I’m currently reading that book! The first 50 pages took me over a year to get through but now I’m halfway through and can’t wait to find out where the story goes.
The german book title for "Convenience Store Woman" is "Die Ladenhüterin" which means simultaneously "Woman who protects the store" and "Product that does never get bought and therefore sits in the store forever". I think that's brilliant.
Wow, thank you so much for this story, I always wondered why they translated it like this and I didn’t that’s what you call products that don’t get bought. 😅
My personal favorite is "I'm Glad My Mom Died". I saw this at the store and bought it just from the title. I wanted to know how the author would justify this title. And oh boy, justify she did. "The Palace of Illusions", "The Kind Worth Killing", "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" & "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" are few favorites too.
One of my favorite book titles ever is a short story collection called “the trees grew because I bled there “, there is something about this sentence that’s just so beautiful and kinda scary too , which is exactly what this book offers .
I made a list of titles that Jack mentioned: 1. Build Your House Around My Body 2:01 2. No One is Talking About This 2:17 3. Something Wicked This Way Comes 2:44 4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being 2:59 5. The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-time 3:32 6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 3:34 7. All the Lovers in the Night 3:36 8. Breast and Eggs 3:40 9. Tender is the Night 4:03 10. A Moveable Feast 4:13 11. Things We Say in the Dark 4:46 12. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 5:01 13. Me Talk Pretty One Day 7:32 14. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck 7:35 15. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 7:43 16. How to Kill your Family 8:08 17. Send Nudes 8:16 18. Everyone in This Room will Someday be Dead 8:44 19. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory 9:06 20. Before the Coffee Gets Cold 9:20 21. Much Ado About Nothing 9:51 22. I’m Glad My Mom Died 10:03 23. I want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki 10:57 24. I Fear My Pain Interest You 11:00 25. Through The Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping 11:09 26. South of The Border, West of The Sun 11:37 27. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World 12:08 28. The Illicit Happiness of Other People 12:22 29. My Dark Vanessa 12:28
You should do this with book covers too! A good cover will always get me. They say don't judge a book by its cover, but I think if the author/publisher has good taste on a cover, I know they'll have good taste in writing. It's worked for me every time.
Another thing though, we go into reading these unique titles with certain expectations. I usually think that such brilliant titles would lead to an equally brilliant plot and writing. But nothing disappoints more than when the amazingness of the title doesn't translate to the story.
Oh wow!! I haven’t gotten to the end of the video but I’m reading the comments and I’m so surprised he didn’t mention it!! That’s definitely one of my favorite titles ever.
I absolutely love The Importance of Being Earnest, the title perfectly describes the direction of the story, its moral lesson and references a character(s) so elegantly!
My favorites: -On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous -At Night All Blood is Black -If We Were Villains -The Collected Regrets of Clover -The World Keeps Ending, and The World Goes On
I really like « Crying in H Mart ». It’s what the story is about (grief, family, food, being Korean-American) and it’s quite graphical, you can picture someone crying in H-Mart.
my personal favourite title is "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me", it's a 1960s novel written by a guy who died in a motorcycle crash a few days after it was published and one of the most undeservedly unknown novels ever. it's just a clever title and a reference to a blues song.
A Swedish author, Amanda Svensson, had a book translated to english that is called: A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding When it came out in swedish I instantly reacted to the title, I think it’s beautiful. It is also longlisted for the International Booker Prize this year 😊
a recent favorite for me is "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" not only is it memorable, but it's also just such a perfect title for the story. but my all time favorite title is probably "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" it's so intriguing and again, a perfect title for the story.
My favourite without a doubt is "Turtles all the way down", just at first look you are very intrigued by it and want to know more and when u actually learn about the title It gives you a lot of meaning and all the metaphors in the book which are actually connected to this title are just brilliant. My second would be "Beautiful world, where are you?" I remember just have great expectations for this as a title so beautiful really asks you the question of how beautiful is the books actually.
I absolutely adore the title “Lie With Me”. It’s one of those titles that have even more meaning after reading the book. I love how it depicts both the act of lying as in omitting, keeping a secret (of their relationship) but also the romantic sense of lying down, being together with. Another title that also makes me swoon is “Alone with you in the ether” it’s such a poetic title and fits the story SO well
My all time favorite book title is: "When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back" By Naja Marie Aidt. Not "let it go" but "give it back" I love that so much. It is also my favorite book, though I have never managed to read it to the end as my eyes will overflow every 5 pages.
That book is wonderful! It’s about a mother’s tragic loss of her son, how she copes - or does not cope with the grief, and how she finds herself being unable to write (she’s a quite established Danish writer)
Ocean Vuong has beautiful book titles, "Time is a Mother" is another great one of his. I love Akwaeke Emezi's "You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty" too.
Some of my favorites are: -All The Light We Cannot See -Perks Of Being A Wallflower -The Fault In Our Stars -A Thousand Splendid Suns -Heart Of Darkness
Such a cool video idea, I love long book titles! Some of my favorites are “when breath becomes air” by Paul Kalanithi, “their eyes were watching god” by Zora Neale Hurston, “human acts” by Han Kang (I know this one’s rather simple, but it’s just so perfectly chosen for the content of the book. The Korean original title 소년이 온다 is also really cool), “night sky with exit wounds” by Ocean Vuong (like could a poetry book have a more gorgeous title?) and the German title for Michaela DePrince’s “taking flight”: Ich kam mit dem Wüstenwind, which translates as ‘I came with the desert wind’ and I just think that’s a stunning title for a memoir^^
I love all of Kazuo Ishiguro’s, Khaled Hosseini’s and Ruth Ozeki’s book titles, they’re just next level when it comes to fiction! And also Joan Didion, Eve Babitz and Patti Smith when it comes to non-fiction!
A favourite of mine, but also one of my favourite titles (especially for a short story collection), is "What we talk about when we talk about love" by Raymond Carver. Also, "The sense of an ending" by Julian Barnes ; "One hundred years of solitude" and "Chronicle of a death fortold" by Marquez; "Requiem for a dream" by Hubert Shelby Jr; "The man who mistook his wife for a hat"; "How high we go in the dark" ; "A thousand splendid suns" + "And the mountains echoed" by Hosseini. So may...
As we move into the Spooky Month, I strongly recommend the horror novella "I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House". The title pulled me in, the story kept me in. I'm hoping the sequel, I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls, is just as good.
Jack’s book recs are always so good! Also I think these book title sounds really good though I haven’t read them yet - Cleopatra and Frankstein , You made a fool of death with your beauty, and the language of rose which apparently is not your typical beauty and the beast retelling ❤
'Our Share Of Night' by Mariana Enríquez has stuck with me (especially in Spanish) mostly because of how it completely captures the whole book plot and its most important relationship (father and son). I also love 'Things We Lost in the Fire' though I haven't read it yet. Finally, 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous' 👏
Here are a few of my faves titles (in no particular order)! i love the way they roll off the tongue and produce such striking imagery! 1. Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan (novel) 2. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (short story collection) 3. Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal by Jeanette Winterson (memoir) 4. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine (hybrid-genre CNF) 5. A Pig Was Once Killed in our Garage by Martin Villanueva (CNF by a local writer from my country) 6. A Dream of Women by Lakambini Sitoy (short story by a local writer from my country as well) 7. The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir (short story collection) 8. The Night is Darkening Around Me by Emily Brontë (poem title also used by a penguin classics EB collection)
Here are a few of my favorite titles you didn’t mention: I know you’re not a fan for some inexplicable reason, but Douglas Adams’ “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish” and “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”; Anne Tyler’s “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant”; Becky Albertalli’s “The Upside of Unrequited”; Gabriel García Márquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”; Christopher Bram’s “Lives of the Circus Animals”; David Leavitt’s “The Lost Language of Cranes”; and of course J.D. Salinger’s “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.”
Personal Favs: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, This Sjde of Paradise, You Feel it Just Below the Ribs, ans On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Some of my favorite book titles! - I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself - A Confederacy of Dunces - A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again - Wishful Drinking - I Feel Bad About My Neck - How Not To Drown In A Glass of Water - Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
You're such a joy to listen to Jack, been watching you since 2017 (since your studytube days lol), and your evolution in personality + content has been incredible to see. Booktube King fr ❤
I immediately thought of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," and although I'm not entirely sure why, but I think it's because it has such a hopefully sound to it... life growing in an inhospitable environment or something.
I feel like Tender is the night is the best one! It comes from a Keats poem -- I like book titles from poems. 'A thousand splendid suns' and 'Slouching towards Bethlehem' and 'things fall apart' are all from poems, (the last two from the same Yeats poem!).
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days (the title was so ridiculous, I had to buy it immediately) 😂😂 - One Hundred Years of Solitude - And Then There Were None - The Importance of Being Earnest - Pride and Prejudice
I am beyond excited to hear you talk more about the Unbearable Lightness of Being! And what perfect timing- I fell in love with it two years ago, and just decided to do a reread, I have about 20 pages left! Also didn’t know about Milan Kundera’s passing, what odd timing.
my favourite is "Eu receberia as piores notícias dos seus lindos lábios", which translates to "I'd receive the worst news from your beautiful lips". but I'm not good at translating into english, so it just sounds like a panic at the disco song. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" is also gorgeous in portuguese, it's "A Insustentável Leveza do Ser"
Mine right now is: Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson & Jay Cooper. It was a book I didn't know I needed and I am glad to have found it.
"The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove" by Christopher Moore, Leonard Wibberley's novel The Mouse That Roared", "The Book of the Dun Cow" by Walter Wangerin Jr., "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" from Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
Haven't read them but love the titles: "You made a fool of death with your beauty" & "On earth we're briefly gorgeous" Also like: "In my dreams I hold a knife"
i LOVE how CSLewis' cupid and psyche retelling is called 'till we have faces' bcs like... she doesn't know cupid's face like its like a pun but it sounds so cool
I'd say my favourite is Auldous Huxley's "Brave New World" - it just sounds so poetic to me and completely contrary to the grim atmosphere the book puts you in. I also love: - Alone with you in the ether - just plain beautiful - I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki - because, well, I want to die but I do love tteokbokki - Tender is the night - just makes me imagine a warm summer sunset that feels like a hug
"When Breath Becomes Air" is a beautiful title and coincidentally my favourite book of all time. I talk about and think about this book CONSTANTLY, I could swear people hate me for it.
Hey Jack! Wanted to let you know about the Philadelphia Bookstore Map, which was just released! It was a grassroots effort to create a map that shows all the bookstores in Philly--could be a fun video idea whenever you're in the US again!
'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by K. Hosseini, 'The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy, 'All the light we cannot see", 'On Earth We are briefly gorgeous"
One that immediately comes to mind is Signs Preceding the End of the World (Señales que precederán al fin del mundo) by Yuri Herrera. East of Eden, from the Bible verse "And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden." I'm not even religious but that title just hits me.
One of my favorite Story title is from a fanfiction called "The negligible self". This title really struck me and kinda ripped my heart out because its so... easy to grap what the primiary struggle here will be and its so sad because its also so easily said...
“The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, “If Cats Disappeared from the World”, “A Case of Exploding Mangoes”, “I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki”, “The Empire of Pain”, “Beloved”, “A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better”, “And Then There Were None”, “Flowers for Algernon”. Some of the titles I often think back to
You are my favorite book person on the internet, one of my favorite titles is “ this is how you lose the time war” and “on earth we’re briefly gorgeous”
When he says both of my favorite titles(and one of my favorites) one after the other... the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime and the perks of being a wallflower:)
The title (and book) that always stuck with me is “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil” ❤️ I also love “A system so magnificent it is blinding” and “The artificial silk girl”
Jack (since it seems like you haven't actually read Pale Fire yet), a Vanessa is a type of butterfly - that's what Nabokov was referring to (he was a major collector of butterflies).
"you are eating an orange, you are naked", "alone with you in the ether", "indelicacy", "who will run the frog hospital?", "i hold a wolf by the ears", "in the café of lost youth", "i will die in a foreign land", "hit parade of tears", "ada or ardor", "motherthing", "sweet days of discipline", & "a mango-shaped space" are some of my favorites
I love this so much! I keep a list of my favourite book titles on my phone and Someone who will love you in all your damaged glory has been on it for the longest time!!
Some book titles I love - I Know This Much is True - Someone Who Will Love You in All of Your Damaged Glory - On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous - The Fire Never Goes Out - This is Where I Leave You - All the Light we cannot see - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Brave New World - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark - Art is a Tyrant - The Body is Not an Apology - The End of the World is a Cul de Sac - Boy Swallows Universe - My Glory Was That I Had Such Friends - Acts of Service - Some Day this Pain will be useful to you - God’s children are little broken things - There are places in the world where rules are less important than kindness
"on earth we're briefly gorgeous", "night sky with exit wounds", "this way to the sugar", "interpreter of maladies" and "in a dream you saw a way to survive" are some of my favourites! by ocean vuong, ocean vuong, hieu minh nguyen, jhumpa lahiri and clementine von radics respectively!
I always loved "The Name of the Wind" it just flows in a way that perfectly describes the authors writing style! The second book "A Wise Man's Fear" is also incredible because of the way the title is revealed in the book. I also love Sabaa Tahirs book titles "An Ember in the Ashes" and particularly "A Sky Beyond the Storm". Ruta Sepetys book "Shades of Grey" is called "Rays of Hope" in swedish which I just love. (I did not know I was so passionate about book titles)
becky chambers has some absolutely fantastic ones. The wayfarer series especially has some of my favorites - "The long way to a small, angry planet" "a closed and common orbit" (that one's probably my favorite, its just so poetic and fits the story in such a subtle but profound way) "Record of a spaceborn few" and "The Galexy and the ground within". "A Psalm for the wild-built" is also suchh a banger
"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" always stuck with me. Profound and beautiful. I think of both the title and the book itself often.
I’m currently reading that book! The first 50 pages took me over a year to get through but now I’m halfway through and can’t wait to find out where the story goes.
I was waiting for this one. this book inspired my first tattoo.
Agree
OmG yesss how did he not mention it
And “night sky with exit wounds” like whot!!!!!!!
I read that book only bcoz of the title, also the fact that its not just a title but actually taken from the text of the book 💯
The german book title for "Convenience Store Woman" is "Die Ladenhüterin" which means simultaneously "Woman who protects the store" and "Product that does never get bought and therefore sits in the store forever". I think that's brilliant.
It is indeed! :o Thanks for sharing!
Wow, thank you so much for this story, I always wondered why they translated it like this and I didn’t that’s what you call products that don’t get bought. 😅
I would listen to an hour-long lecture about how that word came to have both those meanings. Absolutely fascinating!
“I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness” always has me in amazement and Claire’s writing is just too good.
My personal favorite is "I'm Glad My Mom Died". I saw this at the store and bought it just from the title. I wanted to know how the author would justify this title. And oh boy, justify she did.
"The Palace of Illusions", "The Kind Worth Killing", "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" & "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" are few favorites too.
came here to comment this.
YES, and I love when the book title doesn’t make any sense until you read a certain part of the book
Are u indian? Asking because u mentioned The Palace Of Illusions (I love that book 😭)
@@junainahrahman4156 Yupp. Also a fan of anything Chitra Banerjee writes!
@@nezukochan86have u read before we visit the goddess?
One of my favorite book titles ever is a short story collection called “the trees grew because I bled there “, there is something about this sentence that’s just so beautiful and kinda scary too , which is exactly what this book offers .
Yesss, came to the comments to make sure this one was here, one of the best!
"On earth we're briefly gorgeous" is a really pretty title and captures the beautiful story so well
I was surprised that title wasn’t on this list
@@niki7120 me too
I made a list of titles that Jack mentioned:
1. Build Your House Around My Body 2:01
2. No One is Talking About This 2:17
3. Something Wicked This Way Comes 2:44
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being 2:59
5. The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-time 3:32
6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 3:34
7. All the Lovers in the Night 3:36
8. Breast and Eggs 3:40
9. Tender is the Night 4:03
10. A Moveable Feast 4:13
11. Things We Say in the Dark 4:46
12. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 5:01
13. Me Talk Pretty One Day 7:32
14. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck 7:35
15. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 7:43
16. How to Kill your Family 8:08
17. Send Nudes 8:16
18. Everyone in This Room will Someday be Dead 8:44
19. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory 9:06
20. Before the Coffee Gets Cold 9:20
21. Much Ado About Nothing 9:51
22. I’m Glad My Mom Died 10:03
23. I want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki 10:57
24. I Fear My Pain Interest You 11:00
25. Through The Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping 11:09
26. South of The Border, West of The Sun 11:37
27. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World 12:08
28. The Illicit Happiness of Other People 12:22
29. My Dark Vanessa 12:28
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy is so deadpan and raw especially within its context. It definitely strikes a chord.
fave title has to be.. a thousand splendid suns.. because it’s just such a mouthful to say.. AND IT SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL !!!!
Read this at mid-July and it's safe to say that it ruined my sanity in the best possible way 😭🤍
You should do this with book covers too! A good cover will always get me. They say don't judge a book by its cover, but I think if the author/publisher has good taste on a cover, I know they'll have good taste in writing. It's worked for me every time.
"Everyone brave is forgiven" by Chris Cleave is such a heartbreaking and beautiful title
Another thing though, we go into reading these unique titles with certain expectations. I usually think that such brilliant titles would lead to an equally brilliant plot and writing. But nothing disappoints more than when the amazingness of the title doesn't translate to the story.
I agree with you love 💕
Yesss very well said 👏
Jack, I can't believe you didn't put 'ALONE WITH YOU IN THE ETHER' into your list !!! 😭😭
Oh wow!! I haven’t gotten to the end of the video but I’m reading the comments and I’m so surprised he didn’t mention it!! That’s definitely one of my favorite titles ever.
“On earth we’re briefly gorgeous” will always be my favourite!!
“All The Bright Places” is one that really sticks with me. Such a poignant and heartbreaking book that still manages to hold onto hope.
YES. I typically hate romance novels, but this book was just so tragically gorgeous and has stuck with me for years.
We appreciate your recommendations, Jack. They mean a lot to us.
I absolutely love The Importance of Being Earnest, the title perfectly describes the direction of the story, its moral lesson and references a character(s) so elegantly!
My favorites:
-On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
-At Night All Blood is Black
-If We Were Villains
-The Collected Regrets of Clover
-The World Keeps Ending, and The World Goes On
I really like « Crying in H Mart ». It’s what the story is about (grief, family, food, being Korean-American) and it’s quite graphical, you can picture someone crying in H-Mart.
my personal favourite title is "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me", it's a 1960s novel written by a guy who died in a motorcycle crash a few days after it was published and one of the most undeservedly unknown novels ever. it's just a clever title and a reference to a blues song.
"the tiny things we know to be small" is one of my absolute favourites
The uni-verse is truly a genius title Jack! We're so proud of it too😭💓
A Swedish author, Amanda Svensson, had a book translated to english that is called:
A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding
When it came out in swedish I instantly reacted to the title, I think it’s beautiful. It is also longlisted for the International Booker Prize this year 😊
a recent favorite for me is "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" not only is it memorable, but it's also just such a perfect title for the story. but my all time favorite title is probably "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" it's so intriguing and again, a perfect title for the story.
My favourite without a doubt is "Turtles all the way down", just at first look you are very intrigued by it and want to know more and when u actually learn about the title It gives you a lot of meaning and all the metaphors in the book which are actually connected to this title are just brilliant. My second would be "Beautiful world, where are you?" I remember just have great expectations for this as a title so beautiful really asks you the question of how beautiful is the books actually.
I absolutely adore the title “Lie With Me”. It’s one of those titles that have even more meaning after reading the book. I love how it depicts both the act of lying as in omitting, keeping a secret (of their relationship) but also the romantic sense of lying down, being together with.
Another title that also makes me swoon is “Alone with you in the ether” it’s such a poetic title and fits the story SO well
My all time favorite book title is: "When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back" By Naja Marie Aidt. Not "let it go" but "give it back" I love that so much. It is also my favorite book, though I have never managed to read it to the end as my eyes will overflow every 5 pages.
That sounds sooo good! What is it about?
That book is wonderful! It’s about a mother’s tragic loss of her son, how she copes - or does not cope with the grief, and how she finds herself being unable to write (she’s a quite established Danish writer)
@@sibraxx ooh, I’m gonna add it to my tbr, it sounds like something I would love😍
"Diary of a void" and "on earth we're briefly gorgeous" are probably my favs
I haven't read that many books in English but I love The Secret History's title in Finnish which is The gods celebrate at night.
Ocean Vuong has beautiful book titles, "Time is a Mother" is another great one of his. I love Akwaeke Emezi's "You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty" too.
Some of my favorites are:
-All The Light We Cannot See
-Perks Of Being A Wallflower
-The Fault In Our Stars
-A Thousand Splendid Suns
-Heart Of Darkness
Such a cool video idea, I love long book titles! Some of my favorites are “when breath becomes air” by Paul Kalanithi, “their eyes were watching god” by Zora Neale Hurston, “human acts” by Han Kang (I know this one’s rather simple, but it’s just so perfectly chosen for the content of the book. The Korean original title 소년이 온다 is also really cool), “night sky with exit wounds” by Ocean Vuong (like could a poetry book have a more gorgeous title?) and the German title for Michaela DePrince’s “taking flight”: Ich kam mit dem Wüstenwind, which translates as ‘I came with the desert wind’ and I just think that’s a stunning title for a memoir^^
A book on my ever-growing TBR list, but "All Our Yesterdays" by Natalia Ginzburg. Fully bought it for the title and cover alone.
I love all of Kazuo Ishiguro’s, Khaled Hosseini’s and Ruth Ozeki’s book titles, they’re just next level when it comes to fiction! And also Joan Didion, Eve Babitz and Patti Smith when it comes to non-fiction!
IM GLAD U LIKE UR OWN TITLE BECAUSE (i bloody love it and) IT GOT ME THROUGH WRITING MY PERSONAL STATEMENT I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH
"When I Sing, Mountains Dance" by Irene Solà is my current favourite!
A favourite of mine, but also one of my favourite titles (especially for a short story collection), is "What we talk about when we talk about love" by Raymond Carver. Also, "The sense of an ending" by Julian Barnes ; "One hundred years of solitude" and "Chronicle of a death fortold" by Marquez; "Requiem for a dream" by Hubert Shelby Jr; "The man who mistook his wife for a hat"; "How high we go in the dark" ; "A thousand splendid suns" + "And the mountains echoed" by Hosseini. So may...
As we move into the Spooky Month, I strongly recommend the horror novella "I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House".
The title pulled me in, the story kept me in. I'm hoping the sequel, I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls, is just as good.
Jack’s book recs are always so good! Also I think these book title sounds really good though I haven’t read them yet - Cleopatra and Frankstein , You made a fool of death with your beauty, and the language of rose which apparently is not your typical beauty and the beast retelling ❤
'Our Share Of Night' by Mariana Enríquez has stuck with me (especially in Spanish) mostly because of how it completely captures the whole book plot and its most important relationship (father and son). I also love 'Things We Lost in the Fire' though I haven't read it yet. Finally, 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous' 👏
Here are a few of my faves titles (in no particular order)! i love the way they roll off the tongue and produce such striking imagery!
1. Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan (novel)
2. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (short story collection)
3. Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal by Jeanette Winterson (memoir)
4. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine (hybrid-genre CNF)
5. A Pig Was Once Killed in our Garage by Martin Villanueva (CNF by a local writer from my country)
6. A Dream of Women by Lakambini Sitoy (short story by a local writer from my country as well)
7. The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir (short story collection)
8. The Night is Darkening Around Me by Emily Brontë (poem title also used by a penguin classics EB collection)
i think “on earth we’re briefly gorgeous” is a stunning title
Tim Key’s book about being alone during lockdown “He Used Thought as a Wife” is one of my favorite book titles.
So many good ones! ❤
"You made a fool of death with your beauty" is a gorgeous one too!! 💘✨
Yes!!! I was about to comment this 🥰
Jack’s videos never fail to make me smile:)
Their Eyes Were Watching God is my favourite title. I’m not religious so I find it very interesting this title in particular made such a mark on me!
'Me being me is exactly as insane as you being you' is one of my faves, and I also really love 'Solutions and other Problems'
Here are a few of my favorite titles you didn’t mention: I know you’re not a fan for some inexplicable reason, but Douglas Adams’ “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish” and “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”; Anne Tyler’s “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant”; Becky Albertalli’s “The Upside of Unrequited”; Gabriel García Márquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”; Christopher Bram’s “Lives of the Circus Animals”; David Leavitt’s “The Lost Language of Cranes”; and of course J.D. Salinger’s “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.”
Personal Favs: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, This Sjde of Paradise, You Feel it Just Below the Ribs, ans On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Something Wicked This Way Comes comes from a line in Shakespeare's Macbeth, one of my favorite plays 💙
Exactly. No wonder it tastes delicious on the tongue, as Jack said, but that has nothing to do with Bradbury.
Some of my favorite book titles!
- I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
- Wishful Drinking
- I Feel Bad About My Neck
- How Not To Drown In A Glass of Water
- Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
You're such a joy to listen to Jack, been watching you since 2017 (since your studytube days lol), and your evolution in personality + content has been incredible to see. Booktube King fr ❤
"They Both Die at the End" absolutely did it for me
I immediately thought of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," and although I'm not entirely sure why, but I think it's because it has such a hopefully sound to it... life growing in an inhospitable environment or something.
I honestly love listening to you speak about books and your love for them
I feel like Tender is the night is the best one! It comes from a Keats poem -- I like book titles from poems. 'A thousand splendid suns' and 'Slouching towards Bethlehem' and 'things fall apart' are all from poems, (the last two from the same Yeats poem!).
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days (the title was so ridiculous, I had to buy it immediately) 😂😂
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- And Then There Were None
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Pride and Prejudice
'In the event this doesn't fall apart' is my fave interesting title and it's such a good book about love made me cry multiple times
I am beyond excited to hear you talk more about the Unbearable Lightness of Being! And what perfect timing- I fell in love with it two years ago, and just decided to do a reread, I have about 20 pages left! Also didn’t know about Milan Kundera’s passing, what odd timing.
my favourite is "Eu receberia as piores notícias dos seus lindos lábios", which translates to "I'd receive the worst news from your beautiful lips". but I'm not good at translating into english, so it just sounds like a panic at the disco song. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" is also gorgeous in portuguese, it's "A Insustentável Leveza do Ser"
Braiding Sweetgrass is one of my faves and gives you a hint of the poetry and language of the book itself which I love
Mine right now is: Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson & Jay Cooper. It was a book I didn't know I needed and I am glad to have found it.
"The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove" by Christopher Moore, Leonard Wibberley's novel The Mouse That Roared", "The Book of the Dun Cow" by Walter Wangerin Jr., "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" from Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
one of my favourite books and titles is “drive your pole over the bones of the dead”. it’s so pretty and wonderful
'a thousand splendid suns' is such a beautiful title n heartbreakingly beautiful book
Haven't read them but love the titles: "You made a fool of death with your beauty" & "On earth we're briefly gorgeous"
Also like: "In my dreams I hold a knife"
The unbelievable lightness of being the cover is so beautiful ❤
i LOVE how CSLewis' cupid and psyche retelling is called 'till we have faces' bcs like... she doesn't know cupid's face like its like a pun but it sounds so cool
"The Earth Has a Soul" by Carl G. Jung. It's such a beautiful way to view the world and inspires us to think twice about how we treat it.
“when breath becomes air” is a gorgeous title for such a complex and emotional book
I'd say my favourite is Auldous Huxley's "Brave New World" - it just sounds so poetic to me and completely contrary to the grim atmosphere the book puts you in.
I also love:
- Alone with you in the ether - just plain beautiful
- I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki - because, well, I want to die but I do love tteokbokki
- Tender is the night - just makes me imagine a warm summer sunset that feels like a hug
"When Breath Becomes Air" is a beautiful title and coincidentally my favourite book of all time. I talk about and think about this book CONSTANTLY, I could swear people hate me for it.
Hey Jack! Wanted to let you know about the Philadelphia Bookstore Map, which was just released! It was a grassroots effort to create a map that shows all the bookstores in Philly--could be a fun video idea whenever you're in the US again!
'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by K. Hosseini, 'The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy, 'All the light we cannot see", 'On Earth We are briefly gorgeous"
One that immediately comes to mind is Signs Preceding the End of the World (Señales que precederán al fin del mundo) by Yuri Herrera.
East of Eden, from the Bible verse "And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden." I'm not even religious but that title just hits me.
You pick such amazing unique and outstanding books and with beautiful titles and stories and I appreciate your so much and thanks Jack 😊
One of my favorite Story title is from a fanfiction called "The negligible self". This title really struck me and kinda ripped my heart out because its so... easy to grap what the primiary struggle here will be and its so sad because its also so easily said...
“The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, “If Cats Disappeared from the World”, “A Case of Exploding Mangoes”, “I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki”, “The Empire of Pain”, “Beloved”, “A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better”, “And Then There Were None”, “Flowers for Algernon”.
Some of the titles I often think back to
You are my favorite book person on the internet, one of my favorite titles is “ this is how you lose the time war” and “on earth we’re briefly gorgeous”
I would love a part 2. This video was really interesting
When he says both of my favorite titles(and one of my favorites) one after the other...
the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime and the perks of being a wallflower:)
The title (and book) that always stuck with me is “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil” ❤️ I also love “A system so magnificent it is blinding” and “The artificial silk girl”
Jack (since it seems like you haven't actually read Pale Fire yet), a Vanessa is a type of butterfly - that's what Nabokov was referring to (he was a major collector of butterflies).
"tell the wolves I'm home" is a personal favorite
‘You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty’ is my favorite book title.
Mine recently that I can't get over my head and warms my heart by just saying it...."On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"
Loved reading your book the uni-verse one of my favourite sections was all the Halloween costume ideas!
I love „if nobody speaks of remarkable things“
12:26 My Dark Vanessa was my book of the year last year. Loved it so much.
"Murder Your Employer" definitely raised some giggles when I sent the name to my boss
"you are eating an orange, you are naked", "alone with you in the ether", "indelicacy", "who will run the frog hospital?", "i hold a wolf by the ears", "in the café of lost youth", "i will die in a foreign land", "hit parade of tears", "ada or ardor", "motherthing", "sweet days of discipline", & "a mango-shaped space" are some of my favorites
a mango shaped space just unlocked a childhood memory of going to the library as a kid and devourrrrring that book 😭😭
I love this so much! I keep a list of my favourite book titles on my phone and Someone who will love you in all your damaged glory has been on it for the longest time!!
Some book titles I love
- I Know This Much is True
- Someone Who Will Love You in All of Your Damaged Glory
- On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous
- The Fire Never Goes Out
- This is Where I Leave You
- All the Light we cannot see
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- Brave New World
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
- Art is a Tyrant
- The Body is Not an Apology
- The End of the World is a Cul de Sac
- Boy Swallows Universe
- My Glory Was That I Had Such Friends
- Acts of Service
- Some Day this Pain will be useful to you
- God’s children are little broken things
- There are places in the world where rules are less important than kindness
I think my favourite and the one Jack probably missed would be ‘On Earth we’re Briefly Gorgeous’.
Amazing video, Jack! Thanks for sharing!
Cheers from Brazil!
"on earth we're briefly gorgeous", "night sky with exit wounds", "this way to the sugar", "interpreter of maladies" and "in a dream you saw a way to survive" are some of my favourites! by ocean vuong, ocean vuong, hieu minh nguyen, jhumpa lahiri and clementine von radics respectively!
I always loved "The Name of the Wind" it just flows in a way that perfectly describes the authors writing style! The second book "A Wise Man's Fear" is also incredible because of the way the title is revealed in the book. I also love Sabaa Tahirs book titles "An Ember in the Ashes" and particularly "A Sky Beyond the Storm". Ruta Sepetys book "Shades of Grey" is called "Rays of Hope" in swedish which I just love. (I did not know I was so passionate about book titles)
The uni-verse love ur book Jack hope you write more books it is absolutely beautiful written and amazing ❤
becky chambers has some absolutely fantastic ones. The wayfarer series especially has some of my favorites - "The long way to a small, angry planet" "a closed and common orbit" (that one's probably my favorite, its just so poetic and fits the story in such a subtle but profound way) "Record of a spaceborn few" and "The Galexy and the ground within". "A Psalm for the wild-built" is also suchh a banger
we are the ashes, we are the fire by joy mccullough is such a striking title, i love it
i LOVED “happy stories, mostly”