Could analyze the 'men written by woman' and the 'women written by men' trope in books? It would be so awesome to hear you speaking on authors' unrealistic (and sometimes even sexist) expectations of the opposite gender.
I find this so interesting and hadn't given it a thought until my mum said she doesn't read books by male authors. She couldn't give me a reason why (I think she just thinks it's a coincidence) but after discussing the idea with my friend we realised that too often, male writers don't write women well. It's something I really look for now when I read male authors
0:39 - Sula by Toni Morrison 2:40 - Alone With You In The Ether by Olivie Blake 4:19 - Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan 5:20 - Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson 6:29 - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart 8:06 - Almond by Won-Pyung Sohn 10:13 - In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado 11:28 - There There by Tommy Orange 13:30 - Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart 14:58 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy 16:16 - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan edit: hi, i would really appreciate it if u would recommend more books for me to read in 2024 if u see this
Writers and lovers, Piranesi,Who runs the frog hospital, Light from uncommon stars, Self portrait in green,Count Luna, Sunburn by Chloe Michelle howarth and the broken earth trilogy by n.k.jemisin
Hey buddy, here's a book recommendation for you - it's called "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. It's a short story book where people come into a restaurant where they can time travel to the past or to the future.
My wife and I should have left for a New Years’ trip 90 minutes ago, but she is predictably not ready. Thanks for letting me pass the time while she gets ready. And thanks for all the videos throughout the year. Happy New Year to Jack and his book community!
I just recently got Emma and I'm so excited to start reading. I only got it because I've heard such good things and this channel has expanded my literary horizons so much. So, just thank you
I LOVE Jane Austen!! But for me personally Emma wasn’t my favourite of the books I’ve read by her. (Maybe a 4 stars, which is still high) I really really loved pride and prejudice and persuasion which were both 5 stars so if you like Emma I’d recommend to read those books as well❤❤
I read Emma in 2023 for the first time, and I liked it a lot! Hope you like it too. I've bought Persuasion as well, but still haven't gotten around to reading it.
I loved that book. I recently found another RU-vid channel very intresting that suggested Mansfield Park and I'm going to read it this weekend. The channel is called IntoTheBooks23. She's good at what she does.
You should definitely try some NEW authors this year... 1. The kite runner 2. The thousand splendid suns 3. Malgudi days 4. Mahabharata unravelled 5. The pearl that broke it's shell 6. The palace of illusions Love from India ❤
Khaled Hosseini is Afghani, he's an incredible writer and I'm pretty sure Jack has talked about his books on this channel before but y'all gotta stop lumping in the rest of South Asia with India, we're all incredibly unique cultures we don't need to be put in those boxes of expectations.
@shruti0007 Ladki research your facts comment karne se pehle. 🤦♀️🤦♀️ @sana-ip9jl @aamnahere6250 @seaof_stars Very sorry for the error she has made. Clearly she didn’t know what she was writing.
i’ve been lucky enough to read sula in two different classes and truly every time i read it i get so much more from it, genuinely the best book i have ever read
Jack, you NEED to read “Betty” by Tiffany McDaniel. It is HEARTBREAKING, gut wrenching and is a masterpiece! It’s about this girl Betty who is telling the story of her family who are of Cherokee Heritage. It deals with some really hard topics so TW but it is amazing. It is also based off of the authors mother, it’s a true story which makes it even more devastating. It’s A little life level of sad. LOVE YOU
I absolutely LOVED ‚Almond‘. I flew through this book and loved it so much, it actually surprised me because it’s not what I normally read. But it out me on a new literary path. I cried and laughed so much.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke was the first book I read in 2023, and it was also my favorite! Highly recommend to anyone who likes dark academia with fantasy elements! It's also a pretty quick read
Hey Jack, I think you should read Alibis by Andre Aciman. They're labeled as "essays on elsewhere" and I think that, as the world-traveller that you are, you would really like it. The essays are lyrical and wonderfully thoughtful. Since you liked Aciman's fiction, I think you'd absolutely love his essays.
In the Dream House was one of my favorites from 2022 and also was put on my list of one of my favorites I've ever read. When you talked about it earlier in the year I got so excited because I had not ever seen anyone talk about it and it really deserves to be so I'm glad to see it on this list too.
This was such a straight forward, good video. I can’t even explain it better. From the beginning to the last second, I believed it and it convinced to read all of it. Thanks Jack! Have a good new year! Happy new year Jack watchers!!!
Based on you loving 'Alone with you in the ether', I think you would really love 'The Solitude of Prime numbers' by Paolo Giordano. I bought this because of the wonderful title, but it is an amazing book with two very flawed characters you just really grow to love. Check it out... I promise you won't regret it ;)
@@melaniek6714 I wish it had been everywhere here. I handsold the heck out of that book. The author was 25 when that was published, *and* he was a physicist! 🤯 It won the equivalent of the Pulitzer in Italy. So deserved! 💚
@@onourpath I know. Went to one of his readings when he published his 2nd book which I don't like as much, but means that I have a copy with a personal signing :)
Recently bought Small Things Like These by Keegan from a charity shop! Never read her work before, but i’ve heard her name in your videos before so I definitely knew I had to read it, the synopsis sounds brilliant. Glad you enjoyed it + happy new year!
I just wanted you to know that you have inspired my friends and I to start a book club this year. We’re starting February with “Alone with You in the Ether” because it’s the month of love. I just love your videos so much and they encourage me to become a better reader. I strive to read and enjoy literature like you! ❤
would love to see a video about how to effectively consume poetry collections! It’s so hard to know what pace to read at and how much time to leave between each one and if I should reread it etc.
HUGE Claire Keegan fan!! I love Small Things... and Foster, both in my top five (of 88) books this year! I can't get enough of her. Also, LOVED Ivan Illyich in 2023!
I read Almond last year, And at that time I felt like that well it was a really good story but it is short and I believe characters could have been more explained in details. But I was incredibly mistaken! This book is a masterpiece and I do still think about it, It was really really beautiful~
Manifesting someone in my life who talks about words as passionately as you do, Jack. I would fall in love with them and never stop as long as I live and breathe darling ❣️
I’ve been teaching SULA for decades in my honors English class. I’m going to show this clip when we get to it this year. I feel exactly this way about this book.
I read Almond on accident, thinking that it was a book Jack recommended. When I went on Goodreads I saw he didn’t actually read it 😅 but I started spamming him every so often to read it. It truly is a fantastic book, one of my favorites from 2022
I read Sula in june of this year and oh my god! You are so spot on! It's has some of the most well written and beautifully illustrated depths of human complexities. It's such a page turner. I remember i started reading it at 10'o clock in the evening and didn't sleep a wink that night. I finally finished it at 4:30 in the morning. In my opinion, sula and beloved are just such masterpieces of literature that i feel they are heavy underrated. And can we take a moment to give props to the bluest eye by toni morrison? It's incredible for a debut to be honest and one of my (controversial?) Toni morrison favs
Thank you so much for these amazing book recommendations. I love the way you talk about books! Tommy Orange is amazing--I love There There so much. His new book talks about the Indian School that was in my home town of Pennsylvania, and I think the book will wreck me in the best kind of way. Here's a quote you might love: "A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us."
Helloo, I just started reading Sula (thanks Jack :D), it's my first Toni Morrison. The writing style, the strong female leads and the transitions from character to character remind me a bit of Isabel Allende's work. I was wondering if someone in the comments who has read both would like to discuss the two authors a bit :)
I've only read A Long Petal of the Sea by Allende and I agree, both Morrison and Allende love world-building as a means to build their characters which I love
From your list, this year I read Sula, Alone with you in the Ether, In the Dream house and Small Things Like These. Two of these were on my top ten of the year! Good choices 🎉
I absolutely love your book recommendations but am very emotionally fragile right now 😅 If you've actually even read any, do you have any recommendations for happy books that don't make you cry? 🙏🏻🤞🏻
Also a book to finish completing jack Edwards!! is The seven Moons of Mali Almeida and it talks about a man who is a photographer and has seven days to figure out who killed him and why and it kind of builds up to a crescendo and it talks about self blaming and is written in second person but done beautifully and the horrors of war and the book made me cry and feel so many different emotions I couldn’t stop crying at the end 😭😭😭
Hello, I’m a mom of two early teenagers. They struggle with nonfiction. I believe because they are not interested in what they are reading. Do you have any tips on how to get them more interesting in what they are reading? Especially in school when they don’t get to choose what they are reading.
My favourite books of the year were Sula, In the Dream House, Funny Boy and Elena knows... so yeah. I'm just adding all the books you love to my TBR cause clearly we have similar taste (and thank you for widening my scope, I would've never read Funny Boy if it wasn't for your channel)
Added these to my list! Would be interested in a video about all the translated books you would recommend, and want to read. I'm trying to expand my reading horizons in 2024!
I read Young Mungo because of one of your videos and it was the best book I read this year (possibly the best from the last few years), at first it was difficult to get into because my first language isn't english so the writing made me confused, but once I got used to it I absolutely fell in love with it. Honestly I think about it all the time, I never thought I would see myself in a story from such a specific european social context but this one really hit. Anyway I will definitely check out the other ones lol
Another Irish novel being made into a movie (Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, Gabriel Byrne) is Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams. I implore you to read this book or any others by him. Talk about beautiful writing! Side note : just purchased Almond.
I have two unread books by Toni Morrison and I'm so excited to get more into her books this next year! (also just noticed that your bio still says you're 24 even though your birthday makes you 25 just so ya know😋)
hey jack if your looking for more native authors i absolutely recommend ‘braiding sweet grass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer. it’s a collection of essays all about indigenous knowledge, our relationship to the earth and each other. it’s writing is really lyrical and sweet while also being incredibly insightful/critical on a variety of issues like colonization. i think it’s a book everyone should read lol
I read There There when it first came out where it easily made it to my favorites list. This year I reread it because the grade I teach (I'm an English teacher) decided to incorporate it into our curriculum. Not long after we made that decision, our public library named it as their "one book, one chicago" pick for the year (a huge initiative to have conversations focused on important topics through workshops, interviews, etc.) so we were able to have the author himself come and speak at our school. It was such a lovely experience and reading the book through the eyes of my students- who despite not being native, resonated a lot of with themes in the book-was one of my favorite parts of this year. Happy to see you included it in your top books :) Excited to see more from you in 2024.
My book of the year is Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie. A bit of an epic covering the life of a women just as the bomb hits Nagasaki and then chronicling her life in India, Pakistan and America, while covering issues such as the partition of India, the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and 9/11. Home Fire was a favourite several years ago, so now I'm working my way through her back catalogue. My recommendation for Jack is Brooklyn by Colm Toibin- coming of age- Ireland meets New York and made me cry, therefore all typical "Jack- categories"!
Some of my favorite reads of late are BUNNY (Mona Award), THE HEAVEN AND EARTH GROCERY STORE (James McBride), and THE DAUGHTERS OF MADURAI (RAJASREE VARIYAR). All are beautiful and mesmerizing in their own way, but James McBride's characters simply crackle with humanness. They are unforgetable. I may have cried in each book, although BUNNY is not really meant to be sad. Great reads all.
seeing your face light up with the biggest smile ever whilst talking about the most gut wrenching books to exist is why your channel is my favourite and why i trust your recommendations with my life
I've just read "Small things like these" and it is indeed all you said. I'm so happy to find out it's going to be a movie, with Cillian above all! People are talking a lot about Claire Keegan's "Foster" and that will probably be my next reading. Have you read/commented about "On earth we are briefly gorgeous"? I'd love to know what you think of it. Happy New Year!
Toni Morrison said about Leon Lewis "Life has no more astute observer than Leon Forest", so your praise of her really made me think of that praise. His most famous book is "Divine Days", and it's a big book that is like a mix of "Ulysses and Jazz". I never see it spoken about, but I figured someone else might enjoy it
i added every single book except for in the dream house to my TBR. thank you for another year of book content jack! you are one of my favorite booktube content creators and I appreciate your taste and your analyses of books so much
