Watership Down is one of my all-time favorite books as well. I go back and re-read it every few years. The 1978 animated movie is a great animated adaptation too.
I live in Newbury, Berkshire, England where Richard Adams grew up. Unfortunately, and perhaps ironically, a huge development has been approved on Sandleford (as in the Sandleford Warren) and building is due to commence shortly, despite strong local opposition. Adams' choice of the Sandleford part of Newbury has proved prophetic. 😢
Same! Watership Down has been one of my favorite books for a long time and I always recommend it to friends because most of the time they’ve never heard of it
I just started binging your channel and was so excited to see, literally immediately after finishing your 7 books in 7 days video, that you posted a new one 30 seconds ago. Wild. New fan
Update: still a fan, have watched every new video since. You've inspired me to kick up my reading, as well. Read Stephen King because of you! Fairy Tale, tho, would love your thoughts
Oh, thank you for recognizing Watership Down. I read and re-read that book about 4 times! I was around when that first came out. Yeah, I'm THAT old 😂 i bought it with my babysitting money!
My next reading of Watership Down will be my fourth. It’s amazing the way it seems like an entirely new story each time. I realized after joining the Hardcore Literature Book Club (on Patreon and UA-cam) that that happens because I have changed, not the story, obviously. Best regards!
In all honesty I am so happy to see when you and your wife post a video. I love books so much and just seeing people appreciate the hard work that authors do is just amazing. Hopefully when I publish my book it will be grand. ☺
@@iangubeli TOP 45 BOOKS 0) "The Holy Bible: King James Version" copyright 1967 1) "The Insulted and Humiliated" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 2) "Verbal Behavior" by Dr. B. F. Skinner 3) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy 4) "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 5) "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev 6) Myth Adventures - series by Robert Asprin 7) The Chronicles of Narnia - series by C. S. Lewis 8) "Vilette" by Charlotte Brontë 9) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy 10) "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 11) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev 12) "Chesapeake" by James A. Michener 13) "Poland" by James A. Michener 14) "Roots" by Alex Haley 15) The Silmarillion - The Hobbit, or there and back again - The Lord of the Rings - Middle Earth stories by J. R. R. Tolkien 16) "Even If This Love Disappears Tonight" by Misaki Ichijo 17) "Childhood, Boyhood" by Leo Tolstoy 18) Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov 19) "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin 20) "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 21) "Paris 1919: six months that changed the world" by Margaret MacMillian 22) "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Brontë 23) "Virgin Soil" by Ivan Turgenev 24) "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen 25) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - by Mark Twain 26) Old Mother West Wind series - wildlife series by Thornton Burgess 27) "Microbe Hunters" by Paul de Kruif 28) "Cancer Ward" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 29) "Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt 30) "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 31) "Kon Tiki" by Thor Heyerdahl 32) "The Complete Poems of Anne Bronte" by Anne Brontë 33) "From Beirut to Jerusalem" by Thomas Friedman 34) "The Berdine Un-Theory of Evolution: and Other Scientific Studies Including Hunting, Fishing, and Sex" by William C. Berdine 35) "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair 36) "Caribbean" by James A. Michener 37) "Hawaii" by James A. Michener 38) "The Painted Bird" by Jerzy Kosiński 39) "Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice 40) "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee 41) "Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev 42) "Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis 43) "Emma" by Jane Austen 44) "In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn From you list that I like... 15) The Silmarillion - The Hobbit, or there and back again - The Lord of the Rings - Middle Earth stories by J. R. R. Tolkien 198) "Dune" by Frank Herbert 176) "Watership Down" by Richard Adams
Your "Watership Down" story is EXACTLY like mine. I viewed that film as a child and it was branded on my brain. 30 years later, I'm teaching 11th grade English and there's a copy on the shelf. I had come full circle and the experience of reading the novel as an adult was magical.
I love 1) to kill a mockingbird - harper lee 2) I know why the caged bird sings - maya angelou 3) wrinkle in time- madeline l ' engle 4) something wicked this way comes - bradbury 5) paradise - Toni morrison 6) east of eden - steinbeck 7) beloved - morrison 8)count of Monte Cristo- dumas 9) don Quixote - cervantes 10) Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare ( othello, Richard iv) I know a rather odd list.
I love the TKAM placement, probably my favorite book of all time as well. And I've started reading a lot of Shakespeare recently, once I finish The Tempest i think I'll move on to Othello
@@Dalton906J definatly book buddies! my fave shakespeare: othello, Richard lll, Henry lv, coriolanus, tempest and of course the " big 3" which I can never choose between!
Thank you the Steinbeck, one of my favorite American authors. East of Eden and Travels with Charlie are my favorites by him. I don’t hear about many reading Don Quixote, the size of the book intimidates many. I loved it!
Very hard to identify a "Top 10" but just now my own favs would be: 1. Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad 2. Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane 3. Maurice, by E. M. Forster 4. The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James 5. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway 6. Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner 7. The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger 8. The Ipcress File, by Len Deighton 9. Women in Love, by D. H. Lawrence 10. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Wolff
Great list! I was surprised to see The Prince of Tides! To anyone who's curious: Pat Conroy is an outstanding writer. Some of his other books are about military academy and basketball, two things I'm not at all interested in, but I read them through with ease. There's a movie (Prince of Tides) with Barbra Streisand, but definitely read the book first. And Lonesome Dove is my favorite book ever, and I also think about it every day. It was the first-written, but third in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, and the other books are worth reading, too. There is also a decent miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall.
So happy you included Prince of Tides on your list. I don’t hear too many people talking about this marvel of a book. I read it many years ago, but still remember how it made me feel when the truth came out finally. I need to reread this masterpiece.
@@carlatate7678 I saw the movie when I was 10, and I still vividly remember "the event" and many more of the family problems. As a mother, I question why I was allowed to watch it.
My top 5 are... 1. 11/22/63 - Stephen King 2. Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson 3. The Ferryman - Justin Cronin 4. Dark Mattet - Blake Crouch 5. Morning Star - Pierce Brown
I bought Gone with the wind because it was 1500 pages, and if I were to pay for imported English books in Japan's kinokuniya, I was determined to get my 2700 yens worth. Hands down the best book I have ever read! Tolkin, Martin, king... all great writers and I've read all of those recommendations but I've probably read gone with the wind 15 times, I never get tired of Margaret Michelle's one and only novel. Great list bro! Think I'll try watershed.
My top ten are books I love and would re-read over and over (also I can’t separate series). 😀 1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 2. Harry Potter series by JK Rawlings 3. Persuasion by Jane Austen 4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 5. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts 6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 7. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 8. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 9. Chronicles of Narnia series by CS Lewis 10. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Based on your reading list (specifically, Bronte, Wilde, Austen, Dickens), I feel confident that you would really love The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield. It is a story within a story: a novice writer is hired to write the life story of a famously-reclusive, mysterious novelist. It is an homage to 19th-century literature, especially gothic, mystery, etc. Personally, I found the prose beautiful, although I know that some people find the descriptiveness a little bit overdone. I also think the characters are beautifully drawn. Setterfield did a good job (IMO) of establishing the mood and tone of the setting itself as well as the atmosphere under which the young writer must operate, in order to get the aged novelist's true life story. Also, the unabridged audiobook is probably the best audiobook I've ever listened to. The voices of two actresses chosen for the audiobook couldn't be a more perfect match for the two personalities they are portraying.
mostly not my taste, but a cool list nevertheless! mine is: 10) the magic mountain - mann 9) the bell jar - plath 8) white noise - delilo 7) in search of lost time - proust 6) star maker - stapleton 5) wuthering heights - brontë 4) lolita - nabokov 3) the dispossessed - le guin 2) 2666 - bolanõ 1) lord of the rings - tolkien (c'mon, its in my name lol)
@@dianethompson9210Oh, you should definitely read it and be prepared to get attached to the characters. If you think Woodrow and Gus are funny in the series the book is full of more of their conversations and humor. It is maybe a perfect book.
In high school English we were assigned to read a few chapters of Lonesome Dove. I read the whole thing and got in trouble for reading it in class when we were supposed to be doing other things. 😅
My top ten would include - in no particular order: Paradise Lost The Iliad The Odyssey The Divine Comedy Finnegans Wake The Aeneid The Akkadian Gilgamesh poem The Lord of the Rings The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle) The Republic (Plato) I have deliberately omitted all mention of the Biblical books, only because they are works of religion, rather than of literature; which is not to deny the high literary merit of many of them. That they have been immensely influential, in many different ways, is undeniable. It is a nice question whether they have been more influential as individual works, or as groups of writings, or as a unified body.
Im currently reading Pillars of the Earth. I thought Joffrey Baratheon was one of the most evil villains ever, but i gotta hand it to William Hamleigh. That dude is a freaking monster.
Fun fact Gone with the wind the movie is the first time a cuss word was ever said in a movie. “Quite frankly my dear I don’t give a damn” it cause lots of controversy. Lots of parents banned their children from watching it stating that this would be the downfall of movies in general.
The Count of Monte Cristo and The Picture of Dorian Gray seem like books you'd like!! I'm in the IB and I loved these two books so much that my extended essay is a comparison of the themes of moral degradation in both these books and relating it to artistic movements that were ongoing while the books were being written!
I literally screamed when u showed Watership Down lol it's so rare to see someone talking about it. I absolutely love it! My top 5: 1. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham 2. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 3. Watership Down by Richard Adams 4. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 5. The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Wow, clicked for your swiss name, stayed for you and just celebrated your list. Read and loved most of them already, but the rest of 3 made it onto my list. Yes, we will be coping in this lifetime about ASOIAF (probably) never ending. But hey at least we got to know the sharp dialogues Tyrion, Cersei, Tywin and other great and unforgettable characters. Thank you, this was my first video of you, but certainly not my last 🩵
Thanks for your top ten list! Lonsome Dove and The Prince of Tides are going on my list now :) My Top 5: 5: Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky 4: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami 3: The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien 2: Suttree - Cormac McCarthy 1: Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Awesome choices with Enemy of God and Golden Sun, both are on my top 10 list as well. I recommend Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles for you to read next. The story begins right after the Bolsheviks take over Russia and the main character is an ex-aristocrat who has been forced to live the rest of his life in an upscale Moscow hotel called the Metropol, and you follow him throughout 20th century Russian history. Its an absolute fascinating read with the best main character ever written, you'll love it!
Newer reader here and am already hooked on SK. My first novel of his was 11/22/63 and I was told that I was setting the bar pretty high by starting there and that was deff not a lie. What a story! I own The Stand and will have to move it up on my TBR list.
I'm in the last stretch of 'A Game of Thrones' myself; even having watched the show, that still hasn't taken anything away from how amazing this book is, I hope Martin finishes the series.
I’m about halfway through Fire and Blood currently and trying to finish it before season 2 of HOTD comes. Check it out if you haven’t, because the style is different from GOT books (I read them all about 3 years ago) but just as high quality
My favorite book of all time is The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. It was required reading in 6th grade and now at 35, I still think about it every day. Gone with the Wind is also on my top 10! I haven’t made a definitive list but my other all time favs are: catcher in the rye, the invisible life of Addie larue, The Book Thief, Clan of the cave bear (highly recommended), a man called Ove, the giver, Project Hail Mary, & Ready Player one. These books are on my mind 24/7
All my favorites made your list! Watership Down, Lonesome Dove, Gone with the Wind! I’ve read the first book of Lord of the Rings. I’ll do your other recommendations.
I have just finished Gone with the Wind oh my gosh I loved , loved it. Also after your recommendation Lonesome Dove, fabulous gave it to my son in law for his holiday read, thank you so much
Nice list! My top 5 would be: 1. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov 2. Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne 3. Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy 4. Moby Dick- Herman Melville 5. Lonesome Dove- McMurtry (we have that in common 😂)
Great video. Love your list; knew you were legit when including Bernard Cornwell. Some of my favorites that generally would fit in this list: The Sand Pebbles, McKenna, Papillon, Charriere (ok, autobiography, but reads like a novel), Winds of War and War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk, anything Cormac McCarthy has written, but starting with All the Pretty Horse. I could go on…
You got on my good right off the bat with watership down. Thanks for your excellent list. I was surprised by gone with the wind. I am definitely going to read the stand and the Bernard Cromwell book. My two all time favorites are Shogun and the count of monte cristo. You should check them out. Have been forcing myself to read more classics but like to break up with pleasure reads from quality writters. Thanks again
35 year veteran high school English teacher here. Have used several from your list, including Watership Down. And added several of your list to my personal list I've never considered before. Thanks.
You read Watershipo Down in 4th grade; I read Gone with the Wind. It was a VERY heavy book (hardcover) to carry to and from school every day, but I did it and llloooovvved it. I still have that same hardcover- an original (pre-movie) version. Lucky me!
My top three books as well! Tripped me out when you picked The Stand as #1. 🤯 This video has me excited to read fiction again. Subbed and buying Pierce Brown tomorrow.
I can somewhat understand your decision to put the Stand on top of the list, although it is not your favorite Stephen King book. My absolute favorite Stephen King book is 11.22.63, I wouldn't necessary say it is his best book, but it is still my favorite. My top 1 book would have to be The Lord of the Rings. If i could only read one book for the rest of my life. That would be it.
Thanks for the strong recommendation for The Stand, which I've seen you give in several of your videos. I just finished reading the uncut edition and thought it was fantastic. I'm very glad I decided to read this version; it did not feel like any part of the story didn't belong and that it only created a more complete, rich, experience.
Watership Down is my favorite book ever. I subscribed immediately. Another classic I really love is Fahrenheit 451. I used to teach it to my 9th grade trying to make them see the parallels to our current world. Bradbury was way before his time.
My top 10: - The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah (life changing) - Daisy Jones & The Six by TJR - The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue - The Romcommers by Catherine Center - Beach Read by Emily Henry - Ignite Me by Taherah Mafi - ACOWAR by SJM - Defy My by Taherah Mafi - ACOMAF by SJM - The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
THANK YOU! Someone else who finally has read and loved Gone With The Wind and done a review. I love this video. Thank you for all the reviews. I have a new reading list now.
The algorithm shunted me over to this video, and I really enjoyed it. While we have more or less different tastes in books, we both share massive enthusiasm for reading. So long may you run, and thanks for spreading the message! When we read, we learn.
"Heart of Darkness" is my favorite book of all time. I see nowhere that this book is mentioned, none of the booktube channels I've checked out has ever addressed this book. I highly suggest and recommend this book to you. Plus it's like 100 pages. So it's a breeze. The writing is absolutely beautiful.
You got a fantastic list! I’ve read most of them and loved them. I’ve heard a lot of great things about Lonesome Dove so I’m definitely giving it a go. I’m currently reading my way through the Saxon Chronicles series by Bernard Cornwell so it’s great to know what I can pick up next by him.
Anyone that puts Lonesome Dove on their best of lists is somebody I can take seriously as a recommender. Prince of Tides is already on my list but I have added a few others that you mentioned.
Iannn!!!!! Insane to see this video man, from one of your first videos being your favourites to now, I’m so thankful I was there along the way watching the channel grow and flourish. I’m so proud to be a fan of yours because I can tell that you truly do care about us. You’re a great individual and I wish your hopes and dreams come true. Anytime I need book talkin I know I count on my favourite brotha Ian!!!!! All the love in the world man to you and ashelyn and god bless you. Can’t wait to see where the channel goes next ❤
Your list was wonderfully varied with its mix of genres. When you had Watership Down first, you had my undivided attention. It’s one of those books that did for me what Dune did for you, it sparked a love of reading early in my life, and so it changed my life. (That and Flowers for Algernon.) Well done!
Great list! Full of books I love or want to read. I recently reread LOTR for the first time in 20 years. It blew me away all over again. Such amazing books, the writing, the characters, everything. One of my favorite books is Ender’s Game. Highly recommend. I haven’t read The Stand, but speaking of post-apocalyptic novels from the King family, I really enjoyed The Fireman by Joe Hill. It probably wouldn’t make your top 10 list, but still enjoyable.
Great list, a few on there I've been meaning to get to. Books I like recommending: 1 War and Peace 2 Watchmen 3 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 4 As I Lay Dying 5 2001: A Space Odyssey
I have read most of the books on this list. I want to tackle Watership Down again. I rad this book when I was really young(probably 10 or 11) and will reread it this summer! Thanks for the video
I haven't figured out a top 10 yet, but I think my favourite book of all time is Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (another classic). It is wonderful and feels fresh despite it's age. Highly recommend it!
@@annarocha3254 wow! I could definitely understand it not vibing with someone, but I have never heard that it was someone’s least favorite of all time.
I have to thank you, not for the books (though you did move some things up on my radar), but for reminding me of a song I hadn't heard in years. "In Lonesome Dove" by Garth. Love your channel!
1. Curious George, by Margret & H.A. Rey 2. Green Eggs & Ham, by Dr. Seuss 3. Scrooge McDuck comics (with grand-nephews Hughy, Dewey, and Louie) by Carl Banks
Agree with you about THE STAND, but my heart loves 11/22/63. Keep us up to date. You do the best job of talking books without going into minute detail for long periods of time. Love your concise opinions and your enthusiasm!
I have Gone With the Wind but haven’t read it yet but now you are making want to put it higher up on my TBR! I did try to read it when I was like 13 and couldn’t do it but now I’ve read a lot more harder to read classics so I really need to get to it! Also slowly making my way through the Stand!
You’ll love “Gone With the Wind!” And “The Stand” is better when you take your time! Whenever I reread it, I am taking a month or so to walk through it!
My Top 10 (without order) The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas - Machado de Assis (Brazil) Neuromancer - William Gibson The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien Crime and Punishment - Fiódor Dostoiévski Dune - Frank Herbert Foundation - Isaac Asimov Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa The Winter King - Bernard Cornwell Dracula - Bram Stoker The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris I recently discovered your channel. I really like the videos asking about the books people have read. Gained a subscriber from Brazil
I’m currently reading my first book by Stephen King and I totally love it! Next, I’ll tackle "The Stand." Thanks for the recommendation ☺️ My list would look like this: 1. Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind 2. Tara Westover: Educated 3. Cheryl Strayed: Wild 4. Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air 5. J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter These are at least my favorites so far. But I also like the thought that my absolute favorites are still waiting to be discovered by me 🥹💭
As a massive King fan: The Stand is brilliant, Needful Things and Misery are some other good ones and The Dark Tower series is my favourite fantasy series hands down. (Except for the first book which is "experimental", I skipped that one on my first read through of the series, still don't like it.)
I really like this list, I've read about a third of them so there's a lot to check out. I'm glad Gone With The Wind was up there, that's also in my top 10. From Stephen King, though I know a lot of people agree The Stand is his best, my favorite is IT. I don't think The Stand had such an ambitious finale (I can barely remember it), but the IT finale was SO grande in scope. It's still vivid in my memory. Lastly, in my top 3 would probly be Roots. There's my contribution to this comments section.
Pat Conroy is such an amazing author. "Beach Music" is my favorite of his books. Two of my other favorites I think you should check out are "Boy's Life" by Robert McCammon (which someone with great taste already mentioned in the comments) and "The Book of Lost Things" by John Connolly. I am really loving your channel! Thanks for all the great recommendations!
Great List, love it. Here are my top five of all time: 1. The Stand (Stephen King) 2. Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien) 3. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) 4. The Secret History (Donna Tartt) 5. 11/22/63 (Stephen King)
I wished I enjoyed reading as much as I enjoy watching videos of people talking about reading.
Guilty!😂
@@dianethompson9210ditto ✊
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This explains my situation so blatantly. Tq .
Start with books you can’t put down and over time you’ll love reading and want to go deeper
Wow, huge props putting Watership Down on the list. One of my all-time favorite books, and every time I mention it, nobody’s ever heard of it.
Including me but now I’ll read because of you.
Watership Down is one of my all-time favorite books as well. I go back and re-read it every few years. The 1978 animated movie is a great animated adaptation too.
I live in Newbury, Berkshire, England where Richard Adams grew up. Unfortunately, and perhaps ironically, a huge development has been approved on Sandleford (as in the Sandleford Warren) and building is due to commence shortly, despite strong local opposition.
Adams' choice of the Sandleford part of Newbury has proved prophetic. 😢
Probably my favorite, if you made me pick.
Same! Watership Down has been one of my favorite books for a long time and I always recommend it to friends because most of the time they’ve never heard of it
Solid choices! For those looking to dig deeper into truly transformative reads, Nixorus has some underrated recommendations worth checking out.
I just started binging your channel and was so excited to see, literally immediately after finishing your 7 books in 7 days video, that you posted a new one 30 seconds ago. Wild. New fan
Update: still a fan, have watched every new video since. You've inspired me to kick up my reading, as well. Read Stephen King because of you! Fairy Tale, tho, would love your thoughts
@@Spidermanonmynewps5how are you liking Stephen king?
Bingeing
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The Stand!!!!!! Yesssss! That was incredible. I remember really loving that book. Actually, I should read it again....
Oh, thank you for recognizing Watership Down. I read and re-read that book about 4 times! I was around when that first came out. Yeah, I'm THAT old 😂 i bought it with my babysitting money!
My next reading of Watership Down will be my fourth. It’s amazing the way it seems like an entirely new story each time. I realized after joining the Hardcore Literature Book Club (on Patreon and UA-cam) that that happens because I have changed, not the story, obviously. Best regards!
Watership Down! One of my all time faves! So happy to see it acknowledged here.
In all honesty I am so happy to see when you and your wife post a video. I love books so much and just seeing people appreciate the hard work that authors do is just amazing. Hopefully when I publish my book it will be grand. ☺
It will be amazing!
@@iangubeli TOP 45 BOOKS
0) "The Holy Bible: King James Version" copyright 1967
1) "The Insulted and Humiliated" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2) "Verbal Behavior" by Dr. B. F. Skinner
3) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy
4) "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5) "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev
6) Myth Adventures - series by Robert Asprin
7) The Chronicles of Narnia - series by C. S. Lewis
8) "Vilette" by Charlotte Brontë
9) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
10) "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
11) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev
12) "Chesapeake" by James A. Michener
13) "Poland" by James A. Michener
14) "Roots" by Alex Haley
15) The Silmarillion - The Hobbit, or there and back again - The Lord of the Rings - Middle Earth stories by J. R. R. Tolkien
16) "Even If This Love Disappears Tonight" by Misaki Ichijo
17) "Childhood, Boyhood" by Leo Tolstoy
18) Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov
19) "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin
20) "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
21) "Paris 1919: six months that changed the world" by Margaret MacMillian
22) "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Brontë
23) "Virgin Soil" by Ivan Turgenev
24) "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
25) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - by Mark Twain
26) Old Mother West Wind series - wildlife series by Thornton Burgess
27) "Microbe Hunters" by Paul de Kruif
28) "Cancer Ward" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
29) "Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt
30) "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
31) "Kon Tiki" by Thor Heyerdahl
32) "The Complete Poems of Anne Bronte" by Anne Brontë
33) "From Beirut to Jerusalem" by Thomas Friedman
34) "The Berdine Un-Theory of Evolution: and Other Scientific Studies Including Hunting, Fishing, and Sex" by William C. Berdine
35) "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
36) "Caribbean" by James A. Michener
37) "Hawaii" by James A. Michener
38) "The Painted Bird" by Jerzy Kosiński
39) "Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice
40) "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
41) "Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev
42) "Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis
43) "Emma" by Jane Austen
44) "In the First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
From you list that I like...
15) The Silmarillion - The Hobbit, or there and back again - The Lord of the Rings - Middle Earth stories by J. R. R. Tolkien
198) "Dune" by Frank Herbert
176) "Watership Down" by Richard Adams
Your "Watership Down" story is EXACTLY like mine. I viewed that film as a child and it was branded on my brain. 30 years later, I'm teaching 11th grade English and there's a copy on the shelf. I had come full circle and the experience of reading the novel as an adult was magical.
❤📚❤️ Yes, Watership Down a five-star book!
I love
1) to kill a mockingbird - harper lee
2) I know why the caged bird sings - maya angelou
3) wrinkle in time- madeline l ' engle
4) something wicked this way comes - bradbury
5) paradise - Toni morrison
6) east of eden - steinbeck
7) beloved - morrison
8)count of Monte Cristo- dumas
9) don Quixote - cervantes
10) Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare ( othello, Richard iv)
I know a rather odd list.
I’m reading East of Eden now. It’s so good!
I love the TKAM placement, probably my favorite book of all time as well. And I've started reading a lot of Shakespeare recently, once I finish The Tempest i think I'll move on to Othello
@@Dalton906J definatly book buddies! my fave shakespeare: othello, Richard lll, Henry lv, coriolanus, tempest and of course the " big 3" which I can never choose between!
Thank you the Steinbeck, one of my favorite American authors. East of Eden and Travels with Charlie are my favorites by him.
I don’t hear about many reading Don Quixote, the size of the book intimidates many. I loved it!
@@alloralou4722 I loved travels with Charlie as well. might be time for a second read. the first was over 40 years ago!
Great call on Watership Down….i don’t ever see anyone talk about it. Great book.
Ken Follet 'The Pillars of the Earth' is a great read if you like historical fiction I can't recommend it highly enough.
@@sarahbailey3778 One of my favorites!
One of my top two, next to The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
I love this book
Really good… not great. Glad I read it but… it was good.
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment are the best books I have ever read. Great list and continue your awesome work.
Very hard to identify a "Top 10" but just now my own favs would be:
1. Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
2. Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane
3. Maurice, by E. M. Forster
4. The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
6. Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner
7. The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger
8. The Ipcress File, by Len Deighton
9. Women in Love, by D. H. Lawrence
10. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Wolff
Great list! I was surprised to see The Prince of Tides! To anyone who's curious: Pat Conroy is an outstanding writer. Some of his other books are about military academy and basketball, two things I'm not at all interested in, but I read them through with ease. There's a movie (Prince of Tides) with Barbra Streisand, but definitely read the book first.
And Lonesome Dove is my favorite book ever, and I also think about it every day. It was the first-written, but third in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, and the other books are worth reading, too. There is also a decent miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall.
So happy you included Prince of Tides on your list. I don’t hear too many people talking about this marvel of a book. I read it many years ago, but still remember how it made me feel when the truth came out finally. I need to reread this masterpiece.
Agreed, it is a book that stays with you. I think I read it around 1989 or 90?
@@carlatate7678 I saw the movie when I was 10, and I still vividly remember "the event" and many more of the family problems. As a mother, I question why I was allowed to watch it.
Prince of tides is my top 10 also
I read it because of Ted Lasso. His therapist says it's her favorite book.
Well done for putting Gone with the Wind! Such a classic!
I specifically bought The Stand bc of your recommendation! Very excited to get into it!
Earlier this year I got a copy of The Stand at a little free library. I must say I enjoyed it very much!
My top 5 are...
1. 11/22/63 - Stephen King
2. Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson
3. The Ferryman - Justin Cronin
4. Dark Mattet - Blake Crouch
5. Morning Star - Pierce Brown
Never heard of the ferryman so just went on Amazon and it's currently 99p. It sounds brilliant thank you
I agree with your #1; I’ve read it twice and can imagine reading it yet again. Brilliant book!
I just finished 11/22/63. Blown away. Love it.
11/22/63 is in my top 5 also. Have you seen the series? it is also great and follows the book well. It was on Hulu but not sure if it still is.
Love that you include books from a range of time periods!
I bought Gone with the wind because it was 1500 pages, and if I were to pay for imported English books in Japan's kinokuniya, I was determined to get my 2700 yens worth. Hands down the best book I have ever read! Tolkin, Martin, king... all great writers and I've read all of those recommendations but I've probably read gone with the wind 15 times, I never get tired of Margaret Michelle's one and only novel. Great list bro! Think I'll try watershed.
Prince of Tides and all of his books are so amazing. Pat Conroy’s writing is so beautiful. It has a movie too.
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Watership Down. Re-read every few years. Amazing.
My top ten are books I love and would re-read over and over (also I can’t separate series). 😀
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Harry Potter series by JK Rawlings
3. Persuasion by Jane Austen
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
7. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
8. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
9. Chronicles of Narnia series by CS Lewis
10. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Just read To Kill a mockingbird over the summer and it was excellent!!❤
Based on your reading list (specifically, Bronte, Wilde, Austen, Dickens), I feel confident that you would really love The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield. It is a story within a story: a novice writer is hired to write the life story of a famously-reclusive, mysterious novelist. It is an homage to 19th-century literature, especially gothic, mystery, etc. Personally, I found the prose beautiful, although I know that some people find the descriptiveness a little bit overdone. I also think the characters are beautifully drawn. Setterfield did a good job (IMO) of establishing the mood and tone of the setting itself as well as the atmosphere under which the young writer must operate, in order to get the aged novelist's true life story. Also, the unabridged audiobook is probably the best audiobook I've ever listened to. The voices of two actresses chosen for the audiobook couldn't be a more perfect match for the two personalities they are portraying.
Sounds like my top ten
mostly not my taste, but a cool list nevertheless! mine is:
10) the magic mountain - mann
9) the bell jar - plath
8) white noise - delilo
7) in search of lost time - proust
6) star maker - stapleton
5) wuthering heights - brontë
4) lolita - nabokov
3) the dispossessed - le guin
2) 2666 - bolanõ
1) lord of the rings - tolkien (c'mon, its in my name lol)
LotR, Dune, Red Rising are all on my top 10 as well! Fantastic list!!! Still need to read the stand!
Yay, Gone with the Wind!!👋🏻👋🏻
Lonesome Dove is hands down my favorite book of all time. There has never been nor will ever be a character as unique and wonderful as Gus McCrae
I need to read it. I enjoyed the series so much.
@@dianethompson9210Oh, you should definitely read it and be prepared to get attached to the characters. If you think Woodrow and Gus are funny in the series the book is full of more of their conversations and humor. It is maybe a perfect book.
@@dianethompson9210 please do yourself a favor and read it
In high school English we were assigned to read a few chapters of Lonesome Dove. I read the whole thing and got in trouble for reading it in class when we were supposed to be doing other things. 😅
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough - Gus
Highly recommend Cutting for Stone for incredibly compelling drama in literary fiction .
I completely agree with your number 1 pick! It's wonderful!!
The Lonesome Dove miniseries with Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones is absolutely gorgeous as well. I highly recommend it too.
And if you, like me , have transitioned to listening, Lee Horsely's reading of the novel is perfect. I listen to it regularly.
Tommy Lee was born to play Woodrow McCall. Such a good series, the book is even better, even though the series is nearly perfect.
@@jostauffer6637 I second this!
Watership Down is my favorite book. My aunt bought it for me for my birthday when I was 10 or 11, loved it.
My top ten would include - in no particular order:
Paradise Lost
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Divine Comedy
Finnegans Wake
The Aeneid
The Akkadian Gilgamesh poem
The Lord of the Rings
The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
The Republic (Plato)
I have deliberately omitted all mention of the Biblical books, only because they are works of religion, rather than of literature; which is not to deny the high literary merit of many of them. That they have been immensely influential, in many different ways, is undeniable. It is a nice question whether they have been more influential as individual works, or as groups of writings, or as a unified body.
Based on this list, my guy's gotta check out The Pillars of the Earth and Shogun. Both incredible historical fiction
Just went to my local library and asked her for some fiction that feels like non fiction and she suggested Shogun so I got it
Just finished The Pillars of the Earth - best historical fiction I have ever read. Absolutely incredible !
Im currently reading Pillars of the Earth. I thought Joffrey Baratheon was one of the most evil villains ever, but i gotta hand it to William Hamleigh. That dude is a freaking monster.
Whole series is good!
@@suzdh 2 great recommendations.
My favorite book is “It.” Hands down. Read it twice so far, and ready for a reread again!
Fun fact Gone with the wind the movie is the first time a cuss word was ever said in a movie. “Quite frankly my dear I don’t give a damn” it cause lots of controversy. Lots of parents banned their children from watching it stating that this would be the downfall of movies in general.
The Count of Monte Cristo and The Picture of Dorian Gray seem like books you'd like!!
I'm in the IB and I loved these two books so much that my extended essay is a comparison of the themes of moral degradation in both these books and relating it to artistic movements that were ongoing while the books were being written!
Yessss the Count of Monte Cristo. It was so epic that after finishing it I thought it ruined me for all books 🤣
I own it.. two copies actually and I’m scared of it 😄
@@rubyanddelilahandnani read it! It’s a fun read written in really simple language! I was able to finish it in less than a week in 6th gradr
Yes, I agree🤗📚
I absolutely love seeing Prince of Tides on here. Pat Conroy is truly an incredible author.
really a wonderful book, and knowing the book makes watching the movie better.
I literally screamed when u showed Watership Down lol it's so rare to see someone talking about it. I absolutely love it!
My top 5:
1. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
3. Watership Down by Richard Adams
4. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
5. The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Wow, clicked for your swiss name, stayed for you and just celebrated your list.
Read and loved most of them already, but the rest of 3 made it onto my list.
Yes, we will be coping in this lifetime about ASOIAF (probably) never ending. But hey at least we got to know the sharp dialogues Tyrion, Cersei, Tywin and other great and unforgettable characters.
Thank you, this was my first video of you, but certainly not my last 🩵
Thanks for your top ten list! Lonsome Dove and The Prince of Tides are going on my list now :)
My Top 5:
5: Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
4: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
3: The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
2: Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
1: Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Suttree......... yes such an underrated book
Awesome choices with Enemy of God and Golden Sun, both are on my top 10 list as well. I recommend Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles for you to read next. The story begins right after the Bolsheviks take over Russia and the main character is an ex-aristocrat who has been forced to live the rest of his life in an upscale Moscow hotel called the Metropol, and you follow him throughout 20th century Russian history. Its an absolute fascinating read with the best main character ever written, you'll love it!
Newer reader here and am already hooked on SK. My first novel of his was 11/22/63 and I was told that I was setting the bar pretty high by starting there and that was deff not a lie. What a story! I own The Stand and will have to move it up on my TBR list.
I'm in the last stretch of 'A Game of Thrones' myself; even having watched the show, that still hasn't taken anything away from how amazing this book is, I hope Martin finishes the series.
I’m about halfway through Fire and Blood currently and trying to finish it before season 2 of HOTD comes. Check it out if you haven’t, because the style is different from GOT books (I read them all about 3 years ago) but just as high quality
UA-cam recommended your video to me, and I really enjoyed this video. I love the range of genres you have on this list! Thanks for sharing
My favorite book of all time is The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. It was required reading in 6th grade and now at 35, I still think about it every day. Gone with the Wind is also on my top 10! I haven’t made a definitive list but my other all time favs are: catcher in the rye, the invisible life of Addie larue, The Book Thief, Clan of the cave bear (highly recommended), a man called Ove, the giver, Project Hail Mary, & Ready Player one. These books are on my mind 24/7
The Outsiders is mine too :) we read it in 8th grade and like you, at 27 it’s been my favorite since, a very formative book for me
Clan of the cave bear and the outsiders are in my top 10 as well. Read the outsiders in 8th grade as well and it made such an impact
I hated Catcher in the Rye, but I loved the outsiders and the giver though
Worst novel ever crammed down teenagers throats.😊
Wow, you know what's going on. Check out David Wolverton's " On my Way to Paradise" another wonderful story....
All my favorites made your list! Watership Down, Lonesome Dove, Gone with the Wind! I’ve read the first book of Lord of the Rings. I’ll do your other recommendations.
Love your enthusiasm for the written word. I have bypassed some of the books for years. But Watership Down is my next read. Thank you
I have just finished Gone with the Wind oh my gosh I loved , loved it. Also after your recommendation Lonesome Dove, fabulous gave it to my son in law for his holiday read, thank you so much
You are timeless and comedic. I enjoyed this review. Thank you my brother.
Nice list!
My top 5 would be:
1. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
2. Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
3. Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy
4. Moby Dick- Herman Melville
5. Lonesome Dove- McMurtry (we have that in common 😂)
Great video. Love your list; knew you were legit when including Bernard Cornwell. Some of my favorites that generally would fit in this list: The Sand Pebbles, McKenna, Papillon, Charriere (ok, autobiography, but reads like a novel), Winds of War and War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk, anything Cormac McCarthy has written, but starting with All the Pretty Horse. I could go on…
You got on my good right off the bat with watership down. Thanks for your excellent list. I was surprised by gone with the wind.
I am definitely going to read the stand and the Bernard Cromwell book.
My two all time favorites are Shogun and the count of monte cristo. You should check them out.
Have been forcing myself to read more classics but like to break up with pleasure reads from quality writters.
Thanks again
35 year veteran high school English teacher here. Have used several from your list, including Watership Down. And added several of your list to my personal list I've never considered before. Thanks.
You read Watershipo Down in 4th grade; I read Gone with the Wind. It was a VERY heavy book (hardcover) to carry to and from school every day, but I did it and llloooovvved it. I still have that same hardcover- an original (pre-movie) version. Lucky me!
My top three books as well! Tripped me out when you picked The Stand as #1. 🤯 This video has me excited to read fiction again. Subbed and buying Pierce Brown tomorrow.
I can somewhat understand your decision to put the Stand on top of the list, although it is not your favorite Stephen King book. My absolute favorite Stephen King book is 11.22.63, I wouldn't necessary say it is his best book, but it is still my favorite. My top 1 book would have to be The Lord of the Rings. If i could only read one book for the rest of my life. That would be it.
Thanks for the strong recommendation for The Stand, which I've seen you give in several of your videos. I just finished reading the uncut edition and thought it was fantastic. I'm very glad I decided to read this version; it did not feel like any part of the story didn't belong and that it only created a more complete, rich, experience.
Watership Down is my favorite book ever. I subscribed immediately. Another classic I really love is Fahrenheit 451. I used to teach it to my 9th grade trying to make them see the parallels to our current world. Bradbury was way before his time.
My top 10:
- The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah (life changing)
- Daisy Jones & The Six by TJR
- The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue
- The Romcommers by Catherine Center
- Beach Read by Emily Henry
- Ignite Me by Taherah Mafi
- ACOWAR by SJM
- Defy My by Taherah Mafi
- ACOMAF by SJM
- The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
Excellent list!
THANK YOU! Someone else who finally has read and loved Gone With The Wind and done a review. I love this video. Thank you for all the reviews. I have a new reading list now.
Cool list and video. Love the energy you bring. Ill check out some of these recommendations.
Instantly subscribed..wow you're the most awesome and down to earth guy I've seen on youtube about books.
East of eden is one of the best books i’ve ever read. Absolutely brilliant and beautifully written
The algorithm shunted me over to this video, and I really enjoyed it. While we have more or less different tastes in books, we both share massive enthusiasm for reading. So long may you run, and thanks for spreading the message! When we read, we learn.
Add Wuthering Heights to your list! One of my favorite books.
"Heart of Darkness" is my favorite book of all time. I see nowhere that this book is mentioned, none of the booktube channels I've checked out has ever addressed this book. I highly suggest and recommend this book to you. Plus it's like 100 pages. So it's a breeze. The writing is absolutely beautiful.
Dang, not putting twilight in your top ten is crazy😂🤣
That surprises me....NOT 🤣🤣
Lol 😂
@@francesca.m. Wow you're so funny adding a lame joke onto what was actually a good joke. Cringe!
Booo
@@patriciakeagan9410yup. Its twilight. It aint really a top ten of all timme
You got a fantastic list! I’ve read most of them and loved them.
I’ve heard a lot of great things about Lonesome Dove so I’m definitely giving it a go.
I’m currently reading my way through the Saxon Chronicles series by Bernard Cornwell so it’s great to know what I can pick up next by him.
Iceeally thought one of the first law books would be on here. I can't wait to read some of the titles you listed. I have read 3 of them. Great vid!
Adding many of these to my TBR! Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm for books
Love your style and energy. Already read a couple on your list, but I might try one of the ones I haven't.
Anyone that puts Lonesome Dove on their best of lists is somebody I can take seriously as a recommender. Prince of Tides is already on my list but I have added a few others that you mentioned.
Wow, I'm 55 but you seem to have named many of my favorite novels. So I'm going to trust you and try the ones I haven't read.
Iannn!!!!! Insane to see this video man, from one of your first videos being your favourites to now, I’m so thankful I was there along the way watching the channel grow and flourish. I’m so proud to be a fan of yours because I can tell that you truly do care about us. You’re a great individual and I wish your hopes and dreams come true. Anytime I need book talkin I know I count on my favourite brotha Ian!!!!! All the love in the world man to you and ashelyn and god bless you. Can’t wait to see where the channel goes next ❤
I'm so glad I found you! These were excellent choices. Prince of Tides....such incredible story telling. You are young, but very,very wise.
Your list was wonderfully varied with its mix of genres. When you had Watership Down first, you had my undivided attention. It’s one of those books that did for me what Dune did for you, it sparked a love of reading early in my life, and so it changed my life. (That and Flowers for Algernon.) Well done!
It did that for me too
Flowers for Algernon was AMAZING.
I agree with you about Prince of Tides!!!!
Great list! Full of books I love or want to read. I recently reread LOTR for the first time in 20 years. It blew me away all over again. Such amazing books, the writing, the characters, everything.
One of my favorite books is Ender’s Game. Highly recommend.
I haven’t read The Stand, but speaking of post-apocalyptic novels from the King family, I really enjoyed The Fireman by Joe Hill. It probably wouldn’t make your top 10 list, but still enjoyable.
Great list, a few on there I've been meaning to get to.
Books I like recommending:
1 War and Peace
2 Watchmen
3 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
4 As I Lay Dying
5 2001: A Space Odyssey
I have read most of the books on this list. I want to tackle Watership Down again. I rad this book when I was really young(probably 10 or 11) and will reread it this summer! Thanks for the video
I haven't figured out a top 10 yet, but I think my favourite book of all time is Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (another classic). It is wonderful and feels fresh despite it's age. Highly recommend it!
You had me at Gone with the Wind. It is just so good. So exquisite.
It took me around a year to finish it but it was so worth it and good
It is my least favorite book of all time. I hated every second of it. Because it was so well done, I suppose.
@@annarocha3254 wow! I could definitely understand it not vibing with someone, but I have never heard that it was someone’s least favorite of all time.
Oh my gosh so happy to hear you put Prince of Tides on the list - read it in high school and it’s stuck with me 10 years later.
Where did you find that edition of the Stand!
At a Barnes & Noble!
I have to thank you, not for the books (though you did move some things up on my radar), but for reminding me of a song I hadn't heard in years. "In Lonesome Dove" by Garth.
Love your channel!
I’m jumping for joy that Gone With the Wind is on your list!
I was literally yelling ‘The Stand’ before you announced your #1 spot 😂
Weren't we all?
Spoiler alert 🤣
1. Curious George, by Margret & H.A. Rey
2. Green Eggs & Ham, by Dr. Seuss
3. Scrooge McDuck comics (with grand-nephews Hughy, Dewey, and Louie) by Carl Banks
Agree with you about THE STAND, but my heart loves 11/22/63. Keep us up to date. You do the best job of talking books without going into minute detail for long periods of time. Love your concise opinions and your enthusiasm!
Great choices there - The Stand is one of my all time favourites.
I have Gone With the Wind but haven’t read it yet but now you are making want to put it higher up on my TBR! I did try to read it when I was like 13 and couldn’t do it but now I’ve read a lot more harder to read classics so I really need to get to it! Also slowly making my way through the Stand!
I read Gone with the Wind when I was 13. It put me in a reading slump... Loved it.
You’ll love “Gone With the Wind!” And “The Stand” is better when you take your time! Whenever I reread it, I am taking a month or so to walk through it!
Please read East of Eden by John Steinbeck!
Completely agree!!😂
My Top 10 (without order)
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas - Machado de Assis (Brazil)
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien
Crime and Punishment - Fiódor Dostoiévski
Dune - Frank Herbert
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa
The Winter King - Bernard Cornwell
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
I recently discovered your channel. I really like the videos asking about the books people have read. Gained a subscriber from Brazil
The Shining is my favorite King novel. Cocaine and booze about ruined the man. So glad to see his writing recover.
I’m currently reading my first book by Stephen King and I totally love it! Next, I’ll tackle "The Stand." Thanks for the recommendation ☺️
My list would look like this:
1. Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind
2. Tara Westover: Educated
3. Cheryl Strayed: Wild
4. Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air
5. J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter
These are at least my favorites so far. But I also like the thought that my absolute favorites are still waiting to be discovered by me 🥹💭
As a massive King fan: The Stand is brilliant, Needful Things and Misery are some other good ones and The Dark Tower series is my favourite fantasy series hands down. (Except for the first book which is "experimental", I skipped that one on my first read through of the series, still don't like it.)
I really like this list, I've read about a third of them so there's a lot to check out.
I'm glad Gone With The Wind was up there, that's also in my top 10. From Stephen King, though I know a lot of people agree The Stand is his best, my favorite is IT. I don't think The Stand had such an ambitious finale (I can barely remember it), but the IT finale was SO grande in scope. It's still vivid in my memory.
Lastly, in my top 3 would probly be Roots. There's my contribution to this comments section.
Oh my lord I absolutely loved IT by him I’d even go so far as to say it was a masterpiece in writing
@@claresmith9261 I agree!
Pat Conroy is such an amazing author. "Beach Music" is my favorite of his books. Two of my other favorites I think you should check out are "Boy's Life" by Robert McCammon (which someone with great taste already mentioned in the comments) and "The Book of Lost Things" by John Connolly. I am really loving your channel! Thanks for all the great recommendations!
I second ‘Boy’s Life’. Originally read it at 16 yrs and again at 50. It’s perfection.
Great List, love it. Here are my top five of all time:
1. The Stand (Stephen King)
2. Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
3. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
4. The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
5. 11/22/63 (Stephen King)