Welcome back to Book Break! In this video we are doing another BookTuber shout out,
and I always love doing these because we just love celebrating the BookTube community here,
but also I love it because you guys then always leave comments recommending your favourite
BookTube channels, and I'm always looking for more channels to subscribe to. So please do do that
but in this video I am specifically going to be recommending a bunch of our favourite channels
that have fewer than 1000 subscribers but we obviously think you guys should go and change
that. So the first channel I'm going to recommend is What Ambria Reads. And she is a fairly new
BookTuber, she's been going for around four months but her videos are already so professional, she's
got like such a high quality setup, the lighting's amazing so go check it out just for that, but the
content is also equally fantastic, she does lots of in-depth book reviews as well as really helpful
videos like explaining bookish terminology or tips to read more. And her focus is on Black authors,
she says in her about me section that she likes reading and reviewing books written by people
like her for people like her, which is really important. Then we have Taylor from The Lass
in Linen and I'm gonna read out her about me section because it is so cozy. So she describes
her channel as being about the slow simple and cozy things in life like reading a good book,
creating handmade goods, practicing healthy and happy routines, as well as celebrating
the seasons and my home Scotland. So that gives you a really good idea of just how
feel-good and warm this channel is. And she reads a range of genres, mostly literary fiction,
but you will find something for everyone in there. Then there is Raul from Latin
Lector. His favourite genre is mystery and thrillers which is also my favourite genre,
so you can see why I love his channel and he's been going for around four years at this point,
over four years I think, so he is a seasoned pro at this point. And he also is a writer himself and
he does videos on his writing updates so I know that's always extra exciting for some people.
Thistle and Verse is especially interested in sci-fi and fantasy written by Black authors so if
those are your favourite genres this is a perfect channel for you, though she does read outside
those genres and she even makes videos about totally different things sometimes, like plants
for example, so you never quite know what you're going to get. She's also the admin of a Facebook
reading group, I'll leave the link to that below, it's a community dedicated to reading speculative
fiction with Black protagonists and a queer focus. So she's very involved in the online book
community as a whole and she's also a BookTuber who does lots of dedicated book reviews to
specific books, which used to be the main theme of BookTube, has kind of fallen out of style a bit,
but loads of people recently I've seen have been really missing those videos and wanting them back,
so I've included quite a few on this list who do dedicated book reviews because I know that's
something people are looking for. Alexis All the Way reads a really big range of books:
she reads everything from fantasy and thrillers to horror, contemporary, romance, non-fiction,
so no matter what kind of reader you are you will find a video for you there. And she also has a
brand newborn baby who's appeared in some of her recent videos so that is very cute. Alexis does
lots of vlogs so you get that extra insight into her life and she also makes videos on different
topics like lifestyle videos. I know I really like getting that extra perspective on someone's life
and she's done some really really helpful videos in there like videos on budgeting tips, for
example Steve Partridge is a British BookTuber but who lives in Berlin and he reads everything from
literary fiction to sci-fi to philosophy, he reads LGBT history, he reads theology, so you'll learn a
lot on this channel. His take on the “what makes me pick up a book” tag was really insightful,
talking about the relation of book covers to filtering out what genre a book is going to belong
to, so that was really interesting. And he loved Shuggie Bain so we love him! Charlotte from Books
and Bargains is someone who gets really involved in the BookTube community, which is so much fun.
She's done quite a few of our Book Break challenges, she's done the 25 books challenge,
and she's done some of our tags as well, so I always love seeing her videos pop up there. Her
most recent video that I watched actually was Five things I've learned from BookTube, so that really
highlighted how involved she is in the BookTube community. And also just showcased some of the
most positive aspects of BookTube! Then there's Scott and Nell from Gunpowder Fiction and Plot.
They're a married couple from Australia and they have this really funny relationship,
so I love watching them interact, but they also can dig deep into some conversations as well and
make these really interesting videos. And a fun one they did: they created the DNF tag which was
all about whether you put books down before you finish them, and that's something that people
on BookTube have very very strong opinions about. I am very firmly in the pro DNF camp, I know some
people who are very firmly against it, so they created this DNF tag that was encouraging people
to share their opinions on it, and then they did a follow-up video reacting to people's answers.
They included my answers in there, so I obviously loved the video, so I think they're really fun,
I think they bring something really fresh and new to BookTube. Ditsha from bewitchinglyparanoid is
another person who does lots of dedicated book reviews as well as doing lots of other BookTube
favourites like hauls and tag videos. And she does these great themed videos like recommending the
best classics or the best Agatha Christie books and she reads a huge range of books, you will find
so many different genres on her channel, and she also has a blog where she writes up her thoughts
on books, so it's really nice being able to follow her thoughts on both platforms. And she actually
works for PanMac India so we are sort of distant colleagues. Levity Books brings a very interesting
perspective to BookTube because he is actually a neuroanatomist, and the tagline for his channel
is making light of heavy reading, so he does these really short but in-depth videos tackling really
interesting questions like “is The Outsider a dystopian novel?” was one video he made, or “Is
Sabrina the first Lynchian graphic novel?” The kind of questions you don't see asked that much
on BookTube. Then there's Andrea from bookramble who also reads a really big range of books.
A lot of her videos are dedicated to reading and reviewing authors of colour, she's really involved
in that, so she co-hosts Latinx-a-thon so a lot of her videos are about reviewing Latinx authors,
but she has also taken part in the Asian readathon and she makes videos like 20 BIPOC authors to read
in 2020. So if you're looking to diversify your reading, her channel is a really good place to
go. She also just has a great sense of humor, so I will link this video specifically below,
because the introduction to it was just very overdramatic and hilarious. And then there's Aoife
from Pretty Purple Polka Dots who is an Irish BookTuber who I've known for a long time online.
We actually both used to be book bloggers back in the day and then have both moved over to BookTube,
although she also still has her book blog going which is very impressive, I don't know how she
does both. Aoife does lots of tag videos and she's really chatty and really lovely to listen to,
and her thoughts on books are very relatable so it really feels like listening to a friend talk about
books. And she reads mostly contemporary fiction, contemporary YA, but with some other genres
sprinkled in there as well. And then another person like that I find really relatable to listen
to is Sarah from Your True Shelf. So she reads a little bit more literary fiction I would say,
and she also does these lovely vlogs giving us an insight into her life. She works as a GP,
she's got two children, she makes videos about eating vegan for example, so they're just really
fun and cozy to watch. She did one recently where they went on a holiday to Cornwall in the rain
and Cornwall is just beautiful in the rain or not, so I loved watching that one. And finally one more
channel to recommend: Plots with a Twist. So this is another duo Asia and Kristen. I think it's
really fun having two people on a channel because you get that extra dynamic of their conversations
going back and forth. And I love these two, I love the way they talk about books, they're very
honest, and they really talk about their own emotional reactions to the books which I love.
And they just hit their first year on BookTube and they did a video reflecting on the year which
was really nice. So I think they are a wonderful addition to the community! So do leave a comment
below recommending your favourite channels, I'm always looking for more people to subscribe to.
I will also leave a link here to our playlist of original tags which includes all the videos of
people who have tried them out, so if you ever do one of our tags do let us know and I'll add you to
the playlist. It's a great way for me to discover new channels, and we'll see you next time!