22 Classics to Read in 2022

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It's time to get to some classic books that I've been meaning to read for years. Here I discuss 22 novels and books of fiction that have special anniversaries or new film versions in 2022. Click ‘Show More’ for info & links.
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Classic Books discussed & purchase links:
Ulysses by James Joyce
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All About H. Hatterr: A Gesture by G V Desani
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Kindred by Octavia E Butler
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Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
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Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
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1984 by George Orwell
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They by Kay Dick
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The Castle by Franz Kafka
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Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
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In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
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Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov
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Macbett by Eugene Ionesco
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Kangaroo by DH Lawrence
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Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
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The Wasteland by TS Eliot
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The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
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Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
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The Real Story of Ah-Q and other tales of China by Lu Xun
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Manual of Painting & Calligraphy - Jose Saramago
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In Search of Lost Books by Giorgio van Straten
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@purplecrayon7281 2 года назад

I was able to read Middlemarch while detained at Her Majesty's pleasure. Thoroughly enjoyed it. The book that is, not so much the detainment.

@trishbirchard1270 2 года назад

What an intriguing thing to say .❤️🐾🌏❄️💚

@morwennaforatenner604 2 года назад

What else did you read while detained?

@michelea2326 2 года назад

What a great comment 😁 it took me a minute to understand what you meant but when I did I was like "ooooooooooh." Glad you took that time to get some solid reading in!

@judica8873 2 года назад

Oh, "Purp" Crayon, your comment was funny. It feels so good to laugh.👍😅😷🇺🇸

@judica8873 2 года назад

@@morwennaforatenner604 Good question. I'm curious to know what other books are available at this "invitation only" library.

@lukemillett938 2 года назад

1:26 Ulysses 4:01 All About H. Hatterr A Gesture 6:00 Kindred 7:10 Middlemarch 7:46 Persuasion 8:50 Moll Flanders 10:15 Under The Greenwood Tree 11:43 Nineteen Eighty-Four 12:46 They 13:48 The Castle 15:00 Babbitt 15:40 In a Glass Darkly 16:16 Transparent Things 17:14 Macbett 18:06 Kangaroo 18:57 Jacob's Room 20:07 The Waste Land 21:08 The Garden Party and Other Stories 22:13 Siddhartha 22:43 The Real Story of Ah-Q and other Tales of China 23:30 Manual of Painting and Calligraphy 24:29 In search of lost books

@calhackelton6138 2 года назад

A good list and thoroughly decent episode. Really glad Eliot was included. The line quoted, "I have measuered out my life with coffee spoons;" is from a poem titled, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. A top shelf favorite of mine for decades.

@thebookishbryants 2 года назад

I am reading Middlemarch in 2022 as well! We put up a similar video, but with a bunch of tomes I want to read next year. Persuasion is my wife's favorite novel, and she was happy to see you will be reading it. Good luck on your classics reading in 2022, sir!! Scott.

@booksinbed 2 года назад

Your book joy gets me so excited to read! I loved Carmilla at Halloween this year, and I’d like to read more from Le Fanu, especially anything gothic. I also got into Virginia Woolf with On Being Ill, then Mrs. Dalloway, and then A Room of One’s Own, and Jacob’s Room sounds like a perfect next pick from her. (I really liked your Mrs. Dalloway video!) And I’ve been meaning to read Siddhartha for like five years, hopefully 2022 is when I finally do. Happy reading and Happy New Year!

@dee9487 2 года назад

Thank you Mr. Anderson! I have read some of your recommendations, but have a lot of catching up to do. Happy New Year!

@barbibleu 2 года назад

Thank you. Such an interesting and clever selection. I had already planned a classic book challenge for 2022, and will definitely include many of these titles.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Great! Hope you find some new favourites. 📚

@elizzievb 2 года назад

Have read many of these books and found your suggestions interesting. Thank you for posting this - enjoyed it so much and you have a very bubbly and engaging persona that made it all the more fun! ❤

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Thank you! 😊

@sabinelipinska8614 2 года назад

I read Persuasion this year and I loved it. The film adaptation with Ciaran Hinds is worth watching. I February I ll be reading (trying to get along with) Middlemarch. The Wasteland is outstanding! There is video on youtube where the author is reading his poem. So wonderful! Wish you a good New Year! Thank for all your interesting, motivating and charming videos throughout the year!

@bookssongsandothermagic 2 года назад

Fascinating video Eric. Thanks for doing this overview. Some of them are quite familiar, but some of them I have discovered for the first time thanks to this video - I will definitely be looking up Kay Dick's "They" and "This is the Canon" which sounds really intriguing.

@jenniferlovesbooks 2 года назад

What a list! 😊📚 I have a few classics planned for 2022. That's really interesting about the 1984 retelling from Julia's point of view, 1984 is one of my favourite books.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Thanks! Yeah, I’m so excited about it as well as Newman’s other book she’s publishing this year.

@emmacazabonne 2 года назад

This is the canon sounds so good! Thanks And also just added to my TBR: All About H. Hatterr

@adayofsmallthings 2 года назад

Many great ideas - super helpful for my reading plans! Thanks very much for doing the research and for sharing!

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

I'm glad it was helpful! 📚

@sararichards518 2 года назад

My challenge this year is to read Proust. I know it’s very long and rambling but I have time so will schedule this as my big read. This year I decided to educate myself about slavery and it made for grim reading. I read fiction and non fiction and histories. Not comfortable but I needed to know more. Proust will be kinder. Along the way I hope to read round the subject find books written by readers and get the graphic novel version of the first part which I borrowed from the library in the good old days when library visits were normal. I haven’t been since Covid as I have been shielding and have also had half a lung removed as they found cancer there, and no, I’ve never smoked so I’m still shielding!! A couple of rereads are on the horizon as well as trying to keep up with newly published works. Thank you for all that you do, have a happy new year and let’s hope for a better 2022! 😊💐

@Robinfan82 2 года назад

Thanks for the "This is the Canon" reference. That looks like a nice reference. Siddhartha is on my list for this year.

@cindyhaiken5644 2 года назад

Great and varied list. Ulysses really is extraordinary but also requires incredible focus and concentration. One day I hope to reread it. I love that Kindred is considered a classic. Persuasion is so worthy! Even if you haven’t got on with Austen, it’s worth a try. It’s quite short and in many ways her most sophisticated. Babbitt may feel a bit dated but I enjoyed it. I’d like to reread Jacob’s Room and Middlemarch although I am really hoping to get to Eliot’s Daniel Deronda first because I’m quite interested in the story. Also hoping to read more of Trollope’s stand-alone fiction. Happy New Year!

@bookofdust 2 года назад

What a great idea and quite a selection of different titles to explore for the year. It been quite awhile since I’ve read any classic children’s literature, which I used to be quite good at doing. Maybe I’ll do a goal of reading 22 classic children’s novels in 2022 and fill in some gaps?

@oconeemercantile7897 2 года назад

Thank you for this list of suggestions.

@hasteyebooks 2 года назад

OOh Jacob's Room is on my list because I want to read all of Woolf's novels and your commentary made me even more excited for it! I'm trying to read Middlemarch right now and it's so long, your explanation of 2 novels in one makes a lot of sense haha

@shulamussnug7120 2 года назад

Knowing that there are explanatory notes for Ulysses encourages me to try it. I’ve always avoided it because it is so big! Thanks.

@suzannevaliantis7373 2 года назад

Eric Karl Anderson thank you for covering Classic Literature luv the video this is exactly what I've decided to do for 2022 read all the classics out there even the modern ones.

@RickMacDonnell 2 года назад

With a manuscript that the author wanted burned after this death, my first instinct was “no I wouldn’t read that at all, that feels wrong.” Then I imagined this scenario with an author I love and immediately thought, “no, I would read that immediately” 😂 This was great, Eric! So many interesting choices. Not your common list. I like it

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Exactly! Too tempting to resist. And thank you! 📚

@christinastewart6779 2 года назад

Delightful presentation. Thank you

@Geemeel1 2 года назад

Wow. What a great vid. I stumbled upon you and this vid. So well presented and great and interesting books ! Picking up the canon. How great of you to point that out, ❤️✌🏽

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Thanks! 📚

@kirstenelizabeth2 2 года назад

I had no interest in Moll Flanders....untill you read that title! I laughed out loud! Maybe I will get to that one day!!!

@user-yg6ft1iu1i 2 года назад

Thank you for this great idea for the upcoming year. I’m very interested in The Canon book, All About H Hatter and In Search of Lost Books. I’ve read Babbitt but don’t really remember it. Enjoyed The Garden Party and Other Stories. Saw Moll Flanders on Masterpiece Theatre HaHa. Some others I’ll give a closer look to see if I’m interested. For Classics this past year I’ve read several Graham Greenes’ and starting a Muriel Spark. I’m counting them anyway.

@eusaypdx 2 года назад

Wow. I read 4 of these in 2021 and 1 currently on my reading shelf. Really enjoyed Sinclair Lewis books, while the Castle made me want to quit it too... it was such a rabbit hole. Thank you for a great content as always!

@rashone2879 2 года назад

Thanks for this presentation..I’ve read some of these books quite some time ago...I’m going to try Lu Un and especially Jose Saramango....

@textilaerika 2 года назад

Interesting sellection of books. I read Kindred this summer and it still lingers in me, it's such an amazing book. The subject is dark and Butler just portraits in a way that is easy to grasp but affects you deeply. One of my favorite classics is Sigrid Undset's books about Kristin Lavransdatter, I read them as a teenager and some parts I recal like I read them yeasterday.

@fionahart2806 2 года назад

This is a great list. Jacob's Room and The Garden Party are the only ones I have read recently, I am ashamed to say. The others were almost all on my TBR, so thanks in advance for the motivation! I got Round the World in 80 Books by David Ramosch for Christmas, because I collect books about books. He has written a lot on World Literature, in terms of expanding the canon and also the underlying literary issues of place in texts, and new life of texts catalused by translation and border-crossing, so I'll definitely be getting This is the Canon.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Great! Ramosch’s book would make an excellent reading challenge. This is the Canon has a bunch of interesting suggestions I’ve not come across before.

@CapriUni 2 года назад

I reread (well, strictly speaking, revisited through an audio book) _Persuasion_ this year. It's actually one of my favorites. It's different from Austen's more well-known books, because it's *not* about first love and courtship, but about coming to terms with the person you've grown into being,. Oh, and Anne's love interest was not a captain, yet, when she first broke off the engagement; he's a captain when he comes back into her life.

@ROXCANADA2023 2 года назад

Well said, it's pretty bad that people who has not read a book gives advice and tells what is the book about, uff. A master's degree and he hasn't read Jane Austen, mmm

@ROXCANADA2023 2 года назад

And he watches Netflix? ...

@trishbirchard1270 2 года назад

Honey, Whatever you suggest ! You are adorable . As someone who has frittered away many hours in fiction this will be lots of fun ; am only four minutes into your presentation and can't wait to watch what books appear . Don't change , Eric.

@judica8873 2 года назад

I am so happy to have found your channel. There's not enough space in comments to describes my love for classic books & my never-ending search for re-reads, not yet read & never heard of. I've made a list of the not yet reads & not heard of & I'll be on the lookout for them at my favorite book stores; which are thrift stores. When Jane Austen began writing her friend (& admirer) suggested she read Henry Fielding's Tom Jones for inspiration instead of the female authors of the time. I'm glad she took the advise because the "flavor" of Tom Jones is evident in all her novels. Tom Jones is also an excellent classic read as are Camus The Plague, Voltaire's Candid & anything written by Dostoyevsky, just to mention a few. I'm so looking forward to reading your list & following your channel. Thank You.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Thanks so much and that’s great to hear. Dostoevsky is definitely a favourite of mine too and I’ve been wanting to read/reread his books. Hope you discover some more favourite classics this year! 📚

@ryandavis280 2 года назад

Great list, thank you!

@literaturewhispersasmr9511 2 года назад

Persuasion is on my list this year too! And straight after that you'll be pleased to hear I'm reading Virginia Woolf's The Waves 🌊 Enjoy your reading!

@ruthjones3838 Год назад

Thank you so much, Eric. The year is ten months on and I'm only now listening to this carefully put together selection; a wonderful array of possibilities. I just happen to have read "Ulysses" without knowing beforehand it's 2022 (ie 1922) connection, am presently in the middle of "Jacob's Room" and "Siddhartha" was my companion back in January as I spent moonlit evenings pacing up and down a North Wales promenade in between looking after my convalescing elderly father (who'd also just read it and I was curious to inhabit the world he seemed drawn to). Saramago's "Blindness" is a beautiful, tender and moving novel despite the violence and horror of its setting. I look forward to reading your other recommendations.

@jones2277 2 года назад

i love that this is a diverse book list. great list!

@coenraadwalters1990 2 года назад

SIDDHARTHA is a favourite of mine. A quick read, in terms of pages and time, but with a long lingering afterlife.

@marthalagunes8281 2 года назад

Thank you for this list! It’s different from the classic list of classics jejeje cheers from Mexico! 🇲🇽 I love your videos!

@JonTalbain777 2 года назад

Lots of great recommendations! I’ve never gotten around to Kindred and maybe I’ll finally give that a go. Also Moll Flanders is a classic I never really thought about picking up, so perhaps I’ll take a peek at that as well. I think it’s worth noting how different the reading experiences some of these books are. I adore Ulysses and Middlemarch, but I find they gave me very different things as a reader that I may have wanted at very different times. Both great, but different.

@alanshadastrokeanddiedinho2897 2 года назад

Happy New Year to you and your partner. Wish you health and happiness in the coming year. I'm one of the few who believe that Orwell's novel 1984 isn't dystopian. But actually based on Orwell own experience in London during the time of WWII. Classics get to this year: Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann War and Peace by Tolstoy The City of God by Augustine

@Scottlp2 2 года назад

Great list-bunch of classics I hadn’t run across. You might check out Tolstoy (war and peace, Anna K), or anything by Somerset Maugham-both amazingly astute observers of human nature-which is why I read only classics and use them in my book club.

@jillal-fuhaid1763 2 года назад

I concur about all but don’t forget Somerset Maugham , all his books are delicious. However we can all do without Useless by Joyce. Even the author told close relatives that it was a joke.

@mariatavares8513 2 года назад

I love Saramago too but I'm portuguese. Wish you all the best for 2022.

@elizabethmoloney6967 2 года назад

I am reading more classics too. Alot on my tbr.....I have read Mr Joyce's 'tome' , struggled at times like yourself but completed. I'm doing more Dickens, Hardy & Trollope I really liked Middlemarch . Thanks for the video, as ever informative and insightful 👍

@tiqh1806 2 года назад

Excellent recommendations! Classic books. I would like to read Ulysses for social reasons. And right now my thing seems to be to read about books featuring teenage villainy and how that is sorted.

@inarticulable 2 года назад

I was so shocked to see This is the Canon in your video because I was thinking of getting it :D Happy New Year!

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

It has so many fascinating selections! 📚 Happy New Year!

@DTWrites1books 2 года назад

Always good to discover new classics

@Lynne-28 2 года назад

Thanks for your enthusiastic INSPIRATION!

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

😊

@garyredman892 2 года назад

I have been following The Modern Library's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century List in publication order, for a while now and just got to Ulysses in 2021. What a ride! I even understood some of it. In 2022 comes: In the Lighthouse, Point Counter Point, A Farewell to Arms, A High Wind in Jamaica, The Sound and the Fury, The Maltese Falcon, As I Lay Dying and The U.S.A.Trilogy.

@thesleepvampire 2 года назад

Ulysses is wonderful. It was on top of my 2020 list and Swann’s Way was top for 2021. Orlando (Woolf) is my top 2022 classics read.

@MsReadsAlot 2 года назад

Oh! Kindred! I read it this year and enjoyed it! It is being made into a series? Cool! I am hoping to read middlemarch this year. Love the story about Kafka.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

I'm glad you enjoyed Kindred. Looking forward to it! 📚

@ianfoster2093 2 года назад

Great list! Note that a new edition of Ulysses from Oxford University Press is due out in May ‘22 with new introduction etc. I believe Oxford’s edition is thought of as definitive, at least by some. I hope to finally take the plunge next year!

@bethandbeyond1 2 года назад

This is a good list. As I was raised in Kenya, I always appreciate titles encouraging decolonizing the bookshelf. Persuasion, to date, is in my top five novels of all time and I came to appreciate Jane much later than most. I hope you read it. You may not love it as I do, but I wager you will appreciate it.

@raginimishra1931 2 года назад

Finally someone mentioned All About H Hatter... good to know

@dqan7372 2 года назад

Nice to see someone reading Ulysses. I'd planned on rereading it this year after rereading Dubliners and Portrait (still might), but I got hung up on Dubliners. I paired it with Don Gifford's companion guide but keep misplacing that. Have added the Kay Dick novel to my 2022 list. Desani sounds good too. Bought "Pride and Prejudice" on my phone last night; hoping to get thru the main Austen/Bronte novels this year. Read "Babbit" in college and enjoyed it.

@sebastiancastillo8704 2 года назад

What a cool video-and what an important year for literature!

@JentheLibrarianreads 2 года назад

I’ve not read much Austen but I really loved Persuasion so I do hope you like it too.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Thanks!

@cozycomfy589 2 года назад

Was glad to see Sinclar Lewis included. Thoroughly enjoyed Babbitt..Main Street my favorite. You're the first book reviewer to include Lewis...don't understand why he's not more popular.

@margaridavelhinho1618 Год назад

I am portuguese and I discovered today your channel. I am so glad I did. So many wonderful suggestions. Thank you for that. I am happy that you suggested José Saramago. Try to read "Baltazar and Blimunda". It's a masterpiece.

@cmmosher8035 2 года назад

I haven't really jived with Austen myself either but I picked up Northanger Abbey last year so I am going to give her another try.

@patricejones8799 2 года назад

I am reading biographies and Classics in 2022 with occasional other things. Some of these I have never heard of. Enjoy them.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Thanks! 📚

@amandaskelton2132 2 года назад

Great list. I really want to reread Ulysses maybe this is the year! It definitely needs a group/buddy read.

@DrIli2008 2 года назад

200 aniversary

@susanm2128 2 года назад

Good selection of titles. Glad that you will read Kindred. Butler is an excellent writer. Last year I read Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, and before the 2016 election It Can't Happen Here, and definitely want to read more of his works. For me 2022 is going to be the year of tomes: Anna Karenina, The Master and Margarita, The Portrait of a Lady (this year read Daisy Miller and Washington Square and James is not as intimidating as I feared), East of Eden, and the last 3 volumes of The Barchester Chronicles. Also have three short novels, The Tenant of Wildfeld Hall, Fathers and Sons, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which I hope to get to.

@juliereads 2 года назад

Definitely read Babbitt-- It is my favorite book and favorite Sinclair Lewis novel! I read Main Street in 2020 and just finished It Can't Happen here at the end of 2021. Also, enjoy East of Eden I loved that one!

@julieg_quebec-julesselivre8641 2 года назад

I counted over 40 classics in my to be read pile so reading classics is definitely a project for 2022! 😅

@SpringboardThought 2 года назад

I’m making an effort to pick up some classics this year too - helps that finnnnally audible plus launched in Canada and so many classics are free for me now. But I also just have quite a few - one of which is Middlemarch and Austen, similarly, I’ve never tried to read (or watch).

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Yes, that’s very handy on audible! Hope you find some new favourite classics. 📚

@lorenabobbitt22 2 года назад

The line you were remembering was from The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock ;) Thank you for this video!

@angelaking9619 2 года назад

This is a great poem that really resonates when you get to a certain weary, disappointed middle age. I didn't really appreciate it when I was younger, but now - wow it speaks to me.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Ah yes, I thought I’d got it wrong. Thanks!

@davidnovakreadspoetry 2 года назад

Let me see which of these I have read. _Middlemarch_ recently, otherwise long, long ago: _Ulysses_ _Persuasion_ _1984_ _The Castle_ _The Waste Land_ (two words, I believe) So that's a few. What an inspiration you are. This is how I want to be! Maybe I'll set up a list and try to plow through it. All things can tempt me though.

@gerrygunn5109 2 года назад

Over the past several years I have downloaded around 200 free classics to my iPad Mini; currently reading Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore.

@aaronfacer 2 года назад

Wow, Ulysses at 100! I really enjoyed this list ☺

@isabelamer86 2 года назад

I love Persuasion, my favorite Austen novel.

@babettedejong2975 2 года назад

Ooo, interesting! I'll join you this year for Middlemarch, Persuasion and 1984! Maybe Siddhartha as well.

@lottehoughton648 2 года назад

I’m not sure if Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield is in that collection but I can’t think about it without crying - I don’t know about anyone else! Green Tea by Sheridan Le Fanu is definitely in ‘In a Glass Darkly’ though and it’s so much fun - you’ve reminded me to go back and reread it🐒

@juliereads 2 года назад

Babbitt is my favorite book and Lewis my favorite author. I hope you enjoy it!!

@johnnamurraycamp5100 2 года назад

Woolf's Jacob's Room is firmly on my June docket. (As you know, I enjoy VW's work.) Elena Knows was great; thanks for the rec! I read Mansfield's Garden Party on CT radio almost half a century ago, after the peak of radio theater but before reading shorts was a 'thing.' FUN!)

@guillermorodriguez2498 2 года назад

Hello! I'm from Buenos Aires and I love your videos. Congratulations!

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Thank you! 😊

@the_broken_spine 2 года назад

There are a lot of books on this that I have enjoyed or would like to pick up. I plan on reading Ulysses this year. I, too, have read parts of it in college. Kindred is fantastic and I love that cover. I love Kafka and it was on my TBR last year and didn’t read it. It is on my TBR this year.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Great! Hope we can get through all of Ulysses together! 📚

@daheikkinen 2 года назад

I wrote my undergraduate thesis on Ulysses. It’s really a nearly inexhaustible book. I still go back to it quite often.

@alexanderkorbonits5417 2 года назад

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" is from one of TS Eliot's other famous poems, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

@athertonca 2 года назад

When I saw the title of this video, I naively thought, “Wouldn’t it be something if I have read all of these?” Ha! I have read 10, but there are a couple I’ve never even heard of. My favorite on this list is Siddhartha, first read in AP English to no effect and then re-read two years ago to great effect. Ulysses…oof, that’s a tough one that I am happy to have in my rear view mirror. I would suggest A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a sort of Ulysses with training wheels. That book I truly enjoyed. Like another commenter, I am working my way through Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels. I hope to finish in 2022.

@readandre-read 2 года назад

Middlemarch, Persuasion and Moll Flanders are all favorites of mine.

@andrewglasson592 2 года назад

I'm thinking of re-reading Ulysses, Middlemarch and Gravity's Rainbow next year and I might try to tackle Infinite Jest again.

@curtjarrell9710 2 года назад

I also want to read Kindred, Siddhartha, In a Glass Darkly, and 984. Happy New Year and happy reading, Eric.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Fab! 📚 Happy New Year, Curt!

@LisaofHopewell 2 года назад

I started on Jacob's Room a few years ago. I have it and Kangaroo of the ones on the list I haven't already read.

@drawyourbook876 2 года назад

This is the canon sounds like such a good idea, I need to check that out

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

👍📚

@mohammadhajkhalil1981 2 года назад

I always wanted to read Nabokov maybe I will start with Transparent Things😊😊

@Spamhero 2 года назад

Hess, Orwell, Hardy, Kafka and Lawrence with you so far. For some reason Hess stays with me the longest. His themes resonate with me long after I've finished reading him.

@Paperbird76 2 года назад

Now I want to read Moll Flanders! 😄

@hedgiecc 2 года назад

I’ve been keeping Jacob’s Room (and Ulysses) for 2022 too 😊. I also may dip into Moll Flanders, to give Defoe a second chance. Other than that, in 2022 I am going to concentrate on getting through books I’ve bought but not read yet. Happy New Year!

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

That’s a very good plan. 📚 Happy New Year to you!

@ROXCANADA2023 2 года назад

Moll Flanders is considered one of the most important novels not only by the main character but because of being the first time someone really wrote a whole narrative that became something that was called "novel" , do the research before reading it

@coolshah1662 2 года назад

I'm so glad that I found this channel. Subscribed. Great recommendations. I'd love to see your poetry recommendations, something I, as a literature major, am most interested in. John Keats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Milton, and Percy Bysshe Shelley being my absolute favorite.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Thanks! I tend to read poetry only sporadically and want to read more.

@coolshah1662 2 года назад

@@EricKarlAnderson Do make a video on it whenever you do. I'd love to see it, and keep up the good work!

@fadista7063 2 года назад

I read Ulysses in my 30s and recently reread Portrait of the Artist. I probably have had my fill of Joyce. Read the first paragraph of Finnegan's Wake and decided it felt like one of those dare games. This year I have finished Look Homeward Angel, which I preferred over Joyce. Now reading The Citadel by A.J.Cronin but would like to read the other Woolf esp To the Lighthouse. Only have read Orlando many years ago, which was interesting but not leaving a strong impression. Glad you mentioned Senhor Saramago, History of the Siege of Lisbon is my favorite of all of his. Would like to read Middlemarch also, as well as War and Peace (tried in my 20s and hated it). Thank you for your thoughts and suggestions!

@dawnbarry2985 2 года назад

Daniel DeFoe's book that is surprising timely is AJournal of the Plague Year. I read it a few years ago, but never thought I would live through it.

@elizdonovan5650 2 года назад

As a very early school leaver (14 years) I missed that whole childhood/adolescence that some people experience. What education I got later in life, was due to my own efforts. I do feel that I missed, what some may call the basics and benefits of a classical education. It is my opinion, there are many other people like me, who through no fault of their own were forced to leave school early. My age now, is that of elder old age. I say all of the above to give context to my request. Is it possible to get a list of books which would now be of benefit to people like me? A sort of basic reading list for us people who were not formally educated in our youth and would like, in our old age, to remedy that situation and fill in the gaps. Thank you for your interesting videos. 🌲🌝☘️

@kandamy1 2 года назад

Hi Eliz, not sure where you are from but there are very few students nowadays who receive a classical education through state education. I have a liberal arts degree but as far as developing an understanding of developments in literature and philosophy goes, that education has happened in subsequent years. What I'm trying to say is I don't think you've missed out- in fact, your awareness of shortcomings in your education probably already places you further along than the supposedly educated majority. Maybe, like me, you're looking for a guide- someone to be Virgil to your Dante, as it were. May I suggest the following books as giving you a helping hand on your journey? The Western Canon by Harold Bloom How to be Well Read by John Sutherland Great Books by David Denby The New Lifetime Reading Plan by C Fadiman and J S Major I'd say the Sutherland is the most accessible- they give little potted guides of the books they consider classics. The Bloom has a very extensive list of what he considers the classics - the list is available online at openculture.com

@thetaurielwitch4371 2 года назад

🥺🥺🥺 such a humble person you are

@BobTheBookerer 2 года назад

I love those old titles that gave everything away, and/or had chapter headings like ‘In which the main character tragically dies.’ 😂 Good luck with Ulysses! It’s a bit of a beast, but there are some amazing moments. I’m long overdue a re-read but it also exhausted me last time 😂 Ooh, exciting about Kindred getting an adaptation! This is such a fun set of classics- I really want to read The Castle and Jacob’s Room too!

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Yeah, I was reading a classic this past year where I wondered if an ill character was going to die and then the next chapter heading was “______ dies” so 19th century and earlier authors really had a different approach to suspense. 😂 I hope you will like Jacob’s Room. I read it as part of a course in uni so it’ll be interesting for me to reread it outside of that context.

@BobTheBookerer 2 года назад

@@EricKarlAnderson Haha, yes! I love how casual they are with it too- it’s so funny reading it with a modern lens! Ooh, nice! I’m pretty determined this year to finally read more Woolf- I’ve been talking about how much I love three of her novels for a while and have somehow not made the move to reading any others- but I want to change that! 💪🏼

@johnnamurraycamp5100 2 года назад

I finally read Ulysses about 3 years ago and I enjoyed it much more than I'd have expected! I chose to read a chapter a week. I found it helpful to refer to the schema (online somewhere!) that gives you a clue about which myth is referenced in each chapter, although if you are better versed in mythology than I, you'd not need it. I actually laughed out loud with fair frequency. Last chapter rocks.(Admittedly, I laugh out loud while reading Beckett.)

@eddie_d1233 2 года назад

The only Woolf book I have read is Mrs. Dalloway. I know she is your favorite so I will get a copy of Jacob's Room. Also, I read Persuasion last year and found it so stiffly formal until I started getting into the plot. The other thing I noticed about Persuasion is how later on the Brontes picked up the pace and their books are, to my mind, much more accessible. Thanks for this list.

@inanimatecarbongod 2 года назад

Funnily enough, I actually reread The Waste Land myself on Monday night, which I discovered afterwards was the exact centenary of Horace Liveright scoring the book publication rights for that (before it was even finished, too; he went after Ulysses as well but decided against it considering the legal strife it was facing). Found that quite amusing (rather more so than The Waste Land itself). I read Moll Flanders quite a while ago, don't remember a great deal about. Not sure that I liked it too much. The Lu Xun book is interesting. Out of the three volumes of stories therein, I think I got into the third the most cos it's based on older legends of people like Lao Tsu, and I was more familiar with those than the contemporary situation in 1920s China the other two books dealt with. Interesting news about the 1984 "sequel" (if that's the word). The Orwell estate have often been a bit frowny at other people trying to do things with their property, so this is quite a change.

@ShivangiBhasin 2 года назад

Ali Smith mentioned Katherine Mansfield in one of books in her Seasonal Quartet (I think it was Spring?) and I bought her short story collection that very second 😅🤭

@withmalice2806 2 года назад

Genially presented , interesting list But you could add .... Geoffrey Chaucer - ( Canterbury tales ) Joseph Conrad Stendhal Dostoevsky Turgenev Solzhenitsyn Gabriel Garcia Marquez Jorge Luis Borges Pablo Neruda ( Macchu Picchu ) Stanislav Lem- Solaris Hemingway- Old man and sea Thomas Hardy - Tess of Durberville, my favourites

@Sherlika_Gregori 2 года назад

I read They by Kay Dick this year and it’s fascinating. Really atmospheric, strange even, but a must read.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 года назад

Great! I'm excited to get to it.

@camm5962 2 года назад

Such a great list. The way I finally got through Ulysses was by listening to the RTE audio recording, with a full cast. It’s available online. Hearing it spoken makes all the difference. Also, Frank Delaney’s podcast re:Joyce is wonderful for helping you understand the context and the references.

@janethansen9612 2 года назад

Yes, the only way I got through Ulysses was to read it out loud so audio is probably the way to go.

@PatriciaProenca1 2 года назад

After three or four attempts (at different moments in my life), I gave up on Ulysses. I never managed more than a hundred pages. Yours is a good suggestion, thank you. Happy New Year!