BookswithEmilyFox definitely finishing series that I started if they are all published and reading/listening to more audiobooks cause it’s not cheating like my sister thinks 😂
I'm planning an extensive "empty shelvie" challenge since I have around sixty books I bought in 2018 and 2017 that must be read before I buy new books. So, I'll only buy a new book after I had read five books I had already bought.
I love when you pronounce English words correctly but just with a French accent. It sounds so much better. I think my big book this year is going to be Anna Karenina. My plan is to read at least four classics this year and I think Anna Karenina is the biggest one I picked.
@@basho4306 I somehow got away with never reading any Russian literature in high school or my undergrad English degree. So this is my first one. Hubby read it and loved it. So I hope I will too.
Same, me too @ Anna Karenina! Depending on how you see it, it will most probably be my biggest book too. I also want to finish The Witching Hour by Anne Rice, which I think is only a bit longer, but I started it this year so I’m not counting it.
I vote: 1. Crime and Punishment, 2. Finish Monte Cristo, and 3. The Reality Dysfunction because that’s the ultimate big book challenge since it’s over 1000. You can do it!
I LOOOOOVED The Secret History but The Goldfinch is my favourite book of all time!!! I do recommend reading TSH first tho because it's more accessible, if you like it then definitely give The Goldfinch a shot!
AGREED! Goldfinch is one of my all time favorites! I actually read it first and then read TSH but I loved them both (Goldfinch a bit more though- it’s a classic!).
How does the ending (without spoilers) of TSH compare with the Goldfinch’s?? I was so unsatisfied with the Goldfinch’s because I was left like “really? After everything he’s been through??” Which i guess is sort of the point, but I didn’t like the ending. I’m v interested in TSH but idk if I want to risk having another ending like that.
Omg "A Little Life" will break you apart piece by piece. I just finished it. It's normally hard for a book to make me cry and although it is a very very sad book, I cried once. Majority of the books on your reading list is on my reading list, so I'll be joining your big book challenge.
Omg Needful things is my favourite Stephen king book ever!!!! It actually got me back into reading after stopping for 9 years!!! Everything happens so fast and it actually has a decent ending!!
Reality dysfunction was garbage IMO bloated book, with fun story which badly needed to be about 400 pages shorter... And it is the first volume of series with more painful bloated books, horrendous cliches and characters I hated....
I loved The Secret History! I feel like it has a very Shakespearean plot, very character driven, so if you enjoy that type of thing you'll like it. The writing is gorgeous too.
The Passage is big and scary, but so worth reading, and the books in the series only get better as you keep going (I finished City of Mirrors this year). Good luck with your Big Books challenge! I really need to pick up a Neal Stephenson book at some point, but his books are so intimidating!
Finish Le Compte because if you start Les trois mousquetaires you'll have to read the sequel Vingt ans après and if you read that you'll have to read the third book in the trilogy, Le vicomte de Bragelonne, which is split into three books in the Folio classique edition and those three books add up to 2700 pages! But it's fast paced and a wonderful series to read when you decide to embark on the adventure! I read those last 2700 pages in one month: something I've never done! But for now, Le Compte!
Firstly, remember that the print size, page size and font as well as paper thickness will make books bigger than they really are. If you look at different editions, you’ll get a better feel for the real length of the story. Don’t be afraid of Donna Tartt. She’s brilliant. And you will love Dune. Which is tiny in paperback. I personally love big, long books bc there’s just more story.
Crime and Punishment is more popular, in part because it's a part of school curriculum in Russia - I myself read it for school and honestly? I hated it, not because it's a bad book, but because it just fills you with this greyness and hopelessness and some part of the story were a bit too much for my sensitive soul. That's just me though - I don't think you're gonna have a problem with that, Emily. And yesss, Dune!! I love that book and I actually want to reread it in 2019 and hopefully read the rest of the series cause I looove that world, it is so detailed and thought-out. It's not just sci-fi bits that are cool - there's also politics and interpersonal relationships and also ecology is very important? It's a great book hehe
One of the cool things about Dune is that because it's such a quintessential sci-fi classic, you can totally catch things that you might recognize in sci-fi works that came later. A lot of tropes in sci-fi that we take for granted actually originated in this book! I'm about 100 pages into it, and while not much has happened, the world building is very well done. Don't watch the movies/miniseries.
I am planning to read Dune next year too! Also having plenty of big books in TRL, hopefully will finish most of them! Also having read C&P and Idiot, I will read another Dostoyevsky classic- Eternal Husband, but it only being novella I do not think it counts as a big book (although all D books are huge in a way...)
Read crime and punishment and I'll join in with you. I also have three musketeers on my bookshelf and wasn't planning on it anytime soon but maybe I'll join in with that too.
I think the three musketeers and the sparrow for the ones we can vote on! I think I'm going to try and follow along with you. I noticed that I'm pretty stuck in the fantastic genre and want to branch out! Some of these sound so intriguing!
Ah yeah, if you go into The Passage thinking it's a YA book you're going to have a bad time. It's a literary take on the Vampire/Horror genre. It's very atmospheric and character driven. Very slow in some parts but also heart-racing at the beginning to help get you going. Wonderful read in the end.
Omg please read dune! It’s big but very fast paced so it doesn’t feel like it has that many pages. I’m not really impartial to comment on it because this is my favorite book of all time, and it makes me really happy to see someone on booktube mention it. Good luck with your big reads in 2019! Also, I think you should finish the count of monte cristo - it’s been quite a while since I’ve read it but I remember really liking it!
"The idiot" has a great title, i choose that one. OMG I LOOOOVE the way you pronounce the french. I totally think you should finish Le Conde de Monte-Cristo.
Brian McClellan actually studied under Brandon Sanderson and attended his writing classes and so he definitely takes a lot of influence from him! I'm sure you're gonna love his novels! x
I have a big book recommandation for you Emily: the Witching Hour by Anne Rice. It is 1207 pages and has been keeping me pretty entertained for the past couple of months! 😄 Anne Rice's writing is amazing!
Ah, you and I are kindred spirits, lol. My absolute favorite trope is the Groundhog Day trope where someone lives a chunk of time over and over. I also love Time Travel stories in general (even though they are always full of paradoxes/plot holes). I'd love to see you do a video about books with this trope; that would be so fun! :D
I have planned to read so many of those this year. Would be fun if you created a book club for the big book challenge, maybe on goodreads? Btw I would recommend getting a different edition of The Idiot, the translator for that version really isn’t very good.
This first big book I want to read next year is The Way of Kings, which you didn't mention but I see it on your shelf so it counts. I have the same edition as well, and also the other two in hardcover, just like you! Pretty awesome :) Good luck with your big book goal!
I'm reading Dune with you this year! I'm going to predict that even if it's not to my liking, I'd still be able to appreciate the enormous impact it had on the science fiction world.
I know Stephen King has a book or two with aliens (dreamkeepers, tommyknockers?) they are also pretty big but I would love to see your review on these alien thriller novels sometime! Haha. Maybe big books for 2020? 😉
I'll be reading The Passage with you, my edition is over 1000 pages O.O, so it will be motivating to read it with you. I will also be challenging myself to read a least 1 big book a month. Good luck this year with your challenge!
Needful Things is good, I liked it but it's just too long. Great idea for a story but it could have been shorter and that would have made it better. That being said, it's a page-turner and I'm glad I read it
HOW CUTE IS THIS MUG? Also, this video was really great. I tend to never read big books or difficult ones, like classics, because I get overwhelmed and stressed out if I need a longer time than usual for them. So my challenge is to read 6 big books this year.
I've read Dune, The Secret History and The Passage, they were all great! Also, I loved the second book in the Passage trilogy even more than the first one and I've been meaning to reread Dune so I can continue on with the series :) I've always heard The Count of Monte-Christo is amazing and one of my friend's favorite book ever is The Three Musketeers so I can't help you choose between the two, I need to read them too! :p I really want to read Life After Life and A Winter's Promise, I've heard a lot of great things about them! I have Red Mars on my shelves as well but I'm really afraid of its size plus I remember hearing it's a hard sci-fi book with biology from other planets so it sounds good but not the easiest to get through x)
I agree about the Passage. Like 80% of the reviews say that the second book is slower and less interesting, but I did enjoy it a bit more than the first one, too.
@@sashugh I personally thought the first one dragged a bit in the middle while the second one was perfect, I loved all the new perspectives we got and seeing the story move along! :)
i think that you have bigger chance to finish Idiot. C&P has better story but also contains some scenes in the middle which are famous DNF inducing. And Idiot is less depressive. BTW I love them both! Dostoyevsky is the GOAT! ❤️❤️❤️
I feel Crime and punishment would be easier - less characters with scary names, quite straight forward plot, but it’s good and makes you think a lot! Also I think it suites your taste better
ohhhh my gosh, so many of these books are on my tbr/ones I’m really excited about, too! especially The Count of Monte Cristo, A Little Life, The Secret History, Dune, The Passage, Needful Things, and NOS4A2... but also several of the sci fi books you talked about toward the end that I had never heard of before 😂 hmm... maybe I should use a readalong as a kick in the butt to finally get to these... 🤔😜
While A Little Life is devastating and heartbreaking it is the most beautiful book I have ever read and quickly became my favorite book of all time! I cannot recommend it enough the writing is amazing!
NOS4A2 shouldn't intimidate you at all! I literally read it in two days. I started and could not stop. One of the best books I've ever read. I hope you get to it this year!
oooh I have Needful things NOS4A2 which I meant to read this year but just never got round to, so definitely tempted to save them until you read them now! Great picks btw :) x
Crime and Punishment is so good! I also loved The Brothers Karamazov, but the ending pissed me off. Dostoevsky can be tedious to read, and something to know before diving into his books is that many of the characters go by multiple names, so it can sometimes be hard to follow unless you take notes.
Red Mars is very hard sci-fi. It's like the ultimate guide to colonise Mars but still has a very compelling story. If you're into it it's a must. If not, it will quite stretchy.
Crime and punishment is such a great book. I had to read it for school and its the only book I’ve read for school that I loved with all my heart and that I can truly recommend. I hope you’ll love it too
Oooh j'étais tellement surprise et contente d'entendre Les fiancés de l'Hiver ! Je ne trouve pas que ça ressemble à Harry Potter mais il y a le même effet d'immersion :) Je n'ai pas vraiment peur des gros pavés parce qu'au fil du temps je me suis rendue compte que c'était mes meilleures lectures. Mais je sais que je dois planifier trois bonnes semaines devant mois avant de lire autre chose haha. A little life me tente énormément, je l'emprunterais à la médiathèque à l'occasion. Bonnes lectures Emily !
Needful Things is best enjoyed when you’ve already read Cujo and... some other Castle Rock book that I can’t remember now. It makes a lot of references to those earlier stories, and since I read Needful Things before those, they went completely over my head!
A little life! YES!!! BIG YES! Can't wait to hear what you think of it. I will join you in Crime and punishment, and Dune. Yeah.. I did read the Passage and didn't like it at all. NOS4A2 is also on my list, I actually met him and he signed my copy.. nice guy. Seveneves I feel like you're gonna LOVE! its an amazing sci-fi I loved it so much. I vote Sphere!!! I also have it and didn't read it yet. So if it wins the vote, I'll read it myself. All the best with the haul! Happy new year ❤️
I love when I read an older book and fall in love. Rebecca be de Maurier and East of Eden by Steinbeck blew my mind this year. I reread Dune this year and really liked it. My husband read it for the first time and hated it. Our marriage will survive. The Passage is so good. I’d be surprised if you didn’t like it.
Oooh, there are so many on your list that I'm planning to read as well! I will try to read The secret History, Needful Things and Dune together with you at least :) Because just like you, I'm so scared of books that are over 500 pages, so I always push them further and further away lol. I love this challenge and I hope you can read as many big books as possible! Let's do our best :D
NOS4A2 is incredible. It’s super long but you’ll fly through it. Read it in January since Christmas was just days ago. Don’t wait til the end of the year. I think you’ll love it. It’s the #1 book I always recommend. Can’t wait to see what you think.
Red Mars is on my list this year! First Kim Stanley Robinson for me. I'm half way through Michener's Hawaii right now (over 1000 pages) and also hoping to read more BIG books in 2019
I will totally read these... except the classics with you! I love that you slip into french when the words are spelled the same. It's an adorable quirk and shows who you are!
Ah the Secret History was the best book I read this year (out of 86). It's up there with my all-time favourites now. I hope you'll enjoy it, it's truly so layered with themes and symbolism it's crazy. I'm in awe of Donna Tartt's intellect
I’m willing to read A Little Life, The Secret History and Dune with you. 😂 I have them all on my shelf waiting for me and I have been too scared to pick them up. I also need to read the Stand this year, maybe Seveneves too. There are so many! I told myself this year I would try to read more big a** books lol. I vote yes for The Mote in God’s Eye. I haven’t read it myself yet but I’m intrigued.
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I've been meaning to read a Donna Tartt novel! I've heard lots of great things about her books so I might join you and read The Secret History 😉 I also got Les fiancés de l'hiver from my library, so I plan on reading that one pretty soon!
I have decided to read all of these books with you. I am not afraid of big books but they all sound great! I have read the passage and book two of that trilogy. It is very good, but it vampires not zombies. I will not be reading Dune. My parents use to force me to watch the movie as a kid, so that will be a hard pass. Cant wait to start the challenge! Love your channel and that it is more than just YA.
I'm doing a similar challenge, but a little different. I plan on five big books to make sure I get enough time to read other things. You got me out of my slump this year by the way. After binging your videos (again) I realised I had been going after wrong books and needed to get back into my comfort zome. I'm super exited you picked The Secret History. It's her best book in my opinion, it made a huge impression first time I read it. Also definitely Crime and Punishment! It's very easy read for a classic. I might read Seveneses myself. Might have added a few S' in that title 😂 Other than that I plan for sure: Swan Song, Dark Materials (the pretty big edition), third Game of Thrones book and The Once and Future King.
Your 2018 big book reading challenge is literally one of my favourite reading challenge and you inspired me to plan mine. I feel intimidated reading big book too because they're just BIG. I'm interested and hope to read A Little Life and The Secret of History next year so maybe I'll join you. Also, I definitely have to finish IT by Stephen King next year because I started reading it around October and after about 100 pages in I just left it because the size intimidate me.
Like 80% of the books you mentioned here are in my TBR since forever because i'm never in the mood to read them and their size scares me lol why am i like thiss
What are you planning a your "2019 Reading Challenge"? :)
BookswithEmilyFox definitely finishing series that I started if they are all published and reading/listening to more audiobooks cause it’s not cheating like my sister thinks 😂
going to do the challenge of 100 books a year again and will do a big books challenge as well, I think.
Trying to read a good portion of the books on my TBR, because it's getting kinda ridiculous.
I would like to read more series because I know I would like them but I'm scared of the commitment that long series requires :/
I'm planning an extensive "empty shelvie" challenge since I have around sixty books I bought in 2018 and 2017 that must be read before I buy new books. So, I'll only buy a new book after I had read five books I had already bought.
I love when you pronounce English words correctly but just with a French accent. It sounds so much better.
I think my big book this year is going to be Anna Karenina. My plan is to read at least four classics this year and I think Anna Karenina is the biggest one I picked.
I picked another Tolstoi book, war and peace (1500 pages). I loove russian literature and also chose books by Dostoyevsky, Gogol and Gontscharow.
@@basho4306 I somehow got away with never reading any Russian literature in high school or my undergrad English degree. So this is my first one. Hubby read it and loved it. So I hope I will too.
I looooved Anna a lot
Same, me too @ Anna Karenina! Depending on how you see it, it will most probably be my biggest book too. I also want to finish The Witching Hour by Anne Rice, which I think is only a bit longer, but I started it this year so I’m not counting it.
Anna Karenina took me a bit to get into but I ended up loving it!
U should add a poll on the video so u have a better overview of which book most people choose^^
I vote: 1. Crime and Punishment, 2. Finish Monte Cristo, and 3. The Reality Dysfunction because that’s the ultimate big book challenge since it’s over 1000. You can do it!
I agree with all of them
Three Musketeers or I am doing the smart thing and finishing Le Comte de Monte-Cristo?
Doing smart things? Pchaaa! Who needs that? XD
Finish The Count of Monte Cristo! 🌼
Finish the book if you liked it. 😀😂
Finish Le comte de monte cristo
Monte Cristo
This list of books gives me life! I can not wait to hear your reviews over half of them are books I’ve recently read and absolutely loved!!
I LOOOOOVED The Secret History but The Goldfinch is my favourite book of all time!!! I do recommend reading TSH first tho because it's more accessible, if you like it then definitely give The Goldfinch a shot!
I totally agree with you!
AGREED! Goldfinch is one of my all time favorites! I actually read it first and then read TSH but I loved them both (Goldfinch a bit more though- it’s a classic!).
I DNF’d the Goldfinch 😔 feel like I need to pick it back up but DNFing really makes me hesitate trying it again.
YES! I loved The Goldfinch too ❤️
How does the ending (without spoilers) of TSH compare with the Goldfinch’s?? I was so unsatisfied with the Goldfinch’s because I was left like “really? After everything he’s been through??” Which i guess is sort of the point, but I didn’t like the ending. I’m v interested in TSH but idk if I want to risk having another ending like that.
Omg "A Little Life" will break you apart piece by piece. I just finished it. It's normally hard for a book to make me cry and although it is a very very sad book, I cried once. Majority of the books on your reading list is on my reading list, so I'll be joining your big book challenge.
Omg Needful things is my favourite Stephen king book ever!!!! It actually got me back into reading after stopping for 9 years!!! Everything happens so fast and it actually has a decent ending!!
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Crime and punishment is one of my favorites! In some parts is really slow, but it’s worth it. It really makes you think. Highly recommend!!
Which big Sci-fi I am reading?
The Mote in God's Eye, The Sparrow, Sphere, Red Mars or The Reality Disfunction?
I haven't read any of those, but I would go with the big and scary one, The Reality Distinction. That title is so interesting! 👀
Red Mars please
Red Mars
Reality dysfunction was garbage IMO bloated book, with fun story which badly needed to be about 400 pages shorter... And it is the first volume of series with more painful bloated books, horrendous cliches and characters I hated....
The Sparrow
13:02 that book is really really good! It's not even a slow paste book, the world building is amazing and i loved it v v v much
I bought Crime and Punishment to read in '19 too. My sister loooooves the Russian classics and this will be my first one. Let's buddy read!!!!!
I also have Nos4a2. Let's do this!
I also love russian literature. I'm currently reading war and peace and can definately recommend Bulgakows Master and Margarita!
@@basho4306 I have war and peace but I am SO intimidated by it. What do you think of it?
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IS SO GOOD 💛💛💛
Needful Things! Yes! I read The Stand and IT this year so Needful Things is next on my big Stephen King book list
A Little Life will change your life. Literally. Takes a bit to get into but it’s so worth it!
I literally have the same fears about Dune! I have it on my shelf... waiting. So if you read it in 2019 I will too! 🤝
I loved The Secret History! I feel like it has a very Shakespearean plot, very character driven, so if you enjoy that type of thing you'll like it. The writing is gorgeous too.
Ahahaha the intro is so cute 😂
The Passage is big and scary, but so worth reading, and the books in the series only get better as you keep going (I finished City of Mirrors this year). Good luck with your Big Books challenge! I really need to pick up a Neal Stephenson book at some point, but his books are so intimidating!
Finish Le Compte because if you start Les trois mousquetaires you'll have to read the sequel Vingt ans après and if you read that you'll have to read the third book in the trilogy, Le vicomte de Bragelonne, which is split into three books in the Folio classique edition and those three books add up to 2700 pages! But it's fast paced and a wonderful series to read when you decide to embark on the adventure! I read those last 2700 pages in one month: something I've never done! But for now, Le Compte!
Seveneves was so intimidating to me. It took me quite a while to get into it, but it was so incredible. I still think about it years later.
Dune and Needful things are both books I really enjoyed and I have The Passage on my 2019 TBR list.
i love the fact that you picked a lot of books that i actually own in French ! So I might try to follow you whenever you pick them this year !
The secret history is so pretentious i love it so much!!! you should read it asap since it's very wintery oriented.
Aaron Velázquez agreed 100%
Firstly, remember that the print size, page size and font as well as paper thickness will make books bigger than they really are. If you look at different editions, you’ll get a better feel for the real length of the story. Don’t be afraid of Donna Tartt. She’s brilliant. And you will love Dune. Which is tiny in paperback. I personally love big, long books bc there’s just more story.
Crime and Punishment is more popular, in part because it's a part of school curriculum in Russia - I myself read it for school and honestly? I hated it, not because it's a bad book, but because it just fills you with this greyness and hopelessness and some part of the story were a bit too much for my sensitive soul. That's just me though - I don't think you're gonna have a problem with that, Emily.
And yesss, Dune!! I love that book and I actually want to reread it in 2019 and hopefully read the rest of the series cause I looove that world, it is so detailed and thought-out. It's not just sci-fi bits that are cool - there's also politics and interpersonal relationships and also ecology is very important? It's a great book hehe
One of the cool things about Dune is that because it's such a quintessential sci-fi classic, you can totally catch things that you might recognize in sci-fi works that came later.
A lot of tropes in sci-fi that we take for granted actually originated in this book! I'm about 100 pages into it, and while not much has happened, the world building is very well done.
Don't watch the movies/miniseries.
I am planning to read Dune next year too! Also having plenty of big books in TRL, hopefully will finish most of them! Also having read C&P and Idiot, I will read another Dostoyevsky classic- Eternal Husband, but it only being novella I do not think it counts as a big book (although all D books are huge in a way...)
I'm currently about halfway through A Little Life and everything you said basically sums it up. Really enjoying it so far though!
Read crime and punishment and I'll join in with you. I also have three musketeers on my bookshelf and wasn't planning on it anytime soon but maybe I'll join in with that too.
The three musketeers is such a good book!! I highly recommend
I think the three musketeers and the sparrow for the ones we can vote on! I think I'm going to try and follow along with you. I noticed that I'm pretty stuck in the fantastic genre and want to branch out! Some of these sound so intriguing!
Just saying, Needful Things is brilliant!!! It’s big but I flew through it (like most Stephen King books!)
im so with you on the hardcovers! they intimidate me so much!
Ah yeah, if you go into The Passage thinking it's a YA book you're going to have a bad time. It's a literary take on the Vampire/Horror genre. It's very atmospheric and character driven. Very slow in some parts but also heart-racing at the beginning to help get you going. Wonderful read in the end.
I kept rewinding cause I thought she had said something else. YA it definitely is not.
Omg please read dune! It’s big but very fast paced so it doesn’t feel like it has that many pages. I’m not really impartial to comment on it because this is my favorite book of all time, and it makes me really happy to see someone on booktube mention it. Good luck with your big reads in 2019! Also, I think you should finish the count of monte cristo - it’s been quite a while since I’ve read it but I remember really liking it!
i am re reading "Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan. there are 14 books in the series, all are over 1000 pages.
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YESSSS!!!! Needful Things is one of the best!
"The idiot" has a great title, i choose that one.
OMG I LOOOOVE the way you pronounce the french. I totally think you should finish Le Conde de Monte-Cristo.
The Idiot is not as fun as you think.
Michele A not. at. all.
I want to read Dune and Needful Things as well...ive been curious
Brian McClellan actually studied under Brandon Sanderson and attended his writing classes and so he definitely takes a lot of influence from him! I'm sure you're gonna love his novels! x
I have a big book recommandation for you Emily: the Witching Hour by Anne Rice. It is 1207 pages and has been keeping me pretty entertained for the past couple of months! 😄 Anne Rice's writing is amazing!
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Ah, you and I are kindred spirits, lol. My absolute favorite trope is the Groundhog Day trope where someone lives a chunk of time over and over. I also love Time Travel stories in general (even though they are always full of paradoxes/plot holes). I'd love to see you do a video about books with this trope; that would be so fun! :D
I have planned to read so many of those this year. Would be fun if you created a book club for the big book challenge, maybe on goodreads? Btw I would recommend getting a different edition of The Idiot, the translator for that version really isn’t very good.
This first big book I want to read next year is The Way of Kings, which you didn't mention but I see it on your shelf so it counts. I have the same edition as well, and also the other two in hardcover, just like you! Pretty awesome :) Good luck with your big book goal!
I have Needful Things as well! I'll try to read it with you.
I'm reading Dune with you this year! I'm going to predict that even if it's not to my liking, I'd still be able to appreciate the enormous impact it had on the science fiction world.
That intro 😂❤️
Sphere is really good and has a little bit of a thriller vibe to it.
I know Stephen King has a book or two with aliens (dreamkeepers, tommyknockers?) they are also pretty big but I would love to see your review on these alien thriller novels sometime! Haha. Maybe big books for 2020? 😉
I'll be reading The Passage with you, my edition is over 1000 pages O.O, so it will be motivating to read it with you. I will also be challenging myself to read a least 1 big book a month. Good luck this year with your challenge!
Needful Things is good, I liked it but it's just too long. Great idea for a story but it could have been shorter and that would have made it better. That being said, it's a page-turner and I'm glad I read it
HOW CUTE IS THIS MUG?
Also, this video was really great. I tend to never read big books or difficult ones, like classics, because I get overwhelmed and stressed out if I need a longer time than usual for them. So my challenge is to read 6 big books this year.
I've read Dune, The Secret History and The Passage, they were all great! Also, I loved the second book in the Passage trilogy even more than the first one and I've been meaning to reread Dune so I can continue on with the series :)
I've always heard The Count of Monte-Christo is amazing and one of my friend's favorite book ever is The Three Musketeers so I can't help you choose between the two, I need to read them too! :p
I really want to read Life After Life and A Winter's Promise, I've heard a lot of great things about them!
I have Red Mars on my shelves as well but I'm really afraid of its size plus I remember hearing it's a hard sci-fi book with biology from other planets so it sounds good but not the easiest to get through x)
I agree about the Passage. Like 80% of the reviews say that the second book is slower and less interesting, but I did enjoy it a bit more than the first one, too.
@@sashugh I personally thought the first one dragged a bit in the middle while the second one was perfect, I loved all the new perspectives we got and seeing the story move along! :)
Love your list! Don't be too afraid of Dune. I didn't enjoy it that much, but it is a quick read for it's size. Hope your reading year goes well!
Crime and Punishment or The Idiot?
i think that you have bigger chance to finish Idiot. C&P has better story but also contains some scenes in the middle which are famous DNF inducing. And Idiot is less depressive. BTW I love them both! Dostoyevsky is the GOAT! ❤️❤️❤️
Idiot it is amazing and very intersting and everyone is crazy . 😀
I feel Crime and punishment would be easier - less characters with scary names, quite straight forward plot, but it’s good and makes you think a lot! Also I think it suites your taste better
The idiot
Crime and Punishment ;)
I love it when you update i get super hyped
AH Dune! Im also reading it in 2019
ohhhh my gosh, so many of these books are on my tbr/ones I’m really excited about, too! especially The Count of Monte Cristo, A Little Life, The Secret History, Dune, The Passage, Needful Things, and NOS4A2... but also several of the sci fi books you talked about toward the end that I had never heard of before 😂 hmm... maybe I should use a readalong as a kick in the butt to finally get to these... 🤔😜
While A Little Life is devastating and heartbreaking it is the most beautiful book I have ever read and quickly became my favorite book of all time! I cannot recommend it enough the writing is amazing!
I loved red Mars. Loved it. It's heavy on the science ( which I love). However, it's also very philosophical.
Dune and the Passage is on my list for the year to! I will definitively read those one with you!
NOS4A2 shouldn't intimidate you at all! I literally read it in two days. I started and could not stop. One of the best books I've ever read. I hope you get to it this year!
We read Crime and Punishment in school, it’s classics and it’s one of my fav books of all time, I firmly believe that everyone should read it.
Oh The Passage is fantastic! One of my favorites. I didn’t know it was YA.
It isn't IMHO, it's a horror novel. Nothing YA about it, they're just marketing it like this to get the Hunger games fans.
oooh I have Needful things NOS4A2 which I meant to read this year but just never got round to, so definitely tempted to save them until you read them now! Great picks btw :) x
Crime and Punishment is so good! I also loved The Brothers Karamazov, but the ending pissed me off. Dostoevsky can be tedious to read, and something to know before diving into his books is that many of the characters go by multiple names, so it can sometimes be hard to follow unless you take notes.
Red Mars is very hard sci-fi. It's like the ultimate guide to colonise Mars but still has a very compelling story. If you're into it it's a must. If not, it will quite stretchy.
Crime and punishment is such a great book. I had to read it for school and its the only book I’ve read for school that I loved with all my heart and that I can truly recommend. I hope you’ll love it too
A Little Life is incredible. But you will need a support group after lol. I am here for you 😃
Oooh j'étais tellement surprise et contente d'entendre Les fiancés de l'Hiver ! Je ne trouve pas que ça ressemble à Harry Potter mais il y a le même effet d'immersion :)
Je n'ai pas vraiment peur des gros pavés parce qu'au fil du temps je me suis rendue compte que c'était mes meilleures lectures. Mais je sais que je dois planifier trois bonnes semaines devant mois avant de lire autre chose haha.
A little life me tente énormément, je l'emprunterais à la médiathèque à l'occasion. Bonnes lectures Emily !
Monte Cristo is one of my favourite classics. It’s great and rewarding read. I want to read A Little Life this year too.
Uuhhhhhh I love the trope of somebody reliving a part of their lifes over and over - I cannot wait for your video on books with this trope!
Needful Things is best enjoyed when you’ve already read Cujo and... some other Castle Rock book that I can’t remember now. It makes a lot of references to those earlier stories, and since I read Needful Things before those, they went completely over my head!
A little life! YES!!! BIG YES! Can't wait to hear what you think of it. I will join you in Crime and punishment, and Dune. Yeah..
I did read the Passage and didn't like it at all. NOS4A2 is also on my list, I actually met him and he signed my copy.. nice guy.
Seveneves I feel like you're gonna LOVE! its an amazing sci-fi I loved it so much.
I vote Sphere!!! I also have it and didn't read it yet. So if it wins the vote, I'll read it myself.
All the best with the haul! Happy new year ❤️
I have a few of these either on my shelf or on my wish list. Will try to join you when I can!
The promise of blood and needful things are great a must read.
I am going to be buddy reading so many of these with you this year!
LIFE AFTER LIFE IS AMAZING!!!! omg! I hope you love it! Dune is on my list this year as well.
I am also hoping to read more big books in 2019! Good luck with it!
Life After Life seems really interesting. I also love books with the repeating a day/life trope :)
You should pick Sphere, it was my first book by Michael Crichton that i read, and it made me fall in love with his books
I love when I read an older book and fall in love. Rebecca be de Maurier and East of Eden by Steinbeck blew my mind this year.
I reread Dune this year and really liked it. My husband read it for the first time and hated it. Our marriage will survive.
The Passage is so good. I’d be surprised if you didn’t like it.
Oooh, there are so many on your list that I'm planning to read as well! I will try to read The secret History, Needful Things and Dune together with you at least :) Because just like you, I'm so scared of books that are over 500 pages, so I always push them further and further away lol. I love this challenge and I hope you can read as many big books as possible! Let's do our best :D
I want to read big books with you again. Last year I had read 5 from your tbr and I liked that.
I highly recommend The Sparrow! It’s heartbreaking, though! I given to several people for gifts.
NOS4A2 is incredible. It’s super long but you’ll fly through it. Read it in January since Christmas was just days ago. Don’t wait til the end of the year. I think you’ll love it. It’s the #1 book I always recommend. Can’t wait to see what you think.
Red Mars is on my list this year! First Kim Stanley Robinson for me. I'm half way through Michener's Hawaii right now (over 1000 pages) and also hoping to read more BIG books in 2019
I will totally read these... except the classics with you! I love that you slip into french when the words are spelled the same. It's an adorable quirk and shows who you are!
Ah the Secret History was the best book I read this year (out of 86). It's up there with my all-time favourites now. I hope you'll enjoy it, it's truly so layered with themes and symbolism it's crazy. I'm in awe of Donna Tartt's intellect
The sparrow sounds so interesting 😃
I’m willing to read A Little Life, The Secret History and Dune with you. 😂 I have them all on my shelf waiting for me and I have been too scared to pick them up. I also need to read the Stand this year, maybe Seveneves too. There are so many! I told myself this year I would try to read more big a** books lol. I vote yes for The Mote in God’s Eye. I haven’t read it myself yet but I’m intrigued.
I've been meaning to read a Donna Tartt novel! I've heard lots of great things about her books so I might join you and read The Secret History 😉 I also got Les fiancés de l'hiver from my library, so I plan on reading that one pretty soon!
Yes!! Promise of Blood! Currently working through Sins of Empire series. Excited for your review on the series!
I have decided to read all of these books with you. I am not afraid of big books but they all sound great! I have read the passage and book two of that trilogy. It is very good, but it vampires not zombies. I will not be reading Dune. My parents use to force me to watch the movie as a kid, so that will be a hard pass. Cant wait to start the challenge! Love your channel and that it is more than just YA.
I'm doing a similar challenge, but a little different. I plan on five big books to make
sure I get enough time to read other things.
You got me out of my slump this year by the way. After binging your videos (again) I realised I had been going after wrong books and needed to get back into my comfort zome.
I'm super exited you picked The Secret History. It's her best book in my opinion, it made a huge impression first time I read it.
Also definitely Crime and Punishment! It's very easy read for a classic.
I might read Seveneses myself. Might have added a few S' in that title 😂
Other than that I plan for sure:
Swan Song, Dark Materials (the pretty big edition), third Game of Thrones book and The Once and Future King.
The Passage is awesome, I read it on kindle so it was a bit less scary than holding that weighty tome! I really want to read Promise of Blood too.
I looooove the secret history!!! All of the characters are terrible people hahaha but it’s still an all time favorite for me
Your 2018 big book reading challenge is literally one of my favourite reading challenge and you inspired me to plan mine. I feel intimidated reading big book too because they're just BIG. I'm interested and hope to read A Little Life and The Secret of History next year so maybe I'll join you. Also, I definitely have to finish IT by Stephen King next year because I started reading it around October and after about 100 pages in I just left it because the size intimidate me.
Like 80% of the books you mentioned here are in my TBR since forever because i'm never in the mood to read them and their size scares me lol why am i like thiss