"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." - Viktor Frankl, A Man's Search for meaning. One of my favorite quotes from that life-changing book!
Don Quixote is a marvelous book. We could do a lecture on practically every page. After I read it, I found a biography of Cervantes and read that and wondered "How could a man who suffered through that life have written this book?" And then I got old and realized only a man who had been a soldier and a noble and a slave and managed to reach old age (I'm 72) could have written that work. Adventure is moments of terror remembered twenty five years later. On a personal note...I remember my wars and my ups and downs and delusions of being a hero...had a few. And now I'm old and I love this book even more.
He's why I started to love reading. I was moved by how passionate he speaks about reading and how much he thought his life changed that I wanted to drop the stigma that reading is a chore. The key is finding a good book that you enjoy reading, if it feels like a chore for too long just drop it. So I looked up recommended books and luckily, my first book that I bought from a recommendation was one that I enjoyed very much. The book is called The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger. It's an autobiography of the CEO of Disney and even though I have no intention whatsoever of becoming a CEO of anything, the storytelling is so magnetic and inspiring that I developed a love of biographies. It's like, read 100 biographies and you'll live 101 lives instead of just 1 in your lifetime.
For those of you don’t have much time watching: (not in any particular order) 1. Don Quixote 2. The Count of Monte Cristo 3. Dune 4. Beloved 5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 7. Just Mercy 8. Man’s Search for Meaning 9. Flow 10. New and Selected Poems, Vol.1
Books that did something to my soul, heart and brain: 1. "The life of Arseniev" by Ivan Bunin 2. "The Gift" by Nabokov 3. "Anna Karenina" by Tolstoy 4. "Petersburg" by Andrei Bely
Nice! I bought Man's Search for Meaning because of your videos. It's a really enjoyable read, hope to get my next book from this video. Please keep it up John!
Don Quixote is also one of my favorite books! It's considered the first modern novel. Cervantes invented so many literary techniques that are commonplace today. The humor of course is amazing but the book has many levels. I hope you get a chance to read it again!
Thank you, great, eclectic list!! -many I’ve ‘not’ read so, I have several good books to look forward to reading! Dune I read back in the 70s (the trilogy, at that time), and absolutely love the books. Beloved - hands down, one of the scariest books (to me) I’ve ever read!
I listened Just Mercy audiobook on my way to internship at the time and every morning I was either shocked, fist-wrenched, or just disappointed of the injustice there is. Does stir hope in me because there's someone like Bryan Stevenson who is fighting for the odds of those falsely accused. Also pity those who suffered in the process of waiting for their trial.
If you haven't read them yet, I recommend... 1. "Our Twisted Hero" by Yi Monyol. I used to tell people that it's a good idea to know something about South Korean politics of the 70s and 80s before reading it but at this point, the last 6 years of American politics is preparation enough. 2. "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem. Again, it used to be helpful to understand something about how Soviet control and propaganda worked in its satellite states but at this point, recent American politics is a good enough background for connecting with this novel.
Don Quixote set the basis ofthe modern novel, all the story telling techniques that we see nowadays (movies, TV shows...) are indirectly inspired in Cervantes' master piece
I’ve read a number of philosophy books. Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Arthur Schopenhauer. When you talked about flow, a mans search for meaning, and sapiens in a previous video I bought them on Amazon immediately. The first two seemed like a good branch off of philosophy into somewhat similar topics, and for sapiens, I just love learning about human history.
Geriminal - Emelie Zola A chess story - Stefan Zweig The picture of dorian Grey - Oscar wilde 1984 - George Orewell Inkheart - cornelia funke THE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED - Jonas Jonasson The Castle - Franz Kafka ...........
I love this list because it consists of books I've been curious to read and have already read. Just Mercy, in particular, has been the book that has moved me the most... so much because it was different and more fulfilling than the movie (but also an important movie)
Hello, thanks for the great video. I love your enthusiasm while talking about your favourites. I have just finished Kenneth Roberts The Northwest Passage. It is also almost 700 pages and I finished it within a week. Very exciting and popular book. Definitely one of my favourites.
I recommend "If This is A Man" and "The Truce" by Primo Levi as a counterpoint to "Man's Search For Meaning". They're his autobiographical accounts of survival in a concentration camp and his journey home after it was liberated. Levi's novel "If Not Now, When?" is excellent too. It's a fictionalised account of a group of partisans fighting behind German lines over the final years of the war. All three books are incredible examinations of the extremes of human nature, from the unutterably evil to the incalculably brave.
The count of Monte Cristo is my favorite novel of all time with the "voyage au bout de la nuit" from Louis Ferdinand Céline. Besides, I wanted to thank you for having encouraged me to read, thanks to you I read 50 books in 1 year and without you it would not be possible.
@@swann357 If you talk about Celine's "voyage, it's a masterpiece, I haven't read her pamphlets. There is good and bad in each author even if Celine was very controversial but it was more out of pacifism (due to the trauma of the First World War) than a deep conviction. He was fed up with the war.
@@swann357 No I haven't read it but I'll buy it soon, yes Celine really has a special sense of humor. I bought almost all of his novels, can't wait to read them. Céline is a bit of a Cartman of writers in her character with extraordinary and innovative writing.
Hey man! loved listening to "Project Hail Mary" it was awesome just like you said, I'm a young reader and it is really hard for me to find time to read. It will be awesome if you make a video on how you manage your time and make room for reading in your busiest days.
Loved this. Some of my favourite books; -Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (NF) -The New Odyssey by Patrick Kingsley (NF) -Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell (NF) -Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari (NF) -Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (NF) -11/22/63 by Stephen King (F) -The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (F) -The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (F) -The Devil all the Time by Donald Ray Pollock (F) -Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (F) I literally could go on and on but let me stop myself now
I recommend Wild Swans by Jung Chang. This book opens up the inside of China through three generations through the Cultural Revolution. It will change the way you see the world. Another which you will love is 'I bury my heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.
I'm sure you've already read it, but in case someone hasn't, Parable of The Sower by Octavia Butler is a superb science fiction. It's different from a lot of sci-fi books that explicitly state or imply that some cataclysmic change is required to make society inhumanly dystopian. In Butler's mind, the absence of change is what will bring about the apocalypse.
i stopped reading Don Quixote because there was this part that was hard to get through but now I will start again! thanks for making reading exciting again
Fiction books that I can never get tired of reading again and again are: The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (Discusses family dynamics and mental health in an African setting) The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Jenkins Reid (A look into the life of a former Hollywood sex symbol and a forbidden love) Kafka on The Shore by Haruki Murakami (An almost psychedelic take on finding yourself) The Martian by Andy Weir (A man gets left behind after a mission to Mars) Also really loving the Saga graphic novels
*If you have a dream, you don't just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it reality.* I believe in you. 🚀
My favorites: Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas The count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Broters karamazov by Dostoevsky Demons by Dostoevsky Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky Crime and Punishiment by Dostoevsky war and peace by Tolstoy The man who laughs by Victor Hugo Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo The Red and the Black by Stendhall Madame Bovary by Fleubert
Some book recommendations: - House of Leaves (probably the most unique experience you'll ever have) - The song of Achilles - A Little Life (content warning: it's pretty heavy on trauma) - Homo Deus (non fiction)
New fan here. Thank you for sharing and introducing me to some new books to read. One book I recommend, all about love by Bell Hooks. A bit life changing for me.
Hey man could do a video on the best advice you have ever been given. Been asking this people this question alot latley and it has some interesting answers.
Hey John!:) Great video as always, thanks to you I've been reading a book a week, enjoying it as I have never before. As you are a science fiction fan, I'd recommend by far the best book I've read in this genre: The Sworm - Frank Schätzing Believe me, it will blow your mind.
Don Quixote, Candide, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, A Farewell to Arms, Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, Great Expectations, Gone with the Wind, Ivanhoe, War and Peace.
@@meghanakankara2883 Yeah, its an insane novel. Best to read as an adolescent since it has a certain tragic, doomed vibe that teenagers could indulge in but again you could give it a try.
@@meghanakankara2883 I read The Brothers Karamazov for the first time this year - Ignat Avsey translation. I can honestly say that I have never read a book that has made me think so deeply. I completely reconsidered my stance on God. It's a fantastic book, but you need to really pay attention to it. It's easy to miss a nugget of profundity because there are so many.
Checkout “The Cairo Trilogy” by Naguib Mahfouz which consists of 3 books: “Palace Walk”, “Palace of Desire”, “Sugar Street”. He’s the only Arabic writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
My faves so far: 1. 1984 by George Orwell 2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 3. The Secret History by Donna Tartt 4. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The way you've explained about "flow" nobody else has! I bought that book, received counterfeit copy, although it had worst print I managed to read a few pages from the beginning. I was in awe of the beauty the book was. Got a replacement ended up with same the kind and reordered from Amazon again it was counterfeit. I inquired in some other bookselling site, they claim to sell original but there's no return or replacement. I'm just so mad to read from the genuine copy. I don't know if I will but I really wish. Love and best wishes from India 💕
Thanks for sharing your book list! Those books must be great! I will definitely read them! :D I would like to recommend the book “The Story of My Life” and the essay “Three Days To See” both by Helen Keller. Helen Keller was blind and deaf, yet she could get the most of her life. She found happiness and light even in the darkest hour; she felt life with her heart even though she could not see with her eyes and hear with her ears. The first book is a memoir that talks about the life of Helen Keller, a brave and inspiring historical figure of all time. The essay talks about what Helen Keller would like to see in three days, but there is something much deeper than that, which I don’t want to spoil it lol. The movie “The Miracle Worker” is produced based on Helen Keller’s story. Overall, I hope her words could bring you some enlightenment and appreciation of the world we live in, as well as I hope these stories could light up your life even in the darkest time. :)
I used to be like that up until last year and it made me realize how much social media or just media in general messed up my attention span lol. I started by reading for an hour before going to sleep, then switched to 2, then 100 pages a day, and now I actually just enjoy reading and look forward to just going through books
read books you like. don't be afraid of stopping a book that bores you. The idea about reading is not to torture yourself to finish a book that bores you. if you don't like what you are reading, just stop take another book from another genre or medium... don't do the mistake many people do while reading and force yourself to finish
No way! Me and friends who met because of YOU made a book club to read all the books in the show!!! We started with Monte cristo and were reading the you series next
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." - Viktor Frankl, A Man's Search for meaning. One of my favorite quotes from that life-changing book!
Don Quixote is a marvelous book. We could do a lecture on practically every page. After I read it, I found a biography of Cervantes and read that and wondered "How could a man who suffered through that life have written this book?" And then I got old and realized only a man who had been a soldier and a noble and a slave and managed to reach old age (I'm 72) could have written that work. Adventure is moments of terror remembered twenty five years later. On a personal note...I remember my wars and my ups and downs and delusions of being a hero...had a few. And now I'm old and I love this book even more.
This guy is brilliant in his literary criticism. Fresh, youthful and charming. Makes me interested in reading lol.
He's why I started to love reading. I was moved by how passionate he speaks about reading and how much he thought his life changed that I wanted to drop the stigma that reading is a chore. The key is finding a good book that you enjoy reading, if it feels like a chore for too long just drop it. So I looked up recommended books and luckily, my first book that I bought from a recommendation was one that I enjoyed very much. The book is called The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger. It's an autobiography of the CEO of Disney and even though I have no intention whatsoever of becoming a CEO of anything, the storytelling is so magnetic and inspiring that I developed a love of biographies. It's like, read 100 biographies and you'll live 101 lives instead of just 1 in your lifetime.
he is a jerk
Mans Search For Meaning was life changing for me. My favorite of all time is The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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I recommend you "One hundred years of solitude" (Cien años de soledad) from Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a classic of latin america literature.
Hundred*
Yassss it's such a great book!
I couldn’t recommend it more, you’re 100% right, it opens so much about Latin American literature but at the same time gives you one great story
ooh, i actually have this book bcs of my dad, i will def read it
❤️
I've recently acquired The Count of Monte Cristo, seeing you talk about it just made me even more excited to read it!! Wonderful video, John!
I read it this year and i think you will enjoy it. great story
Also read Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas
This is one of the few books that's made me cry reading it
For those of you don’t have much time watching: (not in any particular order)
1. Don Quixote
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
3. Dune
4. Beloved
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
7. Just Mercy
8. Man’s Search for Meaning
9. Flow
10. New and Selected Poems, Vol.1
Books that did something to my soul, heart and brain:
1. "The life of Arseniev" by Ivan Bunin
2. "The Gift" by Nabokov
3. "Anna Karenina" by Tolstoy
4. "Petersburg" by Andrei Bely
Are you a Russian? Most of your literary choices are russian. Dostoyevsky was my introduction to Russian literature.
@@nishantjoshi5174 I am not Russian, but live here. Did you like Dostoevsky?
@@nishantjoshi5174 and all of these books are russian, yes)
@@prumpom Yes, indeed. Dostoyevsky was truly otherworldly. Apart from Pushkin, Chekhov, Tolstoy, searching for more..
@@prumpom What else do you recommend? Apart from your first 4 choices?
The description and reasoning you provided was just beautiful and refreshing. Great video, John!!
Watching you talk about anything soothes me. Thank you for making videos.
I recommend Flowers for Algernon. Such a good book! The ending broke my heart.
mary oliver is my favorite poet of all time, because it feels like she’s not writing what she sees; she’s living in the world through her poems.
That's moving, and her poems are beyond words!
so happy they're not all just self help books, you're the best. definitely picking up Maya Angelou again!! much love from Vancouver Canada (:
What's wrong with reading self help books most of the time? :)
@@chronos5457 everything
@@chronos5457 No real improvement happens
@@amrit5679 the secret is to take action, not just reading books
@@mihaiteodorescu9548 exactly, just do it. -nike
You inspired me to start reading. Many thanks!
Always love top tens! Great choices John!
Nice! I bought Man's Search for Meaning because of your videos. It's a really enjoyable read, hope to get my next book from this video. Please keep it up John!
Thank you for your inspiration. I'm reading Just Mercy right now and hopefully my next book will be The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
The 3 of these I have read are in my top 10 as well! Man's search for meaning, flow and dune are all incredible for taking control of your life!
Don Quixote is also one of my favorite books! It's considered the first modern novel. Cervantes invented so many literary techniques that are commonplace today. The humor of course is amazing but the book has many levels. I hope you get a chance to read it again!
Dude, your voice is so soothing
Just subscribed. You seem like such an articulate, intelligent and charismatic person, and I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos!
I’m impressed with your selections you are alright with me John Fish.
Thank you, great, eclectic list!! -many I’ve ‘not’ read so, I have several good books to look forward to reading! Dune I read back in the 70s (the trilogy, at that time), and absolutely love the books. Beloved - hands down, one of the scariest books (to me) I’ve ever read!
I listened Just Mercy audiobook on my way to internship at the time and every morning I was either shocked, fist-wrenched, or just disappointed of the injustice there is. Does stir hope in me because there's someone like Bryan Stevenson who is fighting for the odds of those falsely accused. Also pity those who suffered in the process of waiting for their trial.
Definitely picking up some of these. Great list, thank you!
I've read majority of the books mentioned here, but I appreciate your video and the comments.
That book elevated Malcolm X to my top human being of all time. What a story
thank you, john, for these recommendations
thanks for the recs! i wanted to get into poetry so i'll be looking into the mary oliver anthology for sure.
heyy bro. you're a big inspiration to me. encouraging me to read and everything. big fan.
Great video. I’ve read a few of those. I’m looking forward to reading The Count of Monte Cristo, which I bought a few weeks ago.
Great video with ACTual descriptions--nice!
I just started The count of Monte Cristo and I'm pretty excited!!!
If you haven't read them yet, I recommend...
1. "Our Twisted Hero" by Yi Monyol. I used to tell people that it's a good idea to know something about South Korean politics of the 70s and 80s before reading it but at this point, the last 6 years of American politics is preparation enough.
2. "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem. Again, it used to be helpful to understand something about how Soviet control and propaganda worked in its satellite states but at this point, recent American politics is a good enough background for connecting with this novel.
Man's search for meaning really changed the way I thought of the pursuing of happiness. Really is a fantastic book.
I really need to read this!
Don Quixote set the basis ofthe modern novel, all the story telling techniques that we see nowadays (movies, TV shows...) are indirectly inspired in Cervantes' master piece
i’ve read half of it and maybe it’s my dyslexia or something i didn’t find it enjoyable
I’ve read a number of philosophy books. Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Arthur Schopenhauer. When you talked about flow, a mans search for meaning, and sapiens in a previous video I bought them on Amazon immediately. The first two seemed like a good branch off of philosophy into somewhat similar topics, and for sapiens, I just love learning about human history.
Your voice and physicue changed so much since the day in the life of a Harvard computer science student, keep it up!
Geriminal - Emelie Zola
A chess story - Stefan Zweig
The picture of dorian Grey - Oscar wilde
1984 - George Orewell
Inkheart - cornelia funke
THE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED - Jonas Jonasson
The Castle - Franz Kafka
...........
1984 is an extraordinary masterpiece, Orwell really saw the future.
Solid recommendations, some are favorites, some I really want to read. I am definitely picking up Cervantes and Toni Morrison after this !
Hearing you talking about science fiction made me realise why I loved "The Ice People" from Barjavel. I hope you read it
I love this list because it consists of books I've been curious to read and have already read. Just Mercy, in particular, has been the book that has moved me the most... so much because it was different and more fulfilling than the movie (but also an important movie)
My god yes, there's magic between those pages!
A lot of titles I want to get to at some point. Nice variety, thanks!
Hello, thanks for the great video. I love your enthusiasm while talking about your favourites. I have just finished Kenneth Roberts The Northwest Passage. It is also almost 700 pages and I finished it within a week. Very exciting and popular book. Definitely one of my favourites.
I really like your video and book lists. Very informative.
Bro did you know Einstein’s favortie relaxing read was Donquixote
and his favorite non-relaxing book was the brothers karamozov
I recommend "If This is A Man" and "The Truce" by Primo Levi as a counterpoint to "Man's Search For Meaning". They're his autobiographical accounts of survival in a concentration camp and his journey home after it was liberated. Levi's novel "If Not Now, When?" is excellent too. It's a fictionalised account of a group of partisans fighting behind German lines over the final years of the war. All three books are incredible examinations of the extremes of human nature, from the unutterably evil to the incalculably brave.
The count of Monte Cristo is my favorite novel of all time with the "voyage au bout de la nuit" from Louis Ferdinand Céline.
Besides, I wanted to thank you for having encouraged me to read, thanks to you I read 50 books in 1 year and without you it would not be possible.
Oof you woke up and chose controversy lmao
@@swann357 If you talk about Celine's "voyage, it's a masterpiece, I haven't read her pamphlets.
There is good and bad in each author even if Celine was very controversial but it was more out of pacifism (due to the trauma of the First World War) than a deep conviction. He was fed up with the war.
@@halamadrid9704 good points. Have you ever read Céline's letter to Sartre ? I think it's one of the most hilarious things I've ever read
@@swann357 No I haven't read it but I'll buy it soon, yes Celine really has a special sense of humor. I bought almost all of his novels, can't wait to read them. Céline is a bit of a Cartman of writers in her character with extraordinary and innovative writing.
@@swann357 His style is pleasant. What I like about him is that we love him or hate him, there is rarely a happy medium.
My very favorite book ever is Flaubert's "The Sentimental Education". So beautiful, layered, and so frickin well-written
Thanks for reference. I have read so little of French lit even though three musketeers is my favorite novel of all time.
Hey man! loved listening to "Project Hail Mary" it was awesome just like you said, I'm a young reader and it is really hard for me to find time to read. It will be awesome if you make a video on how you manage your time and make room for reading in your busiest days.
love your book videos 🥰
Loved the video John , Greetings from Egypt
Great job! makes me want to read all 10 books.
Loved this. Some of my favourite books;
-Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (NF)
-The New Odyssey by Patrick Kingsley (NF)
-Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell (NF)
-Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari (NF)
-Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (NF)
-11/22/63 by Stephen King (F)
-The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (F)
-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (F)
-The Devil all the Time by Donald Ray Pollock (F)
-Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (F)
I literally could go on and on but let me stop myself now
AHAHAHAAHAAHAH READY PLAYER ONE
11/22/63 is one of my favorite books. Craig Wasson's narration of it is absolutely marvelous.
Master and Margarita is great
Everything Gladwell does is gold, especially since he narrates.
@@arturobelano6243 relax….that really isn’t that funny
I need all of these books on my bookshelf immediately! 💫 Keep rising to be who you want to be! 💫 #keeprising #risingtobe #aswerise #riser
Great video John! My all time favourite book is the waves by Virginia Woolf. It's just stunning, I reread it every summer.
The count of monte cristo is also my favoriteee!
The Catcher in the Rye takes first place for me. Haven’t read it maybe 18-20 years, but I still remember how damn good that book was.
Not!!. On The Road by Jack K fit the “damn good” rating.
Love your selections and many I have read others are now on my TBR list. It is very difficult to narrow down to ten novels / books.
Just Mercy was an incredible book! It forever changed the way I think about the penitentiary and death sentence of prisoners in the US justice system.
Ohh new books to my list ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful video ❤️❤️
I recommend Wild Swans by Jung Chang. This book opens up the inside of China through three generations through the Cultural Revolution. It will change the way you see the world. Another which you will love is 'I bury my heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.
Nice username xD
Awesome book!
Completely agree! Amazing recommendations mate! You've got some great taste for sure 🙂
I'm sure you've already read it, but in case someone hasn't, Parable of The Sower by Octavia Butler is a superb science fiction. It's different from a lot of sci-fi books that explicitly state or imply that some cataclysmic change is required to make society inhumanly dystopian. In Butler's mind, the absence of change is what will bring about the apocalypse.
i stopped reading Don Quixote because there was this part that was hard to get through but now I will start again! thanks for making reading exciting again
Fiction books that I can never get tired of reading again and again are:
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (Discusses family dynamics and mental health in an African setting)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Jenkins Reid (A look into the life of a former Hollywood sex symbol and a forbidden love)
Kafka on The Shore by Haruki Murakami (An almost psychedelic take on finding yourself)
The Martian by Andy Weir (A man gets left behind after a mission to Mars)
Also really loving the Saga graphic novels
Nice to see “Man’s Search for Meaning” on the list. Read it in high school in the 1980s and it was a formidable in shaping my world view.
The thumbnail is cursed and I love it
*If you have a dream, you don't just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it reality.*
I believe in you. 🚀
My favorites:
Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas
The count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Broters karamazov by Dostoevsky
Demons by Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishiment by Dostoevsky
war and peace by Tolstoy
The man who laughs by Victor Hugo
Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Red and the Black by Stendhall
Madame Bovary by Fleubert
Love Dostoyevsky work, especially The Brother Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, the Idiot, thank you
Great recommendations! I still have to get to War and Peace but I couldn't agree more. There are just SO MANY great books out there...
Added in my list! Thanks!
The thumbnail deserves an award of its own🤩
I think his change on the pronunciation of Don Quijote it´s not a casual thing.
(ps; it was better this time)
Never though I would see beloved on another guys top list who wasn’t a literature major. Great list and v diverse 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Some book recommendations:
- House of Leaves (probably the most unique experience you'll ever have)
- The song of Achilles
- A Little Life (content warning: it's pretty heavy on trauma)
- Homo Deus (non fiction)
A Little Life is one of the greatest books I've read.
Yesss house of leaves
@@skylercrane6307 Exactly ‼️
a little life is the worst book recommendation ever
-fight club
-the stranger- Albert camus
-Notes from underground!
Had to click because I saw beloved. Toni is one of my favorite authors
New fan here. Thank you for sharing and introducing me to some new books to read. One book I recommend, all about love by Bell Hooks. A bit life changing for me.
thank you so much >>> ill try to read some of them ...best regards
Hey man could do a video on the best advice you have ever been given. Been asking this people this question alot latley and it has some interesting answers.
“You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
Have a good day, cheering you.
Hey John!:)
Great video as always, thanks to you I've been reading a book a week, enjoying it as I have never before.
As you are a science fiction fan, I'd recommend by far the best book I've read in this genre:
The Sworm - Frank Schätzing
Believe me, it will blow your mind.
What a great miniature! :)
I can't wait for John's first book!
Don Quixote, Candide, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, A Farewell to Arms, Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, Great Expectations, Gone with the Wind, Ivanhoe, War and Peace.
great expectations ♥totally obsessed with it
Sending much love from NB Canada 🇨🇦 Definitely agree with you on the DUNE
The fact that there isn't a single Russian novel on this list is a little sus
Anna Karenina and The Karamazov Brothers must be part of every goddamned list on this planet and elsewhere :P
@@noorsvlogs1456 is Karamazov Brothers really good? i wanna read it but i am sure about it
@@meghanakankara2883 Yeah, its an insane novel. Best to read as an adolescent since it has a certain tragic, doomed vibe that teenagers could indulge in but again you could give it a try.
@@noorsvlogs1456 True!! A 16 y old here and love the Brothers Karamazov!
@@meghanakankara2883 I read The Brothers Karamazov for the first time this year - Ignat Avsey translation. I can honestly say that I have never read a book that has made me think so deeply. I completely reconsidered my stance on God. It's a fantastic book, but you need to really pay attention to it. It's easy to miss a nugget of profundity because there are so many.
Checkout “The Cairo Trilogy” by Naguib Mahfouz which consists of 3 books: “Palace Walk”, “Palace of Desire”, “Sugar Street”.
He’s the only Arabic writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
thanks for this john
don quijote wow :)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
-Of Human Bondage
-The Remains of the Day
-The Stranger
My faves so far:
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
3. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
4. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The way you've explained about "flow" nobody else has! I bought that book, received counterfeit copy, although it had worst print I managed to read a few pages from the beginning. I was in awe of the beauty the book was. Got a replacement ended up with same the kind and reordered from Amazon again it was counterfeit. I inquired in some other bookselling site, they claim to sell original but there's no return or replacement. I'm just so mad to read from the genuine copy. I don't know if I will but I really wish.
Love and best wishes from India 💕
Hats off to you how flawlessly you were able to pronounce that long Hungarian name! 👏👏👏
I did a double-take when I saw that thumbnail lmao that was so good 10/10 would click again
Thanks for sharing your book list! Those books must be great! I will definitely read them! :D
I would like to recommend the book “The Story of My Life” and the essay “Three Days To See” both by Helen Keller.
Helen Keller was blind and deaf, yet she could get the most of her life. She found happiness and light even in the darkest hour; she felt life with her heart even though she could not see with her eyes and hear with her ears. The first book is a memoir that talks about the life of Helen Keller, a brave and inspiring historical figure of all time. The essay talks about what Helen Keller would like to see in three days, but there is something much deeper than that, which I don’t want to spoil it lol. The movie “The Miracle Worker” is produced based on Helen Keller’s story. Overall, I hope her words could bring you some enlightenment and appreciation of the world we live in, as well as I hope these stories could light up your life even in the darkest time. :)
Thanks for adding “Beloved”.
I wanna challenge myself inattentiveness by reading but I don't just know how lmao
Read in the morning 1 hour and also on the bus.
And be patient this is the key
I used to be like that up until last year and it made me realize how much social media or just media in general messed up my attention span lol. I started by reading for an hour before going to sleep, then switched to 2, then 100 pages a day, and now I actually just enjoy reading and look forward to just going through books
I find audiobooks on 2x - 3x speed while going for a walk, hand sewing (generally doing something mindless) are really helpful
try audiobooks...
read books you like. don't be afraid of stopping a book that bores you. The idea about reading is not to torture yourself to finish a book that bores you. if you don't like what you are reading, just stop take another book from another genre or medium... don't do the mistake many people do while reading and force yourself to finish
No way! Me and friends who met because of YOU made a book club to read all the books in the show!!! We started with Monte cristo and were reading the you series next
I love that one of my favorite book of all times is on his list Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley.
Mary Oliver is the quintessential poet. I had the honor of seeing her read poetry in person twice. She was an amazing person.
I would like to recommend you "The Unberable lightness of mean" by Milan Kundera
So bad I thought
Don Quixote is also in my top 10 books of all time. The humor worked really well for me