EVERY BOOK I've Hauled SO FAR THIS YEAR! 📚 💜 25+ new books!

Hello cuties! How are we doing? Do you know what it's time to do today? It is time to haul every book that I have hauled so far this year, other than since my birthday. So I did a birthday book haul at the end of January. I have not done a book haul since. I've hauled a lot of books, in fact I'm only going to haul the ones I haven't yet read. There are books obviously I've hauled and then read, but I think that'd be pretty boring. So we're going to talk about the ones that are still on my TBR that I have yet to read, that I've hauled from February up until now, basically. So shall we just get into it? I think we've got between like 25 to 30 books here. There were two I couldn't find, as you know books are a mess. It's struggle city out here. Still don't know when slash if we'll be moving, if it'll happen for the end of the year. Will it happen on like the 19th of December? Possibly. Will it happen in my busiest time of the year content wise? Possibly. Don't just love life. So yeah, I couldn't find Kairos, which I bought for a video but then I actually didn't end up reading for that video, um the award winners video that I did, and For the First Time Again, which is the third book in a sci-fi series. I couldn't find them, but every other book we have. So shall we just dive into it? I have no order, there's just some stacks of books on my bed, so shall we just dive into it? I'm gonna start with the two most recent books I've hauled. These are the ones I'm most excited for. I think I'm only gonna be reading one of these before the end of the year though. First of all, My Man. My Man, Richard Aspen. I'm his confidant, his best friend, his silly rabbit. This is the fifth of the Thursday Madder Club series. I can't wait. I can't wait. This could be my favourite book of the year still. You know, Richard always has that possibility about him. We're back with the gang. I just can't wait. I just can't wait. I can't wait. I can't wait. There is a wedding going on and it's been a year since the events of The Last Devil to Die, and I feel like the characters needed that. I feel like they needed some time away, particularly Elizabeth. So I'm intrigued to see where it all picks up again, but just my favourite Madden Mystery series ever. Favourite Madden Mystery series ever. I already know I will be voting for this in the Goodreads Choice Awards when I read all the mystery thriller categories. Nothing can beat it. Nothing can beat it. I can't wait to be back with the gang. I'm so excited. And then the other book that I don't know, I don't think I'm going to get to this before the end of the year. There's one video that it could be in but I don't think it will, and that is Catabasis Catabasis by O.F. Kuang. This is the story of two rival grad students, and I think they're like professor dies but goes to hell, and the girlies, not the girlies, it's a guy and a girl, it's a romance between them, but they're like we need to go get our professor out of hell. So they journey down to hell together. I have been hearing mixed things, as I'm sure everyone else has about this, but we are going to pretend we didn't hear that. But I just fear no one gets O.F. Kuang like I do, and her genius, and she can basically do no wrong. So I haven't given her all five stars. I've never given her below a four. I don't believe that's going to start now. And I just love her writing. I love O.F. Kuang's writing. I think she's a modern genius. I often think she's one of those authors where like we are at the beginning. Think of how many, think of like a classic fantasy author right, who might have like 50 books out, or like I don't know, a lot of books right. O.F. Kuang, we have a whole lifetime. We have a whole lifetime of O.F. Kuang. Oh my god, Jesus Christ. Check out the labels. I hope to be 60 and still reading O.F. Kuang books. I mean she can retire if she wants, she can do what she wants at the end of the day. But I hope I have 20 at least more O.F. Kuang books to come. Isn't that so amazing? Isn't that so, aren't we so lucky to live at a time like this? So lucky to live when O.F. Kuang lives. So yes, I cannot wait to read this. I wish I could read it right now, but I'm very excited. Next we have Say You Remember Me by Abi Jimenez, another 2025 release, another one of my favourite authors. I absolutely love Abi Jimenez's romances. This is a romance from two characters who I think life right now is not the right time for them to be together. I believe one of their family members is struggling with dementia and maybe one of them has to go, they have to go live with that family member so that it's kind of long distance. I've heard that this one is very, quite sad, quite sad for Abi Jimenez. But I just love, again, I love her writing. I love Abi Jimenez's writing, one of my favourite romance authors. I gave Just For The Summer five stars earlier this year and I just can't wait to dive into more. I think she's just such a wonderful modern romance author. Isn't it so exciting getting to the end of the year, guys? I'm just so excited. Next book, bit of a random one, we have a few random ones on here. I bought this when I was filming visiting my local independent bookstores video and there's a few other books here that I bought then. So this is Ducks, Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton. This is a graphic novel that I think is like autobiographical or semi-autobiographical. We follow the main character as she leaves her home, which is I think like kind of struggling financially to go live in Alberta and do two years on the oil sands to kind of make money and, you know, set herself up for the rest of her life, basically. Like, I'm gonna do these two years and then I'll be able to follow my dreams, essentially. And I have heard this is basically a masterpiece. I've heard such good things. Since I bought it, I remembered that Ariel Bissett from Books Unbound. I love that podcast, I think I listen to every episode. But yeah, I went back and listened to what she had to say about it and she loved it and I'm just so excited. I don't read a ton of like serious graphic novels. All the graphic novels I read are like, heehee, cutesy, you know what I mean? Like, Heartstopper, Tea Dragon Society, like they're all fun and cutesy, whereas this seems to be more serious. And so I'm really glad I picked this one up. I'm really, really intrigued by it. Yeah, can't wait to see what I think of it and also excited to read a book set in Canada. I don't read enough books set in Canada, I don't think. Then we have, I feel like, one of the biggest books of the year. If I had to bet my money on it now, I think this will win the Contemporary Challenge and the Goodreads Choice Awards. I always feel way better at predicting other categories than I do Mystery Thriller. Mystery Thriller, I don't have a scoop. I, right now, I'm doing my video next week on Thursday, you guys will see me trying to predict the nominees for the Goodreads Choice Awards. ****, I've never been less confident, never had less faith in myself. I haven't got the slightest idea. Wild Duck Short by Charlotte McConaughey. I think this will win Contemporary. This, I, this is one I don't know a ton about and I don't really want to know a ton about going into it, but I know so many people have given it five stars so far this year. This is something that I think skirts, like, I'm not gonna read the plot, I don't, I'm not gonna read the plot, like, Contemporary, but also, like, Mystery and Thriller. I think it's a little bit also, like, eco, like, commentary on climate change, I believe? I don't know. I don't actually want to know. I don't want to know. I want to go into it blind, but I know everyone's been loving it. Everyone's been loving it, so I'm very excited to dive into it myself. Next, we have a few more 2025 releases, actually. Let's just dive through these quickly. We have got, this was sent to me by one of my patrons, um, Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder by Bellamy Rose. This was sent to me by Essie, and Essie said, I'd love it, so I said, sure, thank you. I'm so excited. This is set, I think, in New York, Upper East Side. She's a hotel heiress, stumbles out of a garland upon the scene of her grandmother's murder. Gag. And then she has to solve it. A murdered matriarch, a frozen trust fund, and a sneaky little crush. All in a day's work with spoiled Upper East Side Interesting. Listen, I am very much in my Real Housewives of New York bag at the moment, if you don't know. I love Real Housewives. I ******* love Real Housewives so much, and I'm going through, whilst also simultaneously I'm loving New Season of Salt Lake City, loving Real Housewives of London, guys. Get onto that. Get onto that. I've heard you were a white witch. Really? And then my head came off. My head came off. You know, but in an elegant way. Yes. Get onto that. What's her name? What's the girl's name? I'm trying to think of one of the girls' names. There's Juliet and Juliet. There's Amanda. There's Karen. What's the *******, the funny, the girl's name? And it's really funny how she always says her name. Panthea. Panthea Parks. Panthea Parks. I've almost finished watching New York from the beginning, and I would love to read a murder mystery set in the, you know, the rich. This is like so Tinsley Mortimer coded. Like, she lived in a hotel for a while. New York, great television, great television. I just love Real Housewives. At the end of the day, I just really love Real Housewives. Anyone else? Anyone else? No, I'm very excited about this. Super duper excited about this. I think it could be so fun. You know, it's Blurred by Deanna Raebourne on the back, so I'm thinking that kind of vibe. I actually think these books shouldn't be here, so I'll just talk about them quickly. I think I did technically haul these in my birthday books video, so I'll just haul them up real quick. Watermoon and Bat Eater. 2025 releases I really want to get to. This one's more fantastical. I think it's, like, this porn shop that people sell things to, and then, like, this mystical journey. It's fantastical. And then Bat Eater, we have a crime scene killer that she witnessed her sister being pushed in front of a train, and the killer has never been caught. This is a horror, kind of horror mystery. I'm super excited to get both these, but technically I don't think they should actually be here in this stack, because I think I hauled them in that video. They're imposters! I just wanted to highlight them again, because I'm so excited to read them. This book I am so excited to read. I don't think I'm going to get to this before the end of the year, because also it's quite big, and that daunts me a bit, but this is, like, top, top, top non-fiction that I would love to get to. I'm really, guys, I had to have a come-to-Jesus moment the other day, because I went to my in-person book club, and we had to say our favourite book of the year so far. I can only narrow it down to three, but guess what? Out of the three, two, two are non-fiction. I do love non-fiction, I need to read more non-fiction, I'm a non-fiction lover. But anyways, I really want to get to Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney. How long is this actually? Because some of this will be notes. So actually, this is only 324 pages, because this is all notes and stuff. Okay, this is basically about the writers, the women writers, that Jane Austen would have been reading at the time she was writing, and I find that so fascinating. I know that... oh my god, I've forgotten her name! There's a YouTuber, I've forgotten her, Katie something. Katie is on the tip of my tongue. She loves Jane Austen, and I love watching her videos about Jane Austen, and she read this and really, really enjoyed this from what I remember. So yeah, it's basically going through female authors Anne Radcliffe, Charlotte Lennox, Hannah Moore, Charlotte Smith, and I find Jane Austen just a fascinating figure. I love Janie. Janie and Aggie are like my two kind of classic female authors who I find fascinating, and I really still want to read Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley. I haven't read that, and I think that will be a five star non-fiction as well. But on the back it says, who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen? Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelf? So again, I think there's such an interesting discussion to be had about history, and how it's male written, and also the art that we have from history that we're allowed to continue is, again, that's in the hands of the men in power, you know? And I think there's so many female authors who are popular, particularly this time, who have kind of ceased to be part of the public consciousness. You know, I did in one of my modules at university, I remember them talking about how like, at this time in history, it was more accepted for writing to kind of be a woman's job. And then when Charles Dickens kind of came in, it became very much like that kind of era, a masculine profession, masculine intelligence can only do this. And so it's just fascinating to me, and I really, really want to get to this soon. Next, a quick shout out to Strange Pictures by Uketsu. This is my Patreon book club pick for this month, so if you want to come join us, the link to Patreon is always down below. I'm very excited for this one. This is like an interesting horror mystery hybrid, where there's all these drawings throughout, they're kind of like horror stories slash murders, they're to do with murders that take place, or people doing this drawing before they take their own life, or something like that. And I'm interested to see how it all joins up together, because I know it does all join up together. So fascinating, very excited to discuss this one with everyone. I feel like that would be a really good book club pick. Then here we have a few, actually this has quite a few books from that independent bookshops video, which I will fly through. Let's fly through the rest of those quickly. Swan Song by Edmund Crispin. I really like these kind of like old editions that this secondhand bookshop had, and this is a mystery, like a detective mystery series, classic detective mystery series, which I read one book from. What did I read? I read The Moving Toy Shop, and I didn't love it, but I thought the issue was more with just the plot of that mystery, and I really liked the detective. So when I saw this, I thought I'd pick up another in this series and give it a go. I also bought Dead Famous. This is a book I've wanted to read for so long by Greg Jenner. This is the unexpected history of celebrity, how we think of like celebrity as a modern concoction, but really there's been celebrities all throughout history. I love non-fiction, I love non-fiction. Oh I need to read more non-fiction, I need to figure it out guys, I need to read more non-fiction. Thing is, I always fear that non-fiction is going to take me longer to read, which it does, so I think that's another element as to why I never actually get around to reading it. But when I do, I love it, so there we go. And from the Bronze Age to Silver Screen. Slowly but surely you start to realise, actually I can't nip to the garage in me pyjamas anymore for a pint of milk, even if I want to. And then we have, we actually have another Terry Deary on this list, but the first Terry Deary is A History of Britain and Ten Enemies. Terry Deary, if you don't know, wrote the horror history series, which I don't know how popular were all over the world, but in the UK, if you were a child, you were fed the horror history series for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It was iconic, everyone loved it, girls and boys, everyone, everyone. Any kid could pick up a horror history book and love it. So I'm very excited to read his adult non-fiction for the first time. And yeah, A History of Britain and Ten Enemies, I can't wait, I can't wait, I think it's going to be fascinating. And this one at least is like a super short non-fiction, like it's just over 200 pages, so this will be like easy to read. Oh, I also hauled, this was like part of a, this was a wrapped up book, like a mystery date with the book, Alice by Christina Henry. So I wouldn't, I probably wouldn't pick this up by myself, but it's an Alice in Wonderland retelling. And I now have like two Christina Henry's on my list, on my TBR that I need to get to. So I'm intrigued by this one, I do love a retelling and I think it's super interesting to see how anyone does it. And when I hauled this, a lot of people said that they really enjoyed it, so intriguing stuff. Next we have a book that I really want to get to, we have Kill Creatures by Rory Power. This is about, I'm just going to read the back because the back is iconic, the back is iconic. Last summer Nan's three best friends disappeared into Salt Cedar Canyon. Now on the anniversary she's ready to say goodbye and so are the girls' families at a memorial held in their honour. But the vigil is interrupted by the shocking return of one of the Everyone is overjoyed, everybody that is except Nan, who was sure they were dead. After all, she's the one who killed them. If that's not a hook, I don't know what is. If that is not a hook, I don't know what is. Wow. I can't wait, I can't wait. I loved, loved, loved, loved Wilder Girls by Rory Power. I think that is one of the best YA books. It's ******* crazy, it's wacky. It came at a certain time when I was kind of just in the baby stages of my my booktube journey. I still feel like a booktube baby even though I've been doing this for six ******* years. I still feel like a child. And yeah, I just, I then haven't read anything from her yet. I liked Burn, Burn Our Bodies Down. I enjoyed that but I just haven't loved anything like that since and I just want this to be it. I really want to love this, although I'm not as much in my YA bag anymore so I do need certain expectations. Then we have Atomic Habits, I won't spend long on this, by James Clear. Now, I am not a self-help lover. I, well, I wish I was. Like, I don't think all self-help is inherently bad, I just think there is a lot of self-help out there that is bad, you know? There's a lot of terrible, terrible, like, bro hustle culture self-help out there that I think is not good. But my mum started reading this and she recommended it to me so I picked it up and you know what? I, let's not get too deep, we don't need to get too deep. But I have been in Struggle City in 2024 and 2025, just in my personal life, for various reasons. This year because the moving out has taken so long and I am not someone who does well without routine or I feel like I've been in kind of waiting mode the whole year. Like, we kept thinking we were going to move out. It's not like, oh, we knew we weren't going to move out to the end of the year, we thought we were going to move out in March, then June, then now. Do you know what I mean? So I found that very hard to, like, I feel like I've kind of just been taking over versus pushing on to being who I want to be and I'm hoping this can help me a little bit with that. I'm hoping that I can sort my life out a bit. So I might save this maybe until we move out and like, I really then, once we move out, me and Tom were talking about it, we both feel like this and so it's not just me being crazy, but like, neither of us are necessarily thinking about how we're going to furnish the flat, we're thinking about what our life will look like and that's what really excites us. So moving on, we have two more stacks. What do we have here? I don't remember a ton about this book, this is Truth About The Devlin by Lisa Scottoline. This is a family saga, domestic thriller, where this guy's brother confesses to murdering one of his clients, but then TJ decides to investigate it, basically. I remember hearing really good things about this one when it came out, which is why I wanted it. So yeah, I'm excited to see what I think of this one. Next, a book I feel like I might be reading for the end of the year, because I feel like this could make the top 10 of the Goodreads Choice Awards, a mystery thriller, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man. I really enjoyed the first Vera Wong's book, so I'm excited to get into the next one. It's like this elderly woman who lives above her tea shop and she gets involved in all these murders, like these mysteries. She like, insults herself and said, I will be better than the police at solving this. So yeah, I can't wait. Oh, this one's maybe like a missing person, missing person mystery. I love a bit of Vera. These are funny. These are light. These are enjoyable. So very excited to get into that one. Then we have Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Deniman. Yeah, yeah, I know I need to read it. And there's nothing that can be done because of the laws across New York. Everyone and their mother has loved this book this year. It's one of the biggest books of the year, I feel like, and it is an older book, but it's just had this resurgence this year. I don't know, like I just know everyone's loved it. I know everyone's opinions on this, but I don't want to know the plot too much. I know it's like the apocalypse will be televised. Like I know that Carl has to like, survive the end of the world or just get to the next level of video game, like trapdoor fantasy dungeon. Sure. Sure. Okay. I guess I'm excited through this. And everyone has hyped up for me because of Princess Donut, who is a cat who everyone says has Deeder energy. Then we have by T.E. Kinsey. This is the next and up to date Lady Hardcastle mystery. This is, I am up to date once I've read this on Lady Hardcastle, which I don't like. I don't like that. I don't like, I don't like that. I rebuke that energy. I don't need to know the plot of this. It's Lady Hardcastle and Flo, my galleys. This is number what? 10, 11, 12. I mean, I don't know how far into the series I am anymore, but my favorite, my favorite series in the world, the best, the best series in the world. And yeah, I'm hoping for great things. They're used to solving murders, but until now, the killer has always been human. Oh, there's a beast. People getting killed in beast attacks. That's so exciting. Look at my galleys on the front. I love them. Next we have Problematic Summer Romance by Ellie Hazelwood. I just read Not In Love, which is the first book in the series. And now we're following Maya Kilgore, who is 23, and Connor Harkness, who is 38. They set this up a little bit in the first book, where Maya fancies the pants off of him. And he's like, that's a little bit weird. You're my best friend's little sister in Italy. Oh my god, they're at the brother's wedding. Oh my gosh. Okay, fun. I just said they wouldn't last, their couple from Not In Love, and now they're getting married. Okay, okay. But I love Ellie. I love Ellie. I love her. She can do no wrong. I need to get my hands on Mate, which comes out this week. Has it come out already? I'm not sure. Next, this is a very exciting one. We have Stuck Up and Stupid by Angourie Rice and Kate Rice. Hello, it's Editing Megan here. Her name is pronounced Angourie. Angourie, I'm so sorry for mispronouncing your name. We know I mispronounce everything. I have a very slender grasp on the pronunciation of the English language. So I will mispronounce it a few more times. So I apologize. But yeah, let's get into the book. Now, Angourie, if you don't know, is quite a well-known actress, written Mean Girls. Angourie watches my videos, hello friend, and very kindly sent me Stuck Up and Stupid. This is a Pride and Prejudice retelling. Oh, eat it up, eat it up, eat it up, eat it up. I'm so excited about this one. I just love anything Pride and Prejudice related. I love Pride and Prejudice, one of my favourite books in the world. And I'm so excited to see it in this kind of like, sunny, fun, rom-com, one girl, one Hollywood star, a love story that can change everything. How exciting. Very excited for that one. Next, we have the next Wayward Children book, which I can't believe I haven't gotten to this yet. That's like, criminal for me. I love this series so much. This is A Drift in Currents, Clean and Clear. I think we are following Nadja. Yes, we are. We're following Nadja in this one and her Portal story, which I'm super duper excited about. I love, I love the Wayward Children series. I love it so dearly. I think it is such a wonderful series. I think Seanan McGuire is such an incredible author. Right, we have one stack left. As I said, these were all just random. Next is Naked in Death by J.D. Robb. I was very kindly gifted this by SD and I'm super excited. I've been meaning to start this for a long time. If you don't know, this is Nora Roberts under the pseudonym J.D. Robb. And this is the beginning of the In Death series, which I think is at like, Oh my god, that's, that's, that's a lot. We are in so deep in this series and I don't really know a ton of what it's about, like, other than it's a 60 book series. We've got a New York City cop and this is the, this is, they've got to solve an investigation. I've only read one Nora Roberts on Mara from Book Like Rose Recommendations. I feel like she is who I hear all the Nora Roberts stuff from. And I really enjoyed it and so I'm looking forward to reading another one. Next! We are diving through these. I feel like I've been going quick but I'm, I've been filming for 28 minutes. It won't be 28 minutes for you but it'll be close. 25? I'm incapable of not yapping. That's why I don't do short form content, although I'd love to. I just have to yap for half an hour. Next we have A Case of Mice and Murder. This is a book that I saw on, I think Mystery Manon's recommendation, who I go to for a lot of my mystery recommendations. Do I really know what this one's about? No. I just remember I saw it on her, like, best book of the year so far list and then the next day I went into the bookshop and I saw it and I said I have to get it. It's set in 1901. Oh, a judge has been murdered and a barrister is investigating it. Sure. I love a murder mystery and if Manon said it was good, I trust. I trust. Then I said, I remember I said we had another Terry Deary. We have Actually, oh, Actually I'm a Murderer. I'm very excited. This is going to be my November Patreon book club pick. This one has four strangers on a train and there's this little man with glasses on and says, everyone's saying what they do and he says, actually I'm a murderer. Gagatrondra. And everyone's like, but by the following day one of them will be dead, one will turn blackmailer and another forced to commit a crime. I'm very excited. Love you Terry Deary and I'm very grateful for how you affected my childhood and so the fact that he's written a murder mystery, I must chomp. I must chomp. Next, I keep wanting to read this so badly. This is a book I've been meaning to get my hands on for so long. It is Unruly by David Mitchell, a history of England's kings and queens. I love a bit of history. I love a bit of history and this is David Mitchell talking about, I think mostly like medieval or like pre-Tudor kings and queens and that's not a time in history I know a lot about. I love Tudor, I love Victorian kind of eras but I don't know a lot about this older England and so I'm very excited to read it and on the back it says part horror histories. Everything's a circle, everything's a circle. This is the David Mitchell that's like a comedian here in the UK and so I expect this to have like humour, be very entertaining, be funny. I think I also have the audio book for this so I'll also be listening to the audio but I just love a bit of history. I love a bit of history and then finally guys, this is a book that I was kind of like trying not to buy books on the day that I saw this and I saw this book and I said oh I have to buy it. I've spoken about this book a little bit but we saved the best for last, one of the best. We have A Crime Through Time, Miss Darcy Investigates by Amelia Blackwell. Just sit there. I might just read this whole, I might, this is what enticed me to read this, I might just tell you this. So Pemberley, we're at Pemberley in 1799, when Miss Georgiana Darcy attempts to escape an unwanted marriage proposal she isn't expecting to end up quite so far from home but after encountering a mysterious object in the nearby woods she finds herself transported almost 200 years to the future and then we're at sort trip 1995 at a grand country house where a busy film crew are busy shooting the latest Jane Austen, I can't speak, Jane Austen adaptation. Do we think that'll be Pride and Prejudice? Do we think it'll be BBC Pride and Prejudice? It might, it's not impossible, right time. Is it a coincidence? Is it a coincidence? A terrible crime has been committed and Miss Darcy newly arrived is the only witness and she has to solve the mystery. Time travel, Miss Georgiana Darcy solving a murder mystery. Well they're speechless. What could be more perfect? I ask you, what could be more perfect for me? Murder mystery, time travel, Georgiana Darcy as our detective. I just, I actually can't believe it. I can't believe a book like this has been written and I haven't read it yet. It is perfect, it is wonderful, it's amazing. I'm really hoping it's not disappointing, like fingers crossed, please pray for me because this is serious, this is really serious. I am so so so so so excited to read this, I think it's gonna be wonderful. Okay friends, there we have it, that is all the books that I have hauled so far this year that I have not yet read. Please let me know which of these you are most intrigued by, which ones you would most like to see me get to. I really want to get to all of these, these are just books I am so so so so excited for, like I really need to not buy any more books and just read my TBR, don't I? I'm trying my best, I'm trying my best. But anyways, thank you so much for watching this book haul. If you got to the end, post a green heart for my dress, I'm in a green, green mood. Post a green heart down below. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!