10 Classic Book Recommendations! | 3000 years down to 10 books? Easy!

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Hello!
Ben here. Today we're condensing around 3000 years worth of classic western literature down to 10 books haha
Video was inspired by:
‪@KDbooks‬
• Top 10 Classics every ...
‪@saintdonoghue‬
• Response Video: Top 10...
‪@BrandonsBookshelf‬
• Video
Thanks for watching!
Spoilers:
Greek Epic Poet
Greek Tragedian
Roman Poet
Middle Ages Italian Poet
Middle Ages English Poet
Renaissance English Playwright
18th Century Nigerian/British Abolitionist Writer
19th Century English Romantic/Gothic Novelist
19th Century Russian Realist Novelist
19th Century American Renaissance Novelist
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@KDbooks Год назад

You are now committed to doing the Modern and Contemporary classic list now

@doomantidote Год назад

Oh man... well contemporary will just be Ducks Newburyport 10 times so that's simple 😁

@KDbooks Год назад

Proust literally side eying you throughout this is a metaphor and a half

@doomantidote Год назад

In Search of Lost Place in the List

@Shellyish Год назад

Ha! I noticed Proust too.

@womenwotreads Год назад

A very interesting video. I have all these early texts on my shelf unread! My brother who studied classics at Oxford and became a philosophy lecturer in Edinburgh, died of covid last year. He left lots of books in his flat and I took them home. He was a great expert on Homer and I bought a leather bound beautiful edition in his memory. I am very motivated to read this and many others now but I think the fact I can't discuss them with him has stopped me. I wish I hadn't left it too late to follow this interest with him to help me

@doomantidote Год назад

So sorry for your loss. That's amazing you have all those books of his to remember him by. Thank you for sharing.

@BrandonsBookshelf Год назад

So glad to see you do this! You were more thought out than myself and I really appreciated your approach here. Also loved to see our overlap!

@doomantidote Год назад

Thanks Brandon! I've been really enjoying your top 10 vids! Had to get involved 😄

@Shellyish Год назад

Like you, I’ve been watching this series/conversation with great interest. Great list, Ben!

@doomantidote Год назад

Thank you!

@silviaserra7989 Год назад

This was an excellent idea for a video. I really appreciate your recommendations.

@doomantidote Год назад

Thank you! Glad you liked! Check out the others in the description too :p

@joannezhu2604 Год назад

One of a kind. Very entertaining 😂 thank you!

@doomantidote Год назад

Thanks for watching! ☺️

@cayt23 Год назад

Due to scheduling clashes in highschool, I read Macbeth while sitting in a remedial English class that was watching Remember the Titans. All I can say is Denzel is a lot more tempting to a 16 yr old girl than Macbeth was. I got through it, but it will forever be associated with American football.

@NerdyNurseReads Год назад

I’m loving all these lists KD inspired people to make. I have my classic favs but after cracking the lid on the classics booktube space I’ve realized how little I know and have read.

@ashleycaulfield1823 Год назад

This is a great list! What a treat to have an extra video from you. Also, thank you for mentioning the other videos where this list of classics must-read has been compiled. I've now discovered a few new booktubers that I didn't know were out there. Happy holidays!

@doomantidote Год назад

Thanks for watching! And their vids are fab!

@jaimeharris2569 Год назад

You are so entertaining to watch. Love the books too. 😉

@doomantidote Год назад

Thank you!

@spottydog7143 Год назад

Ahh it's nice to come back to this channel! Your videos do make me chucke aha - i study classics at uni and I like your classical choices! Personally I would have gone for the Iliad but then I'm an Achilles/Patroclus stan (also all my homies hate the Aeneid) and I never finished Jane Eyre (I've started it twice). Will add to Olaudah Equiano to my tbr!

@doomantidote Год назад

Achilles + Patroclus 4 eva 💙💙

@nodrarb140 Год назад

I'll join you as well.... My top ten classic books 1. Villette 2. Far from madding crowd 3. Tenant of wildfell hall 4. Pride and prejudice 5. Hunchback of Notre Dame 6. Jane Eyre 7. North and South 8. Woman in White 9. Wuthering heights 10. Picture of Dorian gray Noooo...ten already. I've more 😶

@doomantidote Год назад

I still need to get to Hardy, and Notre Dame! Would love to read that!

@nodrarb140 Год назад

@@doomantidote hardy is great. He does amazing female characters

@ksotikoulamarie5452 Год назад

I love your having Villette there! And Far from the maddening crowd. Another favourite of mine is The house of mirth.

@TheGerbita Год назад

Hi Ben! I think this has been my favorite list so far. I have added Olaudah Equiano to my TBR. Frederick Douglass’ memoir is also brilliant. My first encounter with Shakespeare in high school was not intimidating at all, as my first language is Spanish. The language was not daunting (as it was a translation) and we could just really focus on the fantastic plots (ghosts, witches, murder!). I know it sounds counterintuitive, but for 16 year olds I think it worked pretty well. As an adult I approached the original texts with excitement. However, my bête noire was/is Don Quijote. I’m still traumatized by that experience, and haven’t been able to return to it (it’s one of my goals for 2023!). I see so many English-speaking BookTubers reading and loving that book, and I suspect they’re experiencing what I had with William…Anyway, great video!

@doomantidote Год назад

Bête noire! Hadn't heard that phrase before! Agreed with Shakespeare! The plots and charcoal are just amazing. I loved the first half of Don Quixote, the second.... not so much. Thanks for watching!

@squalloogal Год назад

Hi 👋 The best thing about you is your personality and ability to entertain. I saw a tiktok of you comparing Pride & Prejudice performances. Please can you post those here as shorts? Perhaps create new ones? It was brilliant. Being perfectly honest, that’s why I subscribed. I live in hope (and appreciation) Thanks 😊

@doomantidote Год назад

Aw thanks so much! ☺️

@CoynieReads Год назад

6:13 I know it’s coming every time you talk about this book… and yet it gets me EVERY TIME!! 😂😂😂

@doomantidote Год назад

😏😏😏

@janethansen9612 Год назад

I love Shakespeare, I think I was the one weird kid in the class who was all oh yes more Shakespeare please. I would select the Scottish play as the one for the list. I would like to include Dickens, either David Copperfield or Great Expectations for their portrayal of the industrial revolution and poverty and class and all that. I am also thinking of the group of French classics from around that time, Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Germinal by Zola and Les Miserables by Hugo but which to choose? Perhaps the Hugo. Oh this could be quite the dinner table discussion!

@doomantidote Год назад

I know, it feels weird to exclude dickens, I LOVE Great Expectations! I still need to get to Hugo and Zola.

@patriciapendlbury2603 10 месяцев назад

Have you tried Pushkin? Very overlooked but amazing Russian authors!

@ludd7929 Год назад

WE should, we must but we dont have to ? 😅😊 I'm very keen on 19th century literature (mainly British and French) but quite interested in this 18th century memoir of your list.. Nice video, merci 🙏✌️

@doomantidote Год назад

Thanks for watching! Yes, you absolutely maybe should or should not read these books, or other books, definitely, if you want, indubitably. 😄

@ludd7929 Год назад

@@doomantidote I read Jane Eyre years ago and loved it like most Brontë's... Hardy, Trollope, Dickens... Balzac ✨🤗🇫🇷🇬🇧💓

@marcpaters0n Год назад

Not sure what books I've read are deemed classics but a list of "old" books I've read are: Alice's Adventures/Looking Glass Great Expectations Heart of Darkness Sherlock Holmes (pretty much all of it) I have tried more than once to read James Joyce's Ulysses and failed. Maybe I should try an audio version. I've seen plenty of Shakespeare and own the complete works, but I'm ashamed to say the only ones I've read were what I did in school (Romeo and Juliet, Misummer Night's Dream) EDIT: Oh, Dracula as well. And Frankenstein. And some Edgar Allen Poe.

@doomantidote Год назад

Oh blimey I've yet to attempt Ulysses.... I may try next year. There's a bunch of major Shakespeare I've never read as well!

@marcpaters0n Год назад

@@doomantidote I think the key to enjoying Ulysses is just to bathe in the language and the imagery. I'm two hours in to an audio edition (further than I ever got by reading. This is my top tip).

@suemay88 Год назад

I dropped my phone at 0:20😂

@johncrwarner Год назад

Like "Desert Island Discs" where the Bible and Shakespeare as givens I think to an English speaking audience you don't need to include them as they are books you MUST read to get the gist of English literature.