Top Ten Books of the Decade | Claire Fenby 

I love your selections! Also, beautiful explanations for why you chose these books.

Thanks Claire... Wuthering Heights is one of my most treasured fictional novels that I've read three times over four decades. I was born in Yorkshire and left for Australia at the age of 12 years. I miss and dream of returning to live in the Yorks Dales / Moors. I did however, return for holidays in my teens and early 30s, where I experienced the same characterisation in myself as Catherine. I was lost in a Withering Heights spiritual world. All that was missing was a 'Heathcliffe'.

I think you really would love Clarice Lispector. I don't know how and if her books are published in english but probably some are. She was a unic soul and writer. Try to check her out!

Your passion sleeps through this video! I absolutely loved this video :) looking forward to more favourites

I know it’s totally off the topic-but I LOVE ur voice!! So sweet and soft!

Your videos are sooo relaxing 😍 amazing for a Saturday chill morning when I'm having breakfast in bed, lovely!

This was a fabulous list!! 🙌🏻 I have that exact edition of Mrs Dalloway on my TBR and I am now super excited to read it!! I really enjoyed On Chisil Beach it was such a surprise for me as I had misunderstood the synopsis and yay for Emma too!! 🥰

I loved these! I can't wait to look back on my books and see what's shaped me! I've got that edition of To The Lighthouse and I cant wait to read it. I also cant believe I've never read Jonathon Strange....🙈

I`m in love with your way of describing books! The deep analysis of plots and images just absolutely fascinates me!!!! I`d really love to watch more of such book reviews. And the description of "Lolita" is so precise and clear. For me personally, this novel is so disturbing and controversial. There are other Nabokov`s novels that I really like, but the experience of reading "Lolita" wasn`t easy at all. By the way, have you already started Donna Tartt`s "Little friend"?

Love this video! and LOVE your hair!! xx

Great books. Love Wuthering Heights, Woolf and Sarah Perry! I really need to read Howards End, Madame Bovary and Lolita... I feel like we often like similar books :) Do you like Kazuo Ishiguro?

Loved the Essex Serpent. A must read.

I literally love this edition of ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’! It’s one of the most beautiful editions out there, very difficult to find in the US. I’m currently rereading it.

I loved On Chesil Beach too! So so heartbreaking, but beautiful all the same 💛 I haven't seen a lot of people talk about it though, which is a pity.

Good list! Share a writer in common in Austen as a favourite, but no books. Have always found Woolf a difficult writer to like. Wonder what your list would look like if you confined to recent books published.

Just got my copy of Mrs dalaway and looking forward to starting it , thanks 😊

Your channel popped on to my ph. No , as a guy from the States , most of the books are not in my favor; but I love the way you talk about the novels, the content, the social and historical background. You speak of the women novelists in a way that makes me want to read them. I look at other book channels (the bookchemist guy). Good.

I have just discover your channel and it is great. I will subscribe.

I’m SO happy to finally see Lolita in someones favourites video! I think people are scared to read this book because of the themes, but it is my favourite book of all time and I plan to do my dissertation on it

I’m reading Mrs. Dalloway for the first time right now and am just stunned by it. My favorite sentence of all-time is in To the Lighthouse. I did a whole video on that sentence. We’ll have to agree to disagree about Madame Bovary, though - the only thing that nearly redeemed that book was Emma’s fate. What an extraordinary scene there at the end.

Have you read Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane? It is often compared to Madame Bovary since they share similar themes :)

Oh wow, that edition of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is beautiful. I've not seen it before. And the same goes for your copy of To The Lighthouse. Have you been tempted to read the recent massive novel Ducks, Newburyport? I only ask because elements of it reminded me of Mrs Dalloway so much (even though the author says she's never read it.) Really lovely to hear all your thoughts about these. I chat about my fav books of the past decade here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6kPlIpLHj7Q.html

Great selections Claire 📚📚totally off topic but your hair is gorgeous I love that colour 😊

I love books 😍📚

I recently picked up Orlando by Woolf based on your love of Virgina Wolf. I need to try all these books that you've mentioned 🤣

Gahhh I picked up Melmoth at the bookstore not knowing it's the Essex Serpent sequel. Finding it's a sequel, I haven't read it. I've meant to read it ever since the hype started. I just keep putting it off. Your video has made up my mind. This must stop. I'm buying Serpent. I have a similar story with Jonathan Strange. I borrowed it from the library and had to return it half done. I was *loving* it. Must pick that up, too. Also, not sure if I've told you: you may be pleased to know I've become a Virginia Woolf fan this year, courtesy of your encouragement . Mrs Dalloway and A Room Of One's Own live up to everything you said. They're masterpieces. It's good to see you around. I wondered if you'd gone for good. Bye for now.

Have you read "To The Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf?🤩Please tell your views on it if you've read it😍I started reading it and the slightly hard yet evocative stream of conciousness style is so dreamlike and mystical in a way...quite thought provoking😍

Krolewna z Mako 😉👌💗🧔💖👸💓😎🧑👍 Piekna Lady

Wow british accent. Tbh difficult for a nonnative speaker like me to perfectly understand

I thought ‘ On Chesil Beach’ is so overrated. It’s an everyday story, with little depth