Book Recommendations Based on Your Hogwarts House

  Hi everyone,  That being said, we are talking about   book recommendations for Hogwarts Houses. I kind of consider myself a mix of all of the houses,   so I promise I will not be biased in this. I will not be giving one house crappy books.   I dearly love all the books I will be talking about and I took the Pottermore test today   because I'm constantly changing and this is what happened:  Hello I am being sorted right now Oh! Today I am a Gryffindor, tomorrow who knows! But let's get back to the list!   So I guess the Weasley genes won today but let's see who we should talk about first. So first up are our lovely Ravenclaws. They are interested in intelligence, in wit, in wisdom.   All things of the mind. And so a lot of these are going to be leaning towards dark academia   which I know a lot of you guys like so without further ado, here are my recommendations.  First up is one of my favorite books of all time, it is The Alienist by Caleb Carr and this   veers a little bit dark so full disclaimer, it is a thriller, there is very graphic murder   but the reason why I think it is so interesting for Ravenclaws, is because our main character   Doctor... Dr. Kreilzer is an alienist. So the story takes place in New York city in the early   1900s and at that time they called psychologists alienists. And our story starts when a bunch of   murders start to become connected. They're all happening to the same types of people   and so this is the first time that the police department really calls on a psychologist to ask   them to help them figure out if this is the same person and if it is the same person committing all   of these crimes who are we dealing with? Who should we be looking for? They have no leads. So it's a bit   of historical fiction, it's a bit of psychology, it's a bit of criminology, it's a bit of mystery.   I personally really loved the book and I would definitely recommend it for a Ravenclaw that is   more interested in the darker side of intelligence.   Next up is a book that I love but I always fumble  when I try and explain the plot and it is The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I've talked about   this book before. So our main character's father and mother are both scholars and her mother   has tragically disappeared, is believed to be dead. So she really just lives with her father and   somehow or another she gets roped into his research which is about Dracula, but the real   life Dracula. The person he was based off of. And so the story is kind of broken into different   timelines and different points of view. We go through the initial research, so it's just a lot of   research and vampires and train travel through Europe. It's just a wonderful read it's   on the edge of being quite scary - actually, it kind of is a little bit scary -  but it's just a really   wonderful dark novel that is full of libraries and searching for clues within books which Ravenclaws   love. And last but not least for my dear Ravenclaws I'm going to recommend A Sorcery of   Thorns by Margaret Rogerson. And it would be - now that I'm thinking of it it would be a little   bit more appropriate to recommend her other book An Enchantment of Ravens for Ravenclaw, why am I   so dumb? Okay well, I personally liked Sorcery of Thorns more. I know that a lot of people prefer   her book Enchantment of Ravens. I still highly recommend it, but I want to talk about Sorcery of   Thorns instead. So I've mentioned this book before but it takes place in a world where books have a   mind of their own. They are grimoires and if they are not taken care of properly   these spell books especially can turn into monsters and so our main girl Elizabeth is   pretty much born and raised in a library and she's being trained to be kind of a protector   of these books. And when something mysterious and tragic happens in the library, she gets   blamed for it and is whisked away by the wizards of her world to be kind of tried for this crime.   And the adventure just starts from there. It is filled with libraries and magic and wizards and   demons and old empty houses. It's just, I personally really loved it. It's a standalone.   I think that her books just keep getting better. I can't wait for her next one, but yes, Sorcery   of Thorns. I compared it to a dark academia version of Howl's Moving Castle. If that doesn't   entice you, I don't know what will. And next up...  Oh, our Gryffindors. Apparently my house today. You are   courageous, you are loyal, you are interested in justice and chivalry, and being the hero.   What books do I have for you? First up is a series. It is a Darker Shade of Magic by V.E Schwab.   Man do I love VE Schwab, I love her so much. A Darker Shade of Magic takes place in Londons.   Plural. Because there are multiple levels, kind of multiple dimensions of London. We have White London,   Grey London, and Red London. They have varying levels of magic, so White London doesn't have magic   anymore, something really bad happened there and it just erased all the magic. Grey? No, not really. And   Red still has that magic. So we follow a bunch of different characters but we're first introduced to   Kell who works for the royal family in Red London and he's sort of like the messenger because   he is a certain type of magic that he can travel through the worlds which is very rare. Things start   to go a little haywire between the worlds and it's just a really wonderful adventure story   and I think it's good for Gryffindors because as we've seen in the Harry Potter books themselves,   Gryffindors, even though they try to like fight for justice and like be the hero, oftentimes they go a   little squirrely, you know, trying to get there. Right? So these characters, even though they do   have this idea of like a greater good, how they get there and how they fight for it...   is a little questionable at times, I would say. I absolutely adore every character in this. VE Schwab   just announced that she is going to be continuing the series, like we're gonna have a seven year jump   and then we're gonna get more books which I cannot wait for. Regardless of your house   if you enjoyed Harry Potter and you're looking for a more - it's still a young adult but it's more   of an adult than Harry Potter - magical wonderful story, A Darker Shade of Magic. Next up, veering a   little bit more towards sci-fi is Scythe. This is also a series and it takes place in the future   where AI has kind of gotten full control. So you know how currently we have the cloud?   Well the cloud has gotten so big that it is now called the Thunderhead and it controls   everything and unlike other AI stories, this AI, the Thunderhead, is actually pretty good. It's like a   relatively benevolent being. Everything has been programmed so perfectly that now   people don't die - unless they catch on fire I think that's like the one thing. But like you can jump   in front of a train and they'll put you back together. That's all great, but for population   issues etc, people still kind of have to like exit you know? They gotta die. So there is a   group of humans, because the Thunderhead doesn't want to be in charge of this -   humans called scythes and they are basically walking grim reapers and their job is to just meet   a certain quota and make sure a certain amount of people die per year basically and they're in   full control of how they do it, why they do it, who they choose etc. And so our story starts when two   teenagers are brought into the scythe-dom to be trained as apprentices. I think that this is really   interesting for Gryffindor people because it talks a lot about justice and if you get to choose the   rules, what rules do you set? And of course there are there's like an evil faction that we will   be fighting. I just think a true Gryffindor would be interested because it would have you asking a   lot of questions about society afterwards I wasn't in love with the second and third   book in the series, I kind of just finished it because I wanted to know what happened, but   the first one, even just by itself, I think offers a lot of really interesting questions and I   recommend it. And last up for Gryffindor's is Ember in the Ashes. So I was gonna recommend another one,   but I actually slid it into Slytherin so hold on for that one. The last one for Gryffindor,   Ember in the Ashes. And this is another series and it takes place in a world where there are   different factions of people. There are Scholars, there are Martials, etc. And the Martials are in   complete control. They completely discriminate against Scholars. Any hint of rebellion,   they just wipe out full families and that's kind of how our story starts. Our main girl is not   interested in joining a rebellion she just kind of wants to live her life until the Martials come   and decide that her family is full of rebels so she runs away and the only safe place to go is   the rebellion. She ends up going undercover in the school for the Martials and that's how   we meet our second main character. It's told in multiple points of view by the way. We   meet our second main character who is about to graduate Martial school and so he is being trained   to be like the baddest of the bad army people. The people who would steal her family away and we   find out from the very beginning he's not about that. He really doesn't want to be there. So the   series follows their journey, how they try to take down an oppressive dictatorship basically and I really   liked it. I don't know if it's completely finished or if the last one just came out. All I know is   that I need to reread it because I am preparing for the end. So yeah I really enjoyed it, it's   a great young adult fantasy. The Ember in the Ashes. Also minor shout out to both of Andy Weir's   books - whether it is The Martian or Artemis. I feel like his characters are kind of Gryffindors-y   because they're both very brave and they're very smart but they kind of have issues with authority   and they, you know, I don't know, I would just also give a shout out the Martian and Artemis.   Oh my Hufflepuffs, love you to death. So you guys are interested in hard work, justice,   patience, loyalty, you're all about friendship, you're all about feeling good.   Yes, we love a Hufflepuff. So I promised that I wouldn't talk about this book but I'm just   gonna put this up here. Hufflepuffs. Everyone. Just in case. But even though I'm not talking about   Howl's Moving Castle, I do want to talk about a book that gave me intense Studio Ghibli feels.   I feel like a Hufflepuff would love it. I just read it, I just talked about it in   another video, I'm so sorry but it is House in the Cerulean Sea and wow I love this book. It's just   warm fuzzies all around. So it follows Linus Baker who is 100% a Hufflepuff. He lives by the rulebook,   he has a very boring job that he low-key hates but he doesn't really know that he hates it, you know?   He follows every rule to the T but other than that he lives a really sad life, kind of crappy job,   lives alone with his cat and his angry neighbor, and the only thing that brings him happiness   is his small collection of LPs and the sunflowers that he grows outside. One day at work he gets a   new assignment where he has to go to an island and check up on an orphanage for magical children   which is what he normally does. This assignment is different though because the children living in   this orphanage on the island are highly dangerous, they are the most evil magical creatures, they will   definitely bring upon the end of the world, Linus needs to watch his back. I'm not going to tell you   that much more because really it's just a story of Linus meeting these kids, meeting the owner   of the orphanage, meeting the owner of the island, and the characters are so wonderful. Every single   one of them, I fell in love. It's so funny. I was laughing out loud, the ending had me crying, there   were lots of emotions but just overall, if you need a feel good book this is it. It is all about   friendship and love and just fantastic. Next up for my Hufflepuffs is Little Women, which I hope that   if you haven't read it, you've at least watched the new film version or the old one honestly. It's   just a wonderful story. I think I read it when I was really little I read like a   little kid version of it. Little Women follows a family of girls and their father is off at war   so it's just these girls and their mother who are trying to survive in their little world and they   create such a wonderful world for themselves, whether it's through writing books, writing plays,   writing music, baking. Again kind of like Studio Ghibli feels. It's very feel-good but it's also   incredibly sad, but it's incredibly inspiring and wholesome and I just really recommend it.   Little Women. And again, also watch the films! And my last one for Hufflepuff is a little bit weird   compared to the other ones on this list, it's a memoir. And it is Just Kids by Patti Smith and I   think that when you think of Hufflepuffs and you think of their loyalty and friendship and goodness,  all of this can be found in Just Kids. So it is by Patti Smith and it just chronicles   a large swath of her life where she is living in New York City with her best friend Robert   Maplethorpe and it's about how they grow as artists because both of them are just artists   to the core, whether it is poetry or photography or performance art or anything like that. They kind   of do it all. At this time in New York in the art scene it was wild, I mean we're talking about Andy   Warhol, we're talking about Jimi Hendrix. It's just a wonderful time to be in New York and she   could so easily write this as kind of a humble brag but her writing it's just so effortless   like she's just telling us what happened as if she's telling us what she ate yesterday. But   it's also written with such intense love, there's like the friendship here, it's just it makes you   want to go and call all of your friends because it's just - yeah the amount of love and respect   and just wond- good feels. It's excellent please read this, Just Kids by Patti Smith. And finally my Slytherins, hello. So you guys are ambitious, you're cunning, you're incredibly smart,   you're often considered the bad characters which isn't true. And I've got some books   for you. So this is the book that I was debating whether or not to put it in   Gryffindor or Slytherin so let me know your opinions down below but I would like to introduce   Six of Crows. So god if you haven't heard me talk about this book, I'm gonna try and keep it short   because I love this book so much. It is actually a duology, it is Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom.   This is the series that got me back into reading, like heavily reading. I can't thank it enough.   Six of Crows, you changed my life, you're wonderful. So the book takes place in a universe that has   some people with magical powers and they are called Grisha and then there's just normal people,   that's fine. And the story takes place in Ketterdam which is a country? a region? That   is super capitalist. Like it's literally, they're all merchants. All they care about is business   and money and making deals and you're either a merchant or you're a gang member. And so our main   character, our kind of ring leader for this, is Kaz Brekker who is the unofficial head of one of the   gangs in Ketterdam. And he is offered a job that could pay some serious money even if it's split   six ways. That would just change his entire life. And the job is to steal something out of a place   that nobody can break into and so, of course, Kaz says 'yeah I got this.' So for this heist, he collects   a group of five other people. The characters are all wonderful and the reason I'm teetering on the   edge for Gryffindor and Slytherin is because so much of the book is about loyalty and friendship   and it feels very Gryffindor-y but they kind of do bad things. They have a different idea of justice.   They're, especially Kaz, a little bit selfish. But regardless of what house you think it fits into   I think it is an absolutely wonderful duology. I love the book so much and it's very action-packed   but it's still a fantasy and like I said, all the characters, all the relationships, I love it   so much. I love Six of Crows so much, so that is my first Slytherin book. Next up, I think this is very   Slytherin-esque is The Slade House. So this is a scary book, I'm not gonna lie. Like, I read it in   one sitting and I remember being very frightened while reading it. So our story takes place over   many many years, but the only constant is this house. There is just this one street, you could walk   down it a hundred times and never see this house. It kind of only shows itself when it wants to be   shown and what is in there doesn't exactly wish you well. So all of these people throughout the   the decades, the many decades that this book spans, they find themselves invited in for one way or   another -  whether it's a plumber that gets invited in to fix the house or someone who   just happens to walk by and is admiring the garden. Somehow the house pulls you in and these people   never come out. And it's just a very tricky scary book. I thought it was also beautifully written   I could see it so clearly in my mind, definitely if you are a Slytherin that's into   something a little bit spooky - and has so many different   voices because it spans so many different times. An excellent read, a spooky one, read it with the  lights on...How else would you? Anyway! Yeah, The Slade House. And my final recommendation on this list is   Ninth House and I didn't realize until just now that I had two Leigh Bardugo books on this   list, so I apologize but also I don't apologize. Ninth House is about a girl named Alex Stern who   has just started her life at Yale and everything would be going great, you'd think,   getting into a great school like that, until you realize that she is actually part of   a secret society and I remember being a little confused when I read this so it wasn't my   all-time favorite book, I definitely prefer all of Leigh Bardugo's other work than this one   but if you can handle it it's just, it's got a lot of like occult things like I said   secret societies, there are ghosts, there are sacrifices, there are trips to the underworld,   there's poison, there's murder, there's everything in between. It's definitely   got Slytherin written all over it. I know some people who adored it, for me it was just like   okay. I was conf- I was mostly confused. I'm excited for the next one because I feel like that will   give us more information. Just because it wasn't my favorite doesn't mean it can't be yours so I would   highly recommend Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo. But also since I'm mentioning two Leigh Bardugos, I   might as well mention two VE Schwabs. I would also recommend The Villains duology or is it a trilogy...   question mark... series by VE Schwab. There are two boys that are really good friends at college   and they are playing around with the idea of giving yourself certain powers. It has to do with   coming back from the dead kind of. Again, it's very like Frankenstein, very like "electricity   will make you a new human blah blah" Once they recognize the powers that they have, the two   of them go rather opposite ways with what they think that they should do next. I don't personally   like either of the characters but I feel like that doesn't take away from the book and it is a very   dark Slytherin-y story so I'll throw that one in there as well. A bonus one for you Slytherins.   And that is my list of book recommendations based on your Hogwarts Houses. Let me know if   you would like a little bit more, or please feel free to add to the list below. Let me know what   you thought and let me know what your house is and your favorite book. Does it coincide? I would   love to know! So thank you so much for joining me and I will see you guys next time! Okay, bye!