Hey guys, today I'm here to do a Booktuber shoutouts or recommendations video.
Now, this is something I don't think I have ever done.
I did the Booktuber Shoutouts Tag which was extremely long and I did that last
year, I believe, so I will link that in the cards, but I have never made a
sit-down, talk about the Booktubers i'm currently loving type of video. Back when
I was doing monthly favourites videos, I used to just kind of tack my favorite
Booktubers onto those videos, but since I'm not doing monthly favorites anymore
I feel like I'm missing out on lots of opportunities to share with you guys
Booktubers who I have recently discovered and am loving. So, in today's
video I will be talking about the four Booktubers who I have either recently
discovered or whose videos I have been watching a lot of recently. So, the first
Booktuber I want to recommend to you guys today is Whitney from All the
Shelves. Now I think I have mentioned her here on the channel before. If you liked
RonLit's videos or if you like
Ashley's video's from Climb the Stacks, I think you will really enjoy
Whitney's channel and I would highly suggest you go check her out.
Whitney is a former film studies student who is currently working on getting her
PhD in American Literature, so she definitely knows what she's talking
about, and she has this really fantastic way of speaking really thoughtfully and
really analytically about books and yet she doesn't ever get to heady. She does
going to theory sometimes, so if you don't like that maybe you won't like
her channel, but I really, really enjoy that as somebody whose own literature
education was very light on the theory front. Like I said, Whitney is working
towards a PhD in American Literature, so if there's one series of her videos I
would suggest you check out, I would say go check out her American Lit series.
What she's doing is breaking down the American literary canon by decades,
starting in 1900, I believe, and basically just highlighting what she
feels are the keynote books that really serve to illustrate American literary
trends at the time, kind of the social-historical context of these novels, and
it's just all things fabulous and educational. And I would go back to
school if she's going to teach every single one of my classes. The next
Booktuber I would like to recommend
is Kate Howe, so Kate. I found out about Kate partially from Whitney and
partially because Kate commented on a couple of my videos and I went and
checked her out. There are a couple of things I really love about Kate's channel.
First of all, she is so enthusiastic about reading and not in a fake way at
all. The second thing I like about Kate's channel is that we really don't read
anything in common. Maybe there are a few classics crossovers that we have both
read, but for the most part she reads completely different books than I do. She
reads a lot of historical fiction, she reads a lot of classics, and a lot of
kind of, like, family sagas, which are not things that I have been picking up, at
least in recent years, but I just really really love how she talks about them.
Over the past three or so years that I have been doing Booktube, I've really
come to figure out what kind of books I like, what kind of genres and authors and
themes, and so most of the people I've subscribed to have the same general
taste in books and literature. So, what's nice about Kate's channel I get a whole
series of recommendations that I probably wouldn't have heard otherwise,
she reads a lot of mystery as well, which is something I'm trying to get more into.
So, yeah, if you like classics, if you like different literary fiction, and if you
like mysteries I would definitely suggest you go check out Kate's channel.
If you wanted a starting place with Kate's videos, I would definitely say check out
any of her hauls because she's very good about picking up books that stick to her
general interests. Or check out one of her videos on game-changer books, which
are books that she basically has read and loved and wants to gush about. Those
are all good places to start. The third Booktuber I would like to talk to you
guys about today is Maddie from The Maddie Hatter.
Now, I'm sure some of you guys have already heard of her channel, but I
would definitely suggest you check her out if you have either subscribed to
myself or to Sabrina looking for Asian literature recommendations. I know I
personally subscribe to Maddie specifically for her Japanese lit series,
so I will link to a playlist or one of those videos down below. But she
always seems really well researched in her videos, she seems very knowledgeable
about the Japanese culture and literature that she's talking about. And
we have a lot of fun talking about Japanese lit in the comments of both of
our videos, so again, if you're interested in Asian literature, if you're interested
in Japanese lit in particular, I would definitely check Maddie out. And the last
Booktuber I want to talk about today is Kathy from another great etc.
She is, I believe, a German Booktuber who reads a lot of literary fiction so
if you like what I read, if you like what Mercedes or Jen Campbell reads, I
think you'll like Kathy's channel. I actually only subscribed to Kathy last week
but the thing I love about her videos and what had me watching her videos for
like two straight hours.
The thing I like about Kathy is her personality. I hate to say quirky, because
that doesn't really mean anything, it's very subjective, but she just she has a
humorous tone her videos, they're very light-hearted, and yet she's not afraid
to get critical about books that she doesn't like. If you're not already
subscribed to Kathy's channel and you want a starting place, I would definitely
check out her "Authors whose works I want to complete" video where she really just
highlights some of her favorite or most interesting authors and I think that is,
obviously, a very good place to kind of suss out her reading style and taste and
that's where I would recommend you start. So those were four of the Booktubers
that I have been watching a lot of over the past month or so and I hope to
make this video a recurring thing, every couple months, update you guys on new
people I found. But in the meantime, I would really like if you guys could
recommend me some more diverse Booktubers. One thing I realized while
putting this video together is that I watch a lot of White female Booktubers.
Now, obviously there's nothing wrong with watching White female Booktubers because
there are a lot of them out there, but as somebody who tries to read diversity,
or sort of tries to read diversely, I find it very ironic that I'm not actually
watching diversely.
So if you guys have any more diverse Booktuber recommendations to recommend
me, I would greatly appreciate it and just leave them in the comments below.
I, of course, will link all of these lovely ladies in the description box
along with all the videos that I recommended, so feel free to check those
out and share the love a little. But for me, that's all I have for today's video,
so thank you guys so much for watching, I hope you're having a fantastic day, and I
will see you next time. Bye!