My Favorite Books of All Time (Revised Version) 

After reading East of Eden, I vowed to read everything Steinbeck has written. It's a lot, and I'm a slow reader. It may take me the rest of my life, but I'm gonna do it. Travels with Charley is my current read, and if you haven't read that one yet, Ana, I think you'd particularly like it!

the timing of you putting your hand up during the intro at the same time as past you put your hand up in the same way was GORG

You are such a ray of sunshine! 🥰 I've got East of Eden and Wild on my bookshelves and MUST make time for them. I am slowly working my way through Kazuo Ishiguro and am currently reading his debut novel, A Pale View of Hills, which is turning out to be far more mysterious and interesting than I anticipated! One of the things I admire about him as a writer is that every book of his that I've read so far is so different from the next.

Ana! Your hair is looking fabulous! Hair routine video please! I’m especially curious how you style your bangs :)

“the moments that paralyzed the ideas that you previously had” 😩 yes! finishing a new favorite book and shedding the person you were before you read it. UGH

Love the rendition of “Under The Hall of The Mountain King” you gave us there 😂🙌🏻 low key that music SLAPS forever

I just found you here, and from one East of Eden lover to another, I'm happy to be here! East of Eden is also my favorite book of all time and I've read it 5 or 6 times, nothing is quite like it. Great Vid!

ANGELS! IN! AMERICA! Thank you so much for introducing people who are possibly outside of the theatre world to it. It is The Best Play™️ and also my favorite :) very very very excited to hear what you think when you’re done

I've gotten so many great books recs from you! Just finished A Little History of the World and moving onto Devil in the White City! Love your channel, you are stellar ❤

I bought The Shards a few months ago - after this video, I am immediately prioritizing it for July 🎉 Also yessss East of Eden. Just brilliant.

I love these kinds of videos!❤

Just recently finished East of Eden for the first time and WOW! It was slow going in the beginning but by the end I couldn’t get enough. I find myself missing the characters and wondering what happened next because after all was said and done it felt like it ended in the middle of the story. Maybe that’s the point

If you haven't already, try James Baldwin. I associate his writing style with Steinbeck. Highly highly recommend!! I loved reading if Beal street could talk and seeing the movie afterwards.

East of Eden has also become my all time favourite novel. Cried like a baby in the end.

i just found an autographed copy of "wild" on the street the other day. also i still need to finish that copy of "what i talk about when i talk about running" you gifted me. hopefully inspire me to get back to running.

Hello Ana. I just discovered your channel because you were listed among the BookTubers that my audience watches! You have a lovely channel. Happy reading!

I read The Shards because of you. I agree w you. Thank you.

Love how the thumbnail makes it seem like you've got a tower of books on the top of your head hehe

Love the shards

Sooooooo good...and once again my "books to buy" list grows (every time I watch your videos). I have East of Eden in the queue, BUT I just ordered "Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters." I'm thinking it will be interesting to dig into this one first, a sort of Steinbeck behind-the-scenes peak for a nuanced context. Have you read?

Thanks for sharing this!

Literally clicked on this video because of how stunning you are! Plus I like books hehe! Thanks for the list!

Great list! I wanna read Zadie Smith now

My all time fav books include Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo A little life Song of Achilles Call me by your name Gone girl

As an unabashed Bret Easton Ellis fan, I ADORED The Shards. It's like Less Than Zero meets American Psycho in the best possible way.

Interesting and inspiring, from a fellow reader. I’ve read everything, man. Like the Hank Snow of readers.

13 seconds was a jumpscare. so excited!!

I really should read East of Eden. It comes highly recommended by so many people

East of Eden got me into reading (many many moons ago), still one of my favourite books. Favourite book of all time for me "Martin Eden" Jack London. A book you will never get out of your head once you have read it "Perfume" by Patrick Süskind.

Lol yes, I recognize the beat of the song you did.

I’m so glad Kane is on this list ❤

When is your single for In the Hall of the Mountain King being released? My top books change often. The top that never change are "Anna Karenina", "The Elegance of the Hedgehog", "The Painted Veil", and "Oranges are not the only Fruit" for fiction and "The Outermost House " and "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant" for nonfiction. If I had to come up with a top 10 list, those would always be on there and the remaining 4 spots would change every few years. I go through phases with my reading. For a while (years) I was really into Russian Literature so my all-time favorites would have mostly been Russian Lit. Same with a phase (also years) I had with Japanese literature. I'm in my essays and memoirs era right now and more specifically, my Patti Smith era and I know for certain that at least a couple of her books will end up in my all-time favorites list. I am head over heels in love with her writing.

Hi! where did you get your bookshelf in the back? its so nice

You started with Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga and you had me. A suggestion from a Ana to another one: Small Country by Gael Faye, not a autobiography but a novel based in his childhood in Burundi in the 90’s , the son of a French father and Tutsi mother. The books are completely different but I feel a dialogue between them.

Beautiful rendition of Doug theme song

do you suggest reading the shards as a first ellis read?

You adorable. I loved Herman Hess, Edgar Allen Poe, Somerset Maugham.

sooo happy to see John Waters in the list of favs! have you done Role Models by him? i just revisited it recently and it still holds up tremendously. love the man!

The coolest person on the internet!

Thanks!

You’re hilarious and i love you 😂

i just stumbled upon your chanel. you seem like such a cool person

I miss the person I was when reading The Shards…I was so consistent with my fake tan

Interesting book choices. You should look for author Stacy James Meadows. Anyway great video with interesting insights. ❤

That stack of books is making me nervous, seems a tad too high to be safe! Unless they are secured somehow.

I also love Wild! Does anyone have any similar recommendations? Loved the hiking/outdoors theme

Please please please read Lonesome Dove! I guarantee it will make your favorites list when you re-revise this video

Bad Ellis is still okay Ellis. He is one of the few American authors I would say is always readable and re-readable if not always perfect!

I just noticed that tower of books behind you! You are obviously a kindred soul...😆

There are no classics?

I love that lamp in the right corner. Where did you get it? Have you read The Master and Margherita by Bulgakov? That's my favorite novel of all time.

"You have been reading the wrong fucking books." Will Hunting

"I wasn't activily really alive for" were you passively alive?

Ana🤗 I read "Cockroaches" in 2023 - you told about it last year. you inspired me to pick that. great book. Felt sad about why Humans kills each other!! Running by Harukami - will not read it since I already crossed over Marathons. You try something Ultra Run, you will not care much on Harukami books on Running much on. You look not so much Happy in this video OR is it me !!?? Anyways Cheer up !!

I just read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and signed up for my first 5k! I don’t think I’ll ever want to run a marathon as they seem miserable and Murakami just seems like a man who can endure a lot of misery.

Shards >>>>>>

Oof If I could erase one book from the universe it would be Wild. Like or love everything else you mentioned, though.

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has anyone ever told you that you look like you could be the lovechild of julie delpy and toni collette?

Insanely beautiful.

You are breathtakingly beautiful 😍💕

You look like you are the main part in a 70's movie!

i knew white teeth was going to be here

Thanks for promoting books, they are my lifeblood and you are never alone if you read books, unfortunately the constant movements of your video made it impossible to watch it, anywho thanks

Your trousers are dirty.