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Congratulations! 🥰🥳 Many booktube years ahead with great books! I truly respect you and your work here, so glad I discovered you a few months ago. Thank you for the great content! Also for sharing with us the story of the wonderful bookish moment with your son! I hope I will be here also at your third booktube anniversary! 🤗

A very happy u tube birthday, really enjoy all your videos

Thank you for the wonderful insights. Just because I'm on a huge Shakespeare kick what is your favorite work by the Bard?

So enjoyable! It was good getting to know more about your reading.

I have read several of his books several times, never finished Salem's Lot or IT. I did enjoy the TV movies of both and remake of IT. My favorite short story is Word Processor of the Gods. This story smacks of Twilight Zone vibes.

O so many good books and I love Needful Things and the movie too.I don't have number 1 so many are my favorites I can't label them.

Note to self : read some RF Kuang Question : have you any published works and if so what is your pen name ? Another question : do you have a favourite fantasy/sci fi series? With you on the mild spice also I’m not jealous at all that you went on the orient espresso sporting a very dapper shirt reading and living your best Agatha Christie life 😂❤

As someone who's been watching you for a long time, I've always admired how you stay true to your style . How do you feel about the trend of book-to-film adaptations? Are there any you think did justice to the original book?

For being a good sport and answering my basic random question, I'll ask something a bit more on topic (books and writing). Do you have difficulty naming characters when writing? If the setting is in an English speaking country, I suppose pulling names out of a hat is OK. But if you're creating a fantasy, you should be more creative. Also, I write stories set in my country and there is a phenomenon here where children these days are given western names (European, Biblical), but if I write a story set in the past I need to be careful that my character names fit the place. I mean there is a character named "America Singer" in a book series called 'The Selection' by Kiera Cass. 🙄

You are my favorite Booktuber, and I am always excited to see a new video. Happy Birthday! If you could recommend one book simply for the beauty of language, which would you choose?

Thank you for joining me on this crazy TH-cam journey! If you have any more questions, feel free to leave them in the comments below and I'll be happy to answer them!

My top 10 is 1. It 2. Pet Semetery 3. Needful Things 3. The Shinng 5. The Green Mile 6. The Institute 7. Cujo 8. Salems Lot 9. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon 10. Desperation I tried to get into The Stand but i cant finish it for some reason.

I loved Midnight Library and The Master and Margarita ❤ Not a fan of Piranesi.

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!!

They Came to Baghdad would be on my list. Victoria Jones is such a great character. Has all the clever trappings of great AC with more action than most (I'm told).

I enjoyed "The Midnight Library". My favs are the "Chocolat" series by Joanne Harris (4 books)

I think you should have mentioned the book Revival by Stephen King. It is a stellar book of Cosmic Horror, which very much shook me to my very core and gave me a few sleepless nights. IMO it is King’s best and an excellent foray into modern Lovecraft and modern Cosmic Horror

Thanks for saying who would and would not like these books.

I'm at page 333 right now and it's the best thing I've read in my life

Murder of roger ackroyd?

Mine would have to be a split between specifically The Angel's Game by Zafón and The Other City by Michal Ajvaz.

Midnight's children, the Moor's last sigh and One hundred years of solitude are the best work in magical realism, Period.

Piranesi enchanted me from beginning to end. One of those books I'm sorry I can't ever read for the first time again.

You mentioned a book I loved (Piranesi), a book I hated (The Midnight Library), a book I plan on reading soon (The Master and Margarita), and a new book for my tbr (Remarkably Bright Creatures). Now I need to check out your earlier video on magic realism. Thanks!

There would be no A hundred years of solitude without Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo. That book is just on another level.

May I suggest The Life Of Pi by Yann Martel. If found it, and the movie based on it, very well done.

Mixed feelings about some of these! One Hundred Years of Solitude is probably my favourite book, and I loved Master and Margarita, but I really didn’t like House of the Spirits where for me the magical realism felt forced and didn’t work at all. And I must read Piranesi.

My favorite magical realism novel is Three apples fell from the sky by Narine Abgaryan. I also liked Simon by the same Armenian writer.

The Midnight Library is overhyped in my opinion. I loved The Humans by Haig. 📖🥰

Wonderful novel One hundred years of solitude, with all the repetitive names. 😄 I also liked Of love and other demons by Garcia Marquez. Did you read The Autumn of the Patriarch?

Haruki Murakami

I just finished The Master and Margarita, and I am still thinking about it… I already read 6 of the 8 mentioned in your list, and now I want to read the other two…

Piranesi is one of my all time favorite books. You are right, it's too bad you cannot go back and read it again for the first time. Although, I am 78 years old--maybe soon I will forget what it was about and be able to enjoy it again.

The Midnight Library😥😢 So Good!

The term "magical realism" has always given me acid indigestion. If "Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Piranesi" are magic realism then at least I found those interesting. Bulgakov's life story is more interesting to me than his writing 👍

Like water for chocolate is my favorite one. there's a movie and hbo will release a series next month

I LOVED Piranesi!! I also really like The Night Circus, I think that’s magical realism as well. And ofcourse Carlos Ruiz Zafon, my eternal love. Weyward and Remarkably Bright Creatures are definitely still on my tbr!

Master and Margarita is wonderfully absurd, engaging, and laugh out loud funny. Maybe I need to try 100 years of solitude again.

In 2021 I read The Murmur of Bees by Sonia Segovia . It was a beautiful family drama with magical elements. I would recommend it. I'm about to start The Master and Margarita.

I love After The Funeral, it's definitely a top 10 Christie for me 😊

Just to let everyone know who hadnt seen it posted a few days ago there's a Q&A question post in the Community tab if anyone wants to ask a question for the upcoming 2nd anniversary Q&A special.

You should read Like water for chocolate.

I'm listening to Coraline by Neil Gaiman on Libby, read by the author. I thought it was perfect for October. I'm enjoying it very much.

100 years of solitude and house of the spirits were really good books.

One of my favorite novels (top three) is Little, Big by John Crowley, which is magical realism (though tipping a bit more toward the fantasy side). It's been compared to 100 Years of Solitude for its multi-generational sweep. The language is beautiful.