As I sit down to plan out my winter reading list, I find myself getting excited about all the amazing books that are waiting to be devoured. I've been struggling with fantasy novels for a while now, but this year I'm determined to turn that around and get lost in some truly magical worlds.

First on my list is "The Runaway King" by Elizabeth Wein, which tells the story of a young man who gets caught up in the chaos of World War II and ends up infiltrating a Nazi boarding school. The thought of this high-stakes adventure keeps me on the edge of my seat, and I'm eager to meet the brave character at the center of it all.

Next up is "The Beauty of Darkness" by Mary E. Pearson, which is the first book in her Remnant Chronicles series. This is one of my favorite series, and I've been meaning to get back into it for a while now. I love the world-building and the characters, and I'm excited to dive back in and see what happens next.

I also have "The Dance of the Gods" by Mary E. Pearson on my list, which is set in the same world as the first book but follows different characters. I've loved this series before, and I'm eager to get lost again in the magic and wonder of it all.

For a change of pace, I'm also looking forward to "Uprooted" by Naomi Novik, which has a fairy tale feel to it that screams winter to me. I love retellings of classic stories, and this one sounds like a great example of that. I don't know much about the book yet, but the cover is gorgeous and the idea of being transported into another world is just what I need during the cold winter months.

As the weather starts to get colder, I find myself craving books that are cozy and comforting. "Pages & Co." by Vienna James Adair is one such book - it's about a young girl who discovers a magical bookshop and gets sucked into her favorite story. The idea of escaping into a book sounds like just what I need during the winter months, and I'm excited to see how this middle-grade novel turns out.

Finally, I have "The Crown's Fate" by Evelyn Skye on my list, which is the sequel to "The Crown's Game". I loved the first book, and I've been meaning to read the next one in the series for a while now. This one promises more magic and adventure, set against the backdrop of ancient Russia.

Last but not least, I'm excited to dive into "The Light Between Worlds" by Laura Eve, which is a fantasy novel that takes place after the events of Narnia. There's something about being transported into another world that feels like the perfect winter read to me - maybe it's the idea of escaping into a warm and cozy world for a little while, or maybe it's just the fact that it sounds like a magical adventure. Whatever it is, I'm eager to get started.

As I wrap up my winter reading list, I'm reminded that there's something special about curling up with a good book on a cold winter's day. Whether it's fantasy, romance, or mystery, there's always something to be found in the pages of a well-written novel. I hope you've enjoyed this sneak peek into my TBR - if so, don't forget to subscribe and hit that notification bell for more reading updates from me!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eneveryone Italia and today I'm going to be talking about my winter TBR so every season I like to do a video all about the books that I want to read that season the books that are coming out that season and my recommendations for reading in that season so I'm going to be starting off with the books that I want to read and then the next video will be about the books that I think you should read and then my next video will be about the new releases that are coming out this winter so I'm going to be talking about January February and March all the things that I want to read then and all that stuff so I've got a big list of books here because I have a tendency to kind of be like a squirrel and like hoard all of these books for the season and then when the season comes I don't have any time to read all of them which is really something I need to work on but during the long months of winter I like to curl up with a nice long epic fantasy or even urban fantasy and for some reason I also really gravitate toward historical fiction during the winter time so most of these are historical fictions so that's what I'm gonna start off with also I'm still pre filming so I do have my Christmas decorations up but for the next couple of videos those should be gone hopefully so first I have time keeper by Tara sim this is a Victorian themed fantasy novel and it's all about these clocks and the clocks like rule the world so it sounds very interesting to me and I've been putting it off for a very long time so it's time that I get to it next is Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld which is a steampunk world where one novel which I don't think I've ever read any historical fiction set during World War one I read a ton during World War two but World War one I've never seen any so this is one that I'm really excited for especially because I have read stuff by this author before it and I've really enjoyed it and I'm trying to find an example here but struggling there we go so it has illustrations in it which i think is going to make for a very interesting reading experience next is under a painted sky by Stacey Lea this follows two characters who are on the Oregon Trail in 18-49 so there's Samantha a Chinese girl who is living in Missouri and then a tragic accident leaves her with nothing and she breaks the law in self-defense so then she flees with Anna Mae who is a runaway slave so they disguise themselves as two boys and head to California for the gold rush I think I've read something before it's set during the gold rush yes I have while Conner is the stranger by Rae Carson and I really liked that one and I think there may have been one or by I'm hoping that I will enjoy this one as well next is the passion of the dulcet by Julie Barry this is a book I forgot to include on my TBR pile video but I saw this book and for some reason it really intrigued me and then the reviews on Goodreads are like raving about it so I don't know how I've never really heard anything about this book but then when I went on there everyone loved it so it honestly doesn't even say what time periods and I think it might be set during the Salem witch trials because it's about a girl whose mother is sentenced to death for heresy and she's supposed to burn at the stake so I don't really know what that means but they go fleeing and that is what the story is about next is the war outside by Monica Hesse this is the author of the girl in the blue coat which was one of my favorite books that I read in 2018 but this book is about two characters during world war two and it deals with Japanese internment camps so I think this is a very important story and definitely one that I don't actually know a lot about unfortunately so them interested to learn more next is the forbidden orchid by Sharon Biggs Waller this is set in the Victorian times by it follows a girl whose father used to hunt for these like exotic plants and then something happens to him and then the main character ends up going on the hunt in China for this orchid and that's all I really remember about it I started reading it twice and I was in France when I started reading it and then I never got the chance to get back into it but I think I might listen to the audiobook for it I just think that it sounds like a really interesting and unique story and I liked the other book I read by her so I'm excited for it next is the librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio I turbed translated by Lilith Waits so this story is definitely intriguing to me because it's actually based on the real-life experiences of Auschwitz prisoner DITA Kraus so it says it's the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust so I think this is going to be a very powerful read but it's going to be one that I'll have to be in the right mindset to go into because it's going to be very difficult as well but I'm very interested to hear the story of this woman next is wolf by wolf by ryan graudin and this deals with kind of an alternate universe because it's set in the 50s by the outcome of world war ii is very different it's following a former prisoner who's going in this like motorcycle race to try and beat Hitler so then he can go and kill Hitler so I've heard some really good things about it it seems super weird and I find that she comes up with some really interesting concepts so well see how it is next is guilt and brazen by Katherine longshore I have the other book of this series somewhere I just don't know where it is right now but this book is following Katherine Howard and this book is following Mary Howard and they are set in the Tudor era which is an era that I really like to read about and I haven't found really any of y-a books about it so I'm excited to give these a shot next is what the knight sings by Vesper Stamper this is actually told with some illustrations interspersed through as well and I've had the Ark for a while but I never actually ended up reading it but it follows the main character after world war ii and the fallout from that conflict so i don't think i've ever read anything in that time period and it's going to be very interesting to learn more about it next is the game of hope by Sandra Ghul and this is following Napoleon's daughter and she is an artist and she has to deal with having Napoleon as a father basically and I mentioned this in my January TBR but I've never really read anything about the French Revolution and I mentioned this and I think it was my anticipated releases for the year video whatever one it was but I've never really read anything in the French Revolution I have quite a few books here actually that are set in time periods and dealing with topics I haven't read that much about so I'm so excited to delve into more areas of history because I'm a total geek when it comes to that and finally for historical fiction is orphan monster spy by Matt Killeen this is following a Jewish girl who is on the run during World War two and she ends up infiltrating a Nazi boarding school to try and get some information and it sounds like a very high-stakes story and I feel like it's one that's going to keep me on the edge of my seat but I'm excited to read about such a powerful and brave character so now getting it to the fantasies that I'd like to read I have so many on my TBR right now because I've been kind of struggling with fantasy that was something I really had trouble with in 2018 partially because it was writing fantasy but also because I felt like I wasn't really that thrilled with many of the fantasies that I read so hopefully I'll be able to turn that around this year but I would like to try and get to the beauty of darkness and the dance of these by Mary E Pierson Mary E Pearson is an author that I liked before I even started booktube it was one of the first books that I read just for enjoyment I think it was called the adoration of Jenna Fox but I feel like if I read it now I wouldn't enjoy it that much but the first book in this series of the remnant chronicles I liked a lot and then I read the second book and I don't really remember what happened so I'll probably have to reread that one so then I can finally get to this one which is very big but I really liked the series so I don't know why I do end up continuing and then the dance of these is set in the same world but it follows different characters and I would really like to lose myself in that world again so I would like to get caught up on these next is uprooted by Naomi Novik I don't know why this just screams winter to me it but it's like a fairy tale retelling I don't even know a lot about it I just know I've seen it everywhere and people seem to either love it or hate it but I love the cover or so I wanted to give it a go and I don't know why but winter feels like the perfect time next is pages and Co Chile and the book Wanderers Vienna James I mentioned the fact that I like to really escape into my books during winter because it's so cold so it's kind of like an escape from that and a little bit of refuge but I feel like there's nothing better than a book about actually escaping into a book for winters so this fall as the main character Tilly who lives in a book shop with her grandmother and then she somehow ends up following and from Anne of Green Gables and Alice from Alice in Wonderland into a book so I don't know if that sounds like it was written for me but I think it does so I'm very excited for this one it's a middle grade novel so it should be pretty quick but fun at the same time and I'm excited in case you didn't know I'm excited because I said that like 6 million times next is the Crown's fate by Evelyn Skye this is the sequel to the Crown's game which I read a while ago and I don't know why I haven't picked up the sequel yet but it's a high fantasy dealing with a competition and there's lots of magic going on and I loved the magic system in the book and the world was really cool because it's based on Russia so it's like kind of like the grocery universe where it's a fantastical version of Russia and that just makes me think of cold and snow so then I'm like winter and finally we have the light between worlds by Laura eve way mouths this is a book that is kind of based on Narnia but like what happens after Narnia so Narnia is another thing where my mind automatically goes to winter because like she enters Narnia in the movie and it's like cold and stuff and there's snow you know I just feel like there's an association there so I'm kind of passing that along to this book even though that might not be the truth at all but it's also another book about kind of like getting lost in another world so that sounds perfect for the cold time of year so those are all the books that are on my winter TBR please let me know what you are planning on reading in the winter this isn't counting new releases which like I mentioned I will talk about in another video very soon but if you enjoyed today's video don't forget to click that subscribe button and then click that Bell icon so you'll be notified whenever I post I post new videos every Wednesday and Friday you can also follow me on all of my social media of my handles and links and all that stuff will be down below for you guys so thank you so so much for watching today's video and I will see you in the next one byeeveryone Italia and today I'm going to be talking about my winter TBR so every season I like to do a video all about the books that I want to read that season the books that are coming out that season and my recommendations for reading in that season so I'm going to be starting off with the books that I want to read and then the next video will be about the books that I think you should read and then my next video will be about the new releases that are coming out this winter so I'm going to be talking about January February and March all the things that I want to read then and all that stuff so I've got a big list of books here because I have a tendency to kind of be like a squirrel and like hoard all of these books for the season and then when the season comes I don't have any time to read all of them which is really something I need to work on but during the long months of winter I like to curl up with a nice long epic fantasy or even urban fantasy and for some reason I also really gravitate toward historical fiction during the winter time so most of these are historical fictions so that's what I'm gonna start off with also I'm still pre filming so I do have my Christmas decorations up but for the next couple of videos those should be gone hopefully so first I have time keeper by Tara sim this is a Victorian themed fantasy novel and it's all about these clocks and the clocks like rule the world so it sounds very interesting to me and I've been putting it off for a very long time so it's time that I get to it next is Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld which is a steampunk world where one novel which I don't think I've ever read any historical fiction set during World War one I read a ton during World War two but World War one I've never seen any so this is one that I'm really excited for especially because I have read stuff by this author before it and I've really enjoyed it and I'm trying to find an example here but struggling there we go so it has illustrations in it which i think is going to make for a very interesting reading experience next is under a painted sky by Stacey Lea this follows two characters who are on the Oregon Trail in 18-49 so there's Samantha a Chinese girl who is living in Missouri and then a tragic accident leaves her with nothing and she breaks the law in self-defense so then she flees with Anna Mae who is a runaway slave so they disguise themselves as two boys and head to California for the gold rush I think I've read something before it's set during the gold rush yes I have while Conner is the stranger by Rae Carson and I really liked that one and I think there may have been one or by I'm hoping that I will enjoy this one as well next is the passion of the dulcet by Julie Barry this is a book I forgot to include on my TBR pile video but I saw this book and for some reason it really intrigued me and then the reviews on Goodreads are like raving about it so I don't know how I've never really heard anything about this book but then when I went on there everyone loved it so it honestly doesn't even say what time periods and I think it might be set during the Salem witch trials because it's about a girl whose mother is sentenced to death for heresy and she's supposed to burn at the stake so I don't really know what that means but they go fleeing and that is what the story is about next is the war outside by Monica Hesse this is the author of the girl in the blue coat which was one of my favorite books that I read in 2018 but this book is about two characters during world war two and it deals with Japanese internment camps so I think this is a very important story and definitely one that I don't actually know a lot about unfortunately so them interested to learn more next is the forbidden orchid by Sharon Biggs Waller this is set in the Victorian times by it follows a girl whose father used to hunt for these like exotic plants and then something happens to him and then the main character ends up going on the hunt in China for this orchid and that's all I really remember about it I started reading it twice and I was in France when I started reading it and then I never got the chance to get back into it but I think I might listen to the audiobook for it I just think that it sounds like a really interesting and unique story and I liked the other book I read by her so I'm excited for it next is the librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio I turbed translated by Lilith Waits so this story is definitely intriguing to me because it's actually based on the real-life experiences of Auschwitz prisoner DITA Kraus so it says it's the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust so I think this is going to be a very powerful read but it's going to be one that I'll have to be in the right mindset to go into because it's going to be very difficult as well but I'm very interested to hear the story of this woman next is wolf by wolf by ryan graudin and this deals with kind of an alternate universe because it's set in the 50s by the outcome of world war ii is very different it's following a former prisoner who's going in this like motorcycle race to try and beat Hitler so then he can go and kill Hitler so I've heard some really good things about it it seems super weird and I find that she comes up with some really interesting concepts so well see how it is next is guilt and brazen by Katherine longshore I have the other book of this series somewhere I just don't know where it is right now but this book is following Katherine Howard and this book is following Mary Howard and they are set in the Tudor era which is an era that I really like to read about and I haven't found really any of y-a books about it so I'm excited to give these a shot next is what the knight sings by Vesper Stamper this is actually told with some illustrations interspersed through as well and I've had the Ark for a while but I never actually ended up reading it but it follows the main character after world war ii and the fallout from that conflict so i don't think i've ever read anything in that time period and it's going to be very interesting to learn more about it next is the game of hope by Sandra Ghul and this is following Napoleon's daughter and she is an artist and she has to deal with having Napoleon as a father basically and I mentioned this in my January TBR but I've never really read anything about the French Revolution and I mentioned this and I think it was my anticipated releases for the year video whatever one it was but I've never really read anything in the French Revolution I have quite a few books here actually that are set in time periods and dealing with topics I haven't read that much about so I'm so excited to delve into more areas of history because I'm a total geek when it comes to that and finally for historical fiction is orphan monster spy by Matt Killeen this is following a Jewish girl who is on the run during World War two and she ends up infiltrating a Nazi boarding school to try and get some information and it sounds like a very high-stakes story and I feel like it's one that's going to keep me on the edge of my seat but I'm excited to read about such a powerful and brave character so now getting it to the fantasies that I'd like to read I have so many on my TBR right now because I've been kind of struggling with fantasy that was something I really had trouble with in 2018 partially because it was writing fantasy but also because I felt like I wasn't really that thrilled with many of the fantasies that I read so hopefully I'll be able to turn that around this year but I would like to try and get to the beauty of darkness and the dance of these by Mary E Pierson Mary E Pearson is an author that I liked before I even started booktube it was one of the first books that I read just for enjoyment I think it was called the adoration of Jenna Fox but I feel like if I read it now I wouldn't enjoy it that much but the first book in this series of the remnant chronicles I liked a lot and then I read the second book and I don't really remember what happened so I'll probably have to reread that one so then I can finally get to this one which is very big but I really liked the series so I don't know why I do end up continuing and then the dance of these is set in the same world but it follows different characters and I would really like to lose myself in that world again so I would like to get caught up on these next is uprooted by Naomi Novik I don't know why this just screams winter to me it but it's like a fairy tale retelling I don't even know a lot about it I just know I've seen it everywhere and people seem to either love it or hate it but I love the cover or so I wanted to give it a go and I don't know why but winter feels like the perfect time next is pages and Co Chile and the book Wanderers Vienna James I mentioned the fact that I like to really escape into my books during winter because it's so cold so it's kind of like an escape from that and a little bit of refuge but I feel like there's nothing better than a book about actually escaping into a book for winters so this fall as the main character Tilly who lives in a book shop with her grandmother and then she somehow ends up following and from Anne of Green Gables and Alice from Alice in Wonderland into a book so I don't know if that sounds like it was written for me but I think it does so I'm very excited for this one it's a middle grade novel so it should be pretty quick but fun at the same time and I'm excited in case you didn't know I'm excited because I said that like 6 million times next is the Crown's fate by Evelyn Skye this is the sequel to the Crown's game which I read a while ago and I don't know why I haven't picked up the sequel yet but it's a high fantasy dealing with a competition and there's lots of magic going on and I loved the magic system in the book and the world was really cool because it's based on Russia so it's like kind of like the grocery universe where it's a fantastical version of Russia and that just makes me think of cold and snow so then I'm like winter and finally we have the light between worlds by Laura eve way mouths this is a book that is kind of based on Narnia but like what happens after Narnia so Narnia is another thing where my mind automatically goes to winter because like she enters Narnia in the movie and it's like cold and stuff and there's snow you know I just feel like there's an association there so I'm kind of passing that along to this book even though that might not be the truth at all but it's also another book about kind of like getting lost in another world so that sounds perfect for the cold time of year so those are all the books that are on my winter TBR please let me know what you are planning on reading in the winter this isn't counting new releases which like I mentioned I will talk about in another video very soon but if you enjoyed today's video don't forget to click that subscribe button and then click that Bell icon so you'll be notified whenever I post I post new videos every Wednesday and Friday you can also follow me on all of my social media of my handles and links and all that stuff will be down below for you guys so thank you so so much for watching today's video and I will see you in the next one bye\n"