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Best of luck with your reading goals!! I want to read some of my older books this year including some by Ken Follett and Umberto Eco

Just read Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin". His poetic descriptions of the seasons are so beautiful. Could you make a recommendation for what else I should read by Pushkin?

Is one of the 5 pillar books from one of the greatest authors ever to have lived, a successful book? Erm. Yes.

I also don’t like how grim the Penguin Black spines look on my shelves, so I try to keep them at a minimum. But sometimes they seem to have the best translations, so I’ll go for them anyway. I also tape the edges to keep them better intact.

Wonderful list! This year a few novels I want to read are- The Magic Mountain, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, Dombey and Son, also Elective Affinities. I have added the Bunin book to my list as well now! Also.. some more early works of Turgenev and Dostoevsky in the original language. Maybe первая любовь..

I loved this novella when I read it at university. I think I'm going to read it again. I'm glad I found your channel, btw.

Сновым годом!! Currently, I am finishing the audiobook version of "Vita Nostra", which I really liked even though I don't usually read fantasy. I am also finishing reading Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!" which, like a lot of Cather is a historical fiction "slice of life" book and has been a good counterbalance to the more intense "Vita Nostra". This year I hope to finish my rereading of David Copperfield (I stopped at a sad part about 6 months ago and never got back to it). I would also like to finally finally read War and Peace, which I have started, liked, and then stopped reading maybe 3 times already. I will probably have to restart War and Peace from the beginning, but "David Copperfield" I will just start where I left off. Glad you are back on RUclips!

This year, I want to read Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. It's one of my mother's favorite books of all time and I'm really looking forward to reading it. But it's so big, I've been pushing it back for 2 years now. I also want to pick back up Doris Lessing's saga Children of violence. But again, five big books and I have to reread the first two. In top of that, I'd like to read it in english which is not my first language.

What interesting reads, Tanya. It will be really great if you talk about Otohiko Kaga's book in vlogs with spoilers too since it is not translated into English and even less into my native language, Spanish😔 Some of the books I plan to read this year are The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The American by Henry James and continuing with Agatha Christie whom I discovered for the first time last year😊

It's always enjoyable to see you and learn about what you are reading. During 2024 I found myself reading more books that I did not like than books I enjoyed. Here are some which I liked: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese The Great Passion by James Runcie All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr My Antonia by Willa Cather

Thanks!

I'm a HUGE mood reader so I never know what I'll be reading next as it changes every few days. It's rather annoying, actually. Right now, I started to read The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. I wish to read The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai and some of my non fiction books which have been piling up for the past few years. I love your TBR :).

So glad you are back !!!!

I love hearing about which Russian books you plan to read. After hearing about Ivan Bunin, I added _The Life of Arseniev_ to my long-term reading list. The books I plan to read this year are Alan Myers's translation of _The Idiot_ by Dostoevsky (last year I read Ignat Avsey's marvelous translation), _Kolyma Stories_ by Varlam Shalamov, _The Master and Margarita_ by Mikhail Bulgakov, _Blood Meridian_ by Cormac McCarthy (I highly recommend his book _The Crossing), and War and Peace_ by Tolstoy.

Have you ever heard of The Forsyte Saga? So many books are not well known

Hi, Tanya. One of my reading goals is a small project I call “A Blast from My Past”. It’s just four books. I will read two books that I have had since I was a teenager (fifty years ago) but have not read yet. Additionally, I will reread two books that I haven’t read since those days. Right now I’m rereading _The Goblin Reservation_ by Clifford D. Simak, a science fiction tale with a bunch of quirky characters. I last read that one in high school.

Hoping to read through Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" and Dante's "Divine Comedy". I'm already behind schedule for the readalongs. :) I'm also doing Historathon2025 and a similar philosophy-thon. We'll see what I eventually get distracted by.

I was looking forward to this video❤ my goas for 2025 are to read 44 books and to finally read both Anna Karenina and War and Peace

TANYAAAAAAA

Just added Bunin in my wishlist, thanks❤

I read Quiet Flows the Don many years ago, fascinating insight into the Cossacks. I must try and get hold of Virgin Soil Unturned. Happy reading everyone.

Goodluckwithyourreading! My priorities for this year are Don Quixote and Anna Karenina

This book aged well. Yes, the characters are absurd, but that made the book ahead of its time. When read parallel with high-modernism exaggeration, the book reads better than what the critics of its time could understand (and even what Dostoevsky could give credit for). The book is a fantastic feat of the imagination that tests what is possibly human (even if that was an accident).

You should mention if the paper is acid-free if you redo this video later.

I just wish Penguin would have acid-free paper for their Modern Classics. I agree, they are beautifully designed.

I love that you always mention so many books I've not heard of before! My favourite book of 2024 was Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Hi, thanks for the informative video. I noticed you have Everyman's Library editions behind you but they were never discussed? What are your thoughts on these? They are personally one of my favourite.

This was so great - I really need to pay more attention to those introductions

I always get great recommendations from you about books I would never otherwise read. I wish you a happy new year and hope to see you back soon❤

Tanya! so good to see you again, and happy to hear about your year of growth. =) memoirs are also a newly developed interest for me, so if i ever come across Likhachev's book then i'll follow your advice and just get it!

So good to see you!

Спасибо ❤️❤️❤️❤️😊

Thank you so much great video ❤️❤️ спасибо 🙏

Great to have you back. Don't feel bad about not reading. It sounds like you had a lot of adventures, which in the long run, is more important than reading. I read a lot this past year, but I would have much rather have said that i couldn't read as much because I was out living life. The books will always be there. Enjoy! My favorite read of the year was Stoner by John Williams . I look forward to your future videos. happy new year !! :)

Thanks you for your video. I wanto to learn more russians writers. Greetings from Perú.

Honestly 12 is quiet impressive! I read 0 because I moved to Spain and started living in real life instead of watching it pass me by when I was in my home country… but I am still proud of all my achievements. Nice to see you again ❤

welcome back, missed you

Oh my god, you’re baaackk!! Im so glad. I hope you have a great 2025 🫶

Love your channel, always get new recommendations for Russian stuff I want to read!

Thank you! I love your reviews.

I really miss your way of talking about books. It always makes me want to grab a book and read immediately :D. I hope you'll visit us more often in 2025 :). Happy New Year! My favourite book was actually a Japanese novel "A True Novel" by Minae Mizumura. Slightly reminded me of the "Makioka Sisters" but more complicated. Great portrayal of all the characters in early and mid XX century in Japan. I think you would like it. It's supposed to be a re-telling of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" in postwar Japan but thankfully I could barely see it, so don't worry.

Fantastic to have you back. You are looking so well. Thanks for this new vlog. Have a happy and healthy 2025.

Good to see you! 🙋‍♂ I haven't finished much this year. Last book read was "The Dublin Railway Murder": a true crime police procedural. As a novel it would be disappointing; so much happens at random. But it was an interesting look at 1856 Dublin life.

Yay 😁 so happy you’re back

Happy to see you again! ❤ Just finished the video and I knew you would like The burried giant when I was reading it! I discovered your channel around the time I was reading it.

Hi🤗 Thanks for the review and Video 😊

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What were some of your favorite books in 2024? 📖📖📖

Soooo happy you're back 😍😍😍

but how do you know when ?