 It's time for another one of those reaction videos that you guys seem to love so much and I always seem to sell a bit of myself for every time I do it. Everyone, welcome back to my channel. I hope you're all good. How are we doing? How's your day going? Are we enjoying Christmas, December content because I am and it's time for another one. So let's have a drum roll please. Today we're gonna be reacting to my 2022 TBR. So I did 20 books I have to read, have to, have to read in 2022 and we're gonna be reacting to the video and seeing how well I did. So my most recent one of these was I was reacting a couple weeks ago to my most anticipated books of 2022 for the first half of the year. I did awfully, like I actually did terribly. Like it was actually like the worst we've seen in a long time. But I'm cautiously, and I'm gonna say it now, optimistic for this video. I think I'm gonna have done quite well because this TBR is like, you know, it's gonna be books I already own mostly. I think there'll probably be a few new releases in there that I'm pretty sure that I was, you know, sure I was gonna read. But like, it was a book I was most excited to read at the start of the year. We were all so happy that day. It's actually hard to even imagine how terrible things would soon become. And I'm never gonna stop doing this video because I love doing the beginning of the year TBR because it, you know, sets the tone for a year. Where do I see myself? What am I excited to read? Yada yada. So we're gonna be reacting to it. So we've got 22 books. I'm optimistic I'm gonna have read at least half. There's gonna be some I haven't read. Like it's not gonna be 22. It probably won't be plus 15, you know, more than 15. But I'll be happy if it's half. I feel like, I feel like we're gonna get half. Put your guesses down in the comments below for how well you think I'm gonna do. But let's, oh, I need a notebook. Hang on. We need to record this. Get your phones in. Let's find this video. I'm excited. I'm actually feeling very optimistic. I'm so excited. God, I did bold eyebrows back in the day. TBR. So I have put together a list of 22 books I have to read. I must read in 2020. I really love this video. I love setting year-long TBRs. I love the goal of doing that. And I also love shading myself and having to go out myself in the year. That's what I'm here to do. Listen, I think I'm not gonna have read less than half. I believe in myself. Let's skip ahead and find the first one. So what we're gonna do, we're gonna start with the series I want to finish this year. Let's get into it. The first book on my 2022 TBR is Girls of Fate and Theory, by Natasha Nyang. I really had to stop myself. Well, we're not off to a good start, aren't we? So, yeah, haven't read that. Excuse me, excuse me, Megan, that behaviour is unacceptable. I don't like it. Here's the thing, right? You're thinking, Megan, you still have time to read these books, right? You've got like a whole month of the year left. But I've got so much end of year content. It was either do this now or never do it. You know, there's so many videos I want to make in December. So this is when it's getting made. Girls of Fate and Theory, I have not finished the series because I am scared. I am, I admit it, I'm scared. I'm really scared. I'm just not ready for the last book in the series and for everyone to like maybe die or like stuff to go wrong. I don't know. This is wrapped up. It could get unwrapped or wrapped up. Obviously, I've posted this week the first wrapped up episode. Go check it out if you haven't watched it. I know what I'm reading for the second one. I have not yet unwrapped the third and fourth. So it could be unwrapped. Who knows? I could end up reading it for the end of the year. But as of right now, it hasn't happened. Not after a great start. That one's out of fear of I want to love it and I'm scared I'm not going to, you know? If you don't know, this is a series about paper girls who are girls who are forced to sleep with the king and our main character is one of these. And it's sapphic and, you know, the story progressed and it becomes more than that. And, you know, it's a very, it's a very expansive series by the time we're especially getting to this last book. I love the relationship in this series. And, you know, I think it talks about trauma so, so well. And it's such a vivid fantasy. I love the writing. I love the world building. And, you know, it's a series that I read when I was first came back in treating. So I do hold it in a special place in my heart. I'm excited to kind of finish off this series and see where all the characters end up and what happened at the end. But I'm terrified and I kind of don't want it to happen either. Then we have Actual Age Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert. I really want to finish the Brown Sisters series. I love myself. I read this right at the start of the year. I read it, yeah, I think in like January. So this is the Brown Sisters series, which is like a romance series. Almost dropped my phone. Which is like, yeah, a romance series. We follow each of the sisters in one of the different books. Talia Hibbert I would say is my second favorite romance author, you know, behind Miss Ally. But, you know, whatever. I still love Talia Hibbert. And yeah, I finished this series right at the start of the year. Go Megan. Wow. Wow. That feels like so long ago. Next we have a very intimidating series. Oh my God. I put this on here to like make sure I do this and don't back out. I can't back out. We have got Jade War and Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee. So I have read it. Oh my God. We're up to three red. We're on our way to getting at least half. Yeah, I finished the Jade, what's it called? Green Bone Saga. Yeah, I finished that also near the start of the year. I think in like February or March, but obviously this list was more fresh in my brain. And I loved it. I didn't love Jade City. I gave it a 3.5. But Jade War and Jade Legacy, it's so good. One of my favorite fantasy series now because of that. This is like a following like a mafia kind of family who deal in Jade and the magical powers come from Jade and they're so cool. But it's heartbreaking as well. I loved this series. Oh my God. It was so good. Wow. What a moment. But wow, what a moment. I will never forget. Be warned. This will make you cry. It made me cry when I was reading the books. I wished I hadn't done it to myself, but like I'm glad for past Megan for taking, you know, taking the sacrifice. We're doing so well. I am so proud of myself. This is I think going to be the best I've ever done at one of these videos. Next I thought I would be kind to myself and I put a very short book on this list and that is Drowned Country by Emily Tesh. First of all, there's something about this cover. I fight me. Also, yeah, Drowned Country is still one of my favorite covers. I've read it. God, I'm so great. I didn't love this though. This is the sequel to Silver in the Wood and these like novellas about, God, they're so hard not to spoil. Like these woods and a man who has lived in the woods for a very long time and is it magical and is it gay? Yeah, both of them, I would say. But Drowned Country just didn't work. It was told in a very weird way where it like took place quite a long time after Silver in the Wood and would like keep fleshing back to what's happened in between the time. But like a lot of the book, you were kind of just confused as to what's happening. I don't know. I didn't love it, a little bit disappointing, but it was a nice quick read, you know. And then the last two books in this category, I've put them under series to finish, but this is more like series to make progress in. This is all that is out kind of of the series at the moment, so it's all I can read. But this series is going to keep expanding and keep expanding. So I am by no means finishing this series this year. And this is The Irogami Curse and The Village of Eight Graves by Sesshi Yokomizo. Right, it was it was too good to be true. I haven't read either of them. Yeah, I haven't continued with the Sesshi Yokomizo Detective series. I've still only read the first one, which was The Honjin Murders. I don't know why I haven't read these. I guess I just haven't done a video that they really fit and there was always something I was a little bit more excited to read. But Sesshi Yokomizo, I always say, is kind of like the act of Christie of Japanese mystery, crime, murder mysteries, and they're kind of slowly being translated. And these are still very high on my want to read. I'm pretty sure The Irogami Curse is wrapped up as well as like one of the ones that I'm most excited to read. So this is still up there as one of the books I'm most excited to read. But just haven't got around to it, have I? Just haven't got around to it, babes. I haven't got around to it. I had time. That wasn't very good, but I am from Essex, I promise you. Do you know what, honey? See you later. Take care of my love. Call me again. But yeah, no, I still really want to read both of these. And I think one or two more come out since then. Gokumen Island. I feel like that's the only one that has actually come out. And then there's another one that translated. So they're translating them quickly. I got a catch up. I got a catch up with them, you know? Then let's talk about the 2022. Oh, okay, 2022 releases, right? Put a four on this list. I have four. I think if I've put four on here, it's going to be the ones I'm most excited for. I'm like 100% sure I'm going to read. 100% sure I'm going to. There's one that I'm like is on here to make me read it. The other three I'm sure I'm going to read. Like 100% sure. Okay. Firstly, we have got The Maid by Nita Pros. I was lucky enough to- I have read The Maid. We're up to five, but I've read. I'm doing so good. But yeah, I read The Maid by Nita Pros. It was a murder mystery, pulling a maid who is kind of framed for a murder that takes place in her hotel. I enjoyed it when I read it, but over time I just feel like it's a bit of a simple murder mystery. But if you're looking to get into murder mystery, I would recommend this as a good place to start. But who cares? I fucking read it. Then we have Where the Drown Girls Go by Shona McGuire. This is an arc. I was very lucky to be sent. I have read Where the Drown Girls Go by Shona McGuire. I'm so happy. This is so great for me. Yeah, I love Where the Drown Girls Go. This is the Way We're Children series. This is the latest installment. And I love these. I give them all five stars now. I just love them. This one, we're following a character called Korra. So Way We're Children series, sorry, is where these kids, if you watch me, you know what this is. I'm always torn between, do I address my video to the regular viewer or the viewer who doesn't watch me often? Who knows? It's about these children who have gone into these portal fantasies that are like perfect for them. They've come back to our world and they're struggling to get used to what this world is. Yeah, this one is following Korra, who's back in our world. Every other book takes place in our world at the Eleanor West School for Way We're Children. But this book is the first time we get introduced to a different school that has very different methods to Eleanor West School for Way We're Children. And I loved it. I loved Korra. I loved the new school setting. I found it so interesting. And then my other two 2022 releases I don't have copies of. First, we have The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley. I just love myself. I've read it. I loved The Paris Apartment. This one is about a girl whose brother has gone missing and she goes to his Paris Apartment and there's secrets in the apartment block. She's trying to figure out what happened. There's a twist that I mean, I loved it. I loved the twist in this book. And I just love Lucy Foley. I can't wait to hear what she comes out with next. Lucy, give me a ring, clue me in. I'd like tonight. I'm his confidant, his best friend, his silly rabbit. But yeah, I knew I would read this. God, I was pretty good at putting stuff on this list that I was pretty sure I was going to read. That is the, you know, the method I choose now. When I used to make these kind of big TBRs, year-long TBRs, whatever, I put books on there to push myself, but then I never look at the list again. You know, or I look at it a few times, but not very often because I also want to react to these videos and not know what's on there. When I used to make these lists, I used to put books on here to push myself, but I would never remember what's on the list. Whereas I feel like I do a good job now of letting you know, like I'm probably going to read these books, you know? And then the one that I said, like, it's kind of wanting to make sure I this one I'm nervous about, not going to read, but we, we persevere. Babel by R.F. Krang. Megan, don't be scared. It's your favorite book of the year. I don't know. I feel like I'm saying that I'm kind of spoiling a lot of my end of year videos for you, but it is my favorite book I've read this year without a doubt. This is my top book of the year. I loved, I loved it. Babel, Babel, whatever you want me to say out there. It's amazing. It's R.F. Krang's best book in my opinion. I can't wait. I'm gonna get Tom to read it. Tom's got inter-reading lately, my boyfriend if you don't know. I just feel like you all know Thomas. Yeah, he's got inter-reading lately and he's reading the Wolf Hall series, but once he's finished that, I'm gonna try and make him read Babel. And I think he's interested. I think he's down for it because I was speaking to him obviously when I read it and like telling him all about it and I think he'd be really into it. So I'm just gonna make everyone read it. Mum and Dad are not like, I give my mum and dad a lot of books to read as well. They're not as up for it because they've read the Poppy War. My dad has read the whole Poppy War trilogy and they just like, they're like, I'm not sure I can go through the emotional damage that Rebecca inflicts and I'm like, fair enough. You're not. We need some happiness in our lives. I'm for the pain. Doesn't mean everyone else has to be too. Okay, the next category, I do have a mini category but we'll do that at the end. The next is just other books. Other books that are on my 2022 DVR. The first three are ones that I did get for Christmas. So I'm gonna speed through them. We have Unwell Women which is a book I got from my boyfriend's nan for Christmas. Unwell Women is still one of the books I want to read most. It's just quite a long and dense nonfiction so it's difficult for me to make time for it. But this is one that like, you know, I try not to repeat books but like I'd probably put it on my next year's TBR again if I didn't try to repeat books because it's still one of the books I'm most excited to read. It's following women's health throughout the years and how health practitioners is often, you know, ignored women or mistreated women etc. But yeah, it's quite long and quite dense so that's the reason I haven't got around to it yet. But that's, you know, that's fine. I will read it. Then we have True Crime Story by Joseph Knox. This is super exciting. It is super exciting Megan. I have read it. This is a like mixed media. It's mostly told through interviews. Murder mystery. I loved it. I gave it five stars. The audiobook is great. It's a full cast audiobook and I just love this book. It's so imaginative. It's the story of a girl who went missing, is presumed dead many years ago and we're following interviews with her like her sister, her best friend, like a lot of her ex-boyfriend, a lot of people who kind of knew her at the time she went missing. It was one of my most anticipated books I'd say for most of this year that I kept thinking, oh I really want to get around to that because it's mixed media murder mystery. I love murder mysteries. I love mixed media. It was written for me in particular and I kept laying through his knocks down by not reading it. He kept ringing me up. He was like, Megan, you haven't read it yet. I wrote it for you and I was like Joseph, I'm so sorry, okay? I'll get around to it. Delusion. Convince yourself. And then the other one I got for Christmas I'll only talk about quickly again is In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead. This is just on here because everyone fucking loves it. I just love myself. We're up to 10 red. I also loved In My Dreams I Hold a Knife. I feel like a lot of the books that I've put on this list, wow, I really know my taste. I feel like a lot of them have been my five stars of this year. Wow, yeah, there's been a lot. Paris Apartment, Babble, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, True Crime Story, what other ones are red? Jade Legacy, yeah, a lot of the ones I've put on this list are ones I've given five stars, which shows you. I know my reading taste, babes. I know my reading taste. Yeah, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife was great fun. It was just like a great, you know, dark academia, murder within a friendship group. We returned to uni. I keep almost dropping my phone. I don't know if you saw my panic in my eyes. My reflexes are I caught it. Quick reflexes. Yeah, it was just a lot of fun and I'm so excited to read The Last Housewife. That might be one that I put on the list next year. And then we have A Latte's Away by Darcy Little Badger. So I haven't spoken about this in a long time. I have not read A Latte's Away yet. That's bad. That is one that's been on my TBR for, sorry, I keep making the chairs squeak. Just ignore it. You know it's part of the scenery. Yeah, it's one that I've wanted to read for a long time and it's been on my TBR for a long time and I haven't read it yet. And it's one I'm pretty sure I'm going to love. Everyone has told me I'm going to love it. When you join my Patreon you get to pick two books off of my TBR, be it physical or my audiobooks, to put into this jar. And if I pick a book out of here I have to read it. And a lot of people have picked A Latte's Away. A lot of people have picked A Latte's Away. I'm just waiting for it to turn up one day in TBR Cluedo. So yeah, I feel like it's, I really wanted to read this last year but now I really feel like I need to read it this year. Next we have The Appeal by Janice Hallett. Oh my god, I've read The Appeal. You know what's the most exciting thing about winning? It's when you win. I love that feeling. I didn't love it as much as I wanted to but it's super fun. It's another kind of mixed media murder mystery. Obviously that's something that I'm just always down for and like is a bit of a, I love a bit of a gimmick, right? What can I say? I'm a cheap girl apparently. But we've officially read 11. We've read at least half. Wow, great work Megan. Great job. Then we have a book. I think people will be surprised to see this because I haven't spoken about it a lot but it is And The Tree's Creptin by Dawn Kertigich. Okay yeah, no, I haven't read this yet. This is like a horror that's been really, everyone tells me I'm gonna love this. And I put both this and Unwell Women actually on my these books. I have to read them in 12 months or they self-destruct. I have to unhaul them. I did that video a couple weeks ago because I think partly could sense like Unwell Women and The Tree's Creptin like Megan, you're supposed to have read these books by now. You've been saying you're gonna read them for ages. You've been saying that the books are most exciting for ages. Why haven't you read them love? Why haven't you read them? So yeah, this is like a horror that when you look through it it's told in very interesting ways. Like the font is really big sometimes and like I don't know it just looks very interesting on the page. And I've also had the audiobook is really good so yeah that's still one of the books I'm most excited to read but have not read it yet. Next we have A History of Wild Places by Shaye Earnshaw. Megan, I love you. I could like literally make out with you right now. I have read A History of Wild Places. I didn't love this. This one was pretty forgettable. It was like a cult book. I just feel like it was just really obvious what was happening in the entire book. Like when you know when a twist happens right at the end and like a book is based on one twist, right? It's not like a book that's super twisty and there's lots of stuff going on. Like it's kind of the book rests on one big twist and it was so obvious the whole time you're reading a book it doesn't even read as a twist to you. That is so disappointing, you know? That's so like oh that's bad. It's bad for us out here. So yeah I didn't love this. Pretty forgettable but at least I've read it. When did I read that? What did I read that for? I have no idea. Oh don't even think Gabby's Booktube Twin Test? It could be. I don't know. And then oh shit I realized this is another one I got for Christmas. Okay everyone but it's Blood Like Magic by Lizzelle Sandbury. I have not read Blood Like Magic. Okay it's a little bit sad for me out here. Lizzelle is one of my favorite author tubers. I watch Lizzelle a lot and I haven't read it yet because I'm kind of scared. But I've got a video. Would you guys be interested in me doing a vlog where I read some author tubers books? Because I've got at least two other author tuba books that I would really love to read that are pretty high on my um on my want to read. But it's like I've been thinking about this for a long time. I'm gonna use my focus group if you've watched this far into the video. I've been thinking about doing this for a long time but I can't just title it like reading author tuba books. Like I'd have to title it something so that people would watch it because I want people to watch the video to hear about the books right because they're books that I want to amplify. So I'd have to title it something controversial like are author tubers actually good at writing or are these author tuba books actually good or something like that. And I don't want the author tubers to feel like I'm disrespecting them but like I want people to watch the video to hear about your books. And if I just did reading author tuba books people wouldn't click on it as much. So do we think it's okay to make that title or is it disrespectful? I don't know. Okay and then we just have one mini last category which is classics. I decided to put a few classics on here because I am hoping to read more classics this year. That's a spoiler for my when I look over my goals of the year. I think I put read more classics on it and I don't think I've read one. So we may, we may just stay at 12 books having read but I'll be happy with that but yeah probably let's go through this quickly because I probably won't have read a lot of these. First we have Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Yep haven't read. Let's just fly through it and we'll talk about these all together. Then we have Pride and Prejudice by Jane Ostens. Haven't read? Well to be fair I read Pride and Prejudice and I was like hey but I have not read it again since then. And then the final book on my 2022 TBR and one that I've put it under classics but like I won't count this as a classic when I read it is Kerala Endhouse by Agatha Christie. Oh I've read that one. Go me. Wow 13. I'm so proud of myself. That's like a record. So yeah I have not read Little Women and Pride and Prejudice. Obviously Little Women was, it's a film I really love. I really love the latest film of that and Pride and Prejudice I am obsessed. I mean I know the story of Pride and Prejudice so well because whenever I was ill growing up I would watch the Colin Firth BBC like TV show Pride and Prejudice. I still watch it a lot. I think I just did my last rewatch this year. So yeah I love Pride and Prejudice. I know the story very well but I have not reread it since I was like eight or ten or something. Kerala Endhouse I read. I read that recently. I love a good bit of Agatha. I would like to read Lord Edward Diaz very soon because then I can do my reread of Murder on the On Express because that's next in the series. Some people say to me oh you don't need to read yet the Poro series in order. You can read them in any order but like I just like to read them in order because I'm a completionist so that's why I'm doing that. It's a choice. It's not that I think it's necessary. We ended it on 13 that I have read. Nine that I haven't. I am so proud of her I could cry. I'm really happy with that you know and I maybe I'll read one or two of these. I don't think so. Maybe I read one of these before the year ends up. But um yeah what was your prediction on how many thought I'd read and did I surprise you? I think 13 is pretty good. I'm pretty proud of myself. It's much better than my usual showing. So thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you're enjoying all the end of your content because it's my favorite to make. I love it so much and yeah I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!