I have six that made a lasting impression on me (classics) - The Good Earth, Madame Bovary, The Old Man & The Sea, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, King Lear and To Kill A Mockingbird. Six (more modern books) - City of Thieves, The Midnight Library, Pachinko, The Corrections, Song of Achilles and Rules of Civility.
We read Madame Bovary for a class called the Writer and the Critic: two books a week, one fiction, one criticism. For Flaubert we read volume 1 of his letters, and wow were they hot! Some people called him a pervert and seeing as how it was 19th century it's not surprising as even today I think they'd be shocking still.
Love this tag. First time I ever wanted to do one for myself - lol. It took me a minute but I realized it doesn't have to be "the" 6 books, It can be six "of" the books - "To get to know me, here are six of the books I've read that mean a lot to me/reflect something that's important to me.'
My 6 would be: wind-up bird chronicles by Haruki Murakami, the Volume 1 of My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, The Kingdom By Emmanuel Carrère and (very recently) Elana Knows by Claudia Pineiro
Great list, I also adore Virginia Woolf! You can know me by reading these books: Mrs Dalloway and To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood, Middlemarch by George Eliot, The remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro and A confederacy of dunches by John Kennedy Toole.
@@jamesduggan7200 Thank you! Indeed, it's the funniest and most hilarious book ever; I distinctly remember how I read it for the first time at home and my grandparents were weirded out of me bursting into hysterical laughter.
This is a great idea and I really appreciate all your shared. I loved One Hundred Years of Solitude and have been meaning to reread it for a while. I also loved The Waves and The Hours. I’d have to think long and hard to come up with six books to know me. What a great thought exercise!
Glad to say, we're alike, Eric, in our choices! This is a great idea! Will have to think a bit more of 6 books that sum me up, but back in 1988 I played the Firechief in The Bad Soprano at Exittheatre in San Francisco. It was so much fun.
Such a nice video, Eric! I knew of a few already, but it’s nice to hear about Ionesco since very few RUclipsrs have read his work. You are very relatable and I wish we were friends 😊 I read Our Wives Under the Sea in September and it was my first 5 star read of the year (I haven’t had the best reading year, clearly). It was so moving, poetic, and strange. I’m very glad you liked it too!
While I was interested in your choices, I have to confess, I was really fascinated by how we have a number of things in common--- you have mentioned in the past how you are from Maine, and I grew up in Maine also. I loved theater in high school, and when I first graduated, I went to Boston University. There I developed an interest in Ionesco (which has stayed with me). I was in the acting conservatory at BU. Then I wound up transferring to Bennington, a small college in Vermont, where I still acted but focused more on playwriting. Of course, now you are in England and i am back in Maine, but still, I admit I was struck by some of our similar details. Kind of funny.
For me, the 6 would be: One Hundred Years of Solitude, too! (truly magnetic; read other books by Garcia Marquez, but none has had the same obsessive quality - maybe only The Autumn of the Patriarch); The Odyssey; Ibsen's plays (discovered him in my teens, when I used to listen to radio plays); Madame Bovary (one of the first adult books I read, from my father's library); Il nome della rosa (the best blend of fiction, metafiction, history, theology and so on ); Midnight's Children (for sheer love of language and story telling)
Yes, I too discovered Ibsen as a teenager, nearly 50 years ago. Some of the scenes seem as sharply defined today as they did then, if that's even possible.
How delightful to find you. I used to read multiple books a week, have had my nose in a book since I was 8. But then my adult daughter got cancer, our lives have turned upside down and I cant get back to books at all. I am hoping suggestions by others on RUclips may inspire me, I need distraction desperately. Your last book..'Our wives under the sea' may just be it. Thank you for sharing yourself this way. Kaye from Australia.
Thanks for your comment, Kaye. I’m sorry to hear you’ve gone through such a difficult time. I hope you find some reading to comfort and inspire you. 😊📚
I daresay your daughter might need a book too. Do you think you could read some books together? I'd suggest books that don't feel too much like real life. How about something like Middlemarch or Lady Chatterly's Lover? You could set aside an hour a day and read to each other or just listen to an audiobook together. It would be a nice way to bond, share of cup of tea, and get lost in good fiction. Best to you both.
My six would be : Jack Aubrey / Steven Maturin series - Patrick O’Brian The Civil War - A Narrative- Shelby Foote Moby Dick - Melville Paradise Lost - Milton The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O’Neil
Also a big fan of The Hours. My 6 would be: 'Everything is illuminated' by Jonathan Safran Foer, Plato's Republic, Burning your Boats by Angela Carter, Henry and June by Anaïs In, Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
For me, maybe 1. The Holy Bible; 2. Dante's Divine Comedy; 3. Bevington's Complete Shakespeare; 4. Don Quixote; 5. War and Peace; For the sixth it seems best to include something relatively recent, of which there are so many but maybe the best indicator of who I am is John Updike's Rabbit series (Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich & Rabbit at Rest).
My six books off the cuff are - Camus - The Stranger, Block - Weetzie Bat (the first queer positive book I ever read back in 1990 when I first came out), Tolkien - The Hobbit, Tam - The Joy Luck Club (first exposure to women’s specific fiction in college ‘90), Atwood - Handmaid’s Tale and Doerr - All The Light We Cannot See.
What a fun concept. I've included 6 fiction and 2 non-fiction. I believe they are in order of when I first read them. 1. Serge Guilbaut, How NY Stole the Idea of Modern Art (NF). this book changed how I looked at the history of art, from being an academic exercise to being a commercial enterprise. It made art history a living changing thing. Since reading this I've read dozens of books related to art history. My most recent favorite is Ninth Street Women. If you haven't read it and need a NF fiction fix, I highly recommend it. 2. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, The first book (after Anne of Green Gables) that gave me a feminist hero. Also I first read it at a time where the passionate romance and idealistic morality made total sense to me. It remains my favorite book to re-read. 3. Frances Moore Lappe, Diet for a Small Planet (NF), this book caused me to stop eating meat in 1997. Vegetarianism my private protest and my way of making the world a better place. 4. Willa Cather, O PIoneers. I had moved to CO and wanted to read about western expansion from a woman's perspective. What I discovered was vivid prose, complex interiority, and the grit and dust of the west. 5. Wm Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair,, his humorous exploration of class and vivid scene and characterization opened my eyes to what story-telling could be. 6. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. I loved it so much I spent two years reading nothing but Dickens. Then once I head read them all I read all of Hardy and most of George Eliot. 7. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway. I read it as inspiration for writing in a cubist style, with various viewpoints being shown to the reader. Simultaneously I was reading the Shakespeare sonnets and immediately following I read The Picture of Dorian Gray and the portrait of Mr W H, all four of which interplayed and talked with each other in my head. I wrote a poem about Oscar Wilde and have spent the last two years diving into the bits that are known about Shakespeare. 8. Victor Hugo--Les Miserables. I would say Les Miserables (the BOOK) was a life changing experience for me. Its so tense, so gripping. A battle royal of good vs evil. It frequently felt very holy, divine, when reading it. When Jean Valjean carries the heavy bucket of water out of the woods for Cosette, for example. Its a novel I think about endlessly (minus the antiquated political diatribes.)
Thanks for sharing your love of acting and plays, I did acting when I was young but was discouraged from continuing, so I haven't been on a stsge since I was fifteen. And I am lucky to have Stratford Festival near where I live now. They put on 12 plays a year, four or five Shakespeare and then a variety of others, and I watch them mesmerized. Sometimes wistful that I stopped.
Shadow of the Wind (Zafon); Night Circus (Morgenstern); Before We Were Yours (Wingate); Ragged Company (Wagamese); This Tender Land (Krueger) and Beneath The Scarlet Sky (Sullivan)
I see that Michael Cunningham has a new book out, I also enjoyed The Hours. This question is too difficult, there are so many books that have moved and meant so much to me.
Great video, Eric. I particularly want to read the book on Virginia Woolf, sounds very interesting. My six books to know me are: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Collected Stories by William Trevor, Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda by Dharamvir Bharati, The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka, and Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka
@@EricKarlAnderson - Oh, "The Buddha in the Attic" is a great book. If you've liked Otsuka's The Swimmers, I guess you'd like "The Budhha..." much more.,
@@jamesduggan7200 Same here. And, I was 30 when I took a sabbatical. I also had a bit of a disdain for modern life. So, apart from the book being so funny and so well-written, I did connect with it a lot.
@@EricKarlAnderson - Just started reading "The Hours." I am yet to finish a book by Woolf. Sometime back, I tried reading Mrs. Dalloway. I read a few pages, didn't understand what the fuss was about. However, "The Hours" is helping me get closer to the essence of Woolf's writings. I have some idea of what Woolf wrote and "The Hours" is helping me expand it in a brilliant way. I'm loving its descriptions of New York and of a middle-aged woman. And, I felt it's brilliant to name that section "Mrs. Dalloway." Michael Cunningham must be an outstanding writer himself. Will read more by him. Thanks for the recommendation.
I’ve been enjoying your videos and this one got me thinking about my list of six. My list would be: Wings of the Dove because of an incredible James professor: Fifth Business which is the first of an amazing trilogy by Robertson Davies: Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith who is the queen of psychological suspense novels; Swann’s Way because Proust’s ability to write beautiful sentences is magical; Tales of the City which was funny, sweet, and impossible to put down; and My Brilliant Friend because Elena Ferrante can do no wrong.
@@EricKarlAnderson thanks! Have you read The Postcard by Anne Berest. I recently read and loved it. I don’t read much non-fiction but now reading The Lost City of Z which is fascinating and reads like a novel.
I loved it as well. Have you tried the audiobook? It’s read by Chanel herself and I felt like she was confusing all her pain to me as I listened and made me cry a few times. She’s a beautiful writer.
@@TiresiasPrufrocki have not! I wanted to, but I didn’t want to wait for it to be available. I’m a mood reader so yeah 😄 I plan to listen to it though for sure!
Choosing six books was difficult. But I choose Anne of Green Gables, The Great Gatsby, My Dark Vanessa, The Kite Runner, The Yellow Wallpaper and Scythe.
Anne of GGs was formative for me too but I had so many influential books that I decided to choose among those that influenced me after I was an adult. But I loved Montgomery's writing and the way Anne matures right before our eyes. I love that its an orphan story without child abuse and trauma. I read the entire series. I read The Yellow Wallpaper in high school and although a very short book, it still lingers in my brain all those decades later. Kite Runner wigged me out. I had to take breaks while reading it and then when I found out it wasn't even based on a true story, the entire thing collapsed for me like a bad souffle. Gatsby is tremendous. What a sad man F Scott was. I haven't read My Dark Vanessa or Scythe. But now I'm intrigued.
Hello Eric. I'm not sure what six books would fill my list, but I know I'd have to include Sophie's Choice by William Styron, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, and Lady by Thomas Tryon.
I enjoyed hearing about your SIX books. I will have to give 100 Years of Solitude another try. Did not get through it the first time. This is off topic but are you familiar with "Happy For You" by Claire Stanford? If not I suggest you check it out. It deals with our obsession with smart phones and technology. It came out in 2022.
My books are If This A Woman by Sarah Helm. The Legacy by Thomas Harding. Ashes of London Series. Sofia by Anita Anand. The Kingsbridge series by Ken Follett. Harry's Game by Gerald Seymour. Thank you Tracey Haworth.
War and Peace - I've yet to read a better novel. Others that are important to me are Anna Karenina, The Odyssey, and Moby Dick. Seems I should list Shakespeare here somehow but, for me, Shakespeare is more about experiencing the poetry and word play than about story.
Yes, W&P is and always has been (since 1988) my favorite novel. Now Moby Dick on the other hand is easy to acknowledge as a great classic but truthfully much of it lacks pizazz.
@@jamesduggan7200 We'll have to agree to disagree on this, James (grin). I really think you have to read it without the notion that it's a whale story or a revenge story.
@@larrymarshall9454 Thanks for the reply, Larry. As for the disagreement I don't quite get it: I've always liked Moby Dick but think it's often boring. I don't know why the two must be mutually exclusive. As for revenge, well frankly, I'm not sure why my comment triggered that response.
@@jamesduggan7200 Did I say there were no boring parts in Moby Dick? If so, I misspoke. I think the richness of the allegories more than makes up for having to stomp through descriptions of the tri-works (grin). Have a nice day.
Not often because I’ve found I prefer to do single review videos or I talk about what I’m reading in other contexts. So I kept repeating myself when doing wrap ups but I will do them sometimes.
I had a teacher in high school who had a special way to make us put down the books we read - he took the book and read the last page of it loudly as a spoiler 😅
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I have six that made a lasting impression on me (classics) - The Good Earth, Madame Bovary, The Old Man & The Sea, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, King Lear and To Kill A Mockingbird. Six (more modern books) - City of Thieves, The Midnight Library, Pachinko, The Corrections, Song of Achilles and Rules of Civility.
We read Madame Bovary for a class called the Writer and the Critic: two books a week, one fiction, one criticism. For Flaubert we read volume 1 of his letters, and wow were they hot! Some people called him a pervert and seeing as how it was 19th century it's not surprising as even today I think they'd be shocking still.
Love this tag. First time I ever wanted to do one for myself - lol. It took me a minute but I realized it doesn't have to be "the" 6 books, It can be six "of" the books - "To get to know me, here are six of the books I've read that mean a lot to me/reflect something that's important to me.'
Love 100 years of solitude although I had to read it 3 times in order to understand it
wow. the words must be good to read three times through! Good on you!
My 6 would be: wind-up bird chronicles by Haruki Murakami, the Volume 1 of My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, The Kingdom By Emmanuel Carrère and (very recently) Elana Knows by Claudia Pineiro
Fantastic choices! 📚 Thank you
Midnight's Children, Angle of Repose, Lonesome Dove, Anna Karenina, David Copperfield, and American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Great list, I also adore Virginia Woolf! You can know me by reading these books: Mrs Dalloway and To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood, Middlemarch by George Eliot, The remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro and A confederacy of dunches by John Kennedy Toole.
That's a great list, especially Confederacy of Dunces which certainly is the funniest novel I've ever read.
@@jamesduggan7200 Thank you! Indeed, it's the funniest and most hilarious book ever; I distinctly remember how I read it for the first time at home and my grandparents were weirded out of me bursting into hysterical laughter.
This is a great idea and I really appreciate all your shared. I loved One Hundred Years of Solitude and have been meaning to reread it for a while. I also loved The Waves and The Hours. I’d have to think long and hard to come up with six books to know me. What a great thought exercise!
Glad to say, we're alike, Eric, in our choices! This is a great idea! Will have to think a bit more of 6 books that sum me up, but back in 1988 I played the Firechief in The Bad Soprano at Exittheatre in San Francisco. It was so much fun.
Such a nice video, Eric! I knew of a few already, but it’s nice to hear about Ionesco since very few RUclipsrs have read his work. You are very relatable and I wish we were friends 😊
I read Our Wives Under the Sea in September and it was my first 5 star read of the year (I haven’t had the best reading year, clearly). It was so moving, poetic, and strange. I’m very glad you liked it too!
Thanks so much! 🤗📚 I'm glad you feel so positively about Armfield's novel as well. So strange and weirdly resonant.
I love the hours, too. The book as well as the movie.
Both stunning!
While I was interested in your choices, I have to confess, I was really fascinated by how we have a number of things in common--- you have mentioned in the past how you are from Maine, and I grew up in Maine also. I loved theater in high school, and when I first graduated, I went to Boston University. There I developed an interest in Ionesco (which has stayed with me). I was in the acting conservatory at BU. Then I wound up transferring to Bennington, a small college in Vermont, where I still acted but focused more on playwriting. Of course, now you are in England and i am back in Maine, but still, I admit I was struck by some of our similar details. Kind of funny.
That is a crazy coincidence. Twin lives! Somehow I broke out of New England. 😅
For me, the 6 would be: One Hundred Years of Solitude, too! (truly magnetic; read other books by Garcia Marquez, but none has had the same obsessive quality - maybe only The Autumn of the Patriarch); The Odyssey; Ibsen's plays (discovered him in my teens, when I used to listen to radio plays); Madame Bovary (one of the first adult books I read, from my father's library); Il nome della rosa (the best blend of fiction, metafiction, history, theology and so on ); Midnight's Children (for sheer love of language and story telling)
Wonderful list! I've read Madame Bovary multiple times and love it too.
Yes, I too discovered Ibsen as a teenager, nearly 50 years ago. Some of the scenes seem as sharply defined today as they did then, if that's even possible.
How delightful to find you. I used to read multiple books a week, have had my nose in a book since I was 8. But then my adult daughter got cancer, our lives have turned upside down and I cant get back to books at all. I am hoping suggestions by others on RUclips may inspire me, I need distraction desperately. Your last book..'Our wives under the sea' may just be it. Thank you for sharing yourself this way. Kaye from Australia.
Thanks for your comment, Kaye. I’m sorry to hear you’ve gone through such a difficult time. I hope you find some reading to comfort and inspire you. 😊📚
I daresay your daughter might need a book too. Do you think you could read some books together? I'd suggest books that don't feel too much like real life. How about something like Middlemarch or Lady Chatterly's Lover? You could set aside an hour a day and read to each other or just listen to an audiobook together. It would be a nice way to bond, share of cup of tea, and get lost in good fiction. Best to you both.
My six would be :
Jack Aubrey / Steven Maturin series - Patrick O’Brian
The Civil War - A Narrative- Shelby Foote
Moby Dick - Melville
Paradise Lost - Milton
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O’Neil
Fantastic, thank you!
I reread Iceman a coupla years ago, and guess what? It's still powerful. Great list.
Also a big fan of The Hours. My 6 would be: 'Everything is illuminated' by Jonathan Safran Foer, Plato's Republic, Burning your Boats by Angela Carter, Henry and June by Anaïs In, Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
For me, maybe 1. The Holy Bible; 2. Dante's Divine Comedy; 3. Bevington's Complete Shakespeare; 4. Don Quixote; 5. War and Peace; For the sixth it seems best to include something relatively recent, of which there are so many but maybe the best indicator of who I am is John Updike's Rabbit series (Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich & Rabbit at Rest).
My six books off the cuff are - Camus - The Stranger, Block - Weetzie Bat (the first queer positive book I ever read back in 1990 when I first came out), Tolkien - The Hobbit, Tam - The Joy Luck Club (first exposure to women’s specific fiction in college ‘90), Atwood - Handmaid’s Tale and Doerr - All The Light We Cannot See.
What a fun concept. I've included 6 fiction and 2 non-fiction. I believe they are in order of when I first read them.
1. Serge Guilbaut, How NY Stole the Idea of Modern Art (NF). this book changed how I looked at the history of art, from being an academic exercise to being a commercial enterprise. It made art history a living changing thing. Since reading this I've read dozens of books related to art history. My most recent favorite is Ninth Street Women. If you haven't read it and need a NF fiction fix, I highly recommend it.
2. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, The first book (after Anne of Green Gables) that gave me a feminist hero. Also I first read it at a time where the passionate romance and idealistic morality made total sense to me. It remains my favorite book to re-read.
3. Frances Moore Lappe, Diet for a Small Planet (NF), this book caused me to stop eating meat in 1997. Vegetarianism my private protest and my way of making the world a better place.
4. Willa Cather, O PIoneers. I had moved to CO and wanted to read about western expansion from a woman's perspective. What I discovered was vivid prose, complex interiority, and the grit and dust of the west.
5. Wm Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair,, his humorous exploration of class and vivid scene and characterization opened my eyes to what story-telling could be.
6. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. I loved it so much I spent two years reading nothing but Dickens. Then once I head read them all I read all of Hardy and most of George Eliot.
7. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway. I read it as inspiration for writing in a cubist style, with various viewpoints being shown to the reader. Simultaneously I was reading the Shakespeare sonnets and immediately following I read The Picture of Dorian Gray and the portrait of Mr W H, all four of which interplayed and talked with each other in my head. I wrote a poem about Oscar Wilde and have spent the last two years diving into the bits that are known about Shakespeare.
8. Victor Hugo--Les Miserables. I would say Les Miserables (the BOOK) was a life changing experience for me. Its so tense, so gripping. A battle royal of good vs evil. It frequently felt very holy, divine, when reading it. When Jean Valjean carries the heavy bucket of water out of the woods for Cosette, for example. Its a novel I think about endlessly (minus the antiquated political diatribes.)
Those are great choices! Thanks so much for sharing. 📚
I need to read The Waves. I purchased a copy a while back due to your mentions of it. Virginia Woolf is exceptional. I also love JCO!
Hope you enjoy it! And great that you’re a fellow JCO fan.
Thanks for sharing your love of acting and plays, I did acting when I was young but was discouraged from continuing, so I haven't been on a stsge since I was fifteen. And I am lucky to have Stratford Festival near where I live now. They put on 12 plays a year, four or five Shakespeare and then a variety of others, and I watch them mesmerized. Sometimes wistful that I stopped.
Let's go form our own theatre troupe! 🤗 That's great you have the Stratford Festival near you.
Good for you! Unless you've had the opportunity it's impossible to imagine what watching great drama performed on stage is all about.
Shadow of the Wind (Zafon); Night Circus (Morgenstern); Before We Were Yours (Wingate); Ragged Company (Wagamese); This Tender Land (Krueger) and Beneath The Scarlet Sky (Sullivan)
I see that Michael Cunningham has a new book out, I also enjoyed The Hours. This question is too difficult, there are so many books that have moved and meant so much to me.
Yes, I’ve got an advanced copy of Cunningham’s new book and I’m eager to read it though none of his other books I’ve read have lived up to The Hours.
Great video, Eric. I particularly want to read the book on Virginia Woolf, sounds very interesting. My six books to know me are: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Collected Stories by William Trevor, Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda by Dharamvir Bharati, The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka, and Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka
Thanks! I loved Confederacy of Dunces and want to read The Buddha in the Attic since I loved another Otsuka book.
@@EricKarlAnderson - Oh, "The Buddha in the Attic" is a great book. If you've liked Otsuka's The Swimmers, I guess you'd like "The Budhha..." much more.,
Dunces is the first thing I say when someone asks for a recommendation.
@@jamesduggan7200 Same here. And, I was 30 when I took a sabbatical. I also had a bit of a disdain for modern life. So, apart from the book being so funny and so well-written, I did connect with it a lot.
@@EricKarlAnderson - Just started reading "The Hours." I am yet to finish a book by Woolf. Sometime back, I tried reading Mrs. Dalloway. I read a few pages, didn't understand what the fuss was about. However, "The Hours" is helping me get closer to the essence of Woolf's writings. I have some idea of what Woolf wrote and "The Hours" is helping me expand it in a brilliant way. I'm loving its descriptions of New York and of a middle-aged woman. And, I felt it's brilliant to name that section "Mrs. Dalloway." Michael Cunningham must be an outstanding writer himself. Will read more by him. Thanks for the recommendation.
I’ve been enjoying your videos and this one got me thinking about my list of six. My list would be: Wings of the Dove because of an incredible James professor: Fifth Business which is the first of an amazing trilogy by Robertson Davies: Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith who is the queen of psychological suspense novels; Swann’s Way because Proust’s ability to write beautiful sentences is magical; Tales of the City which was funny, sweet, and impossible to put down; and My Brilliant Friend because Elena Ferrante can do no wrong.
What a great group of books, thank you! 📚
@@EricKarlAnderson thanks! Have you read The Postcard by Anne Berest. I recently read and loved it. I don’t read much non-fiction but now reading The Lost City of Z which is fascinating and reads like a novel.
I finished Know My Name by Chanel Miller yesterday. It was great. It’s a book that I am grateful it exists. Have you read it?
I loved it as well. Have you tried the audiobook? It’s read by Chanel herself and I felt like she was confusing all her pain to me as I listened and made me cry a few times. She’s a beautiful writer.
I haven't - I'm going to look it up now. Thanks!
@@TiresiasPrufrocki have not! I wanted to, but I didn’t want to wait for it to be available. I’m a mood reader so yeah 😄 I plan to listen to it though for sure!
Choosing six books was difficult. But I choose Anne of Green Gables, The Great Gatsby, My Dark Vanessa, The Kite Runner, The Yellow Wallpaper and Scythe.
Fab! I've only read two of those. 😅
Anne of GGs was formative for me too but I had so many influential books that I decided to choose among those that influenced me after I was an adult. But I loved Montgomery's writing and the way Anne matures right before our eyes. I love that its an orphan story without child abuse and trauma. I read the entire series. I read The Yellow Wallpaper in high school and although a very short book, it still lingers in my brain all those decades later. Kite Runner wigged me out. I had to take breaks while reading it and then when I found out it wasn't even based on a true story, the entire thing collapsed for me like a bad souffle. Gatsby is tremendous. What a sad man F Scott was. I haven't read My Dark Vanessa or Scythe. But now I'm intrigued.
Hello Eric. I'm not sure what six books would fill my list, but I know I'd have to include Sophie's Choice by William Styron, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, and Lady by Thomas Tryon.
Oh I love that you chose Cather. She is one of my favs.
I need to read your favorite book by Ms. Woolf and Our Wives Under the Sea. I must say I do like the UK cover more than the US version.
I hope you get to them at some point.
@@EricKarlAndersonI will! ☺️
I enjoyed hearing about your SIX books. I will have to give 100 Years of Solitude another try. Did not get through it the first time. This is off topic but are you familiar with "Happy For You" by Claire Stanford? If not I suggest you check it out. It deals with our obsession with smart phones and technology. It came out in 2022.
My books are If This A Woman by Sarah Helm.
The Legacy by Thomas Harding.
Ashes of London Series.
Sofia by Anita Anand.
The Kingsbridge series by Ken Follett.
Harry's Game by Gerald Seymour.
Thank you Tracey Haworth.
Great! Thank you! I keep meaning to read Follett.
War and Peace - I've yet to read a better novel. Others that are important to me are Anna Karenina, The Odyssey, and Moby Dick. Seems I should list Shakespeare here somehow but, for me, Shakespeare is more about experiencing the poetry and word play than about story.
Yes, W&P is and always has been (since 1988) my favorite novel. Now Moby Dick on the other hand is easy to acknowledge as a great classic but truthfully much of it lacks pizazz.
@@jamesduggan7200 We'll have to agree to disagree on this, James (grin). I really think you have to read it without the notion that it's a whale story or a revenge story.
@@larrymarshall9454 Thanks for the reply, Larry. As for the disagreement I don't quite get it: I've always liked Moby Dick but think it's often boring. I don't know why the two must be mutually exclusive. As for revenge, well frankly, I'm not sure why my comment triggered that response.
@@jamesduggan7200 Did I say there were no boring parts in Moby Dick? If so, I misspoke. I think the richness of the allegories more than makes up for having to stomp through descriptions of the tri-works (grin). Have a nice day.
It's funny how many of us book lovers got into trouble in class for reading undercover when we were supposed to be paying attention!
Yes! 😅
Are you not doing wrap ups anymore? It’s where half my recommendations come from 😅xx
Not often because I’ve found I prefer to do single review videos or I talk about what I’m reading in other contexts. So I kept repeating myself when doing wrap ups but I will do them sometimes.
I had a teacher in high school who had a special way to make us put down the books we read - he took the book and read the last page of it loudly as a spoiler 😅
Oh no! That’s evil!
1 War& Peace 2 Fear& Trembling 3Twilight of the Idols& The Antichrist 4 Othello 5The Guns o August 6 Ulysses
Did you go to Goddard?
I did!