I've read 9/50 so I'm feeling like a whole intellectual

I feel like I rarely see so many non-European, particularly Indian authors in a top50 list in the Booktube space, so this brought me a lot of joy. A great list. Thanks!

A Thousand Splendid Suns could quite possibly be my favourite book!!

a thousand splendid suns is a stunning book, but so heartbreaking.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is one of my favourite books ever. It was the first time I cried reading a book, and until today I rarely do ( the only other times were with And The Mountains Echoed - by the same author - and with All The Light We Cannot See, both heavily indicated ). It's just so sad to think there are millions like Mariam and Laila, whose voices are not heard and spirits not valued. My sister gave it to me when I was 8 years old. Who lets an 8 year old read a book like this? Beautiful, nonetheless.

I'm pretty simple I saw A Thousand splendid Suns I clicked.

Jack is giving me very strong Professer Trelawney energy in this video

The book list: Robinson crusoe Pride and prejudice Great expectations Charlotte brontë Mrs dalloway The odyssey The picture of Dorian gray To kill a mockingbird The catcher in the rye Tess of the d'urberviilles Moby dick Moby dick Lolita The scarlet letter The great gatsby Lord of the flies Hamlet Romeo and juliet Frankenstein A study in scarlet Dracula 1984 Animal farm Handmaid's tale Fahrenheit 451 Brave new world Home fire North and south The grapes of wrath We Harvest Heart of darkness Wide sargasso sea The hungry tide The god of small things Midnight's children A thousand splendid sun The kite runner The imberitance of loss Disgrace Small island Americanah A single man Beloved The reader The color purple Wonder Hiroshima The white tiger Things fall apart The yellow wallpaper

Me a computer science student who never has time to read things: *Watches video and has apparently read like 40/50 books shown* Me: "Am I a literature student????"

All Khaled Hosseini books are amazing. And I would double recommend The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Hilariously entertaining book

Sometimes, I wish I can quit on everything and begin to indulge in the joy of reading carried with proper solitude, not forever but for a long time just enough to feed my head to satisfy my crave. Thank you random creator for popping up into my recommendation and lengthening my To Read List, I appreciate that. :)

thank you for including north & south--it's one of my favourite books of all time and an absolute masterpiece, but I feel like no one ever talks about it

As a BookTuber, I also recommend The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. 👌💖💞📙

omg this couldn’t have come at a better time, i’ve just been looking for some new books to add to my TBR!! 🥰

Unpopular opinion: And the Mountains Echoed is my favorite Hosseini book

Me: I need to read them all also me: never reads them I've read 3, progress. I do really want to read them all though also my reading list is very very very long

So happy to see Things Fall Apart on this list! I read it in English class sophomore year of High School and it is one of my favorite books. It is very good.

I love the matching of the yellow book covers on the thumbnail to go with the colour scheme of the channel lol

I had read 22 of these and feeling particularly proud of myself. Will plough my way through the rest. Thanks for compiling that list 👍🏼

Thank you for the list! I love the way you describe books in a couple of sentences, it sounds very intriguing, wish you did that for every book

I’ve read 4 of these! 3 of them because they were on my A level English course , I’m glad I got to study a variety of texts! Deffo need to add more of these to my good reads list ☺️

I think you should do a video about your south Asian literature course. Most of the lists shared always leave out on south Asian literature so happy to see you add these. And do come to india!

I am in 9th grade and last year I tried reading "A Thousand Splendid Suns" I could not read it then but I love it so much now.

My list is short but I think three books are amazing 1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 3. 1984 by George Orwell

Hello here are the 5 books I think everyone should read: - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam - Armor by John Steakley - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - Penturian by Tim Gibson

I’ve not watched the video but I saw a thousand splendid suns... BEST BOOK EVER

Just when I thought this channel couldn't get any better! ❤

So many of these are on my list to read. I'm currently reading Frankenstein and I absolutely adore The Great Gatsby. Lots to learn from all of these books

I'm glad I found this. Been looking for a list like that

Im pretty proud I have read many of these and they were GREAT. Thanks for the tips a lot, Jack ❤️❤️

He never disappoints

I love how short and crisp your video is!

My reading list is so long now oml

This is a great list! Disappointed by how few we could tick off our list as you went along... only one way to remedy that! This will keep us busy in lockdown - thank you!

Jack, thanks for sharing your reading list. On a side note, I feel great to be able to read both in English and Russian because both countries have some greatest literary works! cheers from Kazakhstan!

I love your videos man! Thank you for all your time in effort they are really great!

Very refreshing to find a list of books which doesn't consist almost entirely of ones I have already read. I'll add these to my Goodreads. Thank you.

Americanah is my favorite book of all time - so beautifully written!!

Thank u so so much for this video! I´ve been searching for new books to read and this list has a lot of interesting reads !

this is the perfect video! thanks so much jack!

This was amazing! I've been trying to increase my reading palate so I've read 20 so far! I just added a bunch to my booklist!

This video is a godsend as I'm just about to start my coursework for A-level English Lit.

A thousand splendid suns made me fall in love with reading.

I've read only 12 books completely from this list. I've read many books partially and must complete them. I'm familiar with most of the plots though.

Surprised to see great expectations recommendation after watching your tier rank classic book videos

Good list! It's nice to see classics being promoted.

These are great! Super helpful and excellent choices. Thank you for sharing.

so happy you included the reader by bernhard schlink!

This is a very good and diverse list. I've read 35 / 50 and will move the other 15 up in my To Be Read lineup. Will consider subscribing!

Thank you for this amazing list! Looking forward to read all of them👏👏😊 (and Merry Christmas❄☃🎄🎶!)

No Latino Americans authors? I recomend you Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Juan Rulfo, Elena Garro, Rosario Castellanos.

I've read 12 so far so I will add the rest to my never ending list of books to read 📖

Last time I read Hiroshima by John Hersey, it was still not fiction. Though written in the style of New Journalism, with its subjective points of view, it is still very much the true stories of several survivors. An amazing book that is well worth reading, but classifying it as fiction diminishes the power of the narrative.

JACK you NEED to read “more happy than not” !!! a masterpiece

I cannot believe Jack just made my reading list even longer smh

love this my goodreads is FLOURISHING!!

So cool! I've read quite a few of these but I definitely want to read them all now...at least now I know what to do over the summer :) but please tell me I'm not the only one that never realised the Hamlet/Lion King thing! It's so obvious but I just never thought about it 🤦‍♀️

Great list Jack! I was pleasantly surprised. Of the 59, I had not read 10, which I will do, but Karsten had read 25 of them already as well and Ariadne at least 7, so this is great as I know they will enjoy the rest as well. PS Karsten’s 2 favourite fiction books he has read so far: 1. American Gods by Neil Gaiman AND 2. Brave New World, according to him. He often tells Ariadne: Hurry up and read them so we can talk about them! 😂 All but a handful of these are already a part of our home library so I am CERTAIN she will read those two as well. One book she didn’t enjoy: Lord of the Flies because...you know. Another list is ALWAYS welcome! R, K and A

Awesome book recommendations! Next time would you please be able to give a brief description of all the books? The ones you did speak about helped a bunch :) Thank you!

great list ! i've read a great deal of these during my english lit degree as well, but i def got a couple ideas of ones to add onto my future readings list. (:

Good list. I have not read everything on it, but I see that you have many of my favorites.

going straight onto my goodreads to-read list

So glad to see a few Indian writers up there ! I totally recommend reading Amish Tripathi for anyone interested in hindustani mythology ... And reading Sudha Murthy and RK Narayan would give an honest reflection of life of India's commoners ... Train to Pak by Khushwant Singh is another book about Indo pak separation... I really recommend short stories by Rabindranath Tagore (they are very impactful, though u have to read it's translation and some emotion is lost in translation) ... Have added so many new books to my to read list 😁... And the Khaled Hosseini books have been life changing ... Though I like Emma over Pride and prejudice

I first read A Thousand Splendid Suns when I was about 12 and have read it twice since. It's the ONLY book I've ever read more than once and I cried EACH time! A book that stays with you for days and days after - just amazing.

It feels good to see books by individuals author:) *they're amazing

Love this! Just a remark though: Things Fall apart is about so much more than just tribes, in fact so little in that book is about tribes.

Read 8/50 books 😊😁 There's so much more to read. I've left Heart of Darkness midway, but I'm excited to pick it up again

Such amazing recommendations...definitely going to pick up some of them.

I also recommended Nectar in a Sieve! A quick and fulfilling read on life in India in the 50s. It’s quite heartbreaking and bittersweet

This is sick list 🔥 loved it

My TBR took a massive hit today :D

wish I could jump to the person I would be after reading all these books

Very good. You have put a lot of thinking into this.

These seem great. Read 9 out of these and excited to read more.

Woahhh thanks for these recommendations!! So so useful. Also, I submitted a literature related video to the Studytube Project about 2 weeks ago now and have not heard back, just wondering if its been received? Thanks again for the fab video:)

I’ve only read 35 of these but I do have two of them in my pile to read. I’m going to have to get my reading cap on!

Thanks for the reminder, some of those classics bring me back to my years of university in the same domain of English literature. Thanks

intriguing that heart of darkness was in the 'post colonial' section, whereas things fall apart was in the 'different perspectives' section - don't know what Achebe would have thought of that 😂

These could be added here: All the lights we cannot see And the mountains echoed The orphan train The nightingale The girls we left behind A train to Pakistan Hush! An Irish princess The help

Animal Farm and Handmaid's Tale are my absolute favourite books. And weird fact: Brave New World was translated into my language as "End of civilization" which seems kinda sad to me because by doing that, they erased the "connection" to The Tempest by Shakespeare, right? Sorry for my English, by the way.

The God of Small Things is my favourite book. Indian book reccomendations - Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh (highly highly recommend) And books by Jhumpa Lahiri.

I’ve never seen such a dedicated reader❤

Gabriel Garcia Marquez should be on every top 50 list! His prose and compact style get me every time I read a book

Subscribed! This is awesome!

I haven’t read a fiction novel in years - great to have some suggestions :)

og sherlock holmes being mentioned brings a smile to my face the original books are underappreciated compared to how well-known just the name is

ooo i've read 25 of these. Exited to get to the rest!

I want to read every single one of those books! I've already read 10, so 40 to go!

Great list! Thank you.

ugh i read heart of darkness in senior year high school,, i hated it lmao but i recommend reading things fall apart by chinua achebe right after. gives everything such perspective. also achebe wrote basically a response to heart of darkness so i recommend reading that as well.. good luck

I just read Americanah and i was crying like a baby towards the end. It does go into romance quite a bit so if you aren't into that thing it may not be the best for you but it also goes into the perspective of being a foreigner in both America and in England, being Nigerian, experiencing racism, and experiencing feelings of regret, jealousy, mental health issues etc etc. It's so we'll written and I couldn't recommend it more!

Why on Earth has the catcher in the rye been banned lol i just thought it was dull

I use to have an English teacher who use to always do really educational books such as to kill a mockingbird and animal farm. I was so sad when she left

Great list. I'm familiar with almost all the books thought have read only a quarter of them. I do think Jazz by Toni Morrison should have been on that list along with To the Lighthouse.

Really solid recommendations!

jack and bookish content!!!! yes please!!!!!!

I love this video, thanks!!!

Loved all your recommendations :-)

The movie Apocalypse Now was based on Heart of Darkness. I highly recommend The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. It was his first novel and won the American National Book Award. Following to he can US Civil War and the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation many freed Blacks traveled North seeking opportunity. This novel documents the migration of one of these, a young man headed for Harlem in Manhattan.

Loved it!! Really needed some recommendations!