15 Classic Books Everyone Should Read In Their Lifetime Part I

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @alux
    @alux  5 лет назад +65

    Hello Aluxers, Which of these 15 Books have you read so far?
    Get any of them for free when you sign up at: www.alux.com/freebook (Thanks to Audible)
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    • @prakashpandey4885
      @prakashpandey4885 5 лет назад +2

      Truly top15 classic books read almost eveybook

    • @b.josephchakma9340
      @b.josephchakma9340 5 лет назад +3

      I have the book " How to kill a mockingbird" but haven't read yet. But did read the book " The count of Monto Cristo" n did watch the movie too.

    • @rexam4856
      @rexam4856 5 лет назад +1

      about two thirds as matter of fact. good list and in fact the count of monte cristo is a family favorite and much discussed by our little tribe.

    • @scarlettcosta4106
      @scarlettcosta4106 5 лет назад +2

      Just pride and prejudice and persuasion, both of jane austen.

    • @StutiRajguru
      @StutiRajguru 5 лет назад

      All of them but the Picture of Dorian Gray. I have the novel, but never read it.

  • @osse1n
    @osse1n 5 лет назад +1831

    *Classics never disappoint*
    - War and peace
    - Books by Dostoyevsky
    - 1984

    • @Tomatohater64
      @Tomatohater64 5 лет назад +117

      Russian authors of literature were a tough, gritty, earthy crowd and it pours out in their writing - probably my favorite fiction to read, period.

    • @Montenegrin1728
      @Montenegrin1728 5 лет назад +38

      brave new world is quite good as well

    • @evesapple
      @evesapple 5 лет назад +18

      1984 is a brilliant work, but I really recommend '1985' by Anthony Burgess too.

    • @QueenBee-gx4rp
      @QueenBee-gx4rp 5 лет назад +10

      How can someone make a list of books you should read and not know George Eliot was a woman? (And why she felt obliged to use a male name?)

    • @human_862
      @human_862 5 лет назад +4

      Why do I find your comment in every other video I see lol.. I lost count

  • @lohkoonhoong6957
    @lohkoonhoong6957 3 года назад +571

    Always have a book with you; when you are alone, close the world and open the book.

    • @shantinathamillionaire3412
      @shantinathamillionaire3412 3 года назад +3

      😍 Yes, indeed thank you 💙💚💞💗!

    • @dogleggedhades0
      @dogleggedhades0 3 года назад +10

      This is incredibly quotable

    • @frankv2314
      @frankv2314 3 года назад +13

      How about this one, "open a book and open the world"

    • @codelucky
      @codelucky 3 года назад +2

      That's why I breathe inside a Kindle.

    • @stanleyy1101
      @stanleyy1101 3 года назад +1

      yes, exactly , enjoy the moment in the book

  • @floreavlad3088
    @floreavlad3088 5 лет назад +882

    1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    2. The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
    3. To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
    4. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
    5. War and peace by Leo Tolstoy
    6. Persuasion by Jane Austen
    7. The color purple by Alice Walker
    8. Little women by Louisa May Alcott
    9. The count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
    10. The outsiders by Susan Hinton
    11. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
    12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    13. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
    14. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
    15. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

  • @martinsolomon7819
    @martinsolomon7819 3 года назад +75

    The Count of Monte Cristo is indeed an amazing book. You learn life lessons from each and every character. Such a classic!

  • @OzgeUmmugulsum
    @OzgeUmmugulsum 3 месяца назад +1471

    borlest - empire of earnings (thank me later)

  • @SemihKiymet
    @SemihKiymet 3 месяца назад +1290

    It's quite shocking how few people know about the forbidden book called Empire of Earnings on Borlest

  • @СветланаАбрамова-и6м
    @СветланаАбрамова-и6м 5 лет назад +445

    Russian classical works will never lose their relevance. Russian classics teaches the ability to think, understand human nature,his actions,opens his eyes and makes a different look at the usual things, changing your worldview . I advise you to read:
    Fyodor Dostoevsky - "Crime and punishment", "Idiot",
    Anton Chekhov - "Uncle Vanya", "Lady with a dog", "Kashtanka»;
    Alexander Pushkin - "Eugene Onegin»;
    Nikolai Gogol - "Dead souls»;
    Ivan Turgenev - "Fathers and children»;
    Mikhail Bulgakov - "the Fateful eggs", "the Master and Margarita»;
    Vladimir Nabokov - "Lolita»;
    Ivan Bunin "Sukhodol", "Village»;
    Alexander Griboyedov's "Woe from wit»;
    Mikhail Lermontov - "Hero of our time", "Demon»;
    Boris Pasternak - "Doctor Zhivago".

    • @wildeirishpoet
      @wildeirishpoet 5 лет назад +12

      You can say the same about the French too!

    • @user-gg6sh7wr6d
      @user-gg6sh7wr6d 4 года назад +20

      Anna karenina, crime and punishment, the idiot and dr zhivago are my favorites

    • @King-jn9is
      @King-jn9is 4 года назад +18

      Nothing by Tolstoy

    • @mandarpanchal2405
      @mandarpanchal2405 4 года назад +17

      The Brothers Karamazov as well

    • @thesilence4679
      @thesilence4679 4 года назад +2

      "Dead souls" is the most boring book I've ever read in my life. In any case, russian children shouldn't be forced to read this in schools.

  • @ezzthetick
    @ezzthetick 4 года назад +206

    I read The Picture of Dorian Gray every year. It never gets old.

  • @nanditamondal1033
    @nanditamondal1033 5 лет назад +226

    I like to recommend three more
    1. The good earth by Pearl S. Buck
    2. Great expectations by Charles Dickens
    3. Les miserable by Victor Hugo

    • @musicfan8157
      @musicfan8157 5 лет назад +18

      Great Expectations is a MUST!

    • @HeronCoyote1234
      @HeronCoyote1234 5 лет назад +7

      Music Fan Great Expectations my favorite Dickens book.

    • @soumiayousfi9968
      @soumiayousfi9968 5 лет назад +3

      Yes!

    • @JulieBall-dg2ci
      @JulieBall-dg2ci 5 лет назад +4

      I read all of Pearl S Buck's books as a teenager. I re-read them every decade.

    • @magdalenakopp8360
      @magdalenakopp8360 4 года назад +3

      I am about to read "the good earth" by Pearl S. Buck. Is it good? I've heard that it's quite boring and without a deeper meaning... Is that true?

  • @sansastark1437
    @sansastark1437 5 лет назад +430

    The Illiad
    The Odyssey
    Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    The Divine Comedy
    Don Quixote
    The Miserables (My favorite Book)
    Faust by Goethe
    Siddhartha
    Great Expectations
    Rayuela by Cortázar
    (more books...)
    Borges Fictions
    Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    Camus complete works
    Tao te ching

    • @syifams
      @syifams 5 лет назад +2

      Good list :)

    • @dennischritskou3631
      @dennischritskou3631 5 лет назад +2

      @@hectorbeteta9159 i dont thinks it's that hard to understand. 7th graders in my country are taught iliad parts and 8th graders odyssey. Most of the students are considering them useless though...

    • @Unknown-fr9qp
      @Unknown-fr9qp 5 лет назад

      I would add the Aeneid to that list to.

    • @onemansvoice6311
      @onemansvoice6311 5 лет назад +8

      @@hectorbeteta9159 It is hard for you but such people of me that were born and raised here in the Balkans, we know what comes around.
      Illiad can be absurd for a country like America that has no tradition at all.

    • @DH-oq9sz
      @DH-oq9sz 5 лет назад +3

      Brothers Karamazov
      War and Peace

  • @jamesaitken2797
    @jamesaitken2797 4 года назад +89

    My personal favourites:
    - Jane Eyre
    - Wuthering Heights
    - Animal Farm
    - Lord of the Flies
    - Dracula
    - The Colour Purple
    - The Kite Runner
    - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    • @cock_baitman6701
      @cock_baitman6701 3 года назад +6

      Wow sir good to see you like Dracula

    • @KimsLantern
      @KimsLantern 3 года назад +1

      Awesome books. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

    • @CatherineDoII
      @CatherineDoII 3 года назад +3

      Wuthering Heights 👌🏻💖

    • @MohamedAdel-kl1nn
      @MohamedAdel-kl1nn 2 года назад +3

      I just finished jane eyre like two days ago , and I gotta say that it was amazingly in a way that's pure joy to read and the plot itself was incredible. salute you for recommending it

    • @jonhinson5701
      @jonhinson5701 2 года назад +2

      @@cock_baitman6701 I love that Dracula is written in the form of diaries and it makes it more intimate and scarier.

  • @IshfaaqPeerally
    @IshfaaqPeerally 5 лет назад +362

    I'm currently reading To Kill a Mockingbird. I've read War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice and The Brothers Karamazov. I've ignored fiction books for years, focusing on business, science, philosophy but I was wrong.

    • @ayeshamahmood7384
      @ayeshamahmood7384 4 года назад +2

      Can you explain why you were wrong?

    • @freiabereinsam-
      @freiabereinsam- 4 года назад +39

      Ayesha Mahmood because each one of those books teach you at least philosophical matters and gives insight to the author‘s minds. Adopt it or not. At least you will think critically, which is an integral trait of philosophy

    • @adityajain0107
      @adityajain0107 4 года назад +2

      No you were not wrong..

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle

    • @A.ayegou
      @A.ayegou 4 года назад +3

      Only littérature can dive in human spirit

  • @Rard.
    @Rard. 4 года назад +41

    Reading books gives a new perspective, choices, options, and literally godly wisdom

  • @smithandscholar9660
    @smithandscholar9660 4 года назад +33

    Pride and Prejudice is amazing. I think Darcy is an amazing character! Such humility!

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      Hi friends,(Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle..*

    • @aclark903
      @aclark903 2 года назад

      Austen is a wonderful writer but she fails at writing men. Her heroes are too good to be true.

    • @sandraelder1101
      @sandraelder1101 2 года назад +1

      Humility he has to learn as the story goes on.

    • @hgjh9765
      @hgjh9765 2 года назад

      I love Mr Darcy but i think Lizzy's character was way ahead of its time.

  • @mariholst-larsen5950
    @mariholst-larsen5950 3 года назад +4

    Of mice and men - John steinbeck
    The way of kings - Brandon Sanderson
    Band of brothers - Stephan E. Ambose
    Nothing new on the western front - Erich Maria Remarqur
    Three Comrades - Erich Maria Remarqur
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

  • @StutiRajguru
    @StutiRajguru 5 лет назад +38

    I read Jane Eyre when I was 13. Till this day, it has remained my favorite novel♥️ A brilliant masterpiece!

    • @oceanbrzzz
      @oceanbrzzz 5 лет назад +2

      Manaswita Rajguru I watch movie versions several times a year. Last year I discovered the BBC tv series starring Timothy Dalton, wow! I believe it is my favorite. Although, many movies are good and some are not so good, leaving out important pieces of the book. 🤓

    • @StutiRajguru
      @StutiRajguru 5 лет назад +3

      @@oceanbrzzz Yes, I have watched the movies too, though not the BBC series. The 2011 movie is my favourite, and the 2006 one was good too. The movies do leave out or alter some scenes, particularly the ones with Rochester's first wife and her portrayal. Hannah's death was also shown a little differently in one of the movies, I can't remember which one.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle..

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      @@oceanbrzzz (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle..

  • @LFOD7491
    @LFOD7491 4 года назад +48

    I am halfway through "The Brothers Karamazov" right now. It is already blowing my mind! If humanity were to choose candidates for the single greatest novel ever written, this would easily make the list.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle..*

    • @richardbenitez1282
      @richardbenitez1282 3 года назад +2

      “I’m reading Brothers now. With David mcDuff translation. This is 3rd time. With the Russians the translators are everything.

    • @preciousamaechi5887
      @preciousamaechi5887 2 года назад

      I thought Crime and Punishment was the greatest?

  • @colinlavery625
    @colinlavery625 4 года назад +217

    Jayne Eyre is pronounced Jane AIR

    • @stevenirwin4376
      @stevenirwin4376 4 года назад +49

      And is spelt Jane

    • @stephenmaniloff8493
      @stephenmaniloff8493 4 года назад +1

      “Jump and Double Jump Mr. King”........☄️🗽🔫👀🚂

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle

    • @TheMaryaBell
      @TheMaryaBell 4 года назад +2

      Thank goodness you noticed!! I couldn't believe what I was hearing - and we're supposed to think the silly female on this vid. knows what she's talking about?

    • @racheldemain1940
      @racheldemain1940 3 года назад +4

      I hate it when these people can't even pronounce the names of Authors when they are recording material that goes out all over the world.

  • @tiredcerulean
    @tiredcerulean 5 лет назад +108

    - Catch 22
    - 1984
    - Great Gatsby
    - To Kill A Mockingbird
    - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

    • @raydarable
      @raydarable 5 лет назад +1

      Mockingbird is in the video already.

    • @troyseffrood4635
      @troyseffrood4635 4 года назад +1

      YES! Everyone should read Alice! I almost forgot.

    • @bloom.3254
      @bloom.3254 4 года назад +1

      1984 is a great novel.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle

  • @brucethomson9923
    @brucethomson9923 4 года назад +58

    Any top 15 that doesn't include George Orwell - especially in our present time, is seriously remiss.

    • @lorla85
      @lorla85 4 года назад +2

      “1984” showed up on the part 2 video

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle

    • @brucethomson9923
      @brucethomson9923 3 года назад +1

      @Blue Moon New weird conspiracy theories should not invalidate the genius of the writing. It's like arguing that Shakespeare is shit because dicaprio starred in a lame Romeo and Juliette...

  • @ankushgoyal8465
    @ankushgoyal8465 5 лет назад +22

    My all time favorites:- 1) pride and prejudice 2) Jane Eyre 3) wuthering heights 4) Villette 5) the mayor of casterbridge 6) woman in white 7) Jude the obscure 8) David Copperfield 9) bleak house 10) Oliver twist 11) great expectations 12) Les miserables 13) of human bondage 14) Madame Bovary 15) middlemarch 16) heart of darkness 17) the scarlet letter 18) sons and lovers 19) a passage to India 20) War and peace 21) Anna Karenina 22) crime and punishment 23) the brother Karamazov 24) Dr. Zhivago 25) life and fate 26) master and margarita 27) Rebecca 28) gone with the wind 29) the great Gatsby 30) the grapes of wrath 31) 1984 32) to Kill a mockingbird 33) beloved 34) lord of flies 35) The awakening 36) 100 years of solitude

    • @sandraelder1101
      @sandraelder1101 2 года назад

      Woman in White is on my short list too. Not too many these days have heard of, let alone read it. A gem.

  • @moonnumonchathikal1799
    @moonnumonchathikal1799 5 лет назад +38

    Les Miserable is the book ever haunting my soul.

    • @elizaeri1295
      @elizaeri1295 5 лет назад +5

      I remember the feeling of awe when I finished the it's last page years ago... my heart was totally moved...

  • @cynthiachazen3420
    @cynthiachazen3420 Год назад +3

    Short Stories are great way to ease into the classics. I’m currently teaching 5th graders The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. With help, they understood and loved them all! Don’t dumb stuff down for kids. I was reading many of these books myself by age 10-11, no problem.They shape a person!

  • @ekramababneh5805
    @ekramababneh5805 5 лет назад +271

    Pride and prejudice is incredibly amazing

    • @jankovic_ana
      @jankovic_ana 5 лет назад +6

      I completely agree with you 💕

    • @Shinybuddies
      @Shinybuddies 4 года назад +11

      @El trovador Mudo Why do you think only women are capable of appreciating "Pride and Prejudice"?

    • @badshahkhan8120
      @badshahkhan8120 4 года назад

      Yeah read it

    • @VenuGopal-js1qu
      @VenuGopal-js1qu 4 года назад

      K by

    • @jerper7961
      @jerper7961 4 года назад +6

      @El trovador Mudo you said it yourself: YOU love that type of literature. You don't represent every man on earth, neither does every woman like or enjoy Pride and Prejudice

  • @gobigandgohomeschool4882
    @gobigandgohomeschool4882 3 года назад +7

    Russian lit can be a slog, but once you figure out that each character has three names, it's easier. Always gems of truth to be found in them.

  • @Ngzgnygdzq
    @Ngzgnygdzq Месяц назад +2

    I read the count of Monte Cristo 2 years ago. I am currently 16. It was one of the best decisions I have done in my life so far. I think at my age most people are wasting most of their time. I do that myself, but I want to change, I want to be better. I just need someone to point me in the right direction.

  • @sarayan.3467
    @sarayan.3467 5 лет назад +43

    War and Peace
    The picture of Dorian Gray
    Pride and Prejudice

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle

  • @irenemcnamara9699
    @irenemcnamara9699 4 года назад +35

    I am an English Major. I have read most of the books on your list. You have picked some treasured jewels in the finest of literature. I plan on reading Daniel Deronda and Bleak House, as well as rereading The Count of Monte Christo. My life is richer from having read War and Peace. I would like to see Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky on your list!

  • @KanwarAnand
    @KanwarAnand 5 лет назад +31

    My review of the ones i have read...
    1. Pride & Prejudice - Good book. Jane Austen will teach many men better English as well.
    2. Dorian Gray - Brilliance. At times I call this the best book ever written.
    3. To Kill A Mocking Bird - Average. This makes its way in many lists and I found it nothing special.
    4. War & Peace - If you have a fear of reading or worse have a fear of reading big books, simply read this and you will never fear any book again. This book changed me in ways that if I mention in words would seem too simple. I have read 4-5 books that are of the same size since reading this book. Moral of the story - this is as good as classic literature gets. This is not Tolstoy's best however.
    5.The Color Purple - Read it this year. Amazing book. Powerful.
    6. Brothers Karamazov - This book is a drug. The writing will make you feel you are hypnotised. Fyodor Dostoevsky is even better than Tolstoy and the finest classic author in the world.
    7. Flowers for Algernon - I shed tears. This is luminous brilliance.
    I will read three more of the remaining books you mention. Classic books are my favourite genre of books. It has not only enhanced my attention span but made me a better more rounded human devoid of paucity.
    PS I dont care which moron recommends Moby Dick. Don't ever read that garbage.

    • @HeronCoyote1234
      @HeronCoyote1234 5 лет назад +1

      Kanwar Anand, I agree with you about Moby Dick. I tried reading it, listening to it; I just could not get into it.

    • @apostolismoschopoulos1876
      @apostolismoschopoulos1876 5 лет назад

      Can't say I don't relate with moby dick

    • @princesspastel8309
      @princesspastel8309 5 лет назад +1

      What’s wrong with Moby dick? That’s my whole book

    • @laladoingwhatiwanna9489
      @laladoingwhatiwanna9489 5 лет назад

      I just love your comment.

    • @shramanamondal4624
      @shramanamondal4624 4 года назад +1

      I have read Pride and prejudice too. I really like Austen's simple yet classical way of story-telling.

  • @misselder1
    @misselder1 4 года назад +45

    The many pronunciation gaffs of the narrator make me think she probably didn’t read many of them herself. I like the list though.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle

    • @fesimco4339
      @fesimco4339 4 года назад +2

      I specifically sought out a comment mentioning this. Yikers!

    • @johnpeterson2987
      @johnpeterson2987 3 года назад +2

      I think its a bot reading a script. The script sounds like it was written by an easterner. The video was obviously made simply for clicks.

    • @misselder1
      @misselder1 3 года назад +2

      @@johnpeterson2987 Yeah. I find bot-readers irritating and patronizing. One of my local radio stations plays weather updates from some computer-generated voice. Every time he says “This is Rafael,” I feel like I’m being lied to.

  • @janeadams8355
    @janeadams8355 4 года назад +6

    I have read them all. Some of them were hard to get through and left me exhausted. Others were delightful. Jane Auston is one one of my favorite authors. She was genius.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle..

  • @RoquitaJohnson
    @RoquitaJohnson 5 лет назад +73

    Wow, I read Flowers for Algernon in 9th grade English class. Almost forgot about it. Dickens had a lot of good ones too: Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and David Copperfield.

    • @shramanamondal4624
      @shramanamondal4624 4 года назад +2

      Don't forget about Pickwick papers and A tale of two Cities.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад +1

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle

  • @sophieeutra6628
    @sophieeutra6628 5 лет назад +15

    I have read :
    -Lew Tolstoi-War and peace
    -Alexandre Dumas-Monte Cristo
    -Charlotte Brontë-Jane Eyre
    -Mark Twain-The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle..

  • @miguelcolon9203
    @miguelcolon9203 2 года назад +7

    Don't forget A hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marques, a fantastic novel about the history of Macondo, a fictitious town and the Buendia family. Also Don Quixote of la Mancha, the most important novel of Cervantes and the universal values of pursuing impossible dreams and justice.

  • @ilyyes5154
    @ilyyes5154 5 лет назад +33

    The brothers Karamazov is the best novel I've read in my life

    • @micheleminello5571
      @micheleminello5571 5 лет назад +1

      I agree!

    • @programSense
      @programSense 4 года назад +2

      BK was the longest I've devoted to a book, not because of it's page lenght but because of its thought provoking wisdom. The true genius to me was the inter woven relationship between the characters. And the grand inquisitor, just materfull work by a virtuoso.

    • @MrCmon113
      @MrCmon113 3 года назад

      Lol, I guess it depends on whether you share Dostojewski's opinions.

  • @proff6651
    @proff6651 5 лет назад +51

    Huckleberry Finn!.....mmmh something is missing, oh now I remember Tom Sawyer...my personal great novels by Mark Twain.

    • @marcelosantana9311
      @marcelosantana9311 5 лет назад +2

      Next time next time watch until the end. 🤫 surprise. 😉

    • @skojigoquist9288
      @skojigoquist9288 5 лет назад

      They don't recommend Tom Sawyer because it's "racist". Which is kinda insane but they insist that Tom is misstreating Joe the little black servant in his household.
      It's next to imposdibke to buy a copy of that book in Canada.

    • @CelestialWoodway
      @CelestialWoodway 4 года назад

      @@skojigoquist9288 Huckleberry Finn is also controversial and has been banned.

    • @skojigoquist9288
      @skojigoquist9288 4 года назад

      @@CelestialWoodway I know. One of my favourites :( robinson crusoe and the jungle book are also banned. I'm puzzled - because it's part of our history - is it possible to delete the whole entire history?

  • @dhruvbanala9029
    @dhruvbanala9029 5 лет назад +63

    I would also add
    Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
    The Diary of Anne Frank (not fictional, but it's a very good book)

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival 5 лет назад +3

      The Diary of Anne Frank *IS* fictional.

    • @skojigoquist9288
      @skojigoquist9288 5 лет назад +2

      Anne frank - hmhnhn not really. If you are into this there is Zlata Filipovich - she was 12 and wrote her diary during the yugoslavian war in 1992. Its pretty gripping.
      Oliver Twist -totallly! I was in shock that in Canada people don't know this book! It's one if my favourites :)

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival 4 года назад

      @@aleksgorrekifan1236 False.

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival 4 года назад

      @@aleksgorrekifan1236 It's a fictional tale written by Otto Frank.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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  • @joydevsarkar4474
    @joydevsarkar4474 4 года назад +24

    JUST ADD THE "PERFECT STROM"
    THE DESCRIPTION OF DROWNING BLEW MY MIND

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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  • @ColtCommander45
    @ColtCommander45 4 года назад +47

    You lose a lot credibility when, talking about books, you say that Moby Dick was written by Charles Dickens. You lose the rest of your credibility when you don't fix it for over a year.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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  • @siphelelendlovu
    @siphelelendlovu 5 лет назад +13

    Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangaremba was truly life-altering for me. It changed my perception in how I view the world, patriarchy and my inherited racial struggles.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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  • @SaumyasBookstation
    @SaumyasBookstation 5 лет назад +83

    I have read Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mocking Bird and Persuasion and they are absolutely brilliant books. The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Color Purple and Little women are on my bookshelf. Can't wait to pick them up. Great video 😀

    • @niharikasahay8620
      @niharikasahay8620 5 лет назад +3

      I loved To Kill a Mockingbird.

    • @ilyyes5154
      @ilyyes5154 5 лет назад +1

      You should read the brothers Karamazov too

    • @pradeepezn43382
      @pradeepezn43382 5 лет назад +1

      Read Flowers of Argegon it’s so good ,

    • @tc5334
      @tc5334 5 лет назад

      @@ilyyes5154 I Agree. I would even say that The Brothers Karamazov is the greatest book ever written

    • @ilyyes5154
      @ilyyes5154 5 лет назад

      @@tc5334 the greatest novel I would say .

  • @classicbookchest7009
    @classicbookchest7009 3 года назад +3

    And 5 more ....
    - Emma, Jane Austen.
    - The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
    - A Tale of two Cities, Charles Dickens
    - The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
    - Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov.

  • @ahanaaa2704
    @ahanaaa2704 4 года назад +1

    my classics list:
    1) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    2) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
    3) The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
    4) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    5) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    6) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
    7) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
    8) Dracula by Bram Stoker
    9) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
    10) Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
    11) Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
    12) The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

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  • @jasonnoury4493
    @jasonnoury4493 5 лет назад +7

    I can’t get over the pronunciation of Jane Eyre & Charlotte Bronte

  • @jackiesliterarycorner
    @jackiesliterarycorner 5 лет назад +2

    I have read Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Jane Eyre, To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. I'm currently reading both War & Peace and The Count of Monte Cristo.

  • @rezaesfahani2775
    @rezaesfahani2775 3 года назад +3

    I have read Mob-Dick as a young teenager. Read War and peace once in my early 20s and second time in my late 20s. Read The picture of Dorian Gray only last week and loved it.

  • @ryanbeegee8107
    @ryanbeegee8107 3 года назад +2

    I've read The Picture of Dorian Gray, To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, and Jane Eyre. All great books.

  • @victorschlim4644
    @victorschlim4644 5 лет назад +9

    How is it possible that Sir Quixote of La Mancha and the Bible are not in this list? Two classics that, whatever your background is, should be read. They are so rich in lessons to be learned and are litterature master pieces by the way they were writen.
    It is not a coincidence that they are the top 2 books to be sold.

    • @aarnavchaturvedi2552
      @aarnavchaturvedi2552 5 лет назад

      So bible, is fiction... Correct

    • @babysisdolls3336
      @babysisdolls3336 5 лет назад +1

      yes, i agree just posted about Don Quixote, Yes the Bible is the greatest book ever 1. it's the best book on human behavior ever written. reading it teaches you to be a human being and not a human animal.

    • @aarnavchaturvedi2552
      @aarnavchaturvedi2552 5 лет назад

      @@babysisdolls3336 no, it's an overrated trash heap.

    • @victorschlim4644
      @victorschlim4644 5 лет назад +2

      @@aarnavchaturvedi2552 Fiction was not stated in the title, it's simply a classic whatever your opinion is about it.

  • @zakiamashhdi3672
    @zakiamashhdi3672 2 года назад +2

    No better companion than a good book. I have read quite a few from your list and likely to read as many more as the life permits. I am grateful for providing the list.

  • @justbecause9219
    @justbecause9219 4 года назад +31

    It’s a shame that Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky didn’t make it to her list....and also Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

    • @kriketprayme
      @kriketprayme 3 года назад

      Just finished reading Crime and Punishment and I've just started to read Wuthering Heights. What a coincidence that you mention both!

  • @anuradhatiwari85
    @anuradhatiwari85 4 года назад +6

    No body ever mentions Rebbeca anywhere ...but I think it is the best book ever written

  • @ratso4443
    @ratso4443 4 года назад +7

    Gone With the Wind, Pilgrims Progress, Tragedy & Hope, The Good Earth, Brave New World, The Prince, A Christmas Carol, Little Women, The Book of Enoch, The Bible.

    • @lynekexve844
      @lynekexve844 3 года назад

      Thank you for including A Christmas Carol, it’s one of the classics!!

  • @InternetAnalyzer
    @InternetAnalyzer 2 года назад +3

    Books mentioned in this video-
    1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    2. The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
    3. To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
    4. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
    5. War and peace by Leo Tolstoy
    6. Persuasion by Jane Austen
    7. The color purple by Alice Walker
    8. Little women by Louisa May Alcott
    9. The count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
    10. The outsiders by Susan Hinton
    11. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
    12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    13. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
    14. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
    15. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
    Hope this helps.❤️
    Note-
    1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    2. The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
    3. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
    4. War and peace by Leo Tolstoy
    5. Little women by Louisa May Alcott
    6. The count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
    7. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
    8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    9. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
    Audiobook version of these books are available on my channel along with other Audiobooks. You can check it out if you are interested.

  • @madabout4628
    @madabout4628 2 года назад +6

    My list:
    1) The Bible
    2) Quran
    3) A.de S. Exupery "Le Petit Prince"
    4)"The Chronicles of Narnia" C. S. Lewis
    5) Alexander Pushkin "Соловей и Роза"
    6) Лесков " леди Макбет Мценского Уезда"
    7) Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey
    8) Н. Гоголь "Тарас Бульба"
    9) Абайдын кара создеры
    10) Rumi - all his poems

  • @gurukirupa9840
    @gurukirupa9840 5 лет назад +1

    A Streetcar named Desire by Tenesse Williams (Realism at it's best....Film stars Marlon Brando himself! It's a play so its a shorter read)
    English Transalation of the Indian Historic Epic - The Mahabharat by Bibek Debroy
    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    Pride and Prejudice & Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
    The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Dark, dark story)
    Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan (Nostalgia)

  • @Fyodor48
    @Fyodor48 5 лет назад +83

    Brothers Karamazov
    The Idiot
    Crime and Punishment
    Any others F D .
    Also everything by Murukami

    • @gabrielkennethmarinas6244
      @gabrielkennethmarinas6244 5 лет назад +5

      Murakami is overrated

    • @onemansvoice6311
      @onemansvoice6311 5 лет назад +1

      I read them all

    • @dmaya9212
      @dmaya9212 4 года назад +1

      I have read crime and punishment ...its really good

    • @jonahpoulard7674
      @jonahpoulard7674 4 года назад +1

      While you're at keep going with devils/demons, notes from underground, gambler, double, poor folk etc

    • @iridescentnomad9289
      @iridescentnomad9289 4 года назад +1

      Gabriel Kenneth Marinas Totally agree, his writing is tawdry. I just finished “Norwegian Wood”, and had to force myself to finish it by the middle of the story.

  • @staygoldponyboy8881
    @staygoldponyboy8881 4 года назад +7

    The Outsiders is awesome!
    I also like Orwell,Dostoyevsky and Camus but my favourite will always be Watership Down.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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    • @spongebobexistentialpants2747
      @spongebobexistentialpants2747 3 года назад

      @@bubunbubun7602 are you going to paste this everywhere? Are you getting a cut of profits on the sale of this title or what..

    • @unrandomcualquiera5291
      @unrandomcualquiera5291 3 года назад

      @@spongebobexistentialpants2747 he hasn't got enough money yet to annoy us on Ad section.

  • @julieanderson7078
    @julieanderson7078 2 года назад +4

    My favorite book is Charlotte's Web. Maybe it's on the next list. I think it is a perfect story of friendship and I read it ever summer. Of the books mentioned, I have read Pride and Prejudice, Tom Sawyer, To Kill A Mockingbird, Jane Eyre, Little Women and I think Bleak House.

  • @determineddylan8793
    @determineddylan8793 5 лет назад +14

    Everyone in their life needs to read To Kill a Mockingbird. Best book in my opinion.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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  • @SpayNeut.Always
    @SpayNeut.Always 4 года назад +32

    Today, there is only one book everyone needs to read, 1984.. that is where we are now

    • @holddat13
      @holddat13 4 года назад

      ..no...

    • @fasmin8904
      @fasmin8904 4 года назад

      Why d'you say that? Because there's lockdown everywhere?

    • @brazen6850
      @brazen6850 4 года назад +5

      @@fasmin8904 he's referring to the political climate in the USA where radical leftists denounce any one who differs in their opinions and dub them as bigots.
      Much like in 1984, the very language is now being pushed to be regulated and free speech is becoming infringed upon. Leftists wish to control thought and 'vaporize' any one who should be so bold as to tell the truth of reality.

    • @smk77097
      @smk77097 4 года назад +1

      @@brazen6850 jee, their ideology sounds good. But I must admit I don't exactly understand this. First of all america is a democracy, you guys can just get on the streets and protest to get what you want. But this isn't from the ruling party ,is it? Secondly this sounds like a big deal, how come I've never come across it in newspapers? pls explain

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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  • @GLaYn
    @GLaYn 5 лет назад +20

    Read this book before you die: Amerika by Kafka

    • @yomilalgro
      @yomilalgro 5 лет назад +1

      Ok, thx

    • @zoicon5
      @zoicon5 4 года назад

      Why?

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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    • @richardsummers7569
      @richardsummers7569 4 года назад

      The trial and the castle are great as well

  • @edmonddantes3640
    @edmonddantes3640 5 лет назад +4

    I recall growing up in the 69s and 70s that guys l knew, who didn't particularly like to read for pleasure LOVED the Outsiders and other of Hinton works. All described the world we grew up in.

  • @lakesnlawns222
    @lakesnlawns222 4 года назад +12

    Kind of shocked not to see any Hemingway, Shakespeare, or Checkov!! Read all of Chekhov!

  • @solinelb8111
    @solinelb8111 5 лет назад +11

    I've read Jane Eyre, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird. I would like to suggest to you Night by Eli Wiesel even if it is not a fictional story, it is one of the best book ever written.
    Good reading y'all!

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад +1

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    • @nawaababdul9667
      @nawaababdul9667 2 года назад +1

      Society went wrong it put God of the picture, not to SAY you won't achieve your dreams which is a classic effort to succeed. But HELL will break lose in your home. WHAT'S YOUR SUCCESS NOW??? I'M NOT PROCRASTINATING. READ THE GREATEST BOOK. THE BIBLE.

  • @legalvampire8136
    @legalvampire8136 4 года назад +2

    Thanks for the recommendations. Pedantic points: the video is entitled '15 books' but the written description if you click on it below the title lists 16. The written list also says Moby Dick is by Charles Dickens, although the narrative correctly says Herman Melville. ('Well, I knew it was like some dead Nineteenth Century guy!)
    Pronunciation: I am British so our pronunciations are different. In some cases American pronunciation preserves the original sound better than modern British, so please takes these as differences, not that one is right or wrong ('you say tomado and I say tomahto, you say Gillian and I say Jillian, you say panties and I say knickers' etc.)
    In modern British 'Eyre' as in Jane Eyre is 'Air'. What the Brontēs would have said in Nineteenth Century Yorkshire I don't know but the spelling may reflect early pronunciation.
    Most English people pronounce 'Dumas' as in the author of The Count of Monte Christo & The Three Musketeers, more like modern French way 'Dumah', although the spelling probably reflects the French pronunciation of several centuries ago when they would have spoken the 's' on the end. Likewise Louis in modern French, followed in modern English pronunciation of French names is Lou-ee, American (and probably ancient French) is like Lewis.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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  • @acajudi100
    @acajudi100 5 лет назад +3

    All James Baldwin, Studs Terkel, Maya Angelou, Malcolm X,William Faulkner,Jean Sasson,Iyanla Vazant, Alice Walker,Ernest Hemingway, Foote, Herman Hess..Siddhartha.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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  • @joaotabanez3567
    @joaotabanez3567 2 года назад +2

    los miserables, crime and punishement and great expectactions. for me a clear must read

  • @DH-oq9sz
    @DH-oq9sz 5 лет назад +35

    Don quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
    Les Miserables by Víctor Hugo

    • @244889i
      @244889i 4 года назад +1

      Don quixote shoudn't be read at early age. It killed my love for books forever lol

    • @244889i
      @244889i 4 года назад

      @Beerley Jean Pierre because at early age it is too boring, and you don't get it, why the fuck you should read two tomes of mocking of Spanish popular literature at that ages, about knights and their deeds. Now I might have thought to read it because I get it, but I got bad mark for my exam, because of how boring that book was for me, and I don't want to read it again as a grown up :D

    • @osobear4365
      @osobear4365 4 года назад

      @@244889i I read it when I was about 27 years old and even then when halfway through the novel I tought about quitting more than one time, but I pushed myself until I finished it. It has stayed with me for a long time, it made quite an impact on me. But yeah I can see how it killed your love for books at a young age.

  • @jonhinson5701
    @jonhinson5701 2 года назад +2

    The Picture of Dorian Gray is fantastic. Someone wrote about "The Beautiful Boy as Destroyer" and that says a lot about this book. It is not a long book but it is worth reading.

  • @readthebibleonamountain934
    @readthebibleonamountain934 4 года назад +4

    The bible! The most important and popular which has from poetry to history, and every thing in between. A story of God's love for us.

    • @Me-rd7po
      @Me-rd7po 4 года назад +1

      yeah, but take the quates with a grand of salt :/ the advice they give can be a bit out of date. ( No hate , but I saw too many people think that if it's the Bible it is alright and I don't want that to happend to new readers.)

    • @readthebibleonamountain934
      @readthebibleonamountain934 4 года назад

      @@Me-rd7po isn't the point not to judge? Or a least to put ourself in someone else's shoes? The bible is the most read book and purchase. On the contrary of being out of date, it has cut through my heart and change me for the better, and true I got a long way to go.

  • @austinerhabor6084
    @austinerhabor6084 5 лет назад +10

    Beautiful video as always.
    I totally agree that there are books that every man should read.
    I am a lover of books and the knowledge I have acquired from reading books has contributed a lot to helping me live soundly.
    "The Richest Man in Babylon", John Ploughman's Talk", Life Triumphant": these are three of the books I will never forget and will always be glad I read.
    Some of the ideas I share with people in my videos are from these great books and several others.
    I have not read all the books listed here, but I definitely hope to check out those I have not read.
    Thanks, guys, for a great job.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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  • @stephenmurphy1003
    @stephenmurphy1003 4 года назад +4

    The last book "Flowers for Algernon" was made into a movie. I think it was called " Charlie" excellent movie.
    Two great books I think everyone should read are "Boss" the story of Richard J. Daley by Mike Royko and The autobiography of Malcolm X.

    • @Sparkball
      @Sparkball 4 года назад

      stephen murphy book is way better. Made me cry when I finished it last week

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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  • @val3703
    @val3703 4 года назад +5

    I'd like to recommend any of the books by Prof. Chaim Potok, but especially "My Name is Asher Lev". Also, James Michener, a prolific writer. I loved his "Hawaii".

    • @lisaryherd4685
      @lisaryherd4685 4 года назад

      Val B James Michener is good!!

    • @anamariaguadayol2335
      @anamariaguadayol2335 4 года назад

      Excellent choices, I had forgotten about them.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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  • @mikehuffman5460
    @mikehuffman5460 5 лет назад +4

    In Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, one of the characters, Quentin Compson, committed suicide after his Freshman year. Though it is never quite clear why, eleven of the books selected here were on his Sophomore reading assignment.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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    • @spongebobexistentialpants2747
      @spongebobexistentialpants2747 3 года назад

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  • @arthurchapman9274
    @arthurchapman9274 4 года назад +2

    "I robot" by Issac Assimov, "1984" by George Orwell, "The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, "The Idiot" Fydo Dostojewski, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" Dale Carnigie, "Crime and Punishment" Fydor Dostojewski, "Swallows and Amazons" Arthur Ransome, "The Time Machine" H. G. Wells, "Tarzan of the Apes" Edgar Rice Burroughs and "Lord of the Rings" J. R. R. Tolkien.

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      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

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  • @robertbullock1715
    @robertbullock1715 5 лет назад +12

    How about Voltaire's Candide-also not difficult and key to opening up one's mind

  • @endistherenown776
    @endistherenown776 5 лет назад +10

    My 15 favorite books
    1. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
    2. The Odyssey by Homer
    3. 1984 by George Orwell
    4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
    5. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
    6. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
    7. The Iliad by Homer
    8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    9. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    10. Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante
    11. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
    12. Julius Ceasar by Wiliam Shakespeare
    13. Lord of the Flies by William Goulding
    14. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scotts Fitzgerald
    15. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
    Just my favorites from the first 16 years of my life leave more classics I should read in the comments

    • @bashsibda6289
      @bashsibda6289 5 лет назад

      Thomas Chaney
      LOTR, Odyssey, Mcbeth.👍

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle..*

  • @SipheDlamini
    @SipheDlamini 5 лет назад +69

    THINGS FALL APART - Chinua Achebe!!!

    • @CottonCookie
      @CottonCookie 5 лет назад +3

      I've read that! Very interesting read!

    • @margueritendi7033
      @margueritendi7033 5 лет назад +3

      A must read!!!! So rich and full of teachings. Also liked the way father/ son relationship was displayed, how good and evil intertwined

    • @suaibme6055
      @suaibme6055 5 лет назад +2

      Chinua Achebe undoubtedly killed my soul with Things Fall Apart. If I read it again, it will be my 4th time already.

    • @Kobs.A
      @Kobs.A 5 лет назад +1

      Best book

    • @benwilliams9726
      @benwilliams9726 5 лет назад +2

      Siphe Dlamini Sadly, everyone in my grade, including me, hated that book for having it shoved down our throats.

  • @revenant2979
    @revenant2979 5 лет назад +2

    I've read No. 2 ,3 and 12 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (which took me 6 months, with a dictionary(book), no Google then!). ITS a MASTERPIECE and my English has improved so much since reading Classic Books, are much more difficult to read as a second language.

  • @prakashpandey4885
    @prakashpandey4885 5 лет назад +11

    Finished almost every book in this list except 15th one, but the best one for me was - to kill a mocking bird.

    • @GojoTorrance
      @GojoTorrance 5 лет назад +1

      How did you get the Alux symbol beside your name?

    • @prakashpandey4885
      @prakashpandey4885 5 лет назад

      @@GojoTorrance it's alux membership.

    • @HeronCoyote1234
      @HeronCoyote1234 5 лет назад +2

      I just reread To Kill a Mockingbird (my stepdtr had a copy for school). I didn’t want it to end.

    • @mingaswarttz9927
      @mingaswarttz9927 3 года назад

      Marvelous.

  • @figs8261
    @figs8261 4 года назад +4

    Oh my god I didn’t think Oscar Wilde will be in it. I am so happy!!!

  • @PeterPanTheRealDeal
    @PeterPanTheRealDeal 5 лет назад +30

    This is my personal list of books that made the most difference in my life:
    Higher Status by Jason Capital
    psycho cybernetics by Maxwell maltz
    Think and grow rich by Napoleon hill
    Deepwork by Cal Newport
    The One Thing by a great author

    • @alux
      @alux  5 лет назад +3

      Great selection! Thanks for sharing.

    • @onemansvoice6311
      @onemansvoice6311 5 лет назад +3

      Dogshit books. This is not even literature. How can a book that agitates on some productive propagandas on how to win more money can be effective for your life?
      American "literature" is a DOGSHIT literature.

    • @ericb5140
      @ericb5140 5 лет назад

      Phoenix_ Soros lol

    • @onemansvoice6311
      @onemansvoice6311 5 лет назад

      @@ericb5140 🤭😁

    • @obertbrinley6541
      @obertbrinley6541 4 года назад +3

      Who cares if a failed U.S. President liked some books. Go away Obama!

  • @vondumozze738
    @vondumozze738 5 лет назад +2

    Being made to read 1, 3, in US high school in the early 60's detracted from their greatness. I read Moby Dick on my own in 76 and Flowers for Algernon in the Navy in 69.

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle..

    • @aryavirsangwan6837
      @aryavirsangwan6837 2 года назад

      Thank you for your service, sir.

  • @matmotor7572
    @matmotor7572 4 года назад +8

    I also recomend..... Rebecca and Gone with Wind,

  • @fortiorestis1707
    @fortiorestis1707 5 лет назад +6

    Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, one of the greatest books written

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle..

  • @cristinacho7881
    @cristinacho7881 5 лет назад +4

    TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - my FAVORITE novel of all time! I look forward to Part 2!

  • @sandeepjoshi8280
    @sandeepjoshi8280 4 года назад +2

    Some sterling additions to the list:
    1) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
    2) The Stranger by Albere Camus
    3) Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
    4) Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
    5) Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie
    6) Life of Pie by Yann Martel
    7) Atonement by Ian McEwan
    8) Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
    9) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    10) Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
    11) Geisha
    12) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
    13) Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol
    14) The Monk who Sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma
    15) Animal Farm

  • @thatcanadian6698
    @thatcanadian6698 5 лет назад +8

    12:01 'Fictional novel' is a redundant term.

  • @hrushikeshgouda4965
    @hrushikeshgouda4965 5 лет назад +4

    The video hasn't started but I'm sure I'm gonna love it. I've been a subscriber of Alix for long now and I genuinely love your content. I really like the new format of the videos in which you talk about people and things. I request you to make a video shining some light on Leonardo Da Vinci's life and also some facts related to him. There are not many polymath who are as well known and unique as this Renaissance man. It'd be great on your part if you comply to my request.
    Keep making content as good as you always do.
    Thank you.

  • @drronmccoy
    @drronmccoy 4 года назад +4

    This is a very good list! I’ve been looking at these types of lists today on RUclips, and most have been very disappointing. Well done!

    • @bubunbubun7602
      @bubunbubun7602 4 года назад

      (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle..

  • @thebookwasbetter3650
    @thebookwasbetter3650 4 года назад +2

    3:35 This totally reminds me of the first time I read To Kill A Mockingbird.

  • @Ok-cq7zq
    @Ok-cq7zq 5 лет назад +20

    One flew over the cuckoos nest! absolute masterpiece

  • @chandravallytn1544
    @chandravallytn1544 4 года назад +1

    RANDAMOOZHAM : M T VASUDEVAN NAIR
    ORU DESHATHINTE KADHA: S K POTTEKATTU
    RAMANAN: VYLOPPILLY
    KAYAR, CHEMMEEN: THAKAZHI
    AADUJEEVITHAM: BENYAMIN

  • @gazirayhan1976
    @gazirayhan1976 5 лет назад +3

    Please include Godfather by Mario Puzo in the part two.
    Novel that can help you learn to love your family and understand business. A perfect book for an entrepreneur

  • @lindafarnes486
    @lindafarnes486 Год назад +1

    I tried reading Little Women, I thought it was truly boring. All I can remember about it now is something about hairnets and someone died. I have read a few of the others on this list and did enjoy them though. I have just acquired a copy of the Bros Karamazov to read. My first Russian novel that wasn't about a post appocalyptic world. 😅 I never see any Thomas Hardy mentioned. I really loved Far From the Madding Crowd, although it is tragic.

  • @pktrivedee
    @pktrivedee 5 лет назад +6

    Many Thanks Alux for a list of classic recommended books...
    Though there is a confusion on picking books...because there is a lot diversity in Indian & English culture... Because of that many things Will not be related by this side of the world... Though will try with 1 or 2..
    Again many thanks...

  • @guineveregruntle6746
    @guineveregruntle6746 Год назад +1

    In no particular order:
    -No One Here Gets Out Alive
    -1984
    -The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    -Lone Survivor
    -The Bible
    -Dispatches from Pluto
    -Into the Heart of Darkness
    -Roots…not that TV horseshit
    -A Tale of Two Cities
    -The Little Engine that Could
    -To Kill a Mockingbird
    -War & Peace
    -The Diary of Anne Frank
    -The Millionaire Next Door
    -The Great Gatsby

  • @shravandk423
    @shravandk423 5 лет назад +3

    Where do they get the small video clips that they show in their videos? ??

    • @Gmackematix
      @Gmackematix Год назад

      It's called B-Roll isn't it? Stock images of people reading books, cities and the like.

  • @ronhill8333
    @ronhill8333 5 месяцев назад

    I read Flowers for Algernon back in High School (70s)
    Also watched the movie Charly
    The story had an great impact on my life.