Leena, thank you for your fab suggestions for my antiquarian bookseller dad! Excited to see what he thinks of Virginia and Vita (which I'll have to read first so we can discuss)!
For the boyfriend with the dry classics I’d suggest fingersmith by Sarah waters. It’s a cracking story and has that Dickensian feel, you know, without having to read dickens.
This is exactly what I needed this Friday morning! I'm gonna repeat the question that is already in the comment section: can this become a series?!🥺🧡 Also, does anyone have recommendations for a romance novel set in an academic-like setting?
The Idiot by Elif Batuman - a sort of will-they-wont-they between a Russian undergrad student in the humanities at Oxford I think? And a postgrad student, set at the advent of computers. Hilarious, coming-of-age, and explores lamguage snd meaning and becoming an autonomous self.
What are you doing on UA-cam??? You should have your own talk show on Channel 4. I have only watched 3 videos so far and adore you already. The fact that you are a fellow Brit is just icing on the cake. New subbie. ❤
Leena, you know that this service/profession really exist right? people that prescribe books... Here in brazil I am doing this as a family doctor not only with books, but also films, since I deal with a lot of illiterate patients.
Lol The Reading List looked so good that I went to the library website to reserve it and I got an error message saying I couldn’t reserve it... because I already had it on reserve! Leena must have recommended it already
Really lovely video! Im a bookseller & when customers ask me about books, I'm asking them about person they are choosing book to. Iv read couple of books about bibliotherapy, and I prefer to help people choose perfect reading & prefect present for someone special. And I strongly belive that a good book can heal some pains or open your eyes to the way that you need to heal yourselves or solve your problem)
I am so in awe of your unique talent of prescribing books, and the incredibly vast amount of reading you've done to be able to do so! Definitely inspires me to read more, more consistently, and more widely.
Thanks so much for the recommendation for my leftie partner! Can't wait to get one of those books (haven't decided which yet) to read and annotate for him.
I’m the one with the Mom who likes historical fiction and is for some reason reading the 3 volume biography of Churchill! 😅 Thank you for the recommendations, Leena!
Something for my mum who's rapidly falling into conservatism and conspiracy theories - to get her out. She's still pro-choice and women's rights etc so that could be a potential way out if tackled right. Bonus points for some positive but not forced lgbt rep which could help me come out to her. Thank you xxx
I know I'm replying to this a year after you posted it, but I just wanted to say that I hope everything worked out well for you and that both you and your mum are doing well x
This is the video I needed desperately. Thanks Leena for your recommendations...you are clearly in the right industry, having known, read and remembered books that fit what they are all after.
Hell yes for School of Life! I'm a new social worker and seriously, they are such a positive resource and they cover so many topics. I use them for myself and for my clients. Also, if you want to learn about the ins and outs of psychotherapy but don't want to read a textbook, "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone" by Lori Gottlieb informed, entertained and brought me to bittersweet tears.
I loved this so much!! More ideas for the Nan stuck inside: The Red House by A A Milne (read it with my Nanna, very cosy murder mystery) and maybe Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (a classic, women’s voices, atmospheric)
For the Lost Sister, I would highly recommend the graphic novel In by Will MacPhail. It might be for a slightly older person than one just graduated (if the specific sister is 21/22yo). As an early 30s person, I found it very close to the bone. It's stunning, sad, hopeful and packs a punch.
Along the line, I think, of Hope in the Dark and Human Kind, would be Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown. I’m reading it for an anarchy class right now and it’s a beautiful book about changing the world through love and community.
For the person looking for graphic novels, I absolutely love Tillie Walden’s books! Spinning is a memoir about growing up, figuring out who you are and falling out of love with a hobby that defined your life. Are you listening is about two people who barely know each other going on a roadtrip together, becoming friends/mentor-mentee and dealing with grief and sexual assault. On a sunbeam is probably her most popular book, but I haven’t read that yet
Yes, Tillie Walden is great! I'd also really recommend This One Summer by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki. It's about a young girl on the cusp of teendom and really wanting to be a teen and grown up, but not actually being ready for what that might entail. It's set during her annual summer trip to the beach and it's drawn in beautiful purple hues. They also have another great collab. And if you want COLOUR! You should get A Map To The Sun by Sloane Leong. Super colourful and deals with a lot of emotion. It's about a group of (older) teen girls who decide to form a basketball team. It's about friendship and betrayal, and about struggling with yourself and others as a teen.
Note pad at ready before I clicked play! Loved this I've added so many to my already long list. As someone who was never into reading your videos have got me more and more into books. Thanks 😊
YES! I love a good book rec list. Leena, you are a fantastic book doctor - superb bedside manner. For the person looking for a melancholic seaside story, I'd like to recommend Ruth Ozeki's "A Tale for the Time Being."
Loved this video! Would be amazing if it was a regulat feature. For the history loving mum: I've loved every book I've read from Margaret George, she does them autiobiography style and there's one for Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I so any of those might be good though my favourite was the two she did for emperor Nero
Recommendation for your sapphic friend is Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin. I absolutely loved it, hot off the press this year, and so wonderfully complex and reflective. I found the main character extremely relatable. Please be warned that this book has some very serious content warnings to consider first though!
Loved this idea for suggestions - a really good mix of recommendations and people you're recommending for. Popped a few onto my reservation list at my local library.
My dad had a terrible, abusive childhood, but he loves reading fiction books about people with a terrible and abusive childhood. He's really liking Betty at the moment. Would he like Shuggie Bain? (He hated A Little Life bc "it's unrealistic that they would all grow up to have succesful carreers" 🤷♀️)
Another suggestion for your classics-loving partner, The Vorrh by Brian Catling. It’s the first in a series but it more than stands alone. Probably tied for first place in my favorite books of all time.
I am giving all my friends a copy of "The Lonely Century" by Noreena Hertz. Because I think it is fab and also should maybe be requred reading for every human.
I dreamed about this!!! Jaja a new version and as a kind of marketing for your book how much of the queries could you give your new book to, and then another alternative, hihi. Literally this video lives rent free in my dreams 💕🤩
For the request for melancholy seaside theme - Salt On Your Tongue by Charlotte Runcie is melancholy x1000 and seaside x1000! So beautiful, so atmospheric. Reflections on the history and mythology of the sea and how it relates to women, while weaving it into the authors own life as it changes. Loved it so much!
I am deaf and I have a chronic illness and I would love to read more books with disability/chronic illness representation. What are your top recommendations?
If you want something lighthearted and on the sexy side : "Get a life, Chloe Brown" by Tilia Hibbert . I believe the author also has a chronic illness (not sure about that) and her work focuses a lot on representation.
The the one about melancholic seasides, Monsters by Emerald Fennell is pretty good. It’s written for younger teens, but it’s definitely more of an any age book as I read it as a young adult (right as I turned 19) and throughly enjoyed it, despite many of the story elements not being my usual thing.
Hi Leena, Fab video. I saw so many books that interest me. I'd live to get something for my dad, he loves to learn new things, is slightly apathetic about our political situation. His favourite writer is Bill Bryson.
Similar to Indoor Nan I’d love a recommendation for my Nan who has been declining quite a lot health wise and is a bit fed up! Something warming and hopeful - she loves romance!
Such a great video, Leena! Added a few books to my neverending TBR-list. Again... 🙂 Also would love book recommendations for my partner. Partner's mom is struggling with dementia and we're doing our best to deal with it. Partner is not a big reader, so would love a graphic novel/YA/easy read recommendation that covers dementia, but is also hopeful and not too sad... I'm searching at my library for a while now, but feel like it's perhaps not written yet??
For the Agatha Christie fan, the Inspector Gamache novels are incredible. Same vein of brilliant, gentle detective as Poirot, but with better supporting cast. Provincial Quebec is an adequate substitute for quaint Northern England, IMO.
On this note I really loved the Phryne Fisher books for a detective who is more subtle like Agatha Christie and a very accurate 1928 Melbourne setting. Each book tends to have some side mysteries alongside the main one and the books also have lovely found family vibes.
I'd love a book recommendation for my mom who mostly reads cozy mysteries (she seems to have read them all) but occasionally surprises me by having read something literary (like the housekeeper and the professor). Also one of her favorite book series of recent years was A Discovery of Witches. She reads to fall asleep before bed as a reference!
She might like Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro- literary but all in set in a mysterious old house. Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain for an unusual cosy mystery with magical witchy elements X
This might be a little out there, but I think she might like “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern. It’s cosy, atmospherical, and magical and the book doesn’t give you all the answers right away :)
I recently read the Gentlemen's Guide to Vice and Virtue (and its sequel) and absolutely loved the adventure aspect to this book. I really enjoying having something exciting and outgoing without being a thriller or too gory. I would really appreciate recommendations for books that share this theme of adventure. :)
I read this and “In Other Lands” by Sara Reese Brennan in the same year and loved both of them to pieces. IOL is fantasy but with some modern stuff mixed in and it has really fun characters and it’s quite funny at times. The main character is also a bi guy.
You should try the, Jane trilogy. First is my lady jane, second my plain jane, and then my wild jane. They are YA reads that twists known stories, first one being about jane seaymour who was a real person only ruled england for one week. She gets a different life here. Very rompy and fun.
If you love Jane Austin I want a slightly Meniconi but happy ever after book I highly recommend The other Bennett sister Stick with it the beginning is a bit long but it’s necessary very good book
Can you do a video about book translations? How translating affects the story and so you prefer either? I'm Finnish so a complex and small language so I read a lot or translated books wether I like it or not 😃 of course we have lovely Finnish writers as well 🙂
Such great recommendations! I'm on the hunt for some books for my father in law. He mostly reads military espionage actions books, things like Jason Bourne, Jack Ryan, etc. The authors in this genre are overwhelmingly white and male, so I'm searching for any author recommendations to help broaden his options.
Hi, I realise I'm a couple days late maybe to get a reply but I loved this video and would love lots more like it! Can we make this a regular thing please?
Love this, im going to be greedy and request this becomes a series please! ❤📚
Yes please! It's such a fun way to get new recommendations with the added curiosity of hearing how people see/summarise the people they love
I’m going to be greedy and also request this!
Agreed!
Yessss!!
Yaaaaaas
seeing books here that are not floating around social media all the time is a breath of fresh air
NO ! You may read ACOTAR and nothing else😤
If the NHS was properly funded, this service would be provided to everyone. Excited to hear even more recs on the pod!
Best Doc ever!! Wish my GP would give me a book prescription instead of another comment about my BMI
comments wins. so relatable 🤣
Sorry you’ve had this experience. Books on prescription do exist (as do libraries with helpful people!)
Leena, thank you for your fab suggestions for my antiquarian bookseller dad! Excited to see what he thinks of Virginia and Vita (which I'll have to read first so we can discuss)!
For the boyfriend with the dry classics I’d suggest fingersmith by Sarah waters. It’s a cracking story and has that Dickensian feel, you know, without having to read dickens.
I keep telling people Fingersmith is Lesbian Dickens 😂
Ohh such a good shout
This is exactly what I needed this Friday morning! I'm gonna repeat the question that is already in the comment section: can this become a series?!🥺🧡 Also, does anyone have recommendations for a romance novel set in an academic-like setting?
@Meg H "Take a Hint Dani Brown" is something I've read recently that's romance where the two leads work at a university.
I've not read it but I know The Love Hypothesis is a romance set in a post grad biology (?) lab
How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams! Leading lady is an education professor. TW: Emotional abuse from a past relationship
My Favorite Half Night Stand by Christina Lauren
The Idiot by Elif Batuman - a sort of will-they-wont-they between a Russian undergrad student in the humanities at Oxford I think? And a postgrad student, set at the advent of computers. Hilarious, coming-of-age, and explores lamguage snd meaning and becoming an autonomous self.
What are you doing on UA-cam??? You should have your own talk show on Channel 4. I have only watched 3 videos so far and adore you already. The fact that you are a fellow Brit is just icing on the cake. New subbie. ❤
Leena, you know that this service/profession really exist right? people that prescribe books... Here in brazil I am doing this as a family doctor not only with books, but also films, since I deal with a lot of illiterate patients.
Wait are you serious how does it work tell me more
Nossa eu não fazia ideia!! Que legal!
Lol The Reading List looked so good that I went to the library website to reserve it and I got an error message saying I couldn’t reserve it... because I already had it on reserve! Leena must have recommended it already
Oh no. I want to read all of these! And I second all the "I love this, please do more of this!" comments!
Really lovely video! Im a bookseller & when customers ask me about books, I'm asking them about person they are choosing book to. Iv read couple of books about bibliotherapy, and I prefer to help people choose perfect reading & prefect present for someone special. And I strongly belive that a good book can heal some pains or open your eyes to the way that you need to heal yourselves or solve your problem)
I am so in awe of your unique talent of prescribing books, and the incredibly vast amount of reading you've done to be able to do so! Definitely inspires me to read more, more consistently, and more widely.
I’m a paediatric doctor and I’m going to start doing this with my patients!
I absolutely LOVE this as a video idea! Like a book recommendation agony aunt and I am here for it 😍😍
For the Indoor Nan, if she hasn’t already I highly recommend the very British The Thursday murder club by Richard Osman
If Indoor Nan hasn't read them, Stuart Turton has two books out in the murder mystery vein but with a SFF twist and I couldn't love them harder
I second The Thursday Murder Club! Funny and with senior main characters!
This theme is 🔥🔥🔥! Great idea and excellent recs!
Thanks so much for the recommendation for my leftie partner! Can't wait to get one of those books (haven't decided which yet) to read and annotate for him.
Amazing video! Also really thankful you kept the cover of the books all through the summary/explanations , as I tend to forget and get confused
I’m the one with the Mom who likes historical fiction and is for some reason reading the 3 volume biography of Churchill! 😅 Thank you for the recommendations, Leena!
Something for my mum who's rapidly falling into conservatism and conspiracy theories - to get her out. She's still pro-choice and women's rights etc so that could be a potential way out if tackled right. Bonus points for some positive but not forced lgbt rep which could help me come out to her. Thank you xxx
I know I'm replying to this a year after you posted it, but I just wanted to say that I hope everything worked out well for you and that both you and your mum are doing well x
This is the video I needed desperately. Thanks Leena for your recommendations...you are clearly in the right industry, having known, read and remembered books that fit what they are all after.
Hell yes for School of Life! I'm a new social worker and seriously, they are such a positive resource and they cover so many topics. I use them for myself and for my clients. Also, if you want to learn about the ins and outs of psychotherapy but don't want to read a textbook, "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone" by Lori Gottlieb informed, entertained and brought me to bittersweet tears.
This was MARVELOUS. I've never been inspired to gift books but you've changed my mind completely, especially gifting an annotated copy!
I loved this so much!! More ideas for the Nan stuck inside: The Red House by A A Milne (read it with my Nanna, very cosy murder mystery) and maybe Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (a classic, women’s voices, atmospheric)
I looooved this concept! Please make it a regular thing, you are my go to person when it comes to picking books to read and they are always immaculate
Absolutely loved this, definitely would recommend Hotel Silence for the first person.
For the Lost Sister, I would highly recommend the graphic novel In by Will MacPhail. It might be for a slightly older person than one just graduated (if the specific sister is 21/22yo). As an early 30s person, I found it very close to the bone. It's stunning, sad, hopeful and packs a punch.
Along the line, I think, of Hope in the Dark and Human Kind, would be Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown. I’m reading it for an anarchy class right now and it’s a beautiful book about changing the world through love and community.
Just binged a bunch of your videos. Thank you for your realistic optimism, I’m looking forward to more
oof adding to the request to make this a series! so good!
My ultimate favorite topic of your vids is book recs
For the nan enjoying an Agatha Christie’s novel, I recommend Anne Perry, she has wrote a bunch of stories and it’s all genius.
This had me adding SO MANY BOOKS to my TBR list! I've already started The Reading List so I'm super on top of it, very out of character for me lol
For the history-loving mum I'd recommend Alison Weir's series about Henry the VIII's wives.
They're soooo good
Ah yes, my favourite ASMR roleplay.
Dyyying over this comment
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For the person looking for graphic novels, I absolutely love Tillie Walden’s books! Spinning is a memoir about growing up, figuring out who you are and falling out of love with a hobby that defined your life. Are you listening is about two people who barely know each other going on a roadtrip together, becoming friends/mentor-mentee and dealing with grief and sexual assault. On a sunbeam is probably her most popular book, but I haven’t read that yet
Yes, Tillie Walden is great!
I'd also really recommend This One Summer by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki. It's about a young girl on the cusp of teendom and really wanting to be a teen and grown up, but not actually being ready for what that might entail. It's set during her annual summer trip to the beach and it's drawn in beautiful purple hues. They also have another great collab.
And if you want COLOUR! You should get A Map To The Sun by Sloane Leong. Super colourful and deals with a lot of emotion. It's about a group of (older) teen girls who decide to form a basketball team. It's about friendship and betrayal, and about struggling with yourself and others as a teen.
@@funfuz I love This One Summer!
I love on a sunbeam such an amazing world to fall into. It is very dreamlike and have stunning artwork.
BOOK VIDEO! YESS!! honestly this was great! book prescriptions are very welcome to make a return again in the future
Hahah good, that makes me feel better about obsessively mentioning the same ones over and over! X
I could watch you do this for hours!
Note pad at ready before I clicked play! Loved this I've added so many to my already long list. As someone who was never into reading your videos have got me more and more into books. Thanks 😊
Merci !
My reading list just got a bit longer! This video is a godsent and am defo coming back for it for gift giving
so good, amazing, could watch this all day
YES! I love a good book rec list. Leena, you are a fantastic book doctor - superb bedside manner.
For the person looking for a melancholic seaside story, I'd like to recommend Ruth Ozeki's "A Tale for the Time Being."
Loved this video! Would be amazing if it was a regulat feature. For the history loving mum: I've loved every book I've read from Margaret George, she does them autiobiography style and there's one for Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I so any of those might be good though my favourite was the two she did for emperor Nero
Recommendation for your sapphic friend is Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin. I absolutely loved it, hot off the press this year, and so wonderfully complex and reflective. I found the main character extremely relatable. Please be warned that this book has some very serious content warnings to consider first though!
Just looked this book up, it sounds so so cool. Prescribing it to myself 📝
Totally agree! It was a great book. Despite the serious themes, I found this incredibly funny as well.
Oh my GOD looked it up and that sounds amazing. Right up my alley. Thanks for the rec! 🧡
Loved this idea for suggestions - a really good mix of recommendations and people you're recommending for. Popped a few onto my reservation list at my local library.
My dad had a terrible, abusive childhood, but he loves reading fiction books about people with a terrible and abusive childhood. He's really liking Betty at the moment. Would he like Shuggie Bain? (He hated A Little Life bc "it's unrealistic that they would all grow up to have succesful carreers" 🤷♀️)
Oh my goodness
Educated by Tara Westover! So brilliant.
Another suggestion for your classics-loving partner, The Vorrh by Brian Catling. It’s the first in a series but it more than stands alone. Probably tied for first place in my favorite books of all time.
I am giving all my friends a copy of "The Lonely Century" by Noreena Hertz. Because I think it is fab and also should maybe be requred reading for every human.
Please do one of these every month !
Loved this! 💜
For the melancholy seaside person also The Seabird’s Cry by Adam Nicholson!
I dreamed about this!!! Jaja a new version and as a kind of marketing for your book how much of the queries could you give your new book to, and then another alternative, hihi. Literally this video lives rent free in my dreams 💕🤩
I finally just finished hope in the dark on your recommendation from this video!! It was fantastic!
You’re such a GEM.💎
For an adult but also magical feeling book the night circus is amazing!
This is just the best kind of video - thank you so much Leena!
For the request for melancholy seaside theme - Salt On Your Tongue by Charlotte Runcie is melancholy x1000 and seaside x1000!
So beautiful, so atmospheric. Reflections on the history and mythology of the sea and how it relates to women, while weaving it into the authors own life as it changes. Loved it so much!
Finally a doctor's appointment that's worth paying for 👏😂
OMG I absolutely love this video idea! Praying you have book dr appointment videos in future too! 🙏
Thank you so much, you saved me from myself and my thoughts about presents😍❤️❤️
This was fantastic. I hope you do more. I love this idea.
Thank you so much for the reccommendations i have writeten so much down for my christmas presents now
I love videos like this! Thank you Leena!
I am deaf and I have a chronic illness and I would love to read more books with disability/chronic illness representation. What are your top recommendations?
If you like memoir, A Still Life by Josie George is a really beautiful and affirming book about living with chronic illness
Also if you don't already watch her channel, Jen Campbell is my go-to UA-camr for books with disability rep
If you want something lighthearted and on the sexy side : "Get a life, Chloe Brown" by Tilia Hibbert . I believe the author also has a chronic illness (not sure about that) and her work focuses a lot on representation.
You might like A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard X
Have you read Say what you will by Cammie McGovern?
Love, love this. You should take this to literary festivals!
you should do a whole video on debut author new releases that you liked
You’re so clever and good at this you weren’t lying!
Thank you for the warning about book paper! Wintering and Hope in the Dark have been added to my list :)
Great video. I love your book videos.
Hi!!! I love this video idea !!! Have you entertained the idea of doing it again ? 💕💕💕💗
The the one about melancholic seasides, Monsters by Emerald Fennell is pretty good. It’s written for younger teens, but it’s definitely more of an any age book as I read it as a young adult (right as I turned 19) and throughly enjoyed it, despite many of the story elements not being my usual thing.
This is fantastic
Great concept. Amazing video. More please 🙏
For seaside melancholy, I’d recommend Coastliners by Joanne Harris.
Loved this Leena, definitely got more books to add to my wishlist from this.
Also depending on how old these books are, there are some websites, or bookstore where you can buy second-hand versions.
Hi Leena,
Fab video. I saw so many books that interest me. I'd live to get something for my dad, he loves to learn new things, is slightly apathetic about our political situation. His favourite writer is Bill Bryson.
I came here for ideas for Christmas ideas and unsurprisingly have ended up with more books I'd like - thank you Leena
Similar to Indoor Nan I’d love a recommendation for my Nan who has been declining quite a lot health wise and is a bit fed up! Something warming and hopeful - she loves romance!
Such a great video, Leena! Added a few books to my neverending TBR-list. Again... 🙂
Also would love book recommendations for my partner. Partner's mom is struggling with dementia and we're doing our best to deal with it. Partner is not a big reader, so would love a graphic novel/YA/easy read recommendation that covers dementia, but is also hopeful and not too sad... I'm searching at my library for a while now, but feel like it's perhaps not written yet??
This is now my favourite video of yours! I’m looking for recommendations for someone who loves YA but wants to transition to more « adult » books
Loved this video. ❤️
So pumped I recognized some and have added some to my library list!
Books on prescription do exist in the UK - and so do libraries! Please don’t forget to make use of these valuable resources.
Leena is banned from libraries due to rearranging all the books by colour of the spine.
🤣
It's true
You could totally do this more often. I really enjoyed this
I love this
For the Agatha Christie fan, the Inspector Gamache novels are incredible. Same vein of brilliant, gentle detective as Poirot, but with better supporting cast. Provincial Quebec is an adequate substitute for quaint Northern England, IMO.
On this note I really loved the Phryne Fisher books for a detective who is more subtle like Agatha Christie and a very accurate 1928 Melbourne setting. Each book tends to have some side mysteries alongside the main one and the books also have lovely found family vibes.
Leena, this video had been delightful. What a labor of love you have done! 💗
Adore these types of vids!! Thank you Leena! 💖
That treatment was much needed! Thanks, Leena :)
I'd love a book recommendation for my mom who mostly reads cozy mysteries (she seems to have read them all) but occasionally surprises me by having read something literary (like the housekeeper and the professor). Also one of her favorite book series of recent years was A Discovery of Witches. She reads to fall asleep before bed as a reference!
She might like Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro- literary but all in set in a mysterious old house. Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain for an unusual cosy mystery with magical witchy elements X
This might be a little out there, but I think she might like “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern. It’s cosy, atmospherical, and magical and the book doesn’t give you all the answers right away :)
She may have already read the Phryne Fisher books but they're cozy mysteries :)
I recently read the Gentlemen's Guide to Vice and Virtue (and its sequel) and absolutely loved the adventure aspect to this book. I really enjoying having something exciting and outgoing without being a thriller or too gory. I would really appreciate recommendations for books that share this theme of adventure. :)
I read this and “In Other Lands” by Sara Reese Brennan in the same year and loved both of them to pieces. IOL is fantasy but with some modern stuff mixed in and it has really fun characters and it’s quite funny at times. The main character is also a bi guy.
@@ericaporter2099 That sounds perfect, thank you!
@@harrietphipps4862 I hope you enjoy!
You should try the, Jane trilogy. First is my lady jane, second my plain jane, and then my wild jane. They are YA reads that twists known stories, first one being about jane seaymour who was a real person only ruled england for one week. She gets a different life here. Very rompy and fun.
"The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx could be great for the melancholic seaside lover
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If you love Jane Austin
I want a slightly Meniconi but happy ever after book I highly recommend
The other Bennett sister
Stick with it the beginning is a bit long but it’s necessary very good book
Can you do a video about book translations? How translating affects the story and so you prefer either? I'm Finnish so a complex and small language so I read a lot or translated books wether I like it or not 😃 of course we have lovely Finnish writers as well 🙂
I think Leena has a video where she recommends translated books so I’m assuming she talks about that there!
@@ericaporter2099 thank you! 🥰
Such great recommendations! I'm on the hunt for some books for my father in law. He mostly reads military espionage actions books, things like Jason Bourne, Jack Ryan, etc. The authors in this genre are overwhelmingly white and male, so I'm searching for any author recommendations to help broaden his options.
Hi, I realise I'm a couple days late maybe to get a reply but I loved this video and would love lots more like it! Can we make this a regular thing please?