"really pumped for what this new year is going to bring" this did not age well

I’m watching this in April and his enthusiasm for the new year was so cute, but honey you’ve got a big storm coming

jack got 1 minute into a video before mentioning his English lit degree, that must be a record!

i just saw someone on goodreads who read 365 books last year, and after seeing this i think the universe is telling me to pick up the 1 book i’ve been reading for 5 months and finish it already

People in the comments: shocked that Jack has read 100 books in a year Booktube: enters the chat

I just realised I'm not at Jack's reading level. Like woah. I need to stop looking in the teens section.

jack is cOMING for ruby granger's branding

The pile of books on your table with all the tabs and notes in them is so satisfying

My goal was to read 100 books and I've read 102. I'm kind of proud of myself, since like 90% of these were classic/ambitious so it wasn't a waste of time.

concept: jack made this video purely to flex his reading and his iphone 11

I wished you showed the covers of the books :(

Jack your smile is infectious as you talk about a subject you truly love. That is a wonderful thing to see. Although I did not read 100 books in 2019, a grand goal for sure, I was plenty surprised that as you went through each title I ticked off all those I have personally already read myself and was super pleased (within myself) that the total count was well over 70!! Grant it, MANY of them were required reading in my American High School (Years 10 - 13 here), but I always loved English (even though I am a scientist by nature and education/experience) and so read voraciously through both High School, undergraduate and graduate school and the only thing that slowed me down was having children. That being said, we are all voracious readers in the family and I have read (or they have read on their own) MANY of the books you listed to the children already as well as we keep a well stocked children’s library in the home. I recently tried to turn them on to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which along with Tom Sawyer, I would also give 5 stars, but they were IMMEDIATELY thrown off by the use of the N word within the first few pages. Although I tried to explain they had to understand the time period in which the book was written (and, as you know, we are a family of mixed race colour), but they were having ABSOLUTELY NONE of it!! 😇. They even made me skip over the word “stupid,” in Harry Potter because they will not (and have been raised) never to use or tolerate derogatory language. So, instead, we read A Wrinkle In Time, which they loved - the recent movie is a horrible interpretation - and as we have just finished the BBC first series of His Dark Materials, it is next up (our usual house rule is you must read it before watching it but, as I am American of a much older age, I didn’t know the series well and wanted to find out about it by watching first - a brilliant series it was as well. We hope you make it to 115 this year! The eldest child is a speed reader and could likely give you a run for your money!!! He read the entire Hunger Games in 3 days and American Gods in three sittings! It’s his FAVOURITE book of 2019 as well. He’s currently reading Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad while vacationing abroad. We do love to read. Have fun! 🌹

i’d highly recommend ‘if we were villains’ by m.l. rio, if you haven’t read it already. it’s very shakespeare-centric, set during uni and seems right up your street

Happy New Year, Jack! Keep prospering and keep posting quality content!

Wow imagine how much cleverer I would be if I got my head out my phone and put it in a book

The Song of Achilles and Circe are by far the best books I’ve read recently. I’ve reread them both at least five times. Madeline Miller is a great author and I highly recommend

Hello, booktuber here! This vid popped up in my recommended section so here I am! 😂 I finished my literary thesis and read 121 books. To see that you’ve read 100 books and you’re also doing coursework?! Big respect!! You read some brilliant stuff too. 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Read 39 books in 2019, and This Is Going To Hurt has to be my favourite

The amount of effort put into this video with the ratings on the right 🙌🏻🙌🏻 I appreciate it!

Rewatching this in July 2020 and the first 20 seconds of this are just. So sad.

I love how pumped jack is in the intro... if only we knew what kind of a year we were about to embark on...

Coming back and seeing the beginning of this video when you’re so pumped for 2020..

Am actually really looking forward to this cos I love all Jacks book recommendations

jackuary is going onto every calendar i own

Currently doing Gatsby for A-Level. I honestly hated it at the start but now I’ve found myself falling in love with it, it’s amazing how your perception of writing can change

So many book you read are on my reading list and you gave them all such good reviews. can’t wait to get engulfed in them!!

100 books? uhhhh my goal fr 2020 is 12 😂

thanks for this! I'm planning on reading more this year so this is great! Love you!

Glad you’ve chosen an Isherwood for your dissertation. There is a beauty and an elegance in the simplicity of his prose that time cannot tarnish.

This video already made 2020 better than 2019 I genuinely love this man

this really motivated me to start reading for fun again, after school sucked the fun out for me! thank you

I'm studying Jekyll and Hyde for GCSE English Lit and I love it! I read some of these books last year and I will look into reading some of the others you have mentioned/ recommended

Watching this in 2021...this was from a happier, more optimistic time. I'm jealous of past Jack

An upload! Happy 2020 everyone. Less than a minute in an already puns. Thanks for the recs Jack!

I did an essay on Camp and it’s impact on fashion. So I read many of these. Thanks for the other recs too! Can’t wait to check them out.

best start to 2020 !! love your content, but especially love your English lit content and hope to see more

my favourite book i read this year was Beartown by fredrik backman. it’s translated from swedish and the world building was amazing and i felt like i truly was there as a character watching the events unfold. it also has a sequel called Us against you, which i recommend too ☺️

Out of 100 books that Jack read in 2019, I only read one, which was Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I'm glad that he gave it a 5-star rating 'cause I loved it, too ❤️

“I don’t wanna be sat here until 2021” -Jack, January 2020 “You were saying?” -Coronavirus, June 2022

All the light we cannot see and The Hate U Give were definitely the highlight's of my 2019 reading list. Loved them like crazy.

One of my favourite books of 2019 was Normal People by Sally Rooney - I don't even know why I enjoyed it so much, but I devoured it in 2 days. Would recommend!

Thank you for the recommendations!! And so excited for all the videos this month ;)

I too am going for 115 books this year!! Good Luck Jack!!

"Rich man, Poor man” by Irwin Shaw and “Martin Eden” by Jack London are the best books I read in 2019

I hereby challenge myself to read 100 books this year! Happy new year, Jack!

The Hate U Give 100% the best book I read this year! Recommend 'Reader on the 6.27'

"eleanor oliphant is completely fine" is one of the best books I have ever read would highly recommend :)

I'm a final year English student too, and my favourite books of the year were Small Island by Andrea Levy, Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe and Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout. Loved this list, thanks for sharing!

Happy New Year Jackkk!!!

I'm so glad you enjoyed Brighton Rock! I did it as one of my A Level texts and loved it!

Hey Jack!! It's my goal this year to do this!! But i'll be happy if i go even 50 books😂😂😂 i was wondering about when and how you started reading actualy literature? Like Specifically Classic English literauture? Not random books.

Wow! I loved this Jack! So many books on here are ones I love and I kept getting excited when you mentioned them! I’m currently reading The God Of Small Things (what a coincidence!) and you’re right, it’s beautiful! 💖

Looking at my Goodreads’s goal of 30 for this year like🥺 I’m an INTENSE bookworm but I just can’t devote as much time to it as I used to - no clue how you managed to read 100 while dealing with uni! (although, let’s be real, ur degree prob helped loads😅) lovedddd this vid

"What a carve up !" By Jonathan coe is *amazing !* I definitely recommend it, as well as "the rain before it falls" by Jonathan coe still, these are really really great books

I love this guy even more for reading Sontag

“I’m so excited to see what the new year will bring” oh jack, oh jack......you’ve got a big storm coming

First video of yours that I’ve clicked on and I immediately wanted to be your best friend 😂love the energy you put off and how animated you are💛

I saw The Talented Mr Ripley in the thumbnail and had to click on the video :D has to be one of my favourite books I have ever read, I'm so glad you enjoyed it too! Also, the original adaptation (Plein Soleil) is really good

What a varied list. Good work!

First video I watch in 2020 yay ✨❤️ happy new year

You've really got an awesome personality. Thanks for sharing this.

you need to read trainspotting, I read it months ago and I still haven't moved on.

This Is Going To Hurt is one of my favourite reads last year as well!😍 I picked up and bought that book by chance, literally because it was the cheapest I found at a sale, and I can say it's the most hilarious and honest story that got me hooked from page one (probably because I do have an interest in healthcare😂). Anyone agrees? Happy New Years Jack, looking forward to what you have this year!😊 I'm going for 100 this year :D

I sat through this mainly to see what you thought of Things Fall Apart, my favourite book (but I don't read much)! Too many books here!

I had to read Melville's Benito Cereno for a module last year and it was SO GOOD. Way less of a task than Moby Dick (still haven't attempted that, props to you!) but still rewarding and interesting to reflect upon. Would totally recommend!

*ruby granger has entered the chat*

Not me rewatching this in the hope that jack posts a similar thing this year

one of the best books I’ve ever read is breakfast at tiffany’s by truman capote, 100% recommend it!!

Man, you are just so clearly enamored with books and literature and honestly, I am so here for it.

So many A Level texts - Death of a Salesman, Brighton Rock, Tess of the D'Urbervilles! Literally 3/6 texts for my A Level course last summer

Jekyll and Hyde was our Scottish text last year and I absolutely loved it

Happy new year Jack! Have you read 'The secret history' by Donna Tartt? If not, I totally recommend it! :)

Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns had me bawling. You should definitely check them out!

I’d definitely recommend The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

100 books whilst at uni is so good - I struggled so badly with reading whilst studying! Also - I would recommend Beartown by Fredrik Backman, it’s such an excellent book that talks about social issues in a way I’ve never seen before.

I would recommend "Demian" by Herman Hesse and "Into The Magic Shop" by James R. Doty! Two of my favourites.

Jack, maybe you can do a video about the poetry books you read. Would love to watch it.

Nice to see that the majority of these are classics. It is even harder to read those. Kudos!

I would 100% recommend The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa- even though it was super readable it also managed to haunt me for weeks afterwards. It was only translated into English recently and I'm so glad I picked it up in Waterstones!

- The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon (set in iraq) - The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed (set in Kashmir) - Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani (follows the lives of a group of Palestinian men living in refugee camps & it's not a long book. Very famous & moving) - Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (set in Brazil)

Great stuff - thanks for the info and inspiration! Do you read physical books or Kindle?

How do you read poems? I mean things like whether you leave some time to contemplate, or whether you reread them before moving on to the next one.

Some constructive criticism, (in case you plan to do this vdeo again next year) Sometimes it was a bit difficult to see your rating, especially when it was 4 or 5 stars, and especially when you went quickly from one book to the next, because I almost had to count to distinguish between the amount of stars. So I think it would be more efficient if you always had five stars in total, and you just filled in the amount of stars you gave to each book, and left the remaining stars empty. So kind of like how you can see the star ratings on goodreads. Otherwise it's a really impressive list, as an english major myself I read a lot of these as well, and I'm also aiming to read 100 books next year!

This was acc really interesting, pls do a video on poetry u like one day

Iam so bussy all the time. How do you manage to read this many books?

Have you read 'The Thing Around your Neck' by Adichie, what did you think if you have? It's on my list for IB Literature... This is list is also really interesting and will definitely read some of these thanks to your recommendations.

Can't believe I actually read a few of the books he mentioned this year! I really recommend The Power (Naomi Alderman)

please please please can you do a video on your favourite poems/poets because i want to get into it but i have no idea where to start i have two favourite books from 2019: red, white & royal blue (yes it deserved the hype it got, it's a masterpiece) and the junior officers' reading club (this was absolutely brilliant, it was incredibly moving and funny at the same time, my life view has completely changed after reading it)

One of my favourite books of 2019 was The Letter to the King by Tonke Dragt. I know it's children's literature but I loved it!

Added all the 5 star ones onto my list!

Definitely recommend "One hundred years of Solutide" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If you haven’t read it already, a really interesting and unique book is ‘Norwegian Wood’ by Haruki Murakami. Not something I would have ordinarily read (or even heard of) but it was a recommendation from my English teacher, who is obsessed with Japan and Japanese culture. It’s a coming-of-age story (of sorts) but it’s set in Japan and has an engaging narrative - there’s a lot of underlying themes as well like mental health, loss, identity etc - albeit a bit slow at the start and slightly repetitive at times. A great read though if you’re looking for something a bit different!

I read a book called the one memory of flora banks which I read in 5 hours purely because I couldn't put it down which is not like me at all as I'm dyslexic and find reading hard but this book was good and I absolutely love it

how do you read that many books do buy hardcopy or just kindle plz tell me

The Last Man by Mary Shelley. Bit of a slow start but really picks up rapidly and is such a beautiful insight into her relationship with Lord Byron and Percy as she wrote it in memoriam of them, and based characters off of them

I’m so glad you loved This is going to hurt! Amazing book. If you get a chance, I recommend When breath becomes air. Nothing in common except their both doctors. A beautiful and very short book about the meaning of life and death, when faced with your own mortality. Happy new year!

I quite liked reading "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro, don't know if you've read it but maybe that's an idea? I also loved recognising so many novels and authors that I had to read/discuss/study myself as an English student :)

what a great reading year!

You’ve definitely encouraged me to do the same

Currently reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt and absolutely LOVING IT. The dark academia vibes 👌🏼👌🏼 exquisite