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I love the variety in your recommendations. Really interesting reads! The Golden Notebook sounds like something I would like to try. I like diving into a book that is going to challenge me and make my brain work haha :)

What a great reading month! I've read Jazz and Sula by Toni Morrison this year and I really like her writing style. I like how she touches upon lots of different characters. I'll definitely have to pick up Tar Baby soon. Happy reading 📖

I avoided Moby Dick for decades. It was until I read an essay by Jorge Luis Borges where he described the book as encompassing the universe in its pages. I liked how Borges described it and decided to read it. It was like reading a book left out of the King James Bible, not just for the Shakespearean language Melville used, but because I thought Ishmael and Ahab were characters from the Old Testament and the White Whale the mystery of God. It's a book I'll revisit one day. Philip Roth is a writer popular in Mexico and Latin America (and in Spain, too. I remember seeing an interview with Penelope Cruz talking about admiring his books). Writers I admire like Carlos Fuentes (they were friends) dedicated a story to him. But I can't find him engaging. The only book I did get through was "The Breast." He was married to actress Claire Bloom who wrote a memoir about their relationship. The last straw for her was when she discovered a book he was writing was about an affair the male character was having and learned that in fact Roth was writing about himself and a woman they both knew.

I read A Room With A View last year and really liked it! It was one of those books that lingered afterwards and perhaps I like it even more in hindsight compared to during reading it. I also watched the film adaptation, which I know is a big reason why my liking of it increased after reading the book. I had watched it on my own and then rewatched it like a month later with a film club I'm in. It ended up winning the club's poll so I probably would not have watched it again so soon, but I was so glad it did because it was such a fun time! The movie is one of my all-time favs, now. I have The Well of Loneliness on my shelves and hearing your interesting thoughts and aspects of the novel, and how much you liked it makes me want to pick it up soon. Pedro Paramo sounds so intriguing! I don't think I've heard of it before. My favorites of what I read in July are Betty by Georges Simenon and An Excellent Host by Chelsea G. Summers- which is more of a novella.

I love the sound of You Dreamed of Empires

I want to read all of the books you've mentioned now and really enjoyed your review! I've just wrapped up 100 years of solitude and I hated it at parts, loved it at others - overall really glad I read it and I'm on to Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood now

Wow..❤

been wanting to read the Lessing! but have always been intimidated by the size! >.< i love some meta writing! also, what a healthy year of books! such a good mix of things! i hope you have a good rest of your reading year <333

i’m so glad that near to the wild heart hit for you! i do think you should reread hour of the star again at some point: it was a much more profound experience for me on reread. and i think once you catch the lispector bug, the more you like her in reading her

ahhh so glad you got along well with the Lispector! and thanks for taking the time to watch the chat with Sophie and i! after Near to the Wild Heart, Lispector wrote The Chandelier, which is a bit of a clunky work. loses sense of the plot and swims more in the way she builds relationships between her characters. can't wait to hear your thoughts on future Lispectors! i also have Notes of a Crocodile on deck as an upcoming read! loved your thoughts on it!

If you are interested in nonfiction to accompany Alvaro Enrigue's book I would suggest The down of everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow. They examine Mesoamerican history and history of early Spanish colonization of the region. It is truly very beautifully written book.

Great video! ❤ I loved hearing about all the different type of series. I just discovered your channel, I’ll check out more of your videos 🥰

Love the hobbit (would recommend reading first personally, I don't personally think its a particularly childish style of writing! it just also gives you a set up for the lotr trilogy!), My Friends was one of my favourite reads last year, so good. I also read Question 7, interesting structure and format for a memoir, very beautiful writing!

I love The Lord of the Rings (and Tolkien's other works), it was the most influential book in my life - and I don't really like The Hobbit, either. I think it's an endearing, but ultimately pretty cringe attempt at writing for children by somebody who is clearly not familiar with that kind of register. 😅 I recently bought Raderzkymarsch on the recommendation of Austrian author Eva Menasse, whom I respect very much. Very curious about it, but seems like an autumn/winter book to me.

I love The Hobbit so much! I hope you do read it.

I read my first Doris Lessing in 2023, too (The Grass Is Singing), and it was one of my best books of the year, too. I wasn't particularly interested in The Golden Notbook before, but what you said about it sounded intriguing, so I just bought a used copy. 😀

Thanks for the mention! Don’t rush MD, you’ll appreciate the writing if you don’t feel pressured to finish the book! Also I added Sabbath’s Theater to the TBR, that looks really good 😊

props to you for having a record player..... very few people keep one these days

Hi Sarah, still pretty new to this book tube business myself. Best wishes with your reading choices and to your channel!

oh LOVE that Well of Loneliness cover! I really didn't know what to expect from it but actually ended up loving it. Definitely is a bit sad but actually not as extreme as I'd thought!

Thanks for the video! Just read Things Fall Apart, Achebe. + reading the Yeats poem alongside the novel. I really struggle with finishing books so glad to see your list of 28 haha

I re-read "If This is a Man" after watching the film The Zone of Interest. I'd read Amis' book years ago and didn't know about the film until recently. I don't remember if it was in If this is a Man or another one of his books where Levi talks about remembering a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film on his way to the concentration camp. Dante's The Divine Comedy was also ever present on his mind. A beautiful book.

Very solid selection of books. I had also loved A Suitable Boy when I read it and recommend Seth's An Equal Music and Two Lives, out of his books. The latter is almost like a memoir of his uncle and aunt's lives written by him. And I hope Giovanni 's Room is still on your list, it is outstanding!

Id love to see your honourable mentions! I also loved the Golden Notebook in all its complexity.

Sarah, it is so refreshing to see so many amazing books which correspond with my own taste in reading. I was wondering if you read Alba de Céspedes?

I hope you enjoy Glorious Exploits when you get to it. I think it’s quite a special book! I’ve thought about it ever since. Thanks for the shout out. Was lovely catching up with the highs and lows of your reading year so far.

That was a very interesting video and made me rethink some of my own reading in terms of series. Like you, I'm not enamoured with the Lucy Barton series (other than the first, I also read Oh, William, which was better) but really recommend Strout's Olive Kitteridge and Olive, again, both of which are written as interconnected short stories (and I don't love short stories). I hope you feel better soon, I'm a new subscriber and really enjoy your content.

just discovered your channel, love your vlogs! :)

Actually really enjoyed hearing you talk about these series! I don’t have a lot of friends who read things other than fantasy/romance/sci-fi so I don’t get a lot of recommendations outside of these genres

I keep seeing copies of the recent Halldor Laxness reisues in book shops and I'm always draw to how beautiful and different the covers are, but when I read the descriptions they never quite appeal to me. I really enjoyed your thoughts on Rachel Cusk. I bought her book Second Place last year but I haven't read it yet (it kept getting bumped down my TBR until I kind of forgot I had it.) If you ever record a full review of Second Place I'd love to see it. Once again an excellent video and a really interesting selection of books. This is an amazing volume of reading to get through in a single month! 😁

I have a complicated relationship with Jamaica Kincaid as a reader. I recently met her and it didn't change my opinion much -- based on the reviews that I have heard, it seems like her fiction might be more enjoyable than her nonfiction. ("Among Flowers" is my least favorite book of the year and one of my most hated books, ever.)

Have Martyr on my TBR so it was really good to get your thoughts. I read The Trees back in May. I really enjoyed it as well but felt that the last 10% probably let it down. I’ve just read Sylvia Plath for the first time, I read The Bell Jar in June and really enjoyed it. I’m not usually much of a poetry reader but I might pick those poems up 😁

Hi Sarah! Great to meet you 😊 I am in the same boat, not many of those around me love to read quite as much as me so it’s a tricky one. I am also new to booktube. Can’t wait to see more of your content 😊

Great video! That Penguin edition of Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter looks amazing. I'd have bought that if I saw. Love the cover. So many books to look out for here. 😊

Good day from Texas. Conversations in the Cathedral is an early Llosa novel and one of his most challenging due to the use of time in the narrative. Llosa is one of the last living writers of that great generation which included Garcia Marquez, Jose Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, and so many other Latin American authors. Llosa as a youth was deeply affected by French writers like Alexander Dumas and Gustave Flaubert. He wanted to be a writer early one but his father thinking nothing good would come of it sent him to military school to "clean up" those ideas. It had the reverse affect leading Llosa to write his first novel, The Time of the Hero, based on his terrible experience there. The rest is literary history. In the 90's Carlos Fuentes, one of my favorite authors, wrote "The Buried Mirror" to correspond with a documentary that aired on public television here. It's a broad history of Europe and particularly Spain's influence on Mexico and South America. What Fuentes is so good at doing is his ability to understand and discuss the old and new world in an engaging manner, giving perspective to the complexities inherent in each. Recommend it.

I liked seeing your book choices. But the massive difference in the low volume of your speaking sections and then the loud volume of your B-roll background music bits made this video kind of uncomfortable to listen to.

I am starting Ferdia's new book too!

The slow versus fast paced guide is so wild! Makes so sense lol.

I feel so hard the feeling of liking reading about stuff like existentialism and the actual people involved, but not enjoying reading some of their actual work 😆 I get that a lot with modernism too! I accidentally started reading Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's memoirs with In The House of the Interpreter so this is a great reminder that I need to get my hands on the first one and carry on 😅

Welcome to the world we call ‘Booktube.’

Hi Sarah! What an incredible book haul! Enjoy! New subscriber to your channel here. Hope you have a great time here on BookTube! Welcome!

Best wishes and happy reading!

Oh dear, I really shouldn't watch your videos. My TBR grows every time! 🤣 It's a relief when you reveal one or two I've read 😌 Happy reading!

I'm also new to booktube. Looking forward to seeing more of your reads!

Never feel guilty buying books ;-) I WISH we had more secondhand bookstores here. The ones we have only have books in Danish and I prefer reading books in english 🤷‍♂ Thank you for sharing your bookhaul.

These books sound amazing 😊.

Hi, subscribed and added you to my Emma's Enthusiasts, always great to see another Austen aficionada.

Hi Sarah, welcome to the booktube community! we have a similar taste in books so I look forward to following your channel. Aloha.

Welcome to the BookTube community! Best of luck with your channel - I’m looking forward to watching more of your videos! 😎📚👍

I havn't read any of those Penguin collections, but I do have a few short story collections from countries I havn't read from yet. (that I'm aware of) -Red Wolf Red Wolf by W.P. Kinsella (Yigoslavia) -Flights by Olga Tokarczak (Poland) -Yolk by Josip Novkovich (Croatia)