books i MUST read in 2024 - TBR 📚
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
- Here are the books i MUST read in 2024, and they are from both classic and contemporary writers!
Hi friends!
I'd love to know which books are on your 2024 TBR, so feel free to share them in a comment!
Sending you my warmest wishes,
Carolyn Marie :)
Chapters:
Intro - 00:00
The Winners - 01:02
Hamnet - 02:26
Beartown (synopsis) - 03:32
So Late in the Day - 04:16
A Pale View of Hills - 05:50
Galatea - 06:57
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea - 07:57
The Book of Disquiet - 09:02
The Queen of Spades - 09:58
If Beale Street Could Talk - 10:57
A Passage to India - 11:36
East of Eden - 12:33
Game of Tomes - 13:06
Outro - 13:59
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East of Eden is so good and so readable! I think people are intimidated by the size but it truly is not a slog in any way.
its also on my tbr for 2024 after my friend recommended it , I'm excited
I read it in January 2023 and I agree, it's very fast paced and quite easy to read. I'm still thinking about the characters!
It's an amazing book...I can't desperately want to reread this one! This world is just filled with so many amazing books and not enough time to read them all!
You are so right! I'm re-reading at the minute.
I read it last year and it was one of my favorites of the year!!
Your enthusiasm for, and commitment to, literature is infectious.
🥹🤍
This year I really wanna read:
- David Copperfield
- The Hobbit + The Lord of the Rings
- Robinson Crusoe
- The Scarlet Letter
I'm currently reading East of Eden. It's such a beautiful book and not difficult to read at all. The writing is very evocative, and there are so many layers to it. It might end up being one of my all time favorites
You’re making me want to read it right now 😂😊
East of Eden is my favorite American novel, it’s incredible. The Book of Disquiet will also speak to anyone who has some darkness in them, those of melancholic disposition will gain a lot.
Thank you for including the book titles in the description! 🙂😁
You inspired me to make this year the year of the big books for me and I even intentionally set my Goodreads goal lower to not get tempted to read smaller books. I started this year with War and Peace and I’m less than a week away from finishing it. This was the best move ever. Apart from just enjoying the book it has taken away all my fear of those tomes and I’m now fully energized to get to the other heavy volumes. Next up is also Count of Monte Christo for me. Then the Brothers Karamazov. East of Eden is also on my TBR, but still have to see if I’m in the mood. Also tempted to re-read Crime and Punishment and Anna Karenina which I read 20 years ago and loved, will see if I’m still in the mood for Russian classics come spring and summer.
Amazing!!
I find your videos so calming! Something about your soothing voice and how you’re not bothered by anything. Thank you! 🙏🏽
I believe in you Carolyn, we (in this I include myself because that book scares me too) are going to read East of Eden in 2024, I solemnly swear!
Pinky promise!
My 2024 goal is to buy a kindle! I wanna read the poppy war and gideon the 9th series, but I don't wanna own the physicals. I tried reading on my phone but is really not ideal so I'm hoping to get a kindle so i can read more series💞
East of Eden is a must read ! I love that book.
So happy to hear that!
Hamnet is probably my favorite book of all time. It is so good.
So glad to hear that!
Hi, I can't thank you enough for talking about small things like these, it was so beautifully written and oh God I love the ending, thanks ❤️ a huge fan of you😍
I am so so excited to hear your thoughts on Mishima!! Classic Japanese literature just hits a certain part of the heart
The Queen of Spades, and East of Eden are on my absolute must read for 2024! Also included are James Baldwin's Go Tell it on the Mountain which has been sitting on my shelf, The Brothers Karamazov, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, To Kill a Mockingbird (very ashamed I haven't read that yet), and Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf. Happy reading!
i looooved Hamnet!!!! Its sooooo good
My observations on a couple of these books: East of Eden is fabulous. One of the best of 20th century American literature. Also, not a very challenging read. You will not regret doing this in 2024. 5* on Goodreads
Mishima’s book is also very good.
Trigger Warning for animal cruelty. One tough to read scene. Feel free to skim those few pages (I think I skimmed a bit there). But a very enjoyable read. 4* on Goodreads
Omg so many of my favourite books are on here! The Winners, Hamnet, A Passage to India and If Beale Street Could Talk! 💛 thus year I want to read Another Country by James Baldwin, How to be both by Ali Smith, The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, and Crime and Punishment by Dostojevski
All these books sound so interesting! Lovely video 😊
I avoided East of Eden for several years because I started it once and did not like it so I dnfed. But last year I decided I had to try again and it ended up being my favorite book of the year. Keep your promise to yourself and take the time to read it this year.
This year, I have planned to read East of Eden, Hamnet, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, Kafka on the Shore, Rebecca, Crime and Punishment, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Great Expectations and The Hungry Tide.
I like the variety in your list! The in-depth video I would love to see is your short list of favourite children's books based on their illustrations/illustrators (and how they highlight the story with their depiction and technique)--maybe you could add how you approach illustrating to advance your story-telling?🧡
Thx Carolyn. It's good to see you, and I'm looking forward to this year's Game of Tomes. I read Count of Monte Cristo about two years ago so it's a reread for me but I'm making good, steady progress. Three of the six are re-reads for me, but ofc I'm interested in the other three, particularly the Murakami, who comes highly recommended.
OMG, CAROLYN! East of Eden is also on MY TBR list! It's been there for about four years now, but it is still just sitting on my shelf as I type this! I love that you said something similar in the video. Also, another book that I have decided is a MUST read is Anna Karenina ... totally because you love it so much. It has inspired me to read it as well. You inspired me! I am currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo and I am loving it! I have to say that it makes one of my most favorite books of all time right now. Even though I have only finished about a quarter of the book. I keep wanting to talk to people in my life (family and friends) about this beautiful amazing book, but nobody wants to listen to me "rattle on" about it. ughhh....
Your editing of the blooper at the beginning was perfection! So glad that you and the books were unharmed. I am most excited to read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke this year. I recently found a used copy in great condition at a local bookstore, and I felt like I’d struck gold! 🤩
I want to read The Hobbit, Demon Copperhead, Vanity Fair, and War and Peace….and so many more! I read 10 books in January thus far! My goal for this year is to read books that have been on my shelves forever. I love your channel and want to read every book you describe so eloquently!
For classics, my goal is to read The Picture of Dorian Gray and Little Women. Never read either of them but I always hear such good reviews. I’m already halfway through Picture of Dorian Gray (after starting it 2x before and never getting past 2 chapters) so that’s a good sign!
A lot of the books I feel I must read are super long so I have to consider narrowing it down to books I feel confident I can finish.
On my list are ALL those on your book club list and to finish War and Peace (currently 1/2 done).
Love ALL your recommendation so keep them coming!
So late in the day isn’t a short story collection, it’s just one story, it’s about a man that is thinking back on his actions and the result of those actions. ❤
Ps Eric from the lonesome reader channel is doing a passage to India as part of his book club for February x
Ohhh okay! Thank you for letting me know :)
❤ ah no problem, I think she does have another short story collection called walk the blue fields, thats why you might of thought this was one too x
I would've joined you if you had decided to read East of Eden for Game of Tomes. You will not regret reading it! It's amazing.
Yes! If Beale Street Could Talk is such a great book....I still havn't decided which one I like best: this one or Giovanni's Room. Looking forward to hear what you thought about it!
I have about ten, but the most important one is David Copperfield.🤞🏻
wishing you a good reading year Carolyn, and glad to see you're still reading The Winners haha! personally this year I need to read more Steinbeck too, most likely East Of Eden. I also need to finish my Salinger short story collections, and my final must reads are Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar and The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco!
Hamnet is already on my bookshelf, you've just got me so much more excited to read it! Some of the novels on my tbr this year is the second half of the 'Seven Sisters' series, Sense & Sensibility and 'Saint Anything' by Sarah Dessen 🥰
The Winners is on my list too. I loved the first two!
❤📚❤️ I have Hamnet and Galatea and look forward to hearing your reviews. I have read East of Eden and really liked it.
Just put together my February reads...
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. The Tenderness of Wolves Stef Penney and Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. The winter feels. ❄️❄️❄️
Hamnet is delightful!
I’m in the middle of East of Eden and it is so so so good. The characters are so interesting and it’s filled with diverse themes. It’s a work of art. I’m also listening to the audio book occasionally and I am so focused on the story. I often daydream easily, so audiobooks can be hard.
Amazing to hear!!!
as an indian, i feel happy to see you read a passage to india!! i myself havent read it but maybe this year (?) i am so excited~~ !!!!
Oh Carolyn, I hope you love East of Eden. I'm re-reading it at the minute.
What a great selection of books, Carolyn! The books on my want to/must read list include books by and about Jane Austen, the Brontës, and Virginia Woolf…a tall order, with many incidental books along the way (including Edith Wharton books, one of which, Ethan Frome, I am reading now).
Ah cool, I have Hamnet on the list this year.
A Pale View of Hills is SO GOOD!!
Loved Winners as I did all of the Beartown series, I can't wait for you to read East of Eden an all time favorite of mine.
Thanks for your recommendations. Finished Anna Karenina a few weeks ago, presently reading The Mount of Monte Cristo. Looking forward to the discussion.
I read _Galatea_ last year and it was a very disturbing short story yet beautifully written !!
The Book of Disquiet sounds quite intriguing, as does the late author! I was not familiar with this title, so thank you! I still feel guilty that I am an outlier who didn’t care for East of Eden 😢, but look forward to your review!
Loved Beartown, I also hope to read the rest of the trilogy this year and more of Backman, he’s also one of my favorite writers.
I have way too many books on my bucket list that I want to read, so I don't have the time to re-read any of my favorites, but if I were to make an exception it would be East of Eden. It's a masterpiece, and I would bet money that you will absolutely love it.
I picked up Walk the Blue Fields after also discovering Claire Keegan last year, and it also has such intense and shocking subject matter! Good to have the warning for Antarctica. Will spread them out
I LOVE this girl
A Passage to India is one of my favourite ever books, if not number one! I am hoping to read East of Eden, too
East of Eden is on my 2024 tbr, too. I loved Passage to India and If Beale Street Could Talk. I am really eager to complete Trollope's Palliser series this year and have already started the first book, Can You Forgive Her.
The Winners is amazing. I also love Fredrik Backman.
Books I plan to read:
James Baldwin - Giovanni’s Room
Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Journey to the End of the Night
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
Annie Ernaux - The Years
Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Lea Ypi - Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Tyson Yunkaporta - Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (Non-Fiction)
out of a 50 book tbr list, on top of my head Malaparte's Kaput, Cortazar's Hopscotch, Kobo Abe's Woman in the Dunes, and re-read Pynchon's Against the day
The amount of times you drop books in your videos is impressive. 😂😂😂 I will be adding a couple of these to my list, so thank you. 😊
It’s time you read Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity. Don’t worry, I’ll remind you again of this great book.😊
Here are my top 3 classics of 2023 with highest recommendation to read:
1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
2. The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig
3. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
(a modern classic)
Five stars books!!!
I also want to read The Winners this year, while the other two Beartown books are somewhat fresh in my mind.
i just finished hamnet this month, it was amaaaazing. East of Eden is also on my 2024 tbr!!
So glad to hear that!
East Eden the best book ever written. I love it so much.
So glad to hear!
I am really enjoying The Count of Monte Cristo, I don't know know why I put it off so long. I also recently purchased a used copy of A Passage to India at my local bookstore, and I am really looking forward to it.
Lol, I knew it was east of Eden the minute you started blushing 😂😂😂💗. I'm rereading East of Eden for January and February alongside the GOT pick Monte Cristo. And I also have If Beale Street Could Talk on my tbr this year.
😂🙈 Amazing!
Hamnet is also on my list this year, as well as Klara and the Sun and The Anthropocene Reviewed among others. I also want to read Franny and Zooey because I loved The Catcher in the Rye so much last year that I want to read more Salinger.
The books that I HAVE TO read this year are:
The Woman in White (I'm already close to finishing it)
The Ladies Delight by Emile Zola
Short story collection by Nikolai Gogol
The Tempest and Midsummer Night's Dream by W. Shakespeare
Olympio: The Life of Victor Hugo by Andre Maurois
Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
Emily Wilde's Map of Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell
I'm a native Russian speaker and I'm really happy that you like Pushkin. I also recommend The Squire's Daughter by him. It's a really fun and romantic short story.
girl, you don't know how many time the crash from the beginning has happened to me when trying to capture a thumbnail hahaha
as always - loved the video. this channel really brings me too much comfort
So glad I’m not the only one!
Aw thank you 😊 I’m very happy to know that!
Ooo yay!! It’s a heart breaker and a heart mender 🤍
So far in 2024 I've finished reading Dubliners by James Joyce (my first read of his work) and Wuthering Heights. The latter of which I had started in October for book of tomes, but took me a lot longer to finished. Really liked Dubliners and loooooved Wuthering Heights.
Now I'm onto reading The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli. Enjoying it so far.
On my tbr for this year are Dune (and maybe Dune Messiah), Interview With the Vampire, A Clockwork Orange, Song of Achilles, a reread of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, A Gentleman in Moscow and finishing I am a Cat by Natsume Soseki.
I plan to read mainly nonfiction this year and audiobook some fiction. Manacled is my first audiobook of the year (I am on Chapter 55) . I finished my first book of the year, How to Lie with Statistics. I've started #2', The Death of Expertise. Hoping to exceed last year's total of 18 books. Thanks for the video!!!
If Beale Street Could Talk is very good, Carolyn. Hope you like it. I also want to read East of Eden, Passage to India and The Book of Disquiet.
I think I'd like to read Anna Karenina this year, thanks to you. I was really interested when I heard you and others call it like a classic love story; I've never read one before!
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, and Stephen King's On Writing are my other must-reads for this year.
Ahhh so exciting!
Best of luck getting to James Baldwin. If Beale Street Could Talk might be the most interesting of his major works. The Barry Jenkins adaptation was (at least in my opinion) the best film of 2018. It's very romantic. It's also heartbreaking.
Ah I need this today! Thank you so much Carolyn!! Books that I really want to read this year are : Dantes inferno. Stephen Fry's Mythos. Madeline millers song of Achilles. Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. Alice Oseman's solitaire. Tolkkeins the Hobbit. And Gwen and art are not in love 😊
Aw I hope you enjoyed it! You have such amazing book ahead of you 😊
Yes, I guessed it! It WILL happen !
It will!!
I'm late to the game, but I plan to read Murakami and brush up on some poetry.
I need to read more Virginia Woolf this year!
Knew immediately you had The Winners on the list because it’s on my list too! As someone who never buys hardback books I bought it thinking I’d read it asap, but I keep waiting for the perfect moment haha. And now the soft cover is out and I have yet to pick up my copy. I can’t keep putting it off 😅
I relate to this very much 😂
I love Steinbeck's writing, but am ashamed to say I've never read East of Eden, so I just bought it to read soon! Also want to read Mrs Dalloway, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Lonesome Dove and Blood Meridian - amongst many others XD
New writers for me I'd like to read are - Ocean Vuong, Joan Didion, Claire Keegan and Max Porter.
After months I just finished The Count of Monte Cristo. I read the book to page 600 and something and then I finished it on a free audiobook on TH-cam. I loved it, however I will never read another book with more than 1,000 pages again.
I just finished Norwegian Wood by Murakami. I went to the bookstore the day after and bought like five of his books 😊
I swear I thought about The winners when I clicked the video. Beartown series it’s my favourite, so sad it’s over 😢 ❤❤
Your hair is so pretty!
Aw thank you!
Merci beaucoup. I have read with meaning and passion 'The Count of Monte Cristo' by Dumas, the French-African son of Napoleon's great General. I know about the life of Pushkin in some admired detail; but only two of his poems; So I am keen to read Pushkin with you and the rest of our fine book club I've socially savored a couple years now as I recall; certainly a little while. Books are great! Discussion is democracy!
I wanted to finish The Grapes of Wrath this year, but I might read East of Eden instead. I also want to read The Way of Kings by Sanderson, Love in The Time of Cholera, Dune, The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune, and My Antonia by Willa Cather.
The Beartown series is fabulous. It definitely took me a while to finish The Winners. What other Backman books do you recommend.
East of Eden was my top book of 2023 (out of 36) and a new favorite
So happy to hear that!
My goal is to read all Claire Keegan books. I loved Foster, So Late in the Day and Small Things Like These. I’m also 100 pages into the Count of Monte Christo which means I have at least 1000 pages to go. ☺️
Seconding a lot of the comments here… East of Eden is a terrific book! You will love it, I’m sure! My tbr includes:
The peregrine
The savage detectives
Crime and punishment
Of love and other demons
Monkey king and Don Quixote!
I have the same copy of East of Eden that is currently unread on my shelf. I'll read it if you do.
I have The Beartwon Trilogy on my nightstand so I can begin and end every day by sending my love to these books. Fredrik Backman must have been touched with fairy dust because he definitely enchanted me. 🤭 I still haven't touched The Winners for one reason only: I don't want this story to end! Never... Ever... 💖
I feel the same way!
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I would love to get in Les Misérables in this year. I've been wanting to read this book forever, so my 2024 goal is to read this classic.
So late in the day is wonderful, you will not be disappointed. I would like to recommend two books i have recently read which i found excellent: educated by Tara Westover and also dear Mrs Bird by A J Pearce
Hi Carolyn, I just "found you" and you're so darling! (I love your voice) I've viewed several videos and I was wondering, how fast do you read? You takes notes or make comments in the book, this has to slow you down! I love to read but I'm not fast so these tome books will take me awhile! 😊. Thank you for your videos...keep your beautiful outlook on life!
ive been putting off reading the winners bc I don’t want it to end either 😢😢😢 frederik backman is incredible
So glad you understand 🥹
I just got to halfway through the count of monte cristo (finally 😮💨🥳) and I'm loving it! and it's funny because I'm both very excited and sad for getting closer and closer to the ending 😅🫠🥲
I feel the same way! 🥹
I am going to read War and Peace this year.
Ahhh so exciting!
I wanna read east of Eden
Hamnet was the last book I read last year and I think it became one of my favorites of all time, I think about it all the time, I loved it so much. Also, I bought East of Eden last year so I really want to read it this year.
Amazing!
Yes! Also, I have a bunch of Fredrik Blackman books to read (recommended by you 🤭)
Hey Carolyn! As someone who studies translation and interpreting at uni, I admire when you mentioned the translators of the books as well. I believe that a good translation is a work of art itself. Thank you for what you do, it's somehow calming to just listen to you talking about books :) your videos brighten my days❤
Top most book on my '24 TBR is The Secret History by Donna Tart, followed by Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. I desperately need to stop putting off those books!