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This was a great idea for a video!

In your review of children of dune, you say the main protagonist you didn’t like. Could you expand on this as I thought all the main characters including the protagonist work really well. Completely respectfully I ask this.

And I LOVE the Bosch series as well!

I love your choices! Thanks!😊🎉🎉🎉

Co written with Peter Straub, the Talisman would be on my top 10.

CS Lewis actually wrote a "code" into his Narnia series that made it shoot into the stratosphere. Look into it, and you will appreciate the series even more.

What, no Piers Anthony?🤭

My least favorite book in the series - a slog.

Children of the Mind was my definition of a slog.

This book is what made me read all the REST of the books. Every single one of them. If it had only been Ender's Game I would not have thought it anything special. But then Speaker For the Dead came... and I become totally hooked on this series. Much like his Alvin Maker series, Card makes it very hard NOT to care about the protagonists.

Stephen King is the epitome of a discovery writer. It's like improv acting, he doesn't truly do the work and just wings it. It's SNL and Who's Line is It Anyway. Not funny or entertaining... for me

I’ll join you for Jane Eyre and Count of Monte Cristo. My Dickens would be Dombey Son. As for the rest, I’d have The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Middlemarch by George Eliot, Dracula by Bram Stoker, and all 6 Jane Austen novels. I do want to read the Russian novels you mentioned and East of Eden 😊

I love A Tale of Two Cities! It’s definitely my favorite Dickens novel.

Thanks for the quickie reviews Josh! Glad you liked this one. I’ll read it eventually.

I thought it was a very solid collection. A handful a standout stories.

I was putting off reading this book for a long time just because I didn't want one of my favorite book series of all time to end. One of the most influential series that I've ever read, one of the most nostalgic more me growing up. The first series in which I read every single short story and book in the universe. I just finished this book, and immediately I was on Google and Wikipedia trying to see if there was things that I missed or maybe I skipped a whole chapter somehow where the climax would have been. Nope. That was it. I call absolute bulshit on his excuse that he couldn't wrap the series up properly because he wrote himself into a corner. It's fucking sci-fi. I thought I may come away from this book being mildly disappointed but still satisfied, but honestly I'm just pissed. What a slap in the face to all of his dedicated readers including myself

I’ll look forward to hearing you talk about King’s other short story collections. I’ve never read any of them even though I’ve read a lot of King, but I plan to remedy that.

Only book I have read are the dark tower series and odd short story I would I like the list you did a few vids back and may work from it I fancy short story and starting from the beginning so if you are doing more on his short I would like to hear more thanks great vid I have this one and can’t wait to read thanks

Is there a good amount of politics? A lot about Covid? If so, it's a pass for me. Thank you for this video bc I was wondering what you thought!

Do you think I could read this if I haven't read Kujo? I know the premise of Kujo, I just don't know the specifics.

What a great project, have fun with filming all the instalments! I am super eager to read this new collection, I feel like it will be a great way for me to get excited about King again!

Glad you liked You Like It Darker! King is impressive with writing characters, and I love that he experiments with horror, magical realism, and a blend of other genres.

Great video! I'll look forward to this series and I really like the format you've chosen 👍 Danny Coughlan's Bad Dream was my favourite story out of the whole collection!

Speaker for the dead is so much better than enders game. Im so confused

Scariest bad guy in Kingverse is Charles Burnside from Black House. Horrifying

Wow, you and i are on the same page! I also loved Travels with Charley! So glad I found your channel 😊🎉

I really love the Shining before they settle in the hotel. Having read it multiple times the horrific hotel events are merely a hugely inflated version of what was already taking place in the family. And how he captures Jack especially is so accurate for a young father at the end of his rope. This is one of the more obvious stories where although the story may be violent and horrific another more common relatable story of a time or a place or a family, lurks beneath the more obvious horror. I think this is why he writes so well outside of horror and some of his most successful stories achieved their popularity in book form or movie despite their rather ordinary drama. I think especially of "The body - Stand by me" and Shawshank Redemtion as examples. And of course the kids story in IT would be horrific and far to common even without Pennywise.

Very interesting discussion. Shout out to Phillip K. Chase for attempting to keep everyone on topic lol I suspect it was just too fun of a topic to avoid interesting tangents!

I love that you have been unduly influenced by Sandersonians and say "Yorg" even though I think it is actually commonly pronounced Jorg this time 🤣 Sando out here redefining the way people read the letter J. I think you would love Book That Wouldnt Burn, Josh!

I would describe Asimov's prose as being grey. Asimov had early admiration of Clifford Simak. It's too bad he didn't pick up more of Simak's eloquence and poetry.

Ken Grimwood had several other interesting books, which are less known and rather hard to find. I read them through interlibrary loan after reading Replay.

The idea of an award ceremony is genius! Breaks up the monotony of lists. Excited to see it, my friend!

Wonderful list, thank you! I've just started "Jane Eyre" today, I hope I like it as much as you do. I have 2 other classic on my shelf waiting (for years) that I read them "American Tragedy" by Theodore Freiser and "The Forsyte Saga" by john Galsworthy, but I've just added all the books from your list that I haven't read yet, first among them - "The count of Monte Cristo"!

Having Needful Things in your list is a vibe for me! Something about the temptation that Gaunt dangles in front of the community just gets under my skin! This is a book I would LOVE to see as a Tv series!

Man, fantastic list!! Been wanting to read all of these - Count Of Monte Cristo is such a masterpiece, as are Mockingbird and Crime & Punishment! I read East Of Eden back in high school, but would love to read again with a fresh perspective. Thanks for sharing these man!

Just finished the heretics of dune... it was terrible 😬

Excellent List Josh! Thanks for making this video. I will split my favorite classic novels into two categories: Before 1900 & Before 1975 (defined as a modern classic since the book was published more than 50 years ago). Published Before 1900: 1) David Copperfield by Dickens(1850): This is my all-time favorite before 1900 classic. Dickens said publicly this was his favorite novel and after reading it…I believe him. Need to reread this one. 2) Madame Bovary by Flaubert (1856): One of the best novels I have ever read about adultery and psychological damage it can cause by the person who commits it. Also, Flaubert uses a 2nd person perspective in the story that was unique for its time. 3) The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis (1881): One of the classics of Brazilian Literature and the most modern of the classics I have read. A dead man is a narrator and a very interesting character. Published Before 1975: 1)Invisible Man by Ellison (1952): This is the most important novel I have read and one I will read for the rest of my life. Ellison’s unflinching look at racism from his unnamed protagonist shows how invisible one can feel in a society that doesn’t respect him. 2) Snow Country by Kawabata (1948): This is the most unusual love story I have ever read. However, Kawabata’s economy of language and subtlety was a delight to read. 3) The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by Le Carre (1963): The best spy novel I have ever read. Le Carre’s third novel put him on the map as a master of espionage fiction and elevated it to literature. The ending is heartbreaking. 4) Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury (1953): One of the modern classics of science fiction, Bradbury’s novel was prescient and still relevant today. 5) Sula by Morrison (1973): Morrison’s 2nd novel is the best novel I have read about female friendship. Sula doesn’t get mentioned as one of Morrison’s best novels….but it should! 6) The Man in the Maze by Silverberg (1969): Silverberg is my favorite old school sci-if writer and the one I have read the most over the years. The Man in the Maze was published during his most prolific period of 1967-1976. Silverberg published his most mature work during that time and Man In the Maze deals with the theme of alienation. Worth reading. That’s my list. Good video, Josh.

Maybe too late but... Here are some of my recs: 1. Science fiction: The martian(hard science fiction) , Dune(space opera) 2. Fantasy: Emperor's soul. 3. Horror: Jurassic park Frankenstein 4. Classics: Shogun(this is phenomenal) The great Gatsby To kill a mockingbird

Here's my picks 1. East of eden by John Steinbeck 2. Pride and prejudice by jane Austen 3. Persuasion by jane Austen

My favorite would probably be Tom Sawyer

This is an excellent list Josh. I know my top 3 for sure, but after that I'd need to have a long think to order them. 1. Of Mice And Men 2. The Last Of The Mohicans 3. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest after that there is White Fang, War Of The Worlds, Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, The Iliad, 1984, Animal Farm, 47 Ronin

I loved to kill a mockingbird, written as it was it was in the day not tip toeing around language and speech we would never write book like this no we would offend too many people there was some I would l love to count of monty but far too long I am not a fast reader it would probably take me 2 months to read it 👍

Philip needs to release his secret 4th book, East of Edan

Great list! East of Eden is also my favourite classic, along with One Hundred Years of Solitude and A Farewell to Arms. As you seem to like french lit, have you by any chance read any Emile Zola? I think you might enjoy it.

I’ve read half of them, and own then all so I have 5 to add to my TBR!! Thanks for sharing your list with us.

The Count of Monte Cristo is my favorite book of all time. 🙂

Awesome video Josh! Most of these I haven’t read. Tale of two Cities was so rough for me lol.

I'm about to start Monte Cristo for the first time! Very excited ^_^

As a kid, Stephen King was the author that was my stepping stone from kid stuff to actual novels. Desperation was my first, and favorite of his novels. So glad that you included that one, I feel like the people who read it really love it, but it's a little Overlooked in his bibliography. Very cool video, enjoyed hearing your insights. And I agree with your picks, even if my ordering mighta been slightly different.

Great list! The Count of Monte Cristo is my favorite book of all time, although East of Eden is next on my to-read list. I agree about the plotting of Monte Cristo; some find the middle portion boring, but I love how intricately and mysteriously the revenge is set up. I love how thematically rich these works are.