loved in the past. I was thinking how can I do this in a fun way? And then I remembered there's a website of reading prompts which I did a vlog with earlier this year. It was made by another booktuber, Chantel reads all day. I'll leave her link down below. Yeah I did a whole vlog where these reading prompts picked what I read and I thought let's like uno reverse it and use the reading prompts but as like prompts for me to give you a book recommendation. I thought that would be fun so that's what we're gonna be doing today. I always think this website is such a fun way to pick what you read if you're like in a reading slump or anything so I would really recommend I'll leave it linked down below. If you guys are in a slump I think it's such a fun way to pick what you read. I am gonna just preface this by saying there may be some prompts I can't like give a book recommendation before I might be like random number generate or a new to you author or something I can't do that so we'll have to just skip those. Also the book I pick for that reading prompt is not necessarily like if it's mixed media for example it's not necessarily like my number one mixed media book it's just the first one that comes to mind. We're going off pure instincts here so are we ready? I'm really excited I think this is gonna be so much fun. It's gonna be good and we're all gonna have fun. Okay so with the reading prompts you can either pick a card or do like um a spinny wheel I think let's pick a card first. First book recommendation is award winner oh shit actually no I know I know I know because I looked at this yesterday and I was filming another video. Showcase Arkham's daughter yep yep yep yep yep what did it win? Winner of the Locust Award for best first novel don't know what that is but it's an award winner. Another recommendation I think of a lot when I think of award winner is um the fifth season I think the whole of this series won the Hugo Awards yeah this one definitely did all three books won the Hugo which is like unheard of I know I need to continue on with this series guys I find it like an intimidating one. So these are both top recommendations you know guys this is like one of my favorite books all time okay it's one of my favorite series of all time I just spoke about it in my last video so like we don't need to talk about it again but like best book of all time. Gorgeous, gothic, Victorian, monstrous women and then the fifth season oh I can never talk about this one without spoiling it. I gave it four stars it wasn't like a favorite favorite but um I can recognize NK Jemisin perhaps as one of the best authors alive right now it is about uh let me uh if I speak I am in in big trouble in big trouble. We're following three different women slash girls there's like a young child there's three different women and there's like this world ending thing happening this is the way the world ends the last time end of the world it is pretty good it is pretty good and I know oh shit I know I need to continue with the rest of the series I'm just scared okay okay get another prompt this card. Published before 1900 I don't read a lot of classics anymore guys I know I should I don't know Pride and Prejudice I haven't read Pride and Prejudice since I was like how old was I 10 but I'm gonna reread it soon I'm just gonna say Pride and Prejudice I went on holiday recently you'll see it in a vlog this weekend and where we were staying just got me really in the mood for Pride and Prejudice like we were staying near the house in the Kiranite the Pride and Prejudice version which I don't reckon that it's not my one Colin Firth is my one but anyways Mr Darcy's house where we were staying was like 10 minutes away from us so it's that kind of vibe so it just got me in the mood I'm just thinking Pride and Prejudice okay next one middle grade oh okay most my favorite there's many middle grades I've enjoyed my first thought was oh I love how it's right at the bottom of this stack don't you just love that Amari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston I do own the sequel to this as well I haven't read it yet but this is such a good middle grade we're following Amari whose brother has recently gone missing and she finds out that he worked this like Bureau for Supernatural Investigation Supernatural Affairs that's it and she finds out that she has magic and it's just it was so good it was one of my favorite middle grades I've ever read I loved it I have such a it's one of those books that I have a really vivid memory of reading I sat in a Waterstones cafe like the whole day and read it and I love when you have such a vivid memory of reading a book this is like top tier middle grade in my opinion it has that magic a middle grade that is perfect for a child it has that kind of like magical setting it has like relatable characters I think I would love it as a child but also I think like I love it now so we're gonna spin the wheel now let's spin the wheel what's it gonna be it is oh highest rated on my tbr we can't do that well actually should we see what the highest rated is on my tbr and whether I recommend it or not that's quite fun well we're not doing the we're not doing highest written on my tbr we'll do the highest book that I've read I did do this a while ago as like a video maybe like a year or two ago um but I don't think it's changed that much so number of pages average rating oh cut the cameras no where even is that I like hidden it somewhere have I hidden it here oh my god the gag oh my god highest rated book I've ever read girl we don't even need to talk about it oh if you haven't seen the vlog that I did for this yet go check it out yeah no no no no no no no no everyone's like oh Megan you're acting as if you're the outlier by hating it because like everyone I've seen has not liked it well look at the average rating 4.67 are you freaking having a laugh the highest rated book above jade legacy above hearts of body and four insanity insanity insanity oh I don't even I actually don't have words we're not going to talk about it also there's something I'm very self-conscious about I've just got a level with you I don't think you can see it but I'm worried that when I turn my back you're gonna see it okay I went on holiday recently you'll see it in this weekend's vlog I burnt my scalp really badly and now my scalp is flaking it's not dandruff if you see like skin it's not dandruff it is my burnt scalp flaking off and repairing itself so no judgment please thank you get another prompt we'll spin again this is so much fun so that last one wasn't a recommendation I do recommend jade legacy though which was number two what is this oh an ugly cover a book that I love that has an ugly cover everyone say hello to the bin men outside noisy af okay that's fine it gives me a chance to think what has an ugly ass cover but I love the book I feel like I just don't like books with ugly covers I'm like no no I think my answer is gonna be the broken girls by Simone St. James I don't like this cover I love this book I don't I just don't like thriller UK thriller covers like also share the penis ones I don't know if you guys think these are ugly to me they're ugly especially when like with UK thrillers you look at the US versions of the covers and they're just so much nice so like these maybe they're not ugly but they're boring and that same offense I don't know just like they love yellow and blue in UK thrillers and I just hate it I hate like all of Charlotte penis books look the same how boring in my opinion that's boring I know like Janice Hallett for example her books look the same but they're like cool these are just boring that's one word title okay oh first first thought first thought first thought I don't really need to think don't want to get lipstick on it Sadie by corny summers I keep thinking about this book I just keep thinking about lately I just I love it I haven't reread it in a long time I read this before I even had my channel but I know I need to do a reread soon because you guys know I love corny summers Sadie you all know Sadie Sadie's sister has recently died and she is hunting for the man who killed her sister then in the present day Sadie has also gone missing and we've got a podcaster investigating Sadie going missing this book is incredible the best still to this day one of the best examples of a podcast especially in an audiobook because I originally just read this further audio still to this day one of the best examples of a podcast in a book I feel like everyone has started using podcasts and they're just not like they're just using it because podcasts are trendy not not because it's really truly serves the story like it does in less I'd like to know what I was talking about this with my patrons like what books did podcasts before Sadie because I feel like Sadie was like one of the best I just think it's incredible I know I need to reread it soon oh my god I still vividly remember finishing this book and I've never it was one of the first audiobooks I ever loved and I remember just sitting there on my bed like the audiobook had stopped and I was just frozen in time I was like shook I like ran to my mom I was like mom you would not believe what I just read which I never like I never really have that stronger reaction but it got me it got me get another problem or pick a card bam written by two authors um interesting I was just talking about this in my last video actually with the ravens but have I got anything that I would recommend over that so I just recently spoke in my last video about underrated series about the ravens by Cass Morgan and Danielle Page I do think this is severely underrated it's witchy YA set a university in a sorority it's really good okay I really enjoyed it I think it's solid YA but if I'm honest with you my favorite book written by two authors or my favorite series is the illuminate series written by Amy Coffman and Jay Kristoff I read this I think also before I had my channel it's sci-fi that is entirely mixed media it's told through chats through logs through this stuff I try not to recommend this series anymore on my channel because I know you know Jay Kristoff you know there's a lot there's a lot going on there okay there's a lot going on there I tend not to recommend this anymore but if I don't want to lie to you this is my favorite series written by two authors okay that's the truth that's the truth but we'll just move on I mean I'm not telling you to go read it but I loved this series when I read it they were all five stars to me I think Gemina the second one was my favorite but um yeah and still to say one of my favorite sci-fi I've ever read but we're moving on oh my god does any of you ever have you ever read seen on Goodreads I think it was particularly for interview the vampire Jay Kristoff like wrote a review himself for his book which is fine like usually you see an author give it five stars whatever it's like an essay I'm not gonna say anything about it I'm polite were you silent or were you silenced a biography what's my favorite biography what have I read that would like count as a biography I'm not gonna bother getting it out because it's the bottom of my of my non-fiction shelf but probably becoming by Michelle Obama I feel like that's a basic answer you don't need me to recommend becoming by Michelle Obama do you but that's that's an autobiography isn't it I don't have I've ever read like a because a biography has to be about one person right I don't think I've ever read a biography really moving on next one oh a nature word in the title wind snow leaf sea would like I thought of would winter there's winter and like bear and nightingale do they count because I love this series I feel like I don't recommend it to enough I will have to I've already reread this series once but this was a very important does winter count winter it's like seasons of nature winter nature is affected by the seasons delusion convince yourself we're going with it it was my first thought this is the last in the bear the nightingale trilogy I've already read this reread this once I did a I hosted like a reread readathon of it like many years ago but this was a very important series to me when I was getting back into reading if you don't know I used to read a lot when I was a child then just because of like school really I was a very school person and I think I stopped reading for like years 11 12 and 13 of school really I didn't I stopped reading then I just when I was I think it was when I was particularly my first year of uni I got back into reading and this series was another one I have a vivid memory of reading I think the last one I was on holiday in Lincoln in like a house anyways you know guys I need to know that I just love when I have memories of reading books very important series for me getting back into reading I just fell into the series I think it's such a great beginner fantasy if you don't meet fantasy one of the best I think beginner fantasy series because it's quite contained we're following Vassia in old Russia when there's house spirits and magic and it's oh it's beautiful it's beautiful I am beyond excited for Catherine Arden's next book I don't know when it's coming out maybe next year I just adore it is winter and nature words I don't know we're counting it okay next one that one please a book with a map the first one that comes to mind is like six accros I mean I love six accros in cooking them they have maps they have maps they have other maps or is that the only map is there a different map at the back oh yeah there's one of the ice courts well they have maps there we go again you don't need me to recommend six accros in cooking them to you but I love them I think they're great Miss Leigh Bardugo and me we have an interesting relationship but these three here six accros cooking them a ninth house are they are impeccable yes I know I need to read hellbent guys don't even talk to me about it I don't know what I'm doing it okay an author's debut I've been thinking about a lot with music what's the best what I'm stalling for time what's the best like debut song I want to suggest a curveball if anyone knows all rise by blue I've been really into that lately it's like they're like singing about as if they're like at court with a girl they're breaking up with and they're like it's it's great anyways the poppy wall by I have quang I mean like she was freaking 18 like come off it genuinely come off it what the fuck that's like I guess the first one that comes to mind is there any other ones that I've read well I read a lot of debuts but like what stands out I was like oh my god that's like a fucking bonkers debut I mean also the love that's kind of a funny answer but like come on I guess the poppy wall the poppy wall is the one that I find craziest like Rebecca if I could be one ounce of the woman you are I would be content like how anyways non-fiction non-fiction I just came off it straight away non-fiction okay let's give me two recommendations of non-fictions I think about a lot also Bad Feminist by Roxane Gabe that's kind of like memoirs I'm more thinking with non-fiction like something about a topic right so the two non-fiction I probably think about the most to this day are the five this is the stories of the woman who were killed by Jack the Ripper I think Hallie Rupert Howard has done an incredible job of researching these women these women were women living in poverty and she has done an incredible job of finding out about their lives when Jack the Ripper's victims were being killed they were all stereotyped as sex workers and I think one was and one had been in the past but the rest there's no evidence they had ever been or were sex workers now not that there's something inherently bad about being a sex worker but especially in Victorian times like that that is used to diminish a woman's worth and like you know it's less bad these killing them because like who gives up you know I mean that's like the attitude of the time and so by telling their real stories I just think it's incredibly revolutionary it's one that I think about a lot I think she did an incredible job they lived in poor areas right they lived a lot of them lived in the same area that is poor had a lot of like kind of uh hotels desk that you just like stay out for a week or you pay away you know and so that's what they were stereotyped as and then one of my favorite non-fictions that I I've had I think also before I started my channel this is good I'm recommending you some books I read a long time ago is natives race and class in the ruins of empire by Akala I think if you live in the UK this should be like mandatory reading it really goes into how our perception of race in the UK is skewed by our history of empire you know I think a lot of uh like American books surrounding race are very Americanized and that's not necessarily a bad thing because that is something that has to be unpacked but this is very Brit focused and it's my favorite I've read quite a few like Brit focused race books and this is I think by far the best it's kind of semi-autobiographical he talks a lot about his personal experiences but also talks about the history of empire how it bleeds into our policing how it bleeds into our education so many different things so this is definitely a non-fiction I think about a lot okay let's do one more set on a different continent what's my favorite it doesn't have to be my favorite it just has to be one that I think of I was gonna tell you about the book I've just read you'll see in this weekend's vlog but I want to spoil that for you so what am I gonna go for let's look up in my contemporary because there's no point there's no point in looking at fantasy because they're fantasy and I don't want to go for just America I know that is a different continent for me but I want to go for something else or North America I should say so this is set in the Dominican Republic Cup when you land by Elizabeth Acevedo I love Elizabeth Acevedo I love Elizabeth I can't speak my love is overflowing she's exquisite I love her I love her and I love her even more I know family law has just come out by Elizabeth Acevedo and I know I need to get to it but this one Cup when you land we're following two girls who share the same father and they don't know and their father passes away he used to kind of visit the one who lives in the Dominican Republic it's the story of both of their grief and losing their father they didn't know like had this all other side to him and their sisterhood and their relationship I remember reading this this was I read right at the start of the pandemic when I was we lived at toms for a while I remember reading this in the garden there god I love memories make a memory make a memory and this is one of Elizabeth Acevedo's books told in verse which I just think she is perhaps the best at her and Dean Atta I love the Black Flamingo by Dean Atta that's told in verse as well I just think they are the best they're the best they're the best of the best they're so good so yeah this is a definitely emotionally heavy hitting again you don't really need me to recommend Elizabeth Acevedo to you but I do feel like this was like big when it came out and then I've not really heard anyone speak about it so if it does intrigue you go pick it up you don't always just have to read new releases guys we can read like this is like an old classic favorite it's not old like 2020 or something but it's so good and I think everyone should read all of Elizabeth Acevedo stuff because I love them all I've loved them all my favorite is with the fire on high which isn't actually told in verse but I think that's set in America right I'm pretty sure that's not set well I guess it is a different continent but I wanted to go something that wasn't Europe or North America that was so much fun I hope you enjoyed this little me getting reading prompts and giving you book recommendations based off of those it was kind of chaotic because I couldn't prepare and there's probably books I could have said for different ones that like it's probably like another book that's selling a different continent that's like one of my favorite books ever and I'm I'm losing it so anyways I hope you enjoyed this video and there's nothing more to say I will see you very soon in another video and I love you and bye