I read 95 books in 2023 - here are my top ten!
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2024
- The ten best books I read in 2023!
✨Books Mentioned✨
All our Yesterdays - Natalia Ginzburg tr. Angus Davidson
Cleanness - Garth Greenwell
Territory of Light - Yuko Tsushima tr. Geraldine Harcourt
Chilean Poet- Alejandro Zambra tr. Megan McDowell
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky tr. Anna Brailovsky
If this is a Man & the Truce - Primo Levi tr. Stuart J. Woolf
Stories of the Sahara - Sanmao
The Silent Cry- Kenzaburo Oe tr. John Bester
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
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been wanting to read the Lessing! but have always been intimidated by the size! >.< i love some meta writing!
also, what a healthy year of books! such a good mix of things! i hope you have a good rest of your reading year
@@nathansnook don't let the size put you off. It's split up into loads of different parts, so you end up flying through it!
Very solid selection of books. I had also loved A Suitable Boy when I read it and recommend Seth's An Equal Music and Two Lives, out of his books. The latter is almost like a memoir of his uncle and aunt's lives written by him. And I hope Giovanni 's Room is still on your list, it is outstanding!
@georgiam4576 ooh, okay I will definitely check out Seth's other books. Yes, Giovanni's Room is still very much on my list. Just need to make a point of actually getting to it 😁
Id love to see your honourable mentions! I also loved the Golden Notebook in all its complexity.
@pocketfullofponder yes, such an amazing book! I will make an honourable mentions video soon- was so hard to narrow my list down and feels unfair to some of the books I missed out 😅
I read my first Doris Lessing in 2023, too (The Grass Is Singing), and it was one of my best books of the year, too. I wasn't particularly interested in The Golden Notbook before, but what you said about it sounded intriguing, so I just bought a used copy. 😀
@evastrange Ooh, I hope you enjoy it!! I really want to get to The Grass is Singing next, so very glad to hear good things- I'm hoping I will come across a nice secondhand copy in a used bookshop soon! 😁
I re-read "If This is a Man" after watching the film The Zone of Interest. I'd read Amis' book years ago and didn't know about the film until recently. I don't remember if it was in If this is a Man or another one of his books where Levi talks about remembering a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film on his way to the concentration camp. Dante's The Divine Comedy was also ever present on his mind. A beautiful book.
@LibroParadiso-ep4zt I loved the Zone of Interest but didn't realise it was based on Amis's book until afterwards. Levi is an author that I want to read absolutely everything by. I've never quite made it to Dante, but I'll get there eventually I'm sure 😅
Hi Sarah, still pretty new to this book tube business myself. Best wishes with your reading choices and to your channel!
@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk thanks! Welcome to youtube too 😄
props to you for having a record player..... very few people keep one these days
@cristianmicu sadly doesn't get too much use but it looks nice ha ha!
Sarah, it is so refreshing to see so many amazing books which correspond with my own taste in reading.
I was wondering if you read Alba de Céspedes?
Alba's Forbidden Notebook was so good!!!
@@pocketfullofponder I am reading "Her side of the story" and planning to read her "Forbidden Notebook" as well.
@@pocketfullofponderI agree!
@Slothreadersclub Thanks! Alba de Cespedes has been on my radar for a while, but I've never quite got round to her! Do you think Forbidden Notebook is the best place to start? 😊