the weirdest books I’ve ever read 📚(that I also love)

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  • @PeruseProject
    @PeruseProject  ปีที่แล้ว +6

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  • @joodeetee9693
    @joodeetee9693 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Books like Piranesi where the setting/building makes no sense are like catnip to me! Others I’ve loved are Slade House, Catherine House, The Hollow Places and House of Leaves 🤪😁 .

    • @mothmallow
      @mothmallow ปีที่แล้ว

      I loved The Hollow Places!

    • @joodeetee9693
      @joodeetee9693 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mothmallow Its levels of ‘WTF is happening’ were deliciously high 😆.

  • @FadiAntwan
    @FadiAntwan ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The Library at Mount Char is by far the weirdest and craziest book I’ve ever read lol. I loved it.

    • @whydoweneedahandlehun
      @whydoweneedahandlehun 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I see many people recommending this book. Can you please me if has romance or s xual as ault or something? I avoid those kinda books.

  • @urvashikaushik7075
    @urvashikaushik7075 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Piranesi is the best book I've ever read! This is one of my favourite books!!💕😍

    • @MichaelSmith-zx5lw
      @MichaelSmith-zx5lw 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How can you go from "best book I've ever read" to then delegate it to "one of my favourite books".
      You either love it above anything else or you don't.

  • @cassandrajim9207
    @cassandrajim9207 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I loved Bunny and Piranesi! I would add “The Library at Mount Char” and “Lonely Castle in the Mirror “ as super weird but solid reads 😊

  • @throneofpages
    @throneofpages ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Piranesi!!! such an incredible book i could not put it down the whole way through 🥰

  • @aksh5523
    @aksh5523 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Thank you for introducing me to urban fantasy, I'm actually a thriller reader but used to love watching your videos since 2020 and now I'm obsessed with the fantasy genre. Currently reading Jade war. Thank you Raegan, love from India ❤

    • @emc_4987
      @emc_4987 ปีที่แล้ว

      What are your top thriller recommendations! I’m super intrigued to hear from a thriller reader 👀

    • @aksh5523
      @aksh5523 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@emc_4987 ofcourse! Daisy Darker, Good daughter by Karin Slaughter, The Maidens, Home before Dark by Riley Sager, The book of cold cases by Simone St James, The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley, The Guest List by Lucy Foley, Local woman missing by Mary Kubica..... Sorry if I overwhelmed you with too many recs

    • @emc_4987
      @emc_4987 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aksh5523 no such thing as too many recs!

    • @emc_4987
      @emc_4987 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aksh5523 thank you so much for your recommendations ☺️

    • @aksh5523
      @aksh5523 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@emc_4987 you're welcome 😊

  • @TheMissDistortion
    @TheMissDistortion ปีที่แล้ว +1

    More than 250 books later, Piranesi remains my top read since I’ve rekindled with reading during the pandemic. Such a brilliant book!

  • @renee_3364
    @renee_3364 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love almost all these books!! Would like to recommend Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins, Ghost Music by An Yu and most of Jeff Vandermeers work.

  • @theghostsofgiants
    @theghostsofgiants 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Apropos of absolutely nothing but that cardigan you're wearing in your ad read is incredible

  • @TheGirlAlpha
    @TheGirlAlpha ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Il recomend Vita Nostra ! It blew my mind like a book never did ! A mix of dark academia and a very New Magic system 🤯

  • @Femmadt
    @Femmadt ปีที่แล้ว +15

    i dont think i have ever been as puzzled and touched by a book as I was when I read piranesi. I will always recommend it (and yet also always struggle to recommend it cuz how the hell do you explain that book to someone?!?!)

  • @brennahanley6733
    @brennahanley6733 ปีที่แล้ว

    You had me at "This book feels like an absolute fever dream" - that's my jam

  • @ClumsyCharlott
    @ClumsyCharlott ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved this list! I've heard about many of these books before, but hearing you talk about them again made me finally add them to my want-to-read and wishlists!

  • @HannahGreendale
    @HannahGreendale ปีที่แล้ว

    I absolutely loved When Women Were Dragons! I'm glad to see you feature it here, as I feel it's a marvelous book that's been inexplicably overlooked both with readers and with book prizes.

  • @deborah3709
    @deborah3709 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "mass dragoning"? I am intrigued.

  • @thelitnerd
    @thelitnerd ปีที่แล้ว

    Bunny and Piranesi were a couple of my favorite books I read last year! Weird books are often my favorite because they make me motivated to read and figure out what's going on as fast as possible lol

    • @kurlykaitlyn
      @kurlykaitlyn ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Read Lapnova by Otessa. Lol craziest book I’ve ever read!!!!! More crazy than her other books

  • @DecemberMagpie
    @DecemberMagpie ปีที่แล้ว

    One of my all-time favourite "weird" books are Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling and The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern. Other books in this category that I've enjoyed are American Hippo by Sarah Perry, and All the Names by José Saramago. If you want to go the Manga route I recommend My Roomie Is A Dino series by Moriko Mori

  • @hollymrozak
    @hollymrozak ปีที่แล้ว

    I LOVE WEIRD BOOKS! THANK YOU!! ❤❤ Give us more recs when you have them!!

  • @rebekah7671
    @rebekah7671 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wooooah, I have not been here in a hot minute (life has been so busy and had no time for TH-cam) but have been watching you since 2016. You are looking AMAZING! I love that cardigan and you are glowing. You look so beautiful.

  • @ZeeZeeDreaming
    @ZeeZeeDreaming ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Weird books are my jam!

  • @BrindleBoxerMax
    @BrindleBoxerMax ปีที่แล้ว

    Read 3 of these so added the others to my TBR. When women were dragons, Piranesi and Senlin Ascends were all great and weird.

  • @FunFantasyBooks
    @FunFantasyBooks ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gosh I adored Piranesi! I thought I was going to hate it, but loved it absolutely! I am so scared tho to get to The Books of Babel!

  • @mariareadsssf
    @mariareadsssf ปีที่แล้ว

    I love "Piranesi" so I'll definetelly try these. My recommendation is "Tainaron: Mail from Another City" by Leena Krohn.

  • @ReadingNymph
    @ReadingNymph ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved Bunny. Im reading Mrs Death Misses Death in April ♡

  • @tintenschreiberin4362
    @tintenschreiberin4362 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of the craziest book I've read is definitive harrow the ninth and i loved it. I'm also an huge fan of the bone orchard.

  • @jorgelopez-pr6dr
    @jorgelopez-pr6dr ปีที่แล้ว

    Although it is not a novel ,I read recently a short story which terryfied me as no one has done in a long time:"The Old Portrait" by Hume Nisbet.

  • @cindyfreese254
    @cindyfreese254 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I just finished The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida and loved it. It’s magical realism, political satire with a thriller mixed in. Weird but funny!

  • @aeschultz
    @aeschultz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love bizarre books, esp with a morbid twist. I just read Mother Thing and thought it was great! How would you feel if you were being haunted and pursued by your horrible dead mother in law?

  • @elsielinstrom
    @elsielinstrom ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this video concept!!

  • @Amanda-qt6lc
    @Amanda-qt6lc ปีที่แล้ว

    Maybe I need to try Piranesi again. I kept falling asleep, DNF around 80 pages. everyone says it's amazing, so maybe it deserves another chance.

  • @mothmallow
    @mothmallow ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think one of the strangest books I've read is Mrs. Caliban. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it, but I did force my friend to read it so I could talk about it with someone.

    • @deirdre108
      @deirdre108 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wonderful review! Yours should be on he book's cover.

  • @Morfeusm
    @Morfeusm ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh Regan I love weird books! Piranesi is one of my favorites!
    My favorite weird book is: Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. The genre is literally called new weird. And it’s a steampunk urban fantasy! He also has a shorter standalone dystopian novel the City and the City.
    Also reading weird book just right now and that’s The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan and I love it so much!

  • @JayGTheAwkwardBookworm
    @JayGTheAwkwardBookworm ปีที่แล้ว

    I really need to read my copy of bunny!

  • @pinkpostit6615
    @pinkpostit6615 ปีที่แล้ว

    THIS is how you advertise casetify. I can’t believe you just threw your phone 😂

  • @Indigo_snakes
    @Indigo_snakes ปีที่แล้ว

    I released a breath I didn’t know I was holding when you picked back up your phone from dropping it on the floor - girlllll you crazy??

  • @kurlykaitlyn
    @kurlykaitlyn ปีที่แล้ว

    Lapnova by Otessa and Bunny by Mona awad. Such weird shit but I definitely laughed and enjoyed bunny for it’s bizarre sorority girls. Lapnova was a little too cray cray 😂

  • @lorawaye
    @lorawaye ปีที่แล้ว

    With your recommendation I tried to read Mrs Death Misses Death… but I just couldn’t do it. It felt winding in a… boring way. I wanted so badly to love it, but ended up selling it to the used book store in hopes that someone else has a better experience 😢

  • @TheDisplacerBeast
    @TheDisplacerBeast ปีที่แล้ว

    Ive been looking at piranesi a while.

  • @kiddocter13
    @kiddocter13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Once you read Sorrowland, you will add that book to this list!

  • @NicoleMae
    @NicoleMae ปีที่แล้ว

    love love love

  • @mlleChesca
    @mlleChesca ปีที่แล้ว

    oh bunny 🐰 😂❤

  • @lesleyspear7933
    @lesleyspear7933 ปีที่แล้ว

    Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko is very odd, I would recommend the audio, it was amazing but very very odd.

  • @laurenschenck5355
    @laurenschenck5355 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Piranesi one of my favorite books and absolutely weird and cool and i read it is was awesome xoxo 😘 💔💓📚🖤🌷🌷🌻📙🌻🌷🌷🌻📙📙📚📚🌼💛💚💚🌷🌻🌷🌻📚📚📚🖤🌼💓📖📖📖💘❤️💐💕💝💗💗💝🧡❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹💔💞💛🌷🌻🌻📙📙📚📚📚💓📖💘💘💗💝🌹💕💞💞💚🌷🌻📙📙🌷🖤📚📚💓🤎❤️‍🩹

  • @angelaholmes8888
    @angelaholmes8888 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You definitely should check out the dark tower series by Stephen king it's weird but so great 🤔

    • @joalgustas6498
      @joalgustas6498 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree with this. There are A LOT of other books, stories and authors referenced in this series too. This series is one his best. I really recommend it Regan!

  • @Tetsujin-28
    @Tetsujin-28 ปีที่แล้ว

    Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer.
    Short story: In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka.

    • @Morfeusm
      @Morfeusm ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh yeah Kafka is wonderful!

  • @nilulal545
    @nilulal545 ปีที่แล้ว

    Weird!! I'm all ears!! 😃

  • @salkinfamilychiropractic3142
    @salkinfamilychiropractic3142 ปีที่แล้ว

    Any Haruki Murakami?

  • @theadora1693
    @theadora1693 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow new buzzphrase for me, I guess. "mass dragoning"

  • @bouftouhconcours-pk4oj
    @bouftouhconcours-pk4oj ปีที่แล้ว

    I really liked your channel.

  • @marthabrick7123
    @marthabrick7123 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love castify🎉

  • @lizibeff
    @lizibeff ปีที่แล้ว

    I have to subscribe to anyone who recommends bunny lol. Have found my people

  • @angelaholmes8888
    @angelaholmes8888 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Unfortunately I didn't enjoy the bone orchard

  • @Nevadiez999
    @Nevadiez999 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    🐉🐉🐉

  • @Carla-qz3ho
    @Carla-qz3ho ปีที่แล้ว

    Senlin Ascends is not cozy lol

  • @lynnelashua3817
    @lynnelashua3817 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Could you please hold books closer to camera and also your fingers are covering names.

  • @alexidaze
    @alexidaze ปีที่แล้ว

    I cant. Every time I see a casetify app I gotta comment. They cases fall apart after months.

  • @msbooktalker
    @msbooktalker ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Weird book recommendation: unlikely animals by Annie hartnett-very strange mixture of real historical artifacts with a touch of magic 🪄

    • @Jane42.
      @Jane42. ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I loved both of Annie Hartnetts books. Great suggestion.

  • @laurenschenck5355
    @laurenschenck5355 ปีที่แล้ว

    SO EXCITED!! 🌺🖤💞💞💓💕💕🌷💚🌷💕🌞🌼🌼🌞🌷💜💓💐💐🌻💞🤎💛🖤🖤❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹💝🌺💔💘💙❤️💐🌻💚💚🌷💕🌞🌼🌼🌼🌼💕💚💚💜💝💝❤️‍🩹🖤🖤💞🧡💐💐🌻💕🌷🌷💚🌞🌼💛💗🤍💝💝❣️🌹💙💙❤️❤️❤️📖📚📙📙📙📚📚📖📖📚📙📙📙📚📖📖📖📙📙📙📙📖📖📚📙📚📚

  • @FirstPrince1992
    @FirstPrince1992 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All the Animals of Earth by Mark Sampson; It's a weird book where about half of the animals around the world start turning into humans.

  • @laurenschenck5355
    @laurenschenck5355 ปีที่แล้ว

    BEST RECOMMENDATIONS Regan! Love them all so much xoxo 😘 💐🌞💚🌼💙📙📙📚📚💚💚💙🌷❤️💕🌻🌻🌞💝💐🌞💞💞💜💛🧡🖤💗🤍❣️❤️‍🩹🤎💔💘❤️‍🩹💞💞💚🌼💙📖📚📙📙📚💚🌼🌷🌻💛💛🤎💔💓🖤🌻🌻🌻🖤🌷🌷📚📙📙