I agree with all your selections, I love them all too. My favorite book of all time, one I have read more than any other is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I can't explain why I love it so much, but I have been reading it since I was twelve, and believe me that's a long time.
Alas, I love too widely and too fiercely to be able to choose favorites when it comes to almost anything. I am very pleased to see a few of the book that made it to your list are also among my more beloved!
No particular order: A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens, Fathers and Sons - Turgenev, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Kesey, Wise Blood - O'Connor, Uncle Vanya - Chekhov, Catcher in the Rye - Salinger, The Sound and The Fury - Faulkner, Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut, All the Pretty Horses - McCarthy, The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Wilder
Oh wow! This is such an interesting tag! Your selection, once again, has made me realise that there are still so many books that I really need to read. Thanks for the tag - again. I will definitely get to this one soon.
This video was delightful. For the most part I'm sticking by my top ten series I did way back - a few of those might have shifted off, but I have almost no idea what would take their places
Really appreciated your views at the beginning of this video. Wasn't sure I wanted to do this Tag (though the original video is very interesting), but now I really feel like doing it!
Really interesting tag and SO many made up stories. Before you started the list I guessed a few of these but a couple I was surprised not to see on there. Most notably The Iliad but also DUNE! Alas... I was not tagged.
I agree that this is a tag that everyone should do. I did it a little while ago. It will be so interesting to see the end results! I feel like I should revise my list now that you talk about 'the books one can't be without' rather than 'what one considers to be the "best" books'. Maybe I should make a new video...
I found this tag extremely difficult and I know if I did it again tomorrow my choices might be very different. Mine were much more fluid than I expected.
There were only maybe three titles on my list that could have been replaced by other titles. For the most part, it was pretty locked. But going into it, I was certain Cloudstreet would be not only on the list, but high on the list - and yet when push came to shove, it missed inclusion by the slimmest of margins.
Waiting for the Barbarians by J M Coetzee Libra by Don Delilo Money by Martin Amis A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born AK Armah Bleak House by Charles Dickens Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy The Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
This strikes me as a tag that you should turn into a survey of your subscribers and viewers, perhaps limiting comments on each choice to a few sentences. I do think that Old Blue made a mistake in requiring that a single book of poetry (apparently excluding collected or selected poems) is required. Are collected essays allowed? Are anthologies permitted? Set your own parameters, which I think you would be inclined to do even had I not suggested it. One surprise for me: Your list omitted Gilead.
Thanks for doing the tag, Steve! 🙂 Now, are these ranked 1 to 10? Or are these 10 to 1? You mention descending order, but describe Ovid as your favorite, so I just want to be certain. I ask only as I’m assigning the books points in the spreadsheet. A number one book receives 10 points; a number 10 book receives one; and so on.
I agree with all your selections, I love them all too. My favorite book of all time, one I have read more than any other is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I can't explain why I love it so much, but I have been reading it since I was twelve, and believe me that's a long time.
This was so interesting! I’m looking forward to reading all of these and to doing this tag!
Alas, I love too widely and too fiercely to be able to choose favorites when it comes to almost anything. I am very pleased to see a few of the book that made it to your list are also among my more beloved!
No particular order: A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens, Fathers and Sons - Turgenev, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Kesey, Wise Blood - O'Connor, Uncle Vanya - Chekhov, Catcher in the Rye - Salinger, The Sound and The Fury - Faulkner, Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut, All the Pretty Horses - McCarthy, The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Wilder
Oh wow! This is such an interesting tag! Your selection, once again, has made me realise that there are still so many books that I really need to read.
Thanks for the tag - again. I will definitely get to this one soon.
This video was delightful. For the most part I'm sticking by my top ten series I did way back - a few of those might have shifted off, but I have almost no idea what would take their places
I already included your top ten from your video series, Jennifer, per your request. 🙂
I watching your backlog. This was fantastic!
Really appreciated your views at the beginning of this video. Wasn't sure I wanted to do this Tag (though the original video is very interesting), but now I really feel like doing it!
Really interesting tag and SO many made up stories. Before you started the list I guessed a few of these but a couple I was surprised not to see on there. Most notably The Iliad but also DUNE! Alas... I was not tagged.
EVERYONE is tagged! 😉 Looking forward to your list.
Can you, can i request to the room in its entirety? I love the set up. I want see it as a whole.
So hard to choose. I uploaded my version this morning.
I agree that this is a tag that everyone should do. I did it a little while ago. It will be so interesting to see the end results! I feel like I should revise my list now that you talk about 'the books one can't be without' rather than 'what one considers to be the "best" books'. Maybe I should make a new video...
But I definitely think Wodehouse deserves a spot instead of John Mortimer! ;)
I KNEW Horace would be there.
I found this tag extremely difficult and I know if I did it again tomorrow my choices might be very different. Mine were much more fluid than I expected.
There were only maybe three titles on my list that could have been replaced by other titles. For the most part, it was pretty locked. But going into it, I was certain Cloudstreet would be not only on the list, but high on the list - and yet when push came to shove, it missed inclusion by the slimmest of margins.
I read Pride & Prejudice at 14 in school & it has remained my favourite ever since
Waiting for the Barbarians by J M Coetzee
Libra by Don Delilo
Money by Martin Amis
A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born AK Armah
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
The Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
An interesting top ten of books I've yet to read, enjoyed hearing which you'd chosen.
This strikes me as a tag that you should turn into a survey of your subscribers and viewers, perhaps limiting comments on each choice to a few sentences. I do think that Old Blue made a mistake in requiring that a single book of poetry (apparently excluding collected or selected poems) is required. Are collected essays allowed? Are anthologies permitted? Set your own parameters, which I think you would be inclined to do even had I not suggested it. One surprise for me: Your list omitted Gilead.
I am SO pleased to hear you love Pride & Prejudice so much!
I had to do Middlemarch in school but have never reread it.
Fascinating list, Steve! I read the Mandelbaum translation of the Metamorphoses last year and loved it.
...now what's 11-20?
do you at all like the Lawrence of Arabia movie with Peter O'Toole, Steve?
Thanks for doing the tag, Steve! 🙂 Now, are these ranked 1 to 10? Or are these 10 to 1? You mention descending order, but describe Ovid as your favorite, so I just want to be certain. I ask only as I’m assigning the books points in the spreadsheet. A number one book receives 10 points; a number 10 book receives one; and so on.
Sheesh, here I stole a tag from you this morning when you had already tagged me in another one! :p. I hope I can do this one justice.
Is Pride and Prejudice a Victorian novel?
Why are the book titles back to front Steve?
The books are in reverse?.....
Nice!
Are you filming in a mirror today?