The stacks on the bookshelf, the eye rolls, the Eve Babitz shade! It's too iconic Charles. I love that you talk about books you started but DNF'd this year too - I think we're all so quick to discount books we didn't 'finish' and say we didn't read them Happy New Year!!
49. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai 48. If We Were Villans M. L. Rio 47. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 46. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 45. The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley 44. Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie 43. Black Swans by Eve Babitz 42. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 41. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 40. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 39. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett 38. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov 37. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 36. The Other by Tom Tryon 35. Revenge by Stephen Fry 34. The Christmas Fix by Lucy Score 33. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 32. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert 31. Nana by Émile Zola 30. Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King 29. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 28. Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier 27. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 26. Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 25. Black Friend by Ziwe Fumudoh 24. The Magicians by Lev Grossman 23. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 22. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 21. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 20. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 19. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 18. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez 17. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante 16. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien 15. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 14. Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh 13. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 12. Stoner by John Edward Williams 11. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 10. Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis 9. Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth 8. Jade City by Fonda Lee 7. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 6. The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante 5. Out by Natsuo Kirino 4. De Profundis by Oscar Wilde 3. 2. 1.
This is such a nice way to start the new year, so happy you uploaded a new video. My most awesome 2023 bookish experience was discovering your channel. You're so genuine and authentic in how you present yourself and how you talk about the books you've read. You're my favorite person on the internet for sure. My 2024 resolutions are: not buying any books for a whole year (starting today). I'm going to tackle my TBR pile first. I cut my book collection (read and tbr) in half: the amount of books I owned was overwhelming... Thanks for uploading this video, as always I really enjoyed it.
i read 55 books in 2023 and i want to read 40 in 2024 because i felt so pressured 😅 my goals are to read more classics/other types of books and NOT solely buy books based on recommendations… i wanna find books on my own sometimes
books i read: -the secret history -bunny -my year of rest and relaxation -eileen -coraline -yours truly -hunger: a memoir of (my) body +some trashy kindel unlimited romances 🙄
it was so good!! i love the writing and the mc was so funny and interesting, great winter read. cant wait to watch the film adaptation. i hope u like it @@scarlett2692
I am absolutely obsessed with your videos. I've been watching them non-stop for the past few days. I started reading the secret history, and im really enjoying it thx for the amazing book recs 🤩🤩
The kisses! The driving thumbs!! The drink on your bookshelf edge!!! Lol should i rank the 157 books i read this yr!?? Watching your channel was definitely a 2023 highlight cant wait to enjoy your 2024 reading life together 💋💋💋
I set my reading goal for this year to be 30 books, cause I usually read 100 books but I don’t wanna feel pressure to read a lot. And if it’s 30 I know I’ll surpass it
I adore Donna Tartt, so obviously i started reading If We Were Villains and... i'm halfway through but I'm fighting for my life. It's not the same thing at all!! 😭 i was lied to by everyone i hate the internet
THE CLIFFHANGER HOW DARE YOU! don't leave me hanging like that king!!! thanks for blowing up in the year of 2023. can't wait to see what you cook up for the new year! hoping to read The Shards real soon to get my Ellis fix!
;)) nathan i have a feeling 2024 is YOUR year. your content is too good for you not to blow up. i also love your new zinger short vid titles. cant wait for your thoughts on the shards
Happy 2024!?!?! 🎉 Thank you kindly for the 49.5 book list- your channel/content makes me and everyone else here joy-filled!!!!! Cheers to you and many more hot, sexy books to come this year, marvelous Mr. Charles!!!!! ✨ 🎉 😀
Pnin is the only book we both read last year, and to be honest, it’s my favourite English book by Nabokov😳 I think the main character’s serenity is adorable and I like the depthness of descriptions. I understand that Nabokov may come across as pretentious, it’s just… aren’t we all pretentious?😜 Though I like most Nabokov’s last theee Russian novels, and The Gift is particularly poetic in my view (it’s meta). For more poetism in prose, I would recommend The Street of Crocodiles by Schulz. Also, how am I supposed to tell you my New Year’s resolutions if I should keep them for myself? You won’t trick me😜
I am begging you to give cloud atlas another chance it was one of my favorites from last year. The very beginning is a little slow but the book isn't as serious as the first story makes it out to be pleeasssseeee it made me cry i love it dearly
ok, books I read this year: white nights the secret history the book of night the odyssey the bell jar (uncompleted) the right move caught up better than the movies the dead romantics this is how you heal (boring btw) the invisible life of addie la rue (reread) the inheritance games book three (I forgot the name) six of crows pride and prejudice (reread) the testament great expectations (for school which is boring and makes no sense) defy me imagine me peril at end house and other Arabic books
God sent you to me because 5 minutes ago I was searching classic Arabic books to read and could find proper recs so If you got any for me lmk(also I’m Muslim so I already know the basics about the culture traditions etc so any recs that are not cliche)
@@maidaabrar17 I'm not really an expert in arabic, but here're a few books I enjoyed اعط الصباح فرصة ارواح و اشباح (قصص قصيرة تاريخية عن احداث حقيقية) ارض زيكولا ( اول جزء بس عشان بقية الاجزاء مش حلوين) قواعد جارتين اسفه معرفش كتير بس حاولت
books I read! the secret history, white nights, letters to a young poet, Giovanni's room, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, dead poets society, Frankenstein (the og 18:18 text). blue nights, the lover, the stranger, my year of rest and relaxation, my dark vanessa, looking for Alaska, if he had been with me, girl in pieces, the love hypothesis, love on the brain, the fine print, archers voice, the cruel prince, twisted love, brutal prince, the seven husbands of Evelyn hugo, the song of Achilles, terms and conditions, daisy jones and the six, Norse mythology, king of wrath, a good girls guide to murder, cleopatra and Frankenstein, love is a mental illness, milk and honey, you, first love, final offer,letters to a young poet, twisted games, and shatter me... A lot of it was hype/recommendations from my friends. But I am happy to find books that actually makes me think about the world as well as getting me back into reading again :) Happy new year!!
A peaceful new year to you majesty, watching you is such a bliss i consume so much bookish content but only follow your recommendations.Your call is my call.
charles..how come the thumbnail says ‘best to worst’ when the video is ‘worst to best’…do u have anything to tell us or is nothing real and everything is fiction.
omg I can't list all the books I read in 2023... I'll be here all day, there's like 100 😆 I'm still finishing up my tally but should be close to that or over it (my goal). And SO many good books too!! What an amazing reading year and 2024 is going to be great too. 😄
@@cs0p I gotchu 😆 I'll do an official "winners & losers" vid soon but I'll just list out some of my favorite titles here: We Have Always Lived in the Castle Middlegame Ascension 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Head Like a Hole The Wager (non-fic) FantasticLand From Below The Mary Shelley Club Horrorstör Home Before Dark The Stardust Thief Cackle Dead Silence Night Film The Night Circus Dark Matter No Exit Bunny The Honeys ... might be my top 20 out of the 90 I read. Have a feeling this year will be even better 😄.. not in terms of # of books read.. I'm focusing instead on page count (and quality) since I'll be reading a lot of SciFi and Fantasy books and series.
@@cs0p loved it. a lot of nature related science, adventure and an engimatic Captain. Verne was a genius .. subs weren't even invented yet when he wrote it. I got an edition that also had footnotes. I suggest one like that.
I agree with you about A Caribbean Mystery. I thought it was boring. I’ve now read more than 40 Agatha Christie books and I feel like they vary in quality a lot, thus is why I only collect my favourite ones. I’m going to give Jade City a shot. I do like fantasy, but I’ve been hesitant about picking it up.
I read 62 books in 2023 but my favorite are master and margarita, the secret history and the witcher series. Thank you so much because I read tsh on your recommendation and i just adore this book!!! I hope in this year I also read a book because of your recommendation. I also want to thank you because your channel is wonderful place and I just love your sarcastic humour
Yay Charles! I only read 25 books last year, not great, in part because a few of them were absolutely gigantic. My goal this year is 50, I'll have to make sure I read a few quickies, tee hee. I've read "Mythos" by Stephen Frye; it's quite entertaining if you're into Greek gods behaving badly. He's most well-known as an actor, I didn't know he wrote a novel as well. I have so many little Edward Gorey books! Glad you appreciate him. Here is a 2024 book recommendation for you: "Hotel Du Lac". I've read it twice, which for me is saying something. I don't know if you'll like it too, might as well give it a shot tho! Happy New Year! 🥰
lol squeeze in a few audiobook or 10 ;) ive been meaning to reread edith hamilton's greek mythology. maybe ill try mythos. i bet your taste in all things is elite; gorey fans GET IT. ive added hotel to my list. happy new year 🥳
Happy New Year, Charles. This new video sure is a New Year's gift, especially how you let us fans peak behind the curtain at your "failed" reads for all those other videos than didn't realize for one reason or another. It helps to know you better, King. PS: Video cuts off before you reveal your Top 3?
Happy New Year everyone!! Charles treating us as always ✨✨ I'm soooo tempted to pick Olive Kitteridge and Interpreter of Maladies because of your descriptions 🤭
what! New Year’s Day was already going well and then this! Dipped & scalded toe in the zeitgeist. 😅. Here I come, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, finally. But is it for me? Time will tell. You’re the reason I read my first Jhumpa Lahari this year. 😊 . It’s interesting , your experience with Jade City. Who knows when to keep on with a book & sometimes think to add audio…how is one to know? We don’t. But you scored on that one!
My DNFs for 2023 were: The ninth house (I read the first chapter and called it a day) Sally Rooney’s Beautiful world where are you (my first and last Sally Rooney) Atomic habits (I finished the intro and I want my €2 back) Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace (want to actually finish someday I just don’t know when that will be)
I read only 3 books but mostly bc I have uni and work so I'm procrastinating a lot 😂 1. Discovery of Witches 2. Wuthering Heights 3. Secret History Happy new year🎉🎉
my top books were the rabbit hutch by tess gunty, de profundis by oscar wilde, frankenstein by shelley, romeo and juliet by shakespeare, babel by r f kuang, warrior cats season 1 book 6😭 (greatest battle scene in the entire literature canon), perfume by patrick süskind
Given your reviews here I’d recommend Anna Kavan’s 1967 novel Ice. It’s difficult to categorize something of a disorienting dreamscape apocalyptic fable. Impactful in only ~160 pages and the audio book from my library was quite good too.
Wow, I thought I was the only "freak" who didn't like If We Were Villains. I really thought I was missing something due to all the rave reviews from people. That book didn't hold a candle to The Secret History.
is it a game to try and guess your top 3? 👀 My favourites this year were: the girl with the dragon tattoo the blind by maeterlinck, the talented mr. ripley 2023 wasn’t a good reading year for me so hope i can fix it this year 😅
Steven Fry is actually a famous UK Comedian and intellectual. I love him as the host of the British Game Show "QI". I've always doubted his writing is very good though - he's more fast-witted and a trivia master than a good storyteller, I think.
My goal is 50 books again this year but I want to do one in Spanish. Hoping it will help me learn the language. Was thinking about reading a Roberto Bolano for that goal. Still thinking about it.
I think you might be having a tough time finding a translation of crime and punishment you like. I think the best one is printed by signet classics, black and red cover. I don’t remember the name of the translator because they don’t even put her name on the cover. The one done by Larissa and her husband isn’t good and the other done by that large group of people is also bad. It’s a very good book.
Totally agree re If We Were Villains by ML Rio. How dare people compare it to The Secret History 😮 Did anyone else get to the end of this video?…and the Top 4 are???
I also thought Cloud Atlas was trash. Pnin I also couldn't get into but I highly highly recommend you read Pale Fire (also about a professor). It's structurally brilliant and Joanna Newsom has used lines from it so that's god tier.
OMG why did you do me dirty like that?! What are the top three?! 😂 Also if you lived Jade City, just wait until you get to Jade Legacy. That book had me ugly crying, and totally changed how I felt about the first two.
Would be good if you had a cute pic of the book pop up on screen when you start talking about it. Still waiting on the eye roll counter in the corner too. I am a fan and you said you like to appease your fans on one of your videos.
As a French, french literature is boring I didn’t get the stranger and authors are very much into philosophy and loneliness, pretentious and deliberately trying to shock their generation by being progressive when they are to our eyes conservatives. I will only recommend « les misérables » by Victor Hugo a fair classic, and my favourite fantasy series « La passe miroir « The mirror visitor in English which is amazing. I just saw you talked about Madame Bovary which was my personal hell in high school the author was renowned for hating women and decided to write a book about a tragic woman’s life he saw in the newspaper to try and explain how she could have come to this extent. Zero empathy he hates on all his characters
I didn't like Wuthering Heights either. I just hated the characters and their stupid decisions and awful behavior so much. I wasn't pulling for any of them by the end lol 😬
This is a controversial take and you may never like me after this but I feel like so many, if not the majority, of the greatest books are written by white men and a good chunk of them are by old ones, at that. The great thing about you, though, is that you won’t dislike me for my opinion because you’re a good dude.
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My resolution is to be lazier ;
more lounging around reading, less responsibility in general.
So valid!
thats kinda hot
The stacks on the bookshelf, the eye rolls, the Eve Babitz shade! It's too iconic Charles. I love that you talk about books you started but DNF'd this year too - I think we're all so quick to discount books we didn't 'finish' and say we didn't read them
Happy New Year!!
🤭😌 i spend too much time on bad books i never finish to never talk about them... happy new year😘
What a cliffhanger! Will we ever find out what the last 3 books are?
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49. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
48. If We Were Villans M. L. Rio
47. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
46. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
45. The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
44. Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
43. Black Swans by Eve Babitz
42. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
41. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
40. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
39. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
38. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
37. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. The Other by Tom Tryon
35. Revenge by Stephen Fry
34. The Christmas Fix by Lucy Score
33. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
32. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
31. Nana by Émile Zola
30. Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
29. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
28. Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
27. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
26. Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
25. Black Friend by Ziwe Fumudoh
24. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
23. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
22. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
21. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
20. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
19. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
18. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
17. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
16. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
15. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
14. Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
13. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
12. Stoner by John Edward Williams
11. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
10. Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
9. Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth
8. Jade City by Fonda Lee
7. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
6. The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
5. Out by Natsuo Kirino
4. De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
3.
2.
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he's tricking you! they're out of order and he couldnt even be bothered to put in 1, 2 or 3!!
@@cs0p I bet you didn't know that, you stupid bitch.
@@sofiyatuss9285 I was quoting you :) 15:26
@@cs0p plus he forgot to mention how much Babitz’s writing sucks.
De Profundis is perfect.
I took it upon myself to memorize it when I was 17years old and I think I can still recite it 🤔😊
This is such a nice way to start the new year, so happy you uploaded a new video. My most awesome 2023 bookish experience was discovering your channel. You're so genuine and authentic in how you present yourself and how you talk about the books you've read. You're my favorite person on the internet for sure. My 2024 resolutions are: not buying any books for a whole year (starting today). I'm going to tackle my TBR pile first. I cut my book collection (read and tbr) in half: the amount of books I owned was overwhelming... Thanks for uploading this video, as always I really enjoyed it.
aw thank you! im trying not to buy books this year either....we'll see how that goes tho
@@cs0pGood thing you had already ordered Dorothy Parker and Marlene Haushofer. 😅
i read 55 books in 2023 and i want to read 40 in 2024 because i felt so pressured 😅 my goals are to read more classics/other types of books and NOT solely buy books based on recommendations… i wanna find books on my own sometimes
amen. i dont set a number goal i just see where the wind takes me
books i read:
-the secret history
-bunny
-my year of rest and relaxation
-eileen
-coraline
-yours truly
-hunger: a memoir of (my) body
+some trashy kindel unlimited romances 🙄
did you like eileen? i literally just started it i want to read more of moshfegh
some trashy kindle unlimited romances---youre obese. because you ate.
it was so good!! i love the writing and the mc was so funny and interesting, great winter read. cant wait to watch the film adaptation. i hope u like it @@scarlett2692
I am absolutely obsessed with your videos. I've been watching them non-stop for the past few days. I started reading the secret history, and im really enjoying it thx for the amazing book recs 🤩🤩
omg thank you...i hope you love tsh
Most likely, I will😅
if you love poetry and still dont read Mahmoud Darwish writings, you dont love POETRY
yessss , well said
SAY IT LOUDERR
*furiously googles who the hell that is*
@@cs0p you will not be disappointed
Agreeee
And then it stopped after number 4!! Well done 😂 Happy New Year!
happy new year ;)
Your videos literally reduce my anxiety.
Your content is authentic and awesome
thank you 🫂
🥺😭im glad you enjoy
The kisses! The driving thumbs!! The drink on your bookshelf edge!!! Lol should i rank the 157 books i read this yr!?? Watching your channel was definitely a 2023 highlight cant wait to enjoy your 2024 reading life together 💋💋💋
Lol you follow all the booktubers love it
Yena HERSELF is one of the sexiest booktubers i know 😤😌
yena i would give you a kiss if you ranked all the books you read this year it would be so chaotic
@@cs0ppretty sure my brain would explode and i would decease so u better be quick with that smackeroo! 😘
Please read Sula it is the best book I’ve ever read :)
omg yes!! sula slaps, toni morrison's a fucking legend
omg ok i will. i need to get on my toni grind
I set my reading goal for this year to be 30 books, cause I usually read 100 books but I don’t wanna feel pressure to read a lot. And if it’s 30 I know I’ll surpass it
amen. im all for a low reading goal, and you can pick up bigger books without the stress...
The more I get to know your taste, the more I trust your recommendations 💛 Thanks for the giggles!
good. im going for the slow burn fan indoctrination. would you die for me?
@@cs0p Not without a blood pact, my guy!
my resolution is to get more videos from you this year, no cap🤞
Real
maybe ill really try and ascend this year
I don't have much energy, I'm burned out from all the socializing. Enjoyed your video as always :)
@@cs0p I need to go into hibernation!
I adore Donna Tartt, so obviously i started reading If We Were Villains and... i'm halfway through but I'm fighting for my life. It's not the same thing at all!! 😭 i was lied to by everyone i hate the internet
the internet is a dark dark dirty hole
THE CLIFFHANGER HOW DARE YOU!
don't leave me hanging like that king!!!
thanks for blowing up in the year of 2023. can't wait to see what you cook up for the new year!
hoping to read The Shards real soon to get my Ellis fix!
;)) nathan i have a feeling 2024 is YOUR year. your content is too good for you not to blow up. i also love your new zinger short vid titles. cant wait for your thoughts on the shards
Happy New Year Charles🎉 your channel was one of the best things I discovered in 2023, thanks for all the videos and book recommendations❤
aww thank you!! im glad you found the channel
SIR. You must trudge on with Cloud Atlas. The voice changes throughout !! It gets funny !!
Where are the last three books 😳
everything is fiction nothing is real
@@cantspellrestarauntmy fiction is hearing the top 3 regardless of whether or not they exist/ed
yes!!
starting the new year with top tier quality content
but of course
Happy 2024!?!?! 🎉 Thank you kindly for the 49.5 book list- your channel/content makes me and everyone else here joy-filled!!!!! Cheers to you and many more hot, sexy books to come this year, marvelous Mr. Charles!!!!! ✨ 🎉 😀
happy new year!! im glad you enjoy the content!
I had an intuition that you were gonna post today and was frantically checking TH-cam every hour to see if you had and you freaking diddddd😭😭
my fans know me so well i can never pull one over on them 😤
Pnin is the only book we both read last year, and to be honest, it’s my favourite English book by Nabokov😳 I think the main character’s serenity is adorable and I like the depthness of descriptions. I understand that Nabokov may come across as pretentious, it’s just… aren’t we all pretentious?😜 Though I like most Nabokov’s last theee Russian novels, and The Gift is particularly poetic in my view (it’s meta). For more poetism in prose, I would recommend The Street of Crocodiles by Schulz.
Also, how am I supposed to tell you my New Year’s resolutions if I should keep them for myself? You won’t trick me😜
fair fair. i thought pnin was endearing in the beginning..it just started grating on me. i need to read lolita before i dive into more nabokov 👀
I am begging you to give cloud atlas another chance it was one of my favorites from last year. The very beginning is a little slow but the book isn't as serious as the first story makes it out to be pleeasssseeee it made me cry i love it dearly
i might give it another shot only bc your profile pic is an ape
ok, books I read this year:
white nights
the secret history
the book of night
the odyssey
the bell jar (uncompleted)
the right move
caught up
better than the movies
the dead romantics
this is how you heal (boring btw)
the invisible life of addie la rue (reread)
the inheritance games book three (I forgot the name)
six of crows
pride and prejudice (reread)
the testament
great expectations (for school which is boring and makes no sense)
defy me
imagine me
peril at end house
and other Arabic books
God sent you to me because 5 minutes ago I was searching classic Arabic books to read and could find proper recs so If you got any for me lmk(also I’m Muslim so I already know the basics about the culture traditions etc so any recs that are not cliche)
Couldn’t*
@@maidaabrar17 I'm not really an expert in arabic, but here're a few books I enjoyed
اعط الصباح فرصة
ارواح و اشباح (قصص قصيرة تاريخية عن احداث حقيقية)
ارض زيكولا ( اول جزء بس عشان بقية الاجزاء مش حلوين)
قواعد جارتين
اسفه معرفش كتير بس حاولت
@@yourfavdeadpoet thank you I’ll give them a read
Do you guys know any short Arabic stories I can read that aren’t too hard? I’m not an Arab but I’m learning the language and I wanna get better at it
charles i discovered your channel like three days ago and i have been binge watching your videos ever since! thanks for doing it for your fans 😘
god i love my fans. welcome to my bordello.
2024 begins and seeing another csop video popping up means it’s going to start well
we're in this together baby
books I read!
the secret history, white nights, letters to a young poet, Giovanni's room, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, dead poets society, Frankenstein (the og 18:18 text). blue nights, the lover, the stranger, my year of rest and relaxation, my dark vanessa, looking for Alaska, if he had been with me, girl in pieces, the love hypothesis, love on the brain, the fine print, archers voice, the cruel prince, twisted love, brutal prince, the seven husbands of Evelyn hugo, the song of Achilles, terms and conditions, daisy jones and the six, Norse mythology, king of wrath, a good girls guide to murder, cleopatra and Frankenstein, love is a mental illness, milk and honey, you, first love, final offer,letters to a young poet, twisted games, and shatter me...
A lot of it was hype/recommendations from my friends. But I am happy to find books that actually makes me think about the world as well as getting me back into reading again :) Happy new year!!
omg thats a hot list. i need to do franky and my dark venessa this year. happy new year! 🥳
A peaceful new year to you majesty, watching you is such a bliss i consume so much bookish content but only follow your recommendations.Your call is my call.
oh my god, hey loyal fan im so flattered i could spank you
My resolution is to read 52 books and watch 52 movies - but please keep it a secret I want it to come true 🤞🏼
baby my lips are zipped. im trying to get on my movie buff grind this year
charles how dare you end the video with a cliffhanger :( you can tell me i wont tell anyone trust
i cant trust you! you hurt me!!
charles..how come the thumbnail says ‘best to worst’ when the video is ‘worst to best’…do u have anything to tell us or is nothing real and everything is fiction.
this new background is it! and this being my first yt video watched in 2024😆
shut up are you going to tell people i was your first??
I don't make resolutions, but here you go. Just for you. I'm going to sit on my *ss and read when I should be doing something "more important".
HAAHA thats my life mantra
Happy new year everyone!!
no you!
You gotta give Cloud Atlas another chance plzzzz its so well done
mayyyyybe maybe MAYBE
happy new year!!! thanks for another lengthy upload this is a start of a great year
happy new year ;) there are MORE lengthy vids to come
Madame bovary is one of my all-time favorite book. You're killing me 😭😭😭😂
madame bovary has some great passaged, but TELL me have you read anna karenina.
@@cs0p yes and I hated it. 😅
What a way to start the new year 🥳
happy new year ape 😘
omg I can't list all the books I read in 2023... I'll be here all day, there's like 100 😆 I'm still finishing up my tally but should be close to that or over it (my goal). And SO many good books too!! What an amazing reading year and 2024 is going to be great too. 😄
damn i need to know your highlights dont gatekeep!!
@@cs0p I gotchu 😆 I'll do an official "winners & losers" vid soon but I'll just list out some of my favorite titles here:
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Middlegame
Ascension
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Head Like a Hole
The Wager (non-fic)
FantasticLand
From Below
The Mary Shelley Club
Horrorstör
Home Before Dark
The Stardust Thief
Cackle
Dead Silence
Night Film
The Night Circus
Dark Matter
No Exit
Bunny
The Honeys
... might be my top 20 out of the 90 I read. Have a feeling this year will be even better 😄.. not in terms of # of books read.. I'm focusing instead on page count (and quality) since I'll be reading a lot of SciFi and Fantasy books and series.
@@the_eerie_faerie_tales omg i took a pic for future ref. ive always wondered if 20000 is a good book
@@cs0p loved it. a lot of nature related science, adventure and an engimatic Captain. Verne was a genius .. subs weren't even invented yet when he wrote it. I got an edition that also had footnotes. I suggest one like that.
@@cs0p oh! I forgot a couple other good ones.. Episode Thirteen and How Can I Help You.
The end! This is how I like my books to end as well. Thank you for this 😂. Happy new year, Charles!
thank you 😏 happy new year 🥳
I agree with you about A Caribbean Mystery. I thought it was boring. I’ve now read more than 40 Agatha Christie books and I feel like they vary in quality a lot, thus is why I only collect my favourite ones.
I’m going to give Jade City a shot. I do like fantasy, but I’ve been hesitant about picking it up.
Which one do you think is the best
@@maidaabrar17 And Then There Were None is my favourite one.
the quality variation is crazy. give jade city a shot!! tell me your thoughts. im trying to start a jade city movement
I read 62 books in 2023 but my favorite are master and margarita, the secret history and the witcher series. Thank you so much because I read tsh on your recommendation and i just adore this book!!! I hope in this year I also read a book because of your recommendation.
I also want to thank you because your channel is wonderful place and I just love your sarcastic humour
i need to get to m&m this year!! im glad you loved tsh found the channel
serving chaos (per usual), love u for it
love you more sexy
I LOVE GOALS TOO!! AND LOVE! LOVE LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
i l*ve you
my favourite book of this year was age of innocence... absolutely loved it, don't know if it's to your taste but you might want to check it out!
i need to get on my edith wharton grind, ill check it out i promise
Yay Charles! I only read 25 books last year, not great, in part because a few of them were absolutely gigantic. My goal this year is 50, I'll have to make sure I read a few quickies, tee hee.
I've read "Mythos" by Stephen Frye; it's quite entertaining if you're into Greek gods behaving badly. He's most well-known as an actor, I didn't know he wrote a novel as well.
I have so many little Edward Gorey books! Glad you appreciate him. Here is a 2024 book recommendation for you: "Hotel Du Lac". I've read it twice, which for me is saying something. I don't know if you'll like it too, might as well give it a shot tho! Happy New Year! 🥰
lol squeeze in a few audiobook or 10 ;) ive been meaning to reread edith hamilton's greek mythology. maybe ill try mythos. i bet your taste in all things is elite; gorey fans GET IT. ive added hotel to my list. happy new year 🥳
this is so slay of you, charles, happy new year! also i started anna karenina last week because of you, struggling but loving it.
happy new year 🥳 enjoy the AK ride...
is this performance art just SENT ME 🤣🤣🤣 immediately subscribing
welcome home baby 😌
OUR KING HAD UPLOADED 🙇♂️🙇♂️ I shall take time out of my day to watch this at least 3 times
watch it 5 times or youre a fake fan.
@@cs0p will do 🫡🫡🫡
I see flowers in the attic on your bookshelf 👀 what did you think about that series
i havent read it yet 🫣 this year tho......
@@cs0p better prepare yourself 🧑🏻🦯🧑🏻🦯
Happy New Year, Charles. This new video sure is a New Year's gift, especially how you let us fans peak behind the curtain at your "failed" reads for all those other videos than didn't realize for one reason or another. It helps to know you better, King.
PS: Video cuts off before you reveal your Top 3?
Happy new year!! the irony of failed reads is that i usually have more to say about them than a good book...
Moral of the story : many videos we will never get to see (that's okay it's iconic)
im a sht influencer i cant help it
Happy New Year everyone!!
Charles treating us as always ✨✨
I'm soooo tempted to pick Olive Kitteridge and Interpreter of Maladies because of your descriptions 🤭
happy new year 🥳🫶 pick up OliveK...you wont regret...
Your eyes are so expressive
i thought you said they were so expensive and i said. you know waht youre right.
You look very handsome darling
i appreciate you saying that babe
what! New Year’s Day was already going well and then this! Dipped & scalded toe in the zeitgeist. 😅. Here I come, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, finally. But is it for me? Time will tell. You’re the reason I read my first Jhumpa Lahari this year. 😊 . It’s interesting , your experience with Jade City. Who knows when to keep on with a book & sometimes think to add audio…how is one to know? We don’t. But you scored on that one!
i feel like theres a good chance you could love Ferrante.. but maybe not. i hope you liked lahiri!! im an audiobook advocate these days 🫣
you're the funniest booktuber fr
thanks 😌
My DNFs for 2023 were:
The ninth house (I read the first chapter and called it a day)
Sally Rooney’s Beautiful world where are you (my first and last Sally Rooney)
Atomic habits (I finished the intro and I want my €2 back)
Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace (want to actually finish someday I just don’t know when that will be)
AHAH dam. ive been meaning to pick up AG 👀
I read only 3 books but mostly bc I have uni and work so I'm procrastinating a lot 😂
1. Discovery of Witches
2. Wuthering Heights
3. Secret History
Happy new year🎉🎉
3 books is kind of a power move. happy new year 🥳
my top books were the rabbit hutch by tess gunty, de profundis by oscar wilde, frankenstein by shelley, romeo and juliet by shakespeare, babel by r f kuang, warrior cats season 1 book 6😭 (greatest battle scene in the entire literature canon), perfume by patrick süskind
Charles do you have a Goodreads I can follow?? Don’t b shy
HAHA i dont have one!!
good vodeo
thanks haha
i recommend you Amy Hempel - Tumble Home you will love it
omg ok added to tbr
Eye-roll count: 66
HAHAH
Given your reviews here I’d recommend Anna Kavan’s 1967 novel Ice. It’s difficult to categorize something of a disorienting dreamscape apocalyptic fable. Impactful in only ~160 pages and the audio book from my library was quite good too.
ooo ooo o o ok ive added to my list it does look hot (for a novel about ICE 😂)
It’d be nice to show the book covers while u talk about them.
no youre right
Wow, I thought I was the only "freak" who didn't like If We Were Villains. I really thought I was missing something due to all the rave reviews from people. That book didn't hold a candle to The Secret History.
is it a game to try and guess your top 3? 👀
My favourites this year were:
the girl with the dragon tattoo
the blind by maeterlinck,
the talented mr. ripley
2023 wasn’t a good reading year for me so hope i can fix it this year 😅
🫢😏 ripley is very fun..if you read only books i recommend your reading year will go crazy i can feel it
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (i liked that slim little pink book, but i haven't really read any other babitz) (i am also a little ambi on didion)
ugh i would say i would give it a shot bc you like it...but id be lying. eve and i are beefing and im not saying sorry unless she does first
@@cs0p beh, you’ll be fine without babitz, and she’ll be fine without you
The rules or attraction was my favourite read of the year. Bret is a genius
it is such a fun book. if you havent read the shards you gotta...
Steven Fry is actually a famous UK Comedian and intellectual. I love him as the host of the British Game Show "QI". I've always doubted his writing is very good though - he's more fast-witted and a trivia master than a good storyteller, I think.
innnnteresting ive never heard of this man outside of books. i need to find a clip of the show
My goal is 50 books again this year but I want to do one in Spanish. Hoping it will help me learn the language. Was thinking about reading a Roberto Bolano for that goal. Still thinking about it.
50 is a solid number. tell me if you pick up bolano! ive been thinking about trying 2666 for at least a couple years now
I think you might be having a tough time finding a translation of crime and punishment you like. I think the best one is printed by signet classics, black and red cover. I don’t remember the name of the translator because they don’t even put her name on the cover. The one done by Larissa and her husband isn’t good and the other done by that large group of people is also bad. It’s a very good book.
yooooure right ill look for that translation
Ambivalent not ambidextrous 😂
in a way
@@cs0p per chance
Totally agree re If We Were Villains by ML Rio. How dare people compare it to The Secret History 😮
Did anyone else get to the end of this video?…and the Top 4 are???
comparisons between the two are truly unforgivable.
a new year a new slay everyday
yes 🙏 if this is your resolution, yes 🙏
I also thought Cloud Atlas was trash. Pnin I also couldn't get into but I highly highly recommend you read Pale Fire (also about a professor). It's structurally brilliant and Joanna Newsom has used lines from it so that's god tier.
ill give pale fire a try after lolita! your cloud and pnin takes are reassuring..
A resolution like a birthday wish, you really can't tell anyone.
amen.
Where are you?? … Lead us faithful subs on & then drop us??! Seriously, not fair! 😂 SO Ready for you to drop a new video, please!! 😘😘😘 📚📚
diva, may I call you diva?, kind of obsessed with how often you roll your eyes like mhm yeah I get it
HAHA as a loyal fan, it is your DUTY to call me whatever you please
That was great, thank you.
my pleasure...
OMG why did you do me dirty like that?! What are the top three?! 😂
Also if you lived Jade City, just wait until you get to Jade Legacy. That book had me ugly crying, and totally changed how I felt about the first two.
shut up im nervous about legacy now!! i need to find more good fantasy after im done
My goal is to read 60 books this year. I’m already almost finished #1
you are wellll on track
he's chaotic in the least chaotic way possible
thank you....
i actually gasped when you placed commonwealth that low...i'm so sad
i knowwww i know baby lets kiss and make up i dont wanna fight rn youre acting crazy!!
Would be good if you had a cute pic of the book pop up on screen when you start talking about it. Still waiting on the eye roll counter in the corner too. I am a fan and you said you like to appease your fans on one of your videos.
youre right...i would die for my fans...
As a French, french literature is boring I didn’t get the stranger and authors are very much into philosophy and loneliness, pretentious and deliberately trying to shock their generation by being progressive when they are to our eyes conservatives. I will only recommend « les misérables » by Victor Hugo a fair classic, and my favourite fantasy series « La passe miroir « The mirror visitor in English which is amazing. I just saw you talked about Madame Bovary which was my personal hell in high school the author was renowned for hating women and decided to write a book about a tragic woman’s life he saw in the newspaper to try and explain how she could have come to this extent. Zero empathy he hates on all his characters
we’ve missed u 😝
baby ive been here waiting for you!!
“Everything is fiction, nothing is real.” Way to send me into an existential crisis Charles lol
checkmate 😌
the ending eye-
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you're the only stranger on the internet I trust
my knee jerk reaction to this comment was brainstorming ways to betray you.
I didn't like Wuthering Heights either. I just hated the characters and their stupid decisions and awful behavior so much. I wasn't pulling for any of them by the end lol 😬
YOU GET IT. agreeeed agreed agreed. Ill make a video hopefully soon
This is a controversial take and you may never like me after this but I feel like so many, if not the majority, of the greatest books are written by white men and a good chunk of them are by old ones, at that. The great thing about you, though, is that you won’t dislike me for my opinion because you’re a good dude.
so true
That wasn’t a controversial take 10-15 years ago.
@@iheartpinkmochi absolutely 💯!
twelve on the stoner was two on my stoner for 2023
exactly🙌
You're saying French literature is boring?! You didn't read "the count of monte Cristo". Haaaighly recommend. You won't regret it.
i have it somewhere on my shelf...ill pick it up this year and report back ;)
@@cs0p hope you love it.
I have some questions for you would be in my bottom 5 as well.
it really is the worst...
Did Christie do all those destination mystery books so she could write off the research trip that really was a vacation?
Lmaooo low key probably