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I love it, people shoving the Times list to the curve and saying, no, no, here's MY list bitch! That's a good thing in a way, making up your own damn mind as the Oracle would say to Morpheus and the gang Mckenzie letting us know she can't resist that hot cup of chocolate ☕: Baldwin, Morrison, Adichie, Jones. Lord! 💓🧡 Haha Mary Oliver is a very interesting choice, since she's known for her poetry. Nice video!
Love your list! I just started Never Let Me Go (about 50 pages in and loving it...and trying to emotionally prepare for it ruining me), and plan on reading some of the others you mentioned. Here's my list (in no particular order): Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel Circe - Madeline Miller The Housekeeper & the Professor - Yoko Ogawa The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan The English Understand Wool - Helen DeWitt All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr Just Kids - Patti Smith
@@danasaffran216 oh my gosh I hope you continue to love it!!! Your list sounds so great! So many I haven’t read yet tho 🙈 I need to get to the Amaing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay! It sounds so good
I have had Mary Oliver’s Upstream on my coffee table all year. I really want to read it but I just haven’t been in that headspace yet. But now (after hearing you talk about it) I’m going to make it a priority! After I finish Breakfast at Tiffany’s 😊
Nice list. I have to put nonfiction in mine. The Cromwell trilogy by Hilary Mantel Ernest Hemingway: A Biography by Mary Dearborn The Force by Don Winslow Cultural Amnesia by Clive James Wellness by Nathan Hill From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter by Seamus McGraw The Ruins by Scott Smith Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
@@leopercara3477 wow I haven’t read any of the books on your list yet! Thank you so much for sharing all of these new recommendations!!! I have heard AMAZING things about the Cromwell trilogy⭐️
I have yet to come across anyone who read it and did not enjoy it. I was never going to read it, but the astounding reviews I have received from everyone who has read it made me put it on my TBR. I'm going to read it after I read David Copperfield.
Eh, 21st Century literature, I really don't like it. It's a bit of a turn towards anxious writing and more or less childish antics followed by infantile themes. I don't trust these writers' intentions - but maybe I'm just paranoid, haha, or far too critical for my own good. Or maybe my idealism doesn't translate well into an overwrought and tired world and literary tradition. Haha. Or maybe I'm just a prude....
@@scoutdarpy4465 haha I know ur not a modern lit lover lol that is TOTALLY valid. I do entirely see where you are coming from. I feel like books from each genre or time period scratches a different part of my brain, not sure. Hope you are doing well Jacob!
@@mckenziekate I am doing well! It's nice to have someone use my name for once. I'm never addressed by my name, and so I forget I even have one. Thank you, Mckenzie.
So glad to see The Marriage Plot on your list! That book changed my life in a way too, and tuned me into the works of Barthes. ❤
@@Sarah_Jean86 I’ve never heard anyone else mention it so it’s so wonderful to hear that you loved it as well!
The Colony was incredible, I saw it blurred in the thumbnail and got so excited. Excellent taste :)
I love it, people shoving the Times list to the curve and saying, no, no, here's MY list bitch! That's a good thing in a way, making up your own damn mind as the Oracle would say to Morpheus and the gang Mckenzie letting us know she can't resist that hot cup of chocolate ☕: Baldwin, Morrison, Adichie, Jones. Lord! 💓🧡 Haha
Mary Oliver is a very interesting choice, since she's known for her poetry. Nice video!
@@joelharris4399 haha yes! I am so interested to hear everyone’s individual list!
And I couldn’t not put her on the list!
@@mckenziekate Glad to hear that!
Love your list! I just started Never Let Me Go (about 50 pages in and loving it...and trying to emotionally prepare for it ruining me), and plan on reading some of the others you mentioned. Here's my list (in no particular order):
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Circe - Madeline Miller
The Housekeeper & the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz
A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
The English Understand Wool - Helen DeWitt
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Just Kids - Patti Smith
@@danasaffran216 oh my gosh I hope you continue to love it!!!
Your list sounds so great! So many I haven’t read yet tho 🙈
I need to get to the Amaing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay! It sounds so good
@@mckenziekate I have a feeling you would love that one!
I have had Mary Oliver’s Upstream on my coffee table all year. I really want to read it but I just haven’t been in that headspace yet. But now (after hearing you talk about it) I’m going to make it a priority! After I finish Breakfast at Tiffany’s 😊
@@jamgart6880 I hope you love it as much as I did!
You need to put Dr Michael Heiser’s book “Unseen Realm” on the list.
@@mark8337 I’ll have to look into that book! Thanks for the recommendation
Nice list. I have to put nonfiction in mine.
The Cromwell trilogy by Hilary Mantel
Ernest Hemingway: A Biography by Mary Dearborn
The Force by Don Winslow
Cultural Amnesia by Clive James
Wellness by Nathan Hill
From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter by Seamus McGraw
The Ruins by Scott Smith
Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
@@leopercara3477 wow I haven’t read any of the books on your list yet! Thank you so much for sharing all of these new recommendations!!!
I have heard AMAZING things about the Cromwell trilogy⭐️
Great list!
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I have yet to come across anyone who read it and did not enjoy it. I was never going to read it, but the astounding reviews I have received from everyone who has read it made me put it on my TBR. I'm going to read it after I read David Copperfield.
Yes yes yes! Please share your thoughts once you finish it!!
Eh, 21st Century literature, I really don't like it. It's a bit of a turn towards anxious writing and more or less childish antics followed by infantile themes. I don't trust these writers' intentions - but maybe I'm just paranoid, haha, or far too critical for my own good. Or maybe my idealism doesn't translate well into an overwrought and tired world and literary tradition. Haha. Or maybe I'm just a prude....
My book club is mostly classic lit-I can relate.
@@Scottlp2 Thank goodness I'm not the only one, haha. I hope your bookclub goes well.
@@scoutdarpy4465 haha I know ur not a modern lit lover lol that is TOTALLY valid. I do entirely see where you are coming from. I feel like books from each genre or time period scratches a different part of my brain, not sure.
Hope you are doing well Jacob!
@@mckenziekate I am doing well! It's nice to have someone use my name for once. I'm never addressed by my name, and so I forget I even have one. Thank you, Mckenzie.