My Top 10 Books Of 2023!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- The top 10 fiction books I read this year, plus some bonus cat footage at the end. Let me know if you are a fan of any of these books!
00:00 general waffle
01:05 10th
04:33 9th
07:24 8th
11:21 7th
14:17 6th
18:55 5th
21:45 4th
26:06 3rd
29:23 2nd
32:22 1st
37:42 cats
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Love a top ten, so many classics 💪
I LOVE the Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,
-(lol got interrupted by children) -
I loved the epistol style, made you feel part of the group and I love the lady who loved the Bronte's and Austin. Such a gorgeous bookfull of heart! 💜📚
So glad I found your channel! I love how you are just chatting about your favorite books… no fancy editing and camera tricks… reminds me of how TH-cam used to be… I will definitely be consuming more of your content and checking out your recommendations 😉
Thanks! I've always tended to prefer less fancy channels myself, plus I don't want it to ever feel like a job ,more like a chat haha.
Some absolute icons in here, you had a best of the best sort of year!
Roadside Picnic sounds brilliant, they're authors I've heard are my sort of weird over and over, but never get to picking up.
I've also read and loved Foster this year. Such a quiet, yet impactful work, a fantastic example of minimalist writing. I'm still waffling if it will make the cut for my tops this year tho.
I look forward to your top 10! I think anyone who is a fan of classic sci-fi would enjoy Roadside Picnic, in the SF Masterworks edition Le Guin writes the introduction!
Hi Aaron, i have finally made it over to your channel. I don't think i have watched a video before where i have been convinced to read every single book! 😂 this was such a brilliant video, cosy chat about books you love and you explain them so well what it is that works for you and made them stand out 💜📚 hope you have a brilliant 2024
oh my wasFoster a favorite of mine, too. It really packs a punch. You’ve convinced me to get to My Antonia, finally!
It's a lovely book, it seems really progressive toward non-english speaking immigrants too, compared to modern day anyway.
Fab TBR really nice mix of genre's 💜📚
Seeing you on Shawn's bitesize video made me come and subscribe. Love the mix of things you read and how you talk about them. For example the way you describe the joys of Middlemarch is wonderful. Eliot is one of the few authors I have chosen to read every novel they wrote. I'd say read her first, Adam Bede next.
Thanks Ros! I am slowly collecting Eliot's books now, I still need to find Bede.
I agree with you that the general public is most often shite at picking good books. I find myself allergic to popular modern books for this reason
They always have been I suspect, but time filters out all the rubbish ones ... mostly.
Ooh I like you. Great choices and chat, and a couple of cats into the bargain. Subbed!
Thanks!
@@AaronReadABook You're welcome. I would be interested in a video on your fave humourous British novels / authors.
@@TaraAmritGood idea!
Sounds like a great year! I love Jane Eyre. I read it so many times as a teen. I just recently read Foster. Claire Keegan is an interesting author. The books are so short but they have a sticking power in my head.
My secret to a good year seems to be lots of Victorians! Have you read any other Charlotte Brontë?
@@AaronReadABook I have not! I may need to try another soon 😊
Your cats! ❤❤❤
They are nice little fellas!
Beautiful cats! 😻 always lovely to see top tens full of back list books and you have some corkers in North and South and Middlemarch. Mary Barton is another fantastic Gaskell and for Eliot I have a soft spot in my heart for Silas Marner and read Adam Bede this year and loved that too!
Thanks Jo! Silas Marner is the one I have in the post so hopefully I will get to that soon. I'll keep an eye out for Mary Barton.
Great list!
Thanks Summer!
I am a big character reader. I love my fave Bronte is Tennent of Wildfell Hall, but Jane is welloverdue a re-read as an adult. I Will now be thinking of tje plot pacing!
Really want to read Gaskin, want to read some more classics this year and North and South, and George Elliot's MiddleMarch, have both been on my list! You have pushed them up!
Also your 3rd book sounds beautiful, it gives me goodnight Mr Tom Vibes. If i ca get it from my library that will actually fit a prompt i need for the Bootcamp Readathon (book under 100pgs) 😃💜📚
I never read Goodnight Mr Tom, maybe I need to! If you like characters read the cazalet chronicles!
@AaronReadABook Goodnight Mister Tom is such a beautiful book of two lost souls finding the joy in life again.
I think I watched a BBC drama years ago about the Cazalets and remember enjoying it!
It's on my list now don't worry...although there is slot on the list 😬💜📚
Couldn’t agree more on your top three picks! Happy holidays!
Thanks Shawn, happy holidays to you too!
I love the Cazalet Chronicles, but for some reason I didn’t finish the last book. It was never a hard DNF, though, and I plan to read/reread the whole series in 2024. I’m listening to the audiobook of Jane Eyre, which is I think my 5th reading of it. I love Jane, but I am not fond of either of her love interests. The book is one of my all-time favorites. I love Crooked House, too. Middlemarch and Foster are both great, despite both doing very different things. Keegan has a real talent for making the reader care enormously for her characters, even in so few pages. I’m not sure why, but North and South doesn’t do it for me. It isn’t a bad novel, but I found it hard to really connect with the characters. I prefer Wives and Daughters and Cranford. I love watching everyone’s end of year lists. This was great since your tastes are so eclectic. I’ve avoided the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for the same reasons you were skeptical, but maybe I should give it a go.
If I'm 100% honest with myself, the 5th book is not at the same level as the first 4. It was written a long time after and she was 90 when it came out so not that surprising. I think Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the only Bronte I've read where the love interest is actually a decent person. Jane Eyre seems to always get on people's lists.
Oh! Also, I ordered a copy of the first Wexford book so I hopefully will read that at some point.
Happy to see lots of love for the Victorian novels :D I feel like I really should read Foster! I love your channel. All the best in 2024! :)
Thanks! I don't usually like really short books too so Foster is unusual for me, also explains all the chunky Victorian books on my list.
I was so excited to see this pop up! I'm joining a science fiction book club this year so we'll see if I get more into sci fi or not lol. I picked up North and South when I was in the UK but still need to get to it!
Science fiction book club is cool, do you know if it's all new stuff or older stuff too?
You have a great list. I read Foster this year and I also loved it. And your Victorian books are some of my favorites as well. The addition of the cats was fun to. The first one with the shorter fur looks very similar to my cat.
I've had a great reading year, especially for Victorians, I think it's probably my favourite era. I love cats and I'm not allowed them in my flat so nice to catsit now and then!
Fun list Aaron! Middlemarch was a favorite for me too.
I was planning to read North and South this month, but never managed to get to it. I have a feeling I will love it.
I hope you will have you read any other Gaskell? I'm going to read all her stuff now. Cranford is a cozy village novel!
@@AaronReadABook Oh yes, I read and loved Cranford and Wives and Daughters. I am also trying to read more by her!
Got Middlemarch on my to be read list. Best wishes in 2024.
Will be interested to see your thoughts on it, it certainly seems to divide.
I have Jane Eyre and Middlemarch on my to read list for 2024 so great to hear how much you enjoyed them
Everyone seems to especially love Jane Eyre, so I'm sure you will enjoy!
@@AaronReadABook yeah it is my wife's favourite so hoping I love it 🤞🏻
so many greats books!! I've read and loved some of them (Foster is in my top 3 this year) and others I got this year because I need to read them, especially Roadside Picnic and Middlemarch.
Glad to see all the Foster fans, it seems like it came out of nowhere a bit as it's quite old now.
I enjoyed the potato peel pie society when I read it many moons ago, the film was great too.
Yay for north & south 😊
Jane Eyre made my list a couple of years ago. Not sure that Villette will though.
It's amazing how Claire Keegan gets on the best books list with these tiny novels! I have her other book on my shelf but haven't read it yet.
I'd like to try Willa Katha.
Just not sure if I could try middlemarch or not!
I'm so glad the light years was your number 1, I'm really excited to start the series next year 😊
I would say Middlemarch is much more like the Russian classics than other British Victorians, especially Tolstoy. It's really hard to know if people are going to like it or not. I have Villette so that might be a 2024 read for me, although it doesn't seem to be a favourite of most people.