the fact that he recommended 18 books and gave an intro to them in under 4 minutes. all the other booktubers can't relate this could have been 20 minutes
I wish more people would adapt this pace when going through a list of books. It drives me nuts when people take five minutes per book. I usually start to forward to the next book mentioned.
Agreed. If you want someone to read something, you should say one or two really interesting things about it to get them hooked. They don’t need an entire synopsis. :-)
"The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth" "The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan"
Hate List by Jennifer Brown is amazing, it's about a fictional school shooting and the girl whose boyfriend was the shooter. I was really moved by it, and also very startled to find almost no reviews on the back.
I'd recommend Ronia the robber's daughter by Astrid Lindgren. I've read it in Dutch several times and it has always stuck with me. It's an adventure in a wild world, but it has a lot more going on than that. It's the book that for me sparked my love of nature so I'd definitely recommend it!
I am rather fond of Machine of Death and its sequel, This Is How You Die. They are collections of short stories from internet writers with the prompt of there being a machine that will, with a blood sample, tell you in a few words how you will die. It will not give specifics, and deaths are rarely straight forward, cancer could be a tumor, but could also be shot by someone of a specific zodiac. The stories are wonderfully creative over a huge verity of subjects, and are also amazing because of the collaboration that it took to make the books a reality - the prompt came from a webcomic, was written for by hundreds of people, no publisher would touch it so it had to self publish and through word of mouth became #1 on Amazon and can be downloaded as a free PDF. I would highly recommend it to anyone.
I have never read any of your books, nor have I seen any of your videos or social media or had/watched anything to do with you. I clicked on this because it was in my recommended and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and why everyone seems to adore you. I understand now.
I don't. Seems like a bad format for this type of content. Barely any time to pitch the numerous books, and only a superficial description of them is given, if any at all. This video would have benefited TREMENDOUSLY from another 20 minutes dedicated to actually making us want to read any of these. You know, by explaining in some detail why it is a good story? Not just say "I don't know why people don't read this!". Well, I can think of one reason....
Maybe this is it... But everybody doesn't speak English and doesn't have mother toung also that's why they can say he speaks fast ... And according to me he speaks just like normal... Because he is native speaker...
I watched this on double speed😂 I actually recommend watching/listening to information-y talky things sped up, you get used to it and once you do it's SO much more effecient.
Beauty style, your English is better than most people that of everyone I go to school with! John talks really fast and I couldn't keep up with many of the first videos I watched. All the best learning English (bilinguals/ polyglots are the coolest) 😊
Play it back at half speed or so, he just speaks fast. My tip for listening to fast foreign speakers is to try to listen to chunks of words or a sentence or more at once. I find that when I'm trying to translate each word as it's said it's overwhelming.
Please don't be discouraged. This man speaks very quickly and succinctly. As a teacher, I never suggest the crash courses unless you already understand the topic. Then it is a great LISTENTING exercise.
You've probably never heard of her, but Octavia E. Butler was the ONLY African-American woman author of Science Fiction and her novel The Parable Of The Sower is one of the finest things you've never read. It imagines a not too distant future where the problems of today have continued to their most extreme end. A great look at where we are headed if we don't address issues such as homelessness, gangs, drug abuse, eduction and even funding for space travel.
Gosh, some parts of that book are absolutely gut wrenching. I remember reading it freshman year of high school and it definitely left a mark all these years later as I’ve already graduated college at this point. It’s story is incredibly relevant today and I only wish more Americans had read it back then. Maybe, just maybe, it would’ve helped quell the hateful seeds in some hearts that are flourishing today. Hopefully there is Hope.
1. Great Expectations, Dickens 2. The Stand, S. King Both authors really get you inside the characters - the way they feel, think, feminine personalities, masculine personalities, etc.
Not really very informative, though. Just a machine gun of suggestions with little to warrant them being suggested. He should have had some respect for these works and gave them a proper review, or at least a pitch that's more than a 3 second sound byte that amounts to "I liked it.".
John, for years...YEARS..., up until just a year or two ago, I taught my English Composition courses with Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others! I did this ever since my second Masters from Bread Loaf School of English (Middlebury College, here in Vermont). As a result of feeling a sort of vindication by watching your post this, here, I may require it all over again! Thank you so much. I am just not sure how my military cadet students will take it at my University. It managed to upset a couple of my military students when teaching this at the local Community College (though that was not my personal intention, at all). I think it it allowed me to realize that their anger was meant to help them fight with and release ideas behind the people they labeled as "the other" in current media images. It think this book was the right choice, and I may just go back to using it again. Brilliant!!!! Thank you!!
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is an amazing novel in the perspective of a boy who has autism trying to solve a mystery of his neighbor's dead dog, while also trying to deal with conflict in his own family. It's a wonderful book, and honestly one of my favorite. Everyone should definitely try it at one time or another.
That one became so much more popular in Europe than America, which was odd. They adapted it into a play in England and it won a ton of awards. Wish it would tour around more.
i would recommend Warm Bodies, most people i know didn't even know it was a book before it was a movie, the main focus of it is exploring grief and how humans react to it and how that sometimes when we go through so much pain we forget how feel and become almost like zombies (it uses that ironically as the story is set during a zombie apocalypse)
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight. It's the story of a mother who learns her daughter commits suicide but gets a text reading "she didn't jump" and the mother's journey trying to reconstruct her daughters past. It is by far the most amazing book I've ever read.
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The 100 year old man that climbed out of the window and disappeared - I beat your best title, written by a Swede (name unable to remember) about, you guessed it, a 100 year old that climbs out of a window and disappears. Funniest book I ever read, also great story and very historically informative concerning the 20th century.
Mabel Lara I feel exactly the same it's like why can't all the crappy ones just not be in my book shelf but then I just want every book book that I've read and loved To be in there.
These are some good books: 1.) Project 17 2.)Beautiful Creatures series 3.) A Mango Shaped Space 4.) Ready Player One 5.)Eye of minds 6.) The Immortals series 7.) Life as we knew it 8.)Maximum Ride series 9.) Out of the Dust 10.) that Rama series or book or whatever it is. 11.) Death Be Not Proud 12.) Artemis Fowl series 13.) A Wrinkle in Time 14.) City of Ember series 15.) Hate that Dog and Love that Cat (or maybe it's the other way around)
I read Death Comes for the Archbishop. It's been sitting on my shelf for years after watching this video. Thank you. It was such a wonderful reading experience.
I recommend Room By Emma Donoghue, which is a novel told completely and accurately from the point of view of five year old Jack. Jack has only ever known Room, it's where he was born and where he eats, plays and learns with his Ma. Room really is about the unconditional and unconquerable love in completely horrific circumstances and the strength of the bond between a mother and her child. After reading this book for one of my university classes, Room moved me in a way that I didn't think that a book could. After reading Room, you'll never forget it!
The Curious Case of the Dog in the Nighttime is a book about an autistic teenager trying to solve a mystery which turns into a lifelong change for him. It's very good.
"Death Comes for the Archbishop" was certainly a bestseller in its day. "The Enormous Room" might have been. Both were featured in the Modern Library and were widely read at least through the 1960s. In addition to these, I've also read "The Optimist's Daughter," which enjoyed a vogue of its own through the 1980s.
Love is not the word I would use but I appreciate the theme of the book challenging the indian cultural status quo like the caste system in a country that's plagued with dogmatic religious/cultural robots
@@lyankhaute7217 I mean is the book problematic in the sense that again it's a upper middle class savarna person's point of view of caste being shone and we hardly get to hear from the Dalit characters at all? Yes. Has Arundhati Roy become increasingly problematic in recent years? Also yes. Despite all of that though, the language of the book is one of the best I've seen in a long long time. It's beautiful storytelling, if not anything else
You should all read 'Between Shades of Gray' It's a first person novel about a teenage girl who is taken by the invading USSR to a forced labour camp... I nearly cried.
+Tobi Toes Cheers to a great recommendation! But a note to those who don't read closely: The above is NOT to be confused with "Fifty Shades of Gray", certainly!
I recommend the Mortal Engines series, its like Charles Dickens meets Star Wars. Great opening line: “It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea." One of my favourite book series, ya might like it :)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the secrets of the universe is one of the most amazing books I've ever read. It is a Y/A self-discovery book. Totally recommended!!!!! Edit: The sequel is coming in Oct 2021 it is called Aristotle and Dante dive into the waters of the deep.
It isn't enough that you give me Crash Course homework, now you also give me Vlogbrothers homework. I know it's reading week, but I'm not in school anymore and there's only so much I can do.
One of the best I have ever read, and one of my personal favorites!!!!!!! Which is surprising because most of my favorite books are not realistic fiction, but fantasy...
***** It's a book about a girl who committed suicide and she made these tapes explaining 13 reasons why she did it and sent them to the people who are the reasons and this kid named Clay thought they were friends and so he listens to all the tapes to try to find out why he's a reason and it also tell you all the other reasons.
I would definitely recommend It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini, it is this incredible book about about a boy who is on a mental ward with depression but the story itself isn't at all depressing. I don't know any 'sophisticated' adult literature (I'm 13) but I would recommend also reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, if you haven't already. I'm currently reading Catcher In The Rye which is surprisingly amazing but I know you have already read that!
I am glad to see Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop" on the recommended list! Each reading reveals a new immersion in a magical setting. Great writing is at once mysterious and accessible, a gift for the reader.
I actually just read A Thousand Splendid Suns for my Easter Studies class. (It's like English class but with Eastern books instead of Shakespeare it's amazing!) and I had to make an effort not to cry in class several times...also I think about 5 people through their books across the room XD
Have you read the Night Circus? It follows two magicians Celia and Marco who have been bound into a competition since they were infants. The battleground is Le Cirque des Reves (The Circus of Dreams) and the book is not only written from the perspectives of the magicians, but from their masters and members of the circus. The story spans from the oath binding the two in 1873, through the genesis of the circus planned at Midnight Dinners to a young boy dared to enter the circus during the day, but not necessarily in that order. The Night Circus is a masterpiece woven together with descriptions that have you on your knees and characters that bring you back to your feet. it's hard to understand but one thing is for sure you will not breath until you reach the final sentence. I'm not sure how popular it is but it's amazing and mind-boggling and how many books can you find that work a non-linear plotline that's actually good. I finished it in two days and I'm a slow reader. (Also realizing how long this is, sorry!)
2 books that should have been movies but aren't famous enough - Stolen by Lucy Christopher Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma BONUS : Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyungsook. THESE THREE BOOKS WILL MAKE Y'ALL CRY!!
One of my favourite book series is the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore in which a 12 year old orphan and his sister are recruited into a faction of the British Intelligence where all they're agents are children aged between 10 and 18. Only the first four books were published in the USA but the entire series of 15 (soon to be 16) can be shipped from either Europe or Canada. The first book is called "The Recruit" and I highly recommend it to not only you, John, but also to every Nerdfighter watching this video. The CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore, check it out!
I've been waiting for this video for a long time, you should make it a daily thing ;) I already have 130 books on my Amazon wishlist, a few more can't hurt :D
Orson Scott Card, every book I read by him is amazing, and mind blowing. He writes science fiction books for those of you who were curious. He also wrote the Famous Ender's Game serious.
The Scar by China Mieville is just wonderful. A huge, oceanic tale set in a world unlike ours but also like it. The imagination behind this story is utterly fantastic.
This comment is way way way late. " A Child Called it." by Dave Pelzer. The story of a child being raised in an incredibly abusive environment ( home). It was recommended reading when my wife and I became foster parents in Indianapolis. It was partially responsible for inspiring my wife and I to foster 15 children over 5 years. We adopted one and when another aged out of the childcare system he came back from Georgia where he had ended up and lived with us for two and half years. Now our adopted son and he are brothers from other mothers.Living as young twenty somethings in Indy. Perhaps the best thing I've ever done as an adult all started with that book.
Timothy Bewley I read the series when I was 13 and have reread it several times. It is a life changing book in my opinion. Especially when you get to a man name dave.
"gossamer" by Lois Lowry is a beautiful little novel about three troubled people and the tiny fairies that give them their dreams at night. it's almost like an extended metaphor for healing and protection.
Amen!!! I love a Booktuber that gets to the point! So many people ramble & ramble but finally I found a booktuber that says what he means & talks in a timely fashion!! Thank you!!
I love Stolen by Lucy Christopher. It's about a 16 year old girl, Gemma, who gets kidnapped by a slightly older guy called Ty. He takes her to the middle of nowhere so she's cut off from.. everything really. As a reader, you're kind of cut off too, cause you only know what's happening to Ty and Gemma, and you don't know anything about Gemma's life before she's kidnapped, except the things she tells Ty. The novel takes the form of a long letter from Gemma to Ty, and reading it is such a strange experience. It's one of my favourite books and I only know like one other person who's read it.
hey john, I heard now you're worth more than 15 million bucks because of your books! congrats, you deserved it! - a nerdy subscriber who have been following you and your brother because of science & history and was totally blind to romance and contemporary books before TFiOS happened.
The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond, who is an Indian writer who wrote this book when he was 17. It was published in 1956 .He won the John Llewellyn Rhys memorial prize for it. Amazing Book!
"Shades of Grey" by Jasper Fforde explores a world that is literally ruled by colour. It's hard to explain, but basically your social status is determined by how well you can see colour and which shades you can see.
Having never read the Giver, I couldn't tell you. It is one of my favourite books though, so if it sounds like something you'd like, i heartily recommend it.
Okay, here are three book recommendations, all written by me. "Who Framed Boris Karloff?" a murder mystery that takes place on the set of "Son of Frankenstein." Then there's the sequel, "Bela Lugosi and the House of Doom," a spy thriller that takes place during the making of "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein," and my third novel, "The Vampire's Tomb Mystery," a thriller that takes place during Lugosi's funeral and concerns the disappearance of Edward D. Wood, Jr. All are thoroughly researched, and the actors get together and solve the mysteries. "Vampire's Tomb" is also available on Audible.
Vlogbrothers.. As a nerdfighter that is currently fighting for his country.. Venezuela, I ask you kindly if you could make a video about the situation that my country is currently into.. Which is another fight againts corruption that the entire world needs to know about and due to the media blackout that our government is currently sponsoring little is really getting out about this situation. Please, your channel move and informs a lot of people and right now is one of those times where just a single video can spark a lot of reactions and awareness through the all internet. Now is the time to help all those people in Venezuela by just informing a little bit about the topic in question. If you need info about this madness, protest, riots, corruption etc.. That is happening in my country please contact me and for all the nerdfighters out there.. Please help by spreading this info, reading a little bit about the crisis my dear country is enduring and I kindly ask a thumbs up to this comment so John and Hank can see it and well.. Decide if they want to vlog something about it. Thank you very much John, Hank and the nerdfighter community Sergio Tassoni
(Please excuse any grammar mistakes, John :)) So here's my idea for Dave Green: When talking about something and using a person as an example (like if you were talking about the economy and you were saying "person 1 buys...") use Dave Green instead of just a random person. So instead of saying person 1 does... Say Dave Green does... . What you guys think? DFTBA
The Mixed of Files of Basil E. Frankweiler. It's the only book I've re-read more than five times, it got the Newberry medal, so I don't know how popular it was, but it's great. Another one is Codename: Verity by Elizabeth Wein. My copy is tear-stained and the pages are wrinkled from the multiple occasions where I threw it across the room because I hated the antagonists so much. Great for history buffs or anyone.
Scythe by Neal Shusterman Thunderhead by Nesl Shusterman Unwind by Neal Shusterman and the trilogies after Gone trilogy by Micheal Grant The shining by Stephen King The dark towers by Stephen King Christine by Stephen King
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Both historical fiction and science fiction, it examines how the past influences the future. It is awesome, and Alan Turing, the father of a modern computing, is a character in it. Really everything by Neal Stephenson. Also the Baroque Cycle, in particular, which is sort of a prequel to this book.
Ha..if i could id get the entire paragraph that talks about how he went from a hundred mph to asleep in a nanosecond and about how Pudge went back to to his bunk and thought if people were rain i was a drizzle and i was a hurricane tattooed...maybe not tattooed but somewhere where id always be able to see it. like just that entire paragraph is like my favorite part of the book. Which would be cool...but its a long paragraph so
I recommend the book Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. It's about a man who loses his limbs, sight, speech, and hearing but is still alive in a ww1 hospital.
I'm late to the party, but the graphic novel series "Monster" is an extraordinary thriller, and toys with ideas around mental illness vs culpability, justice vs revenge, but most importantly, indoctrination in children and at what point young children taught cruel tenants of thinking evolve into entities accountable for their actions.
For youth: Abhorsen by Garth Nix International: Al filo del agua (At the Edge of the Storm) by Agustin Yañez Masterful writing: Richard trilogy by Paul Horgan
the fact that he recommended 18 books and gave an intro to them in under 4 minutes. all the other booktubers can't relate this could have been 20 minutes
I tried to review every jhon green boook in one minute each.!! On my channel. Lol
More like an hour.
I would have much preferred more time spent on each book though
20min it should have been. Or I’m just not a speed listener.
Hes great BUT I find that he speaks to fast so I have to relisten to him
I wish more people would adapt this pace when going through a list of books.
It drives me nuts when people take five minutes per book. I usually start to forward to the next book mentioned.
Same! I just want the title and maybe a sentence about it. I can look the rest up on my own if I'm interested. 😊
And they take 5 minutes to start
Adjust the playback speed.
Noted.
Agreed. If you want someone to read something, you should say one or two really interesting things about it to get them hooked. They don’t need an entire synopsis. :-)
In which John shares 18 of his favorite books that aren't wildly popular bestsellers.
18 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read
"The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth"
"The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan"
Hate List by Jennifer Brown is amazing, it's about a fictional school shooting and the girl whose boyfriend was the shooter. I was really moved by it, and also very startled to find almost no reviews on the back.
I'd recommend Ronia the robber's daughter by Astrid Lindgren. I've read it in Dutch several times and it has always stuck with me. It's an adventure in a wild world, but it has a lot more going on than that. It's the book that for me sparked my love of nature so I'd definitely recommend it!
I am rather fond of Machine of Death and its sequel, This Is How You Die. They are collections of short stories from internet writers with the prompt of there being a machine that will, with a blood sample, tell you in a few words how you will die. It will not give specifics, and deaths are rarely straight forward, cancer could be a tumor, but could also be shot by someone of a specific zodiac. The stories are wonderfully creative over a huge verity of subjects, and are also amazing because of the collaboration that it took to make the books a reality - the prompt came from a webcomic, was written for by hundreds of people, no publisher would touch it so it had to self publish and through word of mouth became #1 on Amazon and can be downloaded as a free PDF. I would highly recommend it to anyone.
Please read Alamut by Vladimir Bartol. Its an amazing book about humans, human actions and perceptions of power. :)
I actually love it that he doesn't waste time on saying too much about books
I have never read any of your books, nor have I seen any of your videos or social media or had/watched anything to do with you. I clicked on this because it was in my recommended and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and why everyone seems to adore you. I understand now.
👌🤘
You have no idea what you have just entered.
(silently smiling with satisfaction)
I don't. Seems like a bad format for this type of content. Barely any time to pitch the numerous books, and only a superficial description of them is given, if any at all.
This video would have benefited TREMENDOUSLY from another 20 minutes dedicated to actually making us want to read any of these. You know, by explaining in some detail why it is a good story? Not just say "I don't know why people don't read this!".
Well, I can think of one reason....
@@thetruth45678 well said mate
Congratulations on #1 and thanks for sharing these. Will have to get around to reading them
Sure Nat, you just want to try on his glasses and read Hornblower
says the girl who after all those years, still hasn't done a video on making lamingtons...
Woah you leave on people RUclips videos cooooool 😎🤘🤯🤩
Can you talk a little bit faster please?
hes talking way too fast uh
+Jan Martin Ulvåg Its soo much worse in crash course.
Emma Milliken potayto/ potarto, John/ Hank, what's the difference really? XP
I was reading the second page of "The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green" and did not understand the part saying "ice-sculpted G." What is G? :
Jessica Van an ice sculpture of the letter g probably
It seems like I’m one of the few who DOESN’T think he’s speaking too fast.
Maybe this is it... But everybody doesn't speak English and doesn't have mother toung also that's why they can say he speaks fast ... And according to me he speaks just like normal... Because he is native speaker...
Yup.
I actually play on 1.25 speed
I watched this on double speed😂 I actually recommend watching/listening to information-y talky things sped up, you get used to it and once you do it's SO much more effecient.
@@eoghan.5003 I do the exact same thing 😁
I am Vietnamese and I think my English is good
But after watching what he said,I am shocked and I think I need to study more
I understand nothing
Beauty style, your English is better than most people that of everyone I go to school with! John talks really fast and I couldn't keep up with many of the first videos I watched. All the best learning English (bilinguals/ polyglots are the coolest) 😊
Beauty style. ill teach you
Play it back at half speed or so, he just speaks fast. My tip for listening to fast foreign speakers is to try to listen to chunks of words or a sentence or more at once. I find that when I'm trying to translate each word as it's said it's overwhelming.
Angela Denika he does talk fast so I don't blame you as a non native English speaker
Please don't be discouraged. This man speaks very quickly and succinctly. As a teacher, I never suggest the crash courses unless you already understand the topic. Then it is a great LISTENTING exercise.
You've probably never heard of her, but Octavia E. Butler was the ONLY African-American woman author of Science Fiction and her novel The Parable Of The Sower is one of the finest things you've never read. It imagines a not too distant future where the problems of today have continued to their most extreme end. A great look at where we are headed if we don't address issues such as homelessness, gangs, drug abuse, eduction and even funding for space travel.
Thank you. This sounds exactly like the kind of book I'd want to read. I'm going to get it at as soon as possible!
I agree with you 100% (and so does John, btw, he reviewed the book in another RUclips upload)
Great Book series, especially in 2020.
Gosh, some parts of that book are absolutely gut wrenching. I remember reading it freshman year of high school and it definitely left a mark all these years later as I’ve already graduated college at this point. It’s story is incredibly relevant today and I only wish more Americans had read it back then. Maybe, just maybe, it would’ve helped quell the hateful seeds in some hearts that are flourishing today. Hopefully there is Hope.
All of OB's books are outstanding.
May I get my TOEFL diploma right now because I've understood everything clearly
x2
As a TOEFL Test Administrator, I’d pass you. Although I also have no control over grading, only making sure you’re not wearing a hat 🎩
You are awesome.....
1. Great Expectations, Dickens
2. The Stand, S. King
Both authors really get you inside the characters - the way they feel, think, feminine personalities, masculine personalities, etc.
Wow, that's a lot of information in under 4 minutes...
He is very efficient indeed.
miss Bibliophile I hate it it's so annoying how fast he talks
This is why I keep pen and paper handy when watching...
it’s all those crash course videos he’s done finally getting to him
Not really very informative, though. Just a machine gun of suggestions with little to warrant them being suggested. He should have had some respect for these works and gave them a proper review, or at least a pitch that's more than a 3 second sound byte that amounts to "I liked it.".
The Knife of Never Letting Go. Holy lord! Most beautifully, creatively written book I've ever read. Almost lyrical in its purposeful imperfection
YES
Patrick ness?
I LOVEE THIS BOOK!!!
YES.
YES YES YES YES YES... my favourite trilogy
John, for years...YEARS..., up until just a year or two ago, I taught my English Composition courses with Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others! I did this ever since my second Masters from Bread Loaf School of English (Middlebury College, here in Vermont). As a result of feeling a sort of vindication by watching your post this, here, I may require it all over again! Thank you so much. I am just not sure how my military cadet students will take it at my University. It managed to upset a couple of my military students when teaching this at the local Community College (though that was not my personal intention, at all). I think it it allowed me to realize that their anger was meant to help them fight with and release ideas behind the people they labeled as "the other" in current media images. It think this book was the right choice, and I may just go back to using it again. Brilliant!!!! Thank you!!
7 years late and I realized I have not even heard of any of those books. 😅👏🏼
I was about to comment the same thing because same and also how
and then I saw your comment
(also how does john look so young)
Me too!
Facts
@@georgiaho the vid is from 7 years ago...unless you already knew that. In which case, yes he does look very young
It's a bit ironic, in my opinion his least publicized books like Looking For Alaska was better than The Fault In Our Stars or Paper Towns.
I liked paper towns better than looking for Alaska. Maybe because I read it first.
+Victoria Whitlock I am your opposite! I think Looking For Alaska is so much better than Paper Towns.
In Sweden Looking For Alaska is named After Alaska, I think it's great but I love the Katherine theori!
+Maja I just written the names in Swedish sorry
Same
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is an amazing novel in the perspective of a boy who has autism trying to solve a mystery of his neighbor's dead dog, while also trying to deal with conflict in his own family. It's a wonderful book, and honestly one of my favorite. Everyone should definitely try it at one time or another.
Hello 8 year ago person, I was going to say this one as well.
That one became so much more popular in Europe than America, which was odd. They adapted it into a play in England and it won a ton of awards. Wish it would tour around more.
You are the definition of a cultured and intelligent man who is also incredibly humble. Good job.
Catch me here from 2020 while the world is burning and John now runs life’s libraries
Yessss‼️‼️
I just joined Life's Library...a perfect antidote to 2020 (and now 2021)
i would recommend Warm Bodies, most people i know didn't even know it was a book before it was a movie, the main focus of it is exploring grief and how humans react to it and how that sometimes when we go through so much pain we forget how feel and become almost like zombies (it uses that ironically as the story is set during a zombie apocalypse)
Buying one of these books on Amazon.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought... the rest of the books from this video.
"They're gonna know about your lisp-"
"No they already know about your lisp-"
"No, no. Just... MOVING ON"
The lisp is endless.
The fact that you put this all into 3 minutes makes me want to subscribe.
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight. It's the story of a mother who learns her daughter commits suicide but gets a text reading "she didn't jump" and the mother's journey trying to reconstruct her daughters past. It is by far the most amazing book I've ever read.
East Of Eden from 1952 by John Steinbeck. It's an amazing piece of art
Isabelle Gustafsson
that book seriously changed my life
Kegyetleneper mine too.
@@MALELUMALULA Mine three. One of the best books ever.
What did one librarian say to another librarian?
*Read more*
I got you !!!😂😂😂
that was really good. I kept trying to click it and it didn't work
ok I wash pushing the button blaming my computer thank you xd
Damn I fell for it!
May I bestow upon you the "most creative comment ever" award?
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00:00 📚 Introducing 18 lesser-known books loved by the speaker.
00:28 📖 "One of Us" by Alice Domurat Dreger explores power dynamics and disability.
00:56 😂 "Round Ireland with a Fridge" by Tony Hawks, an amusing hitchhiking adventure.
01:23 📚 "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing" author's vampire novel "Thirsty."
01:52 💡 "The Golden Rule" by Ilene Cooper aids empathy development in children.
02:20 📷 "Regarding the Pain of Others" by Susan Sontag delves into pain in art.
02:50 📚 "This Blinding Absence of Light" by Tahar Ben Jelloun, a novel about political prisoners.
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The 100 year old man that climbed out of the window and disappeared - I beat your best title, written by a Swede (name unable to remember) about, you guessed it, a 100 year old that climbs out of a window and disappears. Funniest book I ever read, also great story and very historically informative concerning the 20th century.
Yup, one of the best novels I've read in my entire life!
I very strongly suggest Flowers For Algernon. It's very sad, but I think you would really enjoy it! Can any if you tell me if you have read it?
I read it in my lit class in highschool, is it bad that I just wanna own all the books i have ever read? Well, the ones that I liked?
Mabel Lara I feel exactly the same it's like why can't all the crappy ones just not be in my book shelf but then I just want every book book that I've read and loved To be in there.
It like "book can i just look at you and hold you sometimes and read you every once in a while??"
Mabel Lara EXACTLY! I'm sorry I'm excited because nobody else that I know is not a product of internet understands that.
*that is not
These are some good books:
1.) Project 17
2.)Beautiful Creatures series
3.) A Mango Shaped Space
4.) Ready Player One
5.)Eye of minds
6.) The Immortals series
7.) Life as we knew it
8.)Maximum Ride series
9.) Out of the Dust
10.) that Rama series or book or whatever it is.
11.) Death Be Not Proud
12.) Artemis Fowl series
13.) A Wrinkle in Time
14.) City of Ember series
15.) Hate that Dog and Love that Cat (or maybe it's the other way around)
a mango shaped space. yass
oooh a mango shaped space is a really lovely book yes yes
maddlybezerk yes I know right! this is the first time i'm hearing others have read it as well c:
omg in 5th grade i read the city of ember series and was obbsessed with it
I read city of ember in grade 5 too
I read Death Comes for the Archbishop. It's been sitting on my shelf for years after watching this video. Thank you. It was such a wonderful reading experience.
Started reading TFiOS today...so far my favorite book of yours!
I recommend Room By Emma Donoghue, which is a novel told completely and accurately from the point of view of five year old Jack. Jack has only ever known Room, it's where he was born and where he eats, plays and learns with his Ma. Room really is about the unconditional and unconquerable love in completely horrific circumstances and the strength of the bond between a mother and her child. After reading this book for one of my university classes, Room moved me in a way that I didn't think that a book could. After reading Room, you'll never forget it!
That book blew my mind
Love Room! Although it is disturbing at times. Bonus: Emma Donoghue is Canadian!!
The Curious Case of the Dog in the Nighttime is a book about an autistic teenager trying to solve a mystery which turns into a lifelong change for him. It's very good.
"Death Comes for the Archbishop" was certainly a bestseller in its day. "The Enormous Room" might have been. Both were featured in the Modern Library and were widely read at least through the 1960s. In addition to these, I've also read "The Optimist's Daughter," which enjoyed a vogue of its own through the 1980s.
My exact thought about “Death Comes For The Archbishop”. We actually DID have to read it in high school! 😅
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
HELL YEAH!
Yaasss
YEs I love that book!!!
Bro I love that book
OMG YES
Absolutely love it when Hank and John recommend books. Can we make this a regular thing? haha :]
If it was a monthly thing, I would totally be ok with that.... I love hearing what books authors love & recommend :)
I recently read a book called The Fault of our Stars, and I think John would love it.
God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, you'll love it
I absolutely love this book.
Best book reading experience so far.
Love is not the word I would use but I appreciate the theme of the book challenging the indian cultural status quo like the caste system in a country that's plagued with dogmatic religious/cultural robots
@@lyankhaute7217 I mean is the book problematic in the sense that again it's a upper middle class savarna person's point of view of caste being shone and we hardly get to hear from the Dalit characters at all? Yes. Has Arundhati Roy become increasingly problematic in recent years? Also yes. Despite all of that though, the language of the book is one of the best I've seen in a long long time. It's beautiful storytelling, if not anything else
I bawled like a sissy and developed eye infection after reading that book.
@@kashishgidwani7121 You would just be credible if you admit you already had a brain infection
You should all read 'Between Shades of Gray' It's a first person novel about a teenage girl who is taken by the invading USSR to a forced labour camp... I nearly cried.
+Tobi Toes Cheers to a great recommendation!
But a note to those who don't read closely: The above is NOT to be confused with "Fifty Shades of Gray", certainly!
+Tobi Toes You may like "The Bitter Side of Sweet" it changed my life
Peabut21 P I won't spoil it for the others but honestly the ending of that book got me so emotional, such a great book
Maria Likes Books Will add it to the list!
Also 'A Dream Of Lights' is a similar story line set in the concentration camps of modern-day North Korea. It's unbelievable: read it!
Wait...that youtube history course guy is the guy that wrote fault in our stars.....mind=blown
+Luke Hopton I would ask how you didn't figure that out, but that'd require me to have not been in the same situation several months ago.
+Luke Hopton this guy went to my high school back in 08. Read Looking For Alaska before meeting him, was pretty cool
+Luke Hopton had the exact same realization and reaction just days ago!!!
Same, this was my reaction 0-0 wat
I recommend the Mortal Engines series, its like Charles Dickens meets Star Wars. Great opening line: “It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea." One of my favourite book series, ya might like it :)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the secrets of the universe is one of the most amazing books I've ever read. It is a Y/A self-discovery book. Totally recommended!!!!!
Edit: The sequel is coming in Oct 2021 it is called Aristotle and Dante dive into the waters of the deep.
It isn't enough that you give me Crash Course homework, now you also give me Vlogbrothers homework. I know it's reading week, but I'm not in school anymore and there's only so much I can do.
13 Reasons Why is an amazing book
One of the best I have ever read, and one of my personal favorites!!!!!!! Which is surprising because most of my favorite books are not realistic fiction, but fantasy...
OMG YES
Yes. Just yes.
***** It's a book about a girl who committed suicide and she made these tapes explaining 13 reasons why she did it and sent them to the people who are the reasons and this kid named Clay thought they were friends and so he listens to all the tapes to try to find out why he's a reason and it also tell you all the other reasons.
I met Jay Asher who wrote the book and he is a great guy and funny too.
I would definitely recommend It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini, it is this incredible book about about a boy who is on a mental ward with depression but the story itself isn't at all depressing. I don't know any 'sophisticated' adult literature (I'm 13) but I would recommend also reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, if you haven't already. I'm currently reading Catcher In The Rye which is surprisingly amazing but I know you have already read that!
I am glad to see Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop" on the recommended list! Each reading reveals a new immersion in a magical setting. Great writing is at once mysterious and accessible, a gift for the reader.
I would recommend thousand splendid suns by Khalid Husain , catcher in the rye by JD Salinger and if I stay by gayle forman
+Srujana Srinivasan I loved If I Stay and Where She Went
+Srujana Srinivasan i LOVED a thousand splendid suns
I actually just read A Thousand Splendid Suns for my Easter Studies class. (It's like English class but with Eastern books instead of Shakespeare it's amazing!) and I had to make an effort not to cry in class several times...also I think about 5 people through their books across the room XD
+Srujana Srinivasan I thought the Catcher in the Rye was awful
Do read the kite runner if you loved Khalid Hussainis books :)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is incredible and so philosophical. I adore it so much!
yes!!! the way it was written was so... enchanting
Stefanie Callista AWESOME book and decent film.
By Milan Kundera :)
This is one of my all time favorites. Absolutely beautiful. But even better is The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
Have you read the Night Circus? It follows two magicians Celia and Marco who have been bound into a competition since they were infants. The battleground is Le Cirque des Reves (The Circus of Dreams) and the book is not only written from the perspectives of the magicians, but from their masters and members of the circus. The story spans from the oath binding the two in 1873, through the genesis of the circus planned at Midnight Dinners to a young boy dared to enter the circus during the day, but not necessarily in that order. The Night Circus is a masterpiece woven together with descriptions that have you on your knees and characters that bring you back to your feet. it's hard to understand but one thing is for sure you will not breath until you reach the final sentence. I'm not sure how popular it is but it's amazing and mind-boggling and how many books can you find that work a non-linear plotline that's actually good. I finished it in two days and I'm a slow reader.
(Also realizing how long this is, sorry!)
2 books that should have been movies but aren't famous enough -
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
BONUS : Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyungsook.
THESE THREE BOOKS WILL MAKE Y'ALL CRY!!
0:01 And there goes his well combed hair...
One of my favourite book series is the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore in which a 12 year old orphan and his sister are recruited into a faction of the British Intelligence where all they're agents are children aged between 10 and 18. Only the first four books were published in the USA but the entire series of 15 (soon to be 16) can be shipped from either Europe or Canada. The first book is called "The Recruit" and I highly recommend it to not only you, John, but also to every Nerdfighter watching this video. The CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore, check it out!
I love that series too. Great concept AND great writing.
I've been waiting for this video for a long time, you should make it a daily thing ;) I already have 130 books on my Amazon wishlist, a few more can't hurt :D
"This Coffin Had No Handles" - is the greatest novel about a strike ever written. By Thom MacGrath.
1984, most haven't actually read it.
I prefer Orwell's THE ANIMAL FARM.
@@Blaqjaqshellaq I prefer Crichton's Timeline.
They seriously need to Now.
Y E S
I tried reading it and stopped. Like another person here, I really liked Animal Farm.
'Alanna: The First Adventure' By Tamora Pierce.
She is one of my favorite authors, and dramatically under celebrated.
Orson Scott Card, every book I read by him is amazing, and mind blowing. He writes science fiction books for those of you who were curious. He also wrote the Famous Ender's Game serious.
Wythran Aldurald True, but whats the harm in mentioning him. Maybe someone will dive into a world of new experience because of what I posted.
The Scar by China Mieville is just wonderful. A huge, oceanic tale set in a world unlike ours but also like it. The imagination behind this story is utterly fantastic.
I was hoping to know at least 1 book, but I knew none.
I guess that's really a good thing though...
This comment is way way way late. " A Child Called it." by Dave Pelzer. The story of a child being raised in an incredibly abusive environment ( home). It was recommended reading when my wife and I became foster parents in Indianapolis. It was partially responsible for inspiring my wife and I to foster 15 children over 5 years. We adopted one and when another aged out of the childcare system he came back from Georgia where he had ended up and lived with us for two and half years. Now our adopted son and he are brothers from other mothers.Living as young twenty somethings in Indy. Perhaps the best thing I've ever done as an adult all started with that book.
Timothy Bewley I read the series when I was 13 and have reread it several times. It is a life changing book in my opinion. Especially when you get to a man name dave.
"gossamer" by Lois Lowry is a beautiful little novel about three troubled people and the tiny fairies that give them their dreams at night. it's almost like an extended metaphor for healing and protection.
Amen!!! I love a Booktuber that gets to the point! So many people ramble & ramble but finally I found a booktuber that says what he means & talks in a timely fashion!! Thank you!!
I love Stolen by Lucy Christopher. It's about a 16 year old girl, Gemma, who gets kidnapped by a slightly older guy called Ty. He takes her to the middle of nowhere so she's cut off from.. everything really. As a reader, you're kind of cut off too, cause you only know what's happening to Ty and Gemma, and you don't know anything about Gemma's life before she's kidnapped, except the things she tells Ty. The novel takes the form of a long letter from Gemma to Ty, and reading it is such a strange experience. It's one of my favourite books and I only know like one other person who's read it.
I remember reading that book around the same time I discovered John Green's books and I didn't at all expect to connect with it as much as I did.
Wut about the falt in are stars I herd that's a good book
Shut the fuck up crockpot
Bruce Wayne Jeez.
Bruce Wayne dude he wrote that book
***** ... Ha ha ha
hey john, I heard now you're worth more than 15 million bucks because of your books! congrats, you deserved it!
- a nerdy subscriber who have been following you and your brother because of science & history and was totally blind to romance and contemporary books before TFiOS happened.
The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond, who is an Indian writer who wrote this book when he was 17. It was published in 1956 .He won the John Llewellyn Rhys memorial prize for it. Amazing Book!
Yay!
+ replying to my own comment, just because I love
that book
you should review the book "Steel Heart" by Brandon Sanderson
Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
OMG yeah how did I even forget this!
"Shades of Grey" by Jasper Fforde explores a world that is literally ruled by colour. It's hard to explain, but basically your social status is determined by how well you can see colour and which shades you can see.
Reminds me of The Giver. Is it just as good?
Having never read the Giver, I couldn't tell you. It is one of my favourite books though, so if it sounds like something you'd like, i heartily recommend it.
Luke Johnson You should read The Giver. It's pretty short; I've read it 3 or 4 times, starting in 5th grade.
I've been kept in the dark about this.
Okay, here are three book recommendations, all written by me. "Who Framed Boris Karloff?" a murder mystery that takes place on the set of "Son of Frankenstein." Then there's the sequel, "Bela Lugosi and the House of Doom," a spy thriller that takes place during the making of "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein," and my third novel, "The Vampire's Tomb Mystery," a thriller that takes place during Lugosi's funeral and concerns the disappearance of Edward D. Wood, Jr. All are thoroughly researched, and the actors get together and solve the mysteries. "Vampire's Tomb" is also available on Audible.
Vlogbrothers.. As a nerdfighter that is currently fighting for his country.. Venezuela, I ask you kindly if you could make a video about the situation that my country is currently into.. Which is another fight againts corruption that the entire world needs to know about and due to the media blackout that our government is currently sponsoring little is really getting out about this situation. Please, your channel move and informs a lot of people and right now is one of those times where just a single video can spark a lot of reactions and awareness through the all internet. Now is the time to help all those people in Venezuela by just informing a little bit about the topic in question.
If you need info about this madness, protest, riots, corruption etc.. That is happening in my country please contact me and for all the nerdfighters out there.. Please help by spreading this info, reading a little bit about the crisis my dear country is enduring and I kindly ask a thumbs up to this comment so John and Hank can see it and well.. Decide if they want to vlog something about it.
Thank you very much John, Hank and the nerdfighter community
Sergio Tassoni
(Please excuse any grammar mistakes, John :)) So here's my idea for Dave Green: When talking about something and using a person as an example (like if you were talking about the economy and you were saying "person 1 buys...") use Dave Green instead of just a random person. So instead of saying person 1 does... Say Dave Green does... . What you guys think? DFTBA
you get my 2 thumbs (up)
samramdebest thanks!
The Mixed of Files of Basil E. Frankweiler. It's the only book I've re-read more than five times, it got the Newberry medal, so I don't know how popular it was, but it's great.
Another one is Codename: Verity by Elizabeth Wein. My copy is tear-stained and the pages are wrinkled from the multiple occasions where I threw it across the room because I hated the antagonists so much. Great for history buffs or anyone.
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Thunderhead by Nesl Shusterman
Unwind by Neal Shusterman and the trilogies after
Gone trilogy by Micheal Grant
The shining by Stephen King
The dark towers by Stephen King
Christine by Stephen King
Stargirl. Trust me, Stargirl.
SUCH an incredible book.
I know right! Happy to find Nerdfighters that like it as well :D
Ella C Yessss
you're welcome! happy rereading :)
Christina Tomasik I'M GOING TO READ IT (although I spoiled myself a lot :( BUT STILL) THANKS FOR A GOOD BOOK :DDDDD
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Both historical fiction and science fiction, it examines how the past influences the future. It is awesome, and Alan Turing, the father of a modern computing, is a character in it.
Really everything by Neal Stephenson. Also the Baroque Cycle, in particular, which is sort of a prequel to this book.
Have to agree. I reread it a year or two ago and loved it just as much or more.
Everyone no matter what should read Looking For Alaska. I couldn't think very well after I finished it. It's amazing!
looking for alaska is AWESOME!!
also read Papertowns
I have. It wasn't as good though
Oh god i cant even stress how much i agree with this comment. Looking For Alaska is my favorite John Green book that ive read so far.
I want to get a tattoo of a white daisy but I'm a dude and that's not very manly
Ha..if i could id get the entire paragraph that talks about how he went from a hundred mph to asleep in a nanosecond and about how Pudge went back to to his bunk and thought if people were rain i was a drizzle and i was a hurricane tattooed...maybe not tattooed but somewhere where id always be able to see it. like just that entire paragraph is like my favorite part of the book. Which would be cool...but its a long paragraph so
"In the Land of White Death," by Valerian Albanov. It's my favorite non-fiction work and virtually no one I know has read it.
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. It's a graphic novel memoir about a girl living in Iran during the Islamic Revolution
Eleanor and Park is one of my favorite books ever
WAIIIT!!!
AREN'T YOU FROM THAT ONE CHANNEL ON RUclips THAT TEACHES KIDS STUFF
if you mean react: NO
but if you mean crash course then PROBABLY
And if you mean Mental Floss then HELL YEAH
+ElectricMinecraft Crash Course? Yeah. This is his first channel
YES HES THAT GUY
an abundance of katherine’s is probably my FAVORITE john green book and it feels like no one’s ever read it
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, a Will Grayson, Will Grayson like book
At first I thought you were recommending Will Grayson, Will Grayson and I was like "HE WROTE THAT YOU IDIOT"
I love Aristotle and Dante
It's one of those books that'll stay with me forever and I will never forget.
ImmaJoeBob I've finished the book about three days ago and YES the book touched me a lot
I recommend the book Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. It's about a man who loses his limbs, sight, speech, and hearing but is still alive in a ww1 hospital.
OMG--I read that book in junior high and it's haunted me ever since, but I could never remember the title. Thank you!!
Why is it important?
DW42536387384 Johnny Got His Gun shows the horrors of war. It's also the book/movie behind the Metallica song "One."
World War I must be really horrific but we never know what did happen at the time.
DW42536387384 We know practically everything about World War I...it's one of the most documented wars in history...and the book was written in 1938.
I'm late to the party, but the graphic novel series "Monster" is an extraordinary thriller, and toys with ideas around mental illness vs culpability, justice vs revenge, but most importantly, indoctrination in children and at what point young children taught cruel tenants of thinking evolve into entities accountable for their actions.
Author please? I tried to find this, but only discovered a LOT of graphic novels called "Monster."
+amiablehacker Naoki Urasawa is the author/artist
+vprince1173 Does it involve a neurosurgeon called Tenma?
((Yeah, I've watched the anime.))
That's the one!
I'm Moldovan and hugely proud you mentioned the book Playing the Moldovans at tennis!!!! yey!!!
The Shadow of the Wind is by far my favorite and it was the book that got me into reading. I highly recommend it!
Abby Edwards Me too! Mindblowingly good!
The best book ever
I highly recommend The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier. Which is also largely about the pain and suffering of others.
I could spend all DAY looking at the comments and googling book titles. And well guess what, that's exactly what i did.
Lol the first thing i thought when i saw the thumbnail was: "Holy sh*t it's james potter. YoU'Re AliVe!" Then i was like "oh..."
Ohhh!! So true! I can’t believe it took me like 6 years to realize 😂😂
Lol, and his Brother is Sirius, seeing as they looked similar, but with black hair.
Graceling, Fire, and Bitterblue are all fantastic books that are rather deep. I suggest reading them DO IT NAO
This blinding absence of light REALLY is an amazing book, which still doesn‘t get the attention it deserves!
Glad you mentioned it!
Been a few minutes since I finished reading it and am never feeling like talking again.
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. you'd probably like him.
I love that you talk fast cause I get super anxious some times with people talking slow
John. Read "Thinking Fast and Slow" at once if convenient. If inconvenient read all the same.
By Daniel Kahneman.
I see what you did there hehe Sherlock reference
Yes, it's great! But I'd suggest reading predictably irrational first.
The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Through A Window and Disappeeared
and Dddger by Terry Pratchett - one of his last novels and still great
Name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Dude yes. Every yes I have
I wish i could like this a million times
that book is great if you love mary sues
aLOOF gOALS What do you mean?
***** the main character is a mary sue. need i say more?
For youth: Abhorsen by Garth Nix
International: Al filo del agua (At the Edge of the Storm) by Agustin Yañez
Masterful writing: Richard trilogy by Paul Horgan