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1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 2. The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde 3. To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee 4. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 5. War and peace by Leo Tolstoy 6. Persuasion by Jane Austen 7. The color purple by Alice Walker 8. Little women by Louisa May Alcott 9. The count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas 10. The outsiders by Susan Hinton 11. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky 12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 13. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 14. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 15. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Illiad The Odyssey Meditations by Marcus Aurelius The Divine Comedy Don Quixote The Miserables (My favorite Book) Faust by Goethe Siddhartha Great Expectations Rayuela by Cortázar (more books...) Borges Fictions Thus Spoke Zarathustra Camus complete works Tao te ching
@@hectorbeteta9159 i dont thinks it's that hard to understand. 7th graders in my country are taught iliad parts and 8th graders odyssey. Most of the students are considering them useless though...
@@hectorbeteta9159 It is hard for you but such people of me that were born and raised here in the Balkans, we know what comes around. Illiad can be absurd for a country like America that has no tradition at all.
My personal favourites: - Jane Eyre - Wuthering Heights - Animal Farm - Lord of the Flies - Dracula - The Colour Purple - The Kite Runner - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I just finished jane eyre like two days ago , and I gotta say that it was amazingly in a way that's pure joy to read and the plot itself was incredible. salute you for recommending it
Russian classical works will never lose their relevance. Russian classics teaches the ability to think, understand human nature,his actions,opens his eyes and makes a different look at the usual things, changing your worldview . I advise you to read: Fyodor Dostoevsky - "Crime and punishment", "Idiot", Anton Chekhov - "Uncle Vanya", "Lady with a dog", "Kashtanka»; Alexander Pushkin - "Eugene Onegin»; Nikolai Gogol - "Dead souls»; Ivan Turgenev - "Fathers and children»; Mikhail Bulgakov - "the Fateful eggs", "the Master and Margarita»; Vladimir Nabokov - "Lolita»; Ivan Bunin "Sukhodol", "Village»; Alexander Griboyedov's "Woe from wit»; Mikhail Lermontov - "Hero of our time", "Demon»; Boris Pasternak - "Doctor Zhivago".
I'm currently reading To Kill a Mockingbird. I've read War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice and The Brothers Karamazov. I've ignored fiction books for years, focusing on business, science, philosophy but I was wrong.
Ayesha Mahmood because each one of those books teach you at least philosophical matters and gives insight to the author‘s minds. Adopt it or not. At least you will think critically, which is an integral trait of philosophy
My all time favorites:- 1) pride and prejudice 2) Jane Eyre 3) wuthering heights 4) Villette 5) the mayor of casterbridge 6) woman in white 7) Jude the obscure 8) David Copperfield 9) bleak house 10) Oliver twist 11) great expectations 12) Les miserables 13) of human bondage 14) Madame Bovary 15) middlemarch 16) heart of darkness 17) the scarlet letter 18) sons and lovers 19) a passage to India 20) War and peace 21) Anna Karenina 22) crime and punishment 23) the brother Karamazov 24) Dr. Zhivago 25) life and fate 26) master and margarita 27) Rebecca 28) gone with the wind 29) the great Gatsby 30) the grapes of wrath 31) 1984 32) to Kill a mockingbird 33) beloved 34) lord of flies 35) The awakening 36) 100 years of solitude
Thank goodness you noticed!! I couldn't believe what I was hearing - and we're supposed to think the silly female on this vid. knows what she's talking about?
Of mice and men - John steinbeck The way of kings - Brandon Sanderson Band of brothers - Stephan E. Ambose Nothing new on the western front - Erich Maria Remarqur Three Comrades - Erich Maria Remarqur Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
I am halfway through "The Brothers Karamazov" right now. It is already blowing my mind! If humanity were to choose candidates for the single greatest novel ever written, this would easily make the list.
Manaswita Rajguru I watch movie versions several times a year. Last year I discovered the BBC tv series starring Timothy Dalton, wow! I believe it is my favorite. Although, many movies are good and some are not so good, leaving out important pieces of the book. 🤓
@@oceanbrzzz Yes, I have watched the movies too, though not the BBC series. The 2011 movie is my favourite, and the 2006 one was good too. The movies do leave out or alter some scenes, particularly the ones with Rochester's first wife and her portrayal. Hannah's death was also shown a little differently in one of the movies, I can't remember which one.
@@oceanbrzzz (Habits, wisdom and mindset of highly successful people) this book is really revolutionary so different than others. Available on Kindle..
@Blue Moon New weird conspiracy theories should not invalidate the genius of the writing. It's like arguing that Shakespeare is shit because dicaprio starred in a lame Romeo and Juliette...
I am an English Major. I have read most of the books on your list. You have picked some treasured jewels in the finest of literature. I plan on reading Daniel Deronda and Bleak House, as well as rereading The Count of Monte Christo. My life is richer from having read War and Peace. I would like to see Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky on your list!
Wow, I read Flowers for Algernon in 9th grade English class. Almost forgot about it. Dickens had a lot of good ones too: Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and David Copperfield.
Short Stories are great way to ease into the classics. I’m currently teaching 5th graders The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. With help, they understood and loved them all! Don’t dumb stuff down for kids. I was reading many of these books myself by age 10-11, no problem.They shape a person!
My review of the ones i have read... 1. Pride & Prejudice - Good book. Jane Austen will teach many men better English as well. 2. Dorian Gray - Brilliance. At times I call this the best book ever written. 3. To Kill A Mocking Bird - Average. This makes its way in many lists and I found it nothing special. 4. War & Peace - If you have a fear of reading or worse have a fear of reading big books, simply read this and you will never fear any book again. This book changed me in ways that if I mention in words would seem too simple. I have read 4-5 books that are of the same size since reading this book. Moral of the story - this is as good as classic literature gets. This is not Tolstoy's best however. 5.The Color Purple - Read it this year. Amazing book. Powerful. 6. Brothers Karamazov - This book is a drug. The writing will make you feel you are hypnotised. Fyodor Dostoevsky is even better than Tolstoy and the finest classic author in the world. 7. Flowers for Algernon - I shed tears. This is luminous brilliance. I will read three more of the remaining books you mention. Classic books are my favourite genre of books. It has not only enhanced my attention span but made me a better more rounded human devoid of paucity. PS I dont care which moron recommends Moby Dick. Don't ever read that garbage.
My list: 1) The Bible 2) Quran 3) A.de S. Exupery "Le Petit Prince" 4)"The Chronicles of Narnia" C. S. Lewis 5) Alexander Pushkin "Соловей и Роза" 6) Лесков " леди Макбет Мценского Уезда" 7) Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey 8) Н. Гоголь "Тарас Бульба" 9) Абайдын кара создеры 10) Rumi - all his poems
They don't recommend Tom Sawyer because it's "racist". Which is kinda insane but they insist that Tom is misstreating Joe the little black servant in his household. It's next to imposdibke to buy a copy of that book in Canada.
@@CelestialWoodway I know. One of my favourites :( robinson crusoe and the jungle book are also banned. I'm puzzled - because it's part of our history - is it possible to delete the whole entire history?
Books mentioned in this video- 1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 2. The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde 3. To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee 4. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 5. War and peace by Leo Tolstoy 6. Persuasion by Jane Austen 7. The color purple by Alice Walker 8. Little women by Louisa May Alcott 9. The count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas 10. The outsiders by Susan Hinton 11. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky 12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 13. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 14. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 15. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Hope this helps.❤️ Note- 1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 2. The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde 3. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 4. War and peace by Leo Tolstoy 5. Little women by Louisa May Alcott 6. The count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas 7. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky 8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 9. Moby Dick by Herman Melville Audiobook version of these books are available on my channel along with other Audiobooks. You can check it out if you are interested.
@El trovador Mudo you said it yourself: YOU love that type of literature. You don't represent every man on earth, neither does every woman like or enjoy Pride and Prejudice
Don't forget A hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marques, a fantastic novel about the history of Macondo, a fictitious town and the Buendia family. Also Don Quixote of la Mancha, the most important novel of Cervantes and the universal values of pursuing impossible dreams and justice.
Some sterling additions to the list: 1) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 2) The Stranger by Albere Camus 3) Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee 4) Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 5) Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie 6) Life of Pie by Yann Martel 7) Atonement by Ian McEwan 8) Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 9) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 10) Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James 11) Geisha 12) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 13) Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol 14) The Monk who Sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma 15) Animal Farm
And 5 more .... - Emma, Jane Austen. - The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins - A Tale of two Cities, Charles Dickens - The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare - Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov.
Anne frank - hmhnhn not really. If you are into this there is Zlata Filipovich - she was 12 and wrote her diary during the yugoslavian war in 1992. Its pretty gripping. Oliver Twist -totallly! I was in shock that in Canada people don't know this book! It's one if my favourites :)
I have read them all. Some of them were hard to get through and left me exhausted. Others were delightful. Jane Auston is one one of my favorite authors. She was genius.
I have read Mob-Dick as a young teenager. Read War and peace once in my early 20s and second time in my late 20s. Read The picture of Dorian Gray only last week and loved it.
@@johnpeterson2987 Yeah. I find bot-readers irritating and patronizing. One of my local radio stations plays weather updates from some computer-generated voice. Every time he says “This is Rafael,” I feel like I’m being lied to.
I have read Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mocking Bird and Persuasion and they are absolutely brilliant books. The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Color Purple and Little women are on my bookshelf. Can't wait to pick them up. Great video 😀
my classics list: 1) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 2) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 3) The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 4) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 5) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 6) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 7) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 8) Dracula by Bram Stoker 9) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 10) Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 11) Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 12) The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
I've read Jane Eyre, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird. I would like to suggest to you Night by Eli Wiesel even if it is not a fictional story, it is one of the best book ever written. Good reading y'all!
Society went wrong it put God of the picture, not to SAY you won't achieve your dreams which is a classic effort to succeed. But HELL will break lose in your home. WHAT'S YOUR SUCCESS NOW??? I'M NOT PROCRASTINATING. READ THE GREATEST BOOK. THE BIBLE.
You lose a lot credibility when, talking about books, you say that Moby Dick was written by Charles Dickens. You lose the rest of your credibility when you don't fix it for over a year.
BK was the longest I've devoted to a book, not because of it's page lenght but because of its thought provoking wisdom. The true genius to me was the inter woven relationship between the characters. And the grand inquisitor, just materfull work by a virtuoso.
Gone With the Wind, Pilgrims Progress, Tragedy & Hope, The Good Earth, Brave New World, The Prince, A Christmas Carol, Little Women, The Book of Enoch, The Bible.
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangaremba was truly life-altering for me. It changed my perception in how I view the world, patriarchy and my inherited racial struggles.
My favorite book is Charlotte's Web. Maybe it's on the next list. I think it is a perfect story of friendship and I read it ever summer. Of the books mentioned, I have read Pride and Prejudice, Tom Sawyer, To Kill A Mockingbird, Jane Eyre, Little Women and I think Bleak House.
Gabriel Kenneth Marinas Totally agree, his writing is tawdry. I just finished “Norwegian Wood”, and had to force myself to finish it by the middle of the story.
A Streetcar named Desire by Tenesse Williams (Realism at it's best....Film stars Marlon Brando himself! It's a play so its a shorter read) English Transalation of the Indian Historic Epic - The Mahabharat by Bibek Debroy Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Pride and Prejudice & Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Dark, dark story) Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan (Nostalgia)
My 15 favorite books 1. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien 2. The Odyssey by Homer 3. 1984 by George Orwell 4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 5. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 6. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 7. The Iliad by Homer 8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 9. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 10. Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante 11. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 12. Julius Ceasar by Wiliam Shakespeare 13. Lord of the Flies by William Goulding 14. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scotts Fitzgerald 15. The Art of War by Sun Tzu Just my favorites from the first 16 years of my life leave more classics I should read in the comments
All James Baldwin, Studs Terkel, Maya Angelou, Malcolm X,William Faulkner,Jean Sasson,Iyanla Vazant, Alice Walker,Ernest Hemingway, Foote, Herman Hess..Siddhartha.
How is it possible that Sir Quixote of La Mancha and the Bible are not in this list? Two classics that, whatever your background is, should be read. They are so rich in lessons to be learned and are litterature master pieces by the way they were writen. It is not a coincidence that they are the top 2 books to be sold.
yes, i agree just posted about Don Quixote, Yes the Bible is the greatest book ever 1. it's the best book on human behavior ever written. reading it teaches you to be a human being and not a human animal.
I recall growing up in the 69s and 70s that guys l knew, who didn't particularly like to read for pleasure LOVED the Outsiders and other of Hinton works. All described the world we grew up in.
Thanks for the recommendations. Pedantic points: the video is entitled '15 books' but the written description if you click on it below the title lists 16. The written list also says Moby Dick is by Charles Dickens, although the narrative correctly says Herman Melville. ('Well, I knew it was like some dead Nineteenth Century guy!) Pronunciation: I am British so our pronunciations are different. In some cases American pronunciation preserves the original sound better than modern British, so please takes these as differences, not that one is right or wrong ('you say tomado and I say tomahto, you say Gillian and I say Jillian, you say panties and I say knickers' etc.) In modern British 'Eyre' as in Jane Eyre is 'Air'. What the Brontēs would have said in Nineteenth Century Yorkshire I don't know but the spelling may reflect early pronunciation. Most English people pronounce 'Dumas' as in the author of The Count of Monte Christo & The Three Musketeers, more like modern French way 'Dumah', although the spelling probably reflects the French pronunciation of several centuries ago when they would have spoken the 's' on the end. Likewise Louis in modern French, followed in modern English pronunciation of French names is Lou-ee, American (and probably ancient French) is like Lewis.
Beautiful video as always. I totally agree that there are books that every man should read. I am a lover of books and the knowledge I have acquired from reading books has contributed a lot to helping me live soundly. "The Richest Man in Babylon", John Ploughman's Talk", Life Triumphant": these are three of the books I will never forget and will always be glad I read. Some of the ideas I share with people in my videos are from these great books and several others. I have not read all the books listed here, but I definitely hope to check out those I have not read. Thanks, guys, for a great job.
I have read Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Jane Eyre, To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. I'm currently reading both War & Peace and The Count of Monte Cristo.
This is my personal list of books that made the most difference in my life: Higher Status by Jason Capital psycho cybernetics by Maxwell maltz Think and grow rich by Napoleon hill Deepwork by Cal Newport The One Thing by a great author
Dogshit books. This is not even literature. How can a book that agitates on some productive propagandas on how to win more money can be effective for your life? American "literature" is a DOGSHIT literature.
In no particular order: -No One Here Gets Out Alive -1984 -The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -Lone Survivor -The Bible -Dispatches from Pluto -Into the Heart of Darkness -Roots…not that TV horseshit -A Tale of Two Cities -The Little Engine that Could -To Kill a Mockingbird -War & Peace -The Diary of Anne Frank -The Millionaire Next Door -The Great Gatsby
yeah, but take the quates with a grand of salt :/ the advice they give can be a bit out of date. ( No hate , but I saw too many people think that if it's the Bible it is alright and I don't want that to happend to new readers.)
@@Me-rd7po isn't the point not to judge? Or a least to put ourself in someone else's shoes? The bible is the most read book and purchase. On the contrary of being out of date, it has cut through my heart and change me for the better, and true I got a long way to go.
@Beerley Jean Pierre because at early age it is too boring, and you don't get it, why the fuck you should read two tomes of mocking of Spanish popular literature at that ages, about knights and their deeds. Now I might have thought to read it because I get it, but I got bad mark for my exam, because of how boring that book was for me, and I don't want to read it again as a grown up :D
@@244889i I read it when I was about 27 years old and even then when halfway through the novel I tought about quitting more than one time, but I pushed myself until I finished it. It has stayed with me for a long time, it made quite an impact on me. But yeah I can see how it killed your love for books at a young age.
I'd like to recommend any of the books by Prof. Chaim Potok, but especially "My Name is Asher Lev". Also, James Michener, a prolific writer. I loved his "Hawaii".
The Picture of Dorian Gray is fantastic. Someone wrote about "The Beautiful Boy as Destroyer" and that says a lot about this book. It is not a long book but it is worth reading.
@@fasmin8904 he's referring to the political climate in the USA where radical leftists denounce any one who differs in their opinions and dub them as bigots. Much like in 1984, the very language is now being pushed to be regulated and free speech is becoming infringed upon. Leftists wish to control thought and 'vaporize' any one who should be so bold as to tell the truth of reality.
@@brazen6850 jee, their ideology sounds good. But I must admit I don't exactly understand this. First of all america is a democracy, you guys can just get on the streets and protest to get what you want. But this isn't from the ruling party ,is it? Secondly this sounds like a big deal, how come I've never come across it in newspapers? pls explain
I've read No. 2 ,3 and 12 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (which took me 6 months, with a dictionary(book), no Google then!). ITS a MASTERPIECE and my English has improved so much since reading Classic Books, are much more difficult to read as a second language.
The last book "Flowers for Algernon" was made into a movie. I think it was called " Charlie" excellent movie. Two great books I think everyone should read are "Boss" the story of Richard J. Daley by Mike Royko and The autobiography of Malcolm X.
In Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, one of the characters, Quentin Compson, committed suicide after his Freshman year. Though it is never quite clear why, eleven of the books selected here were on his Sophomore reading assignment.
Although it took me 7 months to read, the best book I ever read in my 57 years is without a doubt, the Summa Theologica byThomas Aquinas. It was spectacular in the extreme, all 3,022 pages of it. Bleak House is a distant second. I would also suggest Dead Souls by Nicholai Gogol and William Somerset Maugham's coming-of-age masterpiece: Of Human Bondage. It's nice to see you included Brothers Karamazov too. Classic English and Russian literature are fabulous for a reason. Read and find out why.
Many Thanks Alux for a list of classic recommended books... Though there is a confusion on picking books...because there is a lot diversity in Indian & English culture... Because of that many things Will not be related by this side of the world... Though will try with 1 or 2.. Again many thanks...
No better companion than a good book. I have read quite a few from your list and likely to read as many more as the life permits. I am grateful for providing the list.
Jane IRE........IIIIRE.....LOL.....obviously you never even heard of this one. You sounded pretty convincing up until this one on the list! Ha Ha! Apart from this faux pas....good video. Have read most of these.
Personal list: 1. War and Peace, Tolstoy 2. East of Eden, Steinbeck 3. The Master and Margarita, Bulgakow 4. Master and Workman, Tolstoy 5. The Spectre of Alexander Wolf, Gazdanov 6. Crime and Punishment, Dostoyewski 7. Tod in Venedig, T. Mann 8. 1984, Orwell 9. Jane Eyre, C. Brontë 10. Schachnovelle, Zweig I wasn't persuaded by Austen, Dickens, Wilde, Lee, Kafka, Brecht etc. Some were okay (e.g. Dickens) some I really didn't like (e.g. Wilde).
"I robot" by Issac Assimov, "1984" by George Orwell, "The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, "The Idiot" Fydo Dostojewski, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" Dale Carnigie, "Crime and Punishment" Fydor Dostojewski, "Swallows and Amazons" Arthur Ransome, "The Time Machine" H. G. Wells, "Tarzan of the Apes" Edgar Rice Burroughs and "Lord of the Rings" J. R. R. Tolkien.
The video hasn't started but I'm sure I'm gonna love it. I've been a subscriber of Alix for long now and I genuinely love your content. I really like the new format of the videos in which you talk about people and things. I request you to make a video shining some light on Leonardo Da Vinci's life and also some facts related to him. There are not many polymath who are as well known and unique as this Renaissance man. It'd be great on your part if you comply to my request. Keep making content as good as you always do. Thank you.
The last half of my senior year of high school I chose Russian literature for my independent study topic. Dostoyevsky,Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, Chekov, and more. Flowers for Algernon, also in high school; I had an exceptional English teacher. Catcher in the Ryen To Kill a Mockingbird The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Can't wait to catch the next 15 and start filling in gaps.
7 of them I have read already: Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, Count of Monte Cristo, To Kill A Mockingbird, Brothers Karamazov, Little Women and Moby Dick. Five of 7 I have read twice. Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, Little Women, Count of Monte Cristo and Brothers Karamazov.
May I add another great novel to the list: _Nostromo_ by Joseph Conrad. Conrad served in the merchant marine for 17 hard years, & traveled to several continents & countries during that time (the turn of the century into the late 1910's). If you want an intuitive understanding of the differences between developed, orderly nations & undeveloped ones (what was once called "the Third World"), read Nostromo. It not only portrays life & politics in an undeveloped country, but also what often happens when well-meaning idealists get involved in an attempt to improve such a country. After reading Nostromo, you'll have a different perspective for news on other parts of the world.
Please include Godfather by Mario Puzo in the part two. Novel that can help you learn to love your family and understand business. A perfect book for an entrepreneur
