📚 Blind Reaction to Reader's Digest's 100 Best Books of All Time! 📚

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Join me in this exciting video as I react blindly to Reader's Digest's list of the 100 best books of all time! From timeless classics to modern masterpieces, I’ll be sharing my candid thoughts and unfiltered reactions to each book on the list. Will your favorite book make the cut? Watch to find out!
RD's List of 100 Best Books of all times:
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Books in this video:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
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Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
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The Shining by Stephen King
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Books 15 - 11
05:39 Books 10 - 6
09:15 Top 5 Books
14:40 Final thoughts & outro
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2 июл 2024

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@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

What would be your number 1? Did you agree with my assesments? let me know down below and we'll talk the best books some more!

@michellehyland3675 Месяц назад

Pride and Prejudice.

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

@@michellehyland3675 At least it was in there already :p

@michellehyland3675 Месяц назад

@@cafeaulivre Yes indeed. Anna Karenina number one. Wow.

@southernbiscuits1275 Месяц назад

I agree with your criticism of this list. However, something you may not know about Reader's Digest is that it panders to a very low class of readers which is bereft of sophistication. I am not surprised by the low number of serious works of literature here.

@michaeldornan7737 Месяц назад

Nice to know you'll be staying in RU-vid!!!

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

I wouldn’t have been surprised if it had been on there though 😬

@anotherbibliophilereads Месяц назад

I looked at the complete 100 title list. Some inspired choices and some puzzling choices. All over the map. War and Peace is superior to Anna Karenina , IMHO. To use a phrase that is probably a bit outdated, I think the creators of the list were smoking crack.

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

If they were, Dr Seuss would have been high up on the list ;)

@michaelmccarty Месяц назад

Poor Bart! It was painful watching you go through this! 😆 It is a most perplexing list!!!

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

It is…something 🤣

@aiscahill Месяц назад

These lists always baffle me, but I generally just put it down to all of us having different tastes. I’ve read and enjoyed a few of these but don’t feel overly enthused by the list as a whole. I know it’s a very controversial opinion, but Pride and Prejudice was one of my least enjoyable reading experiences of all time. I hated it 😂

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

Emma! Try Emma 😉

@aiscahill Месяц назад

@@cafeaulivre I will. Thanks, Bart ☺️

@LazDigSurf Месяц назад

Don't forget that Reader's Digest is geared toward those that haven't master staying within the lines when colouring

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

🤣

@shisharma Месяц назад

Completely agree with your The little prince statement , but what's wrong with this list I'm unable to digest it😭

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

It feels like they were having a meeting and then an editor walked in and said: ‘make sure to include some non-fiction as well’ , then five minutes later, they did the same for poetry 🤣

@monicai.3034 Месяц назад

Your reactions are priceless. 😀 Don't like the list either. Also, I finished Claire Keegan - Small things like these. It was absolutely amazing. Short story but amazing. Best book? No 1 for me? Karamazov Brothers.

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

That’s a great contender for the first spot. And I think Small Things Like These might be one of my next reads

@duffypratt Месяц назад

According to Readers Digest, only 7 of the top 100 books were written before 1900. 12 between 1900 and 1950. And 81 have been written in the past 75 years. So, in the first 2500 years, mankind produced approximately one of this quality every 360 years. Then from 1900-1950, the rate increased to one every four years. And over the last seventy five years, it’s a bit more than one per year. But it’s worse. The only “book” to make the cut before 1800 was Hamlet, which is just after 1600. So, for the first 2000 years, literature produced nothing in the same league as Valley of the Dolls. Then one from 1600 to 1800. Then, from 1800 to 1900, there was one such ‘top 100” book every 18 years or so. Not only pro-American bias, but tremendously strong recency bias.

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

I suspect a ‘marketing target audience group’ bias myself tbh…or a very drunk editor 🤣

@starlasell5698 13 дней назад

When you hit #5! 😅😂😅

@cafeaulivre 13 дней назад

I’m still shocked 🤯

@starlasell5698 13 дней назад

@@cafeaulivre I would have to agree!

@veronicagarcia2025 Месяц назад

I don't know why people still refer to Cold Blood as the first true crime book actually the real first true crime book ever was Operation Massacre by Argentine journalist Rodolfo Walsh (1957). Don't get me wrong, I think both works are great but I think that Walsh's work did not get enough recognition. This list should be name popular books not best books and still be controversial cause the lack of international names from differents country, most of the books are from Europe and USA (not much from Latin America, Asia, Africa, etc). The list didn't mention a lot of Classic (which time they are talking about 🤔).... Great video

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

I think they could have done a better job in getting the brief right: are we talking fiction or non-fiction, prose or poetry, … It’s a bit of a mess 😳

@2134yanto Месяц назад

Was this list actually voted for by readers? Or just compiled by one person etc? For me only 4 of the top 15 would make my top 100! And although absolutely love Stephen King, I completely agree with you re The Shining being there

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

I don’t think it was voted…I so hope it was not voted 🤣

@tmtb80 Месяц назад

Victor Frankel's book is not a memoir. He actually wrote his book before the Holocaust. But, it was taken from him and destroyed when he was taken to the camp. So, he rewrote it while there and after survivng, thus proving his theory correct. He was already a psychologist prior to the N a z i s control in Vienna.

@amysmith1044 Месяц назад

Your comments about 50 shades made me laugh😂😂😂

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

I was genuinely afraid it was going to pop up in the list 🤣

@tyghe_bright Месяц назад

I always wonder what criteria are used in creating such a list. I looked this list up and they don't talk about their methodology. It seems so random. (And putting nonfiction and fiction, poetry and prose, children's and adult books all on the same list is weird.) I would put Valley of the Dolls on a "best trashy reads" list, but not on a best books list!

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

It would be a great list to make though 🤣

@petergibson2035 16 дней назад

The Readers Digest does not think and caters for those who do not think. That explains their list.

@cafeaulivre 16 дней назад

🤣

@kathleensmith Месяц назад

Who the heck came up with this list!!! I agree possibly the list is more American biased, BUT.,.. Valley of the Dolls, you have got to be kidding!! Also, if American focused , where are Steinbeck or Hemingway ??? I am not sure I would pick Tolstoy as number one ? It was a great novel, but the best of all time, I am not sure. I can’t think of which novel would be at the top of a list, maybe Don Quixote?

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

Exactly, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Kerouac, Angelou, … you could make a top ten purely out of US authors alone already!

@Jordan-calver1993 Месяц назад

I love Stephen King and I think The Shining is a pretty great haunted house story but the 5th greatest of all time? I think Shirley Jackson and The Haunting of Hill House beats The Shining.

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

I agree: Jackson absolutely beats the Shining and even then I’m not sure she would score as high in the list for me.

@Jordan-calver1993 Месяц назад

@@cafeaulivre Oh no, I totally agree that 5th is a very high position for either work as great as they both are.

@Graceandres3 Месяц назад

The placement of Valley of the Dolls is ridiculous.

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

That was the silliest one for me too 😋

@JamesRuchala Месяц назад

This is the strangest list ive seen. Wish i knew what the methodology was.

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

I don’t think there was one tbh 😋

@joycejarrard6958 Месяц назад

Reader's Digest used to have more class. They used to publish classic books, and those titles didn't include the junk on this list. I understand American cultural bias, but this is nuts.

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

I have no idea how they even came up with with this list

@willieluncheonette5843 Месяц назад

If one were to count the 5 best novels of all time, 5 would have to be Russian, leaving only 5 for the rest of the world.

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

Which five Russians would you pick then?

@VTimmoni Месяц назад

For the record I would have told you to avoid the Readers Digest list. I feel your pain and it is more than justified. The list is garbage and I'm sorry it was inflicted upon you.

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

At this point, Im just glad there was no 50 shades or twilight on there 🤣

@VTimmoni Месяц назад

@@cafeaulivre Fair point. I tried to read the Twilight books for a bet. I barely finished the second book and happily lost the bet.

@tommcmillan2300 Месяц назад

Definite American bias. Even then they missed many good American works. There also seems to be some confusion about the difference between “best” and “important.” All the President’s Men is important from a historical viewpoint but hardly great literature. Even then, there are more important history books by American authors, such as Richard Hofstadter or Perry Miller.

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

I was indeed thinking about how would I make such a list and the first things I came up with was to split fiction and non-fiction, as well as poetry and prose. I’d rank them by literary merit (whatever that means in the end)

@charlieuliginosa2494 Месяц назад

This rather dispiriting list only really reveals to us the reading tastes of Readers Digest readers, who are in all honesty a middle-brow, commercial, American bias readership. It's a piece of silly nonsense, forget about it.

@cafeaulivre Месяц назад

I wasn’t going to allow it to dictate my next reads 😉