18 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read

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  • @jeal2195
    @jeal2195 5 років тому +3343

    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

    • @forireadandfly4873
      @forireadandfly4873 5 років тому +9

      I tried to review every jhon green boook in one minute each.!! On my channel. Lol

    • @pinkimietz3243
      @pinkimietz3243 4 роки тому +23

      More like an hour.

    • @tinar8828
      @tinar8828 3 роки тому +11

      I would have much preferred more time spent on each book though

    • @AllenFreemanMediaGuru
      @AllenFreemanMediaGuru 3 роки тому +7

      20min it should have been. Or I’m just not a speed listener.

    • @paulcunneen3519
      @paulcunneen3519 Місяць тому

      Hes great BUT I find that he speaks to fast so I have to relisten to him

  • @neoseyes
    @neoseyes 9 років тому +6612

    Can you talk a little bit faster please?

    • @beccac1004
      @beccac1004 9 років тому +67

      hes talking way too fast uh

    • @moemoechainsawmaid5368
      @moemoechainsawmaid5368 9 років тому +153

      +Jan Martin Ulvåg Its soo much worse in crash course.

    • @moemoechainsawmaid5368
      @moemoechainsawmaid5368 9 років тому +23

      Emma Milliken potayto/ potarto, John/ Hank, what's the difference really? XP

    • @jessicavan4477
      @jessicavan4477 7 років тому +9

      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? :

    • @Emailly-dl4ee
      @Emailly-dl4ee 7 років тому +1

      Jessica Van an ice sculpture of the letter g probably

  • @slvrangel22
    @slvrangel22 5 років тому +1776

    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.

    • @BaldingClamydia
      @BaldingClamydia 5 років тому +39

      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. 😊

    • @bobxyzp
      @bobxyzp 4 роки тому +23

      And they take 5 minutes to start

    • @Tincan21ify
      @Tincan21ify 4 роки тому +12

      Adjust the playback speed.

    • @hydraelectricblue
      @hydraelectricblue 4 роки тому

      Noted.

    • @rzawilski
      @rzawilski 4 роки тому +10

      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. :-)

  • @zaram7391
    @zaram7391 4 роки тому +287

    I actually love it that he doesn't waste time on saying too much about books

  • @angeladenika2790
    @angeladenika2790 8 років тому +1449

    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

    • @ananyagirish9982
      @ananyagirish9982 8 років тому +68

      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) 😊

    • @Unluckystikes
      @Unluckystikes 8 років тому

      Beauty style. ill teach you

    • @Earbly
      @Earbly 8 років тому +7

      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.

    • @delaneysays
      @delaneysays 7 років тому +9

      Angela Denika he does talk fast so I don't blame you as a non native English speaker

    • @JamieSmith-bj3hs
      @JamieSmith-bj3hs 7 років тому +9

      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.

  • @totalweirdo8538
    @totalweirdo8538 8 років тому +518

    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.

    •  7 років тому +7

      👌🤘

    • @sdfghjksdfgh673
      @sdfghjksdfgh673 6 років тому +11

      You have no idea what you have just entered.

    • @akarshitachandra3971
      @akarshitachandra3971 6 років тому +6

      (silently smiling with satisfaction)

    • @thetruth45678
      @thetruth45678 5 років тому +2

      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....

    • @someguy1914
      @someguy1914 5 років тому +1

      @@thetruth45678 well said mate

  • @communitychannel
    @communitychannel 10 років тому +426

    Congratulations on #1 and thanks for sharing these. Will have to get around to reading them

    • @steve8t2
      @steve8t2 10 років тому +6

      Sure Nat, you just want to try on his glasses and read Hornblower

    • @Vicky-hc4su
      @Vicky-hc4su 6 років тому +4

      says the girl who after all those years, still hasn't done a video on making lamingtons...

    • @samwells218
      @samwells218 6 років тому

      Woah you leave on people UA-cam videos cooooool 😎🤘🤯🤩

  • @sambowlina
    @sambowlina 5 років тому +582

    It seems like I’m one of the few who DOESN’T think he’s speaking too fast.

    • @yasiraslam2765
      @yasiraslam2765 5 років тому +24

      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...

    • @davidcopson5800
      @davidcopson5800 4 роки тому +4

      Yup.

    • @blob7800
      @blob7800 3 роки тому +10

      I actually play on 1.25 speed

    • @eoghan.5003
      @eoghan.5003 3 роки тому +6

      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.

    • @alainart
      @alainart 3 роки тому

      @@eoghan.5003 I do the exact same thing 😁

  • @vlogbrothers
    @vlogbrothers  10 років тому +437

    In which John shares 18 of his favorite books that aren't wildly popular bestsellers.
    18 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read

    • @BubbaYoga
      @BubbaYoga 10 років тому +6

      "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"

    • @DaphneKnouse
      @DaphneKnouse 10 років тому +10

      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.

    • @SimsMusicals
      @SimsMusicals 10 років тому +10

      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!

    • @azhdrake
      @azhdrake 10 років тому +1

      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.

    • @LittleCookie1231
      @LittleCookie1231 10 років тому

      Please read Alamut by Vladimir Bartol. Its an amazing book about humans, human actions and perceptions of power. :)

  • @girlfriday9939
    @girlfriday9939 8 років тому +861

    Wow, that's a lot of information in under 4 minutes...

    • @jamesredman604
      @jamesredman604 7 років тому +34

      He is very efficient indeed.

    • @pleasegetoffofmyaccounttho1356
      @pleasegetoffofmyaccounttho1356 7 років тому +4

      miss Bibliophile I hate it it's so annoying how fast he talks

    • @doveoo5
      @doveoo5 7 років тому

      This is why I keep pen and paper handy when watching...

    • @izzyg.1933
      @izzyg.1933 6 років тому +2

      it’s all those crash course videos he’s done finally getting to him

    • @thetruth45678
      @thetruth45678 5 років тому +1

      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.".

  • @annamouse179
    @annamouse179 5 років тому +330

    May I get my TOEFL diploma right now because I've understood everything clearly

    • @daaniel_malik
      @daaniel_malik 4 роки тому +2

      x2

    • @frostyskeletons8950
      @frostyskeletons8950 4 роки тому +15

      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 🎩

    • @michaelmonkey6541
      @michaelmonkey6541 3 роки тому +1

      You are awesome.....

  • @bijayanshrestha2459
    @bijayanshrestha2459 5 років тому +1762

    What did one librarian say to another librarian?
    *Read more*

    • @nurjahanblaskar6105
      @nurjahanblaskar6105 5 років тому +26

      I got you !!!😂😂😂

    • @ashleysong9203
      @ashleysong9203 4 роки тому +96

      that was really good. I kept trying to click it and it didn't work

    • @nayia3998
      @nayia3998 4 роки тому +16

      ok I wash pushing the button blaming my computer thank you xd

    • @soumyadeepnaskar446
      @soumyadeepnaskar446 4 роки тому +10

      Damn I fell for it!

    • @josephr.imholte4666
      @josephr.imholte4666 4 роки тому +27

      May I bestow upon you the "most creative comment ever" award?

  • @TolarianCommunityCollege
    @TolarianCommunityCollege 10 років тому +73

    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.

    • @rhiflux
      @rhiflux 10 років тому +1

      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!

    • @TaliWalt
      @TaliWalt 6 років тому +1

      I agree with you 100% (and so does John, btw, he reviewed the book in another UA-cam upload)

    • @Dr_Will_Tarr
      @Dr_Will_Tarr 4 роки тому +1

      Great Book series, especially in 2020.

    • @frostyskeletons8950
      @frostyskeletons8950 4 роки тому +1

      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.

    • @macrumpton
      @macrumpton 3 роки тому +1

      All of OB's books are outstanding.

  • @SophieSnyderDIYbaby13DIYbaby13
    @SophieSnyderDIYbaby13DIYbaby13 8 років тому +415

    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.

    • @VMRVid
      @VMRVid 8 років тому +19

      I liked paper towns better than looking for Alaska. Maybe because I read it first.

    • @allisonyoung2440
      @allisonyoung2440 8 років тому +18

      +Victoria Whitlock I am your opposite! I think Looking For Alaska is so much better than Paper Towns.

    • @maja8184
      @maja8184 8 років тому +5

      In Sweden Looking For Alaska is named After Alaska, I think it's great but I love the Katherine theori!

    • @maja8184
      @maja8184 8 років тому

      +Maja I just written the names in Swedish sorry

    • @agreenpar
      @agreenpar 8 років тому

      Same

  • @lilydelacour
    @lilydelacour 3 роки тому +160

    7 years late and I realized I have not even heard of any of those books. 😅👏🏼

    • @georgiaho
      @georgiaho 3 роки тому +2

      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)

    • @lyndseymurray2066
      @lyndseymurray2066 3 роки тому

      Me too!

    • @ivanelizalde9997
      @ivanelizalde9997 3 роки тому

      Facts

    • @AgentChiliFri
      @AgentChiliFri 3 роки тому

      @@georgiaho the vid is from 7 years ago...unless you already knew that. In which case, yes he does look very young

  • @pa4765
    @pa4765 3 роки тому +20

    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.

  • @Josephsoto221
    @Josephsoto221 8 років тому +155

    The Knife of Never Letting Go. Holy lord! Most beautifully, creatively written book I've ever read. Almost lyrical in its purposeful imperfection

    • @eos4672
      @eos4672 5 років тому

      YES

    • @zayed4675
      @zayed4675 5 років тому +3

      Patrick ness?

    • @Mid4s
      @Mid4s 5 років тому

      I LOVEE THIS BOOK!!!

    • @rosie__7179
      @rosie__7179 5 років тому

      YES.

    • @kimaya1994
      @kimaya1994 4 роки тому

      YES YES YES YES YES... my favourite trilogy

  • @isabellegustafsson6913
    @isabellegustafsson6913 8 років тому +100

    East Of Eden from 1952 by John Steinbeck. It's an amazing piece of art

    • @Kegyetleneper
      @Kegyetleneper 6 років тому +1

      Isabelle Gustafsson
      that book seriously changed my life

    • @MALELUMALULA
      @MALELUMALULA 6 років тому

      Kegyetleneper mine too.

    • @locutusdborg126
      @locutusdborg126 5 років тому +1

      @@MALELUMALULA Mine three. One of the best books ever.

  • @ktberio
    @ktberio 9 років тому +42

    Buying one of these books on Amazon.
    Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought... the rest of the books from this video.

  • @Prilavolus
    @Prilavolus 3 роки тому +20

    "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.

  • @noneofyourbusiness4159
    @noneofyourbusiness4159 7 років тому +101

    "They're gonna know about your lisp-"
    "No they already know about your lisp-"
    "No, no. Just... MOVING ON"

  • @blanchenoire4681
    @blanchenoire4681 10 років тому +21

    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.

    • @kittylitteral5417
      @kittylitteral5417 Рік тому +1

      Hello 8 year ago person, I was going to say this one as well.

    • @verity3616
      @verity3616 Рік тому

      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.

  • @teenagepurplepixie
    @teenagepurplepixie 10 років тому +14

    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)

  • @izzybuckler2042
    @izzybuckler2042 4 роки тому +74

    Catch me here from 2020 while the world is burning and John now runs life’s libraries

    • @LadyProspekt
      @LadyProspekt 4 роки тому +1

      Yessss‼️‼️

    • @tinamildred
      @tinamildred 3 роки тому +1

      I just joined Life's Library...a perfect antidote to 2020 (and now 2021)

  • @marielbell8667
    @marielbell8667 8 років тому +233

    Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

  • @mecrazy123
    @mecrazy123 10 років тому +11

    You are the definition of a cultured and intelligent man who is also incredibly humble. Good job.

  • @glenniesewell8054
    @glenniesewell8054 6 років тому +8

    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!!

  • @jhelummukherjee8655
    @jhelummukherjee8655 4 роки тому +60

    God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, you'll love it

    • @pastaapastaa6169
      @pastaapastaa6169 4 роки тому +4

      I absolutely love this book.
      Best book reading experience so far.

    • @lyankhaute7217
      @lyankhaute7217 4 роки тому +1

      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

    • @jhelummukherjee8655
      @jhelummukherjee8655 4 роки тому +4

      @@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

    • @kashishgidwani7121
      @kashishgidwani7121 4 роки тому +1

      I bawled like a sissy and developed eye infection after reading that book.

    • @lyankhaute7217
      @lyankhaute7217 4 роки тому +4

      @@kashishgidwani7121 You would just be credible if you admit you already had a brain infection

  • @janjansen381
    @janjansen381 8 років тому +59

    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.

    • @Ssookawai
      @Ssookawai 5 років тому

      Yup, one of the best novels I've read in my entire life!

  • @Salem2322
    @Salem2322 9 років тому +56

    Wait...that youtube history course guy is the guy that wrote fault in our stars.....mind=blown

    • @unixone7558
      @unixone7558 9 років тому +6

      +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.

    • @RingxWorld
      @RingxWorld 9 років тому +1

      +Luke Hopton this guy went to my high school back in 08. Read Looking For Alaska before meeting him, was pretty cool

    • @3pointZERO
      @3pointZERO 9 років тому +1

      +Luke Hopton had the exact same realization and reaction just days ago!!!

    • @lizdreams2462
      @lizdreams2462 9 років тому

      Same, this was my reaction 0-0 wat

  • @OmariWilliamsalex
    @OmariWilliamsalex 6 років тому +36

    The fact that you put this all into 3 minutes makes me want to subscribe.

  • @coena9377
    @coena9377 4 роки тому +31

    I would recommend:
    “Ishmael” by Daniel Quinn, a brilliant examination of human culture from a human and non human perspective.
    “Vicious” by VE Schwab, probably the best science fiction anti-hero story I’ve read. It’s sequel “Vengeful” was also pretty good, though I preferred the original.
    “The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, a nonfiction book which both examines the fascinating science behind HeLa cells and the systemic exploitation of people of color by the medical sciences. It’s a science story, but also a very human story.
    And so many more, but I’ll leave the list there for now.

  • @LeviJohansen
    @LeviJohansen 10 років тому +25

    I was hoping to know at least 1 book, but I knew none.
    I guess that's really a good thing though...

  • @Whitney_Sews
    @Whitney_Sews 10 років тому +18

    Started reading TFiOS today...so far my favorite book of yours!

  • @maddlybezerk
    @maddlybezerk 10 років тому +17

    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)

    • @hannahguanti3602
      @hannahguanti3602 10 років тому +3

      a mango shaped space. yass

    • @anj5253
      @anj5253 10 років тому +2

      oooh a mango shaped space is a really lovely book yes yes

    • @anj5253
      @anj5253 10 років тому +1

      maddlybezerk yes I know right! this is the first time i'm hearing others have read it as well c:

    • @katieplant3493
      @katieplant3493 10 років тому +1

      omg in 5th grade i read the city of ember series and was obbsessed with it

    • @OMGNAWNAWPLAYSMC
      @OMGNAWNAWPLAYSMC 10 років тому +2

      I read city of ember in grade 5 too

  • @frankalicandri6318
    @frankalicandri6318 4 роки тому +14

    "This Coffin Had No Handles" - is the greatest novel about a strike ever written. By Thom MacGrath.

  • @CinnaFrost
    @CinnaFrost 10 років тому +6

    Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight. It's the story of a mother who learns her daughter commits suicide but gets a text reading "she didn't jump" and the mother's journey trying to reconstruct her daughters past. It is by far the most amazing book I've ever read.

  • @katherinemccallister787
    @katherinemccallister787 10 років тому +52

    13 Reasons Why is an amazing book

    • @JamesGirl0016
      @JamesGirl0016 10 років тому +2

      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...

    • @dalalq333
      @dalalq333 10 років тому +1

      OMG YES

    • @RiyaSheik
      @RiyaSheik 10 років тому

      Yes. Just yes.

    • @katherinemccallister787
      @katherinemccallister787 10 років тому +3

      ***** 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.

    • @kyliethomas8368
      @kyliethomas8368 10 років тому

      I met Jay Asher who wrote the book and he is a great guy and funny too.

  • @The_Other_Ghost
    @The_Other_Ghost 7 років тому +142

    1984, most haven't actually read it.

    • @Blaqjaqshellaq
      @Blaqjaqshellaq 4 роки тому +12

      I prefer Orwell's THE ANIMAL FARM.

    • @The_Other_Ghost
      @The_Other_Ghost 4 роки тому +1

      @@Blaqjaqshellaq I prefer Crichton's Timeline.

    • @mangot589
      @mangot589 4 роки тому +1

      They seriously need to Now.

    • @darkspearepsych
      @darkspearepsych 4 роки тому

      Y E S

    • @robbyddurham1624
      @robbyddurham1624 4 роки тому +4

      I tried reading it and stopped. Like another person here, I really liked Animal Farm.

  • @rr7firefly
    @rr7firefly 4 роки тому +5

    I am glad to see Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop" on the recommended list! Each reading reveals a new immersion in a magical setting. Great writing is at once mysterious and accessible, a gift for the reader.

  • @tobitoes1052
    @tobitoes1052 9 років тому +36

    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.

    • @cnhertzog
      @cnhertzog 8 років тому +9

      +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!

    • @quixoticvalkyrie
      @quixoticvalkyrie 8 років тому +1

      +Tobi Toes You may like "The Bitter Side of Sweet" it changed my life

    • @tobitoes1052
      @tobitoes1052 7 років тому

      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

    • @tobitoes1052
      @tobitoes1052 7 років тому

      Maria Likes Books Will add it to the list!

    • @libbyharris1749
      @libbyharris1749 7 років тому

      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!

  • @myleo
    @myleo 10 років тому +7

    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 :)

  • @LittleDreamer3
    @LittleDreamer3 10 років тому +7

    I recommend Room By Emma Donoghue, which is a novel told completely and accurately from the point of view of five year old Jack. Jack has only ever known Room, it's where he was born and where he eats, plays and learns with his Ma. Room really is about the unconditional and unconquerable love in completely horrific circumstances and the strength of the bond between a mother and her child. After reading this book for one of my university classes, Room moved me in a way that I didn't think that a book could. After reading Room, you'll never forget it!

    • @ohmygodgasm
      @ohmygodgasm 10 років тому +1

      That book blew my mind

    • @librarygirl89
      @librarygirl89 10 років тому +1

      Love Room! Although it is disturbing at times. Bonus: Emma Donoghue is Canadian!!

  • @rebellehopes5899
    @rebellehopes5899 4 роки тому +8

    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!!

  • @Cra3ture
    @Cra3ture 8 років тому +37

    Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng

    • @nidakazi7021
      @nidakazi7021 6 років тому

      OMG yeah how did I even forget this!

  • @michaelturner5558
    @michaelturner5558 8 років тому +170

    Name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss

    • @dewayner5388
      @dewayner5388 8 років тому +4

      Dude yes. Every yes I have

    • @snarlingcarl5096
      @snarlingcarl5096 8 років тому +2

      I wish i could like this a million times

    • @r3g4rds
      @r3g4rds 7 років тому +2

      that book is great if you love mary sues

    • @dewayner5388
      @dewayner5388 7 років тому

      aLOOF gOALS What do you mean?

    • @r3g4rds
      @r3g4rds 7 років тому +2

      ***** the main character is a mary sue. need i say more?

  • @srujanasrinivasan8564
    @srujanasrinivasan8564 9 років тому +70

    I would recommend thousand splendid suns by Khalid Husain , catcher in the rye by JD Salinger and if I stay by gayle forman

    • @geeksquad2.024
      @geeksquad2.024 9 років тому

      +Srujana Srinivasan I loved If I Stay and Where She Went

    • @Micnic111
      @Micnic111 9 років тому +7

      +Srujana Srinivasan i LOVED a thousand splendid suns

    • @danam4296
      @danam4296 8 років тому +1

      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

    • @landraeavers8475
      @landraeavers8475 8 років тому +1

      +Srujana Srinivasan I thought the Catcher in the Rye was awful

    • @manialtaf6502
      @manialtaf6502 8 років тому +4

      Do read the kite runner if you loved Khalid Hussainis books :)

  • @rachzen
    @rachzen 6 років тому +46

    Finally got to reading "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. I can't believe I waited so long it's my new favourite.

    • @dirkjehovah4731
      @dirkjehovah4731 4 роки тому

      rachzen I’m glad you like it! I read it a couple years back, it’s a great book! I should probably reread it sometime soon

    • @anshizhi
      @anshizhi 4 роки тому

      It's soooo good! 🥰

    • @MsMalcolmC
      @MsMalcolmC 4 роки тому +4

      Isn't it beautiful?

    • @davidcopson5800
      @davidcopson5800 4 роки тому +3

      It's electrifying!

  • @msp_k
    @msp_k 10 років тому +17

    Absolutely love it when Hank and John recommend books. Can we make this a regular thing? haha :]

    • @LAGreer
      @LAGreer 10 років тому +2

      If it was a monthly thing, I would totally be ok with that.... I love hearing what books authors love & recommend :)

  • @beautyandthebest3100
    @beautyandthebest3100 10 років тому +18

    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?

    • @mabsel9447
      @mabsel9447 10 років тому +3

      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?

    • @beautyandthebest3100
      @beautyandthebest3100 10 років тому

      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.

    • @mabsel9447
      @mabsel9447 10 років тому

      It like "book can i just look at you and hold you sometimes and read you every once in a while??"

    • @beautyandthebest3100
      @beautyandthebest3100 10 років тому

      Mabel Lara EXACTLY! I'm sorry I'm excited because nobody else that I know is not a product of internet understands that.

    • @beautyandthebest3100
      @beautyandthebest3100 10 років тому

      *that is not

  • @MrBikerJesus
    @MrBikerJesus 10 років тому +6

    I recently read a book called The Fault of our Stars, and I think John would love it.

  • @vaishnavichintha7620
    @vaishnavichintha7620 3 роки тому +8

    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.

  • @stefaniecallista5027
    @stefaniecallista5027 8 років тому +32

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being is incredible and so philosophical. I adore it so much!

    • @user-cg1rw7os2g
      @user-cg1rw7os2g 8 років тому

      yes!!! the way it was written was so... enchanting

    • @catherineleary9462
      @catherineleary9462 7 років тому

      Stefanie Callista AWESOME book and decent film.

    • @iannacorneliamaza
      @iannacorneliamaza 6 років тому

      By Milan Kundera :)

    • @lynndelmargo9717
      @lynndelmargo9717 6 років тому

      This is one of my all time favorites. Absolutely beautiful. But even better is The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

  • @EmperorTigerstar
    @EmperorTigerstar 10 років тому +18

    I recommend the book Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. It's about a man who loses his limbs, sight, speech, and hearing but is still alive in a ww1 hospital.

    • @kiranspees6048
      @kiranspees6048 10 років тому +4

      OMG--I read that book in junior high and it's haunted me ever since, but I could never remember the title. Thank you!!

    • @EmperorTikacuti
      @EmperorTikacuti 10 років тому +1

      Why is it important?

    • @EmperorTigerstar
      @EmperorTigerstar 10 років тому +3

      DW42536387384 Johnny Got His Gun shows the horrors of war. It's also the book/movie behind the Metallica song "One."

    • @EmperorTikacuti
      @EmperorTikacuti 10 років тому +1

      World War I must be really horrific but we never know what did happen at the time.

    • @EmperorTigerstar
      @EmperorTigerstar 10 років тому +2

      DW42536387384 We know practically everything about World War I...it's one of the most documented wars in history...and the book was written in 1938.

  • @hormpir3648
    @hormpir3648 8 років тому +143

    WAIIIT!!!
    AREN'T YOU FROM THAT ONE CHANNEL ON UA-cam THAT TEACHES KIDS STUFF

    • @DragonLineVlog
      @DragonLineVlog 8 років тому +14

      if you mean react: NO

    • @RoseEvans01
      @RoseEvans01 8 років тому +58

      but if you mean crash course then PROBABLY

    • @sannabenba9732
      @sannabenba9732 8 років тому +11

      And if you mean Mental Floss then HELL YEAH

    • @quixoticvalkyrie
      @quixoticvalkyrie 8 років тому +1

      +ElectricMinecraft Crash Course? Yeah. This is his first channel

    • @marybach9925
      @marybach9925 8 років тому +1

      YES HES THAT GUY

  • @daniellein1752
    @daniellein1752 4 роки тому +8

    “Going After Cacciato” by Tim O’Brien of “The Things They Carried” fame, is an excellent Vietnam war odyssey that works in a sort of magical realism space. I had never heard of it, but it stands as one of my favorites.

  • @JoopDelingen
    @JoopDelingen 10 років тому +6

    0:01 And there goes his well combed hair...

  • @Potionmaniac
    @Potionmaniac 10 років тому +4

    One of my favourite book series is the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore in which a 12 year old orphan and his sister are recruited into a faction of the British Intelligence where all they're agents are children aged between 10 and 18. Only the first four books were published in the USA but the entire series of 15 (soon to be 16) can be shipped from either Europe or Canada. The first book is called "The Recruit" and I highly recommend it to not only you, John, but also to every Nerdfighter watching this video. The CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore, check it out!

    • @redfushigi12
      @redfushigi12 10 років тому

      I love that series too. Great concept AND great writing.

  • @HoneyBeauBeau
    @HoneyBeauBeau 7 років тому +70

    1. The Fault in our Stars
    2. Finding Alaska
    3. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    4. Paper Towns

    • @hina4500
      @hina4500 6 років тому +2

      GONZOglasses will Grayson, will Grayson was such a unique read

    • @patrochilles6275
      @patrochilles6275 6 років тому +7

      @@hina4500 looking for alaska

    • @aditibisht22
      @aditibisht22 5 років тому +3

      Finding Alaska. lol

    • @smritika3767
      @smritika3767 5 років тому +3

      Finding Alaska LMFAO

    • @zoedoran164
      @zoedoran164 4 роки тому +3

      Looking for alaska belongs above the fault in our stars by the way. Fight me

  • @frazierrunyon6568
    @frazierrunyon6568 4 роки тому +17

    i think you should read "a tree grows in brooklyn" it is an amazing and inspiring novel

  • @93ghostgirl
    @93ghostgirl 10 років тому +6

    The Curious Case of the Dog in the Nighttime is a book about an autistic teenager trying to solve a mystery which turns into a lifelong change for him. It's very good.

  • @theevilcomet500
    @theevilcomet500 10 років тому +4

    I would definitely recommend It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini, it is this incredible book about about a boy who is on a mental ward with depression but the story itself isn't at all depressing. I don't know any 'sophisticated' adult literature (I'm 13) but I would recommend also reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, if you haven't already. I'm currently reading Catcher In The Rye which is surprisingly amazing but I know you have already read that!

  • @adammundy2479
    @adammundy2479 8 років тому +46

    John. Read "Thinking Fast and Slow" at once if convenient. If inconvenient read all the same.

    • @adammundy2479
      @adammundy2479 8 років тому +1

      By Daniel Kahneman.

    • @sarahmichelle6205
      @sarahmichelle6205 8 років тому +3

      I see what you did there hehe Sherlock reference

    • @catvalentine4317
      @catvalentine4317 6 років тому

      Yes, it's great! But I'd suggest reading predictably irrational first.

  • @DetectiveKemper
    @DetectiveKemper 3 роки тому +3

    Okay, here are three book recommendations, all written by me. "Who Framed Boris Karloff?" a murder mystery that takes place on the set of "Son of Frankenstein." Then there's the sequel, "Bela Lugosi and the House of Doom," a spy thriller that takes place during the making of "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein," and my third novel, "The Vampire's Tomb Mystery," a thriller that takes place during Lugosi's funeral and concerns the disappearance of Edward D. Wood, Jr. All are thoroughly researched, and the actors get together and solve the mysteries. "Vampire's Tomb" is also available on Audible.

  • @ruthrh4746
    @ruthrh4746 10 років тому +6

    'Alanna: The First Adventure' By Tamora Pierce.
    She is one of my favorite authors, and dramatically under celebrated.

  • @adkgirlsince01
    @adkgirlsince01 10 років тому +7

    Eleanor and Park is one of my favorite books ever

  • @MagicTurtle643
    @MagicTurtle643 10 років тому +4

    I highly recommend The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier. Which is also largely about the pain and suffering of others.

  • @cripmusicongfrfr
    @cripmusicongfrfr 5 років тому +57

    I came here just to say that:
    The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle
    is a good book.

    • @susanthefish8940
      @susanthefish8940 3 роки тому +4

      I remember reading that one, but I think the Percy Jackson series is better :p

  • @FumesOfTheGods
    @FumesOfTheGods 8 років тому +29

    The Shadow of the Wind is by far my favorite and it was the book that got me into reading. I highly recommend it!

  • @pastellexists
    @pastellexists 7 років тому +8

    The Mixed of Files of Basil E. Frankweiler. It's the only book I've re-read more than five times, it got the Newberry medal, so I don't know how popular it was, but it's great.
    Another one is Codename: Verity by Elizabeth Wein. My copy is tear-stained and the pages are wrinkled from the multiple occasions where I threw it across the room because I hated the antagonists so much. Great for history buffs or anyone.

  • @Thefedoranerd
    @Thefedoranerd 10 років тому +14

    you should review the book "Steel Heart" by Brandon Sanderson

  • @Whyaretherehandlesnowihateit
    @Whyaretherehandlesnowihateit 6 років тому +29

    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..."

    • @javierafigueroamoraga8316
      @javierafigueroamoraga8316 3 роки тому +1

      Ohhh!! So true! I can’t believe it took me like 6 years to realize 😂😂

    • @catrocastre8215
      @catrocastre8215 3 роки тому

      Lol, and his Brother is Sirius, seeing as they looked similar, but with black hair.

  • @ellac6212
    @ellac6212 10 років тому +43

    Stargirl. Trust me, Stargirl.

    • @christinatomasik6173
      @christinatomasik6173 10 років тому

      SUCH an incredible book.

    • @ellac6212
      @ellac6212 10 років тому +1

      I know right! Happy to find Nerdfighters that like it as well :D

    • @christinatomasik6173
      @christinatomasik6173 10 років тому

      Ella C Yessss

    • @christinatomasik6173
      @christinatomasik6173 10 років тому

      you're welcome! happy rereading :)

    • @ruam9679
      @ruam9679 10 років тому +2

      Christina Tomasik I'M GOING TO READ IT (although I spoiled myself a lot :( BUT STILL) THANKS FOR A GOOD BOOK :DDDDD

  • @epsilon127
    @epsilon127 10 років тому +6

    "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.

  • @UrASemipro
    @UrASemipro 9 років тому +80

    Wut about the falt in are stars I herd that's a good book

    • @UrASemipro
      @UrASemipro 9 років тому +22

      Shut the fuck up crockpot

    • @pufflerate123
      @pufflerate123 9 років тому

      Bruce Wayne Jeez.

    • @xoriyon321
      @xoriyon321 9 років тому

      Bruce Wayne dude he wrote that book

    • @tanweerize
      @tanweerize 9 років тому

      ***** ... Ha ha ha

  • @queenoblivia
    @queenoblivia 3 роки тому +11

    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.

    • @gregorybesson2341
      @gregorybesson2341 2 роки тому +1

      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 !

  • @JustLukeJohnson
    @JustLukeJohnson 10 років тому +8

    "Shades of Grey" by Jasper Fforde explores a world that is literally ruled by colour. It's hard to explain, but basically your social status is determined by how well you can see colour and which shades you can see.

    • @Sunnysun033
      @Sunnysun033 10 років тому

      Reminds me of The Giver. Is it just as good?

    • @JustLukeJohnson
      @JustLukeJohnson 10 років тому

      Having never read the Giver, I couldn't tell you. It is one of my favourite books though, so if it sounds like something you'd like, i heartily recommend it.

    • @FacingTheMusic
      @FacingTheMusic 10 років тому

      Luke Johnson You should read The Giver. It's pretty short; I've read it 3 or 4 times, starting in 5th grade.

    • @davidcopson5800
      @davidcopson5800 4 роки тому

      I've been kept in the dark about this.

  • @burdenedwithbooks
    @burdenedwithbooks 10 років тому +6

    I love Stolen by Lucy Christopher. It's about a 16 year old girl, Gemma, who gets kidnapped by a slightly older guy called Ty. He takes her to the middle of nowhere so she's cut off from.. everything really. As a reader, you're kind of cut off too, cause you only know what's happening to Ty and Gemma, and you don't know anything about Gemma's life before she's kidnapped, except the things she tells Ty. The novel takes the form of a long letter from Gemma to Ty, and reading it is such a strange experience. It's one of my favourite books and I only know like one other person who's read it.

    • @Chouetterargentee
      @Chouetterargentee 10 років тому +1

      I remember reading that book around the same time I discovered John Green's books and I didn't at all expect to connect with it as much as I did.

  • @chickwithanipod
    @chickwithanipod 10 років тому +4

    Have you read the Night Circus? It follows two magicians Celia and Marco who have been bound into a competition since they were infants. The battleground is Le Cirque des Reves (The Circus of Dreams) and the book is not only written from the perspectives of the magicians, but from their masters and members of the circus. The story spans from the oath binding the two in 1873, through the genesis of the circus planned at Midnight Dinners to a young boy dared to enter the circus during the day, but not necessarily in that order. The Night Circus is a masterpiece woven together with descriptions that have you on your knees and characters that bring you back to your feet. it's hard to understand but one thing is for sure you will not breath until you reach the final sentence. I'm not sure how popular it is but it's amazing and mind-boggling and how many books can you find that work a non-linear plotline that's actually good. I finished it in two days and I'm a slow reader.
    (Also realizing how long this is, sorry!)

  • @personeatingfood3701
    @personeatingfood3701 5 років тому +4

    Scythe by Neal Shusterman
    Thunderhead by Nesl Shusterman
    Unwind by Neal Shusterman and the trilogies after
    Gone trilogy by Micheal Grant
    The shining by Stephen King
    The dark towers by Stephen King
    Christine by Stephen King

  • @allanrempel437
    @allanrempel437 10 років тому +11

    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.

  • @7557adam
    @7557adam 10 років тому +13

    (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

    • @samramdebest
      @samramdebest 10 років тому

      you get my 2 thumbs (up)

    • @7557adam
      @7557adam 10 років тому

      samramdebest thanks!

  • @2pasadena8finest1
    @2pasadena8finest1 10 років тому +6

    Orson Scott Card, every book I read by him is amazing, and mind blowing. He writes science fiction books for those of you who were curious. He also wrote the Famous Ender's Game serious.

    • @2pasadena8finest1
      @2pasadena8finest1 10 років тому

      Wythran Aldurald True, but whats the harm in mentioning him. Maybe someone will dive into a world of new experience because of what I posted.

  • @BrendanAndThings
    @BrendanAndThings 2 роки тому +4

    The Scar by China Mieville is just wonderful. A huge, oceanic tale set in a world unlike ours but also like it. The imagination behind this story is utterly fantastic.

  • @Bragison8
    @Bragison8 10 років тому +6

    I've been waiting for this video for a long time, you should make it a daily thing ;) I already have 130 books on my Amazon wishlist, a few more can't hurt :D

  • @luvkirby4ever
    @luvkirby4ever 10 років тому +7

    "Will you miss me when I'm gone...from your pants?" ;-D

  • @BrandonSchleifer
    @BrandonSchleifer 10 років тому +8

    The Pendragon Adventure (it's actually 10 books.) by D.J. MacHale

  • @saaargummm1868
    @saaargummm1868 5 років тому +2

    The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond, who is an Indian writer who wrote this book when he was 17. It was published in 1956 .He won the John Llewellyn Rhys memorial prize for it. Amazing Book!

  • @daradidam
    @daradidam 9 років тому +7

    hey john, I heard now you're worth more than 15 million bucks because of your books! congrats, you deserved it!
    - a nerdy subscriber who have been following you and your brother because of science & history and was totally blind to romance and contemporary books before TFiOS happened.

  • @laojace
    @laojace 10 років тому +5

    I could spend all DAY looking at the comments and googling book titles. And well guess what, that's exactly what i did.

  • @tammy62
    @tammy62 9 років тому +5

    Love, Rosie.
    Perks of Being A Wallflower.
    True Beauty (Priscilla Wu)
    The Stargazer's Scrapbook (Ester Lee)
    Battle Royale.

  • @cyrus4525
    @cyrus4525 6 років тому +9

    Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo! It’s super good and the sequel is really good, too!

  • @TheBenDrake
    @TheBenDrake 10 років тому +11

    The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. you'd probably like him.

  • @timothybewley5344
    @timothybewley5344 9 років тому +6

    This comment is way way way late. " A Child Called it." by Dave Pelzer. The story of a child being raised in an incredibly abusive environment ( home). It was recommended reading when my wife and I became foster parents in Indianapolis. It was partially responsible for inspiring my wife and I to foster 15 children over 5 years. We adopted one and when another aged out of the childcare system he came back from Georgia where he had ended up and lived with us for two and half years. Now our adopted son and he are brothers from other mothers.Living as young twenty somethings in Indy. Perhaps the best thing I've ever done as an adult all started with that book.

    • @musicalpanties
      @musicalpanties 7 років тому

      Timothy Bewley I read the series when I was 13 and have reread it several times. It is a life changing book in my opinion. Especially when you get to a man name dave.

  • @KTGetc
    @KTGetc 10 років тому +5

    John, If you haven't read Last Chance To See by Douglas Adams (of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame) and Mark Carwardine (of zoology fame), it is a MUST. It's the nonfiction story of their attempt to see a handful of animals on the brink of extinction before it's too late. It's hilarious and heartbreaking and I think you would appreciate Douglas's musings on the subject of airports. No book has ever made me think about the planet like this one did, and it seems like no one knows about it.

    • @TheRaquelephant
      @TheRaquelephant 10 років тому

      Ooh ooh I second this!!

    • @The247marcos
      @The247marcos 10 років тому

      Sounds amazing, I definitely want to read it!

    • @btr2272
      @btr2272 10 років тому

      I third this! I recently re-read it myself, absolutely amazing.

  • @nathangale7702
    @nathangale7702 4 роки тому +1

    For youth: Abhorsen by Garth Nix
    International: Al filo del agua (At the Edge of the Storm) by Agustin Yañez
    Masterful writing: Richard trilogy by Paul Horgan

  • @ShellyTheSeal
    @ShellyTheSeal 10 років тому +22

    Everyone no matter what should read Looking For Alaska. I couldn't think very well after I finished it. It's amazing!

    • @iamke_
      @iamke_ 10 років тому +2

      looking for alaska is AWESOME!!
      also read Papertowns

    • @ShellyTheSeal
      @ShellyTheSeal 10 років тому

      I have. It wasn't as good though

    • @MaybeItsHailey
      @MaybeItsHailey 10 років тому

      Oh god i cant even stress how much i agree with this comment. Looking For Alaska is my favorite John Green book that ive read so far.

    • @ShellyTheSeal
      @ShellyTheSeal 10 років тому +2

      I want to get a tattoo of a white daisy but I'm a dude and that's not very manly

    • @MaybeItsHailey
      @MaybeItsHailey 10 років тому

      Ha..if i could id get the entire paragraph that talks about how he went from a hundred mph to asleep in a nanosecond and about how Pudge went back to to his bunk and thought if people were rain i was a drizzle and i was a hurricane tattooed...maybe not tattooed but somewhere where id always be able to see it. like just that entire paragraph is like my favorite part of the book. Which would be cool...but its a long paragraph so

  • @bailaeisen5166
    @bailaeisen5166 10 років тому +12

    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.

  • @mlemleh
    @mlemleh 10 років тому +5

    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'.

    • @notalot22
      @notalot22 10 років тому

      Great book.

    • @geeseareassholes
      @geeseareassholes 10 років тому

      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.

  • @georgek8588
    @georgek8588 4 роки тому +9

    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?