10 books EVERYONE should read at least once in their life (fiction book recommendations)

Excellent video clear explanation, practical insights, and easy to follow till the end

Donna tart is a magnificent author

I just finished yesteryear. It was great - such a wild ride ! I have so many questions! What happened to the girlfriend ?

You have such electrifying enthusiasm that anyone would want to read having heard you speak as you do. Every school needs a lecture by you to the pupils, in a world of phones and money driven tech , you bring value and soul. I will be listening to all you put up on the YouTube website and checking out the books you suggest. Keep doing what you are doing, glad you gave up the supermodel job, some girls just have it all !

Frank X Walker, Load in Nine Times - poetry looking at the history of the US in slavery times from the perspective of the enslaved. It's not cherry, obviously, but it is profound and I learned a lot about that time period (even though I grew up in the States) and of course, the perspective is incredible. I'm reading lots of fluffy books right now I will admit but I got a copy of this when the author spoke at my school and I can't imagine not having read it. Many of the poems are tied to an enslaved person's experience which has been researched by the author.

Did you knit your sweater? 😃. I read and knit. ❤

The Physician by Noah Gordon

The Lover, by Marguerite Duras - The Garden of Eden, by Ernest Hemingway. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

the color purple by alice walker is a masterpiece

If someone could only read ten books in their lifetime, I would want that list to cover a lot of time periods, genres, cultural references, and themes, I created my list considering those factors. I had ten different authors. This isn't my favorites list as I went for minimal books for breadth and depth. Comments and criticism welcome.

1. The Odyssey by Homer.

This story is a touchstone for so many stories in the future. As well as being a great story, it helps you understand so many other stories (including one of the other books on this list).

2. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly.

This story is brilliant and complex. For Mary Shelley to have written such a brilliant book at only 19 is amazing. This Gothic horror is a must read masterpiece.

3. The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

I could have had any number of Dickens novels here. But I chose the short story that is the most adapted and most referred to every Christmas because it explains the true meaning of Christmas for everyone for all time.

4. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

This novel covers the breadth of human experience over a momentous time period in European history. I love this book so much. Reading it was an experience I will treasure forever.

5. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

A masterpiece that details the consequences of one man's moral transgression and why his justifications fail.

6. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

This is just a great fun read about one man's quest for justice and revenge. A great adventure story.

7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

This Gothic romance is the basis of so many romance stories. I could have put a Jane Austen novel in here but I like the darker tone and the moral ambiguity of Charlotte Bronte more.

8. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset.

This epic historical fiction set in Norway in the middle ages has themes which are still relevant today. This masterpiece should be more well known.

9. Ulysses by James Joyce.

This epic takes place over one day and follows the story of Homer's Odyssey. Joyce uses different writing styles for each part, different perspectives that mess with perception and reality. Joyce is a genius who likes showing off how smart he is. But in Ulysses, Joyce does not cross the line between brilliant and condescending to his readers.

10. 1984 by George Orwell.

This dystopian novel introduced so many terms into the language that authoritarian tendencies are referred to as Orwellian. Brilliant, insightful, and more relevant now in an age of "fake news", 'alternative facts", AI, and algorithms.

Books, like any art form is wholly subjective. I will admit that there are some outstanding pieces of particularly 19th century literature and 20th century classics that should appeal to everyone in terms of being brilliantly imaginative and of course well written. A book should be first and foremost entertaining, it should take you out of your humdrum whatever the genre. I'm struck by how many times in YouTube book review clips the presenter says 'You have to read this book!!'
We believe, because we enjoyed it, everyone else will too. I'm not criticising any YouTube recommendation but as I say all art is intimately subjective and what we enjoy as adults is probably a result of gender, nature, nurture and our particular experience of the world . Like the different categories of books in bookshops, popular fiction, literary fiction, crime fiction, science fiction.... in reality a book is either well or badly written. I'd like to see a bookshop with one category, viz, fiction, and books with blank covers, save the title and a brief description of the story on the back
..... 😊 The beauty of art is that two people can stand in front of a painting, one will be transported by it's beauty, the other will think, meh !! 😄 Thanks for the clip and greetings from Ireland ❤

Have you read paranesi by Susan Clarke, or a little life by yanakahara.

Just finished The Pilars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Highly recommended!!

I believe you would like the following book: The Midwife - Book by Tricia Cresswell (don't research it too much.)

Foster by Claire Keegan

My 10: Jane Eyre, Persuasion, Bleak House, What they Carried, Middlemarch, The English Patient, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Sipsworth, The Woman in White, Great Expectations.

I am trying to change the genre of books I'm reading; away from TikTok. I'm trying all your recos!

JANE EYRE is always what comes first to my mind when asked about my favourite book.

The Goldfinch is my all time favorite! Perfect book

very interesting and with books I didn't know, but the mug and the sweater should match better

Joan Didion's books was not fiction.

You talk MUCH too fast so I couldn't listen

Omg I just finished the Hour of the Star by Lispector and Near to the Wild Heart is in my tbr already ❤

As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow

Giovanni’s roam by James Baldwin, truly a masterpiece

Where did you get your couch

Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund, Wash by Margaret Wrinkle, The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman, and The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Charon, James Baldwin and Abraham Verghese

clarice !! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

Mostly pooey

Clarice Lispector is my favorite author of all time! I recommend The Hour of the Star.
I also really like The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis.

Love that you mentioned Clarice❤ 🇧🇷

The Goldfinch is also in my top 10!! A masterpiece!!!

Books and a cup of coffee are like something that cannot be separated in one reading activity, the reason is not yet known, but it has become commonplace for people who are reading books.

Why don’t you just list the books on the screen and save us the 16 minutes .. 👍🏻

The two books I recommend are A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and East of Eden. Those are two books I will read again and again!

I feel so sad that I have not read any of these books, but I have read Vanity Fair and that totally cheered me up..

The Plague by Camus.

Cute mug

The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns

This is the first video I watch from you. I added several of these to my TBR! My favorite book is The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain. I couldn’t stop thinking about for several months after finishing it!!!

Best books:
“The End of Your Life Bookclub” - Will Schwalbe
“In the Sanctuary of Outcasts” - Neil White
“The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” - Anne Fadiman
“A Thousand White Women”. - Jim Fergus

You speak WAY too fast!

Eric by Doris Lund. Never cried so much reading a book.