Respected sir, your videos are best…no comparison…you tell too much about novels and literature and every thing about writer in such a short time…hats off to you with regards from core of heart.
Great video and particularly satisfying to see a Greek novel among the ones mentioned (me being not only Greek but Cretan, just like Kazantzakis himself). In my humble opinion, his best novel is Christ Recrucified. The Notebook Trilogy is amazing indeed. Need to read twice to fully enjoy it, if you ask me.
Looks like the only classic I covered this year was "The Origin of Species", most of my other reads being contemporary authors. What I love is how diverse the voices are right now. If I had to choose, probably my favorite 5 books (including 2 works of non-fiction) are: Americanah- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Life Finds a Way - Andreas Wagner (non fiction about evolution in the biological and mental world) Fault Lines - Emily Itami Detransition Baby - Torrey Peters Know My Name - Channel Miller (memoir)
I have watched so many documentaries on Darwin that I think I know the book pretty well, but I haven't actually read it. I have heard of Americanah, but the other ones are all new to me. Thanks for sharing.
Disgrace by JM Coetzee King Solomons Mines by h rider Haggard On a side note In General, you can look up the “African writers series” if you’re interested in African literature. Although the imprint was discontinued, its a starting point.
Please read the Novels of Our (Indonesia) greatest author, Eka Kurniawan. The novels that have been translated: Beauty is wound, Man Tiger, Vengeance of Mine. Thank you for creating this channel, I feel like meeting a new friend who has a special perspective.
The death of Ivan Ilich( Tolstoi ) Madame Bovary( Flaubert) War and Peace ( Tolstoi) Fields of Níjar ( Juan Goytisolo) Estate and Revolution ( Lenin ) Solitudes, galeries and other poems( Antonio Machado, this is poetry but who cares ) The problem of the three bodies ( Cixin Liu) Six of crows( Leigh Bardugo ) Twenty poems of love and a desperate song ( Pablo Neruda, again poetry )
I read 53 books in five years. . and I don't think that I'm gonna make my own library, may be or just maybe I could have my own minimalistic library. . like a cowboy.
Top ten books for 2021 1. The Time of Gifts - Patrick Leigh Fermor 2. A Woman's Life - Guy de Maupassant 3. Metamorphosis - Ovid 4. The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington 5. Omar Pasha Latas - Ivo Andric 6. Confessions of a Crap Artist - Philip Dick 7. Black Swans - Eve Babitz 8. Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi 9. The Simple Past - Dris Chraibi 10. The Ladies Paradise - Emile Zola
CCA by Philip K. Dick was written early in his career, before Dick went for science fiction. It's nominally realistic, set in 1950s California. With the exception of the protagonist, every character is horrible and the conclusion is tragic. All of PKD's fiction is worth investigating. In one way, Omar Pasha Latas resembles BD in that both novels revolve around a single character, but instead of a bridge, the center is Latas. Where things happen to the Drina Bridge, events transpire around Latas.
Lots of good stuff here for my TBR. Thank you. My top reads of 2021 in no particular order: 1 & 2. 12 Chairs & The little Golden Calf - Ilf & Petrov 3. Moscow Stations - Erofeev 4. The Blizzard - Sorokin 5. Last Summer in the City - Calligarich 6. No Longer Human - Dazai 7. Amsterdam Stories - Nescio 8. The Tartar Steppe - Buzzati 9. The End of Me - Alfred Hayes 10. Convenience Store Woman - Murata.
Hi, Fiction Beast - Very much enjoyed watching your videos these past few months. I think the best novels I read this year were “The Post-Office Girl” by Stefan Zweig, and “A Heart so White” by Javier Marias. Keep up the great work!
@@donaldkelly3983 “Post-Office Girl” is the only one of his I’ve read. Which of his earlier novels do you recommend? I do have “Beware of Pity” but have not gotten to it yet.
@@stacksnshelves I have read some of Zweig's short novels: The Chess Story, Journey into the Past, The Burning Secret, The Invisible Collection, and Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman. All of them were a good read. I plan on reading Beware of Pity soon.
I don't know if that was the worse novel or the funniest. Thank you for this! There is the South African writer Damon Galgut with this year's Booker Prize winning entry The Promise-- a book I mean to read soon.
1) Agua viva - Clarice Lispector 2) Things fall apart - Chinua Achebe 3) Blauwe maandagen - Arnon Grunberg 4) The trouble with being born - E.M Cioran 5) Everything like before - Kjell Askildsen 6) The doors of perception and heaven and hell - Aldous Huxley 7 Against empathy - Paul Bloom 8 Ways of seeing - John Berger 9 The ballad of the sad cafe - Carson mcCullers. Thanks for the videos and your list.
these are awsome books. Lispector and Cioran sound intriguing. My kind of pessimistic stuff, which i love. A while back I read a Cioran's book about despair and really loved it.
