Rilke(duh): Letters to a Young Poet 2:04 Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 2:18 The Dark Interval 2:58 Stories of God 4:58 Poetry: The Broken Wings and The Prophet 5:18 Non-Fiction: The Vietnam War by Ken Burns 6:18 Manga: Sailor Moon 8:20 Aria 9:02 Middlegrade: The Girl Who Drank the Moon 9:56 Anne Green Gables 11:05 The Dark Hills Divide 12:50 The Graveyard Book 13:22 Matilda 13:54 Romance/YA Even if This Love Dies Tonight 15:12 Winter: Castle in the Clouds 16:56 Ember and the Ice Dragons 18:08 Icefields 19:11 Heaven and Hell 21:55 Heather Dixon Wallwork: 22:15 Entwined 22:37 The Enchanted Sonata 23:45 Fantasy: Fate of the Tearling 24:12 Game of Thrones 24:55 Interview with a Vampire 25:05 Lord of the Rings 25:25 Harry Potter 25:55 Sci-Fi: The Canticle for Leibowitz 26:35 Solaris 27:28 1984 28:01 Classics War and Peace 28:35 The Brothers Karamazov 28:55 First Love by Turgenev 29:19 Phantom of the Opera (duh) 29:52 Frankenstein 30:28 Hamlet and Macbeth 30:55 The Picture of Dorian Gray 31:16 Paradise Lost 32:01 The Turn of the Screw 32:39 Prometheus Unbound 32:58 The Posthumous Memoirs Bras Cubas 33:30 The Count of Monte Cristo 33:40 Random: Frankenstein in Baghdad 34:50 The Iliac Crest 36:01 Untold Night and Day 37:01 After Dark Murakami 37:41 Dance Dance Dance 39:17 Cloud Atlas 39:39 Pedro Paramo 40:41 One Hundred Years of Solitude 41:50 The Autobiography of Red 42:10 Grendel 42:42 House of Leaves 43:50 Beloved 46:09 Season of Migration to the North 46:31 If On a Winter's Night a Traveller 47:09 The Bloody Chamber 47:31
Such display of exuberance... if you ever find "The Man who was magic" by Paul Gallico" from 1966 well, I believe you would love it... it's pretty short, kinda light, but really is packed with deep wisdom, well what else from the mid sixties? You are so inspiring! From the beautiful Oregon Coast, wishing you well, AL
My 18 Favorites (odd number I know, but it's the best I could do) - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - A storm of swords by George RR Martin - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling - Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - And then there were none by Agatha Christie - The Pillars of the earth by Ken Follet - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami - East of Eden by John Steinbeck - Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa (Manga) - The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang - The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness 2) by Joe Abercrombie - Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive 2) by Brandon Sanderson - The Lies of Locke Lamora (The Gentleman Bastard Series) by Scott Lynch
@@robthekoopa Sorry to disappoint you (maybe) but as weird as it sounds... I actually did not do that on purpose. Even though it would make sense for some people 🙂 But I'm gonna add it.
I'm a pretty new reader, but these are my top five 5 star books! ⭐️ 1- As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow ~Koulfa Katouh 2- Heaven ~ Mieko Kawakami 3- The Yellow Wallpaper ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman 4- Howl's Moving Castle ~ Diana Wynne Jones 5- a Curse so Dark and Lonely ~ Brigid Kemmerer Note: (I'm currently reading "Letters to a young poet" and oh my God. It's the best thing I've ever read. 16 pages in, I've only finished the first 3 letters and I'm so glad I'm reading it, I'm annotating A LOT and it is just the perfect time in my life for it. So yeah, that will definitely go on the list.)
I LOVE that you read what you want and enjoy such a variety of books. Booktube is full of lovely people but I find so many of them read so many of the same books. I love your videos full of new recommendations and enthusiasm 🥰
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Fall - Albert Camus The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov The Trial - Franz Kafka
I’m currently reading and devouring the Count of Monte Cristo. Did you also like Kafkas Metamorphosis? I loved it more than the Trial, but both are insanely good.
@@sausana2501 Nice! I can’t recommend Monte Cristo enough so glad to hear you’re liking it :) Yes, absolutely loved The Metamorphosis as well, honestly was tossing up between which to put here 😅
⭐️ some of my alltime favourite 5 star reads are Blindless bei José Saramago, The Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Heidi by Johanna Spyri, The Gurl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer :) Great video as always ^^ ⭐️
My favourites: •100 years of solitude •The house of the spirits (and currently making it into a theatrical play) •L'ecume de jours •Like water for chocolate •Wuthering heights • His dark Materials Trilogy •The Third Wedding •The Hunger games Trilogy •The Count of Monte Cristo •Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue •La vie dream d' Ernesto G. Theatrical Plays: •Blood Wedding •Prometheus Bount •The Bacchae •Hamlet •Macbeth •The Crusible •Against Progress. Against Love. Against Democracy. •Sons and Daughters
I’ve discovered you some years ago and I sadly lost my passion (for life) and for books but I think I wanna get back into reading and you motivate me and I really like the way you talk so thanks a lot to you ❤
My only 5 stars: ( btw I love seeing your recommendations, emmie) • Lord of the flies - William Golding • Hangsaman - Shirley Jackson • The haunting of hill house - Shirley Jackson • Stone butch blues - Leslie Feinberg • The perks of being a wallflower - Stephen Chbosky • The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
@emmiereads since you show interviews with vampire my question is when is review video for second book in vampire chronicles series called the vampire lestat when will it come out do you know a date?
emma, I thumbs up your videos before I even watch them because I know I will love whatever you have created, whatever you have to say. you’re such a unique creator with such unique taste and it’s so obvious you make content that YOU enjoy. but we do too!! thank you for being such a breathe of fresh air, my dear. 🧚🏻🤍
your love for reading really shines through the way you talk about books. really a calming voice during a tumultuous time in my life so thank you very much for that! ❤
Thank you! Some of my favourite 5* books... J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter (and the Prisoner of Azkaban) Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet W. Shakespeare - Hamlet L. Tolstoy - Anna Karenina M. Cunningham - The Hours V. Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves, Orlando, To the Lighthouse J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey M. Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of being L. McBride - Hold me closer Necromancer C. Crowley - Graffiti Moon, Words in deep blue J.R.R. Tolkien - LOTR, Silmarillion, Beren and Lúthien, Fall of Gondolin M. Stiefvater - All the Crooked Saints, Bravely, Call down the Hawk A.A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh Patti Smith - M Train G.Orwell - 1984 J. Webster - Daddy-Long-Legs F. Kafka - The Trial J. Joyce - A portrait of the artist as a young man M. Shelley - Frankenstein E. Bondy - Invalid siblings, Afghanistan, Cesta Českem našich otcu (Through the Czechia of our fathers) M. Keil - Life in outer space
i feel like i need to set aside a month to just get through the emmie reading list because ive been meaning to read so many of these books for a couple years at this point
I’m a new reader can you suggest me few books to read? Actually i was reading a lot of books during my school years but later fell off from that habit but i came back to reading novels after Silent patient. Can you suggest me novels which is like a thriller,Twists and turn or you can call it suspense or Adventure type books. These 3 are my favourite genres
I've got shivers when you mentioned a canticle for Leibovitz because you're the first person who mentioned this book IN MY LIFE and its absolutely 100% one of my favorite books of all time. Instant subscribe from me
We missed you, Emma, but I hope you had a wonderful time with your Mom. I love this so much! I saw the pre-announcement on Instagram yesterday and and this morning I kept waking up too early, thinking "Is it time yet?" 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Love how diverse you 5* list is! I've read many good books thanks to you! My all time favourite author is Paul Auster ( New York Trilogy and Oracle's Night, but i've read them ALL), also Ernst Junger - Eumeswil, Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery, Lost Connections - Johann Haris (non-fiction about depression, so good!), Paulo Coelho - The Pilgramage. Love to you Emma
It's always so nice to hear Emma talk about books, and loved that there was a quick mention for Gibran, I read both of them cause of you, and THANK YOU, I love his work so much. I always love your recommendations cause I always tend to have very similar review of books as you!
Faves that come to mind first: Classics: 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë 3. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell 4. Çalikusu (The Wren) - Reşat Nuri Güntekin (Turkish literature) 5. Crime and punishment - Dostoyevsky 6. Death and the Dervish - Mesa Selimovic (Yugoslav literature) 7. The Blue Castle - L. M Montgomery 8. The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric (Yugoslav literature) 9. The Trial - Kafka 9. Madonna in a fur coat - Sabahattin Ali (Turkish literature) 11. The Mountain Wreath - Petar Petrovic Njegos (Yugoslav/ Montenegrin) 12. Animal Farm - George Orwell 13. Barking at the stars - Milovan Vitezović (Yugoslav literature) 14. A Christmas Caro- Charles Dickens Children's/middle grade: 1. Harry Potter (all seven books, I can't Choose) 2. Heidi - Johanna Spyri 3. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery 4. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman 5. Ickabog - J. K. Rowling Everything else (General Fiction/Thriller/Romance/Supernatural):, 1. Hotel Silence - Auður Avaa Ólafsdóttir 2. Last wish - Sapkovski 3. Sword of Destiny - Sapkovski 4. The door to door bookstore - Carsten Henn 5. Piranesi - Susanan Clark 6. Before the coffee coold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi 7. Interpreter of Maladies- Dzumpa Lahiri 8. The Party Crasher - Sophie Kinsella 9. The Flatshare - Beth O'Leary 10. The Lost Girls of Rome- Donato Carrisi 11. Safe Haven - Nicholas Sparks 12. A walk to remember - Nicholas Sparks 13. Thanks for the memories - Cecilia Ahern 14. Lovie, Rosie - Cecilia Ahern
A long video from Emma with lots of book recommendations? I love it so much. I always love book recommendation videos and yours are such a diverse range of styles and genres and your voice is so calming and soothing that I can watch them for hours.
The Count of Monte Cristo, I read because of you and Carolyn and is my favorite book of all time! So grateful for your inspiration to read it! I read Frankenstein because of you as well.... my second most beloved book of all time. I agree with your five star list here, except I would have added "Rebecca" by Daphne Du Maurier is one of my five stars as well! Just love watching your vids!
@@emmiereads but thanks for doing so anyways also a bit unrelated but my first video on my channel will be a bit delayed due to personal stuff like applying for college my results came and I scored a 97 in English which is basically 100% but they never give full marks for language so I'm really hopeful other than great videos from you as always
My faves (thinking fast): A map to the door of no return - Dionne Brand One hundred years of solitude - Marquez The trial - Kafka In the dream house - Carmen Maria Machado Viva o Povo Brasileiro/An invincible memory - João Ubaldo Ribeiro Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
I'm pretty sure some other people have recommended this before, but the way you talked about Castle in the Clouds here really reminded me of the Winterhouse trilogy by Ben Guterson! They're not flawless books but the atmosphere is my favourite and it's one of my all time favourite middle grade series. Would thoroughly recommend to anyone if you ever get your hands on it!
You know what I love about you is your range. Other than extreme horror or horror in general you have an outstanding palate. I’ve learned to give books a try when I never would’ve. Thank you
I've read like 5 books on your list so I'll need to check out the others! Love the diversity in your reading ✨️ Mine are AIice in Wonderland, The Master and Margarita, The Little Prince, 1984, and Phantom of the Opera
my top five books!! ⭐️ - alias grace by margaret atwood - fingersmith by sarah waters - the hunger games by suzanne collins - the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid - this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar
very much enjoyed this. I read Icefields and commented elsewhere how much I loved it, read it on your recommendation and have recommended it to every book lover I know. Truly one of the best books I have ever read in 60 years.
Ive been waiting for this so long. Emma you made my whole month happy(it's an understatement, last whole 3 years) Perfect video I needed in the midst of heavy load of uni assignments
Gorgeous list! My next reads from your list will be Season of Migration to the North and Icefields, waiting for them to land in my mailbox 😀 I'll do a top five five star books I've read that I think you could love: 1) The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernieres (set in Latin America, heavily inspired by Marquez, but also its own thing) 2) The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (this man can write like no other) 3) Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel (litfic, about "the other" in a small village community and the after effects of war - also stunning writing) 4) Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton (dystopian literary sci-fi, Arctic setting, orbiting Jupiter setting, but mostly about loneliness and friendship, and as the others has magnificent writing) 5) The Last Bear by Hannah Gold (lonely child moves to Bear Island (Bjørnøya - Norway) with her father, befriends the only polar bear on the island and tries to cross the seas to get him back to Svalbard - lovely middle grade) ⭐
I stumbled onto your channel by accident and I'm absolutely entranced by the way you speak and express yourself. We have very different reading styles but you make me want to read all of it ⭐
so glad to see a brazilian classic in here!!☺️☺️ also, you pronounced bras cubas perfectly! i would also recommend dom casmurro by the same author, and also captains of the sand by jorge amado (or any book by him, really).
⭐ 5 of my favourites: - Goodbye, Eri by Fujimoto Tatsuki - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - Plexus by Elena Helfrecht - No Longer Human by Dazai Osamu - Blame! by Nihei Tsutomu
Loved this !! My favourites 5 ⭐ : - Imperium (eng.: Empire), Christian Kracht - Die Toten (eng.: The Dead), Christian Kracht - Allegro Pastell, Leif Randt - Wolkenläufer (eng.: Cloud-Racers), Angela Köckritz - Tyll, Daniel Kehlmann - Dune, Frank Herbert - Moon Palace, Paul Auster - For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway - The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen - Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen - The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck - The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson - Butcher's Crossing, John Williams - Augustus, John Williams (P.S.: im not sure if there are english translations of the first couple of german books, so I tried to add a translation of the title)
I clicked as soon as I saw the title of this video! So excited to add more books to my TBR👀😂 my FAVORITE books I’ve ever read are The Bloody Chamber and Interview with the Vampire❤️
Gotta add my list here too, in case some of you are reading through the comments and adding books to the endless TBR like I'm doing ❤R - Season of Migration to the North (forever thankful to you Emma for this) - The Count of Montecristo - The Reluctant Fundamentalist M. Hamid - Exit West M. Hamid - Anxious People F. Backman - White Nights F. Dostoevsky - Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery - Persuasion J. Austen - Anything from Sherlock Holmes A. C. Doyle - Little Women L. M. Alcott - To Kill a Mockingbird H. Lee - Flatland Edwin A. Abbott
Thank you for this long list of amazing books. I have noted down the names of all books mentioned.🙈💝 It's amazing to see all my 5 star classics are here. I'm only 4 books away from completing your fav classic books (may be they will become my favourites too now that I know we have same tastes in classic books😍).
absolutely love calvino and all his production!! some of his books that are 5s for me are also "the baron in the trees", "six memos for the next millennium" and "palomar"🤩
books I would bring on a desert island : - The master and margarita (Boulgakov) - The little Prince (St. Exupéry) - City of my dreams (Fogelström) - Harry Potter and anything by tove jansson
My 5 ⭐️ Books (some are the same as yours!!): - “The Book of Hours” by Rainier Maria Rilke - “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne - “Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury - “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy - “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens - “1984” by George Orwell - “Gerald’s Game” by Stephen King - “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare - “The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston - “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle - “Kick the Latch” by Kathryn Scanlan
⭐️ five favorites we have in common 1.The Graveyard Book 2. Letters to a Young Poet 3. Icefields (which I just picked up in the Lake Louise bookstore on my bday trip after seeing you get it there!) 4. Anne of Green Gables 5. The Dark Interval
⭐! Made it to the end bc it's fun to hear the passion of someone talking about the book they love! Favorite books: - Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar - The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry (my childhood ♥) - Happening, Annie Ernaux - Dangerous Liaisons, Choderlos de Laclos - Disturbance, Philippe Lançon - Voices of Chernobyl: the Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, Svetlana Alexievitch
If you loved Castle in the clouds, you HAVE to read the Rubyred series also by Kerstin Gier!! It’s like the most popular teen Romantasy book trilogy in Germany and everybody loves it! It’s SOOOO good!❤️
There's a book called "The Bluelite Message: 12th Anniversary Edition" that makes one believe in love again. The cover is designed by an artist from Indonesia, like a gorgeous gem. Changed my life literally.
I love this video. Like love love, have to re-watch and take notes kind of love. So many books that I also love and so many that I [now] plan to pick up. And I really appreciate the winter category. I also love snow and ice and will always give a winter book a second look. Thank you!
based off of your winter favourites, i have a favourite called “a snowfall of silver” by laura wood and its beautifully written and so cozy i do think you’d like it!! something about the way you talk so passionately about these books changes the reading slump mentality i had and made me think “any upcoming read might be a new favourite of mine”, so thank you
A handful of my favorites: To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (all-time favorite) Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (my first Ishiguro and it broke me) The Giver - Lois Lowry (read for the first time in 4th or 5th grade and became a yearly re-read for many many years after) Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders (the writing in this book carried me in a way I can't shake) Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein (my copy of this is so battered from reading the poems over and over and over as a child. I even still have some of the poems memorized)
I'm so glad you recommended the count of monte cristo. I was just at a library sale and got a 1920 2 volume set . It was fill a bag for $5 day! I started reading it was so riveted right away! Love it❤
Your voice is so calming!! Its so nice hearing you gush about books you love. I really appreciate the variety of books you have- it shows that you are a lover of story and know that genre or medium doesn't a great story make! Especially pointing out middle-grade books! Im curious about your opinions on The Series of Unfortunate Events! LOOVED that series growing up and I want to reread it again so bad. I remember feeling really seen for some reason. Felt like such an important book for kids by showing them they could survive hardships and that adults and society can be absolutely stupid. WAHH i loved it~ New to the channel so sorry if you've already talked about it in another video!
Whoever gave you Molly of the Mall deserves my thanks, too, because I read that after you talked about it, and Molly of the Mall is MY book the way Icefields is yours. 🥰
Aria is so good! Its honestly my fav and im so happy to see it getting recognition. They actually recently (like in the last couple years) rereleased it in a seven volume masterpiece collection with a prequel and spinoff and its SO GOOD!!! Its more of the same (and new) wholesome characters and adventures, you NEED to read them!!! Im so sad youve only read the first volume!!!!
Finished rereading Cloud Atlas a week ago, jeez, yes, still a 5 star, still beautiful. Love the movie as well, maybe even more in some way. Also really happy you came to your senses and appreciated LOTR!
Yay!! The way I've been refreshing your page constantly because I was just craving one of your videos to watch - it finally paid off! Every book you've rated 5 stars that I've read have been amazing, thanks always for the reccs
🌟 I watch you for ~3 years, and it's my luck you like "weird" books, as I love them too! Thanks to you I got to know or just was encouraged to pick up so many amazing books! (100hyos, Untold night and day, The blind owl, Endgame...) Thank you!🌷
tysm for the long video emma omg you immediately made my day better and tysm for all this recs, also as a colombian i always oddly proud to see you talk about a 100 years of solitude. my five stars would be the spear cuts through water, the hunchback of notre dame and the grandmaster of demonic cultivation
⭐️ my books would be; Contact - Carl Sagan Story of Your Life and other Stories - Ted Chang Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Immortals Quartet - Tamora Pierce Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
not sure if anyone else commented this but aqua is basically a 'prequel' to the series aria, that's probably why you can't find any more volumes! if you search up 'Aria The Masterpiece Manga' you can find all the volumes, volume 1 has the first two volumes (aqua) and then the other volumes contain the rest of the series. it's absolutely beautiful and one of the greatest manga ever written.
in no particular order: - one hundred years of solitude - Marquez - Sinuhe the Egyptian - Mika Waltari - The Man Who Spoke Snakish - Andrus Kivirähk - The Star Rover - Jack London - Contact - Carl Sagan - Discworld - Terry Pratchett (the whole sereis is awesome) - The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien - War with the Newts - Karel Čapek - Dances with Wolves - Michael Blake - Wild Swans - Jung Chang - Man's Search for Meaning - Viktore Frankl - I am, I am, I am - Maggie O'Farrell - The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin - Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes - Nepovídka - Egon Bondy (Czech, not sure if it was translated to English) - The Last Goddess : A Novel - Kateřina Tučková - The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry - The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera - Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz - The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett - Smoke gets in Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty - Kladivo na čarodějnice - Václav Kaplický (also couldnt find if translated) - Hrdý Budžes - Irena Dousková - His Dark Materials - Philip Pulman ...to name a few...
Hi Emma... I actually made it to the end of your lengthy video. Thank you for posting your favourite five star reads. I expanded my TBR collection today based on a few of your recommendations, which keep popping up.
- The Dispossessed, by Ursula K Le Guin - 100 years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Marquez - Conversación en la Catedral, by Mario Vargas Llosa - A Song of Ice and Fire, by George RR Martin
3:30 Thanks for this. I recently lost my dad and two uncles and have several other relatives with health problems. Grief has felt like an onslaught I didn't know how to handle since losing my Dad. Rilke's book is helping me approach it thoughtfully and constructively.
yayy i missed you bestie you're my comfort person fr some of my favourite books : harry potter, little women, i saw ramallah, the adventures of amina alsirafi, the shadow of the wind series, anne of green gables, daddy long legs, ten women, the oicture of dorian gray, The Woman from Tantoura
It's a good list, I've read 3 o 5 books you mentioned, and i loved them all, so thanks ❤ also I love the idea that I was kind of present when some of the books became your favorites 😊💕
⭐Hi I love your reccomendation's. My current favourite books are: Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk Human Acts - Han Kang We Have Always Lived in the Caste - Shirley Jackson Parable of the Sower - Octavia E Butler The Poppy War - R. F. Kuang Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto (honestly anything by her) After Dark - Haruki Murakami The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett The Prophet - Khalil Gibran The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka Schoolgirl - Osamu Dazai Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell Honourable mentions: Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke The Cruel Prince - Holly Black
Hello! A fan of your videos from Brazil. Since you loved The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, by Machado de Assis (which I love too), I'd recommend my favorite book he wrote: The Alienist. It's really good. It's his take on what is to be "crazy" and who gets to decide what craziness is. Really good topic and the his narrator is ironic, acid and funny. Love it.
I read the dark interval after my dad passed away, and it helped me a lot :). It helped to view death and the lost of someone important in my life in a different way.
"5 stars are not all the same stars. there's different constellations for different genres" i'm going to steal this !!
Rilke(duh):
Letters to a Young Poet 2:04
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 2:18
The Dark Interval 2:58
Stories of God 4:58
Poetry:
The Broken Wings and The Prophet 5:18
Non-Fiction:
The Vietnam War by Ken Burns 6:18
Manga:
Sailor Moon 8:20
Aria 9:02
Middlegrade:
The Girl Who Drank the Moon 9:56
Anne Green Gables 11:05
The Dark Hills Divide 12:50
The Graveyard Book 13:22
Matilda 13:54
Romance/YA
Even if This Love Dies Tonight 15:12
Winter:
Castle in the Clouds 16:56
Ember and the Ice Dragons 18:08
Icefields 19:11
Heaven and Hell 21:55
Heather Dixon Wallwork: 22:15
Entwined 22:37
The Enchanted Sonata 23:45
Fantasy:
Fate of the Tearling 24:12
Game of Thrones 24:55
Interview with a Vampire 25:05
Lord of the Rings 25:25
Harry Potter 25:55
Sci-Fi:
The Canticle for Leibowitz 26:35
Solaris 27:28
1984 28:01
Classics
War and Peace 28:35
The Brothers Karamazov 28:55
First Love by Turgenev 29:19
Phantom of the Opera (duh) 29:52
Frankenstein 30:28
Hamlet and Macbeth 30:55
The Picture of Dorian Gray 31:16
Paradise Lost 32:01
The Turn of the Screw 32:39
Prometheus Unbound 32:58
The Posthumous Memoirs Bras Cubas 33:30
The Count of Monte Cristo 33:40
Random:
Frankenstein in Baghdad 34:50
The Iliac Crest 36:01
Untold Night and Day 37:01
After Dark Murakami 37:41
Dance Dance Dance 39:17
Cloud Atlas 39:39
Pedro Paramo 40:41
One Hundred Years of Solitude 41:50
The Autobiography of Red 42:10
Grendel 42:42
House of Leaves 43:50
Beloved 46:09
Season of Migration to the North 46:31
If On a Winter's Night a Traveller 47:09
The Bloody Chamber 47:31
Thank you :)
your comment should be pinned, thank you 😊
Thank you so much
I came back to find a book and this is so great. Thank you!!
Wow thanku so much 😊🙏
Quite ironic that construction noise came when you were talking about humanity's cyclical greed leading to destruction of nature.
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Such display of exuberance... if you ever find "The Man who was magic" by Paul Gallico" from 1966 well, I believe you would love it... it's pretty short, kinda light, but really is packed with deep wisdom, well what else from the mid sixties? You are so inspiring! From the beautiful Oregon Coast, wishing you well, AL
My 18 Favorites (odd number I know, but it's the best I could do)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- A storm of swords by George RR Martin
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- And then there were none by Agatha Christie
- The Pillars of the earth by Ken Follet
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa (Manga)
- The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
- The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness 2) by Joe Abercrombie
- Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive 2) by Brandon Sanderson
- The Lies of Locke Lamora (The Gentleman Bastard Series) by Scott Lynch
I love how you left out the author’s name for prisoner of azkaban lol I chuckled
@@robthekoopa Sorry to disappoint you (maybe) but as weird as it sounds... I actually did not do that on purpose. Even though it would make sense for some people 🙂 But I'm gonna add it.
@@Ninaofthe90s all good haha great list by the way!
@@robthekoopa thank you ☺️
OBSESSED with your list!
My girl emma you never have to apologise for talking about books we love love love love lonnngggg videos from you it makes me feel like i know you❤
One of my dogs died today so you have no idea how much this video will cheer me up. Thank you Emma!
Oh love, sending you so much love - I’m sure they were incredibly lucky to have you in their life❤ wish I could send a hug along as well
Your dog loves you❤️ hugs
So sorry to hear this, I know your pain :((( very best wishes, be kind to yourself xx
I'm a pretty new reader, but these are my top five 5 star books! ⭐️
1- As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow ~Koulfa Katouh
2- Heaven ~ Mieko Kawakami
3- The Yellow Wallpaper ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4- Howl's Moving Castle ~ Diana Wynne Jones
5- a Curse so Dark and Lonely ~ Brigid Kemmerer
Note: (I'm currently reading "Letters to a young poet" and oh my God. It's the best thing I've ever read. 16 pages in, I've only finished the first 3 letters and I'm so glad I'm reading it, I'm annotating A LOT and it is just the perfect time in my life for it. So yeah, that will definitely go on the list.)
You’ve read 1030 books?!?! That’s a huge accomplishment! Congrats. And you’re still just a baby. You’re inspiring me to read more.
16:44 i looove that winter has its own category ❤
I LOVE that you read what you want and enjoy such a variety of books. Booktube is full of lovely people but I find so many of them read so many of the same books.
I love your videos full of new recommendations and enthusiasm 🥰
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The Fall - Albert Camus
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
The Trial - Franz Kafka
I’m currently reading and devouring the Count of Monte Cristo. Did you also like Kafkas Metamorphosis? I loved it more than the Trial, but both are insanely good.
@@sausana2501 Nice! I can’t recommend Monte Cristo enough so glad to hear you’re liking it :)
Yes, absolutely loved The Metamorphosis as well, honestly was tossing up between which to put here 😅
@@tade91 Do u have a Goodreads account? I like to follow people with similar book taste 🥹
⭐️ some of my alltime favourite 5 star reads are Blindless bei José Saramago, The Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Heidi by Johanna Spyri, The Gurl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer :)
Great video as always ^^ ⭐️
My favourites:
•100 years of solitude
•The house of the spirits (and currently making it into a theatrical play)
•L'ecume de jours
•Like water for chocolate
•Wuthering heights
• His dark Materials Trilogy
•The Third Wedding
•The Hunger games Trilogy
•The Count of Monte Cristo
•Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue
•La vie dream d' Ernesto G.
Theatrical Plays:
•Blood Wedding
•Prometheus Bount
•The Bacchae
•Hamlet
•Macbeth
•The Crusible
•Against Progress. Against Love. Against Democracy.
•Sons and Daughters
the hunger games is so real
Yay! Someone else that loves Like Water For Chocolate! I adore that book!
CLOUD ATLAS!! I will never shut up about that book. Made me feel closer to my fellow humans. Beautiful stuff
Yes exactly this!!!
All of Mitchell's books have stayed with me. That's a unique experience for me. I have only to his name as author & I'd grab it.
Absolutely, it is an unforgettable book
I’ve discovered you some years ago and I sadly lost my passion (for life) and for books but I think I wanna get back into reading and you motivate me and I really like the way you talk so thanks a lot to you ❤
My only 5 stars:
( btw I love seeing your recommendations, emmie)
• Lord of the flies - William Golding
• Hangsaman - Shirley Jackson
• The haunting of hill house - Shirley Jackson
• Stone butch blues - Leslie Feinberg
• The perks of being a wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
• The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
We missed you to Emma ❤️❤️
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@emmiereads since you show interviews with vampire my question is when is review video for second book in vampire chronicles series called the vampire lestat when will it come out do you know a date?
emma, I thumbs up your videos before I even watch them because I know I will love whatever you have created, whatever you have to say. you’re such a unique creator with such unique taste and it’s so obvious you make content that YOU enjoy. but we do too!! thank you for being such a breathe of fresh air, my dear. 🧚🏻🤍
your love for reading really shines through the way you talk about books. really a calming voice during a tumultuous time in my life so thank you very much for that! ❤
Thank you! Some of my favourite 5* books...
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter (and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet
W. Shakespeare - Hamlet
L. Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
M. Cunningham - The Hours
V. Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves, Orlando, To the Lighthouse
J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey
M. Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of being
L. McBride - Hold me closer Necromancer
C. Crowley - Graffiti Moon, Words in deep blue
J.R.R. Tolkien - LOTR, Silmarillion, Beren and Lúthien, Fall of Gondolin
M. Stiefvater - All the Crooked Saints, Bravely, Call down the Hawk
A.A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh
Patti Smith - M Train
G.Orwell - 1984
J. Webster - Daddy-Long-Legs
F. Kafka - The Trial
J. Joyce - A portrait of the artist as a young man
M. Shelley - Frankenstein
E. Bondy - Invalid siblings, Afghanistan, Cesta Českem našich otcu (Through the Czechia of our fathers)
M. Keil - Life in outer space
All from Tolkien
i have never clicked so fast in my life
I wanna say I wasn't desperate, but I was.
Same
Ok
Same
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i feel like i need to set aside a month to just get through the emmie reading list because ive been meaning to read so many of these books for a couple years at this point
I’m a new reader can you suggest me few books to read? Actually i was reading a lot of books during my school years but later fell off from that habit but i came back to reading novels after Silent patient. Can you suggest me novels which is like a thriller,Twists and turn or you can call it suspense or Adventure type books. These 3 are my favourite genres
I've got shivers when you mentioned a canticle for Leibovitz because you're the first person who mentioned this book IN MY LIFE and its absolutely 100% one of my favorite books of all time. Instant subscribe from me
We missed you, Emma, but I hope you had a wonderful time with your Mom. I love this so much! I saw the pre-announcement on Instagram yesterday and and this morning I kept waking up too early, thinking "Is it time yet?" 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Love how diverse you 5* list is! I've read many good books thanks to you!
My all time favourite author is Paul Auster ( New York Trilogy and Oracle's Night, but i've read them ALL), also Ernst Junger - Eumeswil, Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery, Lost Connections - Johann Haris (non-fiction about depression, so good!), Paulo Coelho - The Pilgramage.
Love to you Emma
It's always so nice to hear Emma talk about books, and loved that there was a quick mention for Gibran, I read both of them cause of you, and THANK YOU, I love his work so much. I always love your recommendations cause I always tend to have very similar review of books as you!
any video where you talk about your favorite books are always my favorite videos of yours
So grateful for 48 minutes of this... It's so nice listening to you talk about the books you love! 😊
Faves that come to mind first:
Classics:
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
3. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
4. Çalikusu (The Wren) - Reşat Nuri Güntekin (Turkish literature)
5. Crime and punishment - Dostoyevsky
6. Death and the Dervish - Mesa Selimovic (Yugoslav literature)
7. The Blue Castle - L. M Montgomery
8. The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric (Yugoslav literature)
9. The Trial - Kafka
9. Madonna in a fur coat - Sabahattin Ali (Turkish literature)
11. The Mountain Wreath - Petar Petrovic Njegos (Yugoslav/ Montenegrin)
12. Animal Farm - George Orwell
13. Barking at the stars - Milovan Vitezović (Yugoslav literature)
14. A Christmas Caro- Charles Dickens
Children's/middle grade:
1. Harry Potter (all seven books, I can't Choose)
2. Heidi - Johanna Spyri
3. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
4. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
5. Ickabog - J. K. Rowling
Everything else (General Fiction/Thriller/Romance/Supernatural):,
1. Hotel Silence - Auður Avaa Ólafsdóttir
2. Last wish - Sapkovski
3. Sword of Destiny - Sapkovski
4. The door to door bookstore - Carsten Henn
5. Piranesi - Susanan Clark
6. Before the coffee coold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
7. Interpreter of Maladies- Dzumpa Lahiri
8. The Party Crasher - Sophie Kinsella
9. The Flatshare - Beth O'Leary
10. The Lost Girls of Rome- Donato Carrisi
11. Safe Haven - Nicholas Sparks
12. A walk to remember - Nicholas Sparks
13. Thanks for the memories - Cecilia Ahern
14. Lovie, Rosie - Cecilia Ahern
from 12 to 22, "the graveyard book" continues to be one of my all-time favorite books!!
A long video from Emma with lots of book recommendations? I love it so much. I always love book recommendation videos and yours are such a diverse range of styles and genres and your voice is so calming and soothing that I can watch them for hours.
The Count of Monte Cristo, I read because of you and Carolyn and is my favorite book of all time! So grateful for your inspiration to read it! I read Frankenstein because of you as well.... my second most beloved book of all time. I agree with your five star list here, except I would have added "Rebecca" by Daphne Du Maurier is one of my five stars as well! Just love watching your vids!
FIRST OFF YOU WERE SORELY MISSED
SECONDLY SO MANY MORE BOOK RECS FOR ME
thank you for cataloging all this in one place 🙏❤️♥️
🩵🩵 haha trying to fit the whole catalogue into one video was hard!
@@emmiereads but thanks for doing so anyways also a bit unrelated but my first video on my channel will be a bit delayed due to personal stuff like applying for college my results came and I scored a 97 in English which is basically 100% but they never give full marks for language so I'm really hopeful other than great videos from you as always
My faves (thinking fast):
A map to the door of no return - Dionne Brand
One hundred years of solitude - Marquez
The trial - Kafka
In the dream house - Carmen Maria Machado
Viva o Povo Brasileiro/An invincible memory - João Ubaldo Ribeiro
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
I'm pretty sure some other people have recommended this before, but the way you talked about Castle in the Clouds here really reminded me of the Winterhouse trilogy by Ben Guterson! They're not flawless books but the atmosphere is my favourite and it's one of my all time favourite middle grade series. Would thoroughly recommend to anyone if you ever get your hands on it!
You know what I love about you is your range. Other than extreme horror or horror in general you have an outstanding palate. I’ve learned to give books a try when I never would’ve. Thank you
I've read like 5 books on your list so I'll need to check out the others! Love the diversity in your reading ✨️
Mine are AIice in Wonderland, The Master and Margarita, The Little Prince, 1984, and Phantom of the Opera
First person I've ever seen mention The Broken Wings!! It's easily in my top 3 favourite books, I'm so glad you loved it too :)
whatever emma recommends, it's always an auto-buy, and auto-read for me 🤝
For the Rilke poetry books, I recognized the Egon Schiele paintings on the covers immediately.
my top five books!! ⭐️
- alias grace by margaret atwood
- fingersmith by sarah waters
- the hunger games by suzanne collins
- the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid
- this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar
Love to see Alias Grace getting some praise!
@@sequoia504 i always say it’s my fav book when i’m asked! 🩷🩷
@@dxamondheart I would love to see Emma’s thoughts on it 🧐
@@sequoia504 I agree, also Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood is very very good
@@sequoia504 me too! i don’t know if she’s read it; i don’t recall if she has!!
very much enjoyed this. I read Icefields and commented elsewhere how much I loved it, read it on your recommendation and have recommended it to every book lover I know. Truly one of the best books I have ever read in 60 years.
the graveyard book being the best thing neil gaiman ever wrote SO TRUE. and so many people sleep on this one.
Ive been waiting for this so long. Emma you made my whole month happy(it's an understatement, last whole 3 years) Perfect video I needed in the midst of heavy load of uni assignments
I’m so glad!! Sending you so much luck with all your assignments🥰
@emmiereads Thank you so much💌. Have a great day/night🎀
Dandadan for good vibes & comedy, great art, and touching backstories for Manga! Really good
I’ve seen you with all hairstyles now. From old long haired Emma, to short, to bangs. This is by far my most favourite hairstyle on you 🩷.
Gorgeous list! My next reads from your list will be Season of Migration to the North and Icefields, waiting for them to land in my mailbox 😀
I'll do a top five five star books I've read that I think you could love:
1) The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernieres (set in Latin America, heavily inspired by Marquez, but also its own thing)
2) The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (this man can write like no other)
3) Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel (litfic, about "the other" in a small village community and the after effects of war - also stunning writing)
4) Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton (dystopian literary sci-fi, Arctic setting, orbiting Jupiter setting, but mostly about loneliness and friendship, and as the others has magnificent writing)
5) The Last Bear by Hannah Gold (lonely child moves to Bear Island (Bjørnøya - Norway) with her father, befriends the only polar bear on the island and tries to cross the seas to get him back to Svalbard - lovely middle grade)
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@labben1697 Thumbs up for mentioning The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, which is criminally overlooked.
I stumbled onto your channel by accident and I'm absolutely entranced by the way you speak and express yourself. We have very different reading styles but you make me want to read all of it ⭐
so glad to see a brazilian classic in here!!☺️☺️ also, you pronounced bras cubas perfectly!
i would also recommend dom casmurro by the same author, and also captains of the sand by jorge amado (or any book by him, really).
⭐ 5 of my favourites:
- Goodbye, Eri by Fujimoto Tatsuki
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- Plexus by Elena Helfrecht
- No Longer Human by Dazai Osamu
- Blame! by Nihei Tsutomu
Loved this !!
My favourites 5 ⭐ :
- Imperium (eng.: Empire), Christian Kracht
- Die Toten (eng.: The Dead), Christian Kracht
- Allegro Pastell, Leif Randt
- Wolkenläufer (eng.: Cloud-Racers), Angela Köckritz
- Tyll, Daniel Kehlmann
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- Moon Palace, Paul Auster
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
- The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
- Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen
- The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
- The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
- Butcher's Crossing, John Williams
- Augustus, John Williams
(P.S.: im not sure if there are english translations of the first couple of german books, so I tried to add a translation of the title)
You inspired me to buy ‘one hundred years of solitude’ andddd WOWWW, it was weird but oh my gosh was it amazing! Definitely 5/5 stars
the sound at 12:51 caught me off guard! I love how excited you get by books, cause I am exactly the same and just gasp at great passages❤!
I clicked as soon as I saw the title of this video! So excited to add more books to my TBR👀😂 my FAVORITE books I’ve ever read are The Bloody Chamber and Interview with the Vampire❤️
Feel free to make all the long videos you want! I’m there for it. 🌟
I read the Picture of Dorian Grey because of you, and you are absolutely correct about the writing! It’s a work of art.
Gotta add my list here too, in case some of you are reading through the comments and adding books to the endless TBR like I'm doing ❤R
- Season of Migration to the North (forever thankful to you Emma for this)
- The Count of Montecristo
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist M. Hamid
- Exit West M. Hamid
- Anxious People F. Backman
- White Nights F. Dostoevsky
- Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery
- Persuasion J. Austen
- Anything from Sherlock Holmes A. C. Doyle
- Little Women L. M. Alcott
- To Kill a Mockingbird H. Lee
- Flatland Edwin A. Abbott
Thank you for this long list of amazing books. I have noted down the names of all books mentioned.🙈💝
It's amazing to see all my 5 star classics are here. I'm only 4 books away from completing your fav classic books (may be they will become my favourites too now that I know we have same tastes in classic books😍).
absolutely love calvino and all his production!! some of his books that are 5s for me are also "the baron in the trees", "six memos for the next millennium" and "palomar"🤩
books I would bring on a desert island :
- The master and margarita (Boulgakov)
- The little Prince (St. Exupéry)
- City of my dreams (Fogelström)
- Harry Potter
and anything by tove jansson
My 5 ⭐️ Books (some are the same as yours!!):
- “The Book of Hours” by Rainier Maria Rilke
- “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury
- “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy
- “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
- “1984” by George Orwell
- “Gerald’s Game” by Stephen King
- “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare
- “The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston
- “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle
- “Kick the Latch” by Kathryn Scanlan
⭐️ five favorites we have in common 1.The Graveyard Book 2. Letters to a Young Poet 3. Icefields (which I just picked up in the Lake Louise bookstore on my bday trip after seeing you get it there!) 4. Anne of Green Gables 5. The Dark Interval
⭐! Made it to the end bc it's fun to hear the passion of someone talking about the book they love!
Favorite books:
- Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
- The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry (my childhood ♥)
- Happening, Annie Ernaux
- Dangerous Liaisons, Choderlos de Laclos
- Disturbance, Philippe Lançon
- Voices of Chernobyl: the Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, Svetlana Alexievitch
So excited for a new video!! Can't wait to see what we have in common ⭐⭐
Update: everything is going on the TBR
If you loved Castle in the clouds, you HAVE to read the Rubyred series also by Kerstin Gier!! It’s like the most popular teen Romantasy book trilogy in Germany and everybody loves it! It’s SOOOO good!❤️
There's a book called "The Bluelite Message: 12th Anniversary Edition" that makes one believe in love again. The cover is designed by an artist from Indonesia, like a gorgeous gem. Changed my life literally.
LOVE to see you so happy! You're spreading good vibes all around!
Had been eagerly waiting for this one! I'm putting this on my bucket list, "Read all the 5 star rated books by Emma" ✍️
❤📚⭐
I've loved If We Were Villians, The Night Circus, The Hobbit, Anne of Green Gables and Les Miserables.
I love this video. Like love love, have to re-watch and take notes kind of love. So many books that I also love and so many that I [now] plan to pick up. And I really appreciate the winter category. I also love snow and ice and will always give a winter book a second look. Thank you!
based off of your winter favourites, i have a favourite called “a snowfall of silver” by laura wood and its beautifully written and so cozy i do think you’d like it!!
something about the way you talk so passionately about these books changes the reading slump mentality i had and made me think “any upcoming read might be a new favourite of mine”, so thank you
A handful of my favorites:
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (all-time favorite)
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (my first Ishiguro and it broke me)
The Giver - Lois Lowry (read for the first time in 4th or 5th grade and became a yearly re-read for many many years after)
Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders (the writing in this book carried me in a way I can't shake)
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein (my copy of this is so battered from reading the poems over and over and over as a child. I even still have some of the poems memorized)
I'm so glad you recommended the count of monte cristo. I was just at a library sale and got a 1920 2 volume set . It was fill a bag for $5 day! I started reading it was so riveted right away! Love it❤
Your voice is so calming!! Its so nice hearing you gush about books you love. I really appreciate the variety of books you have- it shows that you are a lover of story and know that genre or medium doesn't a great story make!
Especially pointing out middle-grade books! Im curious about your opinions on The Series of Unfortunate Events! LOOVED that series growing up and I want to reread it again so bad. I remember feeling really seen for some reason. Felt like such an important book for kids by showing them they could survive hardships and that adults and society can be absolutely stupid. WAHH i loved it~
New to the channel so sorry if you've already talked about it in another video!
"The Road" is my fav book in the "winter" category. Depressing but great dark poetic writing.
Whoever gave you Molly of the Mall deserves my thanks, too, because I read that after you talked about it, and Molly of the Mall is MY book the way Icefields is yours. 🥰
Aria is so good! Its honestly my fav and im so happy to see it getting recognition. They actually recently (like in the last couple years) rereleased it in a seven volume masterpiece collection with a prequel and spinoff and its SO GOOD!!! Its more of the same (and new) wholesome characters and adventures, you NEED to read them!!! Im so sad youve only read the first volume!!!!
Finished rereading Cloud Atlas a week ago, jeez, yes, still a 5 star, still beautiful. Love the movie as well, maybe even more in some way. Also really happy you came to your senses and appreciated LOTR!
Yay!! The way I've been refreshing your page constantly because I was just craving one of your videos to watch - it finally paid off! Every book you've rated 5 stars that I've read have been amazing, thanks always for the reccs
🌟 I watch you for ~3 years, and it's my luck you like "weird" books, as I love them too! Thanks to you I got to know or just was encouraged to pick up so many amazing books! (100hyos, Untold night and day, The blind owl, Endgame...) Thank you!🌷
tysm for the long video emma omg you immediately made my day better and tysm for all this recs, also as a colombian i always oddly proud to see you talk about a 100 years of solitude.
my five stars would be the spear cuts through water, the hunchback of notre dame and the grandmaster of demonic cultivation
⭐️ my books would be;
Contact - Carl Sagan
Story of Your Life and other Stories - Ted Chang
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Immortals Quartet - Tamora Pierce
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
not sure if anyone else commented this but aqua is basically a 'prequel' to the series aria, that's probably why you can't find any more volumes! if you search up 'Aria The Masterpiece Manga' you can find all the volumes, volume 1 has the first two volumes (aqua) and then the other volumes contain the rest of the series. it's absolutely beautiful and one of the greatest manga ever written.
in no particular order:
- one hundred years of solitude - Marquez
- Sinuhe the Egyptian - Mika Waltari
- The Man Who Spoke Snakish - Andrus Kivirähk
- The Star Rover - Jack London
- Contact - Carl Sagan
- Discworld - Terry Pratchett (the whole sereis is awesome)
- The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
- War with the Newts - Karel Čapek
- Dances with Wolves - Michael Blake
- Wild Swans - Jung Chang
- Man's Search for Meaning - Viktore Frankl
- I am, I am, I am - Maggie O'Farrell
- The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin
- Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
- Nepovídka - Egon Bondy (Czech, not sure if it was translated to English)
- The Last Goddess : A Novel - Kateřina Tučková
- The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz
- The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
- Smoke gets in Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty
- Kladivo na čarodějnice - Václav Kaplický (also couldnt find if translated)
- Hrdý Budžes - Irena Dousková
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pulman
...to name a few...
Love Solaris. And the Tarkovsky adaptation is one of my favorite movies too.
Hi Emma... I actually made it to the end of your lengthy video. Thank you for posting your favourite five star reads. I expanded my TBR collection today based on a few of your recommendations, which keep popping up.
- The Dispossessed, by Ursula K Le Guin
- 100 years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Marquez
- Conversación en la Catedral, by Mario Vargas Llosa
- A Song of Ice and Fire, by George RR Martin
3:30 Thanks for this. I recently lost my dad and two uncles and have several other relatives with health problems. Grief has felt like an onslaught I didn't know how to handle since losing my Dad. Rilke's book is helping me approach it thoughtfully and constructively.
I love hearing people talk about their favourite books! This was a lovely video 😃
My daughter is in grade 3 and I gave her this book this year and she loved it so much she read it twice and it is her current all-time-favorite
yayy i missed you bestie you're my comfort person fr
some of my favourite books : harry potter, little women, i saw ramallah, the adventures of amina alsirafi, the shadow of the wind series, anne of green gables, daddy long legs, ten women, the oicture of dorian gray, The Woman from Tantoura
It's a good list, I've read 3 o 5 books you mentioned, and i loved them all, so thanks ❤ also I love the idea that I was kind of present when some of the books became your favorites 😊💕
⭐Hi I love your reccomendation's. My current favourite books are:
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
Human Acts - Han Kang
We Have Always Lived in the Caste - Shirley Jackson
Parable of the Sower - Octavia E Butler
The Poppy War - R. F. Kuang
Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto (honestly anything by her)
After Dark - Haruki Murakami
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Schoolgirl - Osamu Dazai
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Honourable mentions:
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
The Cruel Prince - Holly Black
Hello! A fan of your videos from Brazil. Since you loved The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, by Machado de Assis (which I love too), I'd recommend my favorite book he wrote: The Alienist. It's really good. It's his take on what is to be "crazy" and who gets to decide what craziness is. Really good topic and the his narrator is ironic, acid and funny. Love it.
Grendel playing with your lights. ❤️ I love how personal ratings are. I give them entirely based on mood and feelings.
Hi! Longtime viewer from Germany here
I read the dark interval after my dad passed away, and it helped me a lot :). It helped to view death and the lost of someone important in my life in a different way.
⭐️ Excellent video once again
thanks for the recommendations. This video deserves 5 stars as well. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️