 It's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I'm going to be talking about my top 17 books of the year of 2017. So these are all books that I loved. Obviously they're my favorites of this year, some of my favorites of all time, things like that. And I'm really bad at narrowing down favorite books so the first like seven are kind of like should some of them should be like in the tops like 10 and then I'm like no and then it's a mess. Like but the point is is I love these all but they are kind of an order but I love them all. Great. Um and I've been still making this video so we're gonna make it snappy so that cuz I don't think you guys want to sit down all day and watch my face so let's get into it. Here I have a number 17 I have a Liza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. If you don't know this is a why you can temporary book about a girl who is struggled with social anxiety and anxiety in general and she writes and illustrates a web comic series that's really popular on the internet but no one knows like it's anonymous so they don't know that she's the one doing it so she goes to school and this boy she means this boy who's like a huge fan of her web comic series and makes and writes fan fiction for it and they kind of but he doesn't know that she's the one who runs the whole thing. She's just like portrayed as like a fan and it's about that in their relationship and it's about Eliza and her cutting-of-age story. I really loved it. I loved her other book last year. Francesca Zappia's other book was on my favorites last year and this book was just so good. I just loved it so much and it's so engaging, so interesting. I tabbed so many things and I think it's definitely a one a one one that you should all check out if you haven't already. If you're I have the female of the species by Mindy McGinnis. This book is a really dark book that really surprised me. A girl named Alex whose sister was killed three years ago and the way she's coped with this is violence so this book talks about how she knows how to kill people and we just follow someone in this mindset and someone that's really devious and there's so many other things and there's so many trigger warnings so definitely look into trigger warnings. I know off the top of my head there's one for rape in this book so keep that in mind but very dark. I loved the writing style and I really enjoyed the characters so like I didn't love that. Like I enjoyed not the right word for this book but like for the characters but it was just it was really good. Next up here I have If I Was Your Girl by Mary the Thrusso. This book I read closer the beginning of the year and this is a book that follows a transgender main character. It was her actually going to new school after her transition and things like that and it just follows her character. It's so little but just so powerful and I would highly recommend this for so many reasons and I've just I read it in the beginning of the year and I still think about it and it was so addictive to read. It was so insightful and I learned a lot from this book and I think it's definitely one that everyone should read so check it out. Next up here I have The Godfather by Mario Puzo. I have a review for this. I'll link it up on the screen. You shouldn't be surprised to see this here. Basically this is it's kind of hard to describe. It's a classic. It involves the mafia. There's Italian characters, a lot of not gorm, well there's blood, death, and all this stuff involved in it. This book was just fantastic from the writing to like the story arc to just everything about it. I loved it so much and that's why it's one of my favorites of this year and I don't know like I don't think I can I don't know if I'm continuing or not because I liked this enough and I'm like I don't know but we'll see. It's quite a popular one and that is We Are The Ants by Sean David Hutchinson. This book is so good. It's contemporary. We follow gay main character. It deals a lot with sadness. It's very relatable and there's also like an underlying sci-fi element which I also made a video about this at the beginning of the year called Why You Should Read We Are The Ants so I'll have that linked but this was just phenomenal. Again I still think about it. I think I started doing yeah so I started like drawing stuff in the cover and like I just loved this so much. It was like oh yes the first line is life is bullshit. Like who doesn't want to read that book? I feel like I'm showing you guys all YA but like these were my favorite books so like I don't care. Yeah there is a lot of YA but there's some adult. I don't think you guys care whatever. Okay next is Under the Rose Tainted Skies by Louise Gournel. This book oh my gosh I love this so much. This if you have anxiety or you struggle with any mental illness do not or at least proceed with caution because this describes like full-on panic attacks and I'm definitely like I'm so impacted by this book. There's a small romance but it basically it's a girl that has agoraphobia and there's some other trigger warnings like self-harm involved with this book but it's just such a moving story. It's written so well and I'm so excited to pick up with whatever Gournel writes in the future and this was just so good so good. I have a review for that one as well. So coming in at number 11 we have The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Alpertalli. This was gold like so relatable so much diversity so much going on beautifully written. I love this book so much you need to read it. This is about a girl named Molly who has a bunch of unrequited crushes and so she's never been like rejected but she's never like what's the word pursued any of these crushes that she's had and it's just it's very relatable to a lot of teenagers I feel and I like she knows how to write teenagers. Like I'm gonna pick up anything Becky Alpertalli writes because I love this one so much and I also like Simon but like I love The Upside of Unrequited and I did meet her and she was the sweetest little nugget I've ever seen and like she's so active on Twitter like I love this author in her books so much. End of the top ten which this is a pretty interesting sec but coming in at number ten we have Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy which made a huge just I just wasn't expecting to love this as much as I did. Basically it's a better girl named Ramona who's really tall has long blue hair she lives in Mississippi I believe it is if I'm thinking correctly but thinking about if I'm accurate on that I don't know I forget but this book is just so good it involves a girl like figuring out who she is it's a coming-of-age story just like a lot of these books are and I just adored it so much and it's definitely one of the like it's one of the best contemporary books I've ever read. It's just so worth the read like I don't know what else to say like it was so good and I loved it so much and I just enjoyed myself reading it so like I just loved reading it so much. It also involves like Hurricane Katrina Katrina there's also like family elements friendship relationships there's just so much going on and it was so good and it just says I got assigned this one as well I was out of signing with Becky Albertalli and Ramona, not Ramona Julie Murphy and Angie Thomas as well but this was so fantastic. At number eight we have Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov this is about a older man who falls in love with a child and it's just as stepped up as it sounds. It was one of the most disturbing books I've ever read it was one of the most graphic in ways because it describes like children's bodies like in that way which is disgusting to me like you know in a sexual way okay but it was amazingly written like oh my god like so F thought but so interesting to read and it was just so good like I couldn't like I want to reread I'm gonna reread this one this year in 2018 but this was just oh my god it is it by Stephen King. You guys know I love this I talk about this so much like just look at the tabs and this you've heard of it the film I don't have to explain but it's about great I get a lot of people have issues with this book and I definitely don't agree with like some things that happen later in the book and things like that you guys know what I'm talking about if you've read it but this was phenomenally written a great story interesting characters just really good read and really great book and I loved it a lot and yes this next book I read in December and managed to squeeze its way into my top 10 list and that is the afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand this is actually a Christmas curl retelling and it's so good it was written so well the romance was so cute the writing's amazing like I don't know what to say it was just so good and basically it says like every scrooge deserves a second chance and we follow our main character who was a scrooge and has now become the ghost of Christmas past and has to like go visit other scrooges and it's just so interesting so well thought out so well written love the characters love the plot love the writing great read here I have notes self like Connor Frantha and this is a nonfiction book about Connor Frantha his life some stories he shares it's full of absolutely well just look at that in pages absolutely I tap the line absolutely beautiful images really inspiring and insightful stories and poetry and I wasn't sure if I should put this in like my poetry thing but it's mostly a novel so like not a novel you know what I mean it's mostly okay but yeah it's just absolutely stunning it was so insightful so thoughtful I love this so much it was inspirational to me I just think it's one of the best nonfiction books that I've read so here I have what I lost by Alexander Belar this book does have some serious trigger warnings for eating disorders and some other topics so keep that in mind before picking this up but a 17 year old girl who gets sent to an eating disorder facility and for her anorexia and it's about the people she meets there the facility as a whole the eating disorder things like that it was one of the most insightful realistic portrayals of some of like eating disorders and facilities that I've ever read about it was so real and raw and he was so empowering and I love this so much like I don't know what else to say it was so good next up here I have Warcraft for Mary Lou which this is a sci-fi video game kind of book in a way it's about a game called Warcross and you can get transported into this world and it's kind of become everyone's lives and we follow our main character Mika who gets sent to Japan to meet the owner of Warcross after she hacks into the game and it's so fantastic I'm not a big sci-fi person like usually I couldn't get into sci-fi books but this book was absolutely phenomenal and I know some people have been picking it up on my account and loving it too so I'm like oh my god yes you loved you love Warcross great but I love this book so much so interesting so engaging beautiful writing I just loved everything about it it was great like I can't I can't praise it enough coming in number three is Lord of Shadows with Sandra Clare fantastic phenomenal love this story love these characters I think you know what it's about it's the second book in the Dark Artifices series and it is the sequel to Lady Midnight great book long with that I have a Court of Wings and Ruin which I felt every emotion while reading this I was pissed I was happy I was sad I was mad like I was freaking out like this books sit me such an impact on me and I also met her Sarah Jean as I met her too I went to a few like good signings this year oh it's my other copy because I have two copies this is like what my my copy that's untouched but I have a copy with tabs and she signed it to so yes love this book as well and then coming into my number one book of 2017 is Hunger by Roxane Gay this is a nonfiction book that deals with Roxane Gay's story about her body and her life and it's just one of the most fantastic books I've ever read it really gives a different perspective on a lot of topics and I loved it so much so there you guys have it those are my top 17 books of 2017 I love it looks so much and there's so many more that I loved but this is all I could talk about today so yes if you have not seen my favorite manga of 2017 I'll link that video down below and my favorite poetry of 2017 is also coming in the future so look out for that and I really hope you guys enjoyed this video let me know your top three favorite books of the year if you can narrow it down I challenge you to narrow it down but yes thank you all so much for watching I hope you had a fantastic reading here in 2017 and obviously we're already always into 2018 but I hope you have a fantastic reading here a fantastic life a fantastic year whatever thank you so much for watching bye