Stumbled upon this video, I have read and enjoyed two of your books, Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo. Loved them both. But most of all as a nightshift worker I salute you having a beer at 10am !

This list is great because it's not the same 10 best that all the other internet lists and book tubers recommend. You gave me some brand new books to add to my list, thank you!

First video I’ve watched on your channel! Loved this list, “Johnny Got His Gun” really got my attention and I’ll be definitely reading it sometime

Wow! Lots of classics! I really should read some of these… I’m terrible when it comes to the older stuff 😢

Subscribed! Great list :) going to now binge your other videos. My top ten would have to be… 1. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry 2. All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy 3. Stoner - John Williams 4. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë 5. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner 6. True Grit - Charles Portis 7. Beloved - Toni Morrison 8. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë 9. The Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka 10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding

thank you for sharing your top books, i love finding out about books I have never heard.

Fante is one of the most underrated American writers. He's so good and sensible

I have been watching a lot of book reviews and yours was the best i felt. The enthusiasm with which you talked about each book was good to watch.

I had no idea “Johnny Got His Gun” was a book. I knew of the movie only because of the clips from Metallica’s music video for “One” and the similar theme between the song and movie. I definitely plan on adding the book to my ever growing tbr list. I’ll probably add some others, but that one for sure.

Man, I resonated so much with your list (esp Raymond Chandler and Monte Cristo) - im currently reading a Confederacy of Dunces - I would add Lonesome Dove, that book is incredible. And I was actually at the Uruguay match in KC.

Great list, I remember reading A Confederacy of Dunces in high school but I honestly don't remember much about it. The Count of Monte Cristo is definitely a book I would like to read soon I've heard great things about it, it's just a super long book lol. I love soccer and it sucks that USA has been eliminated but I'm hoping Argentina wins the tournament.

That's a great list. Sadly I haven't read any of the books on your list! I know, right. But I see a few that I am going to put on my TBR list. I would have to really do some thinking to put together a top ten. Great video. -James

That was a great and interesting group of books. War novels are hard to read because the soldiers brought the war home. I read As I Lay Dying so long ago for a class. I wrote a short paper on the book making the characters into a wheel because someone pointed that out to me before I read it just like you did. Many years ago, I read some long books like War and Peace translated into English or in Spanish El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha por Miguel de Cervantes. And right now I'm reading a book that I won't even mention because "somebody" handed it to me. It's a sort of relationship thing too.

A fun list, thanks. Though I haven't read "Tale of Two Cites," Dickens would have to make my Top Ten, either with "Oliver Twist" or "David Copperfield" or "Great Expectations." He excels at so much including coming up with secondary characters who threaten to steal the show. A wise old woman once told me: "The older I get, the more I see that Dickens isn't an exaggerator but a realist." (Bonus: Nobody's better at naming characters.) Instead of "As I Lay Dying," my Faulkner of choice might be "Absalom, Absalom!," but both are worthy of course. (For pure fun, however, I might even go with "The Reivers.") I'm in the tiny minority that thinks "A Confederacy of Dunces" is clumsy & overrated, but anyone who has the insight to include Raymond Chandler in his Top Ten impresses & is forgiven.

Fight club wasn’t my kind of writing.. the movie was better to me than the book.. The writing is all over the place to me

I've seen worse lists.