My Favorite Standalones (2020 Update) [CC]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- Links to books I talked about in this video
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0:00-Intro
0:34-Peter Pan: amzn.to/2K4fCmH
2:30-The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse: amzn.to/2VQCAR6
4:23-And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer And Longer: amzn.to/3lUdDPp
5:38-The Count of Monte Cristo: amzn.to/3mT7zYJ
7:33-Pride And Prejudice: amzn.to/2IpCZqD
10:03-Rebecca: amzn.to/33PtaK8 - บันเทิง
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This video is almost " my favorite classics standalones " 😂😂
10:01 "I cheated. I don't really feel bad about it". Why is this me during monopoly tho
I love that she’s so kind that she’s so kind she doesn’t want to ruin a story that’s been out since 1904. Like, that’s dedication to giving your viewers spoiler-free content.
Meanwhile, my friends ruined the ending of Lost for me. 😤
I really love that the list is mostly classics. They deserve some love as well.
Because being among the most renowned books of all time for centuries isn’t enough love lol...
@@UdyKumra They get a bad reputation because they are studied in school and then some people never read another book after that. Yes, they deserved love when they are read because a person chose to do that, not forced.
So many people say "cassics are overrated" but I don't think that's necesarily true, I think it just depends on everyone's taste. It's ok if you don't like a classic but that doen't mean is "overrated", it's just not for you.
@@cecirapalini OMG yes, just few days ago I came across a booktuber who said in her video that reading classics is pretentious and doesn't matter or make you smart in anyway around. I had to unsubscribe her and put her videos to don't recommend me further.
I don't need such negativity around books
@@shubhamtiwari9472 which booktober?
I read And Every Morning some months ago. How does Backman put so much emotion in so little pages?! I'm currently rereading it then I read A Deal Of A Lifetime for Christmas. Backman is unmatched.
*quietly puts The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse on my TBR *
i like that profile pic...
Here's my list:
- Challenger Deep
- Pride and Prejudice
- Letters to the Lost (technically a series, but I don't count it as one)
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Rebecca
Great video Merphy! I was surprised by the changes!
Ooh, I love letters to the lost!
@@sthirukk it's so good!!
i love your standalone lists! i'm trying to get into reading and standalones are so manageable :DD i tend to get overwhelmed even with series that i'm interested in starting
This is one of the best book channels out there. It's always very professional.
Since you've included a handful of classics, I'd like to add 1984. 🤓🥰😅
It was brilliant but so GRIM. I read it right after Animal Farm so that was probably my own fault 😂
I truely enjoy all your videos and how you talk about books! A lot of my favorite books of the year has come from watching your channel: Rebecca, On Luna Time series and many many more. Thank you! Can't wait for more videos from you! :)
YESSSSSS I have just found your channel and I am so so SO obsessed with your videos every upload makes me so excited
Thank you! ♥️
Every time I watch a video of yours like this, I'm so excited to see Peter Pan still at the top. It will always be my first too. Can't wait for your review!
Also, I started a Jane Austen binge, much because of how favorably this channel has spoken of her works. Loving P&P so far!
Love your end of the year updates!
Fantastic list and explanations, thank you!
Love reading standalones, ESPECIALLY as a break from epic series and sprawling trilogies! The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse seems like a beautiful story! Thanks for the recommendations!
Thank you for this great review! Was soooo glad to see The Count of Monte Cristo on the list, it's the book that made me fall in love with reading again and again :)
I gave in and bought every morning the day home gets longer and longer! You’ve recommended it before and ugh I can’t wait to read it! Thanks!
I read Peter Pan for my little sisters because of you, and oh my god they are in love. Also my parents, so thank you.
Love how you read a little bit of everything!
Watching this is making me think I should reread some of my favorites to see if they're still favorites. Just read the Count of Monte Cristo this year and agree with everything you said! I was pleasantly surprised by the book.
This is completely off topic, but I just wanted to say thank you! About a week or so I watched your video on best books for beginners after watching you and Daniel Greene for a while without ever actually reading anything mainly cause I thought I wouldn't be able to get into it.
So I gave a shot to the City of Brass and I fell in love, finished the first book today and can't wait to get my hands on the sequels and the rest of yours and Daniel's suggestions.
So happy you're loving what you're reading!
You convinced me to read Rebecca and I am so happy I did! One of my favorite Classics now 😍
Love your videos!!!
Knowing how much Merphy loves fantasy, this list tells me that we need more authors writing fantasy standalones 😂
Though I'm surprised you didn't have any Neil Gaiman on this list, Merphy! Did he just barely not make the cut?
Yeha I considered a few of his but there are just so many genres I love that tend to be standalones that they beat out the fantasy books I considered
I just finished Rebecca and wowww it is amazing. Thank you for the recommendation Merphy
Oh and I also read The boy the mole the fox and the horse with my sister and it was well perfect. She loved the pictures I guess she barely understood the story but I loved every part of it. Thanks again. I loved both of them. Definitely new favorites.
I agree 100% with everything you said about Count of Monte Cristo. I'd just also like to add that although it is over 1000p, you never really get bored because there are so many sub stories that we get detours about. .. but they all come together in the end and create these genuine, emotional impacts on the characters and plot and ahhh this book was phenomenal. :)
I remember having to choose between Rebecca, Ender's Game, and another book as required reading in 9th grade. I chose Rebecca, and barely skimmed it, but I did find myself liking and re-reading Ender's Game, so since I've still got 'Rebecca' on my shelf, I'll give it a real shot.
I've read most of these because of you and I'm currently reading Pride and prejudice...oh boy love it!!
I cried reading the boy the nole the fox and the horse too!!
Still have to read Monte Cristo and Rebecca though.
Last night I finished my first Joe Abercrombie book, and I cannot thank you enough for recommending him!!
I'd surely check out the second book! And I really think another book with beautiful layers and still meant for younger audience was "Little Women", " Feluda classics " .... Loved them! And keep up with your good work!
I love that edition of Rebecca you have! I just found it and bought it has a gift for my gf. Thanks for the inspiration!
such an amazing list 🥰
The Little Prince is such a powerful, MEANINGFUL standalone too! Good for kids but will make adults cry too.
Count of Monte Cristo is in my list of top 5 favorite books of all time too! The characters are complex, the story is intricate, the adventure is fun, the mystery is suspenseful and wild. I love it all!
I really enjoyed The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I had the book and I followed along with the audio version. What a beautiful story and the audio is read by the author. He interweaves more details about the illustrations while reading his story.
It is great watching you get excited over these books!
And I have a similar case with the first classic I read (outside of school that is). The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my favourite classics and I still love that book so much, even though I do also think some of the other ones I read were done better this still stands as one of my favourites, if not my absolute favourite classic. I don't think I can give a top six favourite list, but I have found some new favourites this year. Two of these are poetry collections, and one is a prose book and I don't believe these will then count as standalones but I am going to include them anyway. Also, this is in no particular order.
- Ariel by Sylvia Plath
- Tell Me the Truth About Love by A.H. Auden
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
- The Deep by Rivers Solomon
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandal
This is a great list!
Honestly I am so hyped to try Rebecca. The only standalones I can remember reading are Time Cat when I was like 7 and Animal Farm when I was 13. Domestic thriller isn't normally something I'd think to grab since I usually stick to fantasy but your description of it always intrigues me and we seem to have similar tastes, so I have full confidence that I'll have a good time.
I'd also like to try Jane Austin at some point in my life, but for now I'm more interested to go back and reread Little Women (and the sequels that no one talks about) and Animal Farm to ease myself into classics.
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse is on my top 5/6. I just read it this year and tried reading it out loud to my husband and kept choking up. I also love Backman's writing. I've only read A Man Called Ove so far but struggle to pick up another because his writing makes me so emotional sometimes. I've officially added Peter Pan to my TBR for this winter...I hope to love it. Also, adding Jurassic Park because of you.
The Count of Monte Cristo is just the embodiment of the perfect revenge story. Even better than Three Musketeers (the first one, not the terrible sequels, those are obviously far worse)!
I will be reading Rebecca for my March 2021 TBR, along with The Murderbot Diaries. I'm so excited!
I picked up the count of Monte Cristo because of you and once iam done reading rhythm of war I'm going to be reading that.
That Peter Pan cover is so beautiful
Merphy, you should read Sanditon! Austen only wrote the first eleven chapters, but I'm really enjoying it so far, and I think it'll be right up your alley. A wonderful list of books - hope you're well!
Hey Merphy! Loved this video :) I'm planning to get into Backman because you praise him so highly. I got this random feeling that you would love Dickens xD If you ever feel like getting into his stuff I really recommend David Copperfield
Just finished The Count of Monte Cristo yesterday. And its my new favorite now.
" I'll post videos Tuesday Thursday Saturday... * Confused look* Tuesday through Saturday" >.
I just finished reading Peter Pan (following the 1.516.132.325 times you mentioned it on your channel). Was a thoroughly lovely experience.
Have you done a “Favorite Fictional Characters” video recently? I always enjoy those!
This is a good idea!
Yeees, would love to see this list!
@@merphynapier42 on that note, please also do a Favorite Villain Characters video, if you’re up for it!
+1 in favor of this, it would be interesting to see if there are favorite characters that go beyond favorite books as a whole.
.. i'm also very much in favor of this being more than top 5 :P
PLEASE
Omg I read the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse last week AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH
Really want to read And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer! Also read Rebecca because of you and I LOVED IT!
aemtwhglal is the first book I ever cried pretty much all the way through. It's incredible how much emotion Backman packs into so little space.
Yes! I want to read And Every Morning but I know I'll be curled up in a ball crying and I don't want to be that sad/emotional. It will definitely get read at some point.
I love how favorites change over the years because, could you imagine, not finding a book THAT good in all your reading life??
I loved Peter Pan too. Captain Hook was my fave. Glad to see someone else give it the love it deserves.
Great video, good suggestions 😊
My favorites are
A Dream in Polar Fog - Joeri Rytcheoe
The Notebook - Agota Kristof [although the proof and the third lie technically are sequels]
The City of Deming Books - Walter Moers [or every other story set on the continent of Zamonia]
An Unkindness of Magicians (still a standalone 😁)
Solo - Tanja Aebi
Just realising that non of them are from resent releases. I guess they stood the test of time for me.
I’m reading the count of monte cristo for my first time, you are right about it getting better half way through!lol
I love 4 of your 6 books 📚 please stay safe love from Australia xxx
I'm reading this edition of The Count of Monte Cristo now and I'm in love.
We have a very similar taste in books. But this year I read different books apart from WOT (which I'm half way through). I'm excited to see if you read any of the books next year that I read this year (I'm not naming any of them)
I'm reading Rebecca right now, and it's so good!
"Next is Rebecca." YES! I loved that book! *looks at warhammer 40k collection* pay no attention to those.
Merphy if you haven't read The Little prince yet you should give it a try. It's just like the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse, but it has more words and less illustration. and it's AMAZING. I cried with both of them.
Guy Gavriel Kay's "Tigana" and "A Song For Arbonne" are up there for me along with Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere." I'm sure there are many other great ones I'm not thinking about but those 3 popped into my head first. :)
I’m currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo and I 100% agree that it’s extremely fun and entertaining. It is really long and has some of that 19th century bloat where authors got paid by the word, so there’s some padding, but all in all it’s really fun.
Yay! Another video!
Can’t believe an entire year has last since the last one. It feels like you just uploaded this video a month ago lmao
Literally what i thought! I was like "didn't you do this recently?"
I can't wait to see your Peter Pan review. I understand it's a classic of literature. But I am curious what about the book itself has made it a personal favorite of yours.
Hi, you should read the Peter and the Starcatchers series by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson!! Those are my ABSOLUTE favorites and they‘re a prequel-ish take on Peter Pan 😊 (first ever comment on yt coz I just love these books SO MUCH that I need to spread the word 😂)
I've got Rebecca in my TBR. I read Peter Pan quite late in my life (2-3 years ago) and I was surprised at how different from all the movie adaptations it was. I found it much darker than I had expected, and also - being a non English native speaker - a bit tough to understand at the beginning (it made me feel a bit dumb since it's a children's book 😅). Anyway here's my list:
- The Neverending Story
- Neverwhere
- 1984
- Amatka
- La psichiatra by Wulf Dorn (it's a psychological thriller by a German author and I've read the Italian translation, so here's the title in Italian. Unfortunately, as far as I know there's no English translation yet, which is very surprising to me since it's quite a popular book)
- Recursion
I just guessed all of these right. Merphy i know you better than yourself. I'm feeling proud.
Great video! Also, when will you read the Kyoshi novels? I read the first one and it’s very good.
I loved du Maurier's "The house on the strand" (I have to admit I like the German name better 😅), when I read it years ago. Definitely have to finally start reading Rebecca that's waiting on my shelfs since quite a long time.
Austen is my favourite author. Period. But Pride and Prejudice means a lot to me. I read that book often and I enjoy collecting editions of that book because I love it so much. That is my pick me up book, I go back to it when I’m having a bad time. Needless to say, I have already read it again this year.
I was just waiting for Peter 😂
Hey merphy
Love your content!
Have you read any Walter tevis ( he wrote queen's gambit) his sci fi stand-alones 'the man who fell to earth' and 'mockingbird'are amazing!
I just got the Queen's Gambit book! So it'll be my first of his 😄
@@merphynapier42 Ahh brilliant! Yeah its a great read as well he's an excellent writer. Hope you enjoy !
Merphy Napier I need to know if it’s worth the read if I’ve seen the show... I love the show but I get a bit bored with books if I know the ending/plot 😬
Some of my favourites are;
The Player of Games by Iain M Banks
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep by Philip K Dick
Best Served Cold & The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
How Many Miles to Babylon by Jennifer Johnston
I read the gentleman bastards bcoz of you and was shocked to see that you haven't done any review for them. Please do a review for them😁
I will when I do a reread!
I love The Count of Monte Cristo! I recently read it too.
I think you should do a Favorites from authors that didn't make your top author list. I think it would be interesting to see what you choose.
When u havent watched the video and dont know what to say but ur early......😐😂
Story of my life!
Thank you. I don't know your son's age but a book both of you might enjoy is "Cowboy Sam and those Confounded Secrets" by Kitty Griffin.
I read The Count of Monte Cristo in high school and was mesmerized by the story. It was the first long book I ever read.
Adding the Count of Monte Cristo to my tbr
Have you read East of Eden or The Grapes of Wrath? When you were talking about getting down to human emotion, these are AMAZING, I think you’d LOVE them!!
Agreed, Grapes of Wrath is AMAZING. One of my favorite books of all time! Perfect book for 2020. Haven’t read East of Eden yet but that’s on the short list for sure.
I opened The Boy, The Mole etc in Target and had a rather humiliating cry haha. Bought it immediately.
when will we get "favorite book spines of all time" though?
Here are some of my favorite standalones :
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
- The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
- Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
- And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
Yes for books.
I was surprised, that you didn’t put any Cosmere standalones, I half expected to see Warbreaker or Elantris in there
I love those books but not quite as much as these 😊
Since you have Jane Austin on the list, have you watched Emma. which came out in January or February this year? As a period piece movie fan, I really loved it.
What age of child would you say The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is appropriate for?
Hi Merphy! I love your videos so much! Have you read The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune? I highly recommend it and I think you would love it! It’s an adult fantasy standalone and has such amazing world building and characters!
My list would be:
- Emma
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- The Hate You Give
- The Great Gatsby
- Rebecca
Love from Australia!
I'm reading it in Jan!
I'll be reading Backman soon after exam!❤️ And Merphy, have you ever heard about The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait? It deals with grief. I haven't finished it but it's beautiful! I haven't finished it mainly because I don't want to part ways with the characters💦
I haven't but I'll look it up!
@@merphynapier42 Thank you! I don't know if you're gonna like it but it would mean a lot for me if you give it a try🌻 Plus, thanks a lot for recommending Letters to the Lost, i'm on the last few pages now. Loving it!✨
Question. Do you think the audiobook is also a way to enjoy the story, or should I read it physically. 🤔✨
PS: I love your videos ✨💕
The boy the mole the fox and the horse is my all time Favorite. It's such a good book!
Also want to read Monte Cristo.
I really loved And every morning way home gets longer and longer and a boy a mole a fox and a horse.They are my favorites.
Notif squad!!
I have just finished red seas under red skies and I can't find your review of it. Does anyone know where to find it?
Hmmm... Top 6 (in no order) Wuthering Heights, Phantom of the Opera, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Wrinkle in Time, Pride and Prejudice, and Rebecca
Great list! I love Peter Pan; the ending made me cry. My top 6 favorite standalones are:
A Little Princess by Frances Hodges Burnett
The Vampire Stalker by Allison Van Diepen
My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real by Margery Williams
Thr3e by Ted Dekker
Timeless Love by Judith O'Brien
My current favorites:
-All the Light We Cannot See
-To Kill A Mockingbird
-The Little Prince
-My Name is Asher Lev
-The Lies of Locke Lamora (I’ve only read the first one)