Ranking Every Faulkner Novel I've Read 

holy shit thank you!

Nice to know I'm not the only one that has an unhealthy obsession with him! I've been in a very heavy reading slump the past few months but I'm starting to pick his works back up slowly, so more videos will be coming out on my reading progress. I'm currently on Flags in the Dust right now, with Pylon on deck after that. Tentatively, after that I'm hitting up The Wild Palms, Go Down, Moses, Intruders in the Dust, Requiem for a Nun, the rest of the Snopes, and then finishing it out with a reread of As I Lay Dying. The Reivers I would read first. I am working on my review of The Hamlet, and while it was a great book, I wasn't too big of a fan of it. I much preferred the fun of the Reivers over the absurd fun of The Hamlet which fell rather flat sometimes.

Wouldn't consider it a first video since I've been making videos online for years now, but this is the first time with this format. Still figuring out how to be on camera :)

I haven't yet read Flags in the Dust, but I'm intending to! Also I think I said it in this video but by god be careful of A Fable, you will either hate it or become obsessed with it and either way you are probably not going to come out the same as before.

@@TomorrowAndStill I looked up A Fable and although I’m very intrigued I think I’ll not yet read that book. Also because English is not my native language, I’m scared it will be too complicated and I’ll might get lost. It is definitely on my wish list as a future read though!

@@Cakewalkingbaby Very good call. Like I said in the video, A Fable is the hardest book I have ever read and is probably the hardest book Faulkner ever wrote, and that's saying a lot when Absalom, Absalom! is on the table. But I think as a non-native speaker, having A Fable as a goal to strive towards is incredible. If you can one day read A Fable and get something out of it, I think I would consider that a mastery of the English Language that far surpasses even some native speakers.

@@TomorrowAndStill 🙂🙏

I am not really a believer of there being a "best place to start" for any author. The best place to start is where you think is most interesting to you. However, I can say that the most accessible of his works, if that's where you want to start, is Light in August. That book is so beautifully written but easy to understand that it is a really good all-around starting place to get into his works. If you're up for a little bit more of a challenge, I would recommend As I Lay Dying, both because it's brief and is a good entry into his style of stream-of-consciousness. I'm happy to answer any other questions, and I hope you enjoy your Faulkner reading!

Absalom, Absalom!

I'd second Tomorrow's As I Lay Dying recommendation. I got into Faulkner via some of his short stories/novellas: A Rose for Emily, Barn Burning, Spotted Horses, and The Bear.

​@@gibsonraymondathat's the second Faulkner I read. It was the one that sealed the deal for me. Faulkner was officially my favorite author for years to come. I wouldn't recommend it as a first though unless you are already a confirmed fan of James Joyce.

​@@TomorrowAndStillanother booktuber pointed out that Light in August sits right in the middle between his more "experimental" and his more "normal" stuff. So if you start at LIA you have the option of following up by either doing something easier, like The Reivers or the Snopes trilogy, or something more challenging like As I Lay Dying.