Every Single Classic Book I’ve Ever Read. 

I can't describe my frustration as a Brazilian when I see people reading Paulo Coelho instead of the real Brazilian classics that are actually AMAZING. Please guys, read anything else from Brazil, Paulo Coelho really does zero justice to our literature 😭 here in Brazilian he is highly taken as pseudoliterature. If you want to get deeper into our literature (especially the classics), read any work by Machado de Assis, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Amado, Guimarães Rosa, Cecília Meireles, Hilda Hilst... basically anyone besides Paulo Coelho PLEASE

The most shocking was seeing The Alchemist not be in the last place 😂

This video is a testament to why you became my favourite on this platform. I can listen to you talk about books endlessly. You made me a better reader (and critic) but you also expanded my reach - I read much more diverse literature now! Thank you for sharing your passion with us all - it shines through, truly! xxx

My favorite classics: 1. Crime and Punishment 2. Stoner 3. Animal farm 4. The bell jar 5. The brothers Karamazov 6. Anna Karnina 7. Giovannis room 8. Happening by Annie Ernaux 9. A tree grows in brooklyn 10. Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz But I also have to mention other 5 star reads for me which are the Overcoat by Gogol, gone with the wind, the stranger by Camus, and the picture of dorian gray

Here's my top 5 1. The Picture of Dorian Gray 2. 1984 3. The Book Thief 4. Wuthering Heights 5. One Hundred Years of Solitude.

oh my God you absolute beauty- be aware that I am STRAPPING IN for 41 minutes of fantastic Ana content, and I have never been more excited.

East of Eden is a perfect book in my opinion. I wish it never ended. Grapes of Wrath is also fantastic. Recently finished rereading it. Steinbeck writes character profiles so perfectly and concisely. I remember reading Cannery Row when I was 16 and being blown away by the 2 page description of Doc. I immediately fell in love with his character. I know that's not what Steinbeck is known for, but I adore his characters and the way he describes them so concisely and eloquently. They immediately become vivid in my mind even if there is only a paragraph or two devoted to that character. Such a masterful writer.

I love your lists because I always find books I’d be interested to read that I’ve never heard of before! Even in a “classics” video where I assumed I would’ve heard of most of them

So glad to see The Master and Margarita on your list (and quite high). That book is just so unique. 100 Years of Solitude is also one that has stayed with me for a long time. Some of my other favs...Slaughterhouse Five, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Rebecca, Animal Farm, Pride and Prejudice. I also loved East of Eden, but it's been a while so probably time for a re-read. The Secret History has been on my "to read" list for a long time.

What a treat! Fourty minutes of absolute bliss. You've mentioned a lot of my favorites in this video, but of the top of my head, in no particular order, The Stranger, Of Mice and Men, Lolita, Perfume, and Down and Out in Paris and London. There's more of course but these I think about often, or if they're mentioned, something triggers inside me.

Cool list! I read East of Eden this year and totally agree… what a treasure. Can’t wait for the re-read down the road sometime.

One of my newest favorite is All Quiet on the Western Front, beautifully written, I think you would like it, Ana! Also, I love Bonjour Tristesse by Sagan, summer classic ❤

When I was reading East of Eden I thought, This is the best writing I have ever read. The only time I came close to having that thought again was when I read Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus in the original. I also agree with what you said about The Master and Margarita; imagery impossible to forget.

as a norwegian it's refreshing to see a Knut Hamsun book included!

Your style cracks me up. LOVE IT!! Instant new subscriber. ❤❤❤

loooooooved this !!!!!! could hear you speaking for hours and NOW i want to be you, drop everything inspirations, dreams, favorites, hair tutorial drop drop drop

Great list! Here’s my top 10😊 (it was too painful to rank them, so they’re in no particular order): - "El Quijote de La Mancha" - Miguel de Cervantes - “1984” - George Orwell - “Crime and Punishment” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - “Dracula” - Bram Stoker - “One Hundred Years of Solitude” - Gabriel García Márquez - “All Quiet on the Western Front” - Erich Maria Remarque - “Blood Wedding” - Federico García Lorca - “Animal Farm” - George Orwell - “The House of Spirits” - Isabel Allende - “The Cemetery of Forgotten Books” - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Order of these could change but here it goes: 5) *The Awakening, Kate Chopin* - A very recent read for me. I adored the writing, the characterization, the descriptive language, all the sea imagery, the themes. A woman and an affair so you might like this! 4) *A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr* (I have read it both in 2021 and 2022; there's also a gorgeous film with young Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Malahide, directed by Pat O'Connor). Follows a WW1 veteran who travels to a fictional UK village to uncover a mural in the village church. It's a short but very special & unique read. 3) *Narcissus and Goldmund, Hermann Hesse* - read it in high school and I remember adoring it (also Siddharta and Steppenwolf by Hesse are pretty high ranked for me). I think you might enjoy this one because you mentioned you appreciate the classic - romantic mind discussion. 2) *Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin* - I read this nearing the end of high school and then later read all of Baldwin's work when moving to a city with a larger library. James Baldwin is such an amazing writer but I picked this one because I remember it impacted me the most and there are some banger quotes in there. Because I read a lot of his books in bulk, I have a similar thing with them that you have with Didion's books. They are hard to differentiate in my mind and I don't know by title what each one is about but I'll probably reread them at some point in the future because literally all of his books are perfection. 1) *Sinuhe The Egyptian, Mika Waltari* - I read it and then immediately reread it when I was about 13 (and it's almost 800 pages; I also had a reading diary for it...). My favorite book ever and it really shaped me. A historical fiction following the entire life of a man in ancient Egypt. I lent out my book to my best friends because I just needed them to read it! Ofc it is now lost to me. :( I also made my partner read it. Everyone, just read this book!!! hahaha Honorable mentions: The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka - I read it in high school and interpreted it through the lens of depression. Also love his letters to his father, letters to milena. Catcher in The Rye, J.D. Salinger - Look, I was a very angsty teen. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte. - Anne Bronte is underrated! (I also love Elizabeth Gaskell, Jane Austen). I need to reread 1984 and Animal Farm, I was too young when I read those but Orwell and his essays are top tier.

This is what i am talking about. this is why your videos are the coolesttt! My fav classic book of all time is one hundred years of solitude, currently reading love in time of cholera because i cannot get enough of G.G. Marquez

east of eden by john steinbeck and the mill on the floss by george eliot are the classics that have my whole heart.

My sanity returns Everytime you upload I swear omg. Live for your videos!!! I feel like we are friends!! Love your content and personality!

Top 5 Classics 1. The Road, McCarthy 2. Beloved, Morrison 3. As I Lay Dying, Faulkner 4. Of Mice & Men, Steinbeck 5. The Color Purple, Walker Also, you really made me want to pick up East of Eden for my next read! I’ve been staring at it on my bookshelf for years! 4.

i really love how you talk about books, its so entertaining and refreshing compared to the other book youtubers i've seen (no hate to them tho). loved your list and most of your takes lol, one flew over the cuckoos nest totally changed the way i thought about literature as well! and east of eden is genuinely amazing, would also make my top 5... which would probably be: 1. haunting of hill house - shirley jackson 2. persuasion - jane austen 3. east of eden - john steinbeck 4. the dispossessed - ursula k le guin 5. a mercy - toni morrison honorary mention bc i know this is contemporary lit but it qualifies as a modern classic in my eyes: breasts and eggs by mieko kawakami

I know I'm late but here are my 10 favourite classics: 1. Hopscotch, Julio Cortázar 2. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury 3. War and Peace, León Tolstói 4. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle 5. Martín Rivas, Alberto Blest Gana 6. The Never Ending Story, Michael Ende 7. Cat among the Pigeons, Agatha Christie 8. Snow Falling in Spring, Moying Li 9. My Sweet Orange Tree, José Mauro de Vasconcelos 10. Marianela, Benito Pérez Galdós Hoping you check out some of these, lots of love from Chile! 💕

This was a great video! One of my reading goals this year is to read more classics and you gave me some great ideas. This year I am determined to finally read Rebecca. I read and loved many of the books you mentioned..anything by John Steinbeck (my favorite is The Wayward Bus), loved A Moveable Feast - it’s Paris baby! Lady Chatterly’s Lover is in my TBR pile, Truman Capote is another favorite of mine especially In Cold Blood. The Classic I love and have read the most times is To Kill A Mockingbird. I want to read Anna Karenina but am intimidated by it. Have you read any James Baldwin? I think you would like him.

My favorite classics: (they’re in no particular order): - “Animal Farm” - George Orwell - ''A Clockwork Orange'' - Anthony Burgess - ''American Psycho'' - Bret Easton Ellis - ''The Collector''-John Fowles - ''I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream'' - Harlan Ellison

I'm just getting into the classics, great video. You're awesome.

I was brought up as a British classics girlie, so my top 10 is very skewed that way! 1. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 2. Howard's End - EM Forster 3. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen 4. My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin 5. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 6. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford 7. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens 8. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates 9. Perfume - Patrick Suskind 10. A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Amazing! You and I are on the same wavelength on so many of your selections. We may not agree on their placement but, who cares. I want to back up your selection of "The Master and Margareta", an amazing book and I'm so glad you included it. Keep it up, I enjoyed your style and method of presentation.

Such a fun idea for a video!

At Uni I had a professor who specialized in Faulkner studies and we read As I Lay Dying. Like you said it is so intelligent and difficult to read, but my professor managed to let that geniosity shine with his interpretations. I was mind-blown by the book at the time. But if I had to reread it by myself I think I still would not be able to appreciate the book. It just takes so much research to be able to appreciate Faulkner!

What a curious group of books...but then I did enjoy the whole presentation, of which I feel, the books were lesser actors on the stage... loved it!

Passing is a new favorite! Nella Larsen is spectacular. Another great book to try by Nabokov is Invitation to a Beheading--an absolutely wild ride the whole way through!!

Stumbled upon your channel and clicked on this video first because I was on the hunt for a new classic to read. OMG!!! East of Eden is my absolute favorite classic, and believe it or not, I was in the mood yesterday to revisit One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I even asked my friend (the one I lent my copy to) if I could borrow it back for a while. The parallels are uncanny!! the youtube algorithm or whoever the frick listening is on my side today 😫🙌 have you given Donna Tartt's other books a shot? I've got the other two, but I haven't quite delved into them yet.

I am so surprised that you have managed to get to this point in life and have not read any Jane Austen! This was a great video 🤩

A bit over 41 minutes later... (was sidetracked)... Damn, you have DONE IT AGAIN! This was a lovely vid to sit down with on a boiling summer day, and you. And, wow, top 10 Classics! Time to open my Goodreads and try desperately to remember what it is that I have read. 10. Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. One of the earlier classics that made me understand that classics could be engaging and emotional. I read this around the beginning of Covid, while trying to read more classics. It is so beautifully written, and is remarkably sympathetic to the antagonist of the story. 9. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter. A delicious and sensuous book that has permeated the feminist literary canon for many years now, and gives a really good taster of what language can do when given the opportunity. 8. The Stranger by Camus. I would be nowhere if I did not give an honourable mention to a great, great book. I have to admit that part of the language is slightly boring to me when not given the right translation. It is very difficult to capture Camus' language, but I also got a good grade for an essay I did on this, so... Thanks, Mersault! 6. The Secret History by Donna Tartt. You know it and you know exactly why I put this here. As a 17 year old it was so much fun to read this novel in one sitting. I remember going to the librarian when I got back to my hometown and asking for a book that "felt like the Secret History." Unsurprisingly, I was a Tumblr girl. 5. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. This was MY first Shirley Jackson, and I read it in the summer. It was the first horror book that I ever read, and the first to make me truly feel like I was going insane alongside the narrative of the novel. After reading it for the second time together with a watch of the series, I remember feeling so seriously unwell in my psyche that my very perception of vision seemed warped somehow. A terrifying book. 4. The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas. The first Norwegian classic to really grab me and shake me and envelope me. I don't know how the English translation is, but I have heard great things. Truly a wonderful book for reading while the winter falls, as you get lost in that strange and beautiful world of girlhood and grief. 3. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. I originally put this at number 7 but have moved it higher, for I have a similar relationship to this book as you do to the Secret History. I grew up climbing on Hanging Rock and have seen the 1975 movie very many times. It is very beautiful, and a really interesting look into the conflict between the "chaos" of Australian nature, and how it is incompatible with the colonial British who had moved into the area. 2. Death and the Dervish by Mesa Selimovic, a Kafkaesque look at the Ottoman justice system in medieval Bosnia. An exploration of religious extremism. A dense, thick, difficult book that was one of the first to show me just how rewarding a more challenging read could be. "Hope is the pimp of death, a murderer more dangerous than hatred. It's deceptive; it knows how to win you over, to calm you and lull you to sleep, whispering whatever you want to hear, leading you to the blade." WHAT a line! 1. I would be lying to myself if I did not put Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery at the top of my list. It was the first classic I read as a girl, and it has had perhaps the most profound impact on me, compared to any other book that I have read since. It has personally influenced my philosophy and my character to such a strong degree that I could never possibly put it any lower. This rating also includes the rest of the series.

My favorite classics are; The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose Matilda by Roald Dahl The Wall by Marlen Haushofer Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

Yes to Steinbeck being 1st!!! Grapes of Wrath is probably my number one but I'm in the middle of East of Eden rn so we'll see. Then I'd probably go Beloved by Toni Morrison and Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin.

what is your fave palahniuk?? i’m always intimidated but intrigued by them whenever i see them at the bookstore

OMG I think I'm in love! BTW You should read The Road To Los Angeles by John Fante. It makes the teenage angst of The Catcher in the Rye look like a mild heartburn. Others on the list would be Catch 22, Joseph Heller; The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck; The Human Stain, Philip Roth; A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole.

How did you decide which 60?

hella new books to check out, excellent taste. mah shallah 🙏🙏

my favs are definitely one hundred years of solitude, song of solomon, and emma! i admittedly haven’t read a lot of classics but want to get to east of eden this summer

Love this list! East of Eden, amazing and I adore secret history. Hemingway and Zadie Smith in the top 10… brilliant!

I was really getting worried when East of Eden wasn't on there and did I miss it or do you not like Dickens?

The way I shouted for joy seeing Steinbeck at number one, yes!!! Instant subscribe

great list ana!! i love "how much land does a man need" just as much! however i think you should give pynchon another try lol. v is notoriously his hardest 😅 he is probably my favorite author and even i havent tried reading v (and one other book of his that is called mason and dixon)! out of fear! lol. here's mine (granted i dont think ive read 60 classics): 1. slaughterhouse 5 - kurt vonnegut 2. vineland - thomas pynchon 3. gravity's rainbow - thomas pynchon 4. pale fire - vladimir nabokov 5. keep the aspidistra flying - george orwell 6. east of eden - john steinbeck 7. anna karenina - leo tolstoy 8. wuthering heights - emily brontë 9. of love and other demons - gabriel garcia marquez 10. the bell jar - sylvia plath

Ma'am your voice put me in Trance somehow. i regret that I found you so late in the Booktube community. Consider me a FANN!!

Great list and great video! I don't agree with all of your assessments and rankings but I still enjoyed hearing your perspective. I will definitely read some that I haven't had a chance yet to read. 😊 PS Yes, you remembered correctly about Hiroshima. Devastating.

I absolutely agree with East of Eden 🙌🏼

I realized how much of a nerd I am when I got wayyy too excited to know each book on this list

Couldn't think of a better #1! My top five (that first come to mind): 1. East of Eden, Steinbeck 2. Franny and Zooey, Salinger 3. Raise High the Roofbeams, Salinger (double problematic fave wow) 4. The Crucible, Miller 5. A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams/Marlon Brando lol

My favorite classics - flowers for algernon, to kill a mockingbird, the outsiders and catcher in the rye

My number 1 easily is The Color Purple. Animal Farm is definitely up there as well. And my wild card would be Wicked by Gregory McGuire. East of Eden is waiting for me on my tbr but we’ll see when that happens, haha

Looking forward for a bookshelf tour.

100% agree with your rating but MACBETH AT 54?!?!

I tapped on this video to watch it, but then I was like NO… I need to watch your beautiful self on the big tv screen 😅

A bit late here but these are my favorites in no particular order: "Conversation in the Cathedral" - Mario Vargas Llosa "Shogun" - James Clavell (some don't consider it a classic but it's a classic for me, so good!) "One hundred years of solitude" - Márquez “1984” - George Orwell “Frankenstein” - Mary Shelley "Solaris" - Stanislaw Lem "Giovanni's Room" - James Baldwin (and anything written by Baldwin) "Bengal Nights" - Mircea Eliade (Romanian author) "La Medeleni" - Ionel Teodoreanu (Romanian author) "The Cossacks" - Tolstoy (because it reminds me of the Romanian countryside, peasants, and nature - very similar).

Excellent choice of classic novels. I will be addiing some of these to my TBR list Ana. Have you read Catch 22 by Joseph heller?

I am so happy to see Steinbeck at the top. He is my favorite author, for sure.

Ana, your list is insane, and I'm not sure if it's a compliment or not (which is a compliment). Also, I beg you to read another Brazilian classic, The Alchimist is the most hated book by brazilian critics!!! I recommend you The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, by Machado de Assis, I really think it's your vibe! Also, you'll really dig Clarice Lispector when you're feeling up to some brainy stuff! Anyway, here are my top 10 classics: 10. Sleepwalking Land; by Mia Couto 9. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, by Machado de Assis 8. Pride and Prejudice; by Jane Austen 7. The People's Rose; by Carlos Drummond de Andrade 6. Oedipus Rex; by Sophocles 5. Frankenstein; by Mary Shelley 4. Beauty and Sadness; by Yasunari Kawabata 3. The Passion According to G.H.; by Clarice Lispector 2. 100 Years of Solitude; by Gabriel Garcia Márquez 1. Leaves of Grass; by Walt Whitman

I too had an existential criSIS after "The Stranger" lol Enjoyed this video 😊

Great expectations Frankenstein Lord of the rings trio Anna Karenina Wuthering heights - no order and a bit of experience lacking

Not ranked but favourites must include: Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien Women of Brewster Place- Gloria Naylor East of Eden- John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (must re-read as I know tons went over my head) War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas 1984 George Orwell Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov I know I would also include works by Oscar Wilde & Ray Bradbury but I can't pick which book.

I love both 62 and 61.

Anna I’m French and one of my favourite classics ever is les liaisons dangeruese, it got turned into an amazing film called cruel intentions. It’s a really fun fast read

Love the color of your lipstick! Would you do another one with your favourite non fiction? 🎉❤

Seeing As I Lay Dying so low hurts my soul. One of my favorite novels, but I can totally get how things might've been different had I read it as a teen (yikes!) rather than in my 30s. It's such a brilliantly intense work that just took my breath away continuously. Faulkner is THE author that, every time I read him, makes everything else seems insignificant by comparison. I always recommend people start with Light in August as it's his most traditional while still being a masterpiece. I think people go wrong starting with either Blood Meridian or The Road from McCarthy. Both are excellent for what they are (the bleakest of the bleak), but a novel like All the Pretty Horses is just as good, has all of his gift for beautiful, poetic prose, but also has much more heart and humanism at the center of the novel. I keep hearing how great East of Eden is. I loved Grapes of Wrath (a novel very close to me as my great-grandmother was one of those Oklahomans hit by the economic depression of that period) as a teen. Here are my own Top 10 "classics": 1. War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy (a book you LIVE more than you read) 2. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (in a strange way the most terrifying book I've ever read) 3. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (like a perpetual warm hug) 4. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (completely changed my view of what literature could do) 5. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (If you love family sagas you MUST read this one!) 6. Emma by Jane Austen (love the complexity of Austen's most ambiguous heroine) 7. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes (a real riot, and the definitive take on the romantic adventurer Vs realistic companion archetype) 8. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (had to get another Faulkner on here, and I love how his one feels like it's being written as you're reading it) 9. The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (the ending of this one wrecked me like no other novel ever has) 10. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (hit me at the perfect time in my life where I could totally related to dealing with aging parents)

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1084">18:04</a> Haven’t read Hiroshima so I could be wrong but is it possible you’re thinking of the Ray Bradbury short story “There Will Come Soft Rains”?

I couldn't get through the first 20 pages of Naked Lunch, so I feel you.

I had to take a hiatus from reading after finishing Naked Lunch. Definitely a last place classic for me as well.

My favorite classics in no particular order are A Tale of Two cities, ivanhoe, 1984, Little women, little men, Man's Search for meaning, east of eden, The Grapes of wrath, quo vadis, and since you seem to like short books try one called "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.".

I would LOVE for you to read The Picture of Dorian Gray, I think you and Oscar would soooo hit it off

I adore MacBeth! It's a genius depiction of the deepest, darkest recesses of humanity at its most self-indulgent and ultimately inhumane. But OK, kudos to you for liking King Lear. But we're on opposite wavelengths with Slaughterhouse Five, which I read this year and despised it. I also read Gtasby this year, at last, and I thought it was just OK. I simply didn't care for any of the characters; they all came across like losers to me. Finally, I have East of Eden on my reading list, and I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for your list!!!

My favorites are.. Frankenstein Wuthering heights The interview with the vampire Steppenwolf Love your videos (:

Im a bit older 😏 but love your list...grew up without a tv in the house and read so many of these in my grade school years...I would simply add on JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis ❤...so refreshing to find a channel that is NOT just influenced by Tiktok 😂❤❤

Have you read Blindness by José Saramago?

First time watching one of your videos haha and I’m glad I did, can’t wait to watch more. That being said, my top 10 is: 1. The Secret History 🥇I read it every year. Ultimate favorite book. 2. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (just wow!) (and in my mind Raskolnikov was so handsome, such a bad boy, a little spoiled boy-man, but also incredibly smart. If he existed nowadays he would be like and unemployed teacher that plays PlayStation all the time, but we would have so many great conversations **plus the sex would be so good, because bad guys are usually great at it :( ** aaaaa I just have a major crush on him - that’s it for the oversharing, bye) 3. Divina Comedia - Dante (Inferno being my favorite book out of the 3) 4. Romeo and Juliet (idc what people say, I love it. Deal with it) 5. the odyssey/ The Iliad (I just love these books so much. They’re so much fun, there’s so much history and mythology. It’s just crazy, I love it) 6. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer (sue me) *tongue pop* 7. A Room of one’s own - Virginia Woolf (this one is so goood! I was not in a very nice place when I read it, and I know she wrote about women and women’s place. But I feel that, even though we’re not the same, there can be lots of similarities when talking about the relationship between gay men/ women with heterosexual men in society. So I did relate to it a lot. She’s such a great writer) 8. War of the Worlds - HG Wells (Amazing!! Love me some fiction. AND the fact that when this books was being read on the radio people actually believed the earth was being attacked by martians and it generated chaos…. Just amazes me even more! This book’s great!) 9. La Peste - Albert Camus (amazing !! Amazing !! Amazing !!) 10. Utopia - Thomas More AND 1984 (For me Orwell’s inspiration was C L E A R, I feel like Ingsoc was 100% inspired in the country of Utopia. Both books were good for me, none of them were great though. I was a little disappointed specially with 1984 🤷🏻‍♂️BUT I do love them for they were my first contact with the genre and they changed my life completely

Top 10 classics in no particular order: 1. The Stranger by Albert Camus 2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 3. 1984 by Orwell 4. The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima 5. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata 6. The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki 7. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (this is more of a modern classic) 8. No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai 9. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 10. Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami (another modern classic)

Incredible List! Loved every minute of the video 🫶 My top 5: ●Stoner by John Williams ●One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ●Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky ●The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ●Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

I love your personnality

Hello Ana, Wow, an epic video (sort of like Doctor Zhivago) at forty-one minutes. I had to take an intermission and grab some popcorn and an ice cream. You're far better read on the classics than me, so I can't offer much in conflict or agreement. I have many of the books on your list on my shelf ready to read and I've read a bunch of the titles but not a lot. Major coincidence, I'm currently half way through reading One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Loving it. So different from the film adaption, which I also love. Can I request you attempt an Aussie accent in your next vid. I think you'll nail it, where so many have failed miserably.

This is my first video that i saw of you and everything about you (book taste, your vibe etc.) made me subscribe. Totally loved it! I really need to get into reading classics more. Thank you for the video Love from Austria!

Read Anna Karenina…I love Tolstoy's stories and if you really like a beautiful development of characters that's one you'll love :)

Great presentation. How about adding “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier? The English thought so much of her works, they bestowed a royal title on her.

East of Eden goes so hard knew it be #1 babyyyy

I haven’t finished your video yet but two of my favorite novels are The Town & The City by Kerouac & Play it as it Lays by Didion

My favourite classics at this point in time would probably be (in no particular order other than the first two): 1. To Kill a Mockingbird 2. The Great Gatsby 3. Jane Eyre 4. Frankenstein 5. Lolita 6. Rebecca 7. Gone With the Wind 8. Anna Karenina 9. Revolutionary Road 10. The Bell Jar

Hello ! Sorry for being AWOL for the past .. 8 months ? no almost 10.. See, I got into that reading slump who turned into : NO READING AT ALL. I felt totally paralyzed and couldn't read one line. So I stopped reading blogs, articles or watching your videos - anything with books involved. It took me all this time and finally holidays in Switzerland with an American friend to get back into reading (thanks HAN Kang!). In one week I've read 5 books and I'm feeling unstoppable. I've been binge watching your videos for the past two days, and still not done... I thought I might leave only one comment but I will eventually forget what I wanted to say : congrats for becoming a superstar, you deserve it 🙂Still remember your first videos. You know I love absolutely everything about them, and I still love your reading taste. As so many people here, your reading choices are the ones we like and don't find elsewhere on YT. Anyway, I'm a huge fan of JD Salinger and Kent HARUF, I saw that you have read Kent - I haven't seen the video yet where you talk about his book. He unfortunately died too soon. I have read and loved his 9 novels. Do you know that he wrote a follow up to Plainsong ? It's beautiful, and so worth it (even though it's sad). I love classics and I laughed when you added The Secret History to the list ! This is my least favorite book of her actually but I'm a huge fan of the author and I've been watching over and over again (even yesterday) her interviews. She's so brilliant. I also love Joan Didion and would definitely have her on my modern classics list. I love Steinbeck as well. I love British classics and hope to participate again this year to the Victober reading challenge (in October you read Victorian novels). I'm right now reading South Korean authors (the past 5 books) because I've been learning Korean for 6 months and plan to read more Balkan authors (my next pick). Okay, I have less pressure now to watch your other videos. Of course, I had a lot more to say on each of them but didn't want to scare you ! One last thing your pronunciation of the sound "on" is perfect ! Love it. Annie Erneaux also and you nailed it with Jean-Baptiste ! And Lolita Pille. Slava Ukraïni !

You are the most entertaining of all theatre booktubing RU-vidrs. Great list, your accents and commentaries are life itself. Do your thing baby. 😉

I was waiting for Walden

Have you read The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins?

My top 5 classics: 5. To Kill a Mockingbird 4. The Grapes of Wrath 3. War and Peace 2. A Tale of Two Cities 1. Les Miserables

On #62: is it the continuous mention of rectal mucus?

My 6 Favorite Classics: 6. Anna Karenina 5. Beloved 4. Invisible Man 3. East of Eden 2. Jane Eyre 1. One Hundred Years of Solitude

My fav classics so far: 1. Animal Farm (Orwell) 2. Stoner (John Williams) 3. Metamorphosis (Kafka) 4. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck) 5. The Stranger (Camus) 6. How Much Land Does a Man Need (Tolstoy) 7. The Overcoat (Gogol) 8. East of Eden (Steinbeck) 9. Siddhartha (Hesse) 10. Notes from Underground (Dostoevsky) 11. The Pearl (Steinbeck) 12. 1984 (Orwell) 13. Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) 14. Coming Up for Air (Orwell) 15. Bartleby the Scrivener (Melville) 16. The Trial (Kafka) 17. A Clockwork Orange (Burgess) 18. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Mishima) Others I've read are Hiroshima, No Longer Human, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Alchemist, The Catcher in the Rye, The Stepford Wives, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson, A Gentle Creature and Other Stories by Dostoevsky, a few Chekhov and Gogol short stories, Currently reading Brave New World, am not loving it so far. DNF'd Catch-22

Check out Down & Out in London & Paris by Orwell… I’m eager to read Secret History…Going to read East of Eden next…check out Travels with Charlie… My top 3 not ranked in order without thinking too much about it In Cold Blood Nausea by Sartre Play it as it Lays So many books so little time ha

For me Cuckoo's Nest is not such an unusual choice, its format is highly creative (and gives a far different, Indian perspective from the movie) and it tells a compellingly unusual story (again much differently from the movie even though the ending is the same). 👍 Kesey could have gone on to write better books than he did but he had his constant marijuana, etc. thing going on what can you do

100 years of solitude is a great book. As a colombian the writing in spanish is amazing however he has other books where it is completely transformative and there are a lot of other colombian authors who do it better than gabo 👀💀. Also ANIMAL FARM AND 1984 SLAPPPPP. Showstopping. East of eden is probably not that high but still an amazing book

Old Man and the Sea could have been an email and I’ll die on that hill lmao