for Dracula, it being epistolary, I recommend using the website that sends you the letters via email throughout the year so you read them on the dates they are written and you read the whole novel over several months.
We need more people like this telling us truth! Just finished reading Hidden Signs of the Universe by Olivia Cooper. Its fascinating what they hide from society
For books over 1,000 pages, I'd recommend reading it as an e-book. More comfortable to read for one, but also it makes it far less intimidating when you don't physically see all the unread pages.
I'm excited for you to read Percy Jackson, you could smash them out so fast cos they're kids books. Also if you need any Brando Sando tips let me know. Mistborn is a good spot to start! I finished my tbr this year so top 3 books before I die??? Idk probably some fantasy that I find intriguing? Don't make me panic.
I've been watching your channel for a very long time and I just want to say that the personal growth you've had has been really great to watch. I appreciate that you can look back and call yourself out. My books: 1984, The Road which has been on my shelf for ten years now, and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
girl your list is basically my list 💀 every fantasy, classic and non fiction book you mentioned is on my shelf as well, even the diana and da vinci book HOW
My two biggest ones are The Book Thief and Frankenstein. I started reading TBT in high school and loved it immediately but I was in the biggest reading slump of a lifetime (lasted 3 years) and never made it past the first chapter. I’ve also been assigned Frankenstein at least twice for class and same thing happened. Started reading, liked it immediately, never got around to properly finishing. I feel like both of these will become instant favorites but their season just hasn’t rolled around yet.
i also want to read dracula so i decided to subscribe to the dracula daily newsletter next year and read it that way. it's going to take months but i think it's fun
I read a lot of the classic books from your list about 2 years ago. My New Year’s resolution that year was to read one classic novel per week for an entire years now that I had a fully developed frontal lobe and stuff. Some of them were absolutely phenomenal. I’d never heard of Steinbeck and started with Mice and Men. It spired me to read all his other books. One even won a novel price. Phenomenal writer! Jane Austen has been my favourite since I was a little girl. You’re going to LOVE her (I predict) as well as all the dystopians you mentioned. Oh and anything Dumas, especially The count of Monte Cristo. However, some of them were such stinkers. I read everything by Charles Dickens including a tale of two cities. It was, in fact, shit. As you said, getting paid by the page. The man waffles, as my English teacher used to say. I read all his notable books and they were all…oh well. Lolita was kind of disappointing, because I really thought the vibe would be thriller-y and psychological. Like actually looking into the head of a pedo. In the end he was just a sad sack of shit honestly 😂 Some other notable stinkers were Dorian Grey (will get crucified for it, don’t care), Don Quixote (first was okay the second was ridiculous even for its own standard) and Moby Dick, my arch nemesis. Not on your list but it had to be said. Bonus: if you read handmaidens tale, definitely get the prequel. It was published a few years ago after a 15 year hiatus and I almost loved it even more than the original. It will literally leave you questioning everything you felt during the first. One of m faves indeed.
I have my pen & paper ready ... War & Peace ... okay, wasn't expecting that one. You have some Fat Tomes on this list. You are ambitious. I have an S on my TBR shelf too. Water for Elephants was so good. Lolita is a beautifully written book. I want to finish - My Fat Tomes List 1) reading all of 11 Larry Brown's books (next up is A Miracle Of Catfish) Finished Joe, Fay, The Rabbit Factory & Dirty Work (about 2100+ pages) 2) XX by Rian Hughes (992 pages) C) Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann - just because (1022 pages) Love your face
Loved your note on the old man and the sea. Same goes for 100 years of solitude, I think. I don't know anyone that read it and didn't feel a deep empty void of pure boredom page after page after page. In fact, I don't know anyone that could finish it for that same reason. A must read before you die classic, though.
I’ve also had House of Leaves on my shelf for years 😅 I do absolutely recommend Night Film! Very trippy, very fun My three books are The Alphabet series by Sue Grafton (has to be on my deathbed because the fact we will never get Z will drive me insane) Like you, The Stormlight Archive And my third I have no idea
Hi Lily, This is the first time I land on your channel, and I nearly died laughing. It does take a lot effort to read classics like "War and Peace" and "Les Miserables", but it's worth it. It's like exercise. At first you think there's no way you'll be able to run a 10km race, but if you build your resistance you discover that it's easier than you thought. You have a great personality.
Our lists are very similar and I've read a few of the ones you mentioned. I will say there are some that I absolutely hated in the case of rich dad poor dad and the stormlight achieves. I would suggest looking into some historical novels. There are actually a lot of interesting ones and my favorites the Soong Dystany by Sterling Seagrave. It is my favorite book ever. The Barbizon is one I typically would not pick up but it was also amazing and if you ever thought about reading the Bell Jar, well the author of the Bell Jar is in the Barbizon and it goes through her life as a young woman in NYC.
lol... i would like to think I'm that girl who would WANT to read War and Peace before I die, but I have accepted that I am not that girl, and I don't actually have any interest in reading it. lol
girl your outro is so loud it jumpscares me every time😭 also currently have had house of leaves, dracula and frankenstein on my nightstand for ages now, they Will be read someday ...
I’d swap Great Expectations for A Tale of Two Cities for Dickens… word count notwithstanding it’s actually enjoyable! And for Hemingway, too bad you didn’t read The Sun Also Rises instead. It was his first novel, and such a stark contrast in every good way to The Old Man. And finally, you MUST read A Movable Feast by him! 😊
war and peace at number 1 is... a choice lol as for mine: anna karenina (actually a reread because I was 16 the last time I read it), emma, and wuthering heights
i started reading the mortal intruments because i want to read all the shadowhunter trilogies before the last trilogy comes out, i mean the final book is going to be called the last shadowhunter
@@Boonicopter try audiobooks, especially in combination with a physical activity like chores or working out or something like that. To me, reading isn’t the act itself, but the process of getting the info into your head and processing it, working with it, have it change and shape you etc. whether you sit your ass down and read it or have someone read it to you, changes nothing, in the grand scheme of things. Physical activity just helps keep the brain more engaged, at least to me. I listened to 52 classic books in one year because I work out every day so that was at least 1h of „reading“ (1,5x speed too) a day 😊
It really depends on the classic imo, I started reading a few this year after having been too mentally exhausted by my degree to bother with any 'serious' books these past few years. Wuthering Heights was a surprisingly easy read, easier for me than the Bell Jar (which I know is a bit more of a 'modern' classic, but still). Everyone has their classics that they found enjoyable and their classics that are hard to get through. Read the ones that interest you, and DNF the ones that don't
Then you should read Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport first :) I did the 30-day challenge and it finally cured me from wasting my time on YT It's not forever lost, attention is a muscle :)
Very strong list with some quite chunky books on it but I think it's doable. I've got over 3000 books on my TBR but my 3 books I wanna read before I die would be.. 1. Ana Karenina 2. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell 3. The Covenant of water Because they are hugeeee 😮😢😢😢
I think you could make a video- reading the books that have been waiting for me 10 years 😂 me too with the poor waiting books though mine are half read multiple times haha
7:00 totally fair 😂😂😂😂😅😅😅 I started that book before I heard he hadn’t published the next in the series in like a decade 😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅 I read Metamorphosis… dude it’s so short but also, sooooo weird. Definitely get. Commentary to read with it 😂😂
I read Dracula before going to Romania and I was so disappointed 😬 same for Frankenstein, I found both of them crazy boring, not scary at all, didn't like the characters (don't kill me for this please)
I also didn't like Night Circus (dnf, it was just too long and the universe would have worked better in short stories), the Handmaid's Tale, Kafka on the Shore, Cujo Okay, to not sound like a hater, here are some books from the list I did like: Golden Compass (child me was hauling around a plushie pretending it was my daemon), the first Discworld, want to read the rest, loved Fahrenheit 451, Percy Jackson, GOT, the Hitchhiker's Guide, IT (just ignore the sewer scene) I also want to read LOTR, Slaughterhouse 5 (read it a long time ago but forgot), Dorian Grey, the Divine Comedy, the Metamorphosis, the Odyssey, Don Quixote (I believe you said the x like a sh ahah), Of Mice and Men, the Old Man and the Sea, Carrie And you indeed don't pronounce the s in "les" !
To be fair, I actually tried to properly read 1984 for a literature class, and it was the ONLY book for that class that I actually had to skip a huge chunk of in the middle because it was so beyond boring. What's funny is I read Animal Farm a few years later and I LOVED IT, so it's not like Orwell can't write, but you'd think he was being paid by the page like Dickens was if you read 1984. That man rambles more than an alpha dudebro on a podcast. I hated that book, most overrated thing I've ever read
Also to answer your question: 3 books I have to read before I die are Pride and Prejudice, The Bell Jar, and Hate List by Jennifer Brown. That last one is basically my S or House of Leaves - it's been sitting on my shelf staring at me in disappointment for like, 8 years. I'll be mad at myself if I never get around to it. Bonus: Good Omens. I see so many people engrossed in the show and I've been avoiding it like the plague so I can read the book
sarah j mass is an interesting choice, given how controversial she is! Id deffo read Frankenstein when you can, its such a good and speedy read. A Little Life is much more difficult like you said, but id avoid reading it if youre in a bad mental health space. My 3: Pride and Prejudice Anne Franks Diary All of Yuval Noah Harari
War and peace as number 1 took me out 😂😂😂
The way I BURST out laughing at S lmao I've been subscribed for yearssss and that book has always been on the TBR
It would be easier at this point to vow NOT to read it
@@LilyCReads10 Lmao we all have that one book that's been on the list since before our births
for Dracula, it being epistolary, I recommend using the website that sends you the letters via email throughout the year so you read them on the dates they are written and you read the whole novel over several months.
"Every now and then a classic will just call to me. Idk why. Maybe it's calling for help bc it's been on the TBR for probably like 5 years" lmaooo
We need more people like this telling us truth! Just finished reading Hidden Signs of the Universe by Olivia Cooper. Its fascinating what they hide from society
For books over 1,000 pages, I'd recommend reading it as an e-book. More comfortable to read for one, but also it makes it far less intimidating when you don't physically see all the unread pages.
100% agree on it being less intimidating
i actually love seeing all the unread pages and seeing my progress :D
Don Quick Oats and Napoleon Dynamite are killing me hahaha
Video idea: random nuber generator pucks a book from that list to read
Hey this is cool!!
Night Film is my favourite book ever and i found out about it through your channel ages ago haha
I'm excited for you to read Percy Jackson, you could smash them out so fast cos they're kids books. Also if you need any Brando Sando tips let me know. Mistborn is a good spot to start!
I finished my tbr this year so top 3 books before I die??? Idk probably some fantasy that I find intriguing? Don't make me panic.
I will defo be coming to you when i start sanderson's stuff 😅🙏
Girl give us a bookshelf tour!
Coming soon!
10:50 I wanna hear your review on ACOTAR lol
I've been watching your channel for a very long time and I just want to say that the personal growth you've had has been really great to watch. I appreciate that you can look back and call yourself out.
My books: 1984, The Road which has been on my shelf for ten years now, and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Thank you so much! I do wanna read some of Kazuo Ishiguro's books too, especially Klara and the Sun!
I literally just started The Remains of the Day!!
I think the best time of year for Dracula is July-August for you! You need the cold winter air and candles to get you in the mood
“Book blue balls” 🤣
i remember when you first talked about "S"!! i added it to my tbr and it's still there, too 😭😭😭
We're in this together 😂🔥
@@LilyCReads10 one day. we can do it, i believe!!!
Lily not having read S is just established at this point. It's not changing 😂😂The fact that you've lugged that gigantic book through moving is crazy
girl your list is basically my list 💀
every fantasy, classic and non fiction book you mentioned is on my shelf as well, even the diana and da vinci book HOW
Frankenstein is short, and good for any time of year IMO.
I'm excited to hear the On the Road story.
1. Anna Karenina
2. The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings
3. all of the original Grimms Brothers fairytales
My two biggest ones are The Book Thief and Frankenstein. I started reading TBT in high school and loved it immediately but I was in the biggest reading slump of a lifetime (lasted 3 years) and never made it past the first chapter. I’ve also been assigned Frankenstein at least twice for class and same thing happened. Started reading, liked it immediately, never got around to properly finishing. I feel like both of these will become instant favorites but their season just hasn’t rolled around yet.
i also want to read dracula so i decided to subscribe to the dracula daily newsletter next year and read it that way. it's going to take months but i think it's fun
Some great reading ahead! I hope you enjoy.
S is on my TBR for january! It just came in the mail last week.
My three to read before I die:
Matterhorn
Illuminaries
Master and Margarita
I would actually recommend les miserables over war and peace, it’s such a good book!
I read a lot of the classic books from your list about 2 years ago. My New Year’s resolution that year was to read one classic novel per week for an entire years now that I had a fully developed frontal lobe and stuff.
Some of them were absolutely phenomenal. I’d never heard of Steinbeck and started with Mice and Men. It spired me to read all his other books. One even won a novel price. Phenomenal writer! Jane Austen has been my favourite since I was a little girl. You’re going to LOVE her (I predict) as well as all the dystopians you mentioned. Oh and anything Dumas, especially The count of Monte Cristo.
However, some of them were such stinkers. I read everything by Charles Dickens including a tale of two cities. It was, in fact, shit. As you said, getting paid by the page. The man waffles, as my English teacher used to say. I read all his notable books and they were all…oh well. Lolita was kind of disappointing, because I really thought the vibe would be thriller-y and psychological. Like actually looking into the head of a pedo. In the end he was just a sad sack of shit honestly 😂
Some other notable stinkers were Dorian Grey (will get crucified for it, don’t care), Don Quixote (first was okay the second was ridiculous even for its own standard) and Moby Dick, my arch nemesis. Not on your list but it had to be said.
Bonus: if you read handmaidens tale, definitely get the prequel. It was published a few years ago after a 15 year hiatus and I almost loved it even more than the original. It will literally leave you questioning everything you felt during the first. One of m faves indeed.
“If you give me a list of 100, I’m gonna block you.” 😂😂
I have the same copy of The DaVinci Notebooks and LOTR! Also, Salem's Lot is so expensive i had to download it from Internet Archive.
House of Leaves and Dracula are my two faves of all time
1. The Woman in Black
2. The Humans
3. The Handmaid’s Tale
I really like books starting with “The” 🤔
I have my pen & paper ready ... War & Peace ... okay, wasn't expecting that one.
You have some Fat Tomes on this list. You are ambitious.
I have an S on my TBR shelf too.
Water for Elephants was so good. Lolita is a beautifully written book.
I want to finish - My Fat Tomes List
1) reading all of 11 Larry Brown's books (next up is A Miracle Of Catfish) Finished Joe, Fay, The Rabbit Factory & Dirty Work (about 2100+ pages)
2) XX by Rian Hughes (992 pages)
C) Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann - just because (1022 pages)
Love your face
Those books are huge! You better get crackin'
@@LilyCReads10 oh no, can you see my future ?!?!?! am I running out of time 😂
Loved your note on the old man and the sea. Same goes for 100 years of solitude, I think. I don't know anyone that read it and didn't feel a deep empty void of pure boredom page after page after page. In fact, I don't know anyone that could finish it for that same reason. A must read before you die classic, though.
I finished the Percy Jackson series this year!
That's awesome!!
Yes please read game of thrones ❤ some of them I also have on my tbr. Please Steinbeck books are of my favorites
1. In search of lost time(!)
2. Anna Karenina
3. David Copperfield
I’ve also had House of Leaves on my shelf for years 😅 I do absolutely recommend Night Film! Very trippy, very fun
My three books are
The Alphabet series by Sue Grafton (has to be on my deathbed because the fact we will never get Z will drive me insane)
Like you, The Stormlight Archive
And my third I have no idea
Hi Lily, This is the first time I land on your channel, and I nearly died laughing. It does take a lot effort to read classics like "War and Peace" and "Les Miserables", but it's worth it. It's like exercise. At first you think there's no way you'll be able to run a 10km race, but if you build your resistance you discover that it's easier than you thought. You have a great personality.
Our lists are very similar and I've read a few of the ones you mentioned. I will say there are some that I absolutely hated in the case of rich dad poor dad and the stormlight achieves. I would suggest looking into some historical novels. There are actually a lot of interesting ones and my favorites the Soong Dystany by Sterling Seagrave. It is my favorite book ever. The Barbizon is one I typically would not pick up but it was also amazing and if you ever thought about reading the Bell Jar, well the author of the Bell Jar is in the Barbizon and it goes through her life as a young woman in NYC.
lol... i would like to think I'm that girl who would WANT to read War and Peace before I die, but I have accepted that I am not that girl, and I don't actually have any interest in reading it. lol
Can't pick top 3 books but these are the three series I MUST read before dying.
1. Lord of the Rings
2. Discworld
3. The Wheel of Time
girl your outro is so loud it jumpscares me every time😭
also currently have had house of leaves, dracula and frankenstein on my nightstand for ages now, they Will be read someday ...
Gotta keep you all on your toes haha
Awesome list!
Loved Frankenstein and Dracula, but I would say it’s not for everyone. Curious to hear your thoughts on it.
I’d swap Great Expectations for A Tale of Two Cities for Dickens… word count notwithstanding it’s actually enjoyable! And for Hemingway, too bad you didn’t read The Sun Also Rises instead. It was his first novel, and such a stark contrast in every good way to The Old Man. And finally, you MUST read A Movable Feast by him! 😊
war and peace at number 1 is... a choice lol
as for mine: anna karenina (actually a reread because I was 16 the last time I read it), emma, and wuthering heights
If it makes you feel better I put house of leaves on my tbr after seeing you talk about it ages ago and I also still have not read it 😅
Thank you! ❤
Your commentary about The Old Man and the Sea 😂 For real though my eyes started getting heavy every time I picked it up.
JR by William Gaddis, and Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon are near the top of the list for me.
i started reading the mortal intruments because i want to read all the shadowhunter trilogies before the last trilogy comes out, i mean the final book is going to be called the last shadowhunter
the fear i have that social media has ruined my atttention span to read all the great classics i wanna read before i bite the dust :/
@@Boonicopter try audiobooks, especially in combination with a physical activity like chores or working out or something like that. To me, reading isn’t the act itself, but the process of getting the info into your head and processing it, working with it, have it change and shape you etc. whether you sit your ass down and read it or have someone read it to you, changes nothing, in the grand scheme of things. Physical activity just helps keep the brain more engaged, at least to me. I listened to 52 classic books in one year because I work out every day so that was at least 1h of „reading“ (1,5x speed too) a day 😊
It really depends on the classic imo, I started reading a few this year after having been too mentally exhausted by my degree to bother with any 'serious' books these past few years. Wuthering Heights was a surprisingly easy read, easier for me than the Bell Jar (which I know is a bit more of a 'modern' classic, but still). Everyone has their classics that they found enjoyable and their classics that are hard to get through. Read the ones that interest you, and DNF the ones that don't
Then you should read Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport first :) I did the 30-day challenge and it finally cured me from wasting my time on YT
It's not forever lost, attention is a muscle :)
The nightingale, outlander and rebecca are three i can think i’d need to read before i die
still wishing for that bookshelf tour
Pleeease do 'a song of ice and fire' aka Game of thrones marathon series 😅😅. Your HP marathon actually got me to read the books
Very strong list with some quite chunky books on it but I think it's doable. I've got over 3000 books on my TBR but my 3 books I wanna read before I die would be..
1. Ana Karenina
2. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell
3. The Covenant of water
Because they are hugeeee 😮😢😢😢
Don Quixote is absolutely my number one, but god, it’s huge (and old)
I think you could make a video- reading the books that have been waiting for me 10 years 😂 me too with the poor waiting books though mine are half read multiple times haha
Great list
7:00 totally fair 😂😂😂😂😅😅😅 I started that book before I heard he hadn’t published the next in the series in like a decade 😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅
I read Metamorphosis… dude it’s so short but also, sooooo weird. Definitely get. Commentary to read with it 😂😂
I love S and House of Leaves
I wanna read the Redwall series.
What equipment/software do you use
Final Cut & i just film everything on my Canon G7xii since it's easier
lmaooo not S 😂
i was listening to the video while i clean and i thought you said one piece as #1😭😭😭😭
I bought A Christmas Carol, so I could read it at Christmas. But that was 4 Christmases ago and it remains unread.
Hey Glow!
I read Dracula before going to Romania and I was so disappointed 😬 same for Frankenstein, I found both of them crazy boring, not scary at all, didn't like the characters (don't kill me for this please)
I also didn't like Night Circus (dnf, it was just too long and the universe would have worked better in short stories), the Handmaid's Tale, Kafka on the Shore, Cujo
Okay, to not sound like a hater, here are some books from the list I did like: Golden Compass (child me was hauling around a plushie pretending it was my daemon), the first Discworld, want to read the rest, loved Fahrenheit 451, Percy Jackson, GOT, the Hitchhiker's Guide, IT (just ignore the sewer scene)
I also want to read LOTR, Slaughterhouse 5 (read it a long time ago but forgot), Dorian Grey, the Divine Comedy, the Metamorphosis, the Odyssey, Don Quixote (I believe you said the x like a sh ahah), Of Mice and Men, the Old Man and the Sea, Carrie
And you indeed don't pronounce the s in "les" !
and i’m ripped…
To be fair, I actually tried to properly read 1984 for a literature class, and it was the ONLY book for that class that I actually had to skip a huge chunk of in the middle because it was so beyond boring. What's funny is I read Animal Farm a few years later and I LOVED IT, so it's not like Orwell can't write, but you'd think he was being paid by the page like Dickens was if you read 1984. That man rambles more than an alpha dudebro on a podcast. I hated that book, most overrated thing I've ever read
Also to answer your question: 3 books I have to read before I die are Pride and Prejudice, The Bell Jar, and Hate List by Jennifer Brown. That last one is basically my S or House of Leaves - it's been sitting on my shelf staring at me in disappointment for like, 8 years. I'll be mad at myself if I never get around to it. Bonus: Good Omens. I see so many people engrossed in the show and I've been avoiding it like the plague so I can read the book
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Lily please read My year of rest and relaxation 🥹🥹
sarah j mass is an interesting choice, given how controversial she is!
Id deffo read Frankenstein when you can, its such a good and speedy read. A Little Life is much more difficult like you said, but id avoid reading it if youre in a bad mental health space.
My 3:
Pride and Prejudice
Anne Franks Diary
All of Yuval Noah Harari