My ULTIMATE bookshelf tour 

Dude, you're 24? You're 5 years younger than me, and you're a teacher? OMG! You've made so much accomplishments in such a young age!

"I'm really old, I'm almost 24 which is almost old man times" *glares at you in haggered 35* Loved this! Especially spying on your black spine penguins, there's so many cool picks in there 🙂

Can't believe you"re only a year older than me and have so many books under your belt and a growing RU-vid channel. Big inspiration. I found your channel from the manga review video, and then your Murakami videos. Read Norwegian Wood and loved it. Glad you really enjoyed Berserk. Anyways, keep making videos man. You're doing great work.

I would recommend No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai. It’s a good introduction into Japanese literature.

where’s your academy award is what i’m wondering

The unintentional apartment tour.

i appreciate the long form content you make. lots of youtube today is hyperfocused on optimizing and meeting specific margins that it feels like i get no substance at all really enjoyable to just put on one of your videos while i'm chilling drinking coffee on my balcony for an hour

I think we can all agree booktube makes us addicted not only reading books but also buying books AGSHSHHS edit: I love being a part of ColorlessWonderland cult and also Dakota Warren's cult just hot girl summer vibes

Out of all the booktubers who recommended Stoner, you were the one who got me to read it and… I finished it in a day. I just bought Augustus and can’t wait to start it

i am obsessed with your channel legit binge watched everything and then u drop this banger..... rejoicing rn

That intro! 😂 I also love how prominently Ducks Newburyport sticks out when you first approach the shelves. 📚

The intro went from having the dread of Mulholland Drive when Betty first arrives at her aunt’s apartment to verging on some Alex Garland cosmic horror shit with the bookshelf 😂 Kudos to you for making your videos like little movies. The content we need 🤌🤌🤌

I just wanted to let you know that thanks to you I got more into classic literature. It has intimated me ever since I graduated high school but reading it as an adult has completely changed my perspective. Also thank you for recommending Stoner. I just finished it and that book made me feel a way that I don’t think anything else has made me feel before. So just an all around thank you lol

I love every single of your videos! I found you last year and I really hope that you stay just as authentic and cool despite the fact that your channel is growing (you really deserve it dude!).

That intro…talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular Haha loved this video, thanks Tyler

Comedic genius and new books for myself. Great team.

love this video!! it's so cool to watch you grow as a channel

Loved the editing, like whaaaat! This video is insane !

this is weirdly perfect to listen to while making notes XD your talking speed and tone makes it so easy for me to focus on my work (much better than music) while still catching interesting snippets about the books

Picked up Stoner because you mentioned it in one of your previous videos. I bawled for like a good 10-15 mins after finishing it, lmao. SO GOOD. So now I want to collect NYRB books, which might be difficult and costly where I am. But I'm gonna do it!

You ignite the passion in me to read really love you for that

YES! I've been waiting for this.

The beginning was so extra. i loved it

Off track but I appreciate you being so open about your anxiety! As a fellow anxious it’s just kind of comforting to know I’m not alone

You seriously have great taste in books!

Love how much classical/Greek/Roman literature you have ! Defo recommend all that history (even the Sallust!!)

This is what peak youtube content looks like.

Hey, Just wanted to says thanks for the all video's mentioning NYRB. I picked up "Stoner" and signed up for their book club the other day. They seem to hit that sweet spot between classic and modern.

Here for it 💕🙌

I would recommend Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro, he won the nobel price for literature a few years ago. He's a British japanese writer

Colorless Wonderland, you totally rock, dude!

The intro hehe. Also, love the Uniqlo sweatshirt:)

Love the Lynchian intro. Also obsessed with NYBR, discovered some of my new favourites through them. My favourite thriller/mystery book they’ve published is In a Lonely Place (also made into a great, though very different, noir)

Great video Tyler and I hope teaching is going well too :)

Love your personality ma boiii 🔥🔥🔥

We love a well read man 💞👏

congrats on 20k x

A breathless, whistle stop tour. Well done, it was lots of fun. Of your recommended books, the Fanny Fern stands out for me, I'll get hold of a copy. W.G. Sebald is a unique writer, and of all his books I think I would recommend "Austerlitz" the most. Kraznahorkai writes in l-o-n-g sentences that are like a surfer riding a wave : it's best to stay on and not pause for breath, so they are demanding but exhilerating. His "The Melancholy of Resistance" was made into the film "Werkmeister Harmonies". After a trip to Sicily I bought some Leonardo Sciascia titles (an Italian friend told me it's pronounced sha-sha) and I thought "The Day of the Owl" was excellent. As you showed us "Dr Zhivago", I thought it might be interesting to look at other Russian books not part of the classics period, all great in their different ways : "And Quiet Flows the Don", "Life and Fate" and, of course, "The Master and Margarita".

The Snow Country had some of the most beautiful prose you’ll ever read. Masterpiece.

I’m so glad youtube recommended your channel to me

This video just appeared to me out of nowhere and I only clicked in it because of the name of your channel and I was dead sure it was because of Murakami. I watched 40 mins of video just to see his books and be sure about it. He's my favorite author too, I'm currently reading all of his work publication order, after reading a couple of his books and loving them.

hii, thank you so much for your videos and your authenticity!! I read Stoner after watching your video on it and I feel in love with it! I haven't read a book that impacted me in such a meaningful way in a long while, So, thank you!! :)

i have waited for this video for so long i’m so happy.

My friend, I was randomly searching book tours to find a video like this because I like to look at other peoples setups lol. Your room looks so nice and 12 angry men best film ever👊

we love a short king with an independent spirit award for best male lead

this is such a fun video all the way through hahaha I can feel your struggle with heat just through the screen.. lol ALSO I cherish the fact that you did not just go through the title and say this is good/that is good, you had a story behind most of the books or your critiques towards it - which I appreciate the most!!!! -- i promise this is the longest comment i have ever written on youtube but yeah thank you so much for making my Sunday happy!!!! and a tons of more books to read :)

I recently read Giovanni’s room by James Baldwin! I highly recommend it! Loved it!

I adore watching your videos. You speak pretty well and everything you talk about is kind interesting. Besides, I can practice my English skills. Thanks! xoxo from Brazil

Thank you. Your video was really enjoyable.

So many books I've had to add to my TBR after this, thank you! I'm definitely heading over to the NYRB website now to browse all of their books. I'd recommend 'Beijing Comrades' by Bei Tong if you're interested in reading more Chinese literature - the story of a love affair between two men spanning a decade throughout the political upheavals (including Tiananmen) of 1980s-early 1990s China.

Love your videos and would really like to see a Murakami tier list since its so different for everyone.

The penguin classics are so class, my goal this year is to start a collection soon

I highly recommend reading Nightmare Alley! It's so bleak and misanthropic and I fucking LOVED it haha. At the end of last year I made it a project to read the book and watch both the 1947 and 2021 movies and I had such a good time. Criterion channel has a great video explaining the history surrounding the production of the 1947 adaptation and it was fascinating. I had a good time with both of the movies but the book was my favourite.

Greetings from Edinburgh. I've just found your channel and enjoy it immensely. Especially love your NYRB collection. They do a beautiful edition of J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country and Dorothy Baker's Cassandra at the Wedding. You mentioned J. G. Farrell - he is a phenomenal writer. Cant wait to binge the rest of your videos😊

I love NYRB Classics too, they have such a diverse array of titles! Picked up a bunch at the same Harvard bookstore sale as you haha. Lately I've been reading their issues of Magda Szabo's books, which I love for their psychological complexity and penetrating insights into the human experience. I also like the publishers Archipelago Books and Open Letter Books - both focus on fiction in translation, and have titles from all over the world! If you check out their catalogues, it's impossible not to find something exciting.

Great intro 😂 And also great video to watch while sipping on hot chocolate this chilly evening ☕💗

as i was looking at your nyrb collection in the video i kept thinking “where have i seen that logo before?” and it turns out i own one! it’s notes of a crocodile by qiu miaojin, a profound lesbian author who had a big impact on lgbtq+ literature in taiwan. i have started it but put it back down a few months ago due to life stuff but i really want to start reading it again and i think its worth checking out. also for more manga i recommend naoki urasawa’s monster (or 20th century boys whatever sounds more interesting to you), full metal alchemist, and my favorite manga blue flag which had a really big impact on me.

Loved the horror movie opening

you are my favorite booktube. xoxo from brasil!

we definitely were in an english course together a few years ago and it's killing me that i can't remember which one. also, love the collection. i have nyrb envy

You may be interested in the publisher Charco Press. Not only are their book covers and spines similarly pleasing as NYRB’s are, but they publish contemporary Latin American literature in translation. Check them out if you haven’t already! Great video.

I’m so jealous of all those books 😅

Since you have it and you liked Henry James, along with having read mostly woman’s literature then you should totally read The House of Mirth! It’s a great entry point to Edith Whartons Social Realism as opposed to her ghost stories, she’s one of my favorite authors so I can’t recommend her enough.

This was super fun. Love your collection! And love the fact that you've read Of Human Bondage, The Razor's Edge, and Stoner. Three of my favorite books! Great taste and content 😄

I think you would enjoy The Contempt by Moravia and maybe the movie adaptation by Godard, too. I really love them both

4:34 is such a mood

If you love stoner I recommend the Nyrb 50th anniversary edition it comes in a sick beautiful hardback with lots of extras

Are we not going to acknowledge that the beginning was a cinematic master piece? 😁

I think you should start taking French lessons. 😉 It's funny because I only discovered your channel a few days ago but I had already planned to read Stoner and My AntonÍa in 2023, as well as to reread The Catcher in the Rye (which I first read a really long time and honestly don't remember much about). Seeing your enthusiasm about these books makes me want to read them even more, and you're also the reason I've just added The Dud Avocado to my shopping cart. Thank you!

My first NYRB was The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin. Great and weird post-modern novel that’s a sort of love letter to the Soviet era in Russia. It’s all written in dialogue and you have to figure out who is speaking to who and form your own picture of what’s going on. Highly recommend!

would you ever do a video of book recommendations for people looking to get into reading?

It is Daniel Deronda, and very worth reading! And there was a British TV adaptation that aired on PBS several years ago that would be fun to watch. Mavis Gallant was Canadian, by the way. And there's no shame in owning two copies of the same book, lol--at least they aren't the same edition, so it's not like you bought two identical copies without recognizing it the second time you bought it. Have you read The Woman in White yet? It's so good--and since you're interested in the status of women, you'll find this book particularly interesting. And Charles Dickens's Bleak House is a pretty good followup to The Woman in White.

The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell is actually the second book of his "Empire Trilogy". The other two are "Troubles" set in Northern Ireland, and "The Singapore Grip" which is set in Singapore on the eve of WWII. Of course, all are available as NYRB Classics. I am a major fan of NYRB Classics as well. I'll give you my recommendations from their catalog. "The Long Ships" by Frans G. Bengtsson. It's a fantastic historical novel set amongst the Vikings. "Kolyma Stories" and "Sketches of the Criminal World" by Varlam Shamalov. Both are collections of short stories set within the Soviet Gulag, in which Shamalov was inprisoned for many years. Fiction based on his own experience. Unforgettable! "The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll" by Alvaro Mutis. Short stories about a vagabond and likeable rogue named Maqroll. Very entertaining!

I have a Murakami collection, maybe missing Underground. I love South of the Border West of the Sun!

you should look into the romantic comedy/sports manga Blue Box i really love how well it conveys its characters so sincerely and sweetly while also having some high octane sports manga moments as well that are driven by the wonderful character work set up.

You're going a lil cinematic! I LIKE IT. PICASSO

If you haven’t yet, you HAVE to read The History of Bones. It’s a memoir about John Lurie (He’s a famous musician and actor who was in Stranger Than Paradise, The Last Temptation of Christ, Down by Law, etc.). It’s a radical depiction of his time in New York during the 1980s and his usage of dry humor is incredible. One of the few books that constantly had me laughing out loud.

Book buying is also a hobby lol. You are me, and I am you 😂. I will eventually read all the books on my bookshelf.

So this is a slight deviation from book talk to book acquasitions....I'm a serious bibliophile and have been for most of my life, and considering how old I am that's a LOT of books. But much of the time I've also been under financial restraints. So I have learned to explore all the possibilities to find books. Here in the small Canadian city I live in, we have only two bookstores (thanks, Amazon, for clearing out the others that once existed...) But we have a Salvation Army, a Value Village, a Goodwill and another couple of thrift shops and every single one of them has books. I like the disorganization in fact, as it allows for a lot of fun when I find something and boy, have I found stuff! And better than just going in to a new bookshop, often these are vintage editions - someone cleaned out their science fiction collection last year and I found four Philip K. Dick paperbacks in their first editions (never having been published at all in hardcover). That's just one example. I've discovered books by Samuel Richardson, Virginia Woolf, it's how I discovered the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett, I could go on at length but will spare you that. And generally, the prices are cheap (two bucks for paper, four for hardcover, generally) plus one is giving money to a charity. So sometime instead of going to a big chain store, wander into a thrift store of some sort, for you just might find something amazing that you didn't even know about. Oh, yes, and : Great channel! Keep up the great work!

Banger intro

Some recommendations :) Demian by Herman Hesse Água Viva by Clarice Lispector Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin New Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke The Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke

That intro tho 👍

I love this channel, nice to see someone who is actually passionate about books and not just some empty soul performing infront of a camera, + 5 stars for being a Billy Joel fan :-). Nice to see so many Pynchon books in your collection, definitely read Vineland and CoL49 before tackling GR and M&D, GR is his magnum opus imo. Can't wait for more videos in the future!

Is that a Kieth Haring shirt? Pretty cool 😎

Well that was dramatic... 😄😄📚😳

8:03 my life in a nutshell

15:29 I first thought you said “Saul Goodman” and thought it was a book about breaking bad lolll

please make another video talking about a little life, it’s my favorite book and i’ve already read it three time (the emotional damage….) edit:also i recommend earthlings and convenience store woman by sayaka murata those books are absolutely insane

Thanks for that

I understand the backlog of non read books, but as I found out to my own peril is that it becomes a habit like smoking and that pile keeps on rising.

hey tyler, do u have any plan to write a book someday? cos i think you'd nail it in your debut! watching from the philippines 🇵🇭

Come on man, I was just watching you before work and I don't have time for this!!

My favorite book is The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. Unmatched writing style and superb research went into it. 👍

If you want to read more literature by women, especially the works that have either been forgotten or underappreciated (or both)... Since they were women... I suggest getting some published by Persephone Classics. They have some really good titles by women writers that I didn't even know about prior to finding them at second hand bookshops. However, they are very pricy if you find them on Amazon or buy directly from the publishing company's website. I definitely found some favourite writers from this publishing company and I hope that they publish more women's literature that has been forgotten to time.

Is Of Human Bondage a good book? Also, my favorites are Catcher in the Rye and The Brother’s Karamazov by Dostoevsky. I only have 2 favorites I guess because I’m really picky 😂

I believe the Tess of the d'Urbervilles reference in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is that she buys it for Roman Polanski who in real life would go on to direct Tess which is an adaptation of the book

Man, I feel someday we'll meet up randomly in Siberia or someshit and have the most intense and epic tic tac toe battle of history

Read The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas of Machado de Assis, it’s a perfect book if you liked Dom Casmurro

Dude just read hard rain falling. You'll literally fall in love.

I just bought Dud Avocado, literally before the video ended