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@dakir073 ай бұрын
Great video! Thank you, Steve. Here is the list of books mentioned in the video: 91. The Elder Edda 92. Tacitus. Annals of Imperial Rome 93. Elizabeth Bishop. North & South 94. Zola. Germinal 95. Shih Naian. The Water Margin 96. William H. Prescott.History of the Conquest of Mexico 97. Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter 98. Arendt Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil 99. Andre Schwarz-Bart. The Last of the Just 100. Joseph Conrad. Heart of darkness
@smokymtnknitter51843 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@pandittroublejr2 ай бұрын
Thank You... 🙏🏾😃
@HannahsBooks3 ай бұрын
I am so pleased to see The Scarlet Letter on your list! It is one of my all-time favorites, even though so many readers seem to dismiss it now.
@Tolstoy1113 ай бұрын
I’ve read it twice and still find it stiff. Will try it again sometime
@seanaperry773 ай бұрын
Wow, that was a beautiful introduction. I'm gonna love this series!
@materiagrix3 ай бұрын
Yes! I have been waiting for you to do this!
@actioncando13 ай бұрын
Great video, Steve! I can't wait to see the series continue!
@GrammaticusBooks3 ай бұрын
I can't think of a better person to come up with this list!
@DanielsBibliophagy3 ай бұрын
It isn't surprising to find my fingers are so far from the pulse of quality that I've never even heard of some of these.
@aaronfacer3 ай бұрын
I'm waiting to see where "Meg" turns up in this list...
@nasar84803 ай бұрын
Wow, eagerly waiting for each of the next 9 parts to come!
@rchenko3 ай бұрын
If the Bible turns out to be #1, I swear I'll write that book about the avocado toast Steve ate one morning.
@RyanLisbon3 ай бұрын
Thanks, Steve. Batting a sad 3/10 so far - our TBR's will undergo serious inflation no doubt, but what a great series of videos! We expect 1-10 to be all Conan and Meg books. Wonder what the most modern book will be. The Last Samurai perhaps ...
@decox9113 ай бұрын
Fascinating. Looking forward to future parts of the series. Making a list.......
@katrinviires2553 ай бұрын
Waiting for the next part!!! :)
@CliffsDarkGems3 ай бұрын
An excellent list and loved your thoughtful introduction. I have read The Scarlet Letter and Heart of Darkness, both of which would fall just outside my top 100.
@GenreBooks233 ай бұрын
Zola did visit a mine- the lift, the crawling, everything. All for the research, and despite his claustrophobia..
@capturedbyannamarie3 ай бұрын
Very excited for this list
@socaltoobie89843 ай бұрын
🤩 Can’t wait for the rest of this!
@doomantidote3 ай бұрын
Oh I love this idea!
@jscottphillips5033 ай бұрын
Did you say this will become a playlist? That WILL be historic!
@joshuacreboreads3 ай бұрын
What a great video!
@anotherbibliophilereads3 ай бұрын
You should have set up betting parameters! I bet a doughnut that The Magic Mountain is in your top 10.
@cunningba3 ай бұрын
Third decade.
@lamarschlabach3933Ай бұрын
I was scrolling through the comments just now, checking to see if anyone noticed. Thank you.
@GholaMuadDib3 ай бұрын
Great video. It's about time we have a definitive list. Looking forward to seeing the rest. But for your viewers, I'll save you guys the time and jump right to numbers 3, 2 and 1. 3. Conan 2. Lord Of The Rings 1. Dune The End
@KennyStiggs3 ай бұрын
No Meg?
@GholaMuadDib3 ай бұрын
@@KennyStiggs Ha ha! The Meg is god tier. It's to good to be on any top list for anything. Because it will just win everything hands down.
@FiReadsBooks3 ай бұрын
Brilliant Steve
@aaronmyram68643 ай бұрын
Thanks for this Steve, I'm sure my TBR will suffer.
@dylanmcmahon49023 ай бұрын
What a wonderful video idea, I've been waiting on this. Blood Meridian is #1, right?
@stretmediq3 ай бұрын
#1 Mad Magazine's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions by AL Jaffee
@Revjonbeadle3 ай бұрын
Steve and I have many disagreements on what is happening in the world, I’m sure, but when it comes to the canon/greatest book conversation, Steve is one of the best to ever explain why there is a canon. Love that he is doing this series.
@alejandrorubio3053 ай бұрын
You’re doing Gods work
@bigaldoesbooktube10973 ай бұрын
My TBR 🫣
@dorothysatterfield36993 ай бұрын
When IS the next installment?
@heathergregg99753 ай бұрын
"You internet historians who are finding this record who knows how far in the future - I am making this video in the second decade of the benighted twenty-first century..." says the man with a picture of the medieval scholar Erasmus behind him. A wide knowledge of cultural history, science fiction imagination and a sharp eye on the present are part of the reason why I keep coming back to this life raft of books, where the capt'n has an eye on the weather ahead and a lively sense of humour.
@lamarschlabach3933Ай бұрын
Third decade.
@AnEruditeAdventure3 ай бұрын
Hah! You started! And, I see you’re already farther along in this than I am. 🤣 -T
@alejandrorubio3053 ай бұрын
Please make the next one
@Mnnwer3 ай бұрын
Wow, can't wait for this series! Predicting now that #1 will be "Meditations".
@ShawnMorey-sx7wm3 ай бұрын
Anthropological intro, mankind despicable, as a reflective mammal, one must read on....
@cwel19783 ай бұрын
My.guess for number 1 is Ovid's Metamorphoses
@mdavidmullins3 ай бұрын
No. I'm thinking the Bible. The title is 'greatest' not 'favorite'.
@aaronmyram68643 ай бұрын
No Steve is a biography guy, I think #1 will be the most obscure character from the Regency period that no one but Steve has even heard of.😉
@BooklessPete3 ай бұрын
Great intro.
@mikejunior58253 ай бұрын
Pretty sure you’re in the third decade, what year you living in??
@konstantinos-6-6-6-83 ай бұрын
Haven’t read a single one of them! And now you have me really wondering what’s number one…Ovid?
@Keyser8Soze3 ай бұрын
I'm thinking Horace and Ovid in the top 3
@michaelibk4182 ай бұрын
Oh no why are you starting now explaining yourself and then i continued listening. Very clever Steve, hope some people think and learn.
@DianeSLoftis3 ай бұрын
read one of ten! I’m on a roll 😅
@jshaers963 ай бұрын
I'll have to put in a word for Conrad, who still hasn't quite found his time yet. Nostromo is a great book, and so is The Secret Agent. He's one of those writers who need to be re-read and it can take time to get the hang of him, but I think it's worth the effort.
@Tolstoy1113 ай бұрын
He used to be much more read before the “Anti-Colonial” Left took over English departments.
@antigaia18173 ай бұрын
I'm kind of surprised by your choice of Hannah Arendt
@mdavidmullins3 ай бұрын
Because her conclusions were flawed/called into question? Is it the subtitle that bothers you? Flawed or not, I get the feeling this book is central to the literature of the Holocaust.
@thespaminator3 ай бұрын
Finally…
@materiagrix3 ай бұрын
Germinal is Zola’s second best book in my opinion. L’Assommoir is his master piece.
@mowersmowers85973 ай бұрын
Spoiler #1 is Stoner by John Williams
@llliiliiiiiililiiiliiiilllllli3 ай бұрын
Followed by Infinite Jest and Blood Meridian, of course
@DuaneJasper3 ай бұрын
Haha you nearly had me there
@mdavidmullins3 ай бұрын
I'm sure Stephen King just *must* be on the list somewhere…
@marciajohansson7693 ай бұрын
Funny😂
@davidnovakreadspoetry3 ай бұрын
@@mdavidmullinsA whole decade at least. 😂
@etucker823 ай бұрын
Obviously you'll next have to turn your book list into its own book to justify your choices.
@tricogustrico3 ай бұрын
To pithy an introduction to your list.
@simonagree4070Ай бұрын
#1 has to be Pat The Bunny. 😆
@nickcooper12603 ай бұрын
I think i know what your number one is, but I won't spoil it for anyone who might not be aware of the fact. I wonder if you have seen the light and Erich Von Danieken's 'Chariot's of the Gods?' (1968) is amoung your choices. He has actually written 43 titles, please approac them with your usual open mind.
@ShawnMorey-sx7wm3 ай бұрын
😮
@gavinmcintosh57163 ай бұрын
Pencil is poised. Instruct me 😊
@yelisieimurai3 ай бұрын
Where is Elric and Stephen King? Probably will appear later.
@roberteigen44993 ай бұрын
i bet that number 1 will be The Old Testament
@omnipotentpoobah603 ай бұрын
A steady as she goes opening 10. I’m sure the controversial ones come later.
@bbbartolo3 ай бұрын
Eloquently expressed context for what would have to be an overwhelmingly male list. On a positive note, I notice that five of the last six works of fiction I've read most recently are by women, chosen not for gender but the likelihood that I'd enjoy them. History is on the upswing, by some metrics, at least.
@Tolstoy1113 ай бұрын
What do you mean by likelihood that you’d enjoy them?
@bbbartolo3 ай бұрын
@@Tolstoy111 Admittedly "enjoy" is a lame word, but I go after anything from life-changing to jarringly creative to seductively charming. In my 80s I need to budget my time more than ever, and there's so much remarkable stuff I haven't read!
@Tolstoy1113 ай бұрын
@@bbbartolo I was asking what bearing the fact that the writers were female had on that. Your comment radiated a presumed superiority because of it. You choosing to read these works being a symbol of “history being on the upswing” etc
@bbbartolo3 ай бұрын
@@Tolstoy111 Maybe I expressed myself badly. The fact that the authors were women may be a matter of happenstance, or an upsurgence of female writing, or the fact that BookTuber Mark Nash is a cryptofeminist, since the majority of these recommendations came from him. (He also recommended Grimmish by a male writer, another winner by my lights)
@Tolstoy1113 ай бұрын
@@bbbartolo most of the prominent 19th century British novelists were novelists were women. The current publishing industry is run by women
@leopercara34773 ай бұрын
Wonderful!! Your prologue made me remember that here in Argentina we passed a law that protects students from ideological capture. If a student realizes that the teacher is not teaching the class and instead is doing anything else they can be denounced. I wonder how long it will take Canada and USA to make this happen.
@Tolstoy1113 ай бұрын
It would have to be public schools. Private schools can teach what they want.
@gaildoughty67993 ай бұрын
They are seriously working on it here in Florida.
@ThatReadingGuy283 ай бұрын
That could have scary implications though.
@Tolstoy1113 ай бұрын
@@ThatReadingGuy28 why? Public school teachers don’t have “free speech” while on the job.
@ThatReadingGuy283 ай бұрын
@@Tolstoy111 It creates a culture of fear for teachers with students always threatening to denounce them. It is very similar to fascist and communist countries in history.
@davidgagen98563 ай бұрын
Why the 10min rant?
@Tolstoy1113 ай бұрын
New here?
@possibilityspaceАй бұрын
Because it's necessary. Such is the state of the culture where extremists on the right and the left are each fully committed to their respective social re-engineering programs.
@kalkwiese3 ай бұрын
Oh boi, Infinite Jest is a safe #1, I am so sure :D
@colonelweird3 ай бұрын
But what do you mean by "greatest"? Most influential? Personal faves? Your view of the canon? Books everyone should read? And what do you mean by "book"? Are collections such as the Bible one book, or many? Would texts such as the Declaration of Independence or the Laws of Hammurabi be candidates for inclusion? How about comic books and songs? Should I be looking for Watchmen or Bob Dylan on this list?
@ShawnMorey-sx7wm3 ай бұрын
Anthropological intro, mankind is despicable, as the reflective mammal, one must read on.....
@heathergregg99753 ай бұрын
Actual book recommendations starts at 10 mins 45 seconds in.
@saintdonoghue3 ай бұрын
There's also a list of the books here in the comments, in case people want to skip the video entirely
@heathergregg99753 ай бұрын
@@saintdonoghue I wouldn't want people to miss what you say about the books. After all, I have just given you a positive review in my comment below.
@sandra7319.3 ай бұрын
What clickbait!! Arendt's book is the only book I've been unable to give a star rating.....I rarely reread but think this one's mention may force me to.
@JohnVKaravitisАй бұрын
Spends half the video attentionwhoring. Buh-bye now.