 I swear if all of these books are like shitty non-fiction books I've read I'm gonna, I'm gonna throw my laptop out the window. Welcome back to my channel I hope you're all good. Today we're gonna be reacting to the 10 highest rated books I've ever read on Goodreads and whether I agree that they should be the 10 highest books I've ever read. They probably won't be, it won't be like my 10 favourite books of all time. Don't be closed-minded because you will not get anywhere in life. But I am hoping that it's gonna be mostly books that I think were really good as well. I'm hoping we're not gonna have many howlers but it'll be interesting to see. I don't think I've ever looked this up but I've seen a few people do this video and it always looks really fun. I think if I had to guess, if I had to put my thinking cap on, I would guess that we're gonna see some, I feel like fantasy, like kind of classic fantasy often gets highly rated. We're gonna see series like second or third books in series I think because with series like you typically only read on if you're really enjoying it. So by the time you get to the end of a series the people who are reading that book are the people who have loved the rest of the series so I would think like later editions in series are always more highly rated. Other than that I don't really know what to expect. Maybe something like Six of Crows or Crooked Kingdom I reckon will be on there. We're gonna go from highest rated to 10th because that's like the easiest way for me to sort it but I'm gonna zoom in so that I'm hopefully only gonna be able to see one at a time. But before we get into the video I want to thank today's sponsor which is Skillshare. I absolutely love Skillshare. 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So the highest rated book on my Goodreads that I have read is Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman with an average rating of 4.7. Do you know how incredible that is? If you use Goodreads you know nothing ever has an average rating of 4.7 and I absolutely agree I gave this five stars I listen if you watch a lot of my videos you will know I love Heartstopper very dearly it's Nick and Charlie falling in love loving each other and it's just so cute also important to note again this is the fourth in a series so that is why it is the highest you know if you didn't like the first you know Heartstopper or the Spider-Second one you were kind of like yeah you probably haven't continued on with the series and it's a new release so the people who have read it are the people who are really excited for it to come out but I absolutely agree the best graphic novel series in the world the best maybe the best song in the entire world there's only one left to come out which I don't agree that doesn't that doesn't make sense but yeah not surprised that it is the highest rated book that I've ever read right what is number two oh okay I really really wasn't expecting to see this this is not a book I thought I would see on this list okay so number two the second highest rated book I've ever read is Whites on Race and Other Fault Hoods by Otega Uagba this has an average rating of 4.68 with 908 rating so much much less than Heartstopper I gave this four stars I really really enjoyed this this is a super short non-fiction kind of talking about their experience as a black person in the UK surrounding the death of George Floyd last year and a lot of like the performative activism and white guilt that was seen around that time it's very very short I think it's less than 100 pages and it's very very impactful but I don't it's not like my favorite non-fiction I've ever read I think the length of it meant I didn't fully fall in love with it but I think it's a great non-fiction I read it super recently and I think this book has a lot of you know things that everyone can learn from and I think it's something that everyone should read so I really liked this but I wasn't expecting it to be in the top 10 highest rated books that have ever read like I really wasn't yeah that's really surprised me okay let's see what number three is okay so I scroll down a little bit don't become allowed no I don't I don't no I'm not allowed I know I'm not allowed and number three and four are Heartstop volume three and Heartstop volume two I shouldn't be listen this is to be expected Heartstop volume three has a 4.64 average rating with 67 000 ratings and Heartstop volume two has a 4.62 average rating with 86 000 ratings so can you see how the rating is going up for each in this series that is typically what you find with series I think and listen we know that I love it I think Heartstop volume one is going to be on this list as well I don't know very rightfully on this list like nothing there's if anything's gonna be on here it should be this like literally the best books in the world literally listen what is number five next at number five with a rating of 4.59 with 333 000 ratings is Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo I gave this five stars as well I think I I did give this 4.5 but I upped it to a five I loved this this is the second obviously in the Six of Crows duology this is much better than Six of Crows in my opinion like Six of Crows was really really good it was like a four star but this one you know the the Crows staying Keterdam and I love the atmosphere there and I think the heist element and the reveals and the planning in the you know in the heist from Kaz are much more detailed if you don't I mean you know what the plot is I very much doubt if you're watching this video you don't know what the plot of Crooked Kingdom is um I don't know what a b-jork is Benny we just went on holiday and my dad read Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom while he was there I think he gave Six of Crows like a four 4.5 and then Crooked Kingdom I think was like a five he loved it and you know my dad typically reads a lot of like old white man fantasy that was typically what he's read before but um he really really loves Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom so I think that shows that they this series is so great and is really for everyone it's not just for like YA girl readers like some people like to like categorize it as it really is a book that everyone can enjoy and love yeah I can't wait to read like King of Scars and Wall of Wolves I need to read them soon I think he's gonna read them before me though I think he's he's reading Shadow and Bone trilogy now and then I think he's gonna read them before I get around to them but yeah Crooked Kingdom I think very much deserves to be on this list as of yet we haven't really had any that like I disagree with they've all mostly been five stars and won four star so let's see what's next this is number six right I think oh okay this is a good one let me go get it so coming in number six with an average rating of 4.58 and 13,580 ratings is natives ruin and class on a race and class in the ruins of empire by Akala this is non-fiction again about race and this is from Akala who's like a famous poet writer in the UK and this is particularly about the roots of empire in racism in the UK I gave this four stars as well but this is I would say I preferred this to um Atega Uragba's book I thought this was so interesting so well researched it does draw on Akala's experiences as a mixed race boy growing up in London and particularly like growing up quite poor and so bringing class into that and this was just fascinating I often recommend this as particularly live in the UK and non-fiction on race I would really really recommend if you are in UK there's sometimes a tendency to be like oh we're not as bad as the US you know what I mean or not to say that but to believe it deep down and I think that's a really troubling belief because of our history of empire and colonialism and this really brings that out and research is that okay number seven oh really oh wow okay with an average rating of 4.57 but with 833,000 ratings which is crazy so this is like the most consensus we've ever seen in a book is The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah so I think I read this in like a high Australian books on my TBR video so maybe I should have expected it so this is like a non-fiction this is a non-fiction this is a historical fiction book about World War Two and about these two sisters in World War Two here's the thing I read this four stars I did enjoy it it wasn't five stars I think I was hoping for five stars it was four stars but I kind of look back on it as maybe like a 3.75 because I think this is the kind of book that is meant to just make you feel devastated like I cried so much and sometimes I look back on it I'm like it felt a bit not exploitative but like you know when a book is just intended to make you sob and I don't know how good that makes like my rating was out of that instinctive emotion I had just experienced and now I'm removed from that emotion I don't necessarily look back on the book and feel the same way I did enjoy it though and I can see why this is such a well-loved you know popular book I can I can see that and I really did enjoy it so I don't disagree with this at all okay number eight which I've literally just read with a rating of 4.55 with 88 thousand ratings is projectile mary by andy weir so I just read this on holiday I'll leave the link to the blog where I went on holiday because it is full of filming this video and I'm like guys listen I made a nice cottage why don't you want to see that clap if you care clap if you clap if you care projectile mary by andy weir I definitely agree with this I gave this 4.5 stars this is a sci-fi by the author of The Martian where this guy wakes up on this ship in space and his crewmates are dead and he doesn't really know what he's doing or why he's there and he has to kind of piece together the puzzles there is this extinction level threat to humanity to do with the sun and these microorganisms that seem to be near the sun it's a great book but the best part of this is a spoiler like it's 100% a spoiler but I really really love this this reads so fast you look at it and it's quite big but it reads really really fast and I really recommend the orgya book as well the orgya book really comes to life about a third of the way in so I absolutely agree with this and I'm glad to see it on this list because it was it was really really good and it's made me want to reread The Martian I think I've read that like three times in my life one of the books I've reread the most but something about andy was writing is so rereadable what's number nine it's this it's heartstop of volume one with an average rating of 4.52 with 120 000 ratings so listen we're not surprised we've spoken about this I am so glad heartstopper takes up four of the top 10 I just think that's amazing I think it's so well deserved I love heartstopper so much like to the end of my days I love it okay and what is number 10 oh wow wow oh that's a great one okay let me try and get it this is a bit precarious okay let's slide you along no no no no no no no that was fucking scary my heart's going pitterpatter pitterpatter I feel sick like I could throw up no it's all gone wrong right I need to collect myself number 10 let's get it out without actually breaking everything this time with an average rating again of 4.52 with 6653 ratings is Amari and the Nightbrothers by BB Alston this is a middle grade where we follow Amari discovering this bureau of supernatural affairs that her brother used to work at who has now gone missing and she's invited for a trial at this at this bureau and it's all about like discovering magic and there's an evil magician and this was such a great middle grade one of my favorite middle grades I've ever read I'm so excited for book two to come out it was just such a magical nostalgic middle grade it really has a nostalgic feeling of you know like this magical trial that she's on and I'm I'm really happy to see on this list I think everyone should read this there's something really amazing about this book so that is the 10 highest books that I have read the highest rated books that I've read I agreed with all of them pretty much they were all four or five stars let's actually see how far I have to scroll down for one I maybe give three stars 15 okay number 15 is Skyward by Brandon Sanderson for the rating of 4.5 and I don't agree with that I didn't really like Skyward by Brandon Sanderson and I'm not going to continue on with that series so that's like how far we have to go down for one that I disagreed with but yeah the top 10 particularly the fact that four are made up by Holstover are all ones that I pretty much agree with and really really enjoyed let me know what you thought of any of these books if there's any of them you disagreed with that you really didn't like I would really be interested to know and yeah make sure you check out that one month free of 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