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Top Ten Favorite Books (as of 2022)!
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- In today's video I'll be sharing my current top 10 books of all time! Check out the links below to read my full thoughts on the books that I mentioned, that currently have written reviews:
A Little Life: www.alanaestelle.com/2021/09/... ; www.alanaestelle.com/2021/10/...
The Brothers Karamazov (Reviews for each Part and then Final Thoughts): Final Thoughts: www.alanaestelle.com/2021/03/...
Part 4: www.alanaestelle.com/2021/03/...
Part 3:www.alanaestelle.com/2021/03/...
Part 2: www.alanaestelle.com/2021/02/...
Part 1: www.alanaestelle.com/2021/02/...
The Secret History: www.alanaestelle.com/2021/02/... www.alanaestelle.com/2021/01/...
Stoner: www.alanaestelle.com/2021/01/... www.alanaestelle.com/2021/01/...
A Tale of Two Cities: www.alanaestelle.com/2020/03/...
Outlander: pCZXWYmhLS...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: pCCdy-E5HL...
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“A Tale of Two Cities” not only has a super memorable opening but it has one of the most heartbreaking endings in all literature.
I agree! The ending is superb and so sad at the same time but also so endearing. 😭
Hearing you articulate why you love these books is making me wistful, consider what would be my top 10, and get back to reading for fun again.
Thank you!! Yesss I hope you get back to reading for fun again soon!
Brilliant top 10. Love your rambling! I could watch you all day ☺️
Thank you so much! And I’m glad you enjoy the rambling 🤣
I love her rambling, too. I wish she did more of it. It's so funny.
Love the way you set up the video, "If I could only keep 10 books..." You and I share a few favorites: Jane Eyre, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Little Life. You're absolutely right, there's something special about Jane Eyre. You're selling me on Winston Graham. I just read Outlander for the first time this year. "Characters are just as strong as the plot!" YEEEEEEESS! I must read The Tale of Two Cities. Excellent video!
Hi Shelly and thank you!! Loooove Jane Eyre! My girl goes through haha. Omg please read Graham! He's such a treat and the #drama! Outlander is... there are no words 😂. Will you keep reading through the series? Yes, you must read Tale of Two Cities, just have a box of tissues close by!
Wonderful video!! I can't wait to get to more of these!
Thank you!! I hope you get to read some of them soon!
Interesting to compare the trial in TKAM with the trial in Brothers Karamazov. Those are the kind of connections I savor. Your list was beautiful. I might substitute Our Mutual Friend in place of Tale of Two Cities, but it would be a hard call. And I am probably the only one left who hasn't read Secret History! It's on my radar.
Yes! That comparison is really fascinating. The atmosphere was similar.
I haven’t read Mutual Friend yet 👀
Ooomph I read the Secret History only a couple of years ago. You’re not the only one left 😉
I loved what you shared about these books and especially, Tale of Two Cities! 🥰🔥
Thank you!! Love Tale of Two Cities. The end is so beautiful 🥰
I really enjoyed this! I loved the way you explained your thoughts about these books! I just recently read “Outlander” for the first time, and I’m still processing! 😂 I have “To Kill A Mockingbird” and “Jane Eyre” on my TBR for 2023.
Thank you for watching!! HAHA Outlander is a lot to process 🤣 oooh I hope you enjoy both of those! 🤩
btw the secret history is set in the 80‘s.
YESSSSSS! You’re right!!🤣 this was published in 1991 and Tartt takes a while to write her novels. She seems to be on the schedule of releasing one each decade. This means on a few years she owes us another one. 😅
Excellent list! Jane Eyre and The Secret History are also on my top 10. And possibly A Little Life. It's been a while, so I would have to reread it to say for sure.
Thank you and great minds think alike! 😁
Great picks! 🤩🔥
Thanks Joel! I’ll be curious to see how/if this list changes after this year.
A Tale of Two Cities lives in my mind rent-free lmfao love this
Oh same. Same 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am loving your RUclips content!
I really enjoyed the Poldark and Outlander tv series’ but haven’t read the books. This video inspires me to read them.
Jane Eyre is one of my faves too, but I slightly prefer Villette.
Thank you!! I think you would really enjoy the Poldark books! And I really want to read Villette. When I read it the first time I gave it a 4/5 but it’s stuck with me. I think on a reread it’ll definitely be a 5/5!!
Hey gorl if you want another translation og TBK look into Oxford! Avseys translation is really clear I think and I think captures Dostoevsky rlly well for the English reader
Jane Eyre, hands down my favorite book!! I have a few copies as well but I love that one you showed. Hmm..do I need another copy? Lol
Jane Eyre is the Best!!!! Ummm... I say you can never have to many Jane Eyres laying around haha.
I soooo need to reread Jane Eyre. ♥️Haha! “Thanks.”to your hair! 😂 Eeek. I need to reread To Kill A Mockingbird, too! I have it on a pile. 😫
Hahhaa!! Yes! Love Jane Eyre - I hope you get to reread it soon. And Mockingbird too! So good!
New to your channel! Came here from Literarily Smitten's most recent video. But I love hearing the way you talk about books. I need to pick up the Poldark series as soon as I get through the Outlander series (I'm on book 6).
Hi Gloria!! Thank you so much for subscribing!!I I really appreciate it! And her shout out made me day! ❤️ Omg Poldark is such a treat! I hope you get to read them soon. Ooooh Outlander 🤩 I’ve only gone up to book 3 in that series.
@@alanaestelle2076 She's the best, and this book community is the best. Love how we all support each other! I also watched through your Outlander review and LOVED it. You brought up things I had not thought about before. It's one of my fave books, but I haven't verbalized why in depth. So I was just nodding along and "YES!-ing" a lot, haha! Looking forward to getting to know you more and following along on your reading!
@@GloriaZThompson yes! I love the book community! Nicest people ever and it’s nice to know that other people are total nerds about books 🤣 Thank you!! Outlander is DEEEEP! I’m so convinced Gabaldon is a genius 🤣🙌🏼
I’ve only read two Russian titles! You’ve made me really want to read this!
I think you’ll really enjoy the conversations about religion that Dostoevsky poses here. He personally believed that when a society rejects faith, it crumbles. But he argues things from so many perspectives and it’s brilliant. Love Dostoyevsky! He’s my literary crush 🤣
Great list! I have a hard time with favorite lists because I'm so indecisive but my favorite author is Thomas Hardy, I'd have to put The Mayor of Casterbridge on there, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfeld Hall by Anne Bronte, Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and East Lynne by Ellen Wood. I have Stoner, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Brothers Karamazov all in line on my shelves as well. So many books, so little time ☺ I wasnt a fan of To Kill a Mockingbird when I read it, its definitely due a re read. I appreciate the message of the book, I don't know what it was that didn't really stick with me.
Same here!! i LOVE thomas hardy!! unfortunately he‘s soo underrated.
I need to read more Hardy! I’ve only read Tess and Madding Crowd, but I own several of him novels. Mockingbird hit me more the second time I read it!
@@hallihalloo586 he is underrated!
That's some high quality stuff
They all deserve it! 🤩
If Jane wasn't first, we'd have to have a long chat. "I am not a liar!" "I have not been wicked!" "Jaaaanee!"
I like Jane because she is not a punk.
Jane must be first!
Love Jane Eyre....Poldrark....Pollard.... knew it was based on books.....hmmmm.
A tree grows in brooklyn.....Brooklyn..... favorite book and movie! I like how complete and complex the secondary characters are.
OMG...The Brothers Karamotzov! So interesting and deep.....love the inquisition play. Very reflective on the time it was written.
For me I loved "The Midnight Library" it is on my top 10. Wow was this read is awesome!
"The main themes in The Midnight Library are choice and regret, philosophy and the meaning of life, and relationships and forgiveness. Choice and regret: The novel uses the conceit of a library of parallel lives to examine the meaning of choice and regret."
Yes! We have a lot in common reading wise!
I haven’t read Midnight Library, though I’ve seen it around. So much to read. So little time 🤣
If you like the Devil in The Brothers Karamazov and have not read Master and Margarita, please do. He actually burned it and rewrote it. I find that a miracle. Nothing short of a miracle. I would probably die crying if I did that (which is why I have a hard time throwing out the smallest piece of paper b/c it might be of use "one day" ;-) ). P.S.- I haven't read The Secret History, which is surprising b/c it's one of my friend's favourite book, but a book that surprised me (b/c it's an elementary school read) was Killing Mr. Griffin. Lois Duncan is much better than I ever expected. You can tell she studied psychology. I took a course on YA novels and that was one of the novels (along with Hunger Games, a very very good The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and my absolute favourite YA novel, and possibly my absolute favourite novel of all (sorry Hemingway) The Chocolate War).
Master and Margarita is "on my one day list"!
@@alanaestelle2076 Keep it there until you are ready. It's not a light read. There are a lot of secret, hidden allusions to Communism. If you're not ready you'll miss them.
@@alanaestelle2076 I do feel you'd like CHOCOLATE WAR. It takes place at a Catholic school for boys and...Well, it's surprising what happens.
I SAW A LITTLE LIFE, I SUBSCRIBED
Aw thank you so much! A Little Life is such a fantastic novel!!!
Russian writing always gets you! I will hope to read this one day.
The Russians have a way, don’t they? Lol.
to choose 10 books would have been maybe possible when I was 15 year old. but now that I have read so many great books and authors it's impossible. among them:
Albert Camus
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
John Steinbeck
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Dostoievsky
Cervantès
Cormac McCarthy
George Orwell
Ray Bradbury
Tolkien
Gustave Flaubert
Franz Kafka
Marcel Proust
Jack London
Oooomph this is such an impressive list. It gets more difficult to make a list as the years pass, but I love the challenge 🤣
This was fab so many of these are on my shelves so its great to get excited & re-inspired! Villette completely outstrips JE for me (im in the minority i know) i dont find it bleak (TessOTD hello)- melancholy though for sure. Recently read C&Punishment (my first D'y) i did not like it *at* *all* 🤕 Pevear translation 🤐really hoping TI & TBK (same edition) will be more my jam (also love a family saga) they too are sitting languishing lol Im with you on ATOTCities thoroughly enjoyed despite a couple of the main characters being a tad flat (the rest totally makes up for it). Cant wait to read ALLife, TSHistory etc (i *loved* TGoldfinch & i think you will too 😉💘). As for Poldark; watched the series twice 💖 unlikely to read it now i guess.. so little time so many books gah! 🙂
Haha yea good point - Tess is beyond depressing 🤣 Aw! C&P is unique. I do favor TBK over it. Ooooh so excited for you to read ALL and Tartt! So good!! I use audiobooks for Poldark since I know the show so well but I will go back and reread them as hard copies. They are so cozy and good palette cleansers between my really intense reads!
A great idea; I'll have to come up with the books for my "I can own only 10". A few of yours I'd never heard of, but I don't read nearly as many novels as you. Anyhow, I enjoyed learning how these books impacted your point of view on life/the world too--Dickens, etc. How about Top 12? One per month on that desert island?
I like the top 12 because it gives me more options haha. I’m going to have to do another one of these in the new year, because it’s changed. I’m thinking about doing my top 10 classics and top 10 contemporary novels, because it can be hard to but both on one list. I engage with them differently.
@@alanaestelle2076 Look at that, now you have 20 to play with! :P
@@stevesunusual haha shhhhh don’t give away my tactics 😂
To Kill a Mocking Bird is probably one of the best books of all time. To experience a complicated world through the eyes of an elementary schooler who ultimately comes to the right conclusions about race relations in America... genius.
It is genius. And shame on the people who think it should be banned