My Home Library Tour

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 พ.ค. 2020
  • Some of us have more time on our hands right now than we might wish, so if you're looking for good books to read (books that are challenging, imaginative, and infinitely re-readable) here is my book collection. I hope you enjoy the video.

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  • @stirlingpiano
    @stirlingpiano 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This is an incredible bookshelf! I love the style of organizing. Also, I am so glad to have found another who loves Les Mis. In my opinion, not enough people appreciate how great it truly is.

    • @vozamaraktv-art5595
      @vozamaraktv-art5595 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      My favourite book hands down!! Just great beyond words!

  • @34missgreen
    @34missgreen 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I thoroughly enjoyed this tour of your library! I am incrementally building my personal library with the intention of adding more depth to the literature (monographs, novels, etc.) that I already own. In high school, two of the fictional works we had to read for IB English were: Madame Bovary and Tartuffe. I didn't enjoy either one, with a slight hatred towards the former lol. However, I did really enjoy Candide. When you described The Man Who Laughs and the connection with The Joker, I got so excited! Maybe I will give French literature another chance after all 😂.

  • @lykins8
    @lykins8 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is an incredible set up

  • @victorhayden1183
    @victorhayden1183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is like my library:-) except all my books are in boxes at the moment. When they were up on the shelves I separated everything mostly by classical works, fiction and nonfiction, and modern historical books. Its amazing how much can be known about a book even without ever reading it, then it becomes amazing how unexpected a book can be once you read it, like Marco Polo’s Journal.

  • @mariaquintino1670
    @mariaquintino1670 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great library and decor. Thank you for sharing your lovely space with us.

  • @noseonscent1935
    @noseonscent1935 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great books, lots of choices. Classic to modern, very nice.

  • @cindyann727
    @cindyann727 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wonderful library. Interesting way of organizing the books. I tend to categorize by size of book and just keep a detail online catalog of where everything is. Thanks for sharing.

  • @MegaGinki
    @MegaGinki 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a beautiful and inspiring collection! Thank you for sharing!

  • @phaedrussmith1949
    @phaedrussmith1949 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very nice. I like the rug. It really pulls the room together.

  • @Amarantis
    @Amarantis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nice home library! really liked it!

  • @user-uz4lh4fd2j
    @user-uz4lh4fd2j 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very good book collection on a lot of subjects. Good penguin collection too

  • @swethak4687
    @swethak4687 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Its really fantastic home library....super....great orginsing of all books and the room

  • @rogermaxson2512
    @rogermaxson2512 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very nice, Ryan!

  • @hansvriend4327
    @hansvriend4327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for this video. Greetings from a fellow reader and bookcollecter from the Netherlands. Keep reading, keep thinking.

  • @Stevendesanta
    @Stevendesanta 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Loved this man! Keep making these videos, I really enjoyed this.

  • @omensix
    @omensix 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As you were talking about the found letters that made the epistolary novel is kind of like the found footage films that became popular with Blair witch. Les liaisons dangeruses - was made into a BRILLIANT movie in 1988 with Michelle Pfeiffer- John malkovich - Glenn close and more- must see!

  • @shethewriter
    @shethewriter 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love watching library tours!

  • @Dc-zv4zi
    @Dc-zv4zi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just stumbled across your video. Amazing library! So much knowledge in one place. Best wishes from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @John-lt8bh
    @John-lt8bh 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Library, thanks for sharing.

  • @Frenposter
    @Frenposter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love the Charles Dickens bust! I've only read his A Christmas Carol, and it's one of my favourite novellas. :)

  • @historical_lisa315
    @historical_lisa315 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for sharing. Your library is wonderful. I feel like you share many of my sentiments and your reading choices are similar to mine. Les Miserables is also my favorite work.

  • @teatimewithtraceyandcrew
    @teatimewithtraceyandcrew 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow you have a stunning collection. Seriously. So many treasures and you pl pal Pete to keep you company. What a cutie he is. Love videos like this. I get such inspiration. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed #257. Peace love and happiness ~ Tracey

  • @MarkelBeverley
    @MarkelBeverley 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    SEE this is what the hell I'm talking bout. Subscribed!

  • @islas357
    @islas357 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve got a lot of the same books, i dig the decor.

  • @eleonoralydia8884
    @eleonoralydia8884 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your library reminds me of my own. There's a little bit of everything in it. Right now I'm doing a "read the world challenge", so that I can get to learn more about the world. After that, we'll see... but I definitely want to study more about literature

  • @missjenny1953
    @missjenny1953 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful library and beautiful room! Oh you must read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I just finished it and it’s marvelous. A lot of sermonizing in the middle but may be interesting to you as I can see you have a lot of theology. I read a biography on her and the rest of the family. In Search ofAnne Bronte. Fabulous.

  • @doctor1alex
    @doctor1alex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow this is extensive! Given so many I was a bit surprised not to see more theology?

  • @littleredflying-fox
    @littleredflying-fox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Your tour was quite enjoyable. I am always heartened by bookshelf tours that have serious content. I feel that there is an overrepresentation of girls with their YA and FuncoPop collections on TH-cam. At the moment I am reading The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (trans. George Long), and American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett. Try anything by Umberto Eco.

    • @thetimeofthewolf257
      @thetimeofthewolf257 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yukio Mishima,Eiji Yoshikawa, Jack London,Conn Illgulden,Bernard Cornwell and Robert E Howard are all great writers.Those are my favorite writers. I am more into historical fiction and dont care much for Classic Lit other than Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. I am looking for a good hardcover book on the collection of poems written by Rudyard Kipling.

  • @juanconstan7402
    @juanconstan7402 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    bro we like the same books and interests !! congratulations!

  • @AndrewRayGorman
    @AndrewRayGorman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have to laugh, I had many of the exact same young adult books. We sold off all our Hardy Boys books at a yardsale. Surprised I didn't also see the Magic Treehouse in your collection!

  • @joffrethegiant
    @joffrethegiant 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    INFINITELY re-readable, though? lol What a cool idea.

  • @ryanoneiljohnson8743
    @ryanoneiljohnson8743 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Literally occupy world literature. Great tour brother.

  • @LeoModest1
    @LeoModest1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi Ryan! Happened to come across your video - lovely library, I'm sure I could spend some enjoyable hours in it! :-) And you didn't come off pretentious, more excited about the wide range of books you have!
    I'm very curious about your books by Homer. Which version would you recommend? What's the most pleasing to the eye - nice edition, but also when reading it: not too tiny print etc. Any recommendations to share? And what is this Ovid book we see at 10.08? Do you have any details on that? It looks great and I'd love to have a comprehensive book on Ovid..
    So thanks for your video - good stuff. And - by the way - Anne Bronte is the best of the sisters where poetry is concerned. :-)

  • @holissarbeni2652
    @holissarbeni2652 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for sharing. That is such a great video. I was wondering how much time you invested to read all those great books collection of yours?

  • @abigailhortencia5901
    @abigailhortencia5901 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome👌

  • @climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191
    @climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have read "Atlas Shrugged" bit of a slog but a great read, the potrayal of relationships in the novel is great.

  • @chen-Po
    @chen-Po 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for sharing.

  • @dsmoons
    @dsmoons 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Like for Gogol and Dostoevsky. "Demons" ("The Possessed") - my favorite book

  • @davidbradley301
    @davidbradley301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I saw you had Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Wondering if you have read his Theory of Moral Sentiments, I think the Penguin Classics edition is really good.

  • @borderbioscope1180
    @borderbioscope1180 ปีที่แล้ว

    great, thanks

  • @vanessa271
    @vanessa271 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed seeing the treasures you hoard in your library. You need Peterson's Beyond Order and other Mortimer Adler's works, in my opinion.

    • @vanessa271
      @vanessa271 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ryangriffiths6807 I like Adler's Philosopher at Large; How to Speak, How to Listen; and The Time of Our Lives. Of course, it would be nice if you can complete the Great Books set.

  • @rorocio93
    @rorocio93 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I would love to have a library like that one. I'm 21 and I don't have a job so I don't have many books yet 😅. I loved watching this video because I can't find in TH-cam readers of Philosophy or of this type of books. If you know some other channels, it would be nice if you share them with me.

    • @momengaber7717
      @momengaber7717 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same problem, but I found some channels here, you might be interested. (Theory & Philosophy) (TheBookchemist) (Richardson Reads) (Bookish) (Richardson ReadsThe Archive) (Dane K. Jóhannsson) (Roger Maxson) (Book Club) (Biblio Atlas)

  • @mockingbird3099
    @mockingbird3099 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you're ever in Flagstaff, be sure to visit Percival Lowell's library. It is one of my favorites. Yours is quite nice, too. As wonderful as it is, your Russian collection is incomplete without the works of Anton Chekhov.

  • @magdavelas
    @magdavelas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow! You’ve got a nice “man cave” library!

  • @user-ls8ks7kv8c
    @user-ls8ks7kv8c 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very nice bookshelf! I like the idea of categorizing them chronologically, I may have to do that to mine as well.
    I don't recall it being mentioned, but Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is an absolute must. And if you are into Americana, then Andrew O'Shaughnessy's "Men Who Lost America" is excellent for understanding the British side and the Library of America's collections of the writings of Franklin, Jefferson, and Adams are very useful (the Franklin one is quite entertaining because it has his Almanacks).

  • @Manuel421
    @Manuel421 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You probably wont see this but I currently have Letters from a Stoic by Seneca on my list of future books. Is it a worthwhile read? Stoic philosophy is new to me but for now I have begun with The Enchiridion by Epictetus as well as Meditations by Marcus Aurelius which also is favored by many. I took a Philosophy course in College so I do have a bit of background on the subject in general. Anyway thanks for providing me some inspiration for my future small library.

  • @616Haggard
    @616Haggard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We have very similar libraries. We are both students of Christianity and Old Western culture!

  • @lewisesoplin8809
    @lewisesoplin8809 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    amazing

  • @ARod-br2ui
    @ARod-br2ui 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don’t know much about Shakespeare, but one fact about him I found rather fascinating. The fact that he himself invented about 1700 words in the English language.

  • @joffrethegiant
    @joffrethegiant 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There's a whole lotta California on that map of yours!

  • @thomasthompson6378
    @thomasthompson6378 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You really should read "Cloud Atlas" -- it's one of the most extraordinary novels I've ever read, and I believe you'd find it fascinating. It's really unlike anything else. (But don't see the movie, which utterly fails to capture the beauty of the book.)

  • @BrianJonson
    @BrianJonson 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I enjoyed this; thank you. Just curious about the theology works starting with the Reformation. Do you have any interest in earlier Greek and Latin theologians?
    Again, thank you for the great tour. You gave me ideas

    • @frisco61
      @frisco61 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Because nothing happened in Christondom before then.

  • @oscarsalesgirl296
    @oscarsalesgirl296 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    18:40 "you have to remember that there's a lot of humor there" wow they sound so funny 🙄

  • @oliverromm5869
    @oliverromm5869 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What are the three books before the epic of Gilgamesh on your chronologically organised shelves?

  • @dragonofchaos7843
    @dragonofchaos7843 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You got an idol behind

  • @kristigathercoal8108
    @kristigathercoal8108 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you are a fan of Arthurian legend give Susan Cooper a read. I read them as a child and loved them. They also made a movie based on the books. It was ok, but you really needed to have read the books to understand the movie.

  • @dami3894
    @dami3894 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The title and video style definitely reminds me of early TH-cam for some reason lol

  • @MAPologeticsIPeter315
    @MAPologeticsIPeter315 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You need to get some of my former professor of apologetics and law, Dr. John Warwick Montgomery's books. Such as "History and Christianity, "Faith Founded on Fact," "Law Above the Law," "Human Rights, Human Dignity," "Slaughter of the Innocents," "Shape of the Past," "Where is History Going?" "In Defense of Martin Luther," "Myth Allegory and Gospel," "Demon Possession," "Christianity for the Toughminded," "The Suicide of Christian Theology," "God's Inerrant word,""The Quest for the Ark," "Evidence for Faith: How To Decide the God Question," "China in Chains," amongst others. He's written widely and considered one of the world's foremost evidential apologist. Check him out.

  • @climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191
    @climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191 ปีที่แล้ว

    Read some Bryce Courtney, he is a fun read

  • @helioliskfire5954
    @helioliskfire5954 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dracula is an epistolary novel hehe.

  • @NC1195_
    @NC1195_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is the measurements of your Shakespeare bust?

  • @Aaron-xn7dg
    @Aaron-xn7dg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    do you have any reading list on Catholicism?

    • @thetimeofthewolf257
      @thetimeofthewolf257 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I come from a pentecostal background. My wife grew up Catholic. I am looking into Catholicism. I have heard that Matthew Levering is excellent. The church fathers are great. Aquinas is good. Joseph Ratzinger on the theology of the liturgy is good. E Michael Jones books are great. They have been banned from Amazon I think so you would have to order them from his website. Overall Matthew Levering is probably the best.

  • @Stevendesanta
    @Stevendesanta 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    RIP Pink Toe Pete

  • @mediafreak5609
    @mediafreak5609 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No H.P Lovecraft?

  • @derbuchhandel
    @derbuchhandel 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    bookstore berlin germany

  • @halaldunya918
    @halaldunya918 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not bad,I don't like fiction, always after history and science, and philosophy for reading.

  • @joffrethegiant
    @joffrethegiant 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A Greek Bible next to a Turkish one...truly the lion shall lie down with the lamb...

  • @ednorton47
    @ednorton47 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The "Brian Kilmeade" books don't fit in with the others.

  • @fredarcher7264
    @fredarcher7264 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    An interesting examination of your library . Although I must admit that I found that your continual mispronunciation of the names of authors' to be rather disconcerting .

  • @climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191
    @climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191 ปีที่แล้ว

    Glenn Beck...bruhhhh

  • @joffrethegiant
    @joffrethegiant 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Chronological order is a pretty good idea, but I think organizing by color could be the way to go.

    • @eriolduterion8855
      @eriolduterion8855 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      By color, you end up with a series scattered all over the walls, and since one can never remember whether color of a particular volume was green, blue or yellow, one cannot go directly to a bookshelf to find it. Depending on the size of the personal library - mine is approaching 2500 books- one can either do Alphabetical by Author or a combination of Subject/Alpha by Author, or a more formal Dewey Decimal/Library of Congress. The real problem comes with non-fiction where the subject matter overlaps several fields - for example does North American Indian Art get shelved under Art, Art History, or American Indians. Series, particularly where there are multiple authors/guest authors such as Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar or the Robert Asprin/Lynn Abby Thieves World books become difficult to determine how to group. Another issue is where you have a hardbound volume, but the sequels were never issued as hardbound.