New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century | Are These Actually Good?
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- The New York Times collected 503 ballots of top books from authors and critics to make the top 100 books of the 21st Century so far. What are my thoughts? Do I think these are good books? How many have I read? My gripes.
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“The Warmth of Other Suns” is not only a very important book, but it’s well written and very readable!
I'm so glad to hear it! I am so excited to read it!
So many great recs in this video! I also am bad at reading non fiction but Kiese Laymon is definitely worth it
Oh good to know! Thank you!
Ooooh yeah I totally forgot that How to be Both was ordered differently depending on the copy! I also have a copy on my shelf to be read!
I'd never heard of Jesmyn Ward until this list, but I'm intrigued now!
The Labatut book was very interesting, but it didn't stick with me.
I also hated The Fraud and worried because I do own White Teeth and On Beauty...
I found this list so weird, and adding fiction and NF together is a bizarre choice.
I applaud you putting up ALL the covers of the books in this video though haha
For me Homegoing was a big miss from the list! And didn't realise that The Kite Runner was published in the 21st century! Definitely missing! A History of Burning is totally on my TBR!
It took me soooo long to edit this. Putting all the covers was a task so thanks for noticing😊
Yes, it's so weird when you are sure you'll love an author and then you finally read one if their novels and it disapppoints you.
I have to say quickly, if you're intimidated by Pachinko's size, don't be, it reads really quickly as soon as you're into it. In 2020 I read it over 2 days because it felt addictive and I couldn't put it down!
Ohh thank you! The encouragement I need!
@@KierTheScrivener Have fun with it! It really doesn't read as long, you got through Demon Copperhead and that one felt even longer than it was and reads as long. For me this one really didn't
@Emmareads15 that is a good comparison! I feel like Pachinko will be a hundres times more enjoyable for me to read
The Known World is also one of my favourite books.
What are your favourite elements of it? It's not a book I'm familar with
The Line of Beauty is one of my favourite books. You should read it.
I've neber heard of it or the author. I would love to hear what you really love of it?
I loved Outline.
I liked elements of it but I didn't over all like it
Wait, you didn't love Demon Copperhead? I thought I was the only one. Going to watch your review now. Can't believe I missed it.
I am so salty about it all the time to the annoyance of all the Copperheads
I love Tenth of December
How similar is it to Lincoln in The Bardo? I got it missed up with Liberation Day that was his newest release that was not well loved. I really didn't get along with Lincoln but if Tenth of December was quite different I might give him another try.
100% agree with your thoughts about including Tove Ditlevsen just because she was translated into English in the 21st century - i was genuinely shocked by that, maybe i shouldn't have been tho...
Runaway sounded interesting, been wondering where the best place to start with Alice Munro is, think that'd be a good one?
Lincoln in the Bardo was a big miss for me too - i was so confused because i'm like graveyard setting? check. experimental writing with funny characters? check. historical fiction blended with ghosts and buddhism? check. how could this go wrong, and yet...
super intrigued by your thoughts on Outline, always meant to pick it up but now more so =) thanks for doing all that video editing, end result is first-class!!
Runaway was where I started. It's really great. I finished and immediately went on to more of her writing. It won the Giller Prize in Canada (our Booker/Pulitzer) and is generally her best known book.
Right? I was expecting to love Lincoln in the Bardo too. I hope you like Outline more than me, it was several years ago I read it and I liked the ideas of it. I have a more indepth review on my goodreads.
Thanks, it started over an hour and I felt happy that I whittled it down to under half an hour.
@@KierTheScrivener i'll start with Runaway too then, cheers! =)
I loved Never Let Me Go
I think knowing the twist before I read it really made it harder to get through as it's such a slow unfolding of the mystery I already knew. I wonder if I would have felt different if I was going in fresh because I love Klara and The Sun.
How is audiobook reading, though? It's listening, not reading
In my mind reading doesn't just pretain to the action of scanning the page with your eyes but ingesting a story. Listening aloud has always been a popular way of learning stories, from the oral traditions of the Greek, to the Victorian era most people gathered together and read communally. And when we learn to read as kids we hear parents or others read to us, I don't think someone gets more or less from a story whether they take in the information with their eyes or ears. Especially me, I have pretty severe dyslexia so I couldn't read at all until age 10 and I fell in love with stories through listening to books read aloud. Even now, I'm a very slow physical reader and learn and remember auditory things really easily so it makes sense to utilize audiobooks.
Visit from the Goon Squad is speculative fiction
I'm very excited to get to it