The 10 BEST BOOKS I read in 2023
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books talked about in order
it’s actually called a season in hell :)
@@2wicebittten oh shit, thanks SM for correcting me xx
It's Goethe's erotic poems :) if you didn't know him please check him out, one of Germanys most important poets 🫶🏻
@@Sophie-lf9zn thanks, I had absolutely no idea how to spell it lol. I am planning on reading some of his work, it sounds so good
Thank you 🥰❤️❤️❤️
my top ten (in no specific order):
-autobiography of red by anne carson
-a girl is a half formed thing by eimear mcbride
-petersburg tales by nikolai gogol
-the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson
-the collector by john fowles
-crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky
-a spy in the house of love by anaïs nin
-children of paradise by camilla grudova
-i burn paris by bruno jasieński
- and lastly a collection of tales by franz kafka
The collector was the first book i read in 2024, i loved it
it's phenomenal! @@Marina.999
what a list ~
@@apocalypsereading7117 is this a compliment?
@@ilvy5285 very much so =)
the books -
1. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (1:42)
2. Betty Blue by Philippe Dijan (5:01)
3. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson (7:02)
4. A Spy in the House of Love by Anaïs Nin (9:30)
5. Mrs. S by K Patrick (11:13)
6. De Profundis by Oscar Wilde (13:18)
7. A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud (15:09)
8. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (17:29)
9. Erotic Poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe translated by David Luke (19:45)
10. Walk Through Walls by Marina Abramović (21:17)
So absurd that I was scouring the Internet for literature recommendations and I not only found them, but I also found an individual whose pure essence and demeanour just captivates and calms me. She needs to make a podcast.
Watch her video before this one 🤭
The Sofia Coppola Archive in the background 😍😍
missed you Dakota, hopefully 2024 is glorious for all of us
my top 10 books:
- a girl is a half formed thing by eimear mcbride
- the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde
- bunny by mona awad
- lolita by vladimir nabokov
- hamnet by maggie o-farrell
- normal people by sally rooney (i finally caved in and read it and it turned out to be wonderful)
- the goldfinch by donna tartt
- play it as it lays by joan didion
- the virgin suicides by jeffery eugenides
- bonjour tristesse by francoise sagan
You’re taste is so aesthetic, I love it!
What an immaculate taste!!
I love this list !.I've read all but 2 of these and loved them 🙂
We don’t exist to pay financial debt.
0ur lashes are the silk from spider stars.
0ur neurons taught our hearts to lose their breath;
a thing in which no tax deserves remark.
If only Anne beheaded Henry first,
she might’ve known his castle was her own.
The servants of a haunted mansion Earth
realize they’re cotton-candy-cobweb souls.
It was you lifting Louis’s severed head.
It is you that deserves to live for free;
you blink the way a butterfly descends-
-the slaves can finally pursue their dreams.
Now, chose freedom instead of some career.
Our fingers must remember Louis’s hair.
My name is Nicholas Leonard, and this is a sonnet that I wrote.
Thank you this was beautiful
I read a girl is a half formed thing this year based on your recommendation and a book has never broken me quite like that. I wept at the end, I was inconsolable and my boyfriend just held me while I cried. Thank you Dakota ❤
I love that you read such a variety.
Most of 2023 for me was a mid century sci-fi trip. It's so interesting what writers thought our modern world would be like 50 - 100 years ago.
I don’t have 10 favorites but my favorites of 2023 were:
1. The Trial by Franz Kafka
2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
3. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
4. Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
5. I Have More Souls than One by Fernando Pessoa
I loooove slaughterhouse five
@@Ruby-bf4vqIt was so good I was shocked at how much I liked it
Written on the Body has been my favorite book for over a year now I’m so glad someone’s talking about it !!!!
Winterson has some damn good prose. She highly impressed me, Written on the Body is exceptional.
I hope more people discover her.
your book-talks always feel like im taking to my friend about books. thank you for your reviews and insights, they've always made me swell with love for literature. happy 2024
it’s been a stressful day and listening and watching dakota’s videos heals me
i love listening to your videos many times as podcasts because im a busy busy student and your voice brings me comfort
Ahhhhh I love her. She inspired me to read classic this year. And I am reading 'perfume' which she recommended, it's quite good so far.
omg !! i found your channel when you only had 2 videos and then lost it, i'm so happy to see how much its grown !! you immediately drew me in and your videos made me want to pick up a book right then and there 📖😁 you deserve all the subs and more, can't wait to see what else you have to share🥰🤩
lovely video! i always enjoy how intentional you are with your speaking (and writing)
I just woke up from a nap and was blessed with this beautiful piece of content on the internet
thank you for this! Your book recs are amazing😍
Aaaaah "Written on the Body" is one of my favorite books ever :) Jeanette Winterson is such a genius.
Hi Dakota! If you loved Sharp Objects I think you’ll also love What We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez, it is a horror short story collection fully driven by the characters, their fears, their flaws, their dreams. Enriquez is an Argentinian author and the book is full of reference to the country’s history but even if you don’t know about that, the stories she tells in the book are amazing, dark and human. I even had nightmares about some of them haha
Dakota loves The dangers of smoking in bed!
@juli3836 I wasn't aware of that!! I hope she reads What We Lost in the Fire too then
God I love You, I wish I had someone as passionate about reading AND with this magnificent *taste* in my life. But instead I'm giggling about the fact that I'm standing in the middle of my room just listening to You talk and we are both on the verge of tears because of old, magnificent use of language.
Hi, your wish has been granted. Here is one of my favorite book quotes, "My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow? So many other men have lived and shall live that story, to be grass upon the hills."
Dakota always have the best book recs
I picked reading back up in like November after watching a bunch of similar videos from you and others on youtube. I managed to finish a couple by the end of the year but Carmilla is hands down my favorite read yet. I sincerely appreciate that recommendation as i genuinely dont know where else i would have been exposed to it and it was the perfect book to really make me enjoy reading again.
Happy new year Dakota!! 🎉🎉😂
Ahhh 🩷 Anais Nin, Jeanette winterson and Betty blue were my.early twenties loves. I'm 40 now and still adore. Great recommendations 🫶
this is so lovely, thank you for sharing.
the quote you read from Rilke's book "Letters to a Young Poet" is one of my favorite lines from all books ever. crying every time :')
Thank you for the recommendations!! 🍯🎯
aaaaa i want the Sophie Coppola archive book so badly 😭 I need more $$$
we had two valedictorians when I graduated from college, and they were both English majors like me, and one of them read two Rilke poems as his speech. It was the most badass thing ever 😅 definitely read letters to a young poet if you come across this comment ❤
I agree about short books. So much more to absorb and put your own thought around
anais nin is one of my fav female authors and i am so happy you gave her a chance with her least known works. her diaries (and the unexpurgated ones too) are fantastic, full of lyrical and ephemerical prose. de profundis by wilde is that kind of book that represents a wound in me that has not healed yet
holaaa, vivo en vienna, austria pero mi madre es de santa fe por eso siempre querría leer más literatura argentina. tienes recomendaciones?
@@nightfallvn holii, que lindoo💌 te recomiendo mucho al autor alberto laiseca, a agustina bazterrica, a pizarnik, alfonsina storni y "la sed" de marina yuszczuk 💓 en mi canal suelo hablar de literatura argentina bastante seguidooo
YAY I'VE MISSED WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS
Can’t wait to hear your goals of books you are planning on reading in 2024 ❤
During 2023 I read “The unbearable lightness of being” and I think that it’s a wonderful book, and you may like it ❤️
it's almost ALWAYS impossible for me to finish ur book recommendation videos bcos in the middle of watching i always get the strong urge to suddenly buy books and read books
dakota i've come to the realisation that i'd trust you with my life. when i walk into a library i always look for your recommendations first and foremost
my top 5:
1. cloud cuckoo land (honestly it was amazing, one if the best books I've ever read)
2. the bell jar (ahhhhh)
3. bonjour tristesse (read this is France in the summer, vibes were immaculate)
4. the lying life of adults
5. if we were villains
The Bell Jar is on my list too and I knew it would be impactful but no one prepared me for chapter 19 😱
just discovered your channel recently - love from scotland! also i cant decide if i should study Classics or english lit at college help :((( i trust your divine judgement
do both! :)
god have i missed your yt vids!!
as a sharp objects stan, it was so nice to finally see it in someone's best books video.
Thank you Lady Dakota… Thank you
I watched Betty Blue a few days ago, loved it, had no idea it was originally a book... I've immediately ordered it 😅
You read most beautiful and magical books in 2023 ❤
My top five books of 2023:
- Just Kids (Patti Smith)
- Death in a strange Country (Donna Leon, just please read it its wonderful even if you don´t enjoy crime novels is funny and so, so touching)
- Franny and Zooey (J.D. Salinger, probably one of my favourites of all time)
- Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen probably my favourite of hers that i´ve read)
- Frankenstein (Mary Shelly, a masterfully crafted work, i can not believe she was just seventeen i adore her and i adore this book)
- “Books without Handles” by Gerard Finstrommer
- “A Handbook for a Mermaid’s Seamstress” by Gabriel Pieter Mitre
- “On Carousal” by Philip Pony Jr.
- “seabrack” by billy woods and ELUCID
- “The Girl who Wore a Beehive” by Stanley Nordstrom
- “The Man without Quantities” by Bobby Pneumonia
omg this is crazy i read those letters last year also !
when I tell u Anaïs Nin SCARRED ME with Delta of Venus, I’m making an understatement.
That being said I liked her style so I think i have to check out A Spy in the House of Love bc I’d love to see her tackle something less… perverse that mermaid necrophilia 😅
I love how she loves love. Please universe give her someone who can swallow her love in abundance and give her love in abundance ♥️.
If the “universe” to you has a conscious mind then you mean to say God
ah De Profundis is the only Wilde i haven't read yet, what's going on! thanks for the push ~ David Luke if i'm not mistaken did the amazing modern translation of Goethe's Faust, so also psyched to try the Erotic Poems now ~ my fav of 2023 was Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima ~
my top reads of the year (in no particular order)
- the book of mother by violaine huisman
- song of silver, flame like night by amélie when zao
- journey under the midnight sun by keigo higashino
- stay with me by ayobami ayebayo
- even if this love disappears tonight by misaki ichijo
- red rising trilogy by pierce brown
I fucking knew you would love written on the body! It was my favourite book of 2023 too
My 5 (no order):
1. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
2. Bluets by Maggie Nelson
3. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
4. My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
5. Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh
Letters to a Young Poet was in my top 10 as well....why don't we write letters like that anymore??!!
Best fiction was my discovery of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke...it's one of those books you can only read once for the first time.
Best in non-fiction was Why Women Grow by Alice Vincent, a meditation on what about growing/cultivating attracts the female soul. Best poetry, as always, Fernando Pessoa. I will die on this hill.
Some of my faves from 2023:
-No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
-The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
-De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
-The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig
-Mercies: Selected Poems by Anne Sexton
i haven't got 10 but my top 5 books of 2023 were (in no particular order):
- If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura
- Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
- No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Bunny by Mona Awad
Betty Blue sounds like Madame Bovary but with more communication
i’m begging you to make a poetry collection recs vid
my favorite read of 2023 (and now my favorite book ever) was Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Hi! Love all your recommendations! Where is your outfit (shirt? dress?) from? Thanks in advance!
recently i read giovannís room, it was my last read of this year. honorary mentions to if we were villains and lady killers
you should also read Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, it's beautiful
My favourite books of the year were Lessons in chemistry, daisy jones and the six and eve green by Susan fletcher
0:57 i love how Dakota says “inhale a piece of literature”, like it is some unknown perfume or a scent waiting to grace your being, if you are willing to take the breath.
I read a spy in the house of love too!
I liked Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd. Brm Stoker's Dracula. Books I return to regularly. There is a treasury of poetry whivh contains all kinds of poems from the epic to the silly limericks but I forget the publisher. Probably out of print, but has the Highwayman, the Pied Piper, some Shelly, you name it.
hex by jenni fagan had me in such a state, it was so emotional!!
Yayyyyy you posting made my day! We have the exact same taste in books and books actually became my special interest ( I’m autistic) mostly because of you! They make me now very happy and what i mean to say i love your videos and your overall vibe and you are the kind of person i aspire to be! Thank you for your great videos!
I had 9 favorite reads but two to mention here "My Volcano" by John Elizabeth Stintzi and "All the Gay Saints" by Kayleb Rae Candrilli!! 🌙💖💫
There is a really nice game called The Wanderer: Frankenstein‘s Creature which I think could be nice to play after reading the classic
can you let us know what you think of All the Little Bird Hearts by Viktoria-Lloyd Barlow? Its was on the Booker longlist!
I read sharp objects last year and in my opinion, it's a masterpiece!
I was reluctant to read it because it seemed no different to any of the other popular thrillers, like girl on the train (which I hated). But im so glad I did pick it up, and since I've read gone girl and her short story the grownup and loved both (though I think sharp objects is unrivalled)
Some other of my 2023 favourites were
The road (most horrible book ive read, have not stopped thinking about it)
Wuthering heights and Rebecca (I have a soft spot for the gothic and wuthering heights is probably my #1 book of the year)
Someone like you (dark twisted funny stories by roaldh doahl)
Good omens (hilarious)
Things fall apart
The book thief 😢 (Most cried over book of the year)
Circe (simply beautiful)
saw this video at 11:11 posted 11 minutes ago……….
idk how to say this in english, so ill just ramble in portuguese. entre os livros que estou lendo no momento e os que eu li em 2023, os meus favoritos seriam:
Perfume
Giovanni's Room
O Mar Me Levou a Você
The Catcher in the Rye
please do a video on annotating books
Give your book a purpose, and your annotations will call out to you on their own.
you should read I Await the Devils Coming
My best reads of 2023 in no order:
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
Graham Greene - The Quiet American
John Green - The Anthropocene Reviewed
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
written on the body turned jeanette into my favorite hehe
my favorite of hers this year was art objects which is her essay collection on art, i'm sure you'd love it too
my personal favs of 2023
1. Song of Achilles (obvi)
2. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
3. Mexican Gothic
4. Paradise Rot
5. My Dark Vanessa
6. Sharp Objects (agreed that one was SO good)
7. The Girl on the Train
8. Earthlings
9. Piranesi
10. The Courage to be Disliked
My top 10 of 2023 (in no particular order)
1. The Scarlett letter
2. Franny and Zooey
3. Crying in H Mart
4. Just kids
5. My Dark Vanessa
6. All the lovers in the night
7. Days at the Morasaki Bookshop
8. The Guest
9. The Year of Magical Thinking
10. Yellowface
I strongly recommend The Torn Skirt by Rebecca Godfrey for a book on feral girlhood!
Cool!
Pleaseeeee tell me what’s on your eyelids PLEASE 😍
my top three books of the year would have to be boy parts, on earth we're briefly gorgeous and woman, eating !
Have you read Poor Things by Allistair Gray?
🎉🎉🎉
Lady D I read 10 books last year, are you proud of me? 😅
❤❤❤
open water by caleb azumah nelson
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Hi Dakota, I was wondering if you read young adult fantasy books. I would love to send you an ARC for my book to be released on April 9, 2024 titled The Dark One's Hand. This is the blurb:
A summons from a long-lost mentor thrusts Reev Nax, a boy of uncertain parentage, into a fateful journey of discovery. Reev learns that an ancient evil has reawakened in the world of Varda, and that two prophetic figures, one the Hand of Light and the other, a man declared the Dark One's Hand, are predicted to appear. Along the way, Reev will meet many friends: Fortunato, a warrior and tracker; Wrinn, a former pit fighter; Ambrass, a serving girl whose fate may be written in the stars; and more. But as the world spirals into chaos, a question arises: who is the long-awaited hero, and who is the Dark One's Hand?
Watch BETTY BLUE, the movie.
Like if you watched before the black and white!
Remember some of the best stories were never written just told(Real knowledge is heard never read(peace and love)🎥📺🎥
1:45
u remind me of a Blythe doll omg