Favorite Classic Books of the Year

Happy New Year everyone! In this video I share my favorite classic books that I read in 2023. This list includes books from a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, philosophy, and history books.
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My Minalima Video (featuring The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling)
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Books Mentioned
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
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Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
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The Essential Marcus Aurelius by Jacob Needleman (Translator), John Piazza (Translator)
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Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
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Kim by Rudyard Kipling
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The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (MinaLima Edition)
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (Barnes and Noble Edition) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/twen...
Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan
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Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire #1) by Anthony Trollope / 267123.the_warden
Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire #2) by Anthony Trollope / 125321.barchester_towers
The Last Chronicle of Barset (Chronicles of Barsetshire #6) by Anthony Trollope / 149789.the_last_chroni...
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Wordsworth Edition)
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The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (Penguin Deluxe Classics Edition)
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The Return of the King (LOTR #3) by J.R.R Tolkien
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Truman by David McCullough
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John Adams by David McCullough
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The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
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[@msguinevere3702]

I love your videos! You are so insightful and your reading tastes match up with mine perfectly - thank you for your book videos!!😁

[@sipzandstoriez9546]

Thank you MsGuinevere!

[@nancyegee2804]

How Green Was My Valley is one of my favorites of 2023 too - one my favorites ever really. Great reviews.

[@sipzandstoriez9546]

Thank you Nancy! I am so glad you read How Green Was My Valley too. 🙂

[@kayjones2533]

So lovely to see you again. Some great recommendations here, I really want to get to Oliver Twist this year. Hoping 2024 is a great year for you x

[@sipzandstoriez9546]

Thank you Kay! Oliver Twist was such a great book. I hope you get a chance to read it soon. 🙂

[@WaterBearReads]

I'm so excited to see you again! How was your time in South Korea? I love all these book recommendations! Rudyard Kipling is one of my favorite authors - I really loved the Second Jungle Book- this summer I visited his Vermont home where he wrote Jungle Books among others. I vlogged it if interested. I loved Journey to the Center of the Earth! But its the only one I have read so far. I totally love Sam too! My son and I just started reading The Hobbit- I forgot how its actually rather funny at parts! David McCullough is one of those authors whose books I see everywhere but I never properly focused on, so I thank you so much for highlighting him. This is one of the best "Best of" lists I've come across! Well done!!

[@sipzandstoriez9546]

Thank you! I am so excited that you started a channel! Your videos are so well done and you have the exact same taste in children's literature as I do. I love your vlogs of Kipling, Concord and Prince Edward Island. Those are some of the places on my bucket list this year. I can't wait to see more of your videos and the places you visit. I hope you and your son enjoy The Hobbit!🙂

[@Olivia-mom25]

Glad to hear good things about the Truman book. I really like McCullough and found several of his books(including Truman )at a thrift store and picked them up.

[@sipzandstoriez9546]

What a find! All of McCullough's books are fantastic!

[@carolnash5617]

I am so pleased to see you review "Truman" by McCollough!! It is a fine book, and it deserves to be in more reviewers' number 1 slot! I was born and raised in KC,MO in the 60s and i remember him as a very quiet celebrity from Independence. I was brought up close to where he was raised, remember his childhood farmhouse, and my parents shopped at Truman Corners, and i went to Harry S Truman elementary school! Independence, MO is where he spent most of his life before and after the presidency, and that city is where his presidential library is located.
I have enjoyed a number of David McCollough's books.... i read The Great Bridge and The Johnstown Flood in summer of 2020 and was extremely happy with them! It was first few months of lockdown and i really got on a nonfiction ride.

[@sipzandstoriez9546]

Thanks Carol! Wow, that is so interesting that you have childhood memories of Truman as a local celebrity in Missouri. I would love to visit and see the Truman library someday. 🙂