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11 books you need to read in 2024 *fiction*

Jack Edwards
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part 2 of my best books of 2023 -- enjoy!!! part 1: • the BEST books of 2023...
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  • Could analyze the 'men written by woman' and the 'women written by men' trope in books? It would be so awesome to hear you speaking on authors' unrealistic (and sometimes even sexist) expectations of the opposite gender.

    @SuryanshiAgrawal@SuryanshiAgrawal4 ай бұрын

    • Yess!!!

      @majacervin8867@majacervin88674 ай бұрын

    • This would be interesting!

      @twosunies@twosunies4 ай бұрын

    • 💯💯💯

      @emptythoughts3060@emptythoughts30604 ай бұрын

    • I find this so interesting and hadn't given it a thought until my mum said she doesn't read books by male authors. She couldn't give me a reason why (I think she just thinks it's a coincidence) but after discussing the idea with my friend we realised that too often, male writers don't write women well. It's something I really look for now when I read male authors

      @meganlsanders@meganlsanders4 ай бұрын

    • That would be sooo interesting to watch for sure!!

      @fluffg-nx7ns@fluffg-nx7ns4 ай бұрын

  • You just know whenever Jack mentions Toni Morrison the words “the Human Condition” will soon follow

    @joeawad4325@joeawad43254 ай бұрын

  • Bro expects me to read 11 books in a day and a half???

    @Anotherroom@Anotherroom4 ай бұрын

    • LMAO

      @scarlett2692@scarlett26924 ай бұрын

    • He said “make them your tbr in 2024”

      @anuththaraherath9714@anuththaraherath97144 ай бұрын

    • Better start quick !!

      @jonthasnas@jonthasnas4 ай бұрын

    • ​@@anuththaraherath9714 The title is 2023 😅

      @jonthasnas@jonthasnas4 ай бұрын

    • 😂😂 same thought

      @jo.mb97@jo.mb974 ай бұрын

  • “hurts your heart but also expands your soul” yep, that’s exactly the subgenre I gravitate to

    @Ida2170@Ida21704 ай бұрын

    • Leads to the bottle….. let me go….

      @michellesiderio1010@michellesiderio1010Ай бұрын

  • “As I pulled to Tokyo station, I turned the final page”- this is pure poetry and could and a great book opening line- Happy New Year

    @nothingtoseehere316@nothingtoseehere3164 ай бұрын

  • love how poetic and dramatic are Jack's reviews on books he likes

    @juanfa98@juanfa984 ай бұрын

  • 0:39 - Sula by Toni Morrison 2:40 - Alone With You In The Ether by Olivie Blake 4:19 - Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan 5:20 - Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson 6:29 - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart 8:06 - Almond by Won-Pyung Sohn 10:13 - In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado 11:28 - There There by Tommy Orange 13:30 - Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart 14:58 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy 16:16 - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan edit: hi, i would really appreciate it if u would recommend more books for me to read in 2024 if u see this

    @diagonall_y@diagonall_y4 ай бұрын

    • Writers and lovers, Piranesi,Who runs the frog hospital, Light from uncommon stars, Self portrait in green,Count Luna, Sunburn by Chloe Michelle howarth and the broken earth trilogy by n.k.jemisin

      @lilkakow@lilkakow4 ай бұрын

    • Any specific genres?

      @lilbeans@lilbeans4 ай бұрын

    • I don’t know if you meant only Jack to see this, but I have some recommendations. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle zevin, lessons in chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Convenience, store woman by sayaka murata

      @bibliobibuli_@bibliobibuli_4 ай бұрын

    • Hey buddy, here's a book recommendation for you - it's called "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. It's a short story book where people come into a restaurant where they can time travel to the past or to the future.

      @bikashnath01@bikashnath014 ай бұрын

    • @@bikashnath01 I just bought that book yesterday!! No way lol

      @bibliobibuli_@bibliobibuli_4 ай бұрын

  • My wife and I should have left for a New Years’ trip 90 minutes ago, but she is predictably not ready. Thanks for letting me pass the time while she gets ready. And thanks for all the videos throughout the year. Happy New Year to Jack and his book community!

    @jbriaz@jbriaz4 ай бұрын

    • idk why but this comment made me so happy

      @hellohellohi18@hellohellohi184 ай бұрын

    • also me​@@hellohellohi18

      @weammessead5271@weammessead52714 ай бұрын

    • hope you and your wife have a nice trip :)

      @isla.g@isla.g4 ай бұрын

    • I'm panicked Did you make it in time ? 😅

      @hugitkissitloveit8640@hugitkissitloveit86404 ай бұрын

    • @@hugitkissitloveit8640 Yes, we did. With 23 minutes to spare to be precise :)

      @jbriaz@jbriaz4 ай бұрын

  • You should definitely try some NEW authors this year... 1. The kite runner 2. The thousand splendid suns 3. Malgudi days 4. Mahabharata unravelled 5. The pearl that broke it's shell 6. The palace of illusions Love from India ❤

    @shruteeh07@shruteeh074 ай бұрын

    • Kite runner and thousand splendid suns are both by Khaled Hosseini who is a Afghan-American.

      @trueservitude@trueservitude4 ай бұрын

    • ​@@trueservitudeyes and very emotional

      @hobicheekz7645@hobicheekz76454 ай бұрын

    • Khaled Housseini is an Afghan American author, not Indian. Indians need to stop claiming other South Asian authors as Indian when they're clearly not.

      @aamnahere6250@aamnahere62504 ай бұрын

    • Khaled Hosseini is Afghani, he's an incredible writer and I'm pretty sure Jack has talked about his books on this channel before but y'all gotta stop lumping in the rest of South Asia with India, we're all incredibly unique cultures we don't need to be put in those boxes of expectations.

      @seaof_stars@seaof_stars4 ай бұрын

    • @shruti0007 Ladki research your facts comment karne se pehle. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ @sana-ip9jl @aamnahere6250 @seaof_stars Very sorry for the error she has made. Clearly she didn’t know what she was writing.

      @himanshikaushik721@himanshikaushik7214 ай бұрын

  • 'She has been more consistent in my life than some people I know.' Love the sash. A trope in itself. 😆

    @TheRainbowCoach@TheRainbowCoach4 ай бұрын

  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke was the first book I read in 2023, and it was also my favorite! Highly recommend to anyone who likes dark academia with fantasy elements! It's also a pretty quick read

    @emilysaunders1424@emilysaunders14244 ай бұрын

  • I just recently got Emma and I'm so excited to start reading. I only got it because I've heard such good things and this channel has expanded my literary horizons so much. So, just thank you

    @thatmediocreartist1234@thatmediocreartist12344 ай бұрын

    • I LOVE Jane Austen!! But for me personally Emma wasn’t my favourite of the books I’ve read by her. (Maybe a 4 stars, which is still high) I really really loved pride and prejudice and persuasion which were both 5 stars so if you like Emma I’d recommend to read those books as well❤❤

      @Emmy-rw8yl@Emmy-rw8yl4 ай бұрын

    • I read Emma in 2023 for the first time, and I liked it a lot! Hope you like it too. I've bought Persuasion as well, but still haven't gotten around to reading it.

      @CricketGirl33@CricketGirl334 ай бұрын

    • I loved that book. I recently found another KZhead channel very intresting that suggested Mansfield Park and I'm going to read it this weekend. The channel is called IntoTheBooks23. She's good at what she does.

      @user-tk9ys1mr8s@user-tk9ys1mr8sАй бұрын

  • I also read Almond this year and was blown away by it. Thanks for doing what you do!

    @NovelFindsByKassi@NovelFindsByKassi4 ай бұрын

  • Alone With You In The Ether is so good! Thanks for the other recs, will add to my 2024 TBR!

    @fancypantsloser@fancypantsloser4 ай бұрын

  • i’ve been lucky enough to read sula in two different classes and truly every time i read it i get so much more from it, genuinely the best book i have ever read

    @abbie3540@abbie35404 ай бұрын

  • young mungo dug a hole in my heart,made me cry like no other book omg

    @kmlkai@kmlkai4 ай бұрын

  • borlest - the hidden truths of wealth (thank me later)

    @burmakara@burmakaraАй бұрын

    • Thank you so much!

      @cooperandrew1@cooperandrew1Ай бұрын

    • What's this

      @blllxmedia3902@blllxmedia3902Ай бұрын

    • @@blllxmedia3902 It's forbidden ebook which talks about the mysterious secrets of attracting money and building massive businesses

      @cooperandrew1@cooperandrew1Ай бұрын

    • forbidden ebook, if any book is a must-read, then it is this one

      @burmakara@burmakaraАй бұрын

  • i just love the way Jack describes the books

    @_dandaramr@_dandaramr4 ай бұрын

    • Yes😊

      @Beyond_Reads_@Beyond_Reads_4 ай бұрын

  • JACK I read 100 books this year because of you

    @AC-dz9yq@AC-dz9yq4 ай бұрын

  • Recently bought Small Things Like These by Keegan from a charity shop! Never read her work before, but i’ve heard her name in your videos before so I definitely knew I had to read it, the synopsis sounds brilliant. Glad you enjoyed it + happy new year!

    @615yeo@615yeo4 ай бұрын

  • I love that you talk about books that aren’t the same ten I always see!

    @pickyourpopculturepoison@pickyourpopculturepoison4 ай бұрын

    • Have you watched Ana Wallace Johnson?

      @rubyanddelilahandnani@rubyanddelilahandnani4 ай бұрын

    • @@rubyanddelilahandnani No but thanks for the Rec!!

      @pickyourpopculturepoison@pickyourpopculturepoison4 ай бұрын

    • @@pickyourpopculturepoisonyou’re welcome. She’s great.

      @rubyanddelilahandnani@rubyanddelilahandnani4 ай бұрын

  • This was such a straight forward, good video. I can’t even explain it better. From the beginning to the last second, I believed it and it convinced to read all of it. Thanks Jack! Have a good new year! Happy new year Jack watchers!!!

    @mayanabrumatte@mayanabrumatte4 ай бұрын

  • In the Dream House was one of my favorites from 2022 and also was put on my list of one of my favorites I've ever read. When you talked about it earlier in the year I got so excited because I had not ever seen anyone talk about it and it really deserves to be so I'm glad to see it on this list too.

    @alishalee6618@alishalee66184 ай бұрын

  • Alone With You In The Ether is my all time fav book!!! And seeing that Jack analyzing a beautiful book, in a beautiful way is such a blessing!

    @karismithasasidran9430@karismithasasidran94304 ай бұрын

    • I generally do not enjoy romance books but Alone with you in the ether is the only romance book I enjoyed reading.

      @mitalishinde6890@mitalishinde68904 ай бұрын

  • I really loved the book Foster by Claire Keegan. So really looking forward to reading Small Things Like these.

    @adityakadam024@adityakadam0244 ай бұрын

  • Hey Jack, I think you should read Alibis by Andre Aciman. They're labeled as "essays on elsewhere" and I think that, as the world-traveller that you are, you would really like it. The essays are lyrical and wonderfully thoughtful. Since you liked Aciman's fiction, I think you'd absolutely love his essays.

    @tristanprather3739@tristanprather37394 ай бұрын

  • im so happy to see almond getting some love!! what a stunning lil book

    @asoues@asoues4 ай бұрын

  • I absolutely LOVED ‚Almond‘. I flew through this book and loved it so much, it actually surprised me because it’s not what I normally read. But it out me on a new literary path. I cried and laughed so much.

    @marieh4280@marieh42804 ай бұрын

  • I simply adore your way of talking about the things you love, it inspires me so much! And btw, I loved the christmas lights on your shelves!!

    @luisarickli6738@luisarickli67384 ай бұрын

  • Jack, you NEED to read “Betty” by Tiffany McDaniel. It is HEARTBREAKING, gut wrenching and is a masterpiece! It’s about this girl Betty who is telling the story of her family who are of Cherokee Heritage. It deals with some really hard topics so TW but it is amazing. It is also based off of the authors mother, it’s a true story which makes it even more devastating. It’s A little life level of sad. LOVE YOU

    @karat24x@karat24x4 ай бұрын

    • 🙏

      @irenesellier8714@irenesellier87144 ай бұрын

    • Sounds very interesting. Could you tell me if it has a TW for s.xual a.buse?

      @linda-ts8ty@linda-ts8ty4 ай бұрын

    • @@linda-ts8ty it does, there is quite a central theme of that. Hope you are okay lovely🥰

      @karat24x@karat24x4 ай бұрын

    • loved this book! So emotional

      @c_mn_1592@c_mn_15922 ай бұрын

  • Thank you for the recommendation of Alone With You In The Ether. Love the first paragraph (read it on Amazon) and gonna purchase the book after work. Have a splendid day, Jack. Happy New Year!

    @dwell.in.a.sea.of.creativity@dwell.in.a.sea.of.creativity4 ай бұрын

  • Could you do " books recommended by Jess Mariano " please? I'd LOVE it

    @sarasuarezacebes9969@sarasuarezacebes99694 ай бұрын

  • jack, sweetie, i can’t read 11 books in 2 days😂

    @paxtonc5326@paxtonc53264 ай бұрын

  • Loved Alone With You In the Ether so much - glad to see it on your list.

    @maureenmccarthy597@maureenmccarthy5974 ай бұрын

  • Best

    @matteo00111@matteo001113 ай бұрын

  • From your list, this year I read Sula, Alone with you in the Ether, In the Dream house and Small Things Like These. Two of these were on my top ten of the year! Good choices 🎉

    @keiichifuruya@keiichifuruya4 ай бұрын

  • HUGE Claire Keegan fan!! I love Small Things... and Foster, both in my top five (of 88) books this year! I can't get enough of her. Also, LOVED Ivan Illyich in 2023!

    @MyHumbleNest@MyHumbleNest4 ай бұрын

  • I just wanted you to know that you have inspired my friends and I to start a book club this year. We’re starting February with “Alone with You in the Ether” because it’s the month of love. I just love your videos so much and they encourage me to become a better reader. I strive to read and enjoy literature like you! ❤

    @rosariocardenas5870@rosariocardenas58703 ай бұрын

  • Okay. You are literally my new favorite human. Love this list so much.

    @user-er8fi4wc4z@user-er8fi4wc4z4 ай бұрын

  • Added many to my TBR! Jack I hope you can finish all of these, and I know you can. Have a great year…♥️

    @Meredithlrio@Meredithlrio4 ай бұрын

  • When I tell you the joy I felt when I saw my favorite booktuber upload 😻

    @Dinosher@Dinosher4 ай бұрын

  • Yes! Sula is one of my favorite books as well!! It’s amazing, toni morrison’s writing is exquisite

    @Gerald-Richardson@Gerald-Richardson2 ай бұрын

  • Thanks for sharing your knowledge and recommendations with us in 2023.. Big hug from Argentina

    @marce_af@marce_af4 ай бұрын

  • The way Jack describes books is simply beautiful, he’s the reason why my tbr list is so long

    @fabiplvcn9513@fabiplvcn95133 ай бұрын

  • would love to see a video about how to effectively consume poetry collections! It’s so hard to know what pace to read at and how much time to leave between each one and if I should reread it etc.

    @hollyeatsbooks@hollyeatsbooks3 ай бұрын

  • i added every single book except for in the dream house to my TBR. thank you for another year of book content jack! you are one of my favorite booktube content creators and I appreciate your taste and your analyses of books so much

    @MichyyMcLaughlin@MichyyMcLaughlin4 ай бұрын

  • dude. first video like this that actually makes you want to read EVERY SINGLE ONE.

    @38k25m@38k25m3 ай бұрын

  • Only managed to find this video now but delighted to see that I already read one of your recommendations for 2024- I loved Alone With You In The Ether and wept while reading Almond last year. Thank you! ❤

    @viktoria7349@viktoria73492 ай бұрын

  • Added these to my list! Would be interested in a video about all the translated books you would recommend, and want to read. I'm trying to expand my reading horizons in 2024!

    @emilygrace139@emilygrace1394 ай бұрын

  • I would love book recs that have heavy emphasis on the arts and artists I’ve read Sirens and Muses and I loved it because of its involvement in art! 🎨🖌️

    @taylor.1831@taylor.18314 ай бұрын

  • Ooh I'm early! Need to add these on my "Want To Read" list on Goodreads! ^^ You the only booktuber I fully trust with book recommendations!!!

    @eullalalavlogs@eullalalavlogs4 ай бұрын

    • I just noticed when someone commented about it T.T It should be 2024 lol

      @eullalalavlogs@eullalalavlogs4 ай бұрын

  • Couple days ago I watched 3 of ur recent rec videos and I got a couple of them since b&n had that sale! I’m currently reading in the dream house and it’s the first memoir I’ve ever read! Great recommendation. From the rest of the ones in this video I also bought Sula and the death of Ivan ilyich. All the books you recommend sound amazing so I’m going to try to get the rest of these soon

    @alondra6395@alondra63954 ай бұрын

  • Jack! ThanksMuch for sharing !

    @asan1050@asan10504 ай бұрын

  • hey jack if your looking for more native authors i absolutely recommend ‘braiding sweet grass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer. it’s a collection of essays all about indigenous knowledge, our relationship to the earth and each other. it’s writing is really lyrical and sweet while also being incredibly insightful/critical on a variety of issues like colonization. i think it’s a book everyone should read lol

    @tateshivers7461@tateshivers74614 ай бұрын

  • I wish I could describe a book like you do you're so articulate about it love it and i'm so excited to read all these books thanx

    @lezaabm9610@lezaabm96103 ай бұрын

  • My favourite books of the year were Sula, In the Dream House, Funny Boy and Elena knows... so yeah. I'm just adding all the books you love to my TBR cause clearly we have similar taste (and thank you for widening my scope, I would've never read Funny Boy if it wasn't for your channel)

    @kraz3721@kraz37214 ай бұрын

  • Thanks for the book recommendations

    @cassandrapierce7203@cassandrapierce7203Ай бұрын

  • Like this if you're here before Jack changed the title to 2024 ❤

    @Charellie@Charellie4 ай бұрын

    • Yep

      @StrangerBillie@StrangerBillie4 ай бұрын

  • New to books on youtube. Best wishes to you and your channel in 2024.

    @ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk4 ай бұрын

  • I always love your recommendations! Thank you for keeping my TBR long and being my light in the jungle of books that are avilable in Libby

    @IngeborgEngh@IngeborgEnghАй бұрын

  • Loved "there there" can't wait to read "Wandering Stars" when it comes out in February.

    @bobosboger@bobosboger4 ай бұрын

  • Small Things Like These!!! Loved it!!

    @annikacambigue@annikacambigue4 ай бұрын

  • I KNEW you were going to say "Alone With You in the Ether" I LOVED this novel!

    @gabriellegrimes7164@gabriellegrimes71644 ай бұрын

  • Been waiting for this video ! 🎉

    @bibliomania158@bibliomania1584 ай бұрын

  • I read Almond last year, And at that time I felt like that well it was a really good story but it is short and I believe characters could have been more explained in details. But I was incredibly mistaken! This book is a masterpiece and I do still think about it, It was really really beautiful~

    @sunglory4488@sunglory44884 ай бұрын

  • you have to read the green road!!! especially if you love contemporary Irish novels I adored it so much

    @charlottekeene3205@charlottekeene32054 ай бұрын

  • You have the best reccs i just recieved 3 books in the mail from your recommendation video so excited to read a lot more in 2024 you inspire me to be curious about this world ❤

    @jnb-iv6zu@jnb-iv6zu4 ай бұрын

  • I’ve been teaching SULA for decades in my honors English class. I’m going to show this clip when we get to it this year. I feel exactly this way about this book.

    @user-er8fi4wc4z@user-er8fi4wc4z4 ай бұрын

  • Jack uploads a video, automaticly my tbr grows

    @valeriabotero@valeriabotero4 ай бұрын

  • Happy New Year! Time to hit the books 📚

    @katofficialyoutube@katofficialyoutube4 ай бұрын

  • I am writting a book series myself, I hope to hear that kind of compliments said about my books someday... ( Love your videos by the way !)

    @warrioroflight6122@warrioroflight61224 ай бұрын

  • Thank you so much Jack I appreciate it ❤

    @laurenschenck5355@laurenschenck53554 ай бұрын

  • Ordered 3 of your recommendations to start my year!

    @jbm10148@jbm101484 ай бұрын

  • Hi, Jack! I was waiting for your video on the storygraph stats. Hoping that it's still a possibility or maybe at the end of this year haha

    @nataliarotolo7821@nataliarotolo78214 ай бұрын

  • Also a book to finish completing jack Edwards!! is The seven Moons of Mali Almeida and it talks about a man who is a photographer and has seven days to figure out who killed him and why and it kind of builds up to a crescendo and it talks about self blaming and is written in second person but done beautifully and the horrors of war and the book made me cry and feel so many different emotions I couldn’t stop crying at the end 😭😭😭

    @fluffg-nx7ns@fluffg-nx7ns4 ай бұрын

  • I saw you mention the Elizabeth Smart book and went and bought it. Planning to read it later this year.

    @karenlittlefield@karenlittlefield4 ай бұрын

  • read Panenka after your recommendation, and man it was MINDBLOWING! thank u so much and looking forward to more of these great videos!

    @user-qm5ne1rq9z@user-qm5ne1rq9z22 күн бұрын

  • Manifesting someone in my life who talks about words as passionately as you do, Jack. I would fall in love with them and never stop as long as I live and breathe darling ❣️

    @theincredibleknuffibar4834@theincredibleknuffibar48344 ай бұрын

  • I've just read "Small things like these" and it is indeed all you said. I'm so happy to find out it's going to be a movie, with Cillian above all! People are talking a lot about Claire Keegan's "Foster" and that will probably be my next reading. Have you read/commented about "On earth we are briefly gorgeous"? I'd love to know what you think of it. Happy New Year!

    @solyuki8342@solyuki83424 ай бұрын

    • i think i remember jack talking about and loving On earth we are briefly gorgeous a few years ago! he's definitely spoken about ocean vuong before

      @ciara1045@ciara10454 ай бұрын

  • hey jack happy new year!! i adore your videos but would you mind mentioning the pace of the books when reviewing them? not necessarily the one specified online but what you felt it like. this helps me a lot

    @moniquerc_@moniquerc_4 ай бұрын

  • I read Sula in june of this year and oh my god! You are so spot on! It's has some of the most well written and beautifully illustrated depths of human complexities. It's such a page turner. I remember i started reading it at 10'o clock in the evening and didn't sleep a wink that night. I finally finished it at 4:30 in the morning. In my opinion, sula and beloved are just such masterpieces of literature that i feel they are heavy underrated. And can we take a moment to give props to the bluest eye by toni morrison? It's incredible for a debut to be honest and one of my (controversial?) Toni morrison favs

    @pinctada_pearl_oyester@pinctada_pearl_oyester4 ай бұрын

  • Great recommendations, as always 👌

    @Ms.HGL.@Ms.HGL.4 ай бұрын

  • Based on you loving 'Alone with you in the ether', I think you would really love 'The Solitude of Prime numbers' by Paolo Giordano. I bought this because of the wonderful title, but it is an amazing book with two very flawed characters you just really grow to love. Check it out... I promise you won't regret it ;)

    @melaniek6714@melaniek67144 ай бұрын

    • Wow, I don't often come across folks who've read that one! Agree completely -- such an amazing book. 💚

      @onourpath@onourpath4 ай бұрын

    • @@onourpath It was very popular in Germany when it was published.. maybe that's why I know it :)

      @melaniek6714@melaniek67144 ай бұрын

    • @@melaniek6714 I wish it had been everywhere here. I handsold the heck out of that book. The author was 25 when that was published, *and* he was a physicist! 🤯 It won the equivalent of the Pulitzer in Italy. So deserved! 💚

      @onourpath@onourpath4 ай бұрын

    • @@onourpath I know. Went to one of his readings when he published his 2nd book which I don't like as much, but means that I have a copy with a personal signing :)

      @melaniek6714@melaniek67144 ай бұрын

  • 2:40 YES YES YES to alone with you in the ether!!!! i read it because of jack in 2023 and it became my new favourite book, such beautiful characters and stunning prose

    @noeasykit@noeasykit4 ай бұрын

  • I read Almond on accident, thinking that it was a book Jack recommended. When I went on Goodreads I saw he didn’t actually read it 😅 but I started spamming him every so often to read it. It truly is a fantastic book, one of my favorites from 2022

    @TheIrvman08@TheIrvman084 ай бұрын

  • Happy New Year! My best Book of the year is Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen.

    @user-tz5it2mi1x@user-tz5it2mi1x4 ай бұрын

  • Ive just finished Alone With You In The Ether and my god. I adored it. Solid 5/5 immediately ❤😢

    @jamieann1234@jamieann12344 ай бұрын

  • I read Young Mungo because of one of your videos and it was the best book I read this year (possibly the best from the last few years), at first it was difficult to get into because my first language isn't english so the writing made me confused, but once I got used to it I absolutely fell in love with it. Honestly I think about it all the time, I never thought I would see myself in a story from such a specific european social context but this one really hit. Anyway I will definitely check out the other ones lol

    @maiarasilva9546@maiarasilva95464 ай бұрын

  • Thank you so much for these amazing book recommendations. I love the way you talk about books! Tommy Orange is amazing--I love There There so much. His new book talks about the Indian School that was in my home town of Pennsylvania, and I think the book will wreck me in the best kind of way. Here's a quote you might love: "A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us."

    @jessicaloomis2687@jessicaloomis26872 ай бұрын

  • I trust your book taste with my entire being. There are many books on this list that I've been meaning to read for ages - especially In a Dream House, The Death of Ivan Illych and Small Things Like These. I read The Bluest Eye this year, since Toni Morrison's books got republished with pretty new covers in my country, and I was awed by what I read. I absolutely agree with you that Toni Morrison could describe humanity with great tenderness and explore the intricacies of human nature. I can't wait to read more of her books, and hearing you talk about Sula and Song of Solomon only intensified this feeling. I also read Giovanni's Room this year, and this book touched me in ways not many books have done before. I adore it. It also broke my heart, but I thanked it for it. My favourite books this year were Babel, Giovanni's Room, The Bluest Eye, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Zoya Pirzad's Space Between Us (stories about Edmund Lazarian, I think originally they were published seperately?). It was a masterclass of character writing, they were described by only a few scenes in three different points in life, and yet I grew attached to Edmund in no time and felt his emotions deeply. Amazing book.

    @sercemwksiazkach3446@sercemwksiazkach34464 ай бұрын

    • GIOVANNI'S ROOM is in my top 10 all-time favorites. I need to re-read it again soon.

      @susanalfieri4487@susanalfieri4487Ай бұрын

  • Thanks for the recommendation! I just ordered Sula and Small things like these! I am super excited to read them

    @seleannia4511@seleannia451110 күн бұрын

  • Almond was an eye opening read, it was so interesting!

    @beesmyth@beesmyth4 ай бұрын

  • Of three books published in 2023 that I read - The Thing in the Snow (Sean Adams), The Shards (Bret Easton Ellis), and Not Forever, But For Now (Chuck Palahniuk) - by far my favorite was The Thing in the Snow. Of books I first read this year that were published at completely other times, my favorites were Invitation to a Beheading (Vladimir Nabokov), Campfires of the Dead and the Living (collected stories of Peter Christopher), and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (John Le Carré).

    @nl3064@nl30644 ай бұрын

  • Jack's upload at night is all I WANT ❤

    @codingwithom3787@codingwithom37874 ай бұрын

  • My all time favvvvvvv romance book, Alone with you in the ether 😭😭😭 I’m really happy Jack loves it too!!

    @jjp19@jjp194 ай бұрын

  • I have two unread books by Toni Morrison and I'm so excited to get more into her books this next year! (also just noticed that your bio still says you're 24 even though your birthday makes you 25 just so ya know😋)

    @ashleighjoy3196@ashleighjoy31964 ай бұрын

    • Poor guy let him eternally be 24 at least in his bio - I'd do that if I can't get my 2 years spent in the pandemic back lol

      @hummingawayawayaway@hummingawayawayawayАй бұрын

  • Thanks for sharing your insight will surely go through few of these books. I am also an author.

    @ashishchopra9272@ashishchopra92722 ай бұрын

  • Video idea: choose 5 booktubers and read their top book for 2023.

    @MarkelleRayneeSheree@MarkelleRayneeSheree4 ай бұрын

  • This is how I find what i am going to read. LOVE the way Jack summarizes stories.

    @ryanwallace8539@ryanwallace85394 ай бұрын

  • What a blessing you have to have a life where you read books and make an income from it. Love your book recs, they are not the highly marketed novels!

    @GabrielTucker721@GabrielTucker7214 ай бұрын
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