My Favorite Books of All Time (Revised Version)
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After reading East of Eden, I vowed to read everything Steinbeck has written. It's a lot, and I'm a slow reader. It may take me the rest of my life, but I'm gonna do it. Travels with Charley is my current read, and if you haven't read that one yet, Ana, I think you'd particularly like it!
Travels with Charley is definitely a great read! Enjoy your journey through Steinbeck.
I’m not joking when I say this is EXACTLY me!! I read East of Eden earlier this year despite being terrified about getting through 600 pages but it was the best 600 pages I’ve ever read. And I have to read all his books now.
I am currently reading East of Eden! I have already read Grapes of Wrath and absolutely loved it.
My first book of hin was of mice and men. If you haven't read it,go for It. It's a short story but it's stunning and very sad
Steinbeck is the GOAT!!
“the moments that paralyzed the ideas that you previously had” 😩 yes! finishing a new favorite book and shedding the person you were before you read it. UGH
the timing of you putting your hand up during the intro at the same time as past you put your hand up in the same way was GORG
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT
Scripted and overplayed like most of the video
Ana! Your hair is looking fabulous! Hair routine video please! I’m especially curious how you style your bangs :)
I’ve got it in a vlog somewhere! But basically I use a Calista (not sponsored lol) brush and style it out. I’ll try to incorporate it into another video again :)) thank you!!!
YES PLEASSE
Love the synchronicity of you moving your Hand in both Videos at 0:33
How fitting that your username is “eyes” hahaha! I would’ve never noticed…
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You are such a ray of sunshine! 🥰 I've got East of Eden and Wild on my bookshelves and MUST make time for them. I am slowly working my way through Kazuo Ishiguro and am currently reading his debut novel, A Pale View of Hills, which is turning out to be far more mysterious and interesting than I anticipated! One of the things I admire about him as a writer is that every book of his that I've read so far is so different from the next.
I just found you here, and from one East of Eden lover to another, I'm happy to be here! East of Eden is also my favorite book of all time and I've read it 5 or 6 times, nothing is quite like it. Great Vid!
Love the rendition of “Under The Hall of The Mountain King” you gave us there 😂🙌🏻 low key that music SLAPS forever
Absolute banger right there. One of the first songs I ever learned on piano as a kid, will always be a favorite 😂
Agreed! My mom listens to classical 24/7 in her house and I’m ready to bring back the trend!
another play lover here! so glad you included these because no one else talks about them on booktube! ❤
Thank you so much for talking about books! I could listen all day. But I need to go to the library RIGHT NOW!
If you haven't already, try James Baldwin. I associate his writing style with Steinbeck. Highly highly recommend!! I loved reading if Beal street could talk and seeing the movie afterwards.
I know! I gotta read him. He’s on my list of ‘get to these’ authors. I’m slackin!
I was looking for this comment. When I finished reading Another Country and Giovanni's Room, I was in a daze for days wondering how could anyone write like that--so real and raw, like someone had seen the heart of things and was unflinching in their capabilities to write about them. Every time I read an essay of his, I feel like I have been reborn, a clean slate, full of possibilities.
The Shards! Yes! I'm so glad you mentioned it here. I read it last summer, and my mind and body shuddered to the point that I thought I might throw up and feel unbridled rizz at the same time. I loved BEE's voice here... years after. I hope he'll write another novel because this one made my heart fully crush.
I just read The Shards and I literally think it’s my favorite book of all time. I don’t see enough about it. I was completely engulfed by the atmosphere and listened to every song he mentioned in the book as I read. OBSESSED
No one talks about Wild anymore! ITS SO GOOD! I love the writing. It struck me and took me by my shirt and shook me. It yelled at me “you are redeemable.” I needed that. I will forever love Wild.
I absolutely adore Wild as well. 🧡
never heard of it but this comment made me buy it lol waiting for it to arrive
ANGELS! IN! AMERICA! Thank you so much for introducing people who are possibly outside of the theatre world to it. It is The Best Play™️ and also my favorite :) very very very excited to hear what you think when you’re done
I searched only "books," in the youtube search bar and you came up as the first result. I watched your weird books video and I now have the Master and Margarita on my reading list. Now I'm a subscriber!
I’m loving this channel. So much personality and, being gorgeous doesn’t hurt either.
I was HOPING you would say wild!!!! And then you did!!!! One of my favorites of all time
Can’t wait to get to The Shards. Lots of friends were telling me about it when he was reading it chapter by chapter on his podcast.
East of Eden has also become my all time favourite novel. Cried like a baby in the end.
It's very good but I found the end disappointing, anticlimactic. It seems like it's building up to something more the whole time but then it just fades out. There's something poetic about that too but I thought there would be something more.
Absolutely gets the feels rolling.
Thou mayest!
I bought The Shards a few months ago - after this video, I am immediately prioritizing it for July 🎉
Also yessss East of Eden. Just brilliant.
the shards was amazing i hope you love it too!
I hope you like it!!! It’s campy and fun
This makes me want to read, and write.
Thanks for inspiring!
The aesthetic, the quality, the intelligence. I want to be like you when I grow up!
Hello Ana. I just discovered your channel because you were listed among the BookTubers that my audience watches! You have a lovely channel. Happy reading!
Thank you so much for stopping by!! ❤️
I've just finished Wild bc of you ! That was a great reading indeed :) Thanks !!
I've gotten so many great books recs from you! Just finished A Little History of the World and moving onto Devil in the White City! Love your channel, you are stellar ❤
Two great books! I’m glad you’ve gotten some recs! I always worry that I give bad recs, so I’m happy you found some that work for you :D
Love how the thumbnail makes it seem like you've got a tower of books on the top of your head hehe
Lmaooooo it’s a weird genetic trait. All my family has it
I absolutely love the way you talk!!!!! It’s so beautiful ❤
Just recently finished East of Eden for the first time and WOW! It was slow going in the beginning but by the end I couldn’t get enough. I find myself missing the characters and wondering what happened next because after all was said and done it felt like it ended in the middle of the story. Maybe that’s the point
ABSOLUTELY! I think about how the land is doing haha. Such great storytelling. Even the deplorable characters are great
Yes! At more than one point I was like Mr. Steinbeck 🙈 is it ok to write this?
i just found an autographed copy of "wild" on the street the other day. also i still need to finish that copy of "what i talk about when i talk about running" you gifted me. hopefully inspire me to get back to running.
I’ve been reading what I talk about when I talk about running, it’s great, I’ve been running 3 miles a day since reading it
Tim!!! You are my icon. Running a marathon with no training is a feat. I think about it all the time. Miss you!
I saw Cheryl Strayed speak and talk about Dear Sugar and how heart breaking some of the questions she received were, writing high concept lit, midwit lit(Wild) and how it's all art.
She is fantastic.
I really should read East of Eden. It comes highly recommended by so many people
East of Eden got me into reading (many many moons ago), still one of my favourite books. Favourite book of all time for me "Martin Eden" Jack London. A book you will never get out of your head once you have read it "Perfume" by Patrick Süskind.
Oooh, I’ve read Perfume. WILD ride. Makes me want more books like that.
Martin Eden is brill..so's 'dead souls' and 'magic mountain' !
As an unabashed Bret Easton Ellis fan, I ADORED The Shards. It's like Less Than Zero meets American Psycho in the best possible way.
I think about it so often. I loved that novel!!! He’s king
Sooooooo good...and once again my "books to buy" list grows (every time I watch your videos). I have East of Eden in the queue, BUT I just ordered "Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters." I'm thinking it will be interesting to dig into this one first, a sort of Steinbeck behind-the-scenes peak for a nuanced context. Have you read?
Oooh, haven’t even heard of that. But I love to think of a documentary sort of read. I think it was him that had a dog eat a first draft of a novel? Maybe Of Mice and Men?
You started with Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga and you had me. A suggestion from a Ana to another one: Small Country by Gael Faye, not a autobiography but a novel based in his childhood in Burundi in the 90’s , the son of a French father and Tutsi mother. The books are completely different but I feel a dialogue between them.
Love your perspective on books, as I do think that wanting to follow the hype has ruined the book world. Read what you like and you don't have to give yourself a target 😀
I'm new to your channel, but I love Scholastique Mukasonga so that was a pleasant surprise. I did a quick channel search and didn't find it, so have you read Jean Hatzfeld's books on the Rwandan Genocide? Life Laid Bare, Machete Season, and The Strategy of the Antelope in that order - the first is interviews with a group of survivors, the second is interviews with some of the killers (in prison), and the third is like a catch-up/where-are-we-now a few years later, after the killers have been released. Really great books
I am another Steinbeck lover; have read most of them twice; East of Eden is next on my second read list. My second reading of The Grapes of Wrath was just stunning. Thanks for your other recommendations.
I read Grapes of Wrath for the first time and I am 67 years old. So glad this book was not pushed on me in a high school English class. It was absolutely brilliant and I would never have understood the depth of this novel as a teenager. ❤incredible and brought me to beginning East of Eden right now.
Can’t wait to get to The Shards. Lots of friends were telling me about it when he was reading it chapter by chapter on his podcast.
East of Eden is my fave of all time as well. Took me forever to read because I was soaking up the language.
I miss the person I was when reading The Shards…I was so consistent with my fake tan
LMAOOOOO omg. Absolutely true. I would workout when listening to it. We are those babes
6:28 My all time favorite by Sedaris is Me Talk Pretty One Day.
I love these kinds of videos!❤
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Hi you speak in such a poetic way love this video!
First video I'm watching of yours. Your mannerisms are giving Dennis from IASIP lmao. So charming.
Bad Ellis is still okay Ellis. He is one of the few American authors I would say is always readable and re-readable if not always perfect!
AGREED! I know I’m still going to have fun with him. He is a great storyteller
Omg cockroaches was such a surprise! I love her writing.
Brilliant ..great content ...thoroughly enjoyed ❤
Another great video! It sounds like we were separated at birth! I love reading plays! Let's do a reading of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf!" I'm a visual artist now, but I was weaned on theater arts. Per the Oprah Book Club, I read "East of Eden," and loved it. Very clean writing.
I read The Shards because of you. I agree w you. Thank you.
Omg! YEASSS!
East of Eden is one of my all time favourites too!
Great list! I wanna read Zadie Smith now
She’s really that great
I hated East of Eden but I love your vids.
If you're into English books right now, have you read Brideshead Revisited? The first chapter starts a little ahead of the story (I think it's the whole first chapter). I skipped the first and read it when I finished the book. Which, in that case, makes the first chapter really good. If I'm not mistaken (I read a lot and forget) in the first chapter, Charles heads back to Brideshead. It's great, like Tony the Tiger.
East of Eden is a must read... it is stupendous..
Steinback helped me find the joy in reading
Please please please read Lonesome Dove! I guarantee it will make your favorites list when you re-revise this video
Ooooh, noted! I love a good guarantee!
Lonesome dove is my new all time favorite, I listened to the audiobook- highly recommend
Love the shards
Baby me too
Wild by Cheryl Strayed ....soooooooo good! 🙌
Lovely! How about a video on Steinbeck’s body of work?
Beautiful rendition of Doug theme song
Hahaha! Omg, the song came in my head and I couldn’t trace where it was from. You saved me from months of confusion.
You're so articulate and extremely elegant
13 seconds was a jumpscare. so excited!!
Hehehehe we here baby
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Symmetrical book stacking. Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947
I never knew In The Hall of The Mountain King was written for Peer Gynt :O
That stack of books is making me nervous, seems a tad too high to be safe! Unless they are secured somehow.
It’s a vertical shelf. Saw it empty on another video.
You adorable. I loved Herman Hess, Edgar Allen Poe, Somerset Maugham.
I gotta get to hesse!
Just found this channel. Awesome.. have you reviewed 'House of leaves'?.. or can anyone direct me to the appropriate video? Thank you.
I really like that cover on your bed! 😍.. Can you please share where to get it?
Currently with ‘A man called Ove’.
You are a very sassy and awesome.❣️
I’m so glad Kane is on this list ❤
KANE IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART BUT WE HAVE STRONG HEARTS!
Have you read On Beauty or The Fraud by Zadie Smith? Curious if you've read much Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Jess Walter, or Nathan Hill? You talked a bit about David Sedaris -- so you seem to like tragicomic wordsmithery.
When is your single for In the Hall of the Mountain King being released?
My top books change often. The top that never change are "Anna Karenina", "The Elegance of the Hedgehog", "The Painted Veil", and "Oranges are not the only Fruit" for fiction and "The Outermost House " and "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant" for nonfiction. If I had to come up with a top 10 list, those would always be on there and the remaining 4 spots would change every few years.
I go through phases with my reading. For a while (years) I was really into Russian Literature so my all-time favorites would have mostly been Russian Lit. Same with a phase (also years) I had with Japanese literature.
I'm in my essays and memoirs era right now and more specifically, my Patti Smith era and I know for certain that at least a couple of her books will end up in my all-time favorites list. I am head over heels in love with her writing.
Thanks for sharing this!
WoW ! Excellent 👍🏻
Thank you 🙏🏻
We’re new here !
We have same shelves @ wall 🎉
But not as high 😅
How many pieces / shelves
are there you used ?
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Loved the video, but where is the top from🤔
sooo happy to see John Waters in the list of favs! have you done Role Models by him? i just revisited it recently and it still holds up tremendously. love the man!
Baby!!! Yes! Omg. I read that when I first came to NYC. There was this amazing bookstore in the village that has since closed. It was one of my first book purchases in nyc. I love that icon. I wanna be him!!
I hated white teeth but I loved NW by Zadie Smith. That book is fantastic
Lol yes, I recognize the beat of the song you did.
The coolest person on the internet!
My all time fav books include
Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A little life
Song of Achilles
Call me by your name
Gone girl
These are epic
I know what are urfavorites
Re: Crackpot. I too wasn't alive in the 80s. Do you think many of his references will go over my head?
Great Book Reviews Ana...I watched a film W.E. that was written and directed by Madonna Ciccione about King Edward of England and His Wife Wallis Simpson I liked the scene where King Edward Danced with Wallis Simpson the music Lujon by Mancini
Shards >>>>>>
YEASSSS!
I also love Wild! Does anyone have any similar recommendations? Loved the hiking/outdoors theme
John Krakauer’s Into Thin Air
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
I’ve read both of those already dang it! And loved them both haha
Was going to suggest those as well haha. Hmmm. Lemme see. There is called In the Eye of the Wild, about a woman documenting her time before and after a bear attack. Not as funny or laid back, but definitely outdoorsy
"I wasn't activily really alive for" were you passively alive?
Lmaooo sometimes stuff comes out of my mouth and I have no idea what I’m saying
I mean when you’re really little like toddler/ infant little you’re basically passively living 😆
I love your hairstyle, mine is curly but i would love to do like you time to time, cn you make a video?
I just read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and signed up for my first 5k! I don’t think I’ll ever want to run a marathon as they seem miserable and Murakami just seems like a man who can endure a lot of misery.
!!! Hey, a 5k is still a huge feat. That’s really impressive. Good on you!
You’re hilarious and i love you 😂
You the best, baby!
Hi! where did you get your bookshelf in the back? its so nice
i would like to know that as well! :(
Hi! Sorry for the late reply! I think it's from West Elm? We found it on the side of the road in NYC, but if you type in 'floating bookshelf,' something similar should come up!
I just noticed that tower of books behind you! You are obviously a kindred soul...😆
Would someone write out all the books?
Why don’t you do it
A Milana Vayntrub doppelganger !
"You have been reading the wrong fucking books." Will Hunting
Hahah! I gotta watch GWH! Still haven’t
Love these! Would love to hear more POC authors/Playwrights as well!
Long time no see, babes! That algorithm messing things up again :(
You look like you are the main part in a 70's movie!
Omg. Dream compliment. Thank you
@@AnaWallaceJohnson I still can't put my finger on it, but the vibe is totally there!
i just stumbled upon your chanel. you seem like such a cool person
i wish i knew you