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her recomedations and descroption is always on point , girlie is underrated

The Bread the Devil Kneads 🔥

ryn is such a cool way to shorten lauryn my jaw is on the floor. subscribed!!!

Hey Ryn, I’m thinking if you really love Stoner you’ll love The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (a mutual favorite I share with my mom and one of my best friends). I remember just being in a trance with the gorgeous writing. So much so that I read it all in one day (same with Stoner, where I spent much of my day listening to the audiobook while out for a long walk and finished it physically). I hope there will be plenty of books to give you warmth through this anxious holiday season I’m sure a lot of us are feeling! Btw, I love your sweater. Did you knit it yourself?

Two of my all time favorite books on the list: The Awakening and Good morning, midnight. I have a feeling some of the other books you mentioned here might also make it to my favorites list. Thanks for the recommendations! Also, it just so happened I was the 1000th sub. Congrats on 1k!

i feel like u deserve more recognition girl ur amazing

Everything about you is immaculate 💝

Girl, every single title of your videos is catchy & soooo my type...!

Hi dear friend, How is your business?

I'm writing a novel rn, where modern loneliness and 'otherness' are central to the story. But it's only 75% done so maybe October next year?

I use social media for recommendations too but I also follow Buzzfeed books, NYT, The Guardian, Bookfinity, Goodreads, StoryGraph etc. I go to a lot of bookshops too where I like to check the recommended sections and speak to staff. We have similar reading interests so I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

I self published a book recently about loneliness, but I wanted to focus around the contemporary world and the impact our changed way of socialization is having on us, including the effects of dating apps, living in share houses etc. Its called 'Electric Monolith'

Assassin’s Apprentice has been sitting on my shelf unread for too long. This has convinced me to finally read it!

Another great one is Kokoro by Natsume Soseki. That book really captures what loneliness can do to a person. I'd only recommend it if you are in the right state of mind, that book is extremely heavy.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles is such an underrated classic. I hardly see it mentioned on classics reading lists, but it felt so ahead of it time when I read it and stayed with me for a long time. I love this series and can't wait to check out more recommendations. I recently read Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson (UK) and can't stop thinking about it. The writing is beautifully poetic and the second person perspective feels very immersive. All of Susan Abulhawa's books are great for more perspective on Palestine. The Vegetarian by Han Kang is hard to put down, and Human Acts by her is great too.

I just finished reading Stoner and wow. What a beautiful novel. I don’t think I would have ever randomly picked this up myself so thank you so much for recommending it. 🩶

Nice

i've always been so curious about hispanic books translated to english, since even i as a mexican often struggle with books from other hispanic authors because the accents are so different

Nice effort to read books from all over the world. I’m trying to do the same. I’d recommend Blindness by José Saramago for Portugal 🇵🇹 if you like dystopia-utopias, thriller pacing.

I really appreciate for your content! would you please tell me what's your goal in this platform?

Gotta thank youtube for recommending this video to me. I love the way that you speak about books, can’t wait for your next video :) Also just an FYI, Lebanon is in Asia, more specifically in the Middle East. “Broken Wings” was translated from Arabic.

Brazil literally has so many books and you didn’t read any ????? I’m disappointed

You have just got a new subscriber. Love your videos and your recommendations 😊

Some new books added to the TBR! As someone with a family member that has Parkinson’s I would like to read a story from someone’s perspective with that condition so your rec sounds really intriguing! The Copenhagen Trilogy has been on my radar for a couple years so this might be the reminder I need to finally check it out. Looking forward to the others! Also, libraries tend to have a really diverse selection of authors from all around the world. It’s just a shame I don’t pass one on my way to work anymore. So now I have a rec for you! You might enjoy the booktuber Emily Clarice Pessoa. She has two great videos on Brazilian and Italian classics, among other great videos. I would definitely like to explore more Brazilian authors such as Clarice Lispector and Fernando Pessoa but I’ve come to really love Italian authors Natalia Ginzburg (The Dry Heart) and Italo Calvino (If on a winter’s night a traveler & Marcovaldo)

Loving your videos.... Try Forty Rules of love by Elif Shafak. For Turkey or (Persia).

wow , this is such a cool concept , honestly it diversifies reading . maybe i should try to do this next year hehe i'm so glad that you mentioned "Minor detail" , i have only seen few booktubers talking about this book . btw have you read any book from Pakistan (Asia)?

No book from India 😢

I am looking for more Booktubers that I might like (in the style of The Book Leo) and it led me here - so Hi :) I enjoy your natural calm style of talking about them

Ernaux is quite a unique writer and thinker; her reflective capacity is always factored in the structure of her stream of narration, often in surprising ways, with intensity and suddenness but precise ecomony. I've never been let down reading her. Simple Passion is one of my favorites ...

I would recommend Piranesi for you!

i loved stoner so much!! hope you enjoyed it!! x

have you read 'where the crawdads sing'?

I have not read this trilogy in about three 3️⃣ years I think I will have to read it again as I really enjoyed it prayers and blessings for you and your family love your Aussie family friend John xxx

Read this last year around this time and felt exactly the same way

kingdoms and magic? sign me up!

“No, not Tufts” I haven’t spent much time with fantasy but seeing how you got so much out of this series, I might give it more of a chance

I'm currently writing a novel on loneliness

ive really wanted to read Drive Your Plow for the longest time and this has convinced me to pick it up come winter time!! x

If you want to read on human condition that would give you existential crisis, you should check out literature from the Literary Theory genre. There aren't any novels, but there are excerpts. For example, Altrusaurs (sp?) on Ideology.

I’ve read Station 11 & I Who Have Never Known Men & definitely fit the vibe, but I enjoyed the latter more I think. Elaina Knows and Braiding Sweetgrass are in my physical TBR mountain in my living room.

No-one does sad and lonely like Kazuo Ishiguro. Try 'The Remains of the Day' or 'Never Let Me Go'.

Ah yes, Jane Eyre! The wildness of the moors is truly mirrored in the wildness of Heathcliff's character. (Sorry, I couldn't resist)

Never be afraid to comment on a popular book that you find far less impressive than everyone else appears to believe. My 'Goodreads' account is full of reviews where I can either heap praise on those books which I personally, genuinely find amazing, those which were "just okay" and those which cause me to go on a vitriolic rant because of how completely terrible they are. I have no desire to please others with my reading tastes or my reviews, nor do I just say negative things simply to be a contrarian. I've had a lot of people write reviews on books that sounded so amazing I immediately had to go buy and read them...only to end up completely disappointed (or nonplussed at the very least). I think a lot of people either want to go along with the flow of how the majority of readers think and feel about books; but there are also those who perhaps don't really have the capacity for critical thinking and fail to interrogate that which they believe is probably great, yet upon closer inspection don't really have any conceivable reasons for feeling that way. Maybe it's something that comes with age. Although saying that, I've never been one to just play nice for the sake of keeping the peace. And because I love reading and value it for so many different reasons, I'm perhaps more passionately intense in my criticism of those who cause bad books to receive falsely inflated amounts of praise, whilst also refusing to abandon my own criticism of something simply because of its almost untouchable reputation in places like 'Goodreads', 'Booktube / 'BookTok' and the reading community at large. Don't be afraid to call out bad writing, boring plots, or anything else that disappointed you in a book. It's the very real, authentic opinions of other people that I truly value and respect. Too much of 'BookTube' / 'BookTok' relies upon a kind of mass consensus of opinion, with the same titles constantly being chosen or reviewed (often I think because of the way algorithmic trends reward those who are all featuring the latest "big popular book" and clout as a form of social currency shows so signs of being devalued anytime soon). Read whatever you want, because you want to. Express your honest and genuine opinions, not because you want to be liked for your acquiescence to what is popular, but because you love reading and you have every right to voice those opinions, regardless of who will like what you have to say. We need more diversity of thought and opinion - not just with regards to books, but in every aspect of culture / current events / politics too - not just a diversity of ethnicity / nationality / sex / religion / any other immutable characteristic we humans inhabit. Stay true to yourself!

NICE FIRST PICK; MORE JAPANESE WRITERS LIKE KAWABATA, DAZAI AND OTHERS ARE GREAT TOO.

CANDLE DECOR IN THE WINE BOTTLE IS VERY COOL

Wow thats one sad looking Monsterra 😢

I loved Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead! One of the best books I read this year! Thanks for the great video 📚

Do you read books your viewers suggest?

Thank you for the recommendations. I also love to read sad books and listen to sad music because it weirdly brings me comfort.

Love vlogs and loved this one!