Could analyze the 'men written by woman' and the 'women written by men' trope in books? It would be so awesome to hear you speaking on authors' unrealistic (and sometimes even sexist) expectations of the opposite gender.
I find this so interesting and hadn't given it a thought until my mum said she doesn't read books by male authors. She couldn't give me a reason why (I think she just thinks it's a coincidence) but after discussing the idea with my friend we realised that too often, male writers don't write women well. It's something I really look for now when I read male authors
0:39 - Sula by Toni Morrison 2:40 - Alone With You In The Ether by Olivie Blake 4:19 - Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan 5:20 - Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson 6:29 - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart 8:06 - Almond by Won-Pyung Sohn 10:13 - In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado 11:28 - There There by Tommy Orange 13:30 - Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart 14:58 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy 16:16 - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan edit: hi, i would really appreciate it if u would recommend more books for me to read in 2024 if u see this
Writers and lovers, Piranesi,Who runs the frog hospital, Light from uncommon stars, Self portrait in green,Count Luna, Sunburn by Chloe Michelle howarth and the broken earth trilogy by n.k.jemisin
Hey buddy, here's a book recommendation for you - it's called "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. It's a short story book where people come into a restaurant where they can time travel to the past or to the future.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke was the first book I read in 2023, and it was also my favorite! Highly recommend to anyone who likes dark academia with fantasy elements! It's also a pretty quick read
i’ve been lucky enough to read sula in two different classes and truly every time i read it i get so much more from it, genuinely the best book i have ever read
I just recently got Emma and I'm so excited to start reading. I only got it because I've heard such good things and this channel has expanded my literary horizons so much. So, just thank you
I LOVE Jane Austen!! But for me personally Emma wasn’t my favourite of the books I’ve read by her. (Maybe a 4 stars, which is still high) I really really loved pride and prejudice and persuasion which were both 5 stars so if you like Emma I’d recommend to read those books as well❤❤
I read Emma in 2023 for the first time, and I liked it a lot! Hope you like it too. I've bought Persuasion as well, but still haven't gotten around to reading it.
I loved that book. I recently found another UA-cam channel very intresting that suggested Mansfield Park and I'm going to read it this weekend. The channel is called IntoTheBooks23. She's good at what she does.
Hey Jack, I think you should read Alibis by Andre Aciman. They're labeled as "essays on elsewhere" and I think that, as the world-traveller that you are, you would really like it. The essays are lyrical and wonderfully thoughtful. Since you liked Aciman's fiction, I think you'd absolutely love his essays.
In the Dream House was one of my favorites from 2022 and also was put on my list of one of my favorites I've ever read. When you talked about it earlier in the year I got so excited because I had not ever seen anyone talk about it and it really deserves to be so I'm glad to see it on this list too.
You should definitely try some NEW authors this year... 1. The kite runner 2. The thousand splendid suns 3. Malgudi days 4. Mahabharata unravelled 5. The pearl that broke it's shell 6. The palace of illusions Love from India ❤
Khaled Hosseini is Afghani, he's an incredible writer and I'm pretty sure Jack has talked about his books on this channel before but y'all gotta stop lumping in the rest of South Asia with India, we're all incredibly unique cultures we don't need to be put in those boxes of expectations.
@shruti0007 Ladki research your facts comment karne se pehle. 🤦♀️🤦♀️ @sana-ip9jl @aamnahere6250 @seaof_stars Very sorry for the error she has made. Clearly she didn’t know what she was writing.
My wife and I should have left for a New Years’ trip 90 minutes ago, but she is predictably not ready. Thanks for letting me pass the time while she gets ready. And thanks for all the videos throughout the year. Happy New Year to Jack and his book community!
Recently bought Small Things Like These by Keegan from a charity shop! Never read her work before, but i’ve heard her name in your videos before so I definitely knew I had to read it, the synopsis sounds brilliant. Glad you enjoyed it + happy new year!
Based on you loving 'Alone with you in the ether', I think you would really love 'The Solitude of Prime numbers' by Paolo Giordano. I bought this because of the wonderful title, but it is an amazing book with two very flawed characters you just really grow to love. Check it out... I promise you won't regret it ;)
@@melaniek6714 I wish it had been everywhere here. I handsold the heck out of that book. The author was 25 when that was published, *and* he was a physicist! 🤯 It won the equivalent of the Pulitzer in Italy. So deserved! 💚
@@onourpath I know. Went to one of his readings when he published his 2nd book which I don't like as much, but means that I have a copy with a personal signing :)
Thank you so much for these amazing book recommendations. I love the way you talk about books! Tommy Orange is amazing--I love There There so much. His new book talks about the Indian School that was in my home town of Pennsylvania, and I think the book will wreck me in the best kind of way. Here's a quote you might love: "A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us."
I absolutely LOVED ‚Almond‘. I flew through this book and loved it so much, it actually surprised me because it’s not what I normally read. But it out me on a new literary path. I cried and laughed so much.
I read Sula in june of this year and oh my god! You are so spot on! It's has some of the most well written and beautifully illustrated depths of human complexities. It's such a page turner. I remember i started reading it at 10'o clock in the evening and didn't sleep a wink that night. I finally finished it at 4:30 in the morning. In my opinion, sula and beloved are just such masterpieces of literature that i feel they are heavy underrated. And can we take a moment to give props to the bluest eye by toni morrison? It's incredible for a debut to be honest and one of my (controversial?) Toni morrison favs
I’ve been teaching SULA for decades in my honors English class. I’m going to show this clip when we get to it this year. I feel exactly this way about this book.
Jack, you NEED to read “Betty” by Tiffany McDaniel. It is HEARTBREAKING, gut wrenching and is a masterpiece! It’s about this girl Betty who is telling the story of her family who are of Cherokee Heritage. It deals with some really hard topics so TW but it is amazing. It is also based off of the authors mother, it’s a true story which makes it even more devastating. It’s A little life level of sad. LOVE YOU
I understand that these videos can only be so long, but I always find it a little disheartening whenever Toni Morrison is mentioned and race and class are completely removed from the conversation. I know that as a Black person my position and experience of the writing may be a bit closer to the material, but something the Morrison has created avenues for everyone to relate to her work, regardless of race. This is in no way just a criticism of just Jack as a book critic, though one of my favorites; I've just noticed across all book content creators, Toni Morrison specifically is heralded, but the main themes of race, class, and women are not discussed.
I absolutely LOVED ‚Almond‘. I flew through this book and loved it so much, it actually surprised me because it’s not what I normally read. But it out me on a new literary path. I cried and laughed so much.
This was such a straight forward, good video. I can’t even explain it better. From the beginning to the last second, I believed it and it convinced to read all of it. Thanks Jack! Have a good new year! Happy new year Jack watchers!!!
Only managed to find this video now but delighted to see that I already read one of your recommendations for 2024- I loved Alone With You In The Ether and wept while reading Almond last year. Thank you! ❤
HUGE Claire Keegan fan!! I love Small Things... and Foster, both in my top five (of 88) books this year! I can't get enough of her. Also, LOVED Ivan Illyich in 2023!
Manifesting someone in my life who talks about words as passionately as you do, Jack. I would fall in love with them and never stop as long as I live and breathe darling ❣️
Since you liked There There, I recommend The Break by Katherena Vermette. It’s also Indigenous literature but in Canada. Oh also, Johnny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead!
I have two unread books by Toni Morrison and I'm so excited to get more into her books this next year! (also just noticed that your bio still says you're 24 even though your birthday makes you 25 just so ya know😋)
hi jack (or well anyone reading this really)! does anyone have a book rec for a friend who really loved Life of Pi, A Tale for the Time Being, The Language of Flowers, and When Breath Becomes Air. She loves books that aren't really set in the "digital age" or books that give us an idea of how we can disconnect from our laptops and phones and communicate, and books that tell us how privileged we are to live in this hyper-connected world. She's a mother of a girl and a boy and loves books that have the idea of the complexity of motherhood. She also loves books that make the reader think.
I read Almond last year, And at that time I felt like that well it was a really good story but it is short and I believe characters could have been more explained in details. But I was incredibly mistaken! This book is a masterpiece and I do still think about it, It was really really beautiful~
Of three books published in 2023 that I read - The Thing in the Snow (Sean Adams), The Shards (Bret Easton Ellis), and Not Forever, But For Now (Chuck Palahniuk) - by far my favorite was The Thing in the Snow. Of books I first read this year that were published at completely other times, my favorites were Invitation to a Beheading (Vladimir Nabokov), Campfires of the Dead and the Living (collected stories of Peter Christopher), and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (John Le Carré).
Just finished in the dream house incredible as a somome who has been in a similar relationship as the author the way she writes about it really moved me I can say its already one of my top 10 books I sat down to read it in one sitting i highly recommended it
You have the best reccs i just recieved 3 books in the mail from your recommendation video so excited to read a lot more in 2024 you inspire me to be curious about this world ❤
My best books of the year are (in no particular order): The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (fantasy/ecofiction), What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo (memoir: child abuse & complex PTSD), Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (SF) and We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer (non-fiction: climate change). They're all worth a read, though apologies if you've read any of them already!
Foster by Claire Keegan is in my head since I am adopted child. The resonance of having confusion to where we come from is important to me. Plus after My Left Foot stories by Irish authors are a new favorite.
i knoww this is a super random comment but i just wanted to say that if you guys are going through something! i just wanted to take the time to say that your life matters! Jesus loves you so much and you have such a huge purpose and value on this earth!!! you cn trust Jesus!! Repent and believe the gospel and he will change your lifeee!! God bless yall!! Happy reading!!!
Added these to my list! Would be interested in a video about all the translated books you would recommend, and want to read. I'm trying to expand my reading horizons in 2024!
U should try uzbek literature. Maybe Abdulla Kadiry, or Utkir Khoshimov. But I don't know if they have translations of their books or not. But try them!
I absolutely love your book recommendations but am very emotionally fragile right now 😅 If you've actually even read any, do you have any recommendations for happy books that don't make you cry? 🙏🏻🤞🏻
From your list, this year I read Sula, Alone with you in the Ether, In the Dream house and Small Things Like These. Two of these were on my top ten of the year! Good choices 🎉
I read Almond on accident, thinking that it was a book Jack recommended. When I went on Goodreads I saw he didn’t actually read it 😅 but I started spamming him every so often to read it. It truly is a fantastic book, one of my favorites from 2022
Would you be able to do an in depth review of Sula? I just finished reading it and I enjoyed it so much because it has me thinking a lot. I would love to hear your thoughts and what you took away from the book.
i read Almond in the original korean version and it's heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time. i remember just staring into blank space after finishing it lol. thankfully it receive s a lot of credit in korea! would definitely recommend 10/10
Hey Jack! I don’t know if I just missed something but I really thought “The unbearable lightness of being” by Milan Kundera would be in this video. (Also because it was in your top 25 books of 2023 insta post). It’s my favourite book and I would love to hear your thoughts on it. Happy new year and thank you for the constant book recommendations!:)
Hello, I’m a mom of two early teenagers. They struggle with nonfiction. I believe because they are not interested in what they are reading. Do you have any tips on how to get them more interesting in what they are reading? Especially in school when they don’t get to choose what they are reading.
I agree with a lot of your reviews, Alone with you in the Ether is not one of them. It seems like you are only recommending that book because you are friendly with the author. I was actually angry finishing that book because of how bad it was. Pretentious main characters - both superficial in thought, cliche bee analogies, and the conflict was basically 5 short pages of absolutely nothing. A few decent lines can't make up for that tepid dud.
That's a bit of an unfair accusation, the friends with the author bit. Quite a few people love that book, including myself and a few others in the comment section. It's okay to disagree with a recommendation without bringing character question into it
@@cathy4697 the edition he showed is a special edition that the author and/or publishing house personally gifts to people. So assuming personal relationships affect authenticity isn't farfetched nor is it unfair.
You just know whenever Jack mentions Toni Morrison the words “the Human Condition” will soon follow
Could analyze the 'men written by woman' and the 'women written by men' trope in books? It would be so awesome to hear you speaking on authors' unrealistic (and sometimes even sexist) expectations of the opposite gender.
Yess!!!
This would be interesting!
💯💯💯
I find this so interesting and hadn't given it a thought until my mum said she doesn't read books by male authors. She couldn't give me a reason why (I think she just thinks it's a coincidence) but after discussing the idea with my friend we realised that too often, male writers don't write women well. It's something I really look for now when I read male authors
That would be sooo interesting to watch for sure!!
Bro expects me to read 11 books in a day and a half???
LMAO
He said “make them your tbr in 2024”
Better start quick !!
@@anuththaraherath9714 The title is 2023 😅
😂😂 same thought
0:39 - Sula by Toni Morrison
2:40 - Alone With You In The Ether by Olivie Blake
4:19 - Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan
5:20 - Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
6:29 - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
8:06 - Almond by Won-Pyung Sohn
10:13 - In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
11:28 - There There by Tommy Orange
13:30 - Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
14:58 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
16:16 - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
edit: hi, i would really appreciate it if u would recommend more books for me to read in 2024 if u see this
Writers and lovers, Piranesi,Who runs the frog hospital, Light from uncommon stars, Self portrait in green,Count Luna, Sunburn by Chloe Michelle howarth and the broken earth trilogy by n.k.jemisin
Any specific genres?
Hey buddy, here's a book recommendation for you - it's called "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. It's a short story book where people come into a restaurant where they can time travel to the past or to the future.
A very happy new year to especially you!!
i'm reading 'A Tale for the time being' by Ruth Ozeki rn and I'm loooving it. Highly recommend!
“As I pulled to Tokyo station, I turned the final page”- this is pure poetry and could and a great book opening line- Happy New Year
love how poetic and dramatic are Jack's reviews on books he likes
“hurts your heart but also expands your soul”
yep, that’s exactly the subgenre I gravitate to
Leads to the bottle….. let me go….
Best
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke was the first book I read in 2023, and it was also my favorite! Highly recommend to anyone who likes dark academia with fantasy elements! It's also a pretty quick read
i’ve been lucky enough to read sula in two different classes and truly every time i read it i get so much more from it, genuinely the best book i have ever read
Could you do " books recommended by Jess Mariano " please? I'd LOVE it
I just recently got Emma and I'm so excited to start reading. I only got it because I've heard such good things and this channel has expanded my literary horizons so much. So, just thank you
I LOVE Jane Austen!! But for me personally Emma wasn’t my favourite of the books I’ve read by her.
(Maybe a 4 stars, which is still high) I really really loved pride and prejudice and persuasion which were both 5 stars so if you like Emma I’d recommend to read those books as well❤❤
I read Emma in 2023 for the first time, and I liked it a lot! Hope you like it too. I've bought Persuasion as well, but still haven't gotten around to reading it.
I loved that book. I recently found another UA-cam channel very intresting that suggested Mansfield Park and I'm going to read it this weekend. The channel is called IntoTheBooks23. She's good at what she does.
Hey Jack, I think you should read Alibis by Andre Aciman. They're labeled as "essays on elsewhere" and I think that, as the world-traveller that you are, you would really like it. The essays are lyrical and wonderfully thoughtful. Since you liked Aciman's fiction, I think you'd absolutely love his essays.
In the Dream House was one of my favorites from 2022 and also was put on my list of one of my favorites I've ever read. When you talked about it earlier in the year I got so excited because I had not ever seen anyone talk about it and it really deserves to be so I'm glad to see it on this list too.
Like this if you're here before Jack changed the title to 2024 ❤
Yep
You should definitely try some NEW authors this year...
1. The kite runner
2. The thousand splendid suns
3. Malgudi days
4. Mahabharata unravelled
5. The pearl that broke it's shell
6. The palace of illusions
Love from India ❤
Kite runner and thousand splendid suns are both by Khaled Hosseini who is a Afghan-American.
@@trueservitudeyes and very emotional
Khaled Housseini is an Afghan American author, not Indian. Indians need to stop claiming other South Asian authors as Indian when they're clearly not.
Khaled Hosseini is Afghani, he's an incredible writer and I'm pretty sure Jack has talked about his books on this channel before but y'all gotta stop lumping in the rest of South Asia with India, we're all incredibly unique cultures we don't need to be put in those boxes of expectations.
@shruti0007 Ladki research your facts comment karne se pehle. 🤦♀️🤦♀️
@sana-ip9jl @aamnahere6250 @seaof_stars Very sorry for the error she has made. Clearly she didn’t know what she was writing.
My wife and I should have left for a New Years’ trip 90 minutes ago, but she is predictably not ready. Thanks for letting me pass the time while she gets ready. And thanks for all the videos throughout the year. Happy New Year to Jack and his book community!
idk why but this comment made me so happy
also me@@hellohellohi18
hope you and your wife have a nice trip :)
I'm panicked
Did you make it in time ? 😅
@@hugitkissitloveit8640 Yes, we did. With 23 minutes to spare to be precise :)
Recently bought Small Things Like These by Keegan from a charity shop! Never read her work before, but i’ve heard her name in your videos before so I definitely knew I had to read it, the synopsis sounds brilliant. Glad you enjoyed it + happy new year!
jack, sweetie, i can’t read 11 books in 2 days😂
What a blessing you have to have a life where you read books and make an income from it. Love your book recs, they are not the highly marketed novels!
borlest - the hidden truths of wealth (thank me later)
Thank you so much!
What's this
@@BlaxMedia8 It's forbidden ebook which talks about the mysterious secrets of attracting money and building massive businesses
forbidden ebook, if any book is a must-read, then it is this one
Yes! Sula is one of my favorite books as well!! It’s amazing, toni morrison’s writing is exquisite
The way Jack describes books is simply beautiful, he’s the reason why my tbr list is so long
Based on you loving 'Alone with you in the ether', I think you would really love 'The Solitude of Prime numbers' by Paolo Giordano. I bought this because of the wonderful title, but it is an amazing book with two very flawed characters you just really grow to love. Check it out... I promise you won't regret it ;)
Wow, I don't often come across folks who've read that one! Agree completely -- such an amazing book. 💚
@@onourpath It was very popular in Germany when it was published.. maybe that's why I know it :)
@@melaniek6714 I wish it had been everywhere here. I handsold the heck out of that book. The author was 25 when that was published, *and* he was a physicist! 🤯 It won the equivalent of the Pulitzer in Italy. So deserved! 💚
@@onourpath I know. Went to one of his readings when he published his 2nd book which I don't like as much, but means that I have a copy with a personal signing :)
Yes! Sula is one of my favorite books as well!! It’s amazing, toni morrison’s writing is exquisite
what Toni Morrison book do u recommend reading first?
'She has been more consistent in my life than some people I know.' Love the sash. A trope in itself. 😆
Thank you so much for these amazing book recommendations. I love the way you talk about books! Tommy Orange is amazing--I love There There so much. His new book talks about the Indian School that was in my home town of Pennsylvania, and I think the book will wreck me in the best kind of way. Here's a quote you might love: "A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us."
I absolutely LOVED ‚Almond‘. I flew through this book and loved it so much, it actually surprised me because it’s not what I normally read. But it out me on a new literary path. I cried and laughed so much.
I read Sula in june of this year and oh my god! You are so spot on! It's has some of the most well written and beautifully illustrated depths of human complexities. It's such a page turner. I remember i started reading it at 10'o clock in the evening and didn't sleep a wink that night. I finally finished it at 4:30 in the morning. In my opinion, sula and beloved are just such masterpieces of literature that i feel they are heavy underrated. And can we take a moment to give props to the bluest eye by toni morrison? It's incredible for a debut to be honest and one of my (controversial?) Toni morrison favs
I’ve been teaching SULA for decades in my honors English class. I’m going to show this clip when we get to it this year. I feel exactly this way about this book.
I really loved the book Foster by Claire Keegan. So really looking forward to reading Small Things Like these.
Jack, you NEED to read “Betty” by Tiffany McDaniel. It is HEARTBREAKING, gut wrenching and is a masterpiece! It’s about this girl Betty who is telling the story of her family who are of Cherokee Heritage. It deals with some really hard topics so TW but it is amazing. It is also based off of the authors mother, it’s a true story which makes it even more devastating. It’s A little life level of sad. LOVE YOU
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Sounds very interesting. Could you tell me if it has a TW for s.xual a.buse?
@@lindasreading it does, there is quite a central theme of that. Hope you are okay lovely🥰
loved this book! So emotional
JACK I read 100 books this year because of you
I love that you talk about books that aren’t the same ten I always see!
Have you watched Ana Wallace Johnson?
@@rubyanddelilahandnani No but thanks for the Rec!!
@@pickyourpopculturepoisonyou’re welcome. She’s great.
Added many to my TBR! Jack I hope you can finish all of these, and I know you can. Have a great year…♥️
My favorite book is called Mr. Fix It and Miss Sue. I bought it on Amazon. It came out this year, so it’s not very popular but I love it!❤
Alone With You In The Ether is my all time fav book!!! And seeing that Jack analyzing a beautiful book, in a beautiful way is such a blessing!
I generally do not enjoy romance books but Alone with you in the ether is the only romance book I enjoyed reading.
i just love the way Jack describes the books
Yes😊
im so happy to see almond getting some love!! what a stunning lil book
I understand that these videos can only be so long, but I always find it a little disheartening whenever Toni Morrison is mentioned and race and class are completely removed from the conversation. I know that as a Black person my position and experience of the writing may be a bit closer to the material, but something the Morrison has created avenues for everyone to relate to her work, regardless of race. This is in no way just a criticism of just Jack as a book critic, though one of my favorites; I've just noticed across all book content creators, Toni Morrison specifically is heralded, but the main themes of race, class, and women are not discussed.
I also read Almond this year and was blown away by it. Thanks for doing what you do!
if you enjoy reading about native americans i would recommend tracks by louise erdrich, truly an amazing work. you will not be disappointed.
I absolutely LOVED ‚Almond‘. I flew through this book and loved it so much, it actually surprised me because it’s not what I normally read. But it out me on a new literary path. I cried and laughed so much.
Almond was an eye opening read, it was so interesting!
When I tell you the joy I felt when I saw my favorite booktuber upload 😻
This was such a straight forward, good video. I can’t even explain it better. From the beginning to the last second, I believed it and it convinced to read all of it. Thanks Jack! Have a good new year! Happy new year Jack watchers!!!
Only managed to find this video now but delighted to see that I already read one of your recommendations for 2024- I loved Alone With You In The Ether and wept while reading Almond last year. Thank you! ❤
This is how I find what i am going to read. LOVE the way Jack summarizes stories.
read Panenka after your recommendation, and man it was MINDBLOWING! thank u so much and looking forward to more of these great videos!
I've been commenting this on so many of your videos but we deserve an emma watson celebrity book club video!!!
CANT WAIT FOR UR HEARTSTOPPER VOLUME 5 VID (MAKE IT))❤❤❤
Loved Alone With You In the Ether so much - glad to see it on your list.
Not me adding all the books in my 'want to read' in split screen
Loved "there there" can't wait to read "Wandering Stars" when it comes out in February.
HUGE Claire Keegan fan!! I love Small Things... and Foster, both in my top five (of 88) books this year! I can't get enough of her. Also, LOVED Ivan Illyich in 2023!
Manifesting someone in my life who talks about words as passionately as you do, Jack. I would fall in love with them and never stop as long as I live and breathe darling ❣️
Since you liked There There, I recommend The Break by Katherena Vermette. It’s also Indigenous literature but in Canada. Oh also, Johnny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead!
Happy New Year! Time to hit the books 📚
My literary taste matches Jack’s so much, I had to take every recommendation from this video
Read Mayflies because of Jack.
Very well written.
Revue is spot on
I have two unread books by Toni Morrison and I'm so excited to get more into her books this next year! (also just noticed that your bio still says you're 24 even though your birthday makes you 25 just so ya know😋)
Poor guy let him eternally be 24 at least in his bio - I'd do that if I can't get my 2 years spent in the pandemic back lol
hi jack (or well anyone reading this really)! does anyone have a book rec for a friend who really loved Life of Pi,
A Tale for the Time Being, The Language of Flowers, and When Breath Becomes Air. She loves books that aren't really set in the "digital age" or books that give us an idea of how we can disconnect from our laptops and phones and communicate, and books that tell us how privileged we are to live in this hyper-connected world. She's a mother of a girl and a boy and loves books that have the idea of the complexity of motherhood. She also loves books that make the reader think.
I read Almond last year,
And at that time I felt like that well it was a really good story but it is short and I believe characters could have been more explained in details.
But I was incredibly mistaken!
This book is a masterpiece and I do still think about it,
It was really really beautiful~
toni morrison rewired my brain and tapped the factory reset button with sula. i cant wait to read the rest of her books
I love everything about this comment.
Everytime I get my TBR under 100 Jack gives me more recommendations
I saw you mention the Elizabeth Smart book and went and bought it. Planning to read it later this year.
Of three books published in 2023 that I read - The Thing in the Snow (Sean Adams), The Shards (Bret Easton Ellis), and Not Forever, But For Now (Chuck Palahniuk) - by far my favorite was The Thing in the Snow. Of books I first read this year that were published at completely other times, my favorites were Invitation to a Beheading (Vladimir Nabokov), Campfires of the Dead and the Living (collected stories of Peter Christopher), and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (John Le Carré).
Just finished in the dream house incredible as a somome who has been in a similar relationship as the author the way she writes about it really moved me I can say its already one of my top 10 books I sat down to read it in one sitting i highly recommended it
young mungo dug a hole in my heart,made me cry like no other book omg
I loooove Olive Blake- AWYITE was my fav books this year.
You have the best reccs i just recieved 3 books in the mail from your recommendation video so excited to read a lot more in 2024 you inspire me to be curious about this world ❤
My best books of the year are (in no particular order): The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (fantasy/ecofiction), What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo (memoir: child abuse & complex PTSD), Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (SF) and We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer (non-fiction: climate change). They're all worth a read, though apologies if you've read any of them already!
Foster by Claire Keegan is in my head since I am adopted child. The resonance of having confusion to where we come from is important to me. Plus after My Left Foot stories by Irish authors are a new favorite.
My favorite book I read in 2023 was Open Throat by Henry Hoke. I loved the whole concept and thought it was executed perfectly
In 2023 ?…but I’m afraid I won’t have the time !😊
Thanks for the book recommendations
Bestie!! Make it 2024 😬
Y'all, we can't let the man breathe because he made one mistake with the title. 😭 You are doing great, Jack. We love you! 🫶🏼
Happy New Year!
My best Book of the year is Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen.
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon should definitely be on your 2024 reading list.
Great call - I never see anyone on book tube talk about it 🏴
I KNEW you were going to say "Alone With You in the Ether" I LOVED this novel!
i knoww this is a super random comment but i just wanted to say that if you guys are going through something! i just wanted to take the time to say that your life matters! Jesus loves you so much and you have such a huge purpose and value on this earth!!! you cn trust Jesus!! Repent and believe the gospel and he will change your lifeee!! God bless yall!! Happy reading!!!
Jack! ThanksMuch for sharing !
well, now i know what my hiper-fixation will be for this year
Added these to my list! Would be interested in a video about all the translated books you would recommend, and want to read. I'm trying to expand my reading horizons in 2024!
U should try uzbek literature. Maybe Abdulla Kadiry, or Utkir Khoshimov. But I don't know if they have translations of their books or not. But try them!
Hi, You're awesome! Please help me understand why a yet-to-be-discovered good book doesn't get sold. We have a very good book, but no support.
I absolutely love your book recommendations but am very emotionally fragile right now 😅 If you've actually even read any, do you have any recommendations for happy books that don't make you cry? 🙏🏻🤞🏻
From your list, this year I read Sula, Alone with you in the Ether, In the Dream house and Small Things Like These. Two of these were on my top ten of the year! Good choices 🎉
I read Almond on accident, thinking that it was a book Jack recommended. When I went on Goodreads I saw he didn’t actually read it 😅 but I started spamming him every so often to read it. It truly is a fantastic book, one of my favorites from 2022
There There was the novel that got me back into reading. I'm so glad you were finally able to read it!
Dw Jack, I wrote a card to my parents with "Merry Christmas 2024!" in it. 😂 Told my dad I'd reuse it next year hahaha
Would you be able to do an in depth review of Sula? I just finished reading it and I enjoyed it so much because it has me thinking a lot. I would love to hear your thoughts and what you took away from the book.
i read Almond in the original korean version and it's heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time. i remember just staring into blank space after finishing it lol. thankfully it receive s a lot of credit in korea! would definitely recommend 10/10
If you wanna read more Native American fiction I really really recommend Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko.
king title says 2023 😮
Or maybe we should read all those books in two days lmao
Hey Jack! I don’t know if I just missed something but I really thought “The unbearable lightness of being” by Milan Kundera would be in this video. (Also because it was in your top 25 books of 2023 insta post). It’s my favourite book and I would love to hear your thoughts on it.
Happy new year and thank you for the constant book recommendations!:)
I was literally in a bookstore thank you jack
Hello, I’m a mom of two early teenagers. They struggle with nonfiction. I believe because they are not interested in what they are reading. Do you have any tips on how to get them more interesting in what they are reading? Especially in school when they don’t get to choose what they are reading.
I agree with a lot of your reviews, Alone with you in the Ether is not one of them. It seems like you are only recommending that book because you are friendly with the author. I was actually angry finishing that book because of how bad it was. Pretentious main characters - both superficial in thought, cliche bee analogies, and the conflict was basically 5 short pages of absolutely nothing. A few decent lines can't make up for that tepid dud.
That's a bit of an unfair accusation, the friends with the author bit. Quite a few people love that book, including myself and a few others in the comment section. It's okay to disagree with a recommendation without bringing character question into it
@@cathy4697 the edition he showed is a special edition that the author and/or publishing house personally gifts to people. So assuming personal relationships affect authenticity isn't farfetched nor is it unfair.