If I Could Only Keep 30 Books... | The Book Castle | 2020
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Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: tidd.ly/35aghvJ
Before They Pass Away by Jimmy Nelson: tidd.ly/34Wfn5D
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The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne: tidd.ly/32OfjT1
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This was a really fun idea for a video. It would break my heart if I had to reduce my bookshelves to 30 books 😊
Same xD
Ahh! I love this! I think Leena from Leena Norms did one of these a few years ago, and she picked 30 books because of the Marie Kondo recommendation to only keep 30 books. This is a brilliant video and I wish more people would do this! ✨
Aaah, I didn't know Marie Kondo had recommended that xD
@@TheBookCastle Oh! It's actually not true. She never specified a number, it was something that was made up by someone else and attached to her when people were getting upset that she was saying to part with books you don't need, so that's on me 😅
I keep thinking about this video, I feel like I'll have to make my own 💛
A tough question indeed! Going only from the books I've already read I would have to go with:
1) Cervantes: Don Quixote
2) Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte-Cristo
3) Alan Booth: The Road to Sata
4) Larry McMurtry: Lonesome Dove
5) Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
6) Shohei Ooka: Fires on the Plain
7) Victor Hugo: The Man who Laughs
8) Akira Yoshimura: Shipwrecks
9) Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji
10) Mathew Lewis: The Monk
Awesome! :D
Such fun to watch, so traumatic to do!! 😱
I'm a big comfort re-reader, so I would probably have a 25/5 balance old/ new. I'd have to keep
1) Brideshead Revisited - Waugh
2) Prisoner of Azkaban
3) The Lies of Locke Lamora - Lynch
4) Collected Sherlock Holmes - Doyle
5) Collected Oscar Wilde ( 2 collected!!,)
6) Mapp and Lucia - Benson
7) Les Misérables - Hugo
8) The Kitchen Diaries - Slater ( one of! 😋)
9) Kitchen of Light - Viestad ( glorious🇳🇴 recipes/ photography)
10) Finn Family Moomintroll - Jansson
...... possibly! Thanks, Alice ♥️😄
Definitely traumatic xD
Now is a good time to read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier as Netflix will release a new film adaptation on October 19th. Two Booktubers (one of them is Ciara Foster) are also hosting a read along starting October 1st. :)
Ooooooh, I didn't know that! I really need to get on it xD
Great video! I recently moved countries so I had to think about what books I truly love and want to keep. I ended up letting go of 70-ish books. The ten books from my current collection I want to keep are:
1. Doktor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg
2. Venus in Furs by Leopold Sacher-Masoch
3. Stoner by John Williams
4. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
5. Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf
6. Njal's Saga
7. My gorgeous 1959 Penguin classics edition of Against Nature by JK Huysman
8. The Monk by Matthew Lewis
9. Egil's Saga
10. Grettir's Saga
Awesome :D
Love your channel. I have read lots of your suggested books. You have just solved a bestie, birthday gift problem with your gorgeous photography book - THANKYOU!!
Thank you! And how fun, that book is amazing so hope your friend likes it! :D
@@TheBookCastle Got to give my BFF her gift today, she was totally overjoyed, thank you again!
Rebecca is my 100% best autumn book. I just read it last year, it was wonderful :)
I really need to read it :D
Yikes, ten is so FEW. Alright, from my all time favourites:
1. Mort by Terry Pratchett
2. Beyond the Deepwoods by Paul Stewart
3. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruíz Zafón
4. The Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
5. Ossi di sepia by Eugenio Montale
6. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
7. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
8. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune
9. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
10. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
The Ocean at the End of the Lane- so good!!!
Great choices! :D
Interesting choices! I think Marie Kondo the one that saying the ideal number books to keep is 30. But she clarified that you can keep as many as it sparks joy 🙂
Aaaah, I didn't know Marie Kondo had talked about that xD
Sooo loveeeeee it!!!💕 ur words and the speed of ur utterances make me feel super comfortable! I also bought numerous books that u recommended !💕💕💕
First of all, I would go out and purchase an omnibus of Jane Austen’s books 😁 This was difficult 🥵
1. The complete novels of Jane Austen
2. Martín Rivas by Alberto Blest Gana
3. The watchmaker of Filigree street by Natasha Pulley
4. The count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (I have yet to read)
5. The priory of the orange tree (I have yet to read)
6. Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
7. Purple hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (I have yet to read)
8. Our mutual friend by Charles Dickens (I have yet to read)
9. Plays, prose writings, and poems by Oscar Wilde (some I have yet to read)
10. The house of spirits by Isabel Allende (looong overdue for a reread)
Great choices! And getting a complete novels by Jane Austen was a great way to get six books in one xD
I loved this video, Alice! I both laughed and also felt anxious myself when you said “this isn’t even real” and when you were talking to yourself off camera. 😀
As many of us are readers who love to collect books - and I’m sure there are readers who love to read but don’t care as much about keeping a collection, or can’t keep a collection due to space, frequent moves, etc - then this is a challenging thought experiment! Here are the books that immediately come to mind... not to say this wouldn’t change with reflection.
1) Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
2) Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane
3) Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
4) Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
5) The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
6) Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
7) Tin Man by Sarah Winman
8) The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
9) Notes from a Small Island or I’m a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
10) The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya
These aren’t necessarily my favorite books, but they are ones I’d like to have on my shelves and to be able to re-read. (Two of my favorites, Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, made me cry nonstop and feel emotionally hollowed out, and, man, I just can’t do that in 2020! 😂)
I did t add any unread books to the list, which is probably a mistake, but since it’s only a thought experiment right now, I’m not going to stress too much. 😉
Thanks again for fun video and challenge!
Hmm. I may swap out Dear Committee Members for The Lonesome Bodybuilder, actually. Which, interestingly, would mean two epistolary novels on my list. Odd, since that’s not a common device.
Interesting! And definitely a fun thought experiment :)
OMG, I would have such a hard time choosing only 30 books. I would definitly keep "Lord of the rings", "The complete novels of Jane Austen", "The secret History", "Little fires everywhere", "Everything I never told you", "The history of love" by Nicole Krauss, "The shadow of the wind" by Zafon, "The book of strange new things" by Michel Faber, "A little life" by Yanagihara, "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi. And I would also have to keep The Harry Potter books and the Hunger Games Trilogy. I`m sure, if I would look through my shelfes I would find 50 more that a had to keep;-) These are just the ones that I thought of first.
It's hard, isn't it! xD
You keep your books so neatly..it seems they are new
:)
Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God', Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, The Mill on the Floss by George Eliott, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, The Handmaid's Tale, The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak, Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, , Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
Awesome :D
The Toymakers!! 💗 That story was epic and beautifully told. I read it last year.
It sounds amazing!
Oh my, this is hard! I would for sure keep Pride & Prejudice, Aristotle and Dante discover the Secrets of the Universe, The Name of the Wind Trilogy but like also the LOTR books and at least the first Harry Potter! And also Six of Crows … I‘m not very good at this am I? 😅
I heart Leigh Bardugo so much.
It's hard, isn't it! xD
I both loved and LOATHED this! Ack! Alice, you need to make a whole video on FAVORITE SERIES!! Because if we're talking about true favorites, then that means books you want to reread- and I think we all (mostly) love to reread series. And I don't want to pick one out of a series- I want them all! Ok, so here are my stand-alone (but still love to reread) top 10 (in no particular order):
1. Jane Eyre- Bronte
2. Heft- Moore
3. Ready Player One- Cline
4. An Uncommon Reader- Bennett
5. Plainsong- Haruf
6. The Master Butchers Singing Club- Erdrich
7. Never Let Me Go- Ishiguro
8. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry- Joyce
9. Station Eleven- Mandel
10. Olive Kitteridge- Strout
Haha xD And I could definitely do a video on favorite series!
That was a lot of fun! So glad you didn’t actually have to do it!
This was fun! I LOL'ed when you said - I really want to keep all my books - which is what I'm going to do
Also I know you know this but I'm super excited for you to read Everytbing I never told you and Rebecca.
Haha, I'm glad you liked it! :D
I’m sure you show it at some point (but I haven’t seen it)- but I would love if you panned the camera so we can see your bookshelves. In my mind I assume that room you’re sitting in is an enormous library :)
She did a book purge last year and one this year where she does take the camera along the shelves. There's a playlist or you can search for them.
I have a couple of book purges + a bookshelf tour from 2018 you can check out :D And honestly, my apartment is slowly becoming a room filled with books, so you're not too far off xD
Jimmy Nelson is awesome! I want that book reallllly badly now, it looks amazing!
Toymakers is great btw, it might be a better pick for around Christmas than autumn ;)
I know, right! And yes, definitely going to read Toymakers in winter :)
What a tough challenge you've given yourself. It's a great list!
Thank you! :D
Great video idea! I love your bookshelves too!
Thank you! :D
It’s Marie Kondo. I liked that she seemed more generous than a lot of those organiser types; keep everything that sparks job. Well, it turned out she’s not that generous when it comes to books where she thinks around thirty is the right amount to keep.
Now I am going to go and stare at me bookcases and never come back with a list of then as I would rather get rid of my sofa than any of my books.
Great video though. 🙂 Happy you kept one Swedish writer even if you haven’t read the book yet.
PS I would probably keep Älskade Poona by Karin Fossum.
She only said 30 was the right number for her. It's not prescriptive.
Ah, I didn't know Marie Kondo had recommeded that! I agree though, the sofa goes before the books xD
the heart’s invisible furies is one of my favourite books of all time, get on that one quick!!
I will! :D
Very interesting and challenging. What I came up with are:
1. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
2. Murder on the Yellow Brick Road by Stuart M. Kaminsky
3. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
4. Lovecraft Country by Matt Rupp
5. Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
6. The Acts of King Arthur & His Nobel Knights by John Steinbeck
7. These Truths by Jill Lepore
8. Abigail by Magda Szabo
9. The Decameron by Boccaccio
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Also, I have a "if you liked that, you will like this" for you. Because you love Strange Weather in Tokyo, you should read The Housekeeper and the Professor. It's a lovely book about relationship between a professor who due to a traumatic brain injury has only 80 minutes of short term memory, and his housekeeper and her son. I'm sure you will love it.
Great choices! I've seen The Housekeeper and the Professor around, but now you've really made me want to read it :D
This was such a good video! Really made me think about which books I would keep.
Glad you liked it! :D
i love this idea!
:D
Yup, this is difficult....of books I love and books I want to read. 10:
1. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
2. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
3. The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
4. The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
5. The Humans by Matt Haig
6. Becoming by Michelle Obama
7. Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
8. Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
9. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
10. Dune by Frank Herbert
I LOVED The Sparrow!!! YES!
@@tiffanycorsello1886 ugh its so good, right?? I need to read Children of God but I'm scared it won't be as good.
@@SrirachaSandvvitch Ha! I've read Children of God. It's very good- but not as good as The Sparrow- The Sparrow was GREAT! I've read her other works- A Thread of Grace was excellent!
@@tiffanycorsello1886 I have to check out a Thread of Grace now! Thank you!
I remember a video a few years back that asked the same challenge. In this hypothetical world, I could still use the library, right? If so, I'm keeping the Memoirs of Lady Trent (5 books), the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver (will be 9 books long), Imperial Radch by Ann Leckie (3 books), Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton, Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Persuasion by Jane Austen, The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, Relish by Lucy Knisley, Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie... and there's only 6 books left but I forgot Harry Potter. Maybe Peter Pan can go, but that would be hard (and it's so tiny!).
That's a great selection though :D
In no particular order:
1-Red Seas Under Red Sky by Scott Lynch
2-Complete Collection of Edgar Allen Poe Stories and Poems (haven’t read all of them yet)
3-The Return of the King (sadly don’t have the bind up version :( )
4-Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Pilgrimage Years
5-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
6-The Order of the Phoenix by no one (i don’t know my fav but it is the thickest one of them all *following your logic here)
7-A graphic novel (by Timothé le Boucher) that doesn’t have many translations yet including English.
8-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
9-The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
10- The Humans by Matt Haig
I’m a big series reader so this was painful. I mostly put favourites that give me nostalgia :)
Great choices! It's definitely hard to make this work with series xD
And I just realized what a gift this video is. Not only can I copy your selections, I can also copy other lists in the comments 😁 sweet!
I know, right! :D I've been doing the same!
I used to only borrow books from the library and I still borrow a lot of books, so even though I was always a prolific reader I only started owning books when I started watching BookTube at 17. So for me it's not entirely impossible to imagine a small collection, though I do like keeping all of my books. I'm not much of a re-reader but I'm more emotionally attached to my read books haha
I'd keep:
UNREAD: Black and British by David Olusoga; Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder
READ: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz, On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden, Arv og miljø by Vigdis Hjorth, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin and Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
The library is great, isn't it :D
Same, I sometimes think about if I'm forced to only keep some of my books (god forbid!) which ones I'll have to choose. It's a cool thinking exercise and says a lot about your reading taste (but it's also anxiety-inducing because I really don't want to part with most of my books haha!)
Definitely! xD
I couldn't do it! On your recommendation, I read Sweet Bean Paste (loved it) and am currently reading Strange Weather in Tokyo. Both I got from the library. I am trying not to haul books. I am failing at it however.
I'm glad you liked Sweet Bean Paste! :D And the struggle is real with not hauling books, I totally get that xD
I was thinking about what I would keep the whole time I was watching and I can’t narrow it down. I could certainly clear out some books, but I would always feel off if I narrowed it to just 30. 10 is impossible. -Becks
Exactly, I feel the same xD
This is easy for me since I don't read much and my favorite books are ten books including the seven hp books plus The Count of Monte Cristo, Mansfield Park and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Plus Cursed Child which I would keep as part of my HP collection and I liked stuff about it. I don't hate it like most on the internet seem to.
That's great :D
As someone who's only recently decided it's not possible to keep every book I buy, this practically made me break out in hives. 😅
Haha xD
Station Eleven would be my first pick too!!
It's so good :D
My Sally Rooney collection consists of exactly ten items soooo... there goes my ten!
Fantastic!
This would be so hard for me because I am such a big rereader and the number of books I reread every (or every other) year already surpasses 30 books
1. would be Dracula
2. a bind up of all of sherlock holmes
3. the Truthwitch series
It's very hard, isn't it! xD
When I moved a few years back from another country then from another place I lost the box with my favorite books. I found it a couple months later in my garage box. I would also feel anxious if I had to choose really fast but let’s see if I can make a quick list :
1. The complete stories of JD Salinger
2. P&P by Jane Austen
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
5. The Lord of the Rings (I own the three volumes into one book)
6. Men we reaped by Jesmyn Ward (non fiction)
7. Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes (non fiction)
8. Amélia Earhart lives (non fiction) by Joe Klass
9. Men in the making (short stories) by Bruce Machart
10. Say nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe (non fiction) the only book I haven’t read on my list
I am actually surprised to see so many non fiction books but it does make sense !
That's a great selection! And omg, I can imagine the panic of losing a box of your fave books :O
The Book Castle I searched everywhere except for the garage. Yes it was hard !
Love this video idea!! May the day I have to choose only 30 books to keep never come!! 🤣
100% agree! xD
This was a great concept for a video! Haven't seen it before
Glad you liked it!
You didn’t pull Jane Eyre!? I never reread books. I try, then I get a few pages in and think “I know this story” and get bored and can’t hang. There are too many new books to read!
okay, ten books... hmm
read
1: the lewis Carroll collection [cause i need a copy of alice's adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass]
2: 1000 years of annoying the french [cause it's my favourite non-fiction ever]
3: good omens by neil gaiman and terry pratchett
4: call me by your name by andre aciman
5: MIRROR - takarai rihito artbook
6: master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov
unread
7: count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas
8: anna korenina by leo tolstoy
9: hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world by haruki murakami
10: notre-dame de paris by victor hugo
yeah, i think that would be fine. i'm not really big on having to have the books in my possession anyway. i only ever buy some collectors editions or bindups. like i have the "The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll" or the same of oscar wilde and those i love. or i buy some beautiful anniversary editions or smth. like i have peter pan but it's this flexibound canterbury classics edition. or this beautiful illustrated winnie-the-pooh collection that egmont did for the 90th anniversary. other than that, i don't feel the need to hold on to physical books. they make me sad. i can't help but think that ppl cut the trees down to make these and they should be in the hands of smb who would read them and not on my shelves collecting dust so i get rid of books rather fast after reading them. i'm weird like that
That's a great selection :) And I don't think that's weird, I think it makes sense! :D
@@TheBookCastle thanks :)
Such a fun idea!! I would have a difficult time picking 30, so 10 is extra brutal... but here goes!
A Confederacy of Dunces
Children of Time
Life After Life
Red Rising
Forever Amber
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Kings of the Wyld
The Glass Castle
A Little Life
Strange the Dreamer
Fantastic picks though :D
Interesting concept! Because when asked about books to be picked for a desert island, for example, one chooses books already read, those that would be a company, but in the question of what to keep, one begins thinking about unread books as well! That said... I would have kept The Lord of the Rings XD
Thank you! Lotr is definitely a good choice!
Such a great collection there.
Given Discworld (that's 41 books to the main series alone...and, of course, others by Sir Terry) and jewels by Charles (and score of others MUST HAVE classics) and the Asterix collection and Sandman and Saga and Alan Moore collection and...ok, 30 is NEVER going to happen for me. 😞
Honestly, 30 is never going to happen for me either xD
@@TheBookCastle : Even being able to select 30 I can live without is a remote possibility. 😁
The bit about JK R**ling made me laugh VERY hard.
Honestly, that woman xD