Hey guys, so today's video is going to be
my top 5 books of 2016, and I know lots
of people are doing like their top 15
books of the year or a larger number
than I'm doing but 2016 sucked for
reading, I mean it sucked in general, but
it really sucked for my reading. I barely
read anything. I mean, I read 65 things
but like two-thirds of that was manga of
some kind.
So yeah, not a lot of books to choose
from, so I have five and a couple
honorable mentions that I'll talk about.
So yeah, let's get started with that.
The first two are going to be
honorable mentions because I didn't feel
like they were quite enough to get into
my top five but I feel the need to
mention them because they are important
and I really enjoy both of them, but they just
weren't quite high enough to get in here.
The first one is Legion by Brandon
Sanderson. This is a novella, it's like
science fiction, and I don't wanna say anything
about it. You should just jump in and
read it. It's really cool, and again I
don't wanna say anything about it. It's Brandon
Sanderson, so that should be enough to
get you to read it, in all honesty. I
didn't include it in the top five
because it's a novella and I gave it
like 4.5 stars,
but I still really enjoyed it,
so I thought I should mention it in this
video anyway. And the second honorable
mention is Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by
Matthew Quick.
The only reason this book didn't get
into my top five is because I was not
completely satisfied with the ending, but
the rest of the book is so important I
feel like it needs to be read by everyone.
This is one of the most intense
books I've ever read.
That's the word I'm going to use, 'intense'.
It's very intense. If you don't know, this
is about a boy who decides to commit a
murder-suicide. I love this book.
Yeah, I give this 4 stars.
It's just that the ending didn't completely
satisfy me.
It's not a bad ending in any way, it just
wasn't completely satisfying, so I
couldn't include it in my top five, but it
definitely deserves a mention.
The actual top five.
Number five is Beauty Queens by Libba
Bray, and I didn't give this five stars.
I only gave four books 5 stars this
year so if I was going to make a top five, one
of them couldn't be five stars. Anyway, this is
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray. This book is
about a bunch of beauty queens,
they crash on a deserted
island and have to survive, and it's just
hilarious.
Don't go looking for anything extremely
moving in this, it's very satirical.
It's very, just, weird and funny and just...
Libba Bray is amazing,
she's hilarious both in her books and in real
life, and I just had a great time reading
this, so I encourage you all to try it.
Number four is actually a manga series,
and it is A Silent Voice by Yoshitoka
Oima. This is about this boy who, in
elementary school, bullies this girl, who
is deaf, and then later in high school he
goes to find her so he can fix his
mistakes and make up for what he did. And
it just focuses on the friendship
between these two as well as the
friendship between Shoyo, that's his
name, and everyone else in his friend
group that he makes. That's my favorite
thing about this. My favorite volume... there's
only seven volumes in the series and I
read all of them. My favorite volume was
volume 5, I gave that one 5 stars. The entire
thing is just great and the
friendships are really what does it for
me,
friendships between everyone.
Here is the first color page that you
see in this volume in case you wanted to see an
example of the art. The next two...
it's technically number 3, but I'm going
to include two because I couldn't choose
between them and I didn't want to take
up two spaces for two different books
when they basically go together, so I'll just
show you them both. They are The Hidden
Oracle and The Hammer of Thor by
Rick Riordan. This is the first book in the
Trials of Apollo and this is the second book
in the Magnus Chase and the Gods of
Asgard series, and they're both fantastic.
This one I gave five stars and
this one I gave 4.75 stars,
it's basically a five-star read, it's just
there's one little instance that I
thought dragged a tiny tiny bit but
it's really negligible. I've been
reading Rick Riordan for almost 10 years
now and I love Percy Jackson with all of
my heart, I love it so much, but I will
say that these books are technically
better in every way. The characters are
better, the plot is more developed, the
diversity; there's so much diversity in
both of these books. In every
technical sense, these are better. I
understand the Percy Jackson has the
nostalgic factor, it does for me
definitely, but in all technical sense,
these are better, and they're better
written, and they're better books.
Having said that, I still love Percy
Jackson and I love these and I don't
think Rick Riordan can write a book that
I don't enjoy.
And even though I gave this one the
higher rating, I still think I
enjoyed this one a tiny bit more, but
they're both fantastic. If you
haven't read Percy Jackson or you haven't
read any Rick Riordan books, you can read this
without reading Percy Jackson. There are
some jokes you might not understand, but
you can definitely read it. And by this
I mean the first book in the series,
not the second one. This one, you'd have to
read all of the other books;
The first Percy Jackson series and
Heroes of Olympus. You'd have to read
that to read this,
otherwise you'll get spoiled, but this you
can read separately, you just won't
understand some jokes. But I encourage
you to read them all,
read all the Rick Riordan books because
they're fantastic. I love them a
lot. Number two on this list is
actually a nonfiction book which I did
not see coming at all.
I don't really read any non fiction
at all, but this one was amazing. It's
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. Now I have
read Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, but I
read it four years ago. I had never
heard this and I've read this and it was
amazing.
It's the story of
Jon Krakauer and his group of people.
They climb Mount Everest, or
attempt to, and it's
well-written. That's my favorite thing
about this, is the way it's written.
It's never boring and I don't know if
that's a stereotype of nonfiction, but
this is never boring, and it reads like a
fiction book. I don't know if there's
much to say about it, it's just a
nonfiction book about a group who
attempts to climb Mount Everest and some
bad things happen. It's just great
and well written and I really enjoyed it
and I'll probably reread it
sometime in the future,
along with Into the Wild. I really need to
get a copy of that and reread it. Number
one is The Bands of Mourning by Brandon
Sanderson. This is the sixth book in the
mistborn series the third book in the
Wax and Wayne series. I'm not sure if Alloy
of Law counts as the Wax and Wayne series, but I
count it, because it should count. And if
that one does count, then this is not a
trilogy, it's four books. I don't know why
people say this is the last book, it's
not. There's another one that doesn't
come out until 2018. But anyway I'm not
gonna say anything about this, I'm just
going to say if you've read the three
Mistborn books and you stop, you are
missing out a lot.
You're missing out on, in my opinion, a
better series. I like Mistborn a lot, it
just got dense sometimes. So I think
where Mistborn failed, which wasn't
in very many aspects,
the Wax and Wayne series is just
insane. This one especially is my
favorite in this new series. The
characters in this book are the main
reason I gave this book 5 stars. The
amount of character development for all
five of the main characters is insane.
In the first two, The Alloy of Law and
Shadows of Self,
I just enjoyed one character a whole
bunch. I love those books because of the
plot and one single character. I love
every single character in this book,
they're all amazing, and I could just
read them just hanging out with each
other and I would give that book 5 stars
if there was a book that existed like
that.
But the plot in this book is also
amazing, so there's literally nothing bad
about this book. I gave it five stars. i
would give it 10 stars if that was an
option.
I don't know if you can see that clearly but
there are a lot of tabs in this book, a lot.
I love this, I can't wait to reread it
sometime in the future. I can't wait
until the last book in the series comes
out in 2018.
Seriously guys, read this series after you're done with
Mistborn. Don't stop after the third
book, Hero of Ages? Don't stop
after the third one, continue on please,
because it's great.
Yeah, that's gonna do it for this video.
Thank you guys for watching. If you'd like
to you can link your videos like this
and I'll watch them, or you can just tell me in
the comments. Either way, I don't really
care.
I'll see you guys in my next video,
which will be my worst books of 2016.
I love to make those video. Those
are my favorite books... books? I always say
favorite books. Those are my favorite videos to
make throughout the entire year, my
worst books of the year videos.
That's going to do it for this video. Thank you guys for
watching, my Goodreads and Twitter are in
the description, as always, and I'll see
you next time. Bye!
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