YOUR favorite authors + top 10 most popular authors
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2022
- Hi friends!!!
In today's video, I'm reacting to, and sharing, YOUR favorite authors!
I asked on my instagram @carolynmariereads who your #1 favorite author was, and so many of you answered! A lot of you had the same favorite author, so I also compiled a top 10 of the most popular/favorite (classic) authors! I think it's fascinating to see which authors we all love so deeply!
I'd love to know which books by these authors are your favorites in the comments as well, so feel free to share!
Sending you my very best wishes,
Carolyn Marie :)
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"Jane Austen is basically the inventor of the romantic comedy" several points were made there
Oh my god I love Agatha Christie so much! I'm currently on a quest to read all her novels and short story collections, so far I have read 49 of them lol. If you'd like to read more of her work, I would recommend:
- "And then there were none" (10/10 ambiance and well-crafted, it's well-known for a good reason),
- "The murder of Roger Ackroyd" (my personal favorite that got me into this quest),
- "The Crooked House",
- "Why didn't they ask Evans?" (this one is less whodunnit and more adventure, it's a lot of fun),
- "Cards on the table" (interesting concept).
Hopefully these recs can help out anyone who wants to get into her work!
As a Brazilian it feels so nice to see Machado de Assis as some people's favorite author! He was such an great author and should be more recognized ❤
Dostoevsky really touches my soul, there is so much more than few books I hear everyone talk about, so I will recommend "The Insulted and Humiliated", that book really stays in your heart forever. Authors that I don't hear anyone talk about, there's a lot but have to recommend "The Slave" by Isaac Bashevis Singer and "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque (with books to try and see...). All very emotional ❤
I was in 7th grade when a teacher recommend me this book now i am in 9th grade and haven't read it. Yesterday i complete White nights of Dostoevsky's work and while remembering it i felt that i need a little weeping 🥺
@@jane09644 I was young when I read it and now, 25 years from then I remember just crying through pages and pages, not tearing up, but really :) it stayed my favorite and made me fall in love with Dostoevsky, try it when feel like it, I'm sure you'll love it ;)
@@kiki-vg5zc surely will read it❤️
all quiet absolutely wrecked me… i hadn’t heard of it til my friend asked me to buddy read it with her, but it’s really one that sticks with you!
@@sitka0516 Yes! Somebody read it! I can't even start to explain how I feel about that book. I talk about it almost every day, recommending it to everyone, pick it up, read some paragraph where I put a tab and get instant chills. I picked it up randomly and wow... While reading it I had to put it away after few simple sentences, yet such deep thoughts so many times, because I was hit hard, just needed to inhale, breathe and process it saying wow... And knowing now that he wrote it after he lived it, in just few weeks, and it was burnt and... I have to stop lol :). I have a need to reread it again and again since the moment I finished it. It hits hard in some different ways that I can't explain and find a book to compare to. I say I love you to that book 😂💔
I haven’t really read that many books yet, but my favourite authors so far are Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas and Mikhail Bulgakov. I also adore Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
Ivan Turgenev is mine followed extremely closely by Virginia Woolf and Euripides (Ancient Greek playwright) but who doesn't love Jane Austen! Truly a universally beloved writer
I share the love for many of the authors featured here. But I'm sad to see the lack of Alexandre Dumas fans out there! Definitely needs a portrait, if you need ideas! :D
Fully agree. Dumas is outstanding.
Oh one of my all time favourites too!! When I was little my mum gave me a copy of The Three Musketeers for Christmas and I wore that copy out through endless re-reading. And now I've grown up I can't get enough of him either! I would love an author portrait of him!!!
@@theodorapantelich2535 Omg! The Three Musketeers is my favourite book ever! Everyone needs to read it!!
@@mizuki0328 I absolutely agree. My favourite book by my favourite author
If you are looking to read Kafka I would start with The Metamorphosis. It's considered his masterpiece and it's only around 80 pages.
My favorite authors have always been Victor Hugo and Dostoevsky... this year I have read The Dangerous Liaisons by Laclos and it has blown my mind! I would say he is up there with them, but as he only wrote that novel, there are no more work by him to compare and as to say "my fav author". 😅
But most definitely one author and book that should be read, discused and loved more; easy to approach, read and follow, interesting plot, memorable characters, masterful characterization, and all the different layers of meaning!
Laclos was a genious...
And I may be amidst a fangirling frenzy, so don't mind me that much either 😅
and i love white nights from dostoeovsky as well, its the loveliest novella i have ever read
I haven't read so many victorian or russian novels but i have read 'white nights' of Dostoevsky and i think my favorite author's gona be him♥️
also hi this is so cute i love this format so much
Your videos are the calming energy I need in my life 💓
Hi carolyn! I love your videos so much and I'm so happy that I've discovered your channel since I have this side where I also have the same interests as you! I love to hear your thoughts on absolutely everything! You're such a wonderful person and I consider you as my role model. Love you!!💚💚💚
thank u for reading my reply ! bruno schulz is both author and painter and his prose is the most beautiful, magical, poetic prose, he said himself that he wrote the way he painted
really digging the hue of that sweater, and it works so well with your complexion, too!
I love Machado de Assis and Jane Austen
Stephen King and Edgar Allen Poe are my favorites! I love the spooky books!
Glad some people mentioned Neil Gaiman! he is my favorite, such a creative mind ♡
Oh wow, I didn't realise when I answered that question that it was for one of these videos! I got so excited when I saw the name WB Yeats coming up and then had a mini-heart attack (in the best way!) when I realised that person was me! Hahaha. I would be so intrigued to see what you make of Yeats' poetry, especially as he's such a famous poet that I don't tend to see discussed by my favourite BookTubers that much. If you ever do a Yeats author portrait, that would make me unbelievably happy - there's some photos of him that I really love, that I think your amazing talent would turn into such a stunning author portrait 😍❤
me who's fav author is Orwell:😢
1984 was a big eye opener! I understand Orwell completely!
Of course Jane Austen is #1! ❤️ Persuasion has become my favorite Austen novel. I'm 52 and I've had different favorites throughout my life. Teens- Pride and Prejudice, 20s-Sense and Sensibility, 30s-Emma, 40s -Mansfield Park
I'm very happy that Proust, my favorite author, was mentioned at least three times! But i love Tolstoy too. Anna Karienina is one of my favorite books. Well, Emma is my favorite Jane Austen's and my favorite Agatha's is And then there were none.
even though picking favorites is the TOUGHEST thing to do but i think we all love such videos
From the authors mentioned, of which I read at least one book, my favorite works:
Dickens: The Tuggses at Ramsgate (because I read only short stories)
Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None
Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath (reading right now)
Dostoevsky: The Adolescent
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Leo Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata.
In college mine were Balzac and Stendhal, now many years later it's C.S. Lewis. I love his non-fiction even more than his fiction. The Four Loves is one I've read about 3 times and planning on another read.
I didn’t get to answer the Instagram question, but my Top 3 are 1- Robert Caro (favorite book, “Master of the Senate”), 2-Leo Tolstoy (“War and Peace”), and 3-Ernest Hemingway (“The Old Man and the Sea”).
I struggled with Jane Austen until I read some literary criticism about her. Instead of trying to challenge the social norms of English society, in "Pride & Prejudice" she acknowledges them without endorsing them. That was a huge breakthrough for me and I immediately embraced her. Her characters are wonderful; her storylines and subtle commentaries are delightful. Ironically, Mr. Darcy's famous lake scene in the 1995 BBC production was created for the TV series and not part of the original novel. It enhanced Darcy's and Miss Bennett's relationship and makes Austen stand out even more. She is such a good writer!
Many thanks for your continuing TH-cam channel. I'm inspired to read, explore, and enjoy. "Anna Karenina" is now on my list.
My favourite Jane Austen is 'Persuasion', I love this story.
I'm happy to hear someone mention White Nights for the masterpiece it is. Admittedly I've only read a handful of his shorter bits but its sensitivity is unparalleled amongst anything I've read, from anyone other than maybe The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy. The ending is just brutal but it really does make you wonder whether the handful of fleeting moments is actually worth it in exchange for everything he's given up.
Did I hear Beatrix Potter?
My favorite authors are, roughly:
1. J.G. Ballard
2. H.P. Lovecraft
3. Vladimir Nabokov
4. Hunter S. Thompson
5. Cormac McCarthy
6. Thomas Pynchon
7. Philip Roth
8. Bret Easton Ellis
9. Donna Tartt
10. Chuck Palahniuk
Agatha Christie novel that I love is 'Murder at the Vicarage' , you should read this one Caroline, also Death on the Nile is a really good one.
Shoutout to my Markus Zusak peeps!!!
Favorite Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None, The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side, The Crooked House.
I love that I've read at least one book by each one of the Top 10 authors, except for Steinbeck (I'm going to correct that soon!), and Jane Austen is my absolute favourite too ❤️
About Kafka- I would start with A Hunger Artist, short stories or with The Metamorphosis, but I personally started with The Trial. I hope you will enjoy it!
FAVORITE AUTHORS
1) Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons)
2) Leo Tolstoy (Resurrection)
3) Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Idiot)
4) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich)
5) C. S. Lewis (The Magician's Nephew)
6) J. R. R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
7) Isaac Asimov (Foundation and Empire)
8) Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
9) Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer)
10) George Eliot (Silas Marner)
But then Ivan Turgenev did state that one day all the authors would sit under the shade of Leo Tolstoy and that was only after his first two books: "Childhood" and "Boyhood."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
hardy didn't break the top 10? i have work to do 🏃♀
I guessed it! :) My favourite author is Klaus Mann.
No way! I love Klaus Mann too but I've never met anyone who even knows who he is haha
Pity I missed that poll and didn't give another vote for Virginia Woolf! I have read so many of her books already and plan on reading them all! Also, falling in love with Edith Wharton at the moment!
For Agatha Christie I’d recommend Five Little Pigs, Hallowe’en Party, and And Then There Were None (it’s not my all time FAVORITE of hers, but it’s a standalone and definitely keeps you guessing until the very end so I think it’s a good one to start with)
I love Matt Haig, he's my favorite author.
A couple of authors who write beautifully and whose characters stay with you forever are John Irving (Cider House Rules and Hotel New Hampshire) and Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides and The Water is Wide), just to name a couple of books for each. There could be triggers as well.
Hmm guessing Austen took the second spot 🤔 i do enjoy her books, her sarcasm and wit is a joy to read
Hi Carolyn🌷I was wondering whether you’re going to restock your Virginia Woolf portrait on etsy. It’s my Virginia Woolf… “reread year” and I would love to have your artwork as a bookmark. Thanks.
Lol I love the 1000 different ways everybody wrote Dostoevsky
John Grisham, Louis L’Amour, Frank Peretti, and John Steinbeck.
my compliments to the two accounts that picked Nabokov!🤍
Do look into Bruno Schulz! He’s magnificent!
Dickens is at 10??? That is the one that is stupefyingly low.
The Austen love, on the other hand, is NOT a surprise.
Oftentimes the adaptations of Agatha Christie are easier to recommend than the books themselves, though this is more from a personal standpoint since her plots are twisty enough that consuming it *on the page* only works if I can give it my undivided attention. (Schedule-wise it's become near-impossible.) The exception, which ironically hasn't been adapted for the screen, is the underrated "Destination Unknown".
If there were ever a titan among authors, it's Dostoevsky. The way he combines psychology, morality and the little details about life in poverty is what keeps me coming back to "Crime & Punishment". Out of any novel from the 19th century, that one is the most cinematic and therefore causes the most frustration how filmmakers have no clue how to adapt it. It's so easy!!
"The Grapes of Wrath" was an assignment in my grade 12 English, and it's been burned into my brain ever since as so ambitious a novel that I was the only one who came out of that course with enjoyment of it.
"To the Lighthouse" is a recent purchase. When describing to friends the novel I'm planning to write, some of them say it reminds them of what Virginia Woolf would do, so I was curious.
Death on the Nile should be one of the best
Mary Higgins Clark
19:15 ... Don't mind you babbling on--forever! Please, Babble ...🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉😍😍😍😍😍😍
Barbara Kingsolver, best living American author IMHO.
My favourite authors are Alexandre Dumas, Franz Kafka,Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte Brontë
For Kafka try Metamorphosis
mine is Fredrick Backman
Ela nem tentou ler o comentário da moça que mencionou o Machado de Assis (tristeza)
Nem o José Saramago!
Enfim...
Paulo Coelho..
Dostoevsky and Jane austen
Even though i feel like they are extreme opposites of eachother... in life, in writing, in a alot of things... yet there is something to connect in both and be moved by... ❤
If i had to choose .. Dostoevsky it is!!!
I'm starting to like Leo Tolstoy
Stephen King is by far my favourite author. I also love Charles Dickens (he has the same birthday as me!) 😂
Hello
My favorite author is Don Quixote de la Mancha
At the moment Daphne Du Maurier eg Rebecca, wonderfully moody.
Anne Rice
I hope you have a great day at the wedding!🍾
For me, It's between Philip K. Dick, Dolores Cannon, and Thomas Sowell... not exactly literary authors though
for agatha christie: read crooked house! fabulous mystery
Rk narayan. gene wolfe. proust. shakespeare. shelley. hughes.borges, e m forster dickens.
I would love to read Tolstoi, but I'm so afraid that I'm too dumb for his masterpieces.
I would say: go for it! He writes in a surprisingly easy to follow way, and chapters are very short, so gives the info slowly and there is time to process it between chapters :)
No, you are not! What a lot of nonsense!
@@snowyhut5205 Do you have any idea which book I should try for my first read?
@@athenapalladi1197 Haha. Sometimes I feel like a little, tiny piece of nothing, too small for the greatness of the literature world. I mean, I love reading and my room is filled with amazing books. And yes, I even read classics like Steinbeck, Rilke, Goethe, Schiller, (...), but I still feel this fear of being not enough for the huge talent of the old times. Am I weird? Yes, I'm pretty sure. I write myself and never would call me a good writer. I ignore the people who say "You are!". I just think I'm not worthy and intelligent enough for the big writers. 😄
@@janniszeiger Even more my respect to you if you write yourself! Life is too short to leave the best parts of it for some time later... Every soul created by God is worthy) And I would advise you to read Dostoevsky, not Tolstoy. Dostoevsky is the greatest. Just believe me...
And then there were none - Agatha Christie !
AGATHA CHRISTIE!
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is the best writer in the world.
Why did you repeatedly ignore everyone who mentioned Portuguese speaking authors?
😔 so sad about how americans don't care much about latin authors: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian... you didn't even read the reference to Machado de Assis, the most incredible 19th century author from Brazil!
I love all of them but that was a very white people only list
Not to sound sexist but 99% of the top 3 -favourite- writers are fully male why though?