5 books that define my taste as a reader
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that color is MADE for you. i truly love your videos, they're so comforting
I think if you like Ocean Vuong and Toni Morrison, you might like The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel. The audio book is especially good. Just magical writing that's nuanced and deliciously southern gothic. I felt so entranced and alive while reading it.
Hi Lauren, have been a fan of you and your content xx. I feel if you're a fan of Joan Didion and Toni Morrison, you'd love Annie Ernaux and Mieko Kanai's works (both are translated). In addition, another interesting 'plotless' authors would be Clarice Lispector and some of Virginia Woolf's works :)
you upload when i mentally need it the most .❤
Clarice Lispector (anything really she’s my favorite author!) but I recommend Agua Viva, Near to the Wild Heart, and The Hour of the Star to you!
I'm so glad you talked about Ocean Vuong's novel
Food for thought. So many books and so little time. Best wishes and happy reading to you.
Watching your videos brings me so much joy.
on earth we're briefly gorgeous, absolutely yes.
lauren that red cardigan 😍
my recs for you 💛
swimming in the dark by tomasz jedrowski
lie with me by philippe besson
piranesi by susanna clarke
memorial bryan washington
sea of tranquility by emily st john mendel
real life by brandon taylor
Nice to see that they're all women and to see the cultural diversity. Thanks for sharing!
I just finished reading on earth we’re briefly gorgeous two days ago. happy to know that this is on your list. i feel validated😊
I love Joan Didion. My favorite is The Year of Magical Thinking.
its No-ME, Miriam Toews narrates the audio book, its my comfort listen and read, I have 4 copies because they all have different coverers and one is signed
Brought here by the algorithm - you have great taste! I have read and loved three of your selections and I am currently reading Ocean’s book. Miriam Toews is an author I’m not familiar with, but based on the others I’m going to check her out. Book recommendation? I bet you would like Leslie Jamison, if you haven’t read her yet - she is an essayist with a clever style and keen curiosity for the human condition.
i read my first didion, “my year of magical thinking” earlier this year and i LOVED it so i was very excited to read “play it as it lays”. unfortunately it ended up being such a disappointment 🥲 i love her writing but the story was just so dull and even though i also appreciate the mundane (big patti smith fan) i just couldn’t get into it. i plan on picking up “sloaching towards bethlehem” next so hopefully i like that one better 😩
Slouching Towards Bethlehem is my favourite Didion! I hope you enjoy it
I'm so obsessed with your necklace, would you reveal where you got it?
hi cindy ~ i do believe it’s by justine clenquet (french)
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@@annalaren Thank you!!
I think you would really like “Martyr!” By Kaveh Akbar. It’s a heartbreaking story, beautiful writing and an intricate story about finding yourself and your identity
A book recommendation: The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza (L’Arte della Gioia is the original title). It’s such a beautiful book
I really loved The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, it sounded a lot like Sula, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was inspired by Sula
Hey lauren :) not sure if you've answered this somewhere, but what camera do you use to vlog? Thanks!
the private lives of trees by alejandro zambra
hello Lauren, I just finished "rien ne s'oppose à la nuit" of Delphine de Vigan. I think he has been translated. anyway I loved it! it's kind of an biography of Delphine's mother after she committed suic*de and Delphine is drown into her mother life started from her childhood to her adult life and her writing is absolutely beautiful
I know you're heading to Europe soon, or maybe you're already there. Have an amazing time! Sending you lots of love and good vibes. (I love your red polo sweater. Where did you get it?) 😊🌍💕
Italy :)
Taste! 🤍
I live in Steinbach and love Miriam Toews! Just two days ago a plaque was unveiled at her childhood home that some of us locals fundraised for. She doesn’t get nearly enough credit for her talents.
These are definitely Top 5 material, great list!
I have to recommend Jesmyn ward’s book Salvage the Bones
i have On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is on my uni reading list this semester, and i’ve started it and i am so excited to finish it! i also loved Crying in H Mart soooo much!
Love this title and content!
Thanks for doing a book video on TH-cam! I'm always curious what you have in your stacks of books (I'm not on TikTok), so I appreciate this sort of crossover for you. Do you have any thoughts on Fran Lebowitz's writing?
Love your vlogs, really loved this sit down chat about books too. I looooooved On Earth We're Completely Gorgeous, what an incredible book. I have realised I love novels written by poets. I am slowly working my way through Morrison's work and am looking forward to Sula. Still haven't read Crying in H Mart, has been on my TBR for aaaaages. Maybe this Non Fiction November.
I think you would enjoy Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston.
we share a lot of favourites! so i think you'd love Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir and anything by Annie Ernaux, especially The Place, A woman's story and The other girl!
Love these! My current read is The Secret Life of Addie LeRue by V.E. Schwab, it’s sooooo good!
Toni Morrison & Michelle Zauner
My rec is definitely "Icarus Girl" by Helen Oyeyemi, I haven't seen anyone recommend this one before and it's really beautiful. One of my fav books ever
Omg yes, my recommendations for you:
1. Anything by Sophie Mackintosh (I know you love Cursed Bread already, as do I)
2. Lost in the Garden - Adam S. Leslie
3. The Unwilding and Nightingale, both by Marina Kemp
4. The Glass Hotel, and anything really my Emily St. John Mandel
Now I'm off to find a red sweater like yours xx
red riding hood! snow white! matryoshka doll! betty boop!
I am the same, don't mind about spoilers.
I’ve been wanting to read more outside my comfort zone lately, so I’m definitely going to check out these books!
Sula was amazing. Have yet to read On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, but I am ready for it to destroy me.
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
I also loved Crying in H Mart and even recommended it to my uni professor because of Michelle´s relationship with food and the culture behind it. A kind of "plotless" (and beautiful) book that you might like is Clarice Lispector´s A Breath of Life! As a brazilian myself, i can say she´s a fascinating author.
I'm reading Siblings by Brigitte Reimann right now and loving it, though you need to keep in mind it was written in the 60s in post war east germany
cool to see how many favorite books we have in common!! I love Toni so much, and I agree, Sula is my favorite.
Book recs:
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt: my absolute favorite of all her three books and very underrated. The story is about a young girl who lives in Mississippi and is investigating the murder of her brother. The entire book has a sort of dark fairytale-like haze about it, the perfect southern gothic novel.
The Princess of 72nd Street by Elaine Kraf: Just finished reading this, it's incredible. It's a feminist cult classic written in the 70s that recently got republished. The story follows a woman named Ellen who lives in NYC and experiences periods of "radiance." If you like stories that explore the lives and struggles of women, you'd really like this book.
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin: easily my favorite Baldwin, this story follows the journey of a young Black couple (Fonny and Tish) living in NYC in the 70s. After Fonny gets falsely accused of a crime, the couple struggles to navigate the legal system, their familial obligations, and the increasingly limited options they have. Tish and Fonny are written very beautifully, it is a book that has stayed with me for a long time.
Nonfiction recommendation covering themes of religion, motherhood and growing up is The Sound of Gravel. It is the memoir by a woman who grew up in a polygamist mormon community in Mexico. Very interesting to learn about somebody’s experiences who are so different from my own
My recommendation is "Notes to self" by Emilie Pine. Could imagine you enjoying this collection of essays based on the books you mentioned in your video. It's not a novel, but the essays are autobiographical and really thought-provoking and at times devastating.
just finished reading cursed bread by sophie makintosh based on your recommendation from another vid and I was a little nervous because sometimes I buy a book based on a yt or tiktok recs and it's way off base for me lol, but I knew in the first few pages you have great taste!!! 100% gonna read all five of these books
just bumped play it as it lays on my reading list!
tiffany mc daniel is one of the best authors
Afternoon from Hawaii that was a good 5 book to read on you made good content
I’ve never been this early to anything in my life
just got home from the bookstore, wish i saw this before ☹ added to goodreads !
we absolutely have the same taste in books ❤ loved all of them
love love love
first, love u ♡
Love the books, love the red sweater! ❤ my refs for you are not similar stylistically, but I think in terms of sensibility: Pachinko (Min Jin Lee) and the Neapolitan trilogy (Elena Ferrante). You probably already know both, but they’ve touched me deeply in a way similar to the once you’ve mentioned.
God yes Pachinko! Also came to my mind immediately after this video. It was so beautiful
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky is probably one of the most beautiful, depressing, and poetic books I've read this year. It's really short, but so well written... And Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, definitely it's an essential in your TBR ♡ thank you for the recommendations, im looking forward to read all them because they sound so interesting and the type of book that I would definitely enjoy ^^
I don’t mind spoilers either, even love it 😳🌟
I really hope that white people consider how traumatic or racist a book could be for a black or person of color before they recommend them. I have taken two book recommendations from you and both time, there were instances where black people were dehumanized so hard, I was like how do I get through this. Funny thing was that you were raving about the books and their themes like you just didn’t see color. I know white people just don’t see race in so many things which is why racism still goes unchecked but we see race because we literally have no choice so maybe consider this?
i read "a complicated kindness" when you first mentioned it in a video and it was so amazing, thank you for recommending it and miriam toews too! ❤
I just stumbled on your channel thanks to algorithms. Yesss, do spoil us with details