"We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't over yet." Holy hell that hit me hard, it perfectly describes this feeling I've had for the past couple years.
Jontman42 The quote, "I have always used words to try to convince the world I am worth something" dug deep for me. It didnt sound as cool, but the general sentiment...
I doubt , if you really think Harry Potter is going to be successful or maybe someday a movie would be made on its story , then I think you have lost your mind my dude.
Sometimes I go down the endless infinity of available UA-cam videos begging for new content, and I forget there are also so many books being written and published and promoted every day. Thanks for keeping the crossover between the two worlds alive for me John!
I always love your book recommendations! I recently finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and the ending broke my heart into a million tiny pieces. Now I'm reading Hunger by Roxane Gay, and FRENCH THE LLAMA ITS ONE OF THE MOST INTENSE BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ. But it's so worth it!
"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy, is my absolute favorite book of all time. A story about a pair of twins growing up in a dysfunctional family in India, it is not only brilliant but GORGEOUS. It starts at the end, then tells the beginning, then ends at middle, and reading it was enlightening. God, I'd give anything to read it for the first time again. When all the pieces fall together at the end, it is astounding. John, you would love it!
PSA TO EVERYONE WHO LOVED TFIOS My english teacher, McCall Hoyle is an up and coming writer. She released her first book in September of this year. She is a fantastic writer, teacher, and all around human being. Her book is titled The Thing With Feathers and it is centered around a high school age girl with epilepsy whose mother made her enroll in a public school. I won't give away anymore, but it is truly an amazing and heartwarming read that I would recommend to anyone ESPECIALLY anyone who fell in love with The Fault in Our Stars.
hi john not sure if you’re ever gonna see this but speaking of books that i’ve been reading recently, i just finished turtles all the way down. i read it basically all in one day (one chapter the previous night and all the rest in one day) and stayed up till 1:30 am last night to finish it and oh my god. it was so good. it was phenomenal. i was thinking about it before i woke up, i woke up thinking about it, and i’m still thinking about it. i don’t know if i have the words for how much i enjoyed it, but i can say this: it made me feel. it made me feel so much and so deeply and so truly. and it’s been a while since a book made me feel this much. thank you for writing this john. (also thank you for signing enough copies that they were just on sale at target. i’m sure you got many hand cramps just so people like me could have a signed copy.) thank you again.
“We were nostalgic for a time that wasn’t over yet” reminds me of another great quote from a short story a friend of mine wrote. “I’m nostalgic for the memories I never got to make”
I... wow. Of course it finds me here, and now, mere hours before my 19th birthday, during the loneliest time of my life. I’ve had this feeling sneak up on me a lot during this strange and miserable time I've never quite been able to sum it up. I don’t know if you’ll read this, but if you do, tell your friend I said thank you.
Kaveh Akbar is a professor at my university (Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN) and I had the pleasure of attending a poetry reading of his last week. Before the reading, I had never heard any of Kaveh's work, nor did I know anything about him. His poetry shocked me. Truly, I can't think of a better word than shocked. I don't usually read poetry, and I won't lie and say that I understood the meaning of every poem he read, but I was enthralled during the entire reading. What astonished me the most about Kaveh was his eloquence, and his kindness. After the reading he answered questions from the audience, and I have never heard someone speak with such precision, clarity and emotion. I could listen to him talk for hours. Unfortunately I will probably never get the opportunity to take his class. I was pleasantly surprised to see you recommend him, John.
Shawn Stone you could check their playlist page on their channel, and otherwise usually in the month or so before Christmas john does it so you could scroll. But that's a lot of work
My history teacher used your video on the Protestant reformation in a lesson and I was just laughing about the fact that the same man that said the Protestant reformation was a big ass deal wrote metaphors like my thoughts are stars I cannot fathom them into constellations 😂💙 also thanks for explaining Tudor religion to my history class so much better than my teacher did x😂
hearing that you went to school with another successful novelist makes me so happy. i get discouraged sometimes thinking that there can only be ONE, as in, only one person in a group of graduates can really get anywhere with these sorts of careers. Feels good to see people supporting each other and there's room for several at the top.
It is so unusual, I have been subscribed for most of the Vlogbrothers UA-cam career and the truthfulness and consistent yearn for us to be happy and understand the world around us has finally brought me to tears. It is a shame that you guys only exist now, every moment in ti,e could have benefited having you both around.
He actually talks books fairly often. It's been a like five years since Fault came out, and he does these book videos maybe a couple times a year. Probably doesn't need any fresh karma. But then, people who are actually concerned with their karma don't stop doing good things because they think they have 'enough' karma. They just keep doing good things.
Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla; A History of American Ice Cream. It's not a 'page turner' but it is fascinating to see how this treat we take for granted was once a not so ubiquitous dessert for all.
I'll have to read that! Another great food book is Proof: The Science of Booze, by Adam Rogers. It gets into some pretty hardcore chemistry without ever losing the feel of a light food and wine magazine.
I just finished Octavia E Butler's Parable of the Sower and that book really got me. It touches on all sorts of issues about race, gender, community, and religion in the context of the best future. I loved the writing style and the world she builds.
I am so glad you love Celeste Ng's Book I love 'Little Fires Everywhere'. I love her book 'Everything I Never Told you' such another great book by such an underrated author imo. Cannot believe it's ONLY 1 MORE WEEK TILL TATWD!! looking forward to reading it 🐢🐢🐢
Read EINTY for a class I took under Susan Straight 3yrs. ago and it blew me away. Celeste Ng's writing style is so precise and layered, I can't even...
Zoe I love Everything I Never Told you too! It is the go to book I recommend to friends and family when they ask! Have you read Little fires everywhere?
Your new book has had a tremendous impact on my life! Having had anxiety and OCD obstacles in the past that are still with me today, it was so amazing to be able to connect so deeply with a character. I felt as though I was Aza Holmes and I have never felt to close to a character before. Thank you so much for writing this and being able to get personal with your readers. I am so grateful for having the opportunity to read it. It has been extremely helpful in my own anxiety battles and I will continue to use your book as a resource for my mind. Thank you.
Best book of 2017 so far for me has been Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, it is creative, hauntingly beautiful, and painfully topical. Best older book I've read this year is probably So The Wind Won't Blow it All Away by Richard Brautigan, which is a great example of a book that is both really funny and really sad at the same time.
Let's talk about books, baby Let's talk about po-e-try Let's talk about all the pages that we read im-pa-tient-ly Let's talk about books Let's talk about books Let's talk about books Let's talk about books Ladies, all the ladies, louder now, help me out Come on, all the ladies, let's talk about books, all right [x2] Yo, Pep, I don't think they're gonna play this on the radio And why not? Everybody buys books I mean, everybody should be reading them Come on, how many guys you know read now? ;P
I'm so afraid of feeling disconnected from Turtles All The Way Down. I was just a girl when I read Looking For Alaska, An Abundance of Katharine and Paper Towns. The lessons I learned from each were new, and forced me to evaluate so many aspects of myself. I was 19 when The Fault in Our Stars came out, a college freshman. I wept with Hazel and for Augustus but I could already feel the distance between myself and the characters. I'm 25 now, and I'm fortunate to be a well established college graduate. The ideas and lessons I learned so young are so deeply rooted in me and the way I lead my life, it's hard to tell there was a time they weren't there guiding me at all. But I'm afraid I'm too old now to read this new story and feel what I felt all those other times. I'm afraid the characters won't feel so close to me because of the vastly different place I'm in, and the themes will be familiar instead of new ideas to tackle.
thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!! just when i've been looking for some new reads. your recommendations never disappoint (and often get me reading new subjects/topics/genres) 🐢🐢
Thanks for recommending We Are Okay. I just read it and it really really moved me. As someone who lost my father two weeks before I went away to college, Lacour really captured so much about grieving at that age.
Totally off topic but I just realized that my anxiety also makes a sound. It's a very high pitched scream. I don't know why but this realization helped me so much right now. Thanks for pointing it out.
Kristina My anxiety also makes a sound. It’s a slowly intensifying scream of frustration. I can best relate it to a slow clap except in the form of a yell. Very helpful to know how your anxiety sounds so you can start to describe what’s creating it I think.
Kristina my OCD does as well. It's the crying of feeling beaten from being worn down, and defeated. Life sucks! Let's just read more books so we can forget about it for a moment, even if it is only briefly!
John I love you, you and Hank are my cool internet uncles and I will protect you guys forever! it's going to be okay, the right people will like the book, will love the book, because that's how books work, they find people when they need them and leave a mark that nobody can ever erase, and I know that this book will, forget about your past books because they are amazing and none of them can compair to each other, it's like kids. I know I will love it (because your talking about a lot of things that are close to my own anxiety and depression problems, but because you are an amazing writer, so each book of yours is different from the other and that's why they are amazing! you fall in love with all of them for different reasons) I know you are anxious but the important thing is that you will change someone's life with Turtles All the Way Down. Have fun on the tour!!!
I fell in love with Benjamin Alire Sáenz's books this year. Ari & Dante and Inexplicable Logic are two of the best books I've ever read and you're right - he's so incredibly generous and honest, and I just want to be able to be like that as an author one day. I love that he's not afraid to write emotional male characters, even if those characters struggle with being emotional. I'm also SO EXCITED FOR THE TOUR! A work friend and I are going together (and we work in a bookstore so...we're pumped) to the Orlando event and I can't wait!
Thanks as usual for the book recommendations :) also I CANNOT WAIT FOR TATWD, my friend (who has OCD and just recently watched you read the first chapter-- she approves ;) ) and i are counting down the days!!!
I honestly can't wait for the new book, I read the first chapter to my mom, because we kind of bond over John's books, becuase when I was twelve or so I read her The Fault in our stars, out loud, in less than a month whilst struggling for time with her because at the time about seven or eight people lived in my house. Anyway I hope to do the same with this one. Ps. I love you guys, DFTBA!
I recently read Everything, everything by Nicola Yoon, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's one of those rare books that is literally impossible to put down, and because of that I read all 336 pages in under 24 hours while studying for year 12 exams. By the way, I love Turtles all the Way Down, which is one of only around five books I have ever gifted to myself. Mental health is something avoided, especially in YA books, so I love that you discuss it in a 'real' kind of way, without ever making it clique, or making it not seen real. I know that doesn't really make sense, but I really appreciate the awareness you are bringing to this issue, you are helping to make the world a more understanding place.
I'm only halfway through Leigh Bardugo's "The Language of Thorns," and it is STUNNING. Each story resonates in a different way, I'm always surprised by the endings, and...I cry a lot. So lovely.
I've started reading C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces, which seems at odds with everything I've ever read from him: it's harsh, elegant, honest and intimate. The story is inspired from Eros and Psyche, but seen from the point of view of Orual, Psyche's brave and subtle sister whose fear of the gods only matches her hatred of them. To rescue her little sister from her enemies, Orual must brave a world who ignores her talents and fears her deformity, an irrational father she hates, a skeptical master she loves in excess, and her own pride.
I told my mom that we were going to get it when it came out and she doesn't know why i'm making a big deal out of it and i'm like "caUSE IT'S VLOGBROTHERS MOM"
I'm currently reading Everything All At Once which deals with adolescence and anxiety, and explores life, death, grief and what it means to be alive. it's one of those life-changing type books filled with epic lines that I want to plaster my walls with. Like "Books can make you live a thousand lifetimes, a thousand different lives. Books make you immortal". Planning on designing a poster with that soon, I just love it.
"I have always used words to try to convince the world that I am worth something" I dont know why that hit me so hard, but man that quote nearly floored me
Mareike Nienhaus I skipped school to read that one. I was feeling pretty bad, but I could have totally toughed it up and went in, but nah I kept reading
So happy when I saw this video description! Love, love, love John's book recs!! I've read so many of them and have enjoyed ever single one so far- can't wait to check these new ones out!
I just finished reading your book John, and it´s marvelous. I can´t thank you enought for writing it. It made me feel like between those pages, with Aza, Daisy and Davis, I was understood. So, thank you so much!
dear John, I know it must be terrifying to share something again, to open yourself up and make yourself so vulnerable. I know you will never please everyone but to take this daring step is in itself incredible. I've always loved everything you have written and I'm sure this will be nothing different though I know it doesnt make it less scary. take care of yourself, I hope you are as proud of yourself as we all are.
I just finished Will Grayson Will Grayson and it was fantastic, as is everything else that you write. I dream of becoming a professional writer and you are so inspiring to me. I hope that one day I will be able to capture life as you do. Your books help the world make more sense, and let me know that I’m never alone.
I'm so excited for Turtles All the Way Down. I don't have OCD but was diagnosed with GAD and Depression in my senior year of high school and Bipolar Disorder a few years later. I connected so deeply with the first chapter, even though my anxiety disorder came in a form different from OCD.
"We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't over yet" damn, that just put into words how I've been feeling almost constantly lately. I really need to pick up that book. Thanks for the recs, John!
This is my favourite book of all time! It's a pretty classic book (and it's been made into a movie), but a surprising number of people, even avid readers I know, have never heard of it. But I'm so happy to see someone recommend this haha, I'm very passionate about recommending it to people.
That quote from 'We Are Okay' completely sold me on that book. I do feel nostalgic about the period that I'm currently am at cause I don't feel like I'm experiencing it fully.
yay! I love books and as a psychology undergrad I'm drawn to books about people whether they be fictional stories or non-fiction like The Man Who Couldn't Stop, which I read a few months ago and really enjoyed and am glad you did too. I find there is some almost illogical pride in the fact that I've read a book you've since recommended to others. Can't wait to read turtles all the way down :)
I go straight to this channel whenever I'm in need of book recommendations. I've watched all the other videos I can find recommending books and I'm so excited for another one to add the list to all of the books I need to read! (Most of which have come from the past book recommendation videos)
I actually started jumping up and down when you mentioned Aristotle and Dante. I love it THAT much. Also, Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng is amaaaaazing and I can't wait to read Little Fires Everywhere!
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara has got to be one of the few books that really made me think about life and what it means to die, and I strongly recommend it to everyone who’s human
I'm always amazed that, to this day, I don't believe I've never heard of a single book or author that John has recommended. I feel like I live on an entirely different planet or something. But to answer the question of books, I love Pat Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicle, Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series, Andy Weir's The Martian, Hugh Howey's Silo series, and Ramez Naam's Nexus trilogy. And outside the fiction sphere, Peter Joseph's The New Human Rights Movement is absolutely profound.
Always love your book recommendation videos, John. I discover some of my favorite books this way (I mean I'm still crying over A Little Life almost 2 years later). Read The Sense of an Ending and loved it, currently reading All The Light We Cannot See and CANNOT WAIT TO READ Turtles...
I will genuinely recommend “We Are Okay” to anyone who asks. I read that book in one day and I think about it all the time. It is a book that grabs your soul and holds on. It is just so very beautiful.
Hey, John. Just wanted to say that even if I hate your new book (which is unlikely, since I liked the first chapter enough to quote it to my friends) I will still love the other books and the videos you make and the benefit you and Hank and Nerdfighteria have had on my ability to handle this world and imagine others complexly and believe in myself. You are so much more than the number of pre-orders or the critical reviews of your latest publication. Thank you for helping me believe in the value of being awesome.
I'm currently finishing "Lincoln in the Bardo" by George Saunders and man, this is the most unique book I've read in a while. It is not only unique in its story but also in its telling. The narration jumps from character to character to actual historical writings from the period in which the story takes place. A truly fascinating book that is so very human.
I've "coincidentally" seen the occurring numbers 333 in random places everywhere I go. So you can imagine how creeped out I was when I saw the video was 3:33 long.
Lately I've been reading books from Haruki Murakami, more specifically Norwegian Wood and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki. They're great novels, and I love how even with their relative age and setting halfway around the world, they can feels so relatable to today's world
I'm reading "Interactive Data Visualization for the web: An introduction to Designing with D3". I am not an exciting person. I rarely make time for fiction books. Yours being an exception. And I'm looking forward to one on mental illness.
Hello! ^^ You have wonderful taste in UA-cam videos, haha. I actually haven't read any yet that John mentions here! I've heard good things about The Hate U Give, though. I like recommending Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Robin Sloan) because it was a bizarre/unique story in my opinion, but it really just depends on what genres you're in to. Or, since John mentioned poetry, I like Life on Mars (Tracy K. Smith). Do you have any favorite recs?
HAVE YOU READ THE CHAOS WALKING TRILOGY BY PATRICK NESS??? (All caps are necessary because this is easily the most important question in the universe.)
Chaos Walking is brilliant. I first read it when I was 13 and this year I re-read the series and I appreciated it a whole lot more. Aside from it being a wonderful story, there are beautiful messages in it. I love all of Patrick Ness' work as well. However, one of the key themes of Knife of Never Letting Go especially is the tension between childhood and adulthood, and how Todd copes being a child forced to cope with the expectations of a world much older than he is. And yet, in the movie adaptation, Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley, who are both in their twenties, will be attempting to play characters who are 12/13. This bothers me a whole lot, I am worried that it will become like The Hunger Games, where the age of the actors takes away much of what was important to the story; the chilling nature of children killing other children. Having adults play teenagers in films always bothers me but never more so than it has been in Chaos Walking, a series that centres so much on growing up, and Todd trying to prove himself to be a man when he is truly still a child.
John, thanks to you and Crash Course, I'm reading "Sula" and "The Bell Jar" and I must say that the reading experience has been tremendously pleasant. Thank you so much for all the work you put into Crash Course!
"We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't over yet." Holy hell that hit me hard, it perfectly describes this feeling I've had for the past couple years.
Jontman42 The quote, "I have always used words to try to convince the world I am worth something" dug deep for me. It didnt sound as cool, but the general sentiment...
John says, "Book recommenations," and I say, "Hang on, John, I need to open up a couple of browser windows and grab my wallet."
Same with Goodreads
Just started reading Harry Potter, pretty good, I think it's gonna be big
Wizards are old school, TURTLES ARE THE NEW COOL
I doubt , if you really think Harry Potter is going to be successful or maybe someday a movie would be made on its story , then I think you have lost your mind my dude.
They still haven’t made a movie about it,and the second book has just came out.it’s disappointing,really.
Reading this in 2024 and you were right.
Does John have a GoodReads? I want to see all his recommended books!
Sometimes I go down the endless infinity of available UA-cam videos begging for new content, and I forget there are also so many books being written and published and promoted every day. Thanks for keeping the crossover between the two worlds alive for me John!
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Topology from the differentiable viewpoint?
Wow I guess books are in everything everyone does.
PS - I like your videos.
Let’s talk about you and me
I always love your book recommendations! I recently finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and the ending broke my heart into a million tiny pieces. Now I'm reading Hunger by Roxane Gay, and FRENCH THE LLAMA ITS ONE OF THE MOST INTENSE BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ. But it's so worth it!
"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy, is my absolute favorite book of all time. A story about a pair of twins growing up in a dysfunctional family in India, it is not only brilliant but GORGEOUS. It starts at the end, then tells the beginning, then ends at middle, and reading it was enlightening. God, I'd give anything to read it for the first time again. When all the pieces fall together at the end, it is astounding. John, you would love it!
PSA TO EVERYONE WHO LOVED TFIOS
My english teacher, McCall Hoyle is an up and coming writer. She released her first book in September of this year. She is a fantastic writer, teacher, and all around human being. Her book is titled The Thing With Feathers and it is centered around a high school age girl with epilepsy whose mother made her enroll in a public school. I won't give away anymore, but it is truly an amazing and heartwarming read that I would recommend to anyone ESPECIALLY anyone who fell in love with The Fault in Our Stars.
hi john not sure if you’re ever gonna see this but speaking of books that i’ve been reading recently, i just finished turtles all the way down. i read it basically all in one day (one chapter the previous night and all the rest in one day) and stayed up till 1:30 am last night to finish it and oh my god. it was so good. it was phenomenal. i was thinking about it before i woke up, i woke up thinking about it, and i’m still thinking about it. i don’t know if i have the words for how much i enjoyed it, but i can say this: it made me feel. it made me feel so much and so deeply and so truly. and it’s been a while since a book made me feel this much. thank you for writing this john. (also thank you for signing enough copies that they were just on sale at target. i’m sure you got many hand cramps just so people like me could have a signed copy.) thank you again.
Who else can't wait to read Turtles all the way down?!?!
I preordered and I might squeal/scream when it comes.
Zayda Fleming same I got a (probably) signed copy
Me too! I am kinda hoping I get one with a Henry or Alice doodle!
ME!
“We were nostalgic for a time that wasn’t over yet” reminds me of another great quote from a short story a friend of mine wrote.
“I’m nostalgic for the memories I never got to make”
That's beautiful. They both go so well together, in essence and chalking out what someone, somewhere is bound to be feeling.
I... wow. Of course it finds me here, and now, mere hours before my 19th birthday, during the loneliest time of my life. I’ve had this feeling sneak up on me a lot during this strange and miserable time I've never quite been able to sum it up. I don’t know if you’ll read this, but if you do, tell your friend I said thank you.
Whenever John talks about books, it feels like a hot water bottle for my heart
Kaveh Akbar is a professor at my university (Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN) and I had the pleasure of attending a poetry reading of his last week. Before the reading, I had never heard any of Kaveh's work, nor did I know anything about him. His poetry shocked me. Truly, I can't think of a better word than shocked. I don't usually read poetry, and I won't lie and say that I understood the meaning of every poem he read, but I was enthralled during the entire reading. What astonished me the most about Kaveh was his eloquence, and his kindness. After the reading he answered questions from the audience, and I have never heard someone speak with such precision, clarity and emotion. I could listen to him talk for hours. Unfortunately I will probably never get the opportunity to take his class. I was pleasantly surprised to see you recommend him, John.
I always love book recs from John, it just makes me so happy. I always discover gems.
Anne is there any other links to previous book recommendations by john that you know of?
Shawn Stone you could check their playlist page on their channel, and otherwise usually in the month or so before Christmas john does it so you could scroll. But that's a lot of work
That's a different sound than his anxiety used to make!
My history teacher used your video on the Protestant reformation in a lesson and I was just laughing about the fact that the same man that said the Protestant reformation was a big ass deal wrote metaphors like my thoughts are stars I cannot fathom them into constellations 😂💙 also thanks for explaining Tudor religion to my history class so much better than my teacher did x😂
hearing that you went to school with another successful novelist makes me so happy. i get discouraged sometimes thinking that there can only be ONE, as in, only one person in a group of graduates can really get anywhere with these sorts of careers. Feels good to see people supporting each other and there's room for several at the top.
Yay books! 😄
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Yeah! :D Books are awesome! ^_^
Agree.
Books all the Way! :D
AlffBooks #YIAYbooks
It is so unusual, I have been subscribed for most of the Vlogbrothers UA-cam career and the truthfulness and consistent yearn for us to be happy and understand the world around us has finally brought me to tears. It is a shame that you guys only exist now, every moment in ti,e could have benefited having you both around.
When your new book is coming out and you wanna praise a lot of other books for good karma
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He actually talks books fairly often. It's been a like five years since Fault came out, and he does these book videos maybe a couple times a year. Probably doesn't need any fresh karma. But then, people who are actually concerned with their karma don't stop doing good things because they think they have 'enough' karma. They just keep doing good things.
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I just read Pillars of the Earth, by far one of my favorite books ever! It’s so amazing you need to read it everyone.
Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla; A History of American Ice Cream. It's not a 'page turner' but it is fascinating to see how this treat we take for granted was once a not so ubiquitous dessert for all.
That sounds really neat! I love food histories.
I'll have to read that! Another great food book is Proof: The Science of Booze, by Adam Rogers. It gets into some pretty hardcore chemistry without ever losing the feel of a light food and wine magazine.
I just finished Octavia E Butler's Parable of the Sower and that book really got me. It touches on all sorts of issues about race, gender, community, and religion in the context of the best future. I loved the writing style and the world she builds.
I am so glad you love Celeste Ng's Book I love 'Little Fires Everywhere'. I love her book 'Everything I Never Told you' such another great book by such an underrated author imo. Cannot believe it's ONLY 1 MORE WEEK TILL TATWD!! looking forward to reading it 🐢🐢🐢
Read EINTY for a class I took under Susan Straight 3yrs. ago and it blew me away. Celeste Ng's writing style is so precise and layered, I can't even...
Zoe I love Everything I Never Told you too! It is the go to book I recommend to friends and family when they ask! Have you read Little fires everywhere?
ME TOO 😭 I RECOMMEND EINTY TO LITERALLY EVERYONE 😂 I'VE EVEN RECOMMENDED EINTY TO JOHN 😂 It's great that now John knows about her works!!
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Your new book has had a tremendous impact on my life! Having had anxiety and OCD obstacles in the past that are still with me today, it was so amazing to be able to connect so deeply with a character. I felt as though I was Aza Holmes and I have never felt to close to a character before. Thank you so much for writing this and being able to get personal with your readers. I am so grateful for having the opportunity to read it. It has been extremely helpful in my own anxiety battles and I will continue to use your book as a resource for my mind. Thank you.
I have a goodreads shelf called “John Green recommends...”
Thanks for all these recommendations.
Nowadays, I’m enjoying Ready Player One.
bu3asalli that's an awesome idea!
Awesome book! You should also try The devil in the white city :)
Wow! Could you link me to your shelf?
What's your Goodreads username?
Minitha Jawahar :)
I saw the title and I screamed, I’m so excited, I love listening to you talk about books
Best book of 2017 so far for me has been Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, it is creative, hauntingly beautiful, and painfully topical. Best older book I've read this year is probably So The Wind Won't Blow it All Away by Richard Brautigan, which is a great example of a book that is both really funny and really sad at the same time.
I recently read The invisible Library which literally has dimension jumping adventure librarians and it was wonderful.
That. sounds. amazing. ^^
IT IS.
I started it while I was on jury duty, sitting in the "wait here to be called in" room. I was halfway done by the time they sent us home.
Awesome!
Let's talk about books, baby
Let's talk about po-e-try
Let's talk about all the pages
that we read im-pa-tient-ly
Let's talk about books
Let's talk about books
Let's talk about books
Let's talk about books
Ladies, all the ladies, louder now, help me out
Come on, all the ladies, let's talk about books, all right [x2]
Yo, Pep, I don't think they're gonna play this on the radio
And why not? Everybody buys books
I mean, everybody should be reading them
Come on, how many guys you know read now?
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Literally the tune that popped into my head the second I read the title.
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I'm so afraid of feeling disconnected from Turtles All The Way Down.
I was just a girl when I read Looking For Alaska, An Abundance of Katharine and Paper Towns. The lessons I learned from each were new, and forced me to evaluate so many aspects of myself.
I was 19 when The Fault in Our Stars came out, a college freshman. I wept with Hazel and for Augustus but I could already feel the distance between myself and the characters.
I'm 25 now, and I'm fortunate to be a well established college graduate. The ideas and lessons I learned so young are so deeply rooted in me and the way I lead my life, it's hard to tell there was a time they weren't there guiding me at all. But I'm afraid I'm too old now to read this new story and feel what I felt all those other times. I'm afraid the characters won't feel so close to me because of the vastly different place I'm in, and the themes will be familiar instead of new ideas to tackle.
thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!! just when i've been looking for some new reads. your recommendations never disappoint (and often get me reading new subjects/topics/genres) 🐢🐢
Your first word felt like happythankyoumoreplease
Thanks for recommending We Are Okay. I just read it and it really really moved me. As someone who lost my father two weeks before I went away to college, Lacour really captured so much about grieving at that age.
Totally off topic but I just realized that my anxiety also makes a sound. It's a very high pitched scream. I don't know why but this realization helped me so much right now. Thanks for pointing it out.
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My anxiety also makes a sound. It’s a slowly intensifying scream of frustration. I can best relate it to a slow clap except in the form of a yell. Very helpful to know how your anxiety sounds so you can start to describe what’s creating it I think.
depression sound: *tired, defeated sigh*
Kristina my OCD does as well. It's the crying of feeling beaten from being worn down, and defeated.
Life sucks! Let's just read more books so we can forget about it for a moment, even if it is only briefly!
John I love you, you and Hank are my cool internet uncles and I will protect you guys forever! it's going to be okay, the right people will like the book, will love the book, because that's how books work, they find people when they need them and leave a mark that nobody can ever erase, and I know that this book will, forget about your past books because they are amazing and none of them can compair to each other, it's like kids. I know I will love it (because your talking about a lot of things that are close to my own anxiety and depression problems, but because you are an amazing writer, so each book of yours is different from the other and that's why they are amazing! you fall in love with all of them for different reasons) I know you are anxious but the important thing is that you will change someone's life with Turtles All the Way Down. Have fun on the tour!!!
I’m always early for John’s videos and never for Hank’s... loving the new anxiety sound, though! I can certainly relate to it more
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I fell in love with Benjamin Alire Sáenz's books this year. Ari & Dante and Inexplicable Logic are two of the best books I've ever read and you're right - he's so incredibly generous and honest, and I just want to be able to be like that as an author one day. I love that he's not afraid to write emotional male characters, even if those characters struggle with being emotional.
I'm also SO EXCITED FOR THE TOUR! A work friend and I are going together (and we work in a bookstore so...we're pumped) to the Orlando event and I can't wait!
Thanks as usual for the book recommendations :) also I CANNOT WAIT FOR TATWD, my friend (who has OCD and just recently watched you read the first chapter-- she approves ;) ) and i are counting down the days!!!
When you said John Updike it sent a massive chill down my spine, I haven't met anyone who has read an Updike book and here you are.
I honestly can't wait for the new book, I read the first chapter to my mom, because we kind of bond over John's books, becuase when I was twelve or so I read her The Fault in our stars, out loud, in less than a month whilst struggling for time with her because at the time about seven or eight people lived in my house. Anyway I hope to do the same with this one.
Ps. I love you guys, DFTBA!
"You look just like your mother, who looks just like a fire of suspicious origin" sound like a Lemony Snicket thing.
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I recently read Everything, everything by Nicola Yoon, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's one of those rare books that is literally impossible to put down, and because of that I read all 336 pages in under 24 hours while studying for year 12 exams. By the way, I love Turtles all the Way Down, which is one of only around five books I have ever gifted to myself. Mental health is something avoided, especially in YA books, so I love that you discuss it in a 'real' kind of way, without ever making it clique, or making it not seen real. I know that doesn't really make sense, but I really appreciate the awareness you are bringing to this issue, you are helping to make the world a more understanding place.
Be honest, you are reading more poetry because of Dear Hank and John
I'm only halfway through Leigh Bardugo's "The Language of Thorns," and it is STUNNING. Each story resonates in a different way, I'm always surprised by the endings, and...I cry a lot. So lovely.
I've started reading C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces, which seems at odds with everything I've ever read from him: it's harsh, elegant, honest and intimate. The story is inspired from Eros and Psyche, but seen from the point of view of Orual, Psyche's brave and subtle sister whose fear of the gods only matches her hatred of them. To rescue her little sister from her enemies, Orual must brave a world who ignores her talents and fears her deformity, an irrational father she hates, a skeptical master she loves in excess, and her own pride.
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I loved that book! I had to read it to school but ended up loving it! I'm a huge fan of C.S. Lewis and this is one of his best!
"They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera was incredibly thoughtful and profound and I can't stop thinking about it.
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I told my mom that we were going to get it when it came out and she doesn't know why i'm making a big deal out of it and i'm like "caUSE IT'S VLOGBROTHERS MOM"
Dominic Brady I am beyond estatic 😍🐢🤗
TFW you find someone in comments from the Tuataria discord
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I'm currently reading Everything All At Once which deals with adolescence and anxiety, and explores life, death, grief and what it means to be alive. it's one of those life-changing type books filled with epic lines that I want to plaster my walls with. Like "Books can make you live a thousand lifetimes, a thousand different lives. Books make you immortal". Planning on designing a poster with that soon, I just love it.
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"I have always used words to try to convince the world that I am worth something" I dont know why that hit me so hard, but man that quote nearly floored me
I'm currently reading carry on by rainbow rowell and i absolutely adore it
Mareike Nienhaus I skipped school to read that one. I was feeling pretty bad, but I could have totally toughed it up and went in, but nah I kept reading
I love that book!
MAN!!!! I loved your book!!! I read it in about 2 days and annotated the heck out of it! I am so glad that I found your channel!
IM SO EXCITED FOR THE BOOK TOUR SEE YOU IN ATLANTA
So happy when I saw this video description! Love, love, love John's book recs!! I've read so many of them and have enjoyed ever single one so far- can't wait to check these new ones out!
The best book I read this year, or possibly ever, was A Man Called Ove. If you have not read it I really recommend you do!!
I just finished reading your book John, and it´s marvelous. I can´t thank you enought for writing it.
It made me feel like between those pages, with Aza, Daisy and Davis, I was understood. So, thank you so much!
Saw the notification but have to go to class!! Will use this as motivation to get through tenth period.
MargaretBC3 same here man...
Tenth period...Talk about a crazy month
Same here.
+MargaretBC3 What's up from the future! I hope your class went well \o/
GlowingBlueIris It did! Thanks.
dear John, I know it must be terrifying to share something again, to open yourself up and make yourself so vulnerable. I know you will never please everyone but to take this daring step is in itself incredible. I've always loved everything you have written and I'm sure this will be nothing different though I know it doesnt make it less scary. take care of yourself, I hope you are as proud of yourself as we all are.
Yay books!
I'm reading The Night Circus and it's incredible.
FINISHED THAT ABOUT 3 WEEKS AGO AND LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT! ENJOY ENJOY ENJOY.
Honestly my favourite book of all time.
Garrett Robinson that's one of my favorites!!
I'm considering buying that! But I have so many books to read before I can buy anymore.
This book is literally one of the BEST books I have read!!!! It's great!!!
I just finished Will Grayson Will Grayson and it was fantastic, as is everything else that you write. I dream of becoming a professional writer and you are so inspiring to me. I hope that one day I will be able to capture life as you do. Your books help the world make more sense, and let me know that I’m never alone.
Funny, I saw The Hate U Give in a shop this week and bought it based off your quote on the cover. Look forward to reading it.
I'm so excited for Turtles All the Way Down. I don't have OCD but was diagnosed with GAD and Depression in my senior year of high school and Bipolar Disorder a few years later. I connected so deeply with the first chapter, even though my anxiety disorder came in a form different from OCD.
Sort of old,but I recently reread Pearl Buck's The Good Earth and was reminded of what a fantastic novel it truly is.
"We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't over yet" damn, that just put into words how I've been feeling almost constantly lately. I really need to pick up that book. Thanks for the recs, John!
I know it's not a recent book, but I read The Unbearable Lightness Of Being this summer and I can not stop thinking about it
Cambustible I've had this one on my reading list for the longest time!
This is my favourite book of all time! It's a pretty classic book (and it's been made into a movie), but a surprising number of people, even avid readers I know, have never heard of it. But I'm so happy to see someone recommend this haha, I'm very passionate about recommending it to people.
I saw the tile and literally said "LETS" *incredibly* loudly in class
gosh dang it John you must know how much books excite us
My anxiety sounds more like a faint screaming from behind a wall.
That quote from 'We Are Okay' completely sold me on that book. I do feel nostalgic about the period that I'm currently am at cause I don't feel like I'm experiencing it fully.
I've been looking for new books to read. Thanks for giving me a good reading list.
yay! I love books and as a psychology undergrad I'm drawn to books about people whether they be fictional stories or non-fiction like The Man Who Couldn't Stop, which I read a few months ago and really enjoyed and am glad you did too. I find there is some almost illogical pride in the fact that I've read a book you've since recommended to others. Can't wait to read turtles all the way down :)
SO READY TO READ THE BLEEP OUT OF TURTLES!
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I go straight to this channel whenever I'm in need of book recommendations. I've watched all the other videos I can find recommending books and I'm so excited for another one to add the list to all of the books I need to read! (Most of which have come from the past book recommendation videos)
I love when you give book recommendation! Please do them more often! 💛
I actually started jumping up and down when you mentioned Aristotle and Dante. I love it THAT much. Also, Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng is amaaaaazing and I can't wait to read Little Fires Everywhere!
I'm reading Born a Crime By Trevor Noah, it's so good!
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara has got to be one of the few books that really made me think about life and what it means to die, and I strongly recommend it to everyone who’s human
I just finished reading a book that I remember John recommending a while back called Parable of the Sower, and I think it is fantastic
I just bought that book yesterday, albeit without knowing that John read it. His & your recommendation only makes me more excited to read it!
I'm always amazed that, to this day, I don't believe I've never heard of a single book or author that John has recommended. I feel like I live on an entirely different planet or something.
But to answer the question of books, I love Pat Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicle, Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series, Andy Weir's The Martian, Hugh Howey's Silo series, and Ramez Naam's Nexus trilogy. And outside the fiction sphere, Peter Joseph's The New Human Rights Movement is absolutely profound.
what do you think about "They both die at the end" by Adam Silvera?
Can't wait for your book either, good luck on tour!!!
Always love your book recommendation videos, John. I discover some of my favorite books this way (I mean I'm still crying over A Little Life almost 2 years later). Read The Sense of an Ending and loved it, currently reading All The Light We Cannot See and CANNOT WAIT TO READ Turtles...
John. Jonathan. Jonthandle. Johnipus.
I cannot wait to read your book ;-; halp
Johninho, Johniper, Johnerex, Johnny 5
I love these book recommendation lists. The descriptions you bring to them are different and helpful in a way that simply reading a cover rarely is.
I’m currently reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel. I’m not to far into it, but I already love it.
Nick Webster in my opinion the book was so much better than the film and I guarantee that the rest of the book is amazing
Love that book.
Zaphod Beeblebrox I love Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy!
It is a good one! I've read it probably dozens of times.
I will genuinely recommend “We Are Okay” to anyone who asks. I read that book in one day and I think about it all the time. It is a book that grabs your soul and holds on. It is just so very beautiful.
when are you making a video like this again :)
read all of those :)
your top picks out of those?
One of the few content creators I still love watching.
Hey, John. Just wanted to say that even if I hate your new book (which is unlikely, since I liked the first chapter enough to quote it to my friends) I will still love the other books and the videos you make and the benefit you and Hank and Nerdfighteria have had on my ability to handle this world and imagine others complexly and believe in myself. You are so much more than the number of pre-orders or the critical reviews of your latest publication. Thank you for helping me believe in the value of being awesome.
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I'm currently finishing "Lincoln in the Bardo" by George Saunders and man, this is the most unique book I've read in a while. It is not only unique in its story but also in its telling. The narration jumps from character to character to actual historical writings from the period in which the story takes place. A truly fascinating book that is so very human.
I've "coincidentally" seen the occurring numbers 333 in random places everywhere I go. So you can imagine how creeped out I was when I saw the video was 3:33 long.
Kristina Terry did it continue?
nikoleta vlachaki Yes I have been continuously for months now and still do
Sorry to alert you to this, but um... 333 usually indicates a demonic attachment or manifestation. Good luck, my dude.
TheatreNerdsUnite 12 Wtf
Kristina Terry It's true
Lately I've been reading books from Haruki Murakami, more specifically Norwegian Wood and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki. They're great novels, and I love how even with their relative age and setting halfway around the world, they can feels so relatable to today's world
I'm reading "Interactive Data Visualization for the web: An introduction to Designing with D3". I am not an exciting person. I rarely make time for fiction books. Yours being an exception. And I'm looking forward to one on mental illness.
Lots of programmer nerdfighters out here. I'll be seeing you on StackOverflow probably?
Neeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrd!
-A fellow CS nerd
@Sean Hehe, yep. Programming is half knowing what you're doing and half copying things from Stack Overflow. :)
You and Hank are my favorite youtubers! 😀 I have read all of your books, so far! And can't wait for your new one!
Ahhh I love book rec videos.
Hi Izzy! (I see you everywhere so yeah... Just wanted to say hi and I think that's cool :) )
Do you have a fav from these recommendations?
Hello! ^^ You have wonderful taste in UA-cam videos, haha. I actually haven't read any yet that John mentions here! I've heard good things about The Hate U Give, though. I like recommending Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Robin Sloan) because it was a bizarre/unique story in my opinion, but it really just depends on what genres you're in to. Or, since John mentioned poetry, I like Life on Mars (Tracy K. Smith). Do you have any favorite recs?
This is my FAVOURITE kind of video and I've been waiting for one of those for so long!
HAVE YOU READ THE CHAOS WALKING TRILOGY BY PATRICK NESS??? (All caps are necessary because this is easily the most important question in the universe.)
Sam Allen omg yessssss!!!!!
Chaos Walking is brilliant. I first read it when I was 13 and this year I re-read the series and I appreciated it a whole lot more. Aside from it being a wonderful story, there are beautiful messages in it. I love all of Patrick Ness' work as well. However, one of the key themes of Knife of Never Letting Go especially is the tension between childhood and adulthood, and how Todd copes being a child forced to cope with the expectations of a world much older than he is. And yet, in the movie adaptation, Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley, who are both in their twenties, will be attempting to play characters who are 12/13. This bothers me a whole lot, I am worried that it will become like The Hunger Games, where the age of the actors takes away much of what was important to the story; the chilling nature of children killing other children. Having adults play teenagers in films always bothers me but never more so than it has been in Chaos Walking, a series that centres so much on growing up, and Todd trying to prove himself to be a man when he is truly still a child.
They are amazing. I read knife of never letting go and couldn't wait to get onto the Ask and the Answer.
However i must admit that they are surprisingly not my favourite book as that belongs to do androids dream of electric sheep.
I just commented about these too! I am rather late to the party but I'm loving them.
It is so exciting to me that my favorite author is releasing a book which relates to the topic I’m in school for on my 18th birthday. YAY TATWD!
well dang now i have to go spend a lot of money
Matt Blewett To the library!
John, thanks to you and Crash Course, I'm reading "Sula" and "The Bell Jar" and I must say that the reading experience has been tremendously pleasant.
Thank you so much for all the work you put into Crash Course!