the fact that he recommended 18 books and gave an intro to them in under 4 minutes. all the other booktubers can't relate this could have been 20 minutes
"gossamer" by Lois Lowry is a beautiful little novel about three troubled people and the tiny fairies that give them their dreams at night. it's almost like an extended metaphor for healing and protection.
Look at what this man does, he gets his book on the best sellers list and into a movie and he makes a video at ONE OF the heights of his popularity to promote OTHER PEOPLE’s books. I now love him more, how could you not
I wish more people would adapt this pace when going through a list of books. It drives me nuts when people take five minutes per book. I usually start to forward to the next book mentioned.
Agreed. If you want someone to read something, you should say one or two really interesting things about it to get them hooked. They don’t need an entire synopsis. :-)
Maybe this is it... But everybody doesn't speak English and doesn't have mother toung also that's why they can say he speaks fast ... And according to me he speaks just like normal... Because he is native speaker...
I watched this on double speed😂 I actually recommend watching/listening to information-y talky things sped up, you get used to it and once you do it's SO much more effecient.
Beauty style, your English is better than most people that of everyone I go to school with! John talks really fast and I couldn't keep up with many of the first videos I watched. All the best learning English (bilinguals/ polyglots are the coolest) 😊
Play it back at half speed or so, he just speaks fast. My tip for listening to fast foreign speakers is to try to listen to chunks of words or a sentence or more at once. I find that when I'm trying to translate each word as it's said it's overwhelming.
Please don't be discouraged. This man speaks very quickly and succinctly. As a teacher, I never suggest the crash courses unless you already understand the topic. Then it is a great LISTENTING exercise.
Not really very informative, though. Just a machine gun of suggestions with little to warrant them being suggested. He should have had some respect for these works and gave them a proper review, or at least a pitch that's more than a 3 second sound byte that amounts to "I liked it.".
"The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth" "The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan"
Hate List by Jennifer Brown is amazing, it's about a fictional school shooting and the girl whose boyfriend was the shooter. I was really moved by it, and also very startled to find almost no reviews on the back.
I'd recommend Ronia the robber's daughter by Astrid Lindgren. I've read it in Dutch several times and it has always stuck with me. It's an adventure in a wild world, but it has a lot more going on than that. It's the book that for me sparked my love of nature so I'd definitely recommend it!
I am rather fond of Machine of Death and its sequel, This Is How You Die. They are collections of short stories from internet writers with the prompt of there being a machine that will, with a blood sample, tell you in a few words how you will die. It will not give specifics, and deaths are rarely straight forward, cancer could be a tumor, but could also be shot by someone of a specific zodiac. The stories are wonderfully creative over a huge verity of subjects, and are also amazing because of the collaboration that it took to make the books a reality - the prompt came from a webcomic, was written for by hundreds of people, no publisher would touch it so it had to self publish and through word of mouth became #1 on Amazon and can be downloaded as a free PDF. I would highly recommend it to anyone.
I have never read any of your books, nor have I seen any of your videos or social media or had/watched anything to do with you. I clicked on this because it was in my recommended and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and why everyone seems to adore you. I understand now.
I don't. Seems like a bad format for this type of content. Barely any time to pitch the numerous books, and only a superficial description of them is given, if any at all. This video would have benefited TREMENDOUSLY from another 20 minutes dedicated to actually making us want to read any of these. You know, by explaining in some detail why it is a good story? Not just say "I don't know why people don't read this!". Well, I can think of one reason....
You've probably never heard of her, but Octavia E. Butler was the ONLY African-American woman author of Science Fiction and her novel The Parable Of The Sower is one of the finest things you've never read. It imagines a not too distant future where the problems of today have continued to their most extreme end. A great look at where we are headed if we don't address issues such as homelessness, gangs, drug abuse, eduction and even funding for space travel.
Gosh, some parts of that book are absolutely gut wrenching. I remember reading it freshman year of high school and it definitely left a mark all these years later as I’ve already graduated college at this point. It’s story is incredibly relevant today and I only wish more Americans had read it back then. Maybe, just maybe, it would’ve helped quell the hateful seeds in some hearts that are flourishing today. Hopefully there is Hope.
Mabel Lara I feel exactly the same it's like why can't all the crappy ones just not be in my book shelf but then I just want every book book that I've read and loved To be in there.
1. Great Expectations, Dickens 2. The Stand, S. King Both authors really get you inside the characters - the way they feel, think, feminine personalities, masculine personalities, etc.
The 100 year old man that climbed out of the window and disappeared - I beat your best title, written by a Swede (name unable to remember) about, you guessed it, a 100 year old that climbs out of a window and disappears. Funniest book I ever read, also great story and very historically informative concerning the 20th century.
Love is not the word I would use but I appreciate the theme of the book challenging the indian cultural status quo like the caste system in a country that's plagued with dogmatic religious/cultural robots
@@lyankhaute7217 I mean is the book problematic in the sense that again it's a upper middle class savarna person's point of view of caste being shone and we hardly get to hear from the Dalit characters at all? Yes. Has Arundhati Roy become increasingly problematic in recent years? Also yes. Despite all of that though, the language of the book is one of the best I've seen in a long long time. It's beautiful storytelling, if not anything else
"Death Comes for the Archbishop" was certainly a bestseller in its day. "The Enormous Room" might have been. Both were featured in the Modern Library and were widely read at least through the 1960s. In addition to these, I've also read "The Optimist's Daughter," which enjoyed a vogue of its own through the 1980s.
Disappointed by the lack of in your pants jokes made in this video. I feel like too few people have read Little Brother by Corey Doctorow, which is a shame.
One of the best I have ever read, and one of my personal favorites!!!!!!! Which is surprising because most of my favorite books are not realistic fiction, but fantasy...
***** It's a book about a girl who committed suicide and she made these tapes explaining 13 reasons why she did it and sent them to the people who are the reasons and this kid named Clay thought they were friends and so he listens to all the tapes to try to find out why he's a reason and it also tell you all the other reasons.
I actually just read A Thousand Splendid Suns for my Easter Studies class. (It's like English class but with Eastern books instead of Shakespeare it's amazing!) and I had to make an effort not to cry in class several times...also I think about 5 people through their books across the room XD
No, that's completely normal. The wrong thing would be to create fictionalised summaries of the book titles. Death Comes for the Archbishop -- In your Pants. A fictionalised account of the life of disgraced and disgraceful Archbishop Robert Sanchez, and the sexual abuse that he inflicted and covered up in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
Vlogbrothers.. As a nerdfighter that is currently fighting for his country.. Venezuela, I ask you kindly if you could make a video about the situation that my country is currently into.. Which is another fight againts corruption that the entire world needs to know about and due to the media blackout that our government is currently sponsoring little is really getting out about this situation. Please, your channel move and informs a lot of people and right now is one of those times where just a single video can spark a lot of reactions and awareness through the all internet. Now is the time to help all those people in Venezuela by just informing a little bit about the topic in question. If you need info about this madness, protest, riots, corruption etc.. That is happening in my country please contact me and for all the nerdfighters out there.. Please help by spreading this info, reading a little bit about the crisis my dear country is enduring and I kindly ask a thumbs up to this comment so John and Hank can see it and well.. Decide if they want to vlog something about it. Thank you very much John, Hank and the nerdfighter community Sergio Tassoni
(Please excuse any grammar mistakes, John :)) So here's my idea for Dave Green: When talking about something and using a person as an example (like if you were talking about the economy and you were saying "person 1 buys...") use Dave Green instead of just a random person. So instead of saying person 1 does... Say Dave Green does... . What you guys think? DFTBA
It isn't enough that you give me Crash Course homework, now you also give me Vlogbrothers homework. I know it's reading week, but I'm not in school anymore and there's only so much I can do.
1. if you are an author, please build your own wikipedia page. maybe just the basics, but a list of your work would be great for example. 2. how much from the 6€ I pay on amazone do you actually get? my guess is 2€ btw 3. +18 content is nice, but i really don't like erotic or sexual content. should I still buy the book? 4. do you set or control prices for your books?
that sounds waay more interesting than the amazone description. why do you tell me, that "every woman will find her deepst desire" etc... I am not a woman... does my profile picture suggest that? :D how do you know about general desires of your gender? I certanly don't. In my opinion, individual differences are greater than general differences. I had some thoughts on unconditional love. but they are more philosophical questions and I don't have a definitive answer to them. do you want to hear (read) them?
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. It's really good, got children with unusual abilities, time loops, monsters, and REAL photos that make the book seem real. Read it, you won't regret it!
Your comment makes me think of Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. It's hilarious as well as tragic & everything between but the author reads the audio version & lends something to the experience that I have enjoyed many times. It was the 1st audiobook I ever listened to & it completely disarmed me. I'm so glad my sister loaned it to me when she did !
If you haven't read Where the Wild Things Are, The Giving Tree, Stella Luna, or The Polar Express to Henry I will be very sad and you should get on that.
Doesn't really fit into this list as it doesn't really have a message except the way it discusses morality but Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy is the best book series I have ever read. The comedy is impeccable, the horror is just creepy enough but not too creepy, it's not really gory horror either, and the characters are wonderful.
Yes definitely it's such an amazing series that everyone should read. I read them as they were released and they mature to deal with more serious problems like family and death.......lots of death
Sienna Heart Yeah definitely. My best friend doesn't take book recommendations because he doesn't want to get addicted to stuff and none of my other friends read. I've found a lot of fanart and such but there's not really a fandom. It frustrates me.
Ahh I know right the fan art would be amazing! I feel like it really hasn't even reached its peak of fame yet and it deserves to its so funny and will cause lots of feelings to break apart
Aristotle and Dante Discover the secrets of the universe is one of the most amazing books I've ever read. It is a Y/A self-discovery book. Totally recommended!!!!! Edit: The sequel is coming in Oct 2021 it is called Aristotle and Dante dive into the waters of the deep.
I know that it's not an unknown sort of book, but why have we never really talked about Catch 22 ? I love that book, it's funny and sad and amazingly clever. I've been pretty rubbish with reading lately though, I need to fix that.
2 books that should have been movies but aren't famous enough - Stolen by Lucy Christopher Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma BONUS : Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyungsook. THESE THREE BOOKS WILL MAKE Y'ALL CRY!!
Favorite books: A Step From Heaven Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Speak Night The Great Gatsby Shanghai Girls Lost in Translation Wicked The Alchemist Star girl Water For Elephants The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Latehomecomer And so many more....
I have to read night for school and it is so sad I legitimately cannot bring myself to read it. It is ironic for me because I have studied so much on ww2 and the holocaust, I've read countless books on the topic including the diary of Anne Frank but night is just so emotional :(
John, for years...YEARS..., up until just a year or two ago, I taught my English Composition courses with Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others! I did this ever since my second Masters from Bread Loaf School of English (Middlebury College, here in Vermont). As a result of feeling a sort of vindication by watching your post this, here, I may require it all over again! Thank you so much. I am just not sure how my military cadet students will take it at my University. It managed to upset a couple of my military students when teaching this at the local Community College (though that was not my personal intention, at all). I think it it allowed me to realize that their anger was meant to help them fight with and release ideas behind the people they labeled as "the other" in current media images. It think this book was the right choice, and I may just go back to using it again. Brilliant!!!! Thank you!!
PLEAQSE READ THE PERCY JACKSON SERIES I know that is\t's a long shot that you will even glance at the comment, but this book series has quite literally changed my life and it's by Rick Riordan and is AWSOME
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is an amazing novel in the perspective of a boy who has autism trying to solve a mystery of his neighbor's dead dog, while also trying to deal with conflict in his own family. It's a wonderful book, and honestly one of my favorite. Everyone should definitely try it at one time or another.
That one became so much more popular in Europe than America, which was odd. They adapted it into a play in England and it won a ton of awards. Wish it would tour around more.
These are some good books: 1.) Project 17 2.)Beautiful Creatures series 3.) A Mango Shaped Space 4.) Ready Player One 5.)Eye of minds 6.) The Immortals series 7.) Life as we knew it 8.)Maximum Ride series 9.) Out of the Dust 10.) that Rama series or book or whatever it is. 11.) Death Be Not Proud 12.) Artemis Fowl series 13.) A Wrinkle in Time 14.) City of Ember series 15.) Hate that Dog and Love that Cat (or maybe it's the other way around)
I recommend the Mortal Engines series, its like Charles Dickens meets Star Wars. Great opening line: “It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea." One of my favourite book series, ya might like it :)
It probably *is* a best seller and you probably *have* read it, but The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon is a book about a series of events from the perspective of a 15 year old boy with autism. It is eye-opening in its view of the world, and gives you an insight into experiences people have who see the world differently and are treated as 'other'.
You should all read 'Between Shades of Gray' It's a first person novel about a teenage girl who is taken by the invading USSR to a forced labour camp... I nearly cried.
+Tobi Toes Cheers to a great recommendation! But a note to those who don't read closely: The above is NOT to be confused with "Fifty Shades of Gray", certainly!
i would recommend Warm Bodies, most people i know didn't even know it was a book before it was a movie, the main focus of it is exploring grief and how humans react to it and how that sometimes when we go through so much pain we forget how feel and become almost like zombies (it uses that ironically as the story is set during a zombie apocalypse)
Check "Permutation City" by Greg Egan. One of the best Sci-Fi books out there. The writer is clearly a philosopher as he uses his plot to explore the deepest question: Who am I?
the fact that he recommended 18 books and gave an intro to them in under 4 minutes. all the other booktubers can't relate this could have been 20 minutes
I tried to review every jhon green boook in one minute each.!! On my channel. Lol
More like an hour.
I would have much preferred more time spent on each book though
20min it should have been. Or I’m just not a speed listener.
Hes great BUT I find that he speaks to fast so I have to relisten to him
"gossamer" by Lois Lowry is a beautiful little novel about three troubled people and the tiny fairies that give them their dreams at night. it's almost like an extended metaphor for healing and protection.
you should review the book "Steel Heart" by Brandon Sanderson
I read one of your books years ago John. I cried for a week.
The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Through A Window and Disappeeared
and Dddger by Terry Pratchett - one of his last novels and still great
"A Child Called It"
The only book to make me cry my insides out. I recommend this book for ANYONE who ever works with children.
That's a famous book
Look at what this man does, he gets his book on the best sellers list and into a movie and he makes a video at ONE OF the heights of his popularity to promote OTHER PEOPLE’s books. I now love him more, how could you not
"Will you miss me when I'm gone...from your pants?" ;-D
The Raven Cycle: Raven Boy (book I) By: maggie stiefvater
The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
Can you talk a little bit faster please?
hes talking way too fast uh
+Jan Martin Ulvåg Its soo much worse in crash course.
Emma Milliken potayto/ potarto, John/ Hank, what's the difference really? XP
I was reading the second page of "The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green" and did not understand the part saying "ice-sculpted G." What is G? :
Jessica Van an ice sculpture of the letter g probably
I wish more people would adapt this pace when going through a list of books.
It drives me nuts when people take five minutes per book. I usually start to forward to the next book mentioned.
Same! I just want the title and maybe a sentence about it. I can look the rest up on my own if I'm interested. 😊
And they take 5 minutes to start
Adjust the playback speed.
Noted.
Agreed. If you want someone to read something, you should say one or two really interesting things about it to get them hooked. They don’t need an entire synopsis. :-)
It seems like I’m one of the few who DOESN’T think he’s speaking too fast.
Maybe this is it... But everybody doesn't speak English and doesn't have mother toung also that's why they can say he speaks fast ... And according to me he speaks just like normal... Because he is native speaker...
Yup.
I actually play on 1.25 speed
I watched this on double speed😂 I actually recommend watching/listening to information-y talky things sped up, you get used to it and once you do it's SO much more effecient.
@@eoghan.5003 I do the exact same thing 😁
Congratulations on #1 and thanks for sharing these. Will have to get around to reading them
Sure Nat, you just want to try on his glasses and read Hornblower
says the girl who after all those years, still hasn't done a video on making lamingtons...
Woah you leave on people UA-cam videos cooooool 😎🤘🤯🤩
I am Vietnamese and I think my English is good
But after watching what he said,I am shocked and I think I need to study more
I understand nothing
Beauty style, your English is better than most people that of everyone I go to school with! John talks really fast and I couldn't keep up with many of the first videos I watched. All the best learning English (bilinguals/ polyglots are the coolest) 😊
Beauty style. ill teach you
Play it back at half speed or so, he just speaks fast. My tip for listening to fast foreign speakers is to try to listen to chunks of words or a sentence or more at once. I find that when I'm trying to translate each word as it's said it's overwhelming.
Angela Denika he does talk fast so I don't blame you as a non native English speaker
Please don't be discouraged. This man speaks very quickly and succinctly. As a teacher, I never suggest the crash courses unless you already understand the topic. Then it is a great LISTENTING exercise.
Wow, that's a lot of information in under 4 minutes...
He is very efficient indeed.
miss Bibliophile I hate it it's so annoying how fast he talks
This is why I keep pen and paper handy when watching...
it’s all those crash course videos he’s done finally getting to him
Not really very informative, though. Just a machine gun of suggestions with little to warrant them being suggested. He should have had some respect for these works and gave them a proper review, or at least a pitch that's more than a 3 second sound byte that amounts to "I liked it.".
May I get my TOEFL diploma right now because I've understood everything clearly
x2
As a TOEFL Test Administrator, I’d pass you. Although I also have no control over grading, only making sure you’re not wearing a hat 🎩
You are awesome.....
You guys want to know what my favorite fictional read is? The bible.
You know what my favorite fictional read is? SAHAJ'S LIFE
What life?
I just laughed so hard i woke my family up. XD
Are you a comedian?
Chris Corbett I really hope you are not referring to Sahaj when you ask that question. Because he is far from being a comedian
What did one librarian say to another librarian?
*Read more*
I got you !!!😂😂😂
that was really good. I kept trying to click it and it didn't work
ok I wash pushing the button blaming my computer thank you xd
Damn I fell for it!
May I bestow upon you the "most creative comment ever" award?
I actually love it that he doesn't waste time on saying too much about books
7 years late and I realized I have not even heard of any of those books. 😅👏🏼
I was about to comment the same thing because same and also how
and then I saw your comment
(also how does john look so young)
Me too!
Facts
@@georgiaho the vid is from 7 years ago...unless you already knew that. In which case, yes he does look very young
In which John shares 18 of his favorite books that aren't wildly popular bestsellers.
18 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read
"The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth"
"The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan"
Hate List by Jennifer Brown is amazing, it's about a fictional school shooting and the girl whose boyfriend was the shooter. I was really moved by it, and also very startled to find almost no reviews on the back.
I'd recommend Ronia the robber's daughter by Astrid Lindgren. I've read it in Dutch several times and it has always stuck with me. It's an adventure in a wild world, but it has a lot more going on than that. It's the book that for me sparked my love of nature so I'd definitely recommend it!
I am rather fond of Machine of Death and its sequel, This Is How You Die. They are collections of short stories from internet writers with the prompt of there being a machine that will, with a blood sample, tell you in a few words how you will die. It will not give specifics, and deaths are rarely straight forward, cancer could be a tumor, but could also be shot by someone of a specific zodiac. The stories are wonderfully creative over a huge verity of subjects, and are also amazing because of the collaboration that it took to make the books a reality - the prompt came from a webcomic, was written for by hundreds of people, no publisher would touch it so it had to self publish and through word of mouth became #1 on Amazon and can be downloaded as a free PDF. I would highly recommend it to anyone.
Please read Alamut by Vladimir Bartol. Its an amazing book about humans, human actions and perceptions of power. :)
I have never read any of your books, nor have I seen any of your videos or social media or had/watched anything to do with you. I clicked on this because it was in my recommended and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and why everyone seems to adore you. I understand now.
👌🤘
You have no idea what you have just entered.
(silently smiling with satisfaction)
I don't. Seems like a bad format for this type of content. Barely any time to pitch the numerous books, and only a superficial description of them is given, if any at all.
This video would have benefited TREMENDOUSLY from another 20 minutes dedicated to actually making us want to read any of these. You know, by explaining in some detail why it is a good story? Not just say "I don't know why people don't read this!".
Well, I can think of one reason....
@@thetruth45678 well said mate
0:01 And there goes his well combed hair...
Catch me here from 2020 while the world is burning and John now runs life’s libraries
Yessss‼️‼️
I just joined Life's Library...a perfect antidote to 2020 (and now 2021)
Wut about the falt in are stars I herd that's a good book
Shut the fuck up crockpot
Bruce Wayne Jeez.
Bruce Wayne dude he wrote that book
***** ... Ha ha ha
You've probably never heard of her, but Octavia E. Butler was the ONLY African-American woman author of Science Fiction and her novel The Parable Of The Sower is one of the finest things you've never read. It imagines a not too distant future where the problems of today have continued to their most extreme end. A great look at where we are headed if we don't address issues such as homelessness, gangs, drug abuse, eduction and even funding for space travel.
Thank you. This sounds exactly like the kind of book I'd want to read. I'm going to get it at as soon as possible!
I agree with you 100% (and so does John, btw, he reviewed the book in another UA-cam upload)
Great Book series, especially in 2020.
Gosh, some parts of that book are absolutely gut wrenching. I remember reading it freshman year of high school and it definitely left a mark all these years later as I’ve already graduated college at this point. It’s story is incredibly relevant today and I only wish more Americans had read it back then. Maybe, just maybe, it would’ve helped quell the hateful seeds in some hearts that are flourishing today. Hopefully there is Hope.
All of OB's books are outstanding.
It's a bit ironic, in my opinion his least publicized books like Looking For Alaska was better than The Fault In Our Stars or Paper Towns.
I liked paper towns better than looking for Alaska. Maybe because I read it first.
+Victoria Whitlock I am your opposite! I think Looking For Alaska is so much better than Paper Towns.
In Sweden Looking For Alaska is named After Alaska, I think it's great but I love the Katherine theori!
+Maja I just written the names in Swedish sorry
Same
Lol the first thing i thought when i saw the thumbnail was: "Holy sh*t it's james potter. YoU'Re AliVe!" Then i was like "oh..."
Ohhh!! So true! I can’t believe it took me like 6 years to realize 😂😂
Lol, and his Brother is Sirius, seeing as they looked similar, but with black hair.
Buying one of these books on Amazon.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought... the rest of the books from this video.
I think a good book that not many people have read is the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling. Have you guys heard of her?
Daenerys Targaryen What a wasted opportunity Danny!!! If you had to suggest fantasy, you could have though of 'A Song of Ice and Fire'...
A joke is lost if you have to explain it. :(
No I haven't, but I heard of this guy called J.R.R Tolkien, can anybody explain who he is? Is he popular?
Really? I thought a lot of people (or at least people in the U.S. Idk of you live there) knew about her (not trying to be rude:))
Obvious troll is obvious.
I very strongly suggest Flowers For Algernon. It's very sad, but I think you would really enjoy it! Can any if you tell me if you have read it?
I read it in my lit class in highschool, is it bad that I just wanna own all the books i have ever read? Well, the ones that I liked?
Mabel Lara I feel exactly the same it's like why can't all the crappy ones just not be in my book shelf but then I just want every book book that I've read and loved To be in there.
It like "book can i just look at you and hold you sometimes and read you every once in a while??"
Mabel Lara EXACTLY! I'm sorry I'm excited because nobody else that I know is not a product of internet understands that.
*that is not
1. Great Expectations, Dickens
2. The Stand, S. King
Both authors really get you inside the characters - the way they feel, think, feminine personalities, masculine personalities, etc.
Wait...that youtube history course guy is the guy that wrote fault in our stars.....mind=blown
+Luke Hopton I would ask how you didn't figure that out, but that'd require me to have not been in the same situation several months ago.
+Luke Hopton this guy went to my high school back in 08. Read Looking For Alaska before meeting him, was pretty cool
+Luke Hopton had the exact same realization and reaction just days ago!!!
Same, this was my reaction 0-0 wat
The 100 year old man that climbed out of the window and disappeared - I beat your best title, written by a Swede (name unable to remember) about, you guessed it, a 100 year old that climbs out of a window and disappears. Funniest book I ever read, also great story and very historically informative concerning the 20th century.
Yup, one of the best novels I've read in my entire life!
"They're gonna know about your lisp-"
"No they already know about your lisp-"
"No, no. Just... MOVING ON"
The lisp is endless.
God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, you'll love it
I absolutely love this book.
Best book reading experience so far.
Love is not the word I would use but I appreciate the theme of the book challenging the indian cultural status quo like the caste system in a country that's plagued with dogmatic religious/cultural robots
@@lyankhaute7217 I mean is the book problematic in the sense that again it's a upper middle class savarna person's point of view of caste being shone and we hardly get to hear from the Dalit characters at all? Yes. Has Arundhati Roy become increasingly problematic in recent years? Also yes. Despite all of that though, the language of the book is one of the best I've seen in a long long time. It's beautiful storytelling, if not anything else
I bawled like a sissy and developed eye infection after reading that book.
@@kashishgidwani7121 You would just be credible if you admit you already had a brain infection
I was hoping to know at least 1 book, but I knew none.
I guess that's really a good thing though...
I just realized you made a booktube video.
Love, Rosie.
Perks of Being A Wallflower.
True Beauty (Priscilla Wu)
The Stargazer's Scrapbook (Ester Lee)
Battle Royale.
1984, most haven't actually read it.
I prefer Orwell's THE ANIMAL FARM.
@@Blaqjaqshellaq I prefer Crichton's Timeline.
They seriously need to Now.
Y E S
I tried reading it and stopped. Like another person here, I really liked Animal Farm.
"Death Comes for the Archbishop" was certainly a bestseller in its day. "The Enormous Room" might have been. Both were featured in the Modern Library and were widely read at least through the 1960s. In addition to these, I've also read "The Optimist's Daughter," which enjoyed a vogue of its own through the 1980s.
WAIIIT!!!
AREN'T YOU FROM THAT ONE CHANNEL ON UA-cam THAT TEACHES KIDS STUFF
if you mean react: NO
but if you mean crash course then PROBABLY
And if you mean Mental Floss then HELL YEAH
+ElectricMinecraft Crash Course? Yeah. This is his first channel
YES HES THAT GUY
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness is an amazing story that isn't to long that I would highly recommend
Disappointed by the lack of in your pants jokes made in this video.
I feel like too few people have read Little Brother by Corey Doctorow, which is a shame.
The fact that you put this all into 3 minutes makes me want to subscribe.
13 Reasons Why is an amazing book
One of the best I have ever read, and one of my personal favorites!!!!!!! Which is surprising because most of my favorite books are not realistic fiction, but fantasy...
OMG YES
Yes. Just yes.
***** It's a book about a girl who committed suicide and she made these tapes explaining 13 reasons why she did it and sent them to the people who are the reasons and this kid named Clay thought they were friends and so he listens to all the tapes to try to find out why he's a reason and it also tell you all the other reasons.
I met Jay Asher who wrote the book and he is a great guy and funny too.
Cirque du freak love Darren Shans works
Me too , I read it school ages ago and I really enjoyed it x
High five! I like that series as well!
I would recommend thousand splendid suns by Khalid Husain , catcher in the rye by JD Salinger and if I stay by gayle forman
+Srujana Srinivasan I loved If I Stay and Where She Went
+Srujana Srinivasan i LOVED a thousand splendid suns
I actually just read A Thousand Splendid Suns for my Easter Studies class. (It's like English class but with Eastern books instead of Shakespeare it's amazing!) and I had to make an effort not to cry in class several times...also I think about 5 people through their books across the room XD
+Srujana Srinivasan I thought the Catcher in the Rye was awful
Do read the kite runner if you loved Khalid Hussainis books :)
Please calm down joh you making me feel stressed
The Knife of Never Letting Go. Holy lord! Most beautifully, creatively written book I've ever read. Almost lyrical in its purposeful imperfection
YES
Patrick ness?
I LOVEE THIS BOOK!!!
YES.
YES YES YES YES YES... my favourite trilogy
*frantically tries to type names of books into springpad*
Why not create a Goodreads.com list?
i think you should read "a tree grows in brooklyn" it is an amazing and inspiring novel
As if I didn't already have enough on my "to-read" list!
Is it wrong that, in my head, I kept adding "in your pants" to the end of each title?
No, that's completely normal. The wrong thing would be to create fictionalised summaries of the book titles.
Death Comes for the Archbishop -- In your Pants.
A fictionalised account of the life of disgraced and disgraceful Archbishop Robert Sanchez, and the sexual abuse that he inflicted and covered up in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
Vlogbrothers.. As a nerdfighter that is currently fighting for his country.. Venezuela, I ask you kindly if you could make a video about the situation that my country is currently into.. Which is another fight againts corruption that the entire world needs to know about and due to the media blackout that our government is currently sponsoring little is really getting out about this situation. Please, your channel move and informs a lot of people and right now is one of those times where just a single video can spark a lot of reactions and awareness through the all internet. Now is the time to help all those people in Venezuela by just informing a little bit about the topic in question.
If you need info about this madness, protest, riots, corruption etc.. That is happening in my country please contact me and for all the nerdfighters out there.. Please help by spreading this info, reading a little bit about the crisis my dear country is enduring and I kindly ask a thumbs up to this comment so John and Hank can see it and well.. Decide if they want to vlog something about it.
Thank you very much John, Hank and the nerdfighter community
Sergio Tassoni
"This Coffin Had No Handles" - is the greatest novel about a strike ever written. By Thom MacGrath.
I Capture the Castle by Dodi Smith. That is all I'm going to say.
my brother sam is dead: one of the greatest novels I have ever read that is based upon a US war (this being the american revolution)
I've read one of the eighteen..."Round Ireland with a Fridge" by Tony Hawks (not the skateboarder), it is very funny...
the secret Garden is THE BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
East Of Eden from 1952 by John Steinbeck. It's an amazing piece of art
Isabelle Gustafsson
that book seriously changed my life
Kegyetleneper mine too.
@@MALELUMALULA Mine three. One of the best books ever.
I came here just to say that:
The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle
is a good book.
I remember reading that one, but I think the Percy Jackson series is better :p
(Please excuse any grammar mistakes, John :)) So here's my idea for Dave Green: When talking about something and using a person as an example (like if you were talking about the economy and you were saying "person 1 buys...") use Dave Green instead of just a random person. So instead of saying person 1 does... Say Dave Green does... . What you guys think? DFTBA
you get my 2 thumbs (up)
samramdebest thanks!
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, a Will Grayson, Will Grayson like book
At first I thought you were recommending Will Grayson, Will Grayson and I was like "HE WROTE THAT YOU IDIOT"
I love Aristotle and Dante
It's one of those books that'll stay with me forever and I will never forget.
ImmaJoeBob I've finished the book about three days ago and YES the book touched me a lot
I would be over the moon you read:
The Strange And Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
It isn't enough that you give me Crash Course homework, now you also give me Vlogbrothers homework. I know it's reading week, but I'm not in school anymore and there's only so much I can do.
that title is so fucking hipster
+SuperDuck but what about 18 books you definitly alredy have read?
+SuperDuck or 18 great bestsellers you could easily find by googleing
Irena Pusnik is it a crazy endless loop in itself? just kidding. is it on amazone?
1. if you are an author, please build your own wikipedia page. maybe just the basics, but a list of your work would be great for example.
2. how much from the 6€ I pay on amazone do you actually get? my guess is 2€ btw
3. +18 content is nice, but i really don't like erotic or sexual content. should I still buy the book?
4. do you set or control prices for your books?
that sounds waay more interesting than the amazone description. why do you tell me, that "every woman will find her deepst desire" etc... I am not a woman... does my profile picture suggest that? :D
how do you know about general desires of your gender? I certanly don't. In my opinion, individual differences are greater than general differences.
I had some thoughts on unconditional love. but they are more philosophical questions and I don't have a definitive answer to them. do you want to hear (read) them?
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. It's really good, got children with unusual abilities, time loops, monsters, and REAL photos that make the book seem real. Read it, you won't regret it!
He and Ransom Riggs are good friends, so he already read it, he talked about it in a video
I LOVE that book so much :)
Round Ireland with a Fridge is a hilarious book but I especially recommend the audiobook, as it's read by the author and even funnier.
Your comment makes me think of Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. It's hilarious as well as tragic & everything between but the author reads the audio version & lends something to the experience that I have enjoyed many times. It was the 1st audiobook I ever listened to & it completely disarmed me. I'm so glad my sister loaned it to me when she did !
If you haven't read Where the Wild Things Are, The Giving Tree, Stella Luna, or The Polar Express to Henry I will be very sad and you should get on that.
Oh how I have missed you childhood. Did anyone else get Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing read to them in elementary school?
Doesn't really fit into this list as it doesn't really have a message except the way it discusses morality but Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy is the best book series I have ever read. The comedy is impeccable, the horror is just creepy enough but not too creepy, it's not really gory horror either, and the characters are wonderful.
I have a nephew who loves those!
Yes definitely it's such an amazing series that everyone should read. I read them as they were released and they mature to deal with more serious problems like family and death.......lots of death
Holy shit I love these books. Sometimes it feels like no one knows about them but me, you know?
Sienna Heart Yeah definitely. My best friend doesn't take book recommendations because he doesn't want to get addicted to stuff and none of my other friends read. I've found a lot of fanart and such but there's not really a fandom. It frustrates me.
Ahh I know right the fan art would be amazing! I feel like it really hasn't even reached its peak of fame yet and it deserves to its so funny and will cause lots of feelings to break apart
You should read "looking for Alaska"
Aristotle and Dante Discover the secrets of the universe is one of the most amazing books I've ever read. It is a Y/A self-discovery book. Totally recommended!!!!!
Edit: The sequel is coming in Oct 2021 it is called Aristotle and Dante dive into the waters of the deep.
I know that it's not an unknown sort of book, but why have we never really talked about Catch 22 ? I love that book, it's funny and sad and amazingly clever. I've been pretty rubbish with reading lately though, I need to fix that.
That's my favourite book! I guess the people overlooking it are blinded by the flies in their eyes.
Haha, This is a feather in your cap my friend :)
Started reading TFiOS today...so far my favorite book of yours!
Stargirl. Trust me, Stargirl.
SUCH an incredible book.
I know right! Happy to find Nerdfighters that like it as well :D
Ella C Yessss
you're welcome! happy rereading :)
Christina Tomasik I'M GOING TO READ IT (although I spoiled myself a lot :( BUT STILL) THANKS FOR A GOOD BOOK :DDDDD
2 books that should have been movies but aren't famous enough -
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
BONUS : Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyungsook.
THESE THREE BOOKS WILL MAKE Y'ALL CRY!!
if you haven't read it, House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer is a good one :D
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
HELL YEAH!
Yaasss
YEs I love that book!!!
Bro I love that book
OMG YES
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo! It’s super good and the sequel is really good, too!
And to think we now have the show.
Favorite books:
A Step From Heaven
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Speak
Night
The Great Gatsby
Shanghai Girls
Lost in Translation
Wicked
The Alchemist
Star girl
Water For Elephants
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Latehomecomer
And so many more....
Yes. The Alchemist!
Wow, I thought I was the only one who liked Speak
i've read Speak and Stargirl (and the sequel) xD
Speak is one of my favorites as well!
I have to read night for school and it is so sad I legitimately cannot bring myself to read it. It is ironic for me because I have studied so much on ww2 and the holocaust, I've read countless books on the topic including the diary of Anne Frank but night is just so emotional :(
Graceling, Fire, and Bitterblue are all fantastic books that are rather deep. I suggest reading them DO IT NAO
THE GIVER by Lois Lowry
John, for years...YEARS..., up until just a year or two ago, I taught my English Composition courses with Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others! I did this ever since my second Masters from Bread Loaf School of English (Middlebury College, here in Vermont). As a result of feeling a sort of vindication by watching your post this, here, I may require it all over again! Thank you so much. I am just not sure how my military cadet students will take it at my University. It managed to upset a couple of my military students when teaching this at the local Community College (though that was not my personal intention, at all). I think it it allowed me to realize that their anger was meant to help them fight with and release ideas behind the people they labeled as "the other" in current media images. It think this book was the right choice, and I may just go back to using it again. Brilliant!!!! Thank you!!
PLEAQSE READ THE PERCY JACKSON SERIES I know that is\t's a long shot that you will even glance at the comment, but this book series has quite literally changed my life and it's by Rick Riordan and is AWSOME
Or All American Girl by meg Cabot. The story is about a girl that accidently saves the present form an assassination attempt and hijinks ensue
Mac'n CheeseTV lol
Yes!!! I loved those books, they changed my life
An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten. Not very well known but very good. The ending's a bit disappointing, but overall worth the read.
I see what you did there.
;)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is an amazing novel in the perspective of a boy who has autism trying to solve a mystery of his neighbor's dead dog, while also trying to deal with conflict in his own family. It's a wonderful book, and honestly one of my favorite. Everyone should definitely try it at one time or another.
Hello 8 year ago person, I was going to say this one as well.
That one became so much more popular in Europe than America, which was odd. They adapted it into a play in England and it won a ton of awards. Wish it would tour around more.
These are some good books:
1.) Project 17
2.)Beautiful Creatures series
3.) A Mango Shaped Space
4.) Ready Player One
5.)Eye of minds
6.) The Immortals series
7.) Life as we knew it
8.)Maximum Ride series
9.) Out of the Dust
10.) that Rama series or book or whatever it is.
11.) Death Be Not Proud
12.) Artemis Fowl series
13.) A Wrinkle in Time
14.) City of Ember series
15.) Hate that Dog and Love that Cat (or maybe it's the other way around)
a mango shaped space. yass
oooh a mango shaped space is a really lovely book yes yes
maddlybezerk yes I know right! this is the first time i'm hearing others have read it as well c:
omg in 5th grade i read the city of ember series and was obbsessed with it
I read city of ember in grade 5 too
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. It's a graphic novel memoir about a girl living in Iran during the Islamic Revolution
I recommend the Mortal Engines series, its like Charles Dickens meets Star Wars. Great opening line: “It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea." One of my favourite book series, ya might like it :)
Did I just realize Rn that THE John from crash course history is the author of the fault in our stars……? Yes yes I did 😂🤦♀️
It probably *is* a best seller and you probably *have* read it, but The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon is a book about a series of events from the perspective of a 15 year old boy with autism. It is eye-opening in its view of the world, and gives you an insight into experiences people have who see the world differently and are treated as 'other'.
Great book.
I was about to suggest this when I saw it was already posted. Absolutely one of the best books I've read. Funny, witty stuff with heart.
You should all read 'Between Shades of Gray' It's a first person novel about a teenage girl who is taken by the invading USSR to a forced labour camp... I nearly cried.
+Tobi Toes Cheers to a great recommendation!
But a note to those who don't read closely: The above is NOT to be confused with "Fifty Shades of Gray", certainly!
+Tobi Toes You may like "The Bitter Side of Sweet" it changed my life
Peabut21 P I won't spoil it for the others but honestly the ending of that book got me so emotional, such a great book
Maria Likes Books Will add it to the list!
Also 'A Dream Of Lights' is a similar story line set in the concentration camps of modern-day North Korea. It's unbelievable: read it!
i would recommend Warm Bodies, most people i know didn't even know it was a book before it was a movie, the main focus of it is exploring grief and how humans react to it and how that sometimes when we go through so much pain we forget how feel and become almost like zombies (it uses that ironically as the story is set during a zombie apocalypse)
Check "Permutation City" by Greg Egan. One of the best Sci-Fi books out there. The writer is clearly a philosopher as he uses his plot to explore the deepest question: Who am I?
Wow I will check that out.
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. you'd probably like him.