My Top 10 Favorite Classic Books
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1 - The count of Monte-Cristo by Alexandre dumas
2 - The brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
3 - Demons by Dostoevsky
4- Crime and Punishiment by Dostoevsky
5 - Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky
6 - The Idiot by Dostoevsky
7 - The Raw Youth by Dostoevsky
8 - Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
9 - War and Peace by Tolstoy
10 - Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
I too love Dostoevsky!
Top Ten Classic Books.
2) "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy
3) "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4) "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev
7) "Vilette" by Charlotte Brontë
8) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
9) "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
10) "Smoke" by Ivan Turgenev
14) "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin
15) "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
17) "Virgin Soil" by Ivan Turgenev
Reading that Anne Brontë book right now.
Add War and Peace
Oh gosh, if I had to choose top 10 favorite classics, I think they would be:
1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
2. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
4. The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
5. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
6. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
7. Lolita by Vladimir Navokov
8. The Phantom Of The Opera by Gaston Leroux
9. The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
10. Dracula by Bram Stoker
Bailee Walsh wow! I'm surprised to see East of Eden. It's my personal favorite of Stienbecks. I've read Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, and East of Eden. And I wish I hadn't read East of Eden first cuz it made the other two so disappointing
@@nickmcfarland9210 - Is EAst of Eden a hard Read or an an eAsy Read. I also read Of Mice and Men and Teh Grapes or Wrath back in the 20th Century, but I haven't rad EASt of Eden. It is defintely on my TBR list,, but do you think it is an easy Read or a Hard Read.
I read The Count of Monte Cristo in high school and I loved it! We only read the abridged version (but my teacher filled us in on the rest). I have a copy of the full version that I want to read soon!
I first read a (slightly)abridged version of Count of Monte-Cristo when I was 10. I got that from my grandmother's house. A while later I got the full version of Count of Monte Cristo (copywright 1894) from my other grandmother. :-)
1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
2. The Tenant of Wild-fell Hall by Anne Bronte
3. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
5. Emma by Jane Austen
6. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
7. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
8. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
9. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
10. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Thanks 😊
Harshal Bhanarkar
You are welcome.
Thank you, I couldn't understand the second one because she speaks so fast
My “top ten” in no specific order, because i want to join in on the fun!:
1. Dracula - Bram Stroker
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
3. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. The Count of Monte Christo - Alexandre Dumas
6. Scarlet Sails - Alexander Grin
7. Master and Margarita - Michail Bulgakov
8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
9. Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin
10. The Overcoat - Nikolai Gogol
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I love The Count of Monte Cristo! It's my favourite book of all time and it is so under loved on booktube :) Great video
Sam, its not Edward but Edmond Dantes. You have good taste. To me, the greatest Brontë novel is Wurthering heights....But to mention the tenant of Whitfeld Hall is remarkable. I found this book underated although it is far better than Anne Grey. Anne Brontë surprised me a lot with this book. The main character is a man...very good novel.
Couldn't agree more about how excellent the 2005 BBC treatment of Bleak House is. Absolutely fantastic. Little Dorrit (2008) was truly superb as well.
I've just decided to start reading classics so this video is perfect for me! Thank you for doing this.
I really love Frankenstein, hopefully I get to re-read it this year.
My current top 10 classic novels
1. Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
2. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
3. Ben Hur by Lewis Wallace
4. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
5. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
6. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
7. Dracula by Bram Stoker
8. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
9. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
10. The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevksy
I just finished reading Frankenstein, and I loved it. I can see why it made your top 10 favorite list.
I recently read The Count of Monte Cristo, and it's definitely one of my new favorites.
Thank you Sam for you thorough review. I really needed another classic fiction book but one that enthralls me. I picked The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall. Thanks to you.
I loved Emma as well!! I read it as a sophomore in high school, so it has been a while since I have read it. Due for a reread!
Funny story, I had to read Emma for class as a junior and instead read cliffs notes and LOVED IT!! ... and I never have gone back and read it... should do that... also was recommended Tennent of .... yeah, and have heard such good things. I will read it this year!
So many great classics out there!!! Hope you enjoy Tennant!
i think for me how much i love a classic all boils down to the experience i had while reading it as well as the content itself! I have ridiculously fond memories of when i read Pride and Prejudice that nothing has really ever topped it for favorite classic for like 5 years haha
All your classics are so damn pretty!!!
1. Frankenstein
2. Jane Eyre
3.-6. Northanger Abbey, Pride and prejudice, War & peace, Gone with the wind
I finally read A Christmas Carol this October and it was absolutely wonderful! I'll definitely be rereading it just before Christmas.
I watched the magnificent BBC adaptation of Bleak House. I lost count of the number of times I watched The Garden scene (I don't want to spoil, but those familiar with the story can guess what I mean). The first time I saw it I had tears uncontrollably rolling down my cheeks and I was sniffing like little baby lol.
It is a moment of major plot twist, but the whole scene was acted in a very understated and quite manner, yet with an amazing brilliance! (I am off to watch it again lol).
You have the best copies of classics ever! So beautiful!
I am a sucker for a pretty classic cover!
You should read The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jed Scratchard and most especially Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Just bought the book yesterday so at least I have it ready.
And the war and peace by Tolstoy
Great book - definitely one of the best
This was so good! I've read 50% of these, but the Count is on my shelf waiting patiently & you may have almost kinda perhaps maybe in a way convinced me to look at the Canterbury Tales, which i never even thought of before. Good fun video!
I am currently reading Little Women, The Three Musketeers, Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein, and a bunch of other books at the moment.
My favourites 1. Treasure Island. 2. Dracula. 3. Mystery of Edwin Drood. 4. Picture of Dorian Gray. 5. Lolita. 6. Mayor of Casterbridge. 7. Jane Eyre. 8. Kim. 9. The Great Gatsby. 10. Carmilla.
You’ve read so many classics! That’s wonderful :) I’ve only read Little Women & really enjoyed it! That was years & years ago though. I have a couple Austen & a couple Bronte books but just haven’t been in the mood. I’m probably just intimidated lol great video Sam! :)
Little women is one of my favourite classics as well, I love watching the sisters go about their lives and overcome the struggles placed in front of them.
I have yet to read the tale of Monte Cristo but I really want too read it because I saw the movie and absolutely loved it and want to know how the book compares.
It’s always strange to me when people don’t like Emma. I love it. I think she experiences more growth than most of Jane Austen’s characters. My personal favorite is Sense and Sensibility (which is hilarious), but Emma ties with Pride and Prejudice for second place. I ADORE The Musketeers and The Count. I never know which is my favorite. I’ll have to give Bleak House a try. I’ve started it a few times and gotten intimidated. And yaaayyyy for Brontes! Little Women is my favorite book of all time.
I just started The Count of Monte Cristo. Glad to hear your positive review! :)
I’ve been meaning to get to Jane Eyre for years now. I really just need to jump in. I did finish Persuasion this year though and enjoyed it!
Wish I could like this video twice. Great video which introduced me to some great classics that I haven’t heard of yet
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I applaud your choices. Your reasons for liking each book were great. And I love the bright atmosphere of where you filmed this video!
Thank you so much!
😍 I'm binge watching old videos! Would you do a video of where you find these additions! I want ALL your Jane Austen books lol
I find 'Emma' to be the most annoying of Jane Austen's books ;-) my favourite Austen is 'Persuasion'. Your Christmas tradition sounds wonderful!
Haha so did her family :D I do love Persuasion as well though!
The count of monte cristo is my favorite 😭 its just so perfect and and its literally just my style
Finally someone who loves the count !!! ♥️
Great video! It's so difficult to came out with a top 10 favorite classics list. I love the majority of books you mentioned, specially Jane Eyre. Look forward to reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. The Count of Monte Cristo will definitely be on my 2018 TBR. BTW I love watching videos about Classic Books on Booktube. I'm so glad I found this one...
Thank you so much!
I hope you enjoy the ones you haven't read when you do get to them! :)
I got the Count of Monte Cristo recently and looking forward to reading it! I might wait until summer since it is pretty big lol. I'm going back and forth with rereading my favorite classic Little Women. You have to go to the Alcott house in Concord one day! Hopefully the new tv series will be good. Did you watch Anne with an E? In high school senior English we read a few Canterbury tales. Forget which ones though. I read Jane Eyre last year I think and it was pretty good. I think Bleak House is a favorite of my dad's! Will get to it one day haha. So many classics. I try to read a classic a month, and read Phantom of the Opera this October. It was good! Great video! Also I think it is pretty cool that a lot of these authors wrote about strong women characters in time periods where women had trouble being accepted.
I love those word cloud classics. I need to get some of those..
yeah boooooooiiii 👌🏼 I love this so much 💖 also the Canterbury Tales is so freaking good/funny 😜
Great top ten, also you have some very cool additions.
Thank you for talking about Bleak House, I want to pick it up, but was hesitant because it's so big!!
I hope you enjoy it!!!
Jane Eyre was my first classic I read this year and loved it. I tried Pride and Prejudice and couldn’t get into it. I have a lot of the classics you mentioned so I’m excited for Tome Topple. I’m going to read The Woman In White by Wilke Collins. I know you mentioned you enjoyed it.
Emma is my favorite too! I LOVE all these classics. Our list is almost the same. Count of Monte Cristo, Bleak House, all those great ones!
We clearly have good taste!
I watched "To Walk Invisible" a couple weeks ago and absolutely loved it. Now all I want to do is reread all of the Bronte sisters' books! It was a PBS miniseries that aired last winter I think.
Great video- and oh boy do your classics look so amazing.
Aw thank you!!
I suspected before watching that I wouldn't of read many of these and I was proved correct; I've only read Frankenstein and liked it. I always say I want to read more classics but never get round to it. It's that one day, as always :)
Frankenstein is my favorite book in general! Mary Shelly is a wonderful writer.
Great list. Many of my favorites are on it. And yes, Bleak House is probably Dickens at his best.
Great list Sam. I agree with it.
All the adaptations of Emma are so cute! I really want to read The Three Musketeers- I love the characters from TV shows/movies so the goal is to get to the actual classic in 2018.
I love Jane Eyre and A Tale of Two Cities. I haven't gotten very far in Frankenstein, but I like how the original novel isn't just a monster book and that the "monster" wasn't just some brutish creature with bolts in his neck. I'm sorry, but I am one of those who thought Little Women was sickeningly sweet, but I did absolutely love the 1994 movie starring Wynona Ryder.
Yesss, Alexandre Dumas!!! Let's go!!!
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall deserves more hype than it gets.
Amen!!!
Am I the only person who realized she called Edmond Edward from The Count of Monte Cristo?
I love of your top 10. I love Jane Eyre, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, and a few others. I was wondering if you have seen some of the literary web series based on a lot of classics? I have watched Attic Series (Little Women) Green Gables Fables (Anne of Green Gables) Lizzie Bennett Diaries (Pride and Prejudice) Emma Approved (Emma)
I've actually read most of these classics within the past two or three years. Loved Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (my favorite classic), and thought Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte was great. Her sister Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights has great atmosphere but all the characters deserved to undergo live autopsies. Only read Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, thinking it just OK. I thought Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov was amazing, as well as Leo Tolstoy's morality play Anna Karenina, who I alternately pitied and thought had it coming. I felt that Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, was an exciting adventure story except for the extensive details about whaling, which slowed it to a belly-crawl. Ever since I went to Prince Edward Island in 2006 and found out that I'm a second cousin twice removed of Lucy Maud Montgomery, I wanted to read Anne of Green Gables. I read a Puffin Classics edition I borrowed from my local library, from March 9-12, 2018. A great novel of childhood but pretty sappy. I wondered if many of Anne's listeners had to have their ears surgically reattached because she talked them off.
Emma!!! I too love this book so much! I think it has a lot to do with Clueless. I read this book after watching the movie countless times hence I couldn't help but envision the cast as I read along.
Oh yeah Clueless is a modern Emma Retelling!
Sam, you inspired me to read both The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Little women because I saw one of your older videos and I also love classics. I loved Ann's book a lot. It became one of my favorites. Unfortunately, the same didn't occur with Little Women. The more I think about the ending of this book the more I dislike it. :( I enjoyed the process of reading it a lot but the ending is sth I'm still not in peace with. 😂 ( specially, but not only, L & A)
Great list you have. I have read most of these books as well ( except the Dickens ones) and I also love Alexandre Dumas. :) You should definetely pick up La Dame aux Camelias ( I dont know the name in english) from Alexandre Dumas the son. Its a sad but beautiful story that inspired the Moulin Rouge, the film. ;)
I should really reread Frankenstein, since it's been about 7 years since I first read it. I would probably have a different understanding of it now.
I really need to read Jane Eyre and Emma! I'm reading A Christmas Carol next month!
For someone so young, you have excellent taste!
Thank you! :)
I am now starting to read war and peace by Tolstoy.Done with Anna Karenina, the ambassadors of James,two of Mark Twain,Huck and Tom Sawyer,the David Copperfield of Dickens, the crime and punishment of Dostoevsky,still to read the brother karamasov.I like her books though.
OMG Canterbury Tales!! So good. Love me some Bronte. Most of these are on my TBR. I unfortunately did not enjoy Frankenstein though I do love the old movies. I might give it another shot as it's in my pretty bind up edition of "Penny Dreadfuls."
I recently read Candide by Voltaire and found it hilarious. Dark and kind of fucked up, but hilarious nonetheless.
Count of Monte Cristo is the father of all revenge stories. I read Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English, which was brutal.
Dickens himself considered 'David Copperfield' his "masterpiece", not 'Bleak House', and I would strongly agree with Dickens.
I hated Bleak House with a Passion. It was a reading group book and I only had a month to read it in . It's not a book you can read quickly .
@@racheldemain1940 I wouldn't say I hated _Bleak House_ , but I didn't like it near as much as _Copperfield_ . _David Copperfield_ is more of an epic and each of its characters are so unique and vibrantly constructed. It is long and I think this is what puts many people off reading it, but by the the time you get to end you wish it was even longer.
I think horror and science fiction would have existed without Mary Shelly, but I'm very grateful to her for getting the ball rolling on those genres.
The Three Musketeers has a big plot hole as I recall. Like, D'artagnan becomes a musketeer twice. It seems Hugo forgot it already happened. I enjoyed the book anyway though, but Dumas does have long stretches of book where very little happens. I found The Count of Monte Cristo got a lot slower after Edmond escapes prison. Honestly, many of his books seem padded to me.I don't think I've ever heard of a high school kid reading Chaucer. You're hard core on the difficulty spectrum!
D'Artagnan became a musketeer during the Seige of La Rochalle. He became a musketeer lieutennant twoard the end of the book. And Hugo wasn't the author, Dumas was. (They did know each other,though.)
I can't remember where I read it but someone mentioned that the main male character in the Bronte's books represented the relationship each one had with their brother. And fart jokes are always funny. Always.
The Count of Monte Cristo must be the most overlooked great book.
The books from your top that are not on my favourites are the ones I haven't read yet xD Except for the Three Musketeers. I like it, but it's not a favourite. The Count of Monte Cristo is much better and I need to reread it.
where did you get that collection of classics? they're beautiful!
I have read, and enjoyed, a few of those books. And I've started reading Emma but I think I'm only one or two chapters in and then I started re-reading the Prydain Chronicles instead. I will get back to it though. Emma is still waiting in bed for me to pick her up. Ok, maybe not "in" bed, but right next to the bed ;)
If you love the Three Musketeers, you owe it to yourself to read the whole thing! There's 2-5 more books depending on how the publisher splits it up. They're all good, but it doesn't get REALLY good till the last one. Very sweet and profound, dripping with ennui.
What is your favorite edition to read from? Are there any that you'd recommend for not just collectors but that either have great notes or great translations?
Who translated your copy of The Count of Monte Cristo? The Word Cloud edition, I mean. I'm trying to find it online and can't seem to figure it out. Thanks!
My tummy would be happy too! Lol
I just got into reading and I thought I should diffenetely read some classics . I started reading Pride and prejudice few days ago and I keep getting confused I don't know who's talking but I think it's because I read it as an E-book so I'm gonna buy the physical book. I have a long reading list and almost all the books mentioned here are on the list. I hope by next summer I'd read all of them.
The Count is so good! Did you see the movie?
finally some love for the three musketeers all of the classics videos on youtube completely ignore this masterpiece
It's such an underrated book!
You might like Emile Zola. The couple of books i have read by him are very good.
Awwww no Wuthering Heights? (sorry I'm a Bronte fangirl lol). Emma is my fav Jane Austen novel too. I wrote my Bachelor of Arts dissertation on Dickens and my fav book is Bleak House as well! My Master's dissertation was on Oscar Wilde, so personally I would have mentioned 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' which is definitely in my top fav 5 list of Classics. Have you read it? I highly recommend it.
You should read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I like your collection 👍also your mug 😍🤩🦊
I’m going through all these book reviews sites. I see top books really are different for men vs women. As a guy, naturally expected top books would match regardless of gender.
I liked your list. It included my all time favorite...Three Musketeers! It’s very French. It’s unique. None of the characters could ever exist anywhere but France.
Since I’m a guy, my other two top books are Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot.
If you're looking for a good audio reading of A Christmas Carol check out the one by naxos read by Anton Lesser, he has a great speaking voice. In fact Anton Lesser reads a lot of Dickens' works if you search for him on Audible.
I read some of Shinichi Hoshi's short stories. It's science fiction of course. His stories impressed me actually. Japanese science fiction writer Shinichi Hoshi. 👍
I think it’s so cool that your family would sit and read together on Christmas Eve! I don’t come from a family of readers, so that kind of Christmas coziness is out of my reach for now!
I loved Frankenstein as well. It’s such a great read and so different from most film versions!
What's the appropriate age to read Bleak house?
Your edition of The Count of Monte Cristo.. is it better than penguin edition?
I mean the translation.. any idea guys?
Sam Sa’adi - good Q! I’ve realized translation is all important on these classics. I would like to see more on topic...I usually resort to fishing around on internet to get buried articles in internet.
She had another copy of Jane Eyre in the background.
Classical literature is the best.
Only one on your list I haven't read is the Anne Bronte, and with the exception of Chaucer (I just found Canterbury Tales to be very meh) the other 8 would very easily go in my top 50 books of all time
Makeup tutorial on this look please!
I actually have that coming up on Thursday!!
I really like your channel name. :)
Aw thank you!
ah yes Edward from monte cristo
I´m sorry, did you say "Dutch Babies"? :P I feel like I must have misheard that haha! And I'm curious, as I'm Dutch, so would love to know what you meant. Sounds delicious, I love apples in recipes.
It's also called a German Pancake (which is what we called them growing up, the recipe is actually an old family recipe from my dad's side) but are more commonly called duct babies in the US for some reason lol: this is one recipe I found online similar to what we make: allrecipes.com/recipe/239993/chef-johns-dutch-babies/
Where do you get your world classic editions?
Amazon!
So what DID you think of Monte Cristo in the end? :)
I agree with you about “Tenant”. It also is a feminist manifesto for the time dealing with the reason why women should have been able to get a divorce from abusive husbands. It also was a damning indictment against marriage for money. Her creepy husband was sweetness until after the honeymoon, and then his real personality emerged. Helen was such a strong woman considering the burdens she had to bear.