I feel like I rarely see so many non-European, particularly Indian authors in a top50 list in the Booktube space, so this brought me a lot of joy. A great list. Thanks!
Hey, if you read any books like A Thousand Splendid Suns, please comment here, I am looking for such books. You should read "Not Without My Daughter" by Betty Mahmoody.
@@amjadshukkoor not to be negative but just wanted to give my perspective.. when i read the kite runner it was my favorite book.. but after reading atss i went back to the kite runner.. atss stands on its own. It is a great book and i think even better than the kite runner, although there is no reason to compare them, as they tackle some different issues while having some of the same.
@@ayeshathefairy8333 I do like A Thousand Splendid Suns. It's just that I feel more drawn to Kite Runner. But I understand why people like A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Hey, if you read any books like A Thousand Splendid Suns, please comment here, I am looking for such books. You should read "Not Without My Daughter" by Betty Mahmoody.
kitaab.org/2020/10/21/bookmarked-musings-on-reading-khaled-hosseinis-books-by-riddhi-mistry/ this is an essay I wrote about his books, I think it'll resonate with you❤
The book list: Robinson crusoe Pride and prejudice Great expectations Charlotte brontë Mrs dalloway The odyssey The picture of Dorian gray To kill a mockingbird The catcher in the rye Tess of the d'urberviilles Moby dick Moby dick Lolita The scarlet letter The great gatsby Lord of the flies Hamlet Romeo and juliet Frankenstein A study in scarlet Dracula 1984 Animal farm Handmaid's tale Fahrenheit 451 Brave new world Home fire North and south The grapes of wrath We Harvest Heart of darkness Wide sargasso sea The hungry tide The god of small things Midnight's children A thousand splendid sun The kite runner The imberitance of loss Disgrace Small island Americanah A single man Beloved The reader The color purple Wonder Hiroshima The white tiger Things fall apart The yellow wallpaper
A Thousand Splendid Suns is one of my favourite books ever. It was the first time I cried reading a book, and until today I rarely do ( the only other times were with And The Mountains Echoed - by the same author - and with All The Light We Cannot See, both heavily indicated ). It's just so sad to think there are millions like Mariam and Laila, whose voices are not heard and spirits not valued. My sister gave it to me when I was 8 years old. Who lets an 8 year old read a book like this? Beautiful, nonetheless.
Me a computer science student who never has time to read things: *Watches video and has apparently read like 40/50 books shown* Me: "Am I a literature student????"
@@princessbubblegum790 yes it is a movie adaptation of the same book. If you don't have time to read the book, you can watch the movie because its good.
Sometimes, I wish I can quit on everything and begin to indulge in the joy of reading carried with proper solitude, not forever but for a long time just enough to feed my head to satisfy my crave. Thank you random creator for popping up into my recommendation and lengthening my To Read List, I appreciate that. :)
Me: I need to read them all also me: never reads them I've read 3, progress. I do really want to read them all though also my reading list is very very very long
most of these recommendations are absolutely amazing books- but I 100% wouldn’t recommend Dracula.. like it’s a good story but you could literally cut half of the pages out of the book and it wouldn’t change the storyline at all- there’s a lot of waffle😂
I prefer it over The kite runner. The Kite Runner is the first and most famous, and although beautiful, pales in comparison to A Thousand Splendid Suns and And The Mountains Echoed. These are just... something else.
My list is short but I think three books are amazing 1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 3. 1984 by George Orwell
I like japanese literature, french literature, german literature, hungarian literature, russian literature, persian literature. i find a lot of English and American books mentioned here quite boring. On the other hand, nobody talks about Edgar Allen Poe or other american writers that I adore...
Hello here are the 5 books I think everyone should read: - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam - Armor by John Steakley - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - Penturian by Tim Gibson
Hey, if you read any books like A Thousand Splendid Suns, please comment here, I am looking for such books. You should read "Not Without My Daughter" by Betty Mahmoody.
Hey man more power to you for having to read it at 9th grade. In a senior and I don’t wanna read it because it’s depressing, and even if it reflects irl I don’t wanna read about child r*pe and people getting blown up for the rest of my weeks in school. You had to read such a brutal book for your grade level. Like I said keep in mind I’m 12th, im 19 years old, and I don’t wish to read it, yet you were able to read it, so be proud of yourself. Truth be told I was never a huge fan of reading any sort of school issued book or even like reading novels.
Last time I read Hiroshima by John Hersey, it was still not fiction. Though written in the style of New Journalism, with its subjective points of view, it is still very much the true stories of several survivors. An amazing book that is well worth reading, but classifying it as fiction diminishes the power of the narrative.
Fiction is in the title but Hiroshima by John Hersey is not a fiction book. Leaves me with the impression you threw it in for the sake of having it in there.
thank you for including north & south--it's one of my favourite books of all time and an absolute masterpiece, but I feel like no one ever talks about it
The God of Small Things is my favourite book. Indian book reccomendations - Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh (highly highly recommend) And books by Jhumpa Lahiri.
I think you should do a video about your south Asian literature course. Most of the lists shared always leave out on south Asian literature so happy to see you add these. And do come to india!
So happy to see Things Fall Apart on this list! I read it in English class sophomore year of High School and it is one of my favorite books. It is very good.
Jack, thanks for sharing your reading list. On a side note, I feel great to be able to read both in English and Russian because both countries have some greatest literary works! cheers from Kazakhstan!
@@yanellysmedina4359 Hi! One of the best ones are Dostoevsky (the Brothers Karamazoff, Crime and Punishment), Leo Tolstoy (Resurrection), Mikhail Bulgakov (Morphine).
intriguing that heart of darkness was in the 'post colonial' section, whereas things fall apart was in the 'different perspectives' section - don't know what Achebe would have thought of that 😂
I had too many favourite postcolonial texts to limit to 10, so quite a few in the different perspectives section are postcolonial (for example The White Tiger)!! Too many good’uns I think everyone should read, haha! I originally had Things Fall Apart in the postcolonial section but moved it as it was more fitting than some of the others. Also, Heart of Darkness is definitely postcolonial in a different way to the others, as it shows the perspective of the imperialists rather than the oppressed natives.
@@jack_edwards haha yeah that defo makes sense! I suppose because of how I read Heart of Darkness, its classification is always slightly confused in my mind, since I can't see it as being in favour of postcolonialism, although in subject and theme it is 'postcolonial'. I've just never really been able to disagree with Achebe calling Conrad a 'bloody racist'! 100% still an important and useful read when considering postcolonial lit more widely!
So glad to see a few Indian writers up there ! I totally recommend reading Amish Tripathi for anyone interested in hindustani mythology ... And reading Sudha Murthy and RK Narayan would give an honest reflection of life of India's commoners ... Train to Pak by Khushwant Singh is another book about Indo pak separation... I really recommend short stories by Rabindranath Tagore (they are very impactful, though u have to read it's translation and some emotion is lost in translation) ... Have added so many new books to my to read list 😁... And the Khaled Hosseini books have been life changing ... Though I like Emma over Pride and prejudice
@@Mindfookfilms wut bruh? What r u saying buddy....Amish Tripathi kind of gave birth to a genre and u r saying he is pedestrian....Maybe u don't like his work but it doesn't mean they are trash dude....Learn to appreciate good work even if it's not of ur personal taste...
@@Mindfookfilms i would agree partially.....the first two books in his immortals of meluha were really great.....but then the third book really changed all the love i had for it .....and now even his books are becoming like chetan bhagat ...but never the less he did start a very interesting genre of mythological fiction...something that has so much potential with indian myths....
I really don’t understand what is so good about The White Tiger? It is a below average book and I can’t understand why do people recommend it so much? Sheer waste of time.
These could be added here: All the lights we cannot see And the mountains echoed The orphan train The nightingale The girls we left behind A train to Pakistan Hush! An Irish princess The help
It seems continental Europe or East Asia don't have any literature... Defoe considered as the grandfather of novels ? Well, Chrétien de Troyes (with arthurian stories, 1170-1190), Rabelais (les Cinq livres, 1532-1564) then Cervantès (Don Quijote, 1615) did just that a bit earlier.
I’ve read 4 of these! 3 of them because they were on my A level English course , I’m glad I got to study a variety of texts! Deffo need to add more of these to my good reads list ☺️
1984 is about the unspeakable horrors of a totalitarian socialist state. It was so horrible (the content not the actual book lol) I almost couldn't finish it! I will always be against unnecessary government control and a large state apparatus after reading that book.
As an anime addict, I highly recommend reading manga. (If that isn't your piece of cake, watch the anime adaptation, every thing I've mentioned here has one) 1) Death note Light Yagami, a bored college student sees a black diary fall out of the sky in the middle of a lecture. Apparently its a diary that kills off the people whose names you write in it. Light goes on a killing spree, 'cleansing' the world of criminals. It makes you question who exactly has the right to judge a person's fate, the weight of being a 'god' etc (I can't explain it well, but you'll get it when you watch/read it) 2) Tokyo Ghoul- this is just **chefs kiss** great. Main theme is 'interpretation of evil'. I recommend you read the manga because the anime kinda goes downhill after the first season. 3) Kimi no nawa- WATCH IT. Its so beautiful. Romance with a twist of SciFi, what exactly is 'fate'? Can I weave the red thread the binds me to my soulmate? How strong is it, will it break through the barriers of time and space? 4)5cm per second- again. WATCH IT. The animation is b e a u t I f u l. Explores the concept of first love, soulmates and the way hearts change with the fraying of time. I'm not explaining these because it'll spoil the anime for you but watch Orange, OreGairu (SNAFU) Glass slip, After the Rain, Iroduku:the world in colors and if you prefer light, slice of life stories- Bokura wa minna kawaisou
Animal Farm and Handmaid's Tale are my absolute favourite books. And weird fact: Brave New World was translated into my language as "End of civilization" which seems kinda sad to me because by doing that, they erased the "connection" to The Tempest by Shakespeare, right? Sorry for my English, by the way.
I'm a 68 year old American man. I live in Iowa in the Midwest. I adore letters and numbers. Firstly, as shapes noted by the contrast between dark graphic symbols and light paper. Could we even have thoughts without alphabets? Could we count and record statistics without numbers? I recall JAZZ by Toni Morrison. SIDDHARTHA by Hesse. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA. PEACE. OUT.
i have a friend who is 80 years old...when he was 12 years old his 71 year old english teacher gave him a list of 100 books EVERYBODY SHOULD READ BEFORE THEY DIES,, he is still reading from the list,,,but it took him 14 years to read 1 CLASSIC because as he said "it was so damn boring" ..i had him read the bible it took him one and a half months... my humble advice ,,READ ANYTHING THAT'S FUN AND INTERESTING
I'd like to propose a few Japanese novels - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio MIshima No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai The Woman in the Dunes - Kobo Abe The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata Silence - Shusaku Endo
Some of the finest fiction that I've read: "My Antonia", "Lolita", "An American Tragedy", "All the King's Men", "Last Exit to Brooklyn", 'For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Tropic of Cancer", "Age of Innocence", "A Passage to India." Yes, I readily admit I'm a bit of a slave to the Modern Library's Top 100 list.
The movie Apocalypse Now was based on Heart of Darkness. I highly recommend The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. It was his first novel and won the American National Book Award. Following to he can US Civil War and the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation many freed Blacks traveled North seeking opportunity. This novel documents the migration of one of these, a young man headed for Harlem in Manhattan.
I first read A Thousand Splendid Suns when I was about 12 and have read it twice since. It's the ONLY book I've ever read more than once and I cried EACH time! A book that stays with you for days and days after - just amazing.
Mauler anda Questus by english writer Shawn Williamson. Mauler is indicated by english writer, historian, cinema director Andrew Sinclair. He compares It with White Fang by Jack London.
i've been meaning to read something by khaled hosseini, but can't really decide what would be the best for the introduction to this author. does anybody have a recommendation, a thousand splendid suns or the kite runner?
Okay all recommendations done? All books reviewed? All comments said? All books listed? Okay you forgot one probably the one above the 50 listed: Notes from the Underground. *mic drop* Good day.
Poor list. No Russian novels shown. I was never much impressed by British novelists. Jane Austen was so disappointing. I liked Thomas Harding but feminists hate him.
What's considered to be the first novel ever is actually Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote published 100 years before. In 1604! But maybe y'all didn't consider it because it was in Spanish.
That needed to be said. Even though I could algo accept Gargantua/Pantagruel, or maybe even Tirant lo Blanc as the first novel, definitely not Defoe though.
Great list; what turned me off is firstly, the 'hello everyone'! Most TH-cam watchers are alone. Solo. By themselves. You are speaking, like on radio, to one person at a time. So, it's just 'Hello'. The, of course the woke tropes of 'de-colonised' 'post-colonial' literature. Post-colonial is fine, I suppose, because that reflects historical movements, but 'de-colonised' sounds more like we're heading in the the BS world of 'critical' theory. You know, the stuff that ain't critical and ain't a theory.
Me, a French student: I have to read the must-read books of French literature! Also me, an English literature student: I have to read the must-read books of English literature! Guess libraries will have all my money 😂 Thank you Jack for this list, really helpful!
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I've read 9/50 so I'm feeling like a whole intellectual
Hell yeah!!
Same
I'll do you one better, I've heard about 9/50 so I'm feeling somewhat intellectual
I've read 3
Well i've read only 3🙂
I feel like I rarely see so many non-European, particularly Indian authors in a top50 list in the Booktube space, so this brought me a lot of joy. A great list. Thanks!
❤️
You should read Viatorem by Urvasi Pauvaday now available on Amazon
It's just awesome
She is a Mauritian author
Isn’t the “affirmative action” condescending? None of those books are *better* than 1,000 European books which could’ve been included.
@@Kyle-ys3cv have you read those and the other 1000 European books to decide?
@@anakhanair_ not necessary
I'm pretty simple
I saw A Thousand splendid Suns
I clicked.
Me too❤
SAME
Me too 🌸
Hey, if you read any books like A Thousand Splendid Suns, please comment here, I am looking for such books. You should read "Not Without My Daughter" by Betty Mahmoody.
SAMEEE!
a thousand splendid suns is a stunning book, but so heartbreaking.
I feel like Kite Runner is better. Read it if you have not. It's great.
@@amjadshukkoor not to be negative but just wanted to give my perspective.. when i read the kite runner it was my favorite book.. but after reading atss i went back to the kite runner.. atss stands on its own. It is a great book and i think even better than the kite runner, although there is no reason to compare them, as they tackle some different issues while having some of the same.
@@ayeshathefairy8333 I do like A Thousand Splendid Suns. It's just that I feel more drawn to Kite Runner. But I understand why people like A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Hey, if you read any books like A Thousand Splendid Suns, please comment here, I am looking for such books. You should read "Not Without My Daughter" by Betty Mahmoody.
A Thousand Splendid Suns could quite possibly be my favourite book!!
Mine too
Reading it !
kitaab.org/2020/10/21/bookmarked-musings-on-reading-khaled-hosseinis-books-by-riddhi-mistry/ this is an essay I wrote about his books, I think it'll resonate with you❤
You should read Viatorem by Urvasi Pauvaday now available on Amazon
It's just a
It’s the best!!!
The book list:
Robinson crusoe
Pride and prejudice
Great expectations
Charlotte brontë
Mrs dalloway
The odyssey
The picture of Dorian gray
To kill a mockingbird
The catcher in the rye
Tess of the d'urberviilles
Moby dick
Moby dick
Lolita
The scarlet letter
The great gatsby
Lord of the flies
Hamlet
Romeo and juliet
Frankenstein
A study in scarlet
Dracula
1984
Animal farm
Handmaid's tale
Fahrenheit 451
Brave new world
Home fire
North and south
The grapes of wrath
We
Harvest
Heart of darkness
Wide sargasso sea
The hungry tide
The god of small things
Midnight's children
A thousand splendid sun
The kite runner
The imberitance of loss
Disgrace
Small island
Americanah
A single man
Beloved
The reader
The color purple
Wonder
Hiroshima
The white tiger
Things fall apart
The yellow wallpaper
Thanks
Thank you so much.
thanks!
Thank you esya
Thank you!
A Thousand Splendid Suns is one of my favourite books ever. It was the first time I cried reading a book, and until today I rarely do ( the only other times were with And The Mountains Echoed - by the same author - and with All The Light We Cannot See, both heavily indicated ). It's just so sad to think there are millions like Mariam and Laila, whose voices are not heard and spirits not valued. My sister gave it to me when I was 8 years old. Who lets an 8 year old read a book like this? Beautiful, nonetheless.
Ikrrrrr... Read the kite Runner also... It's heartwrenching
8??? jeez that definitely is a bit young
Your comment made me tear up again. I was a wreck after reading ATSS. I always think about all the Miriams of the world.
My favourite book too!!! That letter. I also cried!
You must read The Kite Runner. You'll not regret.
Jack is giving me very strong Professer Trelawney energy in this video
YES! With those glasses
Me a computer science student who never has time to read things:
*Watches video and has apparently read like 40/50 books shown*
Me:
"Am I a literature student????"
Saaameeee!!!!!!!
Omg u r so cool
Tfw you're actually alit student but have only read like 4 😂
I have a scince com exam next week but here watching this vid and not studying 😂
@Timmy White what happened?
All Khaled Hosseini books are amazing. And I would double recommend The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Hilariously entertaining book
Isn't there a movie called The White Tiger? Is it the movie adaptation of the latter?
@@princessbubblegum790
No idea but a great rule of thumb is to read the book first either way and then watch movie 😌
@@tejasdeepsingh456 mhm, agreed
@@princessbubblegum790 yes it is a movie adaptation of the same book. If you don't have time to read the book, you can watch the movie because its good.
Yes it is amazing
Sometimes, I wish I can quit on everything and begin to indulge in the joy of reading carried with proper solitude, not forever but for a long time just enough to feed my head to satisfy my crave.
Thank you random creator for popping up into my recommendation and lengthening my To Read List, I appreciate that. :)
Me: I need to read them all
also me: never reads them
I've read 3, progress.
I do really want to read them all though
also my reading list is very very very long
most of these recommendations are absolutely amazing books- but I 100% wouldn’t recommend Dracula.. like it’s a good story but you could literally cut half of the pages out of the book and it wouldn’t change the storyline at all- there’s a lot of waffle😂
my reading list is endless as well 😂😂
As a BookTuber, I also recommend The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. 👌💖💞📙
It's on there but yes it's quite intense and sad
I finished it yesterday and I've been in pain ever since. It's sad and complete, planning onto reading more Hosseini's works.
This book affected me deeply...
Unpopular opinion: And the Mountains Echoed is my favorite Hosseini book
I can't choose one of his books over the other.
Hei, i love all 3 of his books...but and the mountains echoed has a special place in my heart, i felt, it is epic...❤️❤️❤️
Best one would be The kite runner
I prefer it over The kite runner. The Kite Runner is the first and most famous, and although beautiful, pales in comparison to A Thousand Splendid Suns and And The Mountains Echoed. These are just... something else.
That’s really unpopular tho
My list is short but I think three books are amazing 1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 3. 1984 by George Orwell
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT ! Good one . I was surprized to see that he didn't have anything of Dostoevsky's on his list . Oh well .
Thats funny because I just got back into reading and these are the first three books I read.
I’ve not watched the video but I saw a thousand splendid suns... BEST BOOK EVER
Oh, I will love to read it ❤
No Latino Americans authors? I recomend you Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Juan Rulfo, Elena Garro, Rosario Castellanos.
Julio Cortazar is one of my absolute favorite authors!!! And Juan Rulfo is also so beautiful!
as well as machado de assis
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is incredible. Would have been in his top 100, I would hope. Always difficult to narrow it down.
Don't forget Carlos Ruiz Zafón!!
And Elena Poniatowska
I like japanese literature, french literature, german literature, hungarian literature, russian literature, persian literature. i find a lot of English and American books mentioned here quite boring. On the other hand, nobody talks about Edgar Allen Poe or other american writers that I adore...
Hello here are the 5 books I think everyone should read:
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
- Armor by John Steakley
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Penturian by Tim Gibson
wish I could jump to the person I would be after reading all these books
My reading list is so long now oml
Same haha
Me too, everytime I watch a video about books, my list grows longer
I am in 9th grade and last year I tried reading "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
I could not read it then but I love it so much now.
The fact that you were in 9th and intense books like A Thousand Splendid Suns interested you, the entire idea really makes me happy 🌻
I'm in 9th standard currently. i just finished the book a couple of days ago and I feel like the perfect word to describe is "unforgettable"
Hey, if you read any books like A Thousand Splendid Suns, please comment here, I am looking for such books. You should read "Not Without My Daughter" by Betty Mahmoody.
Hey man more power to you for having to read it at 9th grade. In a senior and I don’t wanna read it because it’s depressing, and even if it reflects irl I don’t wanna read about child r*pe and people getting blown up for the rest of my weeks in school. You had to read such a brutal book for your grade level. Like I said keep in mind I’m 12th, im 19 years old, and I don’t wish to read it, yet you were able to read it, so be proud of yourself. Truth be told I was never a huge fan of reading any sort of school issued book or even like reading novels.
Last time I read Hiroshima by John Hersey, it was still not fiction. Though written in the style of New Journalism, with its subjective points of view, it is still very much the true stories of several survivors. An amazing book that is well worth reading, but classifying it as fiction diminishes the power of the narrative.
I am a little disappointed. You didn't include works of Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Why on Earth has the catcher in the rye been banned lol i just thought it was dull
Fiction is in the title but Hiroshima by John Hersey is not a fiction book. Leaves me with the impression you threw it in for the sake of having it in there.
thank you for including north & south--it's one of my favourite books of all time and an absolute masterpiece, but I feel like no one ever talks about it
The God of Small Things is my favourite book.
Indian book reccomendations - Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh (highly highly recommend)
And books by Jhumpa Lahiri.
He never disappoints
So far , true .
I think you should do a video about your south Asian literature course. Most of the lists shared always leave out on south Asian literature so happy to see you add these. And do come to india!
So happy to see Things Fall Apart on this list! I read it in English class sophomore year of High School and it is one of my favorite books. It is very good.
I've read 12 so far so I will add the rest to my never ending list of books to read 📖
Jack, thanks for sharing your reading list. On a side note, I feel great to be able to read both in English and Russian because both countries have some greatest literary works! cheers from Kazakhstan!
Hi! Which are the best Russian books in your opinion? Lately I’ve been seen a lot of people talking about Russian authors.
@@yanellysmedina4359 Hi! One of the best ones are Dostoevsky (the Brothers Karamazoff, Crime and Punishment), Leo Tolstoy (Resurrection), Mikhail Bulgakov (Morphine).
@@MrDom5 I'll be adding them to my list, thanks✨
21! And Hiroshima is nonfiction. And “The Yellow Wallpaper” is really a short story.
Great list! But..no dostoyevski?
I've read only 12 books completely from this list. I've read many books partially and must complete them. I'm familiar with most of the plots though.
intriguing that heart of darkness was in the 'post colonial' section, whereas things fall apart was in the 'different perspectives' section - don't know what Achebe would have thought of that 😂
I had too many favourite postcolonial texts to limit to 10, so quite a few in the different perspectives section are postcolonial (for example The White Tiger)!! Too many good’uns I think everyone should read, haha! I originally had Things Fall Apart in the postcolonial section but moved it as it was more fitting than some of the others. Also, Heart of Darkness is definitely postcolonial in a different way to the others, as it shows the perspective of the imperialists rather than the oppressed natives.
@@jack_edwards haha yeah that defo makes sense! I suppose because of how I read Heart of Darkness, its classification is always slightly confused in my mind, since I can't see it as being in favour of postcolonialism, although in subject and theme it is 'postcolonial'. I've just never really been able to disagree with Achebe calling Conrad a 'bloody racist'! 100% still an important and useful read when considering postcolonial lit more widely!
So glad to see a few Indian writers up there ! I totally recommend reading Amish Tripathi for anyone interested in hindustani mythology ... And reading Sudha Murthy and RK Narayan would give an honest reflection of life of India's commoners ... Train to Pak by Khushwant Singh is another book about Indo pak separation... I really recommend short stories by Rabindranath Tagore (they are very impactful, though u have to read it's translation and some emotion is lost in translation) ...
Have added so many new books to my to read list 😁... And the Khaled Hosseini books have been life changing ... Though I like Emma over Pride and prejudice
Ooooh thank you for the recommendations! I agree, Emma is Austen's best novel!
Amish Tripathi is pedestrian af. Please recommend literature, not trash.
@@Mindfookfilms wut bruh? What r u saying buddy....Amish Tripathi kind of gave birth to a genre and u r saying he is pedestrian....Maybe u don't like his work but it doesn't mean they are trash dude....Learn to appreciate good work even if it's not of ur personal taste...
@@Mindfookfilms i would agree partially.....the first two books in his immortals of meluha were really great.....but then the third book really changed all the love i had for it .....and now even his books are becoming like chetan bhagat ...but never the less he did start a very interesting genre of mythological fiction...something that has so much potential with indian myths....
Please.... R. K Narayan, Seriously?
Me seeing the thumbnail: Is that Jack
Jack: My English Lit degree
Me: Yeah, that's definitely him.
Hey even I read Robinson Crusoe. What's your name btw?
It makes my heart happy that half of the comments are about A Thousand Splendid Suns :,)
omg this couldn’t have come at a better time, i’ve just been looking for some new books to add to my TBR!! 🥰
I really don’t understand what is so good about The White Tiger? It is a below average book and I can’t understand why do people recommend it so much? Sheer waste of time.
I cannot believe there is not ONE Russian novel, outside of Lolita, which isn’t really Russian as such. No Chekhov, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky??? Honestly.
my exact thoughts, very saddening to not see at the very least some anna karenina or the master & margarita or even a good pique dame by pushkin
Not to mention other „non western” classics... That’s the trap of LISTS!
ACCURATE
He also recommends We by Zamyatin
He has a degree in English literature, so of course he's going to name more English books. He's not saying that other books aren't valid.
These could be added here:
All the lights we cannot see
And the mountains echoed
The orphan train
The nightingale
The girls we left behind
A train to Pakistan
Hush! An Irish princess
The help
I cannot believe Jack just made my reading list even longer smh
Tess of the Ubervilles is painful. Why would you read it?
Any chance someone could make a physical list of this?
ooh yes please! maybe on goodreads
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Amelia PC ive got a goodreads list of it!
YOUR EYES ARE ENTICING
ALL CAPS; no lie
Surprised to see great expectations recommendation after watching your tier rank classic book videos
It seems continental Europe or East Asia don't have any literature...
Defoe considered as the grandfather of novels ? Well, Chrétien de Troyes (with arthurian stories, 1170-1190), Rabelais (les Cinq livres, 1532-1564) then Cervantès (Don Quijote, 1615) did just that a bit earlier.
I’ve read 4 of these! 3 of them because they were on my A level English course , I’m glad I got to study a variety of texts! Deffo need to add more of these to my good reads list ☺️
I suggest Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, H.P. Lovecraft, Edith Warton, Umberto Ecco, Patrick Suskind, Truman Capote... for the others.
And dostoyevsky,tolstoy,hemingway
Not a single book from Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky 😭😭😭
Read 8/50 books 😊😁 There's so much more to read. I've left Heart of Darkness midway, but I'm excited to pick it up again
22/50 ...a way to go but I have read 25 books in lockdown!
Frankenstein is my favourite book
Am I the only one that actually hated Lord of the flies?
0/50
Let's see if i could improve
I haven’t read a fiction novel in years - great to have some suggestions :)
Same, even I don't read fiction
I love the matching of the yellow book covers on the thumbnail to go with the colour scheme of the channel lol
I had read 22 of these and feeling particularly proud of myself. Will plough my way through the rest. Thanks for compiling that list 👍🏼
Hey, are you wearing contacts or your eyes are just THAT huge and really beautiful?)
A thousand splendid suns made me fall in love with reading.
I would also recommend Kafka by the Shore
Or maybe something by Kafka...
1984 is about the unspeakable horrors of a totalitarian socialist state. It was so horrible (the content not the actual book lol) I almost couldn't finish it! I will always be against unnecessary government control and a large state apparatus after reading that book.
Thank you for the list! I love the way you describe books in a couple of sentences, it sounds very intriguing, wish you did that for every book
Yeas, that make suggestions more strong ❤✔
He has the SKILL to describe and comprehend a book in such a nice way in one sentence
This just popped up in my recommend and I forgot jack was blonde for a sec
Beautiful ❤✔
Two things:
1) Please read "Petals of Blood" by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and tell us what you think 🙂
2) JM Coetzee's surname is pronounced "Coot-see-uh"
This video is a godsend as I'm just about to start my coursework for A-level English Lit.
As an anime addict, I highly recommend reading manga. (If that isn't your piece of cake, watch the anime adaptation, every thing I've mentioned here has one)
1) Death note
Light Yagami, a bored college student sees a black diary fall out of the sky in the middle of a lecture. Apparently its a diary that kills off the people whose names you write in it. Light goes on a killing spree, 'cleansing' the world of criminals. It makes you question who exactly has the right to judge a person's fate, the weight of being a 'god' etc (I can't explain it well, but you'll get it when you watch/read it)
2) Tokyo Ghoul- this is just **chefs kiss** great. Main theme is 'interpretation of evil'. I recommend you read the manga because the anime kinda goes downhill after the first season.
3) Kimi no nawa- WATCH IT. Its so beautiful. Romance with a twist of SciFi, what exactly is 'fate'? Can I weave the red thread the binds me to my soulmate? How strong is it, will it break through the barriers of time and space?
4)5cm per second- again. WATCH IT. The animation is b e a u t I f u l. Explores the concept of first love, soulmates and the way hearts change with the fraying of time.
I'm not explaining these because it'll spoil the anime for you but watch Orange, OreGairu (SNAFU) Glass slip, After the Rain, Iroduku:the world in colors and if you prefer light, slice of life stories- Bokura wa minna kawaisou
Ooooh interesting - thank you!
Animal Farm and Handmaid's Tale are my absolute favourite books.
And weird fact: Brave New World was translated into my language as "End of civilization" which seems kinda sad to me because by doing that, they erased the "connection" to The Tempest by Shakespeare, right?
Sorry for my English, by the way.
Your English is perfect!
Most of these books are included in the syllabus of English honours..
17/50.Things Fall Apart is an absolute masterpiece,it's much more than "about African tribes"But to each their own.
I'm a 68 year old American man. I live in Iowa in the Midwest. I adore letters and numbers. Firstly, as shapes noted by the contrast between dark graphic symbols and light paper. Could we even have thoughts without alphabets? Could we count and record statistics without numbers? I recall JAZZ by Toni Morrison. SIDDHARTHA by Hesse. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA. PEACE. OUT.
i have a friend who is 80 years old...when he was 12 years old his 71 year old english teacher gave him a list of 100 books EVERYBODY SHOULD READ BEFORE THEY DIES,, he is still reading from the list,,,but it took him 14 years to read 1 CLASSIC because as he said "it was so damn boring" ..i had him read the bible it took him one and a half months... my humble advice ,,READ ANYTHING THAT'S FUN AND INTERESTING
No Russian, French, Latino-American or Japonese masterpieces??? It's almost exclusively Anglo-Saxon Literature.
I'd like to propose a few Japanese novels -
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio MIshima
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
The Woman in the Dunes - Kobo Abe
The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
Silence - Shusaku Endo
Your description of Heart of Darkness was really bad sorry.
Some of the finest fiction that I've read: "My Antonia", "Lolita", "An American Tragedy", "All the King's Men", "Last Exit to Brooklyn", 'For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Tropic of Cancer", "Age of Innocence", "A Passage to India." Yes, I readily admit I'm a bit of a slave to the Modern Library's Top 100 list.
The movie Apocalypse Now was based on Heart of Darkness. I highly recommend The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. It was his first novel and won the American National Book Award. Following to he can US Civil War and the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation many freed Blacks traveled North seeking opportunity. This novel documents the migration of one of these, a young man headed for Harlem in Manhattan.
Americanah is my favorite book of all time - so beautifully written!!
I first read A Thousand Splendid Suns when I was about 12 and have read it twice since. It's the ONLY book I've ever read more than once and I cried EACH time! A book that stays with you for days and days after - just amazing.
Read:
The great gatsby
1984
The handmaid’s tale
Brave new World
We
A thousand splendid suns
The kite runner
You forgot to add any one of MAX STRAVAGAR'S books, he's the William Shakespeare of our times!
Mauler anda Questus by english writer Shawn Williamson. Mauler is indicated by english writer, historian, cinema director Andrew Sinclair. He compares It with White Fang by Jack London.
i've been meaning to read something by khaled hosseini, but can't really decide what would be the best for the introduction to this author. does anybody have a recommendation, a thousand splendid suns or the kite runner?
33/50 Hmm! Not bad.
I'm glad I found this. Been looking for a list like that
Okay all recommendations done?
All books reviewed?
All comments said?
All books listed?
Okay you forgot one probably the one above the 50 listed:
Notes from the Underground.
*mic drop*
Good day.
Invisible Man definitely should be on this list. It really tells a point on American Racism after the 2nd World War
Poor list. No Russian novels shown. I was never much impressed by British novelists. Jane Austen was so disappointing. I liked Thomas Harding but feminists hate him.
What's considered to be the first novel ever is actually Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote published 100 years before. In 1604! But maybe y'all didn't consider it because it was in Spanish.
That needed to be said. Even though I could algo accept Gargantua/Pantagruel, or maybe even Tirant lo Blanc as the first novel, definitely not Defoe though.
Great list; what turned me off is firstly, the 'hello everyone'! Most TH-cam watchers are alone. Solo. By themselves. You are speaking, like on radio, to one person at a time. So, it's just 'Hello'.
The, of course the woke tropes of 'de-colonised' 'post-colonial' literature. Post-colonial is fine, I suppose, because that reflects historical movements, but 'de-colonised' sounds more like we're heading in the the BS world of 'critical' theory. You know, the stuff that ain't critical and ain't a theory.
Lol I have only read to kill a mockingbird
Night by Elie Weisel
Me, a French student: I have to read the must-read books of French literature!
Also me, an English literature student: I have to read the must-read books of English literature!
Guess libraries will have all my money 😂
Thank you Jack for this list, really helpful!
Oh! To kill a mockingbird. VERY dear to me. No matter what anyone says, I loved that book. I love Atticus(prolly because of my daddy issues😭)
Isn't it convenient that just yesterday, when I watched this video, I found The Grapes of Wrath in one of these public free bookshelfes? :D
Up to 2'50": I never read Moby Dick, and then I got bored with this.