tier ranking classic lit 🕺🏻 all the classics I read in 2022 

Reading an old classic book is like catching up with grandparents: still worth doing despite the dusty smell, long winded ramblings and unexplained hostility towards foreigners.

5:13 Volpone by Ben Johnson 6:20 The yellow wallpaper 7:28 The Cossacks by Tolstoi 8:28 A movable feast by Ernest Hemmingway 9:27 A room with a view by E.M. Forster 10:17 Family happiness by Tolstoi 11:39 And then there were none by Agatha Christie 12:36 The nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffman 12:55 The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 13:43 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 14:40 A prisoner in the Caucasus by Tolstoi 15:14 No longer human by Dazai Osamu 16:13 Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe 16:56 Dombey and son by Charles Dickens 17:48 The Gitanjali by Tagore 18:16 The old curiosity shop by Charles Dickens 19:27 The Posthumous Memoirs of Bráss Cubas by Machado de Assis 19:59 Crooked house by Agatha Christie 20:33 Daisy Miller by Henry James 21:24 100 years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 21:43 The raid by Tolstoi

“One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without dissolving into tears . . . of laughter.” Oscar Wilde I kinda agree🙃

No Longer Human was the authors final book, it’s always kinda biographical and he ended his life with the book on his desk. He and his lover jumped into a river together and ended their lives.

emma's book of the month sponsorship skits never fail to make me smile :)

Who are we kidding, Emma? We're never going to stop getting new books! Love your discussion of classics--good to see they aren't forgotten. Have a great week!

I completely agree that 100 years of solitude is the best book. It's the book I would happily be stranded with

I love when foreigners acknowledge russian literature, I get so thrilled to hear their opinions. Dostoevsky and Gogol are my personal faves as well

You're honestly the reason why I picked up classics last year 😭 I never read them except for school and uni, which usually ended up with me reading a detailed summary online 💀 Right now I'm reading Anna Karenina and I've been enjoying it so far, hope it's good 🤞

OMG , Cillian's face is so accurate to that tier . Love it hahahah !!

My favorite classic of the year 2022 was by far Mrs Dalloway. I drank up every sentence of that book. It's so interesting to hear you speak about it. I love how these classics can really hit us differently

I read Season of Migration to the North because of this channel. I have to tell you people, it’s a magnificent book. I am not entirely clear why but you know greatness when you come across it

I hope you make a video recommendation for those who wants to be into classics that are easy to understand especially for someone like me that english is the second language. Thank you! Love your channel as always! 🧡

awesome video as always emma (every tier ranking video of yours GOLD)! i've started a farewell to arms and i'm enjoying it a lot, i hadn't read any of Hemingway's works before so i feel like i owe a big thank you to you and carolyn for creating the game of tomes

Funny, I decided yesterday to read one classic a month. Started Pride and Prejudice a couple of days ago and enjoy it a lot! Have several classics waiting in my shelf and you reminded me to read Agatha Christie 🙂🙂🙂

I can’t wait to see the different tier titles you came up with! ☺️ These videos are always so funny, creative, and informative! Going back to Carolyn’s video now. Since both “my girls” uploaded at the same time!! 🎶It’s tearing up my heart 😂

I am so happy to see you talking about Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas ❤ it's definitely a super underrated classic and one of the best books to get started with Brazilian literature

I love how many classics you’ve read! My goal for the year is to definitely read more classics so this is perfect. Starting with and then there were None just because of your video lol

emma i appreciate your sense of humor so much

Yayyy these videos are so fun!! ❤ and the tier ranking system omg love the picure representations🤣

I remember reading Things Fall Apart in English and loving it sm, I usually find the books we read in class boring but it was so good

Huck Finn is written in dialect from Huck’s POV. Try other Twain like The Mysterious Stranger or Connecticut Yankee. They are written in straightforward English.

Happy New Year Emma! 🤍 I hope you have a peaceful and wonderful year, physically and mentally . Lots of love 💕

What a great classics year! I read the most classics ive ever read in 2022, i think my favourite is honestly the Uncensored version of Dorian Grey it was beautiful

Favourite classics of the year were Madame Bovary, Emma, and The Portrait of a Lady! 💖

I love classics! Dorian Gray is at the top tier list for me 😊 and did I stop reading to watch this? Yes

I find reading tastes so interesting, because I also adored Frankenstein, but 100 years of solitude just made me feel stupid 😂 the longer it went on, the less I had a clue. Loved this vid, definitely will be adding a few of these to my list 🙂

Huh so mustache Emmie lives in normal Emmie's closet. Always wondered where they went, thanks for expanding your lore! 🙌🙌🙌

The Yellow Wallpaper is absolutely brilliant! And I must say that although Charles Dickens is my absolute favorite author of all time... but he does know how to stretch a plot out LOL!

A cillian category????? Girl you got me, glad we understand the beauty of that man 😂❤❤❤❤❤ (ignore me, I'm just obsessed with CM hahaha)

So Im visiting Paris for the first time this march and the other day I was looking for a book to take with me. I almost settled on A moveable feast, then today I randomly clicked on this video and let me tell you, I skweaked like a little girl when you mentioned it:)) You got me, Im definitely taking Hemingway to Paris with me

I really hope you're being compensated adequately for your adreads bc THEY'RE SO PERFECT

The Yellow wallpaper is my fav ❤ ngl I trust ur taste its straight up the same as mine

I recently read Family Happiness and I totally agree with you! Unfortunately, that was my first Tolstoy, but I think I'll read some other books of his before I decide if I like him or not!! A great video as always :)

The sponsored part is so freaking creative, I love your sense of humor

This was so good!

Hey Emma! absolutely love your videos. The advert/sponsorship skits are always so entertaining and creative! Being from the land of Rabindranath Tagore and Mirabai, I can say that Tagore can be a handful at times to understand and interpret, his philosophy kept on changing throughout his life and it reflected in his literary works as well. As for Mirabai, yeah those were proper devotional songs and poetry under the Bhakti Movement which was a movement pan India about the freedom to choose to show devotion to gods beyond the institutionalised concepts and ideologies. Mirabai was a part of it and her resistance and resilience to choose and to keep on choosing her divine "beloved" was something that really makes her, her poetry, and her life stand apart. Why did I comment on all of this? Because I am glad that you decided to read the books. Many of the books that you discussed are in my TBR as well! Love to you and Calcifer from India!

yellow wallpaper stole my heart

I love tierlist RU-vid videos 😫💖

i first read and then there were none in my 7th grade english class. i've read it several times since. so good.

sometimes I am hesistant whether I should follow booktubers tastes in this type of rankings but the fact that 100 years of solitud is your favorite makes you 200% reliable. What a good book, what an extraordinary author

‘100 years of solitude’ was one of those books that made me feel like I had been asleep before reading it. Like it opened up a part of my brain that had been previously closed. ‘Nights at the Circus’ by Angela Carter is also in that category for me.

That intro is so creative!

“Don’t psychoanalyze me.” 🤣🤣

Book of the month cinematic universe is expanding

I audibly gasped when I saw this, just what the doctor ordered

You're now my favorite booktuber.

Seeing Brás Cubas here made me really happy, Machado is like a god for brazilians

Interesting tier list! My favourite classics in 2022 were Steinbeck's East of Eden and Orwell's 1984.

I am absolutely with you on the reading And Then There Were None to falling in love with Aidan Turner pipeline. I started Poldark after watching ATTWN which beforehand couldn’t have sounded more boring to me but it’s so so good, you should 100% watch it!

I really really hope you’ll read East of Eden by John Steinbeck!! I think that’ll be a Steinbeck that you’ll love.

1) How much does BOTM pay you? They should give you a raise Emma!!! 😂 Same old new year resolution but I already have a *wishlist* for my birthday 😂 2) Use more Cillian faces in your videos please 3) I have a list of all the classics I want to read in 2023 and I am trying to tackle one by one but I keep getting distracted. Paradise Lost is one of them, and I'm so happy you talked about it in your best of 2022 video, it gave me more encouragement because I can't read it myself and I feel like I enjoy the audiobook more. Love your video as always

Aaaaahaha that book of the month intro is gold

I love the ad

You rock. Just so you know. 😊 And definitely just subscribed to the Book of the Month. Thanks!

I’d love to hear your thoughts about more Steinbeck, East of Eden is my favorite book of all time

Hello! I am new to your channel. I wanted to say that I really enjoy your voice. It is so soothing. It’s like asmr to me! I hope you are having a great day! Bye 👋

Yesss Cillian Murphy is a gorgeous man !!

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My favorite classic I read in '22 was Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov. I also read And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, my first of hers, and it has sent me on a Christie kick where I am just reading all of her stuff. So yeah, I was pretty fond of that one also. :)

Ooh Cillian Murphy. 😍 I saw him in the play 'Ballyturk' in Dublin. I was front row AND he was in his underwear. I do love him. ❤️ Another great video Emma. Greetings from Ireland, Ruth 🇮🇪

As a philsoophy enthusiast this part (23:39) broke my heart with laughter 🤣

My fav classic that I read this year was 100% Jane Eyre

I. Made the same resolution. So far this year I've bought 7 new books. No ... 13. I got 6 books at the library reread store for under 11 dollars! One was a complete works of Shakespeare, 2000 page perfect not a mark, for 2 bucks!!! Anyway, lol, in my defense, 4 books were for my masters program. You gave me a good idea; this year I'm going to rank my books like this.

Love that you’re into classics! So much of booktube is YA.

I totally agree with all the book rankings! Except maybe mark Twain cause I love HF....i don't know if it's because I too am of a rebellious nature...but i would certainly put it on the 3rd tier.

That was really interesting. A great comparative way to reflect on your reading year. Go back to Mrs Dalloway and the Dickens canon. Mrs Dalloway is also an exploration of the frailty of sanity and how we arrive where we are. I didn't enjoy reading it but as an audiobook, I thought it was fascinating. Dickens is so masterful at setting a scene, developing intriguing maile characters. Barneby Rudge is long and not my favorite and the Old Curiosity Shop is a clunker except for Quilp, but none should be DnF'd. Let those volumes get dusty on your shelves and revisit them once you have a couple more decades behind you. Brava, Emma. That's quite a year of reading.

Frankenstein was a smash for me as well. Was hesitating about reading it due to previous classics being meh (Dr Jekyll was a bore) but then I watched your vid with classics recommendations and decided to give it a try. Thanks)

a lot of re-reads for me, so for classics favorite I'd prolly say Shakespeare's King John, in which I saw many new things, particularly the strength of character to build a difficult role instead of being content with a clown.

I started this video as I was leaving the house and it ended exactly when I parked at school. Felt so perfect!!🤌

I remember the Frankenstein essay, you put a lot into that. Any chance of seeing it?

your Book of the Month sketches are always a highlight of the month for me, i'm over here grinning like an idiot

Mark Twain uses a type of American humor that is often understood by certain regions of the United States. Besides that, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are also generational. Most people don’t relate to this culture anymore. I loved these adventures but I am an older person and familiar with this culture. I do understand why a lot of younger readers would not be able to relate at all, especially if they are not American.

Hi Emma, What Dutch author did you read for your reading around the world tour? Tip: The Evenings by Gerard Reve 😼

I love that you included Latin America classics

This turned out to be an inverse pyramid hierarchy! Next time we need a ladder hierarchy with one book to rule them all!

The Yellow Wallpaper was referenced often in the Netflix SF show 1899.

Yes, you read the PISS out of classics in '23. I enjoyed your comments. I like H. Finn and highly esteem Dickens, although I can understand your reaction. I'm surprised you liked Hemingway and Steinbeck, but there is no arguing with talent. Your grappling with so much Tolstoy is to be commended. Putting A. Christie and her "cozy" murder stories in the upper tiers seems like a classic WTF move, but there is no accounting for personal taste. So we turn the page, swimming upstream against the tide of flotsam and jetsam and sewage while we still have a head of steam, then our boilers give out. Thanks.

Smash! Really enjoyed that!

Nothing like a good Emma video to start the day :)

im currently reading a farewell to arms and its my first hemingway. im so glad to have picked it up because im really enjoying it and i dont think i would've picked up any hemingway for years if not for the book club

i didnt love no longer human either. there's only so much you can take of a guy talking about how much he hates life i was like 'we get it!! you hate yourself! get over it!'

My favorite classic of last year was Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell. I still remember precisely how it ended.

I didn't even know some of these were classics!

I can't guarantee you'll come to love Tolstoy if you read his short novels, especially "Hadji Murad," "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," and "Master and Man", but there's a good chance you will. That's where I recommend people start with him.

brb this just gave me the motivation to finally finish 100 years of solitude

some of my favourite classics read in 2022 were: plum bun by jessie redmon fauset, cassandra at the wedding by dorothy baker, notes of a crocodile by qiu miaojin and the blue castle by l.m. montgomery! ps i don't know if you've read any antal szerb, but len rix's translations for pushkin press are sooo funny and readable

Edward Bulwer-Lytton died 150 years ago today. He of “It was a dark and stormy night.” fame. Here is the winner of last year’s Bulwer-Lytton contest for bad openings of unwritten bad novels… “I knew she was trouble the second she walked into my 24-hour deli, laundromat, and detective agency, and after dropping a load of unmentionables in one of the heavy-duty machines (a mistake that would soon turn deadly) she turned to me, asking for two things: find her missing husband and make her a salami on rye with spicy mustard, breaking into tears when I told her I couldn't help-I was fresh out of salami."

Ok, I'm now going to have to read 100 years of solitude and Things fall apart ,,,, love the vlog 👍

YESS i was looking forward to this!

Amazing video love it and love you and your amazing channel prayers and thoughts for you and your family love your Aussie friend John love the intro to this video 😂😂😂

I plan on finishing A Farewell to Arms tonight. Luckily, I'm enjoying it more than The Old Man and the Sea, which is the only other Hemingway I've read so far and which did nothing for me.

Have you read still life by Sarah Winman? Room with a view is peppered throughout this book - I haven't actually read any Forster but feel I may need to pick it up now

You should check out Merce Rodoreda, a Catalan author! Gabriel Garcia Marquez said that her book "The Time of the Doves" was the best novel to come out of Spain since the Civil War, and I think you would really love it!

My favourite classic of 2022 was Wuthering heights

if you haven't already you should read tolstoy's "a confession". it's a short read, but i personally think it was very interesting. best way i can put it is an eloquently written midlife crisis

Hi Emma!

i recommend quincas borba as a follow up to bras cubas :) also serafim ponte grande by oswald de andrade!

Brazilian lit in smash is all i wanted to see! Machado de Assis is just The Best!

Ernest Hemingway claimed that “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”