I feel like I rarely see so many non-European, particularly Indian authors in a top50 list in the Booktube space, so this brought me a lot of joy. A great list. Thanks!
Hey, if you read any books like A Thousand Splendid Suns, please comment here, I am looking for such books. You should read "Not Without My Daughter" by Betty Mahmoody.
A Thousand Splendid Suns is one of my favourite books ever. It was the first time I cried reading a book, and until today I rarely do ( the only other times were with And The Mountains Echoed - by the same author - and with All The Light We Cannot See, both heavily indicated ). It's just so sad to think there are millions like Mariam and Laila, whose voices are not heard and spirits not valued. My sister gave it to me when I was 8 years old. Who lets an 8 year old read a book like this? Beautiful, nonetheless.
@@amjadshukkoor not to be negative but just wanted to give my perspective.. when i read the kite runner it was my favorite book.. but after reading atss i went back to the kite runner.. atss stands on its own. It is a great book and i think even better than the kite runner, although there is no reason to compare them, as they tackle some different issues while having some of the same.
@@ayeshathefairy8333 I do like A Thousand Splendid Suns. It's just that I feel more drawn to Kite Runner. But I understand why people like A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Hey, if you read any books like A Thousand Splendid Suns, please comment here, I am looking for such books. You should read "Not Without My Daughter" by Betty Mahmoody.
kitaab.org/2020/10/21/bookmarked-musings-on-reading-khaled-hosseinis-books-by-riddhi-mistry/ this is an essay I wrote about his books, I think it'll resonate with you❤
The book list: Robinson crusoe Pride and prejudice Great expectations Charlotte brontë Mrs dalloway The odyssey The picture of Dorian gray To kill a mockingbird The catcher in the rye Tess of the d'urberviilles Moby dick Moby dick Lolita The scarlet letter The great gatsby Lord of the flies Hamlet Romeo and juliet Frankenstein A study in scarlet Dracula 1984 Animal farm Handmaid's tale Fahrenheit 451 Brave new world Home fire North and south The grapes of wrath We Harvest Heart of darkness Wide sargasso sea The hungry tide The god of small things Midnight's children A thousand splendid sun The kite runner The imberitance of loss Disgrace Small island Americanah A single man Beloved The reader The color purple Wonder Hiroshima The white tiger Things fall apart The yellow wallpaper
Me a computer science student who never has time to read things: *Watches video and has apparently read like 40/50 books shown* Me: "Am I a literature student????"
@@princessbubblegum790 yes it is a movie adaptation of the same book. If you don't have time to read the book, you can watch the movie because its good.
Sometimes, I wish I can quit on everything and begin to indulge in the joy of reading carried with proper solitude, not forever but for a long time just enough to feed my head to satisfy my crave. Thank you random creator for popping up into my recommendation and lengthening my To Read List, I appreciate that. :)
Me: I need to read them all also me: never reads them I've read 3, progress. I do really want to read them all though also my reading list is very very very long
most of these recommendations are absolutely amazing books- but I 100% wouldn’t recommend Dracula.. like it’s a good story but you could literally cut half of the pages out of the book and it wouldn’t change the storyline at all- there’s a lot of waffle😂
thank you for including north & south--it's one of my favourite books of all time and an absolute masterpiece, but I feel like no one ever talks about it
I prefer it over The kite runner. The Kite Runner is the first and most famous, and although beautiful, pales in comparison to A Thousand Splendid Suns and And The Mountains Echoed. These are just... something else.
So happy to see Things Fall Apart on this list! I read it in English class sophomore year of High School and it is one of my favorite books. It is very good.
I’ve read 4 of these! 3 of them because they were on my A level English course , I’m glad I got to study a variety of texts! Deffo need to add more of these to my good reads list ☺️
Hey, if you read any books like A Thousand Splendid Suns, please comment here, I am looking for such books. You should read "Not Without My Daughter" by Betty Mahmoody.
Hey man more power to you for having to read it at 9th grade. In a senior and I don’t wanna read it because it’s depressing, and even if it reflects irl I don’t wanna read about child r*pe and people getting blown up for the rest of my weeks in school. You had to read such a brutal book for your grade level. Like I said keep in mind I’m 12th, im 19 years old, and I don’t wish to read it, yet you were able to read it, so be proud of yourself. Truth be told I was never a huge fan of reading any sort of school issued book or even like reading novels.
My list is short but I think three books are amazing 1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 3. 1984 by George Orwell
I think you should do a video about your south Asian literature course. Most of the lists shared always leave out on south Asian literature so happy to see you add these. And do come to india!
This is a great list! Disappointed by how few we could tick off our list as you went along... only one way to remedy that! This will keep us busy in lockdown - thank you!
So many of these are on my list to read. I'm currently reading Frankenstein and I absolutely adore The Great Gatsby. Lots to learn from all of these books
Hello here are the 5 books I think everyone should read: - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam - Armor by John Steakley - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - Penturian by Tim Gibson
great list ! i've read a great deal of these during my english lit degree as well, but i def got a couple ideas of ones to add onto my future readings list. (:
Jack, thanks for sharing your reading list. On a side note, I feel great to be able to read both in English and Russian because both countries have some greatest literary works! cheers from Kazakhstan!
@@yanellysmedina4359 Hi! One of the best ones are Dostoevsky (the Brothers Karamazoff, Crime and Punishment), Leo Tolstoy (Resurrection), Mikhail Bulgakov (Morphine).
So cool! I've read quite a few of these but I definitely want to read them all now...at least now I know what to do over the summer :) but please tell me I'm not the only one that never realised the Hamlet/Lion King thing! It's so obvious but I just never thought about it 🤦♀️
So glad to see a few Indian writers up there ! I totally recommend reading Amish Tripathi for anyone interested in hindustani mythology ... And reading Sudha Murthy and RK Narayan would give an honest reflection of life of India's commoners ... Train to Pak by Khushwant Singh is another book about Indo pak separation... I really recommend short stories by Rabindranath Tagore (they are very impactful, though u have to read it's translation and some emotion is lost in translation) ... Have added so many new books to my to read list 😁... And the Khaled Hosseini books have been life changing ... Though I like Emma over Pride and prejudice
@@Mindfookfilms wut bruh? What r u saying buddy....Amish Tripathi kind of gave birth to a genre and u r saying he is pedestrian....Maybe u don't like his work but it doesn't mean they are trash dude....Learn to appreciate good work even if it's not of ur personal taste...
@@Mindfookfilms i would agree partially.....the first two books in his immortals of meluha were really great.....but then the third book really changed all the love i had for it .....and now even his books are becoming like chetan bhagat ...but never the less he did start a very interesting genre of mythological fiction...something that has so much potential with indian myths....
Awesome book recommendations! Next time would you please be able to give a brief description of all the books? The ones you did speak about helped a bunch :) Thank you!
I just read Americanah and i was crying like a baby towards the end. It does go into romance quite a bit so if you aren't into that thing it may not be the best for you but it also goes into the perspective of being a foreigner in both America and in England, being Nigerian, experiencing racism, and experiencing feelings of regret, jealousy, mental health issues etc etc. It's so we'll written and I couldn't recommend it more!
Great list Jack! I was pleasantly surprised. Of the 59, I had not read 10, which I will do, but Karsten had read 25 of them already as well and Ariadne at least 7, so this is great as I know they will enjoy the rest as well. PS Karsten’s 2 favourite fiction books he has read so far: 1. American Gods by Neil Gaiman AND 2. Brave New World, according to him. He often tells Ariadne: Hurry up and read them so we can talk about them! 😂 All but a handful of these are already a part of our home library so I am CERTAIN she will read those two as well. One book she didn’t enjoy: Lord of the Flies because...you know. Another list is ALWAYS welcome! R, K and A
Last time I read Hiroshima by John Hersey, it was still not fiction. Though written in the style of New Journalism, with its subjective points of view, it is still very much the true stories of several survivors. An amazing book that is well worth reading, but classifying it as fiction diminishes the power of the narrative.
The God of Small Things is my favourite book. Indian book reccomendations - Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh (highly highly recommend) And books by Jhumpa Lahiri.
ugh i read heart of darkness in senior year high school,, i hated it lmao but i recommend reading things fall apart by chinua achebe right after. gives everything such perspective. also achebe wrote basically a response to heart of darkness so i recommend reading that as well.. good luck
intriguing that heart of darkness was in the 'post colonial' section, whereas things fall apart was in the 'different perspectives' section - don't know what Achebe would have thought of that 😂
I had too many favourite postcolonial texts to limit to 10, so quite a few in the different perspectives section are postcolonial (for example The White Tiger)!! Too many good’uns I think everyone should read, haha! I originally had Things Fall Apart in the postcolonial section but moved it as it was more fitting than some of the others. Also, Heart of Darkness is definitely postcolonial in a different way to the others, as it shows the perspective of the imperialists rather than the oppressed natives.
@@jack_edwards haha yeah that defo makes sense! I suppose because of how I read Heart of Darkness, its classification is always slightly confused in my mind, since I can't see it as being in favour of postcolonialism, although in subject and theme it is 'postcolonial'. I've just never really been able to disagree with Achebe calling Conrad a 'bloody racist'! 100% still an important and useful read when considering postcolonial lit more widely!
Animal Farm and Handmaid's Tale are my absolute favourite books. And weird fact: Brave New World was translated into my language as "End of civilization" which seems kinda sad to me because by doing that, they erased the "connection" to The Tempest by Shakespeare, right? Sorry for my English, by the way.
Great list. I'm familiar with almost all the books thought have read only a quarter of them. I do think Jazz by Toni Morrison should have been on that list along with To the Lighthouse.
Woahhh thanks for these recommendations!! So so useful. Also, I submitted a literature related video to the Studytube Project about 2 weeks ago now and have not heard back, just wondering if its been received? Thanks again for the fab video:)
I use to have an English teacher who use to always do really educational books such as to kill a mockingbird and animal farm. I was so sad when she left
These could be added here: All the lights we cannot see And the mountains echoed The orphan train The nightingale The girls we left behind A train to Pakistan Hush! An Irish princess The help
The movie Apocalypse Now was based on Heart of Darkness. I highly recommend The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. It was his first novel and won the American National Book Award. Following to he can US Civil War and the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation many freed Blacks traveled North seeking opportunity. This novel documents the migration of one of these, a young man headed for Harlem in Manhattan.
I've read 9/50 so I'm feeling like a whole intellectual
Hell yeah!!
Same
I'll do you one better, I've heard about 9/50 so I'm feeling somewhat intellectual
I've read 3
Well i've read only 3🙂
I feel like I rarely see so many non-European, particularly Indian authors in a top50 list in the Booktube space, so this brought me a lot of joy. A great list. Thanks!
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You should read Viatorem by Urvasi Pauvaday now available on Amazon
It's just awesome
She is a Mauritian author
Isn’t the “affirmative action” condescending? None of those books are *better* than 1,000 European books which could’ve been included.
@@Kyle-ys3cv have you read those and the other 1000 European books to decide?
@@anakhanair_ not necessary
I'm pretty simple
I saw A Thousand splendid Suns
I clicked.
Me too❤
SAME
Me too 🌸
Hey, if you read any books like A Thousand Splendid Suns, please comment here, I am looking for such books. You should read "Not Without My Daughter" by Betty Mahmoody.
SAMEEE!
A Thousand Splendid Suns is one of my favourite books ever. It was the first time I cried reading a book, and until today I rarely do ( the only other times were with And The Mountains Echoed - by the same author - and with All The Light We Cannot See, both heavily indicated ). It's just so sad to think there are millions like Mariam and Laila, whose voices are not heard and spirits not valued. My sister gave it to me when I was 8 years old. Who lets an 8 year old read a book like this? Beautiful, nonetheless.
Ikrrrrr... Read the kite Runner also... It's heartwrenching
8??? jeez that definitely is a bit young
Your comment made me tear up again. I was a wreck after reading ATSS. I always think about all the Miriams of the world.
My favourite book too!!! That letter. I also cried!
You must read The Kite Runner. You'll not regret.
a thousand splendid suns is a stunning book, but so heartbreaking.
I feel like Kite Runner is better. Read it if you have not. It's great.
@@amjadshukkoor not to be negative but just wanted to give my perspective.. when i read the kite runner it was my favorite book.. but after reading atss i went back to the kite runner.. atss stands on its own. It is a great book and i think even better than the kite runner, although there is no reason to compare them, as they tackle some different issues while having some of the same.
@@ayeshathefairy8333 I do like A Thousand Splendid Suns. It's just that I feel more drawn to Kite Runner. But I understand why people like A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Hey, if you read any books like A Thousand Splendid Suns, please comment here, I am looking for such books. You should read "Not Without My Daughter" by Betty Mahmoody.
A Thousand Splendid Suns could quite possibly be my favourite book!!
Mine too
Reading it !
kitaab.org/2020/10/21/bookmarked-musings-on-reading-khaled-hosseinis-books-by-riddhi-mistry/ this is an essay I wrote about his books, I think it'll resonate with you❤
You should read Viatorem by Urvasi Pauvaday now available on Amazon
It's just a
It’s the best!!!
The book list:
Robinson crusoe
Pride and prejudice
Great expectations
Charlotte brontë
Mrs dalloway
The odyssey
The picture of Dorian gray
To kill a mockingbird
The catcher in the rye
Tess of the d'urberviilles
Moby dick
Moby dick
Lolita
The scarlet letter
The great gatsby
Lord of the flies
Hamlet
Romeo and juliet
Frankenstein
A study in scarlet
Dracula
1984
Animal farm
Handmaid's tale
Fahrenheit 451
Brave new world
Home fire
North and south
The grapes of wrath
We
Harvest
Heart of darkness
Wide sargasso sea
The hungry tide
The god of small things
Midnight's children
A thousand splendid sun
The kite runner
The imberitance of loss
Disgrace
Small island
Americanah
A single man
Beloved
The reader
The color purple
Wonder
Hiroshima
The white tiger
Things fall apart
The yellow wallpaper
Thanks
Thank you so much.
thanks!
Thank you esya
Thank you!
Me a computer science student who never has time to read things:
*Watches video and has apparently read like 40/50 books shown*
Me:
"Am I a literature student????"
Saaameeee!!!!!!!
Omg u r so cool
Tfw you're actually alit student but have only read like 4 😂
I have a scince com exam next week but here watching this vid and not studying 😂
@Timmy White what happened?
Jack is giving me very strong Professer Trelawney energy in this video
All Khaled Hosseini books are amazing. And I would double recommend The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Hilariously entertaining book
Isn't there a movie called The White Tiger? Is it the movie adaptation of the latter?
@@princessbubblegum790
No idea but a great rule of thumb is to read the book first either way and then watch movie 😌
@@tejasdeepsingh456 mhm, agreed
@@princessbubblegum790 yes it is a movie adaptation of the same book. If you don't have time to read the book, you can watch the movie because its good.
Yes it is amazing
Sometimes, I wish I can quit on everything and begin to indulge in the joy of reading carried with proper solitude, not forever but for a long time just enough to feed my head to satisfy my crave.
Thank you random creator for popping up into my recommendation and lengthening my To Read List, I appreciate that. :)
Me: I need to read them all
also me: never reads them
I've read 3, progress.
I do really want to read them all though
also my reading list is very very very long
most of these recommendations are absolutely amazing books- but I 100% wouldn’t recommend Dracula.. like it’s a good story but you could literally cut half of the pages out of the book and it wouldn’t change the storyline at all- there’s a lot of waffle😂
my reading list is endless as well 😂😂
thank you for including north & south--it's one of my favourite books of all time and an absolute masterpiece, but I feel like no one ever talks about it
Unpopular opinion: And the Mountains Echoed is my favorite Hosseini book
I can't choose one of his books over the other.
Hei, i love all 3 of his books...but and the mountains echoed has a special place in my heart, i felt, it is epic...❤️❤️❤️
Best one would be The kite runner
I prefer it over The kite runner. The Kite Runner is the first and most famous, and although beautiful, pales in comparison to A Thousand Splendid Suns and And The Mountains Echoed. These are just... something else.
That’s really unpopular tho
omg this couldn’t have come at a better time, i’ve just been looking for some new books to add to my TBR!! 🥰
As a BookTuber, I also recommend The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. 👌💖💞📙
It's on there but yes it's quite intense and sad
I finished it yesterday and I've been in pain ever since. It's sad and complete, planning onto reading more Hosseini's works.
This book affected me deeply...
So happy to see Things Fall Apart on this list! I read it in English class sophomore year of High School and it is one of my favorite books. It is very good.
I love the matching of the yellow book covers on the thumbnail to go with the colour scheme of the channel lol
I had read 22 of these and feeling particularly proud of myself. Will plough my way through the rest. Thanks for compiling that list 👍🏼
I’ve read 4 of these! 3 of them because they were on my A level English course , I’m glad I got to study a variety of texts! Deffo need to add more of these to my good reads list ☺️
I am in 9th grade and last year I tried reading "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
I could not read it then but I love it so much now.
The fact that you were in 9th and intense books like A Thousand Splendid Suns interested you, the entire idea really makes me happy 🌻
I'm in 9th standard currently. i just finished the book a couple of days ago and I feel like the perfect word to describe is "unforgettable"
Hey, if you read any books like A Thousand Splendid Suns, please comment here, I am looking for such books. You should read "Not Without My Daughter" by Betty Mahmoody.
Hey man more power to you for having to read it at 9th grade. In a senior and I don’t wanna read it because it’s depressing, and even if it reflects irl I don’t wanna read about child r*pe and people getting blown up for the rest of my weeks in school. You had to read such a brutal book for your grade level. Like I said keep in mind I’m 12th, im 19 years old, and I don’t wish to read it, yet you were able to read it, so be proud of yourself. Truth be told I was never a huge fan of reading any sort of school issued book or even like reading novels.
I’ve not watched the video but I saw a thousand splendid suns... BEST BOOK EVER
Oh, I will love to read it ❤
My list is short but I think three books are amazing 1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 3. 1984 by George Orwell
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT ! Good one . I was surprized to see that he didn't have anything of Dostoevsky's on his list . Oh well .
Thats funny because I just got back into reading and these are the first three books I read.
Thank you for the list! I love the way you describe books in a couple of sentences, it sounds very intriguing, wish you did that for every book
Yeas, that make suggestions more strong ❤✔
He has the SKILL to describe and comprehend a book in such a nice way in one sentence
Just when I thought this channel couldn't get any better! ❤
I think you should do a video about your south Asian literature course. Most of the lists shared always leave out on south Asian literature so happy to see you add these. And do come to india!
I'm glad I found this. Been looking for a list like that
Thank u so so much for this video! I´ve been searching for new books to read and this list has a lot of interesting reads !
This is a great list! Disappointed by how few we could tick off our list as you went along... only one way to remedy that! This will keep us busy in lockdown - thank you!
So many of these are on my list to read. I'm currently reading Frankenstein and I absolutely adore The Great Gatsby. Lots to learn from all of these books
I love your videos man! Thank you for all your time in effort they are really great!
Im pretty proud I have read many of these and they were GREAT. Thanks for the tips a lot, Jack ❤️❤️
These are great! Super helpful and excellent choices. Thank you for sharing.
this is the perfect video! thanks so much jack!
Surprised to see great expectations recommendation after watching your tier rank classic book videos
My reading list is so long now oml
Same haha
Me too, everytime I watch a video about books, my list grows longer
Very refreshing to find a list of books which doesn't consist almost entirely of ones I have already read. I'll add these to my Goodreads. Thank you.
This was amazing! I've been trying to increase my reading palate so I've read 20 so far! I just added a bunch to my booklist!
I love how short and crisp your video is!
Good list. I have not read everything on it, but I see that you have many of my favorites.
Thank you for this amazing list! Looking forward to read all of them👏👏😊 (and Merry Christmas❄☃🎄🎶!)
Hello here are the 5 books I think everyone should read:
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
- Armor by John Steakley
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Penturian by Tim Gibson
great list ! i've read a great deal of these during my english lit degree as well, but i def got a couple ideas of ones to add onto my future readings list. (:
Jack, thanks for sharing your reading list. On a side note, I feel great to be able to read both in English and Russian because both countries have some greatest literary works! cheers from Kazakhstan!
Hi! Which are the best Russian books in your opinion? Lately I’ve been seen a lot of people talking about Russian authors.
@@yanellysmedina4359 Hi! One of the best ones are Dostoevsky (the Brothers Karamazoff, Crime and Punishment), Leo Tolstoy (Resurrection), Mikhail Bulgakov (Morphine).
@@MrDom5 I'll be adding them to my list, thanks✨
Americanah is my favorite book of all time - so beautifully written!!
He never disappoints
So far , true .
This video is a godsend as I'm just about to start my coursework for A-level English Lit.
This is a very good and diverse list. I've read 35 / 50 and will move the other 15 up in my To Be Read lineup. Will consider subscribing!
Good list! It's nice to see classics being promoted.
So cool! I've read quite a few of these but I definitely want to read them all now...at least now I know what to do over the summer :) but please tell me I'm not the only one that never realised the Hamlet/Lion King thing! It's so obvious but I just never thought about it 🤦♀️
Such amazing recommendations...definitely going to pick up some of them.
so happy you included the reader by bernhard schlink!
A thousand splendid suns made me fall in love with reading.
I've read only 12 books completely from this list. I've read many books partially and must complete them. I'm familiar with most of the plots though.
Very good. You have put a lot of thinking into this.
Thanks for the reminder, some of those classics bring me back to my years of university in the same domain of English literature. Thanks
So glad to see a few Indian writers up there ! I totally recommend reading Amish Tripathi for anyone interested in hindustani mythology ... And reading Sudha Murthy and RK Narayan would give an honest reflection of life of India's commoners ... Train to Pak by Khushwant Singh is another book about Indo pak separation... I really recommend short stories by Rabindranath Tagore (they are very impactful, though u have to read it's translation and some emotion is lost in translation) ...
Have added so many new books to my to read list 😁... And the Khaled Hosseini books have been life changing ... Though I like Emma over Pride and prejudice
Ooooh thank you for the recommendations! I agree, Emma is Austen's best novel!
Amish Tripathi is pedestrian af. Please recommend literature, not trash.
@@Mindfookfilms wut bruh? What r u saying buddy....Amish Tripathi kind of gave birth to a genre and u r saying he is pedestrian....Maybe u don't like his work but it doesn't mean they are trash dude....Learn to appreciate good work even if it's not of ur personal taste...
@@Mindfookfilms i would agree partially.....the first two books in his immortals of meluha were really great.....but then the third book really changed all the love i had for it .....and now even his books are becoming like chetan bhagat ...but never the less he did start a very interesting genre of mythological fiction...something that has so much potential with indian myths....
Please.... R. K Narayan, Seriously?
These seem great. Read 9 out of these and excited to read more.
I've read 12 so far so I will add the rest to my never ending list of books to read 📖
I’ve only read 35 of these but I do have two of them in my pile to read. I’m going to have to get my reading cap on!
love this my goodreads is FLOURISHING!!
I cannot believe Jack just made my reading list even longer smh
My TBR took a massive hit today :D
No Latino Americans authors? I recomend you Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Juan Rulfo, Elena Garro, Rosario Castellanos.
Julio Cortazar is one of my absolute favorite authors!!! And Juan Rulfo is also so beautiful!
as well as machado de assis
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is incredible. Would have been in his top 100, I would hope. Always difficult to narrow it down.
Don't forget Carlos Ruiz Zafón!!
And Elena Poniatowska
I also recommended Nectar in a Sieve! A quick and fulfilling read on life in India in the 50s. It’s quite heartbreaking and bittersweet
Awesome book recommendations! Next time would you please be able to give a brief description of all the books? The ones you did speak about helped a bunch :) Thank you!
Yeas, much needed
This is sick list 🔥 loved it
og sherlock holmes being mentioned brings a smile to my face the original books are underappreciated compared to how well-known just the name is
ooo i've read 25 of these. Exited to get to the rest!
JACK you NEED to read “more happy than not” !!! a masterpiece
omg all of Adam Silvera's books are incredible
Ohh great, I would love to try that
Love this!
Just a remark though: Things Fall apart is about so much more than just tribes, in fact so little in that book is about tribes.
Thought the same thing!
I just read Americanah and i was crying like a baby towards the end. It does go into romance quite a bit so if you aren't into that thing it may not be the best for you but it also goes into the perspective of being a foreigner in both America and in England, being Nigerian, experiencing racism, and experiencing feelings of regret, jealousy, mental health issues etc etc. It's so we'll written and I couldn't recommend it more!
Great list Jack! I was pleasantly surprised. Of the 59, I had not read 10, which I will do, but Karsten had read 25 of them already as well and Ariadne at least 7, so this is great as I know they will enjoy the rest as well. PS Karsten’s 2 favourite fiction books he has read so far: 1. American Gods by Neil Gaiman AND 2. Brave New World, according to him. He often tells Ariadne: Hurry up and read them so we can talk about them! 😂 All but a handful of these are already a part of our home library so I am CERTAIN she will read those two as well. One book she didn’t enjoy: Lord of the Flies because...you know. Another list is ALWAYS welcome! R, K and A
going straight onto my goodreads to-read list
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Last time I read Hiroshima by John Hersey, it was still not fiction. Though written in the style of New Journalism, with its subjective points of view, it is still very much the true stories of several survivors. An amazing book that is well worth reading, but classifying it as fiction diminishes the power of the narrative.
Great channel and book selection. Also, you are very handsome, love the accent.
I’ve never seen such a dedicated reader❤
Loved it!! Really needed some recommendations!
wish I could jump to the person I would be after reading all these books
The God of Small Things is my favourite book.
Indian book reccomendations - Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh (highly highly recommend)
And books by Jhumpa Lahiri.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez should be on every top 50 list! His prose and compact style get me every time I read a book
I want to read every single one of those books! I've already read 10, so 40 to go!
ugh i read heart of darkness in senior year high school,, i hated it lmao but i recommend reading things fall apart by chinua achebe right after. gives everything such perspective. also achebe wrote basically a response to heart of darkness so i recommend reading that as well.. good luck
Ughhh me too!!! I didn’t mind assigned readings bc I knew I could read the book if I mentally prepared myself to enjoy them but that book.... hated it
intriguing that heart of darkness was in the 'post colonial' section, whereas things fall apart was in the 'different perspectives' section - don't know what Achebe would have thought of that 😂
I had too many favourite postcolonial texts to limit to 10, so quite a few in the different perspectives section are postcolonial (for example The White Tiger)!! Too many good’uns I think everyone should read, haha! I originally had Things Fall Apart in the postcolonial section but moved it as it was more fitting than some of the others. Also, Heart of Darkness is definitely postcolonial in a different way to the others, as it shows the perspective of the imperialists rather than the oppressed natives.
@@jack_edwards haha yeah that defo makes sense! I suppose because of how I read Heart of Darkness, its classification is always slightly confused in my mind, since I can't see it as being in favour of postcolonialism, although in subject and theme it is 'postcolonial'. I've just never really been able to disagree with Achebe calling Conrad a 'bloody racist'! 100% still an important and useful read when considering postcolonial lit more widely!
Animal Farm and Handmaid's Tale are my absolute favourite books.
And weird fact: Brave New World was translated into my language as "End of civilization" which seems kinda sad to me because by doing that, they erased the "connection" to The Tempest by Shakespeare, right?
Sorry for my English, by the way.
Your English is perfect!
I read some of the classics and I found that I liked them. I have to read some on this list.
Read 8/50 books 😊😁 There's so much more to read. I've left Heart of Darkness midway, but I'm excited to pick it up again
It feels good to see books by individuals author:)
*they're amazing
Subscribed! This is awesome!
Great list. I'm familiar with almost all the books thought have read only a quarter of them. I do think Jazz by Toni Morrison should have been on that list along with To the Lighthouse.
Woahhh thanks for these recommendations!! So so useful. Also, I submitted a literature related video to the Studytube Project about 2 weeks ago now and have not heard back, just wondering if its been received? Thanks again for the fab video:)
I use to have an English teacher who use to always do really educational books such as to kill a mockingbird and animal farm. I was so sad when she left
I haven’t read a fiction novel in years - great to have some suggestions :)
Same, even I don't read fiction
I know that you've posted this video an year ago, but thanks a lot for the tips. It will help a lot on my journey. Regards from Brazil!
Okay, can we have more of that please!
These could be added here:
All the lights we cannot see
And the mountains echoed
The orphan train
The nightingale
The girls we left behind
A train to Pakistan
Hush! An Irish princess
The help
The movie Apocalypse Now was based on Heart of Darkness. I highly recommend The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. It was his first novel and won the American National Book Award. Following to he can US Civil War and the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation many freed Blacks traveled North seeking opportunity. This novel documents the migration of one of these, a young man headed for Harlem in Manhattan.
jack and bookish content!!!! yes please!!!!!!
It makes my heart happy that half of the comments are about A Thousand Splendid Suns :,)
Why on Earth has the catcher in the rye been banned lol i just thought it was dull