Taylor Jenkins Reads: A Year in Review

As I sit down to write this article, I'm filled with a sense of nostalgia and reflection on the past year's reading journey. It's been a year of discovering new authors, re-reading old favorites, and exploring different genres. Taylor Jenkins is one of my go-to authors, and I've had the pleasure of reading many of her books over the years. In this article, I'll share with you my top 10 reads of 2021, as well as some personal thoughts on each book.

One of the books that stands out to me from Taylor Jenkins' reads is "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo". This book has become a modern classic, and for good reason. It's a sweeping romance about love, loss, and identity, with a narrative that spans decades. The story follows Evelyn Hugo, a reclusive Hollywood star who recounts her life story and her seven marriages to a young journalist. I loved this book from the very first page, as Taylor Jenkins skillfully weaves together themes of family, love, and the power of storytelling.

Another book by Taylor Jenkins that caught my attention is "Daisy Jones and The Six". This novel is a historical fiction romance that explores the 1970s music scene. The story follows the rise and fall of a fictional rock band, with two lead singers at its center: Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne. I was thoroughly engrossed in this book, which is part love letter to the 1970s, part exploration of the highs and lows of fame.

I also enjoyed "The Rumor". This book is a contemporary romance that tells the story of Lucy Hutton, an executive assistant who falls for her new boss. As I read through this book, I was struck by its witty banter and humor. The characters are well-developed and relatable, making it easy to become invested in their love story.

Taylor Jenkins also writes historical fiction novels, which have captivated me with their unique blend of romance and historical context. "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" is a prime example, but another favorite of mine is "Mallory's Oracle". This book follows Mallory, a young girl who discovers an old fortune-telling device that reveals her destiny. I loved this book for its magical realism and the way it explores themes of family, identity, and self-discovery.

In addition to Taylor Jenkins' novels, I've also enjoyed reading books by other authors. One book that stands out to me is "The Last Letter from Your Lover" by Jojo Moyes. This novel follows two women, Jennifer Stirling and Ellie Mackenzie, whose lives become intertwined through a series of letters and love stories. I was swept up in this book's romance and historical context, as it explores themes of love, loss, and identity.

I've also been enjoying reading books that are more introspective and character-driven. One such book is "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue" by V.E. Schwab. This novel follows Adeline "Addie" LaRue, a young woman who makes a deal with the devil to live forever but is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. I loved this book for its unique premise and the way it explores themes of identity, love, and mortality.

Another favorite of mine from 2021 is "Float Once" by Tish Doris. This romance novel follows Anna, a young woman who has lost her fiancé to suicide, as she embarks on a journey across the ocean in his memory. I was deeply moved by this book, which explores themes of grief, love, and self-discovery.

As I reflect on my favorite books from 2021, I realize that many of them share common themes – family, love, identity, and self-discovery. Whether it's a sweeping romance or a more introspective character study, these books have captivated me with their unique perspectives and storytelling.

Looking back on my reading year, I'm struck by the fact that I read mostly in one genre – contemporary romance. While this was a comfortable genre for me, I know that branching out into different genres can lead to some amazing discoveries. In 2022, I'm determined to do just that, exploring more historical fiction, literary fiction, and even non-fiction.

As I close this article, I'd love to hear from you – what were your favorite books of 2021? Did you discover any new authors or genres that surprised you? Let me know in the comments below!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone the time has come for me to share my top 10 books that i read in 2021 so i think for a total of 2021 i read a total of 89 books or 90. it's one of those but either way looking back over all the books i read in 2021 i rated i think my average rate was like three and a half or three a lot of my books i read were three which is to me average so combining this list was hard because i was like oh my gosh i don't have like a ton of like really true favorites from this year and that's just how it goes some year 2021 in particular was a rough year because i got pregnant at the very beginning of 2021 and then i had um my second child kind of near the end of 2021 so a lot of reading did not happen for this whole year so maybe that's why i had a lot of average books i don't know but either way i do have 10 favorites that i want to talk about if i've reviewed any of these i will link them down in the description and yeah let's get right into it not true coming in number 10 is a thriller and that is the broken girls by simone st james i had a simone saint james kick at the end of this year where i read like three of her books i want to say maybe two actually and i would put the newest one that she wrote on here but it doesn't come out until 2022 so i didn't feel right but either way i read the broken girls and i really really enjoyed it so this takes place in two timelines simone st james books usually do it takes place in vermont 1950 and then also in vermont in 2014 so basically we have this place called idol wild hall where all these like troubled girls go to school and like it's not the best school and basically there's this kind of ghost story happening we have that going on meanwhile 2014 we have a journalist fiona who has lost her older sister her older sister was murdered and the guy that murdered her is put behind jail but she's always known that you know there's more to the story that's letting on and she learns that in fact idol wild hall um where her sister body was found is like gonna be up for reconstruction so she's like something's going on i'm gonna get to the bottom of this murder and figure out so you have two timelines going all at once and it's an amazing book her books are always have this kind of also paranormal aspect to them where it just flows really well with it i just really love this book i recommend any of her books i've read three so far and i really enjoyed it definitely one of my favorite thrillers of the entire year again number nine um is the heart principle by helen huang it kind of breaks my heart this is not higher on my list because i really enjoy this series of hers um you guys know she wrote the kiss quotient and then the bride test i really love the kiss quotient a ton the pride test i didn't love as much and i was very much anticipated and i think we all were for the heart principle because it followed a character that we got to know really well in the first two books named quan and the reason why i didn't love this book is because it wasn't quan has been through some things i don't want to spoil it for you but i feel like it wasn't him truly in this book it just like they kind of made his character different to fit into this romantic relationship the author wanted to have and that's i just didn't love it for that but this book talks about a lot of amazing important things if you don't know all of her books have great autism rep because she is autistic herself which is just awesome because autism is very near and dear to my heart my son is autistic so anytime i can read more about that i always do um also this book talks a lot about taking care of family members um when it gets um and you start to like lose sight of yourself because your family members are sick they take care of them there's a lot of different things going on in this book a lot of hard-hitting topics she writes beautiful romantic books but with a lot of really serious and important topics in them and it comes in number nine on my list because i still really enjoyed it i did love the relationship between anna anna i think her name is i did really i did really enjoy the relationship between anna and quan but i just felt like both characters were made to like fit this relationship perfectly but i just didn't love it as much as i wanted to like i felt qualm was just so different than we saw him in the first two books i do a lot to make sense but either way it's coming at number nine it breaks my heart kind of that it's not higher on this list coming in number eight is another romance book in fact i think the majority of these books in this whole video are romance reads and that is the dating plan by sarah desai this is the uh what number book is this i don't even remember i think it's the second book in her series and i really enjoyed it her first book i believe oh goodness i forget what it was called i am horrible um i didn't love so i was like this will be okay but i really enjoyed it it's like a second chance romance with a fake engagement all the tropes that i really really enjoy so we have a character named daisy who is a very very smart woman she's like an engineer and basically she re-meets liam who was her brother's best friend and she had a crush on liam when she was younger and he was supposed to take her to her prom and then he bailed on her and so she's just hated him ever since but turns out liam like needs an a needs a fiance for something because there's always some obscure reason why they need a fiance for like money or something so he's like i'll help you with your company if you pretend to be my fiance and dot dot dot as they always say you can guess what happens from there it was super cute i enjoyed the romance i love the second chance romance aspect of it and the fake dating i just it was really great really highly recommend this book i don't think i've heard a ton of people talk about it speaking of second chance romance my number seven is also a second chance romance and that is a lot like adios by alexis dario this book i loved i don't hear a lot of people talk about this one as either so this one follows two characters um named mitch michelle and gabe and they were best friends in high school like they grew up together their fans were close together and then towards the end of high school something like romantic kind of happened between them but except gabe kind of just leaves he doesn't tell michelle that he's moving away he just kind of up and leaves and just leaves without telling her fast forward to like 10 15 years later gabe is opening up a new gym where michelle kind of works and he needs somebody to help market it and she is like the best marketer in town so he's like hey you know let's you help me out and she's like you know what yeah i'll help you out if you stay with me in my parents house while they're out of town and we rehash what happened to us like why did our friendship go sour why did you leave without telling me let's figure this out which i give so much credit to her for that so that's exactly what they do in this book they rehash their friendship of what went right what went wrong why he left and of course romance ensues again it's a super cute book of the series i think she's continuing with it i'm not 100 sure oh yeah number six is another thriller this more satirey kind of thriller and that it's finley donave is killing it by el cosmino i'm sure you're going to see this a lot on a lot of people's lists because it was such a fun read so this book is all about finlay who is a author she is a thriller author like um like erotic kind of thriller so basically she is a single mom of two because her husband has cheated on her who's horrible and she is really struggling to make ends meet and so she meets at the very beginning of the book her agent at this panera and she's pitched into her agent this new idea for a book this thriller of how she's going to kill you know things like that just normal typical thriller talk well a woman overhears her and thinks that finley is like an actual true hit man like a like you know a hired killer and so she leaves her note like like here's my phone number i want this person dead and here's the amount of money i'll give you and finley's like wait a second like i i'm not a killer and the girl's like you know i heard you at the store i heard you at the restaurant like it sounds like you can get it done i'll give you this amount of money if anybody's like i really need the money is what kind of goes from there this is a great book it's so fun i highly say i say if you really are not a fan of thrillers and they're kind of scary for you and you want to dip your toes in them but you're like i'm not i'm wary of where it should start this is a great one it's not scary at all it's very funny very satirey things like that it's a series the second book's coming out this year so i definitely plan to read it but it was just such a fun time i laughed so many times throughout this whole book again at number five is act your age eve brown this is the third and final book in the brown sister series while i love this book i am very very sad to see the series end it was just such an amazing series i think every one of the books had a place on my top tens these past three years because i just love them so much so like i said in each book we follow a different brown sister this one follows the youngest eve who is very um she's a kind of like a chaotic life she doesn't know what she wants to do she has many interests her parents are like look you need to like decide like the clock is ticking you need to get out you need to decide so she gets a job at an end as the chef and she gets it mainly because she accidentally hurts the owner jacob i believe his name is oh they have to strike up a deal and it's kind of a hate to love it's kind of a hate to love relationship that is just oh so adorable and romantic and amazing i'm sure you've heard tally hibbert's name everywhere in the romance community with good reason because she writes such beautiful romantic and funny books and eve is just a character that you just want to hang out with and have a good time and just chat with i know i definitely would and number four i think actually the next three books you're gonna see probably on like majority of people's top ten that is people we meet on vacation by emily henry so this is her um second foray into adult fiction and i have to say i love it because i've read a couple of hawaii books and i'm not a fan of them but her adult romance books i cannot get enough of so this follows two characters poppy and alex who met in college and became friends they are vastly different poppy is very you know she goes with the flow just things happen she just is kind of spontaneous where alex is very organized and meticulous and you think they would not hit it off with being friends but they do and they decide every year while they're in college and even after like during their summer break they're gonna go on a week-long trip somewhere it could be just somewhere within the state somewhere like italy things like that they just always do that basically at the beginning this book you learn that they have not talked in years but you don't know why cast flashbacks to their previous vacations and leading up to this vacation now that poppy is like hey let's i think they go to malibu i'm not 100 sure she's not sure but she's like hey i want to talk to you alex like let's talk about our friendship where did it go wrong let's hash things out and if we don't hash things out on this week-long trip we'll never talk to each other again so it's all about their last vacation that's about to currently happen and about the previous ones and figuring out why they stopped being friends what happened i'm sure as a reader you can put two and two together but it's a great friends to lovers romance with a lot of more serious topics and i just love it i can't get enough of her adult romance books and i can't wait to read her newest one coming out this year and another one you'll see a lot on people list and that is the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood after reading this for a while i've learned that this is like meant to be like a railo right i'm so sorry fan fiction like adam driver fan fiction i didn't put that together i'm horrible but either way this is an adult romance book all about um characters named olive and adam and they are in college olive is like a graduate student adam is i think like a um a professor not a professor but like a he's like on the advisory board something of that but either way they're like scientists they're super smart i didn't get that part of the book because i am not into science whatsoever but either way they're in college together right so basically she kisses adam one day to prove to her best friend that she's over her ex-boyfriend so her best friend good dater i know it's a lot i'll link my review down below but either way they get caught up into this fake relationship because this just would benefit them both and everyone hates adam adam is just a guy that you don't want on your advisory board if you get class you're like oh crap everyone just loves him and so olive makes them a little bit more likable and olive is just trying to you know get through college and things like that it's super cute i love fake dating relationships i love that so set in a very academic setting it taught me a lot about phds and science stuff that i still can't quite grasp but either way i really enjoyed it i could see this being like a lot of people's favorite romance of the entire year with really good reason okay so my last two are definitely my favorites of the year if you've been on my channel a while you definitely know what they are but i was having a hard time figuring out which one's the number two which one number one i'm like it really doesn't really matter your top ten is your top ten whatever you wanna do with it either way coming in number two is malibu rising by taylor jenkins read i have read all of her books as a lot of us have and i haven't read a book of hers that i just don't love i will say this is not like one of my top top favorites of hers but i still really enjoyed it this one is very difficult to explain as it takes place in 1984 and it takes place all in one night basically there's this party that happens at um on the rivers the river's annual home like nina rivers um home and basically like it's a party they do every single year and the river family and they have i want to say four siblings all in the mix and it takes place in one night but you get a ton of flashbacks into the family when they were younger their dad is a musician and was very popular and he left their mom and them at a young age and they've seen how they've kind of fend for their self their mom is not the pitcher anymore either they also learn that they might have a new sibling it's just all about family so this one um i would say a lot of taylor jacobs reads books are getting more historical which i think is great but they always kind of have a romantic undertone this one definitely doesn't it's mostly about family about siblings about the links you would go to family about how a family's very intertwined and interweaved and just kind of different from each family so that's what it's all about it's about the river family that's all i can really explain it to you they love surfing they love each other they've grown up a very odd way with their dad being famous but not really in their life at all but their dad maybe wants to be in their life again and i'm probably not explaining this as well i should but i feel like i never do that lately but i still really enjoyed it is this like one of my top five taylor jacobs reads books i'm not sure i did a whole video on taylor jacob's reads i think last year or the year before and i don't know where i'd put this at it's definitely not my favorite i wouldn't say it's not my top three at all but i still really enjoyed it like taylor jenkins reads writing captivates me from page one to the end like i just and i'm enthralled by it from the entirety of it i just love the way she writes and how she can just weave everything together so i love this one definitely one of my favorites i was gonna put it number one but then the more i thought about it there's one book that's had my heart for the whole year and that is float plant by trish dollar totally the underdog that i never saw coming that i would expect i loved i picked this one up on a whim like i found it on netgalley and then i was like i'll check it out this year and i loved it so this is a romance read that's more i would say of a kind of serious undertone so we follow character anna who has lost her fiance to suicide and it is a spoiler but i feel like that's good to know in case it is triggering to you i feel like that's important to know but she's lost her fiance to suicide it's been a year and so she decides to take this boat trip in his memory because they always plan to go on this boat trip to like go to turks and caicos sail like the kind of seas things like that and so she's like i'm gonna do this myself in his memory and so she starts the trip and of course she's like i don't know what i'm doing and so there she hires this kind of professional sailor named keane who has also been through a lot himself and so they are going this journey together because he wants to he just loves being on the open sea and she's trying to honor fiance's memory and so it's all about her journey both physically and mentally of how she learns to let go of her fiance maybe developing some feelings for keen and it's just a beautiful book i don't know why this grasped me so much but it just did i just love the journey she took both on both physically and mentally like i said it was just a beautiful read and um there's a sequel to this book coming out like a like a crossover it's more about her sister coming out this year that i've already read and i didn't love as much but we did get a glimpse of these two characters in this book and that was like the highlight of the book in my opinion but i just love this book this is the book i push people most to read this year this is the book i talked about the most this year so i thought it definitely earns a spot at number one because i've been talking about it since like february so yeah i highly recommend it if you haven't checked it out just know it's not light-hearted and fun as the cover kind of suggests it's more serious and more impactful so there you have my top 10 reads of 2021. like i said looking back i love all of these books but 2021 wasn't an amazing reading year for me i felt like i read mostly the same genre didn't really branch out and things like that and years when i really try to branch out are some amazing reading years for me so i'm going to really try to do that in 2022 and hopefully i'll be successful with that i would love to know your favorite books of 2021 do we have any similars did we not please let me know down in the comments thank you guys so much for watching and i will see you in my next video bye youhello everyone the time has come for me to share my top 10 books that i read in 2021 so i think for a total of 2021 i read a total of 89 books or 90. it's one of those but either way looking back over all the books i read in 2021 i rated i think my average rate was like three and a half or three a lot of my books i read were three which is to me average so combining this list was hard because i was like oh my gosh i don't have like a ton of like really true favorites from this year and that's just how it goes some year 2021 in particular was a rough year because i got pregnant at the very beginning of 2021 and then i had um my second child kind of near the end of 2021 so a lot of reading did not happen for this whole year so maybe that's why i had a lot of average books i don't know but either way i do have 10 favorites that i want to talk about if i've reviewed any of these i will link them down in the description and yeah let's get right into it not true coming in number 10 is a thriller and that is the broken girls by simone st james i had a simone saint james kick at the end of this year where i read like three of her books i want to say maybe two actually and i would put the newest one that she wrote on here but it doesn't come out until 2022 so i didn't feel right but either way i read the broken girls and i really really enjoyed it so this takes place in two timelines simone st james books usually do it takes place in vermont 1950 and then also in vermont in 2014 so basically we have this place called idol wild hall where all these like troubled girls go to school and like it's not the best school and basically there's this kind of ghost story happening we have that going on meanwhile 2014 we have a journalist fiona who has lost her older sister her older sister was murdered and the guy that murdered her is put behind jail but she's always known that you know there's more to the story that's letting on and she learns that in fact idol wild hall um where her sister body was found is like gonna be up for reconstruction so she's like something's going on i'm gonna get to the bottom of this murder and figure out so you have two timelines going all at once and it's an amazing book her books are always have this kind of also paranormal aspect to them where it just flows really well with it i just really love this book i recommend any of her books i've read three so far and i really enjoyed it definitely one of my favorite thrillers of the entire year again number nine um is the heart principle by helen huang it kind of breaks my heart this is not higher on my list because i really enjoy this series of hers um you guys know she wrote the kiss quotient and then the bride test i really love the kiss quotient a ton the pride test i didn't love as much and i was very much anticipated and i think we all were for the heart principle because it followed a character that we got to know really well in the first two books named quan and the reason why i didn't love this book is because it wasn't quan has been through some things i don't want to spoil it for you but i feel like it wasn't him truly in this book it just like they kind of made his character different to fit into this romantic relationship the author wanted to have and that's i just didn't love it for that but this book talks about a lot of amazing important things if you don't know all of her books have great autism rep because she is autistic herself which is just awesome because autism is very near and dear to my heart my son is autistic so anytime i can read more about that i always do um also this book talks a lot about taking care of family members um when it gets um and you start to like lose sight of yourself because your family members are sick they take care of them there's a lot of different things going on in this book a lot of hard-hitting topics she writes beautiful romantic books but with a lot of really serious and important topics in them and it comes in number nine on my list because i still really enjoyed it i did love the relationship between anna anna i think her name is i did really i did really enjoy the relationship between anna and quan but i just felt like both characters were made to like fit this relationship perfectly but i just didn't love it as much as i wanted to like i felt qualm was just so different than we saw him in the first two books i do a lot to make sense but either way it's coming at number nine it breaks my heart kind of that it's not higher on this list coming in number eight is another romance book in fact i think the majority of these books in this whole video are romance reads and that is the dating plan by sarah desai this is the uh what number book is this i don't even remember i think it's the second book in her series and i really enjoyed it her first book i believe oh goodness i forget what it was called i am horrible um i didn't love so i was like this will be okay but i really enjoyed it it's like a second chance romance with a fake engagement all the tropes that i really really enjoy so we have a character named daisy who is a very very smart woman she's like an engineer and basically she re-meets liam who was her brother's best friend and she had a crush on liam when she was younger and he was supposed to take her to her prom and then he bailed on her and so she's just hated him ever since but turns out liam like needs an a needs a fiance for something because there's always some obscure reason why they need a fiance for like money or something so he's like i'll help you with your company if you pretend to be my fiance and dot dot dot as they always say you can guess what happens from there it was super cute i enjoyed the romance i love the second chance romance aspect of it and the fake dating i just it was really great really highly recommend this book i don't think i've heard a ton of people talk about it speaking of second chance romance my number seven is also a second chance romance and that is a lot like adios by alexis dario this book i loved i don't hear a lot of people talk about this one as either so this one follows two characters um named mitch michelle and gabe and they were best friends in high school like they grew up together their fans were close together and then towards the end of high school something like romantic kind of happened between them but except gabe kind of just leaves he doesn't tell michelle that he's moving away he just kind of up and leaves and just leaves without telling her fast forward to like 10 15 years later gabe is opening up a new gym where michelle kind of works and he needs somebody to help market it and she is like the best marketer in town so he's like hey you know let's you help me out and she's like you know what yeah i'll help you out if you stay with me in my parents house while they're out of town and we rehash what happened to us like why did our friendship go sour why did you leave without telling me let's figure this out which i give so much credit to her for that so that's exactly what they do in this book they rehash their friendship of what went right what went wrong why he left and of course romance ensues again it's a super cute book of the series i think she's continuing with it i'm not 100 sure oh yeah number six is another thriller this more satirey kind of thriller and that it's finley donave is killing it by el cosmino i'm sure you're going to see this a lot on a lot of people's lists because it was such a fun read so this book is all about finlay who is a author she is a thriller author like um like erotic kind of thriller so basically she is a single mom of two because her husband has cheated on her who's horrible and she is really struggling to make ends meet and so she meets at the very beginning of the book her agent at this panera and she's pitched into her agent this new idea for a book this thriller of how she's going to kill you know things like that just normal typical thriller talk well a woman overhears her and thinks that finley is like an actual true hit man like a like you know a hired killer and so she leaves her note like like here's my phone number i want this person dead and here's the amount of money i'll give you and finley's like wait a second like i i'm not a killer and the girl's like you know i heard you at the store i heard you at the restaurant like it sounds like you can get it done i'll give you this amount of money if anybody's like i really need the money is what kind of goes from there this is a great book it's so fun i highly say i say if you really are not a fan of thrillers and they're kind of scary for you and you want to dip your toes in them but you're like i'm not i'm wary of where it should start this is a great one it's not scary at all it's very funny very satirey things like that it's a series the second book's coming out this year so i definitely plan to read it but it was just such a fun time i laughed so many times throughout this whole book again at number five is act your age eve brown this is the third and final book in the brown sister series while i love this book i am very very sad to see the series end it was just such an amazing series i think every one of the books had a place on my top tens these past three years because i just love them so much so like i said in each book we follow a different brown sister this one follows the youngest eve who is very um she's a kind of like a chaotic life she doesn't know what she wants to do she has many interests her parents are like look you need to like decide like the clock is ticking you need to get out you need to decide so she gets a job at an end as the chef and she gets it mainly because she accidentally hurts the owner jacob i believe his name is oh they have to strike up a deal and it's kind of a hate to love it's kind of a hate to love relationship that is just oh so adorable and romantic and amazing i'm sure you've heard tally hibbert's name everywhere in the romance community with good reason because she writes such beautiful romantic and funny books and eve is just a character that you just want to hang out with and have a good time and just chat with i know i definitely would and number four i think actually the next three books you're gonna see probably on like majority of people's top ten that is people we meet on vacation by emily henry so this is her um second foray into adult fiction and i have to say i love it because i've read a couple of hawaii books and i'm not a fan of them but her adult romance books i cannot get enough of so this follows two characters poppy and alex who met in college and became friends they are vastly different poppy is very you know she goes with the flow just things happen she just is kind of spontaneous where alex is very organized and meticulous and you think they would not hit it off with being friends but they do and they decide every year while they're in college and even after like during their summer break they're gonna go on a week-long trip somewhere it could be just somewhere within the state somewhere like italy things like that they just always do that basically at the beginning this book you learn that they have not talked in years but you don't know why cast flashbacks to their previous vacations and leading up to this vacation now that poppy is like hey let's i think they go to malibu i'm not 100 sure she's not sure but she's like hey i want to talk to you alex like let's talk about our friendship where did it go wrong let's hash things out and if we don't hash things out on this week-long trip we'll never talk to each other again so it's all about their last vacation that's about to currently happen and about the previous ones and figuring out why they stopped being friends what happened i'm sure as a reader you can put two and two together but it's a great friends to lovers romance with a lot of more serious topics and i just love it i can't get enough of her adult romance books and i can't wait to read her newest one coming out this year and another one you'll see a lot on people list and that is the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood after reading this for a while i've learned that this is like meant to be like a railo right i'm so sorry fan fiction like adam driver fan fiction i didn't put that together i'm horrible but either way this is an adult romance book all about um characters named olive and adam and they are in college olive is like a graduate student adam is i think like a um a professor not a professor but like a he's like on the advisory board something of that but either way they're like scientists they're super smart i didn't get that part of the book because i am not into science whatsoever but either way they're in college together right so basically she kisses adam one day to prove to her best friend that she's over her ex-boyfriend so her best friend good dater i know it's a lot i'll link my review down below but either way they get caught up into this fake relationship because this just would benefit them both and everyone hates adam adam is just a guy that you don't want on your advisory board if you get class you're like oh crap everyone just loves him and so olive makes them a little bit more likable and olive is just trying to you know get through college and things like that it's super cute i love fake dating relationships i love that so set in a very academic setting it taught me a lot about phds and science stuff that i still can't quite grasp but either way i really enjoyed it i could see this being like a lot of people's favorite romance of the entire year with really good reason okay so my last two are definitely my favorites of the year if you've been on my channel a while you definitely know what they are but i was having a hard time figuring out which one's the number two which one number one i'm like it really doesn't really matter your top ten is your top ten whatever you wanna do with it either way coming in number two is malibu rising by taylor jenkins read i have read all of her books as a lot of us have and i haven't read a book of hers that i just don't love i will say this is not like one of my top top favorites of hers but i still really enjoyed it this one is very difficult to explain as it takes place in 1984 and it takes place all in one night basically there's this party that happens at um on the rivers the river's annual home like nina rivers um home and basically like it's a party they do every single year and the river family and they have i want to say four siblings all in the mix and it takes place in one night but you get a ton of flashbacks into the family when they were younger their dad is a musician and was very popular and he left their mom and them at a young age and they've seen how they've kind of fend for their self their mom is not the pitcher anymore either they also learn that they might have a new sibling it's just all about family so this one um i would say a lot of taylor jacobs reads books are getting more historical which i think is great but they always kind of have a romantic undertone this one definitely doesn't it's mostly about family about siblings about the links you would go to family about how a family's very intertwined and interweaved and just kind of different from each family so that's what it's all about it's about the river family that's all i can really explain it to you they love surfing they love each other they've grown up a very odd way with their dad being famous but not really in their life at all but their dad maybe wants to be in their life again and i'm probably not explaining this as well i should but i feel like i never do that lately but i still really enjoyed it is this like one of my top five taylor jacobs reads books i'm not sure i did a whole video on taylor jacob's reads i think last year or the year before and i don't know where i'd put this at it's definitely not my favorite i wouldn't say it's not my top three at all but i still really enjoyed it like taylor jenkins reads writing captivates me from page one to the end like i just and i'm enthralled by it from the entirety of it i just love the way she writes and how she can just weave everything together so i love this one definitely one of my favorites i was gonna put it number one but then the more i thought about it there's one book that's had my heart for the whole year and that is float plant by trish dollar totally the underdog that i never saw coming that i would expect i loved i picked this one up on a whim like i found it on netgalley and then i was like i'll check it out this year and i loved it so this is a romance read that's more i would say of a kind of serious undertone so we follow character anna who has lost her fiance to suicide and it is a spoiler but i feel like that's good to know in case it is triggering to you i feel like that's important to know but she's lost her fiance to suicide it's been a year and so she decides to take this boat trip in his memory because they always plan to go on this boat trip to like go to turks and caicos sail like the kind of seas things like that and so she's like i'm gonna do this myself in his memory and so she starts the trip and of course she's like i don't know what i'm doing and so there she hires this kind of professional sailor named keane who has also been through a lot himself and so they are going this journey together because he wants to he just loves being on the open sea and she's trying to honor fiance's memory and so it's all about her journey both physically and mentally of how she learns to let go of her fiance maybe developing some feelings for keen and it's just a beautiful book i don't know why this grasped me so much but it just did i just love the journey she took both on both physically and mentally like i said it was just a beautiful read and um there's a sequel to this book coming out like a like a crossover it's more about her sister coming out this year that i've already read and i didn't love as much but we did get a glimpse of these two characters in this book and that was like the highlight of the book in my opinion but i just love this book this is the book i push people most to read this year this is the book i talked about the most this year so i thought it definitely earns a spot at number one because i've been talking about it since like february so yeah i highly recommend it if you haven't checked it out just know it's not light-hearted and fun as the cover kind of suggests it's more serious and more impactful so there you have my top 10 reads of 2021. like i said looking back i love all of these books but 2021 wasn't an amazing reading year for me i felt like i read mostly the same genre didn't really branch out and things like that and years when i really try to branch out are some amazing reading years for me so i'm going to really try to do that in 2022 and hopefully i'll be successful with that i would love to know your favorite books of 2021 do we have any similars did we not please let me know down in the comments thank you guys so much for watching and i will see you in my next video bye you\n"