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  • čas přidán 24. 07. 2023
  • my body is ready.
    ‪@GemofBooks‬'s video: • Tier Ranking Booker Pr...
    All books:
    4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
    A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
    A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
    A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
    Atonement by Ian McEwan
    Autumn by Ali Smith
    Bewilderment by Richard Powers
    Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
    Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
    Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
    Bring Up Bodies by Hilary Mantel
    Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
    China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
    Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeline Thien
    Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman
    Elmet by Fiona Mozley
    England, England by Julian Barnes
    February by Lisa Moore
    The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohammed
    Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
    Girl Woman Other by Bernadine Evaristo
    Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
    Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
    The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
    History of Wolves by Emily Friedland
    Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
    How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
    How To Be Both by Ali Smith
    Life of Pi by Yann Martel
    Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
    Milkman by Anna Burns
    My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
    Normal People by Sally Rooney
    On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
    Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
    The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
    Room by Emma Donoghue
    Saturday by Ian McEwan
    The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
    The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
    Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
    Snap by Belina Bauer
    The Colony by Audrey Magee
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
    The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
    The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
    The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
    The Promise by Damon Galgut
    The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
    The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
    Trust by Hernan Diaz
    We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
    Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
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Komentáře • 35

  • @hanjan9767
    @hanjan9767 Před rokem

    LOL this is great, I was the same with Elmet - a ‘wait, what did I just read?’ moment

  • @theresaemig2328
    @theresaemig2328 Před rokem

    Savannah - Try E.Shaver Booksellers. I love that store.

  • @jorvikreads
    @jorvikreads Před rokem

    Jill! This was such a treat ❤ Also, YES to thoughts on Elmet, totally agree.

  • @amyb3737
    @amyb3737 Před rokem +2

    Watching this video has been the chillest, most enjoyable way to wind down my day. Great stuff!
    Also, I'm LOVING this t-shirt. Where can I get one? 😊

    • @TheBookBully
      @TheBookBully  Před rokem +1

      Aw glad to wind down the day with you. Thats my favourite way to watch long book videos too.
      The shirt is from Ideal Bookshelf! I checked and it's still on their website 👍

  • @GemofBooks
    @GemofBooks Před rokem

    You’ve read so many!!
    Your top tier has reminded me that I really need to get to Say Nothing!!
    Thanks for the mention matey 🧡

    • @TheBookBully
      @TheBookBully  Před rokem

      Please lmk when you are reading Say Nothing and I will follow along creepily from afar avoiding asking you questions but having so many

  • @kiranreader
    @kiranreader Před rokem

    you've read so many booker books!! loved hearing your ranking!

  • @yellowmeeplereads
    @yellowmeeplereads Před rokem +1

    I just finished Trust last night. Couldn't put it down towards the end and then went to read all the reviews watch all the video mentions (3 of yours too) because I was so in awe. I'm not a huge fiction reader esp literary so I didn't know words can be so precise and poignant in the first story. Third story did lose me a little bit before it picks up again with the main subjects. Ultimately it was a favourite read for me too.
    Between also being a Patrick Radden Keefe fan and Nothing to Envy and Trust, I am so glad to have found someone with similar taste so that I have an idea whether I should spend time on a book or not. thx

    • @TheBookBully
      @TheBookBully  Před rokem

      Aw I'm so glad we have similar reading tastes!! Kindred spirits!

  • @sarahfolger5232
    @sarahfolger5232 Před rokem +1

    You have to buy Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil while you're in Savanah. It put the city back on the map! Have fun!

  • @FreshlyReadBooks
    @FreshlyReadBooks Před rokem

    I saw Life of Pi in the little book bank and told myself I would not skip ahead in the video to see where you put it lol I was so worried about where you were going to put it, but did not expect where it went 😂 I'm going to need you to for real read it at some point and then revisit this ranking so that the suspense can finally be over lol

    • @TheBookBully
      @TheBookBully  Před rokem

      Ok I will make you a solemn vow that I will read it someday and will report back with the appropriate tier

  • @user-un8ny5be6n
    @user-un8ny5be6n Před rokem

    E Shaver Booksellers in Savannah!!! and it has bookstore cats!

  • @FHMS97
    @FHMS97 Před rokem

    lmaooo the ali smith comment. ngl i agree i feel like ive heard so many people talk about ali smith and yet still have zero idea what her books are actually about 🤨

    • @TheBookBully
      @TheBookBully  Před rokem

      Are we missing something? Or are they making it up? 🧐 What is the truth

  • @josephlastname
    @josephlastname Před rokem

    this was fabulous. i loved the Ian McEwan hate so much that i’m choosing to ignore the Ali Smith slander lol. also i completely misremembered The Mirror and the Light being shortlisted. like even now looking at the actual shortlist on google images i’m like that can’t be right…

    • @TheBookBully
      @TheBookBully  Před rokem

      I mean *obviously* people like Ali Smith but I just cannot wrap my brain around her writing. It is a style that is impenetrable to me. Congratulations to all who are able to make sense of her writing! Also I hate that all her books are published in size 14 Times New Roman font that is unhinged!

  • @lexicon50505
    @lexicon50505 Před rokem

    4321 is one of my favorite books. Great audiobook

  • @bookishsabrina
    @bookishsabrina Před rokem

    Black Swan Green is by far Mitchell's worst of what I've read. Number9dream I think is my favorite? Cloud Atlas is also brilliant, and Ghostwritten was very good. I didn't finish The Thousand Autumns and I haven't read any Mitchell in awhile but I found Black Swan Green so dull.

  • @greyemk
    @greyemk Před rokem

    Houston - I absolutely LOVE Brazos Bookstore, it’s my favorite bookstore anywhere, with a great selection of independent press and books in translation. One of the places I miss the most from when I lived there :( Other good Houston bookstores are Kindred Books for a cute lil Black-owned bookstore and Kaboom Books for the huge used bookstore treasure hunt vibes

    • @TheBookBully
      @TheBookBully  Před rokem

      Thank you!!! I will add Brazos to the list and hopefully we can make it to a few other shops too.

    • @greyemk
      @greyemk Před rokem

      re: Arundhati Roy - I did love The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, but it is a challenging book that benefits from a lot of background knowledge. I recently read her short essay collection “Capitalism: A Ghost Story” and would recommend that as a primer for anyone who wants to read the novel, as it gets at her political obsessions and gives context in about 100 pages. God of Small Things is a regular novel that doesn’t require a lot of context and is excellent, 10/10 recommend especially for those of us who love sad books

    • @TheBookBully
      @TheBookBully  Před rokem

      I do love sad books so much LOL

    • @jfluteify
      @jfluteify Před rokem

      I second Brazos Bookstore - I was going to recommend it! I hope you enjoy Houston - it's going to be very hot!!

    • @TheBookBully
      @TheBookBully  Před rokem

      I am braced for the heat and prepared to hate it 😆

  • @jacquelinemcmenamin8204

    Have you read The Van by Roddy Doyle? Can’t remember what year it won the Booker. It was part of the Barrytown triology. The Snapper & The Commitments are the other two. All made into films. Love them all.
    A Curious Incident is an important book to me. I’m my sons carer. He’s an adult with autism. On World Book night 2007? I gave away loads of copies.
    🍀👋☘️📕📚☕️📖🇮🇪💐.

    • @TheBookBully
      @TheBookBully  Před rokem

      That is awesome!
      I haven't read any Roddy Doyle but I have one of his books on my shelf and I think I will really love his writing. Will report back!

  • @chrissbigredchair9782

    I can't believe you didn't put February higher. Yes, it is about grief but it's also about family and community and a real, strong woman ... and it's from Newfoundland!

    • @TheBookBully
      @TheBookBully  Před rokem

      Oof I know! I was really hmm-ing and ha-ing. I think it's an excellent book but I absolutely loved Moore's latest title This Is How We Love so I guess February just doesn't have the same impact

  • @anderson9921
    @anderson9921 Před 11 měsíci

    "PromoSM"