Thank you all so much for watching!! I hope you enjoy the video 📖😊💛 Bonus videos, book club & writing updates ✨ www.patreon.com/christyannejones My book 📖 A Year in Tōkyō: An Illustrated Guide and Memoir: bit.ly/3CjjBTz

Frankenstein is essentially a story about the humanity of a monster and the monstrosity of a human.

Frankenstein is my all time fave classic! I had chills at the scene where Frankenstein's creation opens his eyes

The audiobook for The Song of Achilles is AMAZING because you can really feel the passion and emotions through the voice actor, Frazer Douglas.

It's not a Christy favorite books video without howl's moving castle and I understand your feelings towards that book cause I watched the movie and immediately felt at peace and when I knew there's a book of it from your video I exploded in happiness 🤯

This really makes me want to reread Piranesi. It was such a good book. I went into it completely blind, thinking I might not love it. But I was so wrong, it's now one of my favs too!

Some of my favorites, a few overlaps, will definitely have to delve into some of your titles. Moving Frankenstein to the top of my TBR list. Donna Tartt - The Secret History, The Little Friend, The Goldfinch Mary Doria Russell - The Sparrow Michael Bishop - Brittle Innings Robert McCammon - Swan Song, Boy's Life Dan Simmons - Hyperion, The Terror, Carrion Comfort Robert A, Heinlein - Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden Robertson Davies - The Deptford Trilogy Robert Silverberg - Dying Inside, Lord Valentine's Castle Joe Haldeman - The Forever War Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian, The Road, No Country for Old Men Brandon Sanderson - The Mistborn Trilogy JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings David Wroblewski - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Stephen King - The Stand, The Dead Zone

I love a book that i just read that no one ever talks about and it's a classic. Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery. I heard it on audiobook and the actor Rachel McAdams (the notebook) did the voice. It was good.

this video makes me so excited because Christy gives book recs that are NOT just TikTok books and she also has beautiful video editing. so rare, thank you :')

One hundred years of solitude, and Educated being in your favourite list,sold me into subscribing your channel. Im so happy.☺️

Your videos spark so much joy! I always look forward to your uploads and helped me get back into reading and writing 🤍

That's a beautiful cover of One Hundred Years of Solitude! I've never seen it in the US before. We have many of the same favorites, so I'll def be looking at some of the new ones that you've suggested. Thank you! 💛

As usual I love to start my Sundays with your videos Christy (I'm from latinamerica) and I'm so happy it's about your favorite books, I've found so many gems thanks to you 💕

Thank you for the recommendation of the Traveling Cat Chronicles, I LOVED this wonderful book.

Pachinko is amazing! One of the best books I have ever read. Mrs Dalloway is my favourite of all times

My personal favorite books (at the moment): Little women Hello Universe (Erin Entrada Kelly) Flipped (wendelin) Alice in wonderland Life of Pi

I LOVED Piranesi SO MUCH and I can’t find anyone who loved it like I did. We read it for our book club and everyone was like “it was okay but a bit weird” and I just…no…I cried reading it because it was so beautiful and that never happens.

so many of your favourite books are my favourite books as well (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Picture of Dorian Gray, etc) or the books I haven't read yet but expect to fall in love with - such a wonderful list!

OMG I love this type of video! Always leaves me with great recommendations🌟

I bought Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel after watching this video, it sounds like a perfect book honestly and I’m excited to read it (one day)

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of my favorites. I thought the films version with Robert De Niro was good, Kenneth Branagh is such a great director. I like your Minnie Mouse coffee mug 🙂

omg this is the first video I've whatch from you and you just made me want to read books I honestly would never pick up myself. thank you!

Always waiting for your uploads. One of the things that completes my Sunday. 💜🙂

Absolutely love your book recommendations!

omg Christy, our tastes are so alike, I really need to start reading the other faves that I havent read yet but I recognize so many of mine in this list aaaaa

to be honest it's hard to choose favorite one when all you read ones become your favorites ♡ The list I would start with "Angela's ashes "

Great taste! In case you haven’t read them, may I suggest; Possession by A S Byatt and The Shadow of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

I’m 180 pages into The House in the Cerulean Sea and I’ve already cried once. It’s such a wholesome book! 💙

Thank you for giving a short summary. A lot of youtubers just say the book names and move on, but it really helps when you give a summary because I can tell if I might be interested in it.

It's a wonderful time to have Christy post on your birthday 😄

A lot of these books are either on my wishlist or loved and read to pieces. Read The Travelling Cat Chronicles during my holidays, and as a self-certified cat lover, this book actually tore me to shreds emotionally. Such a wonderfully sad and heartwarming book. :) Will be adding alot of these books to my cart on my next book shopping spree. :)

Pachinko is also my favorite. Hey christy i am really greatful for you. you always motivates me to read more books.

You started the video talking about one of my favorite books of all time and then I just had do jot down each title you talked about during the video hahaha now I have a huge reading list

If you loved 100 years of Solitude and Pachinko, you may really like House of the Spirits by Allende.

Thank you, what a delight, love the books and descriptions!

idk why i was surprised to see howl's make it when there's a big totoro plush sitting behind you. definitely one of my favourites too. i read it just before the film came out and i have read most of jones' work since. my copy is so worn that the cover is starting to peel a little. i love a lot of the other books on the list too, especially frankenstein and the works of neil gaiman!

Now I need a printable version of this! I haven’t read but 1or 2 on this list!😮

I too absolutely loved Pachinko. Also.watched.on Apple Tv. Can't waiT FOR .the next season. JUST DISCOVERED your channel. Thank you!☺

Whenever you’re wearing red lipstick I always want to know what it is!! Also lovely video as always! Piranesi is also one of my favorites

You’re hair is so pretty! And I love your sweater!

Great list! Reading Frankenstein for the first time, I already know I’m going to enjoy it so much

Absolutely loved this!! Will be picking up some of these books!!

Frankenstein Is my favorite too. A really good book❤

So many books 📚 in common! Looking forward to your next video.

Cat chronicles is one of my favs too……pachinko is also amazing, you may also like The woman is the white kimono. Take care! Enjoy

Piranesi was brilliant! I was so surprised that it just swept me in to this world. Thank you for your video so now looking into these books to read for myself. Thank you.

You need to read these books: 1) The Home Duet Series by Nikki Lamers 2) A Fisherman's Promise by Olivia Snow 3) No Proof and Beyond the Widow's Peak by Ashley McConnel (I don't know if I butchered her name) 4) Blackout Trail by Linda Naughton 5) Beneath The Maize by Stephen Goldhahn 6) AFTER TWILIGHT by M. KNIGHT ROZE 7) Conjuring the Witch by Jessica Leonard 8) A Sorrow Called Sarah by Charlotte Roddy 9) Keep Your Friends Close by Niki Keith 10) Enter the Darkness by Sarah Budd I believe you haven't heard of any of those but I swear, you will enjoy them all. 4 & 5 are long books. 1 is 2 books in the series. Please give these books a chance! :D

Love your recommendations ❤

Lovely video! I’ve actually discovered a passion for reading around two years ago, and one for writing a couple months back. I want to go study literature in college next year, which can only be done quite far from where I live. I am excited, but also very anxious that it might not amount to anything at all, but I’ve found your channel a few weeks ago, and since then watching your videos has brought me a lot of comfort and reassurance, so thank you!

Amazing list. So good to see adult booktubers here on KZfaq.

Have you read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn? My all-time fave.

I wrote down all of the ones I haven't read as I want to read them all, I love your recommendations!!

LOVE THE RECS! NOW TO ADD LIKE 10 MORE BOOKS TO MY TBR ...

Wish there was a printed list of the books you've noted.

I bought The Magic Toyshop because of you previous Favorites video, I’m planing on reading it this month, I think so far all your favorites have become my favorites too so if you loved a book I buy 😂

There are so many books in this list, that I also love, and the ones I was going to read. I love that we have similar taste

I'm just discovering your channel yesterday and I am so happy to see this kind of KZfaq channel Really appreciate Good luck and thanks 😊

I keep forgetting our taste is so similar!! I have overlapping favourites: the goldfinch, Piranesi, his dark materials, murakami and Neil gaiman are fav authors of mine. I love it!! 🥰🥰

The Song of Achilles holds such a dear and special place in my heart

Love this videos! Thanks 🥰

Same. I've read HP about 20x including audiobook runs. 🥰

I absolutely love Coraline for its bravery too omg❤

I've read so many books surrounding the fall of Troy, but I still haven't gotten Song of Achilles though I've wanted to since it first came out. I've got to remedy that soon. Pat Barker's books The Silence of the Girls and The Women of Troy are from the perspective of Briseis, and they are wonderful. Frankenstein is one of my all-time favorites as well.

Thanks, definitely will check them out

Gracias I'm putting on my list Wind-Up Bird Chronicles from Murakami, I just discovered Norwegian Wood and loved it.

So I had a horror story of a Christmas Day and lolled my way over here to find this video. Is there anything more uplifting that watching another person muse about their favorite books and why you should read them? Thank you so much. Lovely. Perfect. I am warmed and feel hugged. I love all the choices. (My recommendation: As Meat Loves Salt)

I also will read Anne of Green Gable, loved the show Anne.

Christy, you're one of my favourite youtubers. So wonderful - I love the way you talk about your favourite books! 🥰❤️ Ooh Piranesi is so good! I really want to read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel, even though it's so long!!!!!!!

I haven’t read a single one of these! Gonna have to add them to my list! Enjoyed the video and subscribed!

I love your videos! On your videos like this when you recommend books, could you have a picture of the coveron the screen the whole time you are talking about it or a list in the description please? I watch you on my tablet with Amazon open on my desktop and add any books I want to investigate further to my cart. Sometimes I have to go back twice just to catch the title and author, because you only say it once and I can't read the cover when you putting it back and forth between your hands and moving it around. I would really appreciate that. Thank you!! I'm so happy for you that you finished your novel!!

Oh you should check out The Bass Rock! It has amazing imagery and has both very realistic characters and an almost magical feeling

So, I stumbled upon you and this video and thought I wo ups see if any of my fav books were mentioned (only one but I’m sadly extremely lacking in my reading), but then I noticed the card game Sorcerer over to turn side. And then I noticed Gloomhaven, what I think is Clank!, and Through the Ages back behind you. So, even though I couldn’t share most of your book list, I always have to give a shout out to someone with great board games on display (full disclosure-I haven’t played anything but Clank! even though I did back Sorcerer on Kickstarter).

I have tried for years to get my book club to read Frankenstein but can’t forget them to forget the movies. It is a deeply philosophical study of what it means to be human.

I want to like 100 years of solitude. I really really did. I read it in Spanish (mind and the authors native language) and it was beautiful, don’t get me wrong. I just can’t enjoy a book where such disturbing things happen. Call me weak but I want someone to root for, good moments through the darkness, but 100 years of solitude just feels like never ending misery (which I understand is kind of the point I just don’t enjoy it). Spoiler alert….a dude literally bangs a 9ish year old girl. I hated that. I can’t get over it. Love the writing, hate the story.

We share a lot of our favourites! I love Murakami too and I feel conflicted by what people say about him online, as I still absolutely love reading his books. Also about 100 years of Solitude, people might say the "gun violence" part is particularly disturbing because it really happened. It's called the "Banana Massacre" and there was between 47 and 2000 deaths (??? the government was in it too, which explains the crazy estimation).

Wow great list. I have read a number them but I will try to read some of your other suggestions.

I LOVED educated. It made me cry because it was so inspiring.

This video was really interesting! I read Piranesi couple of months ago and I didn't love it but as the time passes, the reading experience is growing on me and I still think about Piranesi sometimes. It was a very unic story.

I love Haruki Murakami and Neil Gamen too!

This inspired me to read more

Really good picks here

Is that a Ginko tree in the back? I didn't know you could grow them inside? WOW~!

I would recommend Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez.

Hi- you might want to check out Ursula K. Le Guin, if you haven't already. She is a wonderful writer who creates enchanting and engaging worlds while provoking thoughts on complex issues.

Where did you get the beautiful cover for Harry Potter, please tell!

Yay! two things. 1.New Video! 2. Second to be here to comment! Love your videos! They actually help me as I write my book. I listen to you as I write or type. It relaxes me for some reason. So thank you for uploading a new video.

That totoro plushie stole my attention the whole time

Honestly I love your voice, you sound so sweet

Drop the full 32 list bestie

Book made me cry?? 5 stars, all the stars 🌟 🤣

YOU HAVE TO READ " The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy!! As a writer, as a reader, a sa human being - you will love it!

A bit late so I hope you still see this. I love ALL these books and some are my favourites too. I just have to subscribe 😊

I would love to hear your thoughts on a 2 book story called Shanghai Girls (then Dreams of Joy) by Lisa See- it was also a time skipping story starting the front of Japan's invasion of China. Then later the cautionary tale against communism in Dreams of Joy. For recommendation, Shanghai Girls was the book that made me love reading

Have you read "House of Leaves" its amazing! ❤

Loved it 😘

If you are interested in psychology, I highly suggest you to read Dostoevsky, if you have not already.

I really enjoy your recommendations and have added many to my TBR list. But what I really need to know is what lipstick are you wearing? You wear this beautiful cranberry color that I NEED! thanks!

can you recommend a book that has Cornerstone by Artic Monkeys vibes? you know, dating similar persons or dating both brothers/sisters

omg i really loved these~! we share many faves :p

I am new to the channel. I jotted down the ones I haven't read. Thank you! I do notice that younger (than me 🙂) book lovers always preface their love of J.K. Rowling (if they include her at all anymore) saying they don't agree with her personal views. If we only read things from authors we fully agree with, it would be so boring, and such a limited list, too. Just something I wanted to point out. Good favourite list, and I will watch some of your other videos.