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I recommend reading The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, if not already. It's worth all the hype.....🤯

Persuasion is amazing, there is two good film adaptations too and one awful Netflix series. The Brothers K is also kind of depressing from what I remember, Dostoevsky had a terribly sad life and you can tell.

I read _The Partner_ years ago while on an internship abroad. (Isn't it funny how one can often link a book to the environment one read it in. Or at least that's how it is with me.) I don't even remember how I got my hands on that copy, and I certainly didn't know that it was the best-selling book of 1997. It was one of the earlier books I read in English and back then there was some legal and financial jargon I wasn't familiar with but it was mesmerizing nonetheless! In fact, after I read it, I was looking for other Grisham novels because I loved _The Partner_ so much. I think, it deviates from previous Grisham novels in that it is not a courtroom drama but a legal thriller in the wider sense. It also has a somewhat unusual structure for a thriller: it starts fairly far into the plot when the main character who had gone into hiding is being found by his enemies. This isn't much of a spoiler, it literally is the very first line of the book ("They found him..."). After that, we get much of the story as flashbacks. It's less about what happens next rather than how did they do it? Eventually, the story does catch up with the narrative present and the story continues forward. It also has an interesting ending which I'm not going to spoil, of course. At first, I didn't like it but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was a quite fitting ending and then I came around to really loving it, because it ended the way it should end. I don't have a background in legal affairs but Grisham does. He was a lawyer and practiced law for a decade or so, IIRC. I guess this makes his stories authentic. But he clearly also is a gifted storyteller. If you like suspenseful stories, give one of his novels a go. Just pay attention which one you pick up because he has written some books that aren't legal thrillers in the meantime. There's a very good overview of his bibliography on his Wikipedia page that marks the books that aren't in the legal genre which I find very helpful.

I agree on many of these. But speaking of three different timelines; one of my all time favourite book is The Hours by Michael Cunningham. I couldn´t recommend it enough, especially of you’ve read and envoyed Mrs Dalloway.

As a Poirot fan you should know that they speak French in Belgium 😉 (and also Dutch)

This was really interesting. I've only read Rowling, Simenon, Christie, and Shakespeare so it would be fun to try the others.

An acquaintance of mine, who is a professor of American literature, once told me something about Dreiser that I’ve found to be true. He said that, though their styles are wildly different, Faulkner and Hemingway can be read “by the sentence”; Dreiser, on the other hand, should be read “by the chapter” - take a deep breath, read the entire chapter, then exhale!

Actually, Stephen King has sold the most books…

Steven King?

I'm a book lover ever since I learned to read but there are two or three people I haven't heard of before! 😱 But then I'm from Germany so I suppose the kind of books I'd be exposed to would differ somewhat. Very interesting list! PS: Rowling rhymes with "trolling", not "howling". Many people get this wrong. PPS: Agatha Christie is such a cool person. She truly deserved that position as her mystery novels are superb!

love seeing that many women on the list despite living in a mans world!! makes me want to write

I love Danielle Steel books! I have read more than 20 of her books. I really like Resurrection, Safe Harbor, Amazing Grace, Happiness, Royal, some of her older books I found at the store Half Price Books. I have liked all her books, but I like some more than others, do to the story line of course. Her books are very easy to read and follow. She comes out with at least 4 new books a year. I also like Nicholas Sparks his new book Counting Miracles is really good!

It's interesting that your number one writer didn't write a single book, he was a playwright, and poet but not a novelist.

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens is excellent.

A warning for those reading John Steinbeck... he kills all of his characters, all of the ones I have read have had very tragic endings. Not stories to read if you are struggling.

I'm 33 so I was young in the 90's. Dolores Claiborne is the only one of these I've read and really enjoyed it! It's also a companion novel to Gerald's Game by Stephen King, important things happen at the same time in both of them. (They work as standalones too) My fav books where a lawyer is the main character are the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir books by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir! Last Rituals is book 1, and they read like detective fiction but she is a lawy E r. The Lincoln Lawer series by Michael Connelly are my fav courtroom dramas.

I wonder what the list would look like if you picked the best selling book of the decade, rather than by year. For example, _Bridges Over Madison County_ remained on the NY Times bestseller list for over three years (164 consecutive weeks) and sold 50M copies. Could Grisham say the same? I don't think Grisham or Stephen King has the staying power year-on-year... but think the list would be different.

Of those, I've read Of Mice and Men, Great Expectations, and The Master and Margarita. Each one was excellent and is among my favorites.

The link below will give you a better overview of the bestselling books in the 1990s. You can't go just by the number one bestseller. It really doesn't give you the full picture. Also, YA and children's books are listed separately in almost every venue, so Harry Potter books would not be included in adult fiction. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishers_Weekly_list_of_bestselling_novels_in_the_United_States_in_the_1990s

Showing me some new classics to try. I like your synopsis style.

I ain’t readin nothin

Ah yes, Bridges Over Madison County was so popular mid 90's!

For the Jean M Auel, if you want to read it I would recommend start with book one Clan of the cave bears, it goes all the way back to Neanderthals where the main central character of the series where she was raised by Neanderthals. it is part of a series, one of the most popular series in the 80-90s.

10. The Count of Monte Christo 9. Remembrance of Things Past 8. Of Mice and Men 7. The Odyssey 6. War and Peace 5. Crime and Punishment 4. The Lord of the Rings 3. One Hundred Years of Solitude 2. Don Quixote 1. The Brothers Karamazov This was a painful exercise. The list of honorable mentions would be…lengthy.

As a lover of Pride and Prejudice fan fiction, I enjoyed Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Is it great? No. However, in the movie version, I thought they had a unique take on the proposal scene that is worth a watch.

Great list!🎉 I have to say George Eliot is an author I cherish!!❤

They are not called “classical books’’…. 2:09

So many books and so little time. The ever growing and groaning tbr! Best wishes and happy reading.

20:59 aw thank you THANK YOU for this because this book changed my life❤️‍🩹

Your channel came up on my UA-cam feed. I enjoyed your video! Just subscribed.

As a classic, read To kill a mockingbird!!!

I loved Journey to the Centre of the Earth. The master and Margarita is on my list. Middlemarch was to slow for me. One hundred years was not my thing also 😢 The wren sounds interesting

❤ The Dead Zone ❤ A favorite. I think about this book often!

Very unconventional.

The final image of The Red and the Black is unforgettable.

Thank you.

" Just a single man, Fyodor Dostoevsky, is enough to defeat all the creative novelists of the world. If one has to decide on 10 great novels in all the languages of the world, one will have to choose at least 3 novels of Dostoevsky in those 10. Dostoevsky’s insight into human beings and their problems is greater than your so-called psychoanalysts, and there are moments where he reaches the heights of great mystics. His book BROTHERS KARAMAZOV is so great in its insights that no BIBLE or KORAN or GITA comes close. In another masterpiece of Dostoevsky, THE IDIOT, the main character is called ‘idiot’ by the people because they can’t understand his simplicity, his humbleness, his purity, his trust, his love. You can cheat him, you can deceive him, and he will still trust you. He is really one of the most beautiful characters ever created by any novelist. The idiot is a sage. The novel could just as well have been called THE SAGE. Dostoevsky’s idiot is not an idiot; he is one of the sanest men amongst an insane humanity. If you can become the idiot of Fyodor Dostoevsky, it is perfectly beautiful. It is better than being cunning priest or politician. Humbleness has such a blessing. Simplicity has such benediction."

Great video! I just bought the clothbound edition of Middlemarch!❤ I read it years ago and will probably re-read it! I have The Master and Margarita on my shelf- planning to read it in 2025!!!🎉

War and Peace?

Good video and relevant in these times of banned books. I included how the "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was banned earlier in "Margaret Hamilton From Cleveland Ohio to the Land of Oz "

I am so glad to have found your channel!

The Master and Margarita has a graphic novel version ☺️

Middlemarch too thick... looking for an abridged version 😅

These books & authors are a firm no for me (all I've tried to read to some extent): James Joyce (all his fiction works; could not even get into his short stories) William Faulkner (over all, not an author I'm interested in) Livy's history of Rome (except the books on Hannibal, which I might still read; otherwise, it's just too much) Reiner Stach's biography of Kafka (I think I'd prefer to read Kafka's letters & diaries)

I am getting my reading ability back in the next few weeks, having my final surgery for cataracts next week... I am planning on re-reading "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer, "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis, and "Dead Souls" by Nikoli Gogol... three books I have read and love, but it's a good jumping off point to start... Thank you for promoting reading of great literature...

If you like multi-generational stories, two classics of french literature are Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie Humaine and of course Emile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart, two very famed sagas that we in France study at least one book from each in high school

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I have read all of Stephen King's books and The Dead Zone is good! As for whether or not it's horror I say yes but I'll let you decide. It does get uncomfortably close to things in the real world.

This discussion reminds me of a comment on the r/fairyloot subreddit, on the post about "how much money do you spend on special editions per month" and the most upvoted comment was, and I quote (actually went to find it): "(I just stopped looking at my credit card statement and make biweekly payments 😇) Don’t tell my bf lol" By itself it's an incredibly concerning comment and one that reveals the state of overconsumption on the book community, but more than that it's the 66 people who upvoted it, who thought it was really funny/relatable getting into debt over pretty books and committing financial infidelity by keeping it from their partners. It just blows my mind honestly. I'm not going to shame people for wanting beautiful books, look I get it. I'm subscribed to services like fairyloot, I buy plenty of books, but only if it's within my annual budget which still allows me to pay for everything and save for retirement. And if that means I can't buy ALL the books I want? So be it. Living outside one's means is really dangerous, especially when it's not even for necessary things like food and housing. Credit card debt is normalised in some countries, but it's an incredibly dangerous thing that can really spiral out of control. It only takes losing ones jobs and suddenly they can't pay off the 15%+ interest rate on the credit card and then what? We are due for another recession soon, and a lot of people are going to get burned, partially because of excessive spending. Save while you still can. And I'm not even starting on the immense cost of overconsumption on the environment, which I think we all know is absolutely dire.

Orbital is the only one of these I've read, I enjoyed it but it's not a favorite. It's kind of like a bunch of pieces and you have to put the puzzle together in your own way. Several other booktubers that have read it call it "Snorbital" because they found it boring. James is a retelling of Huckleberry Fin from James' perspective. The faking his death and running away is from the origonal. It's about humanizing and adding depth to James who was just called "n word Jim" in the origonal. (the n word wasn't censored)