For the rest of us - a more accessible version of this game: Guessing classic books by their covers.

I’m just going to pretend I never left!

I remember reading a biography of Jim Morrison (The Doors) years ago, and I recall a passage talking about how before he was famous, Jim would challenge his friends to take any book off his book shelf, open the start of any chapter, start reading out loud, and Jim would be able to name the author and the book the passage was from. This video reminded me of that.

I found it cute that you looked at each other because I really thought they did it for a cute editing and they were in different rooms recording until 0:19

this was so much fun to watch (and very impressive lol), we love carolyn!!

This makes me wonder if there’s a different way to engage with books that would lead to the ability to do this. Love seeing you two together, thank you for all the lovely content!

Your friendship is so adorable, I think I can speak for a lot of your fans when I say that I wish I had a friend that was interested in similar literature or even reading lol.

CARRROOOOLLLLYYNNN!!! 🎉❤ I enjoyed her video so much so thrilled to watch! The internet LOVES your friendship! 🥰

I'm so happy I found your channel, not only you have an immaculate book taste, but your voice is also very soothing:)

Seeing you two together is good for my soul ☺️

This was so much fun! I feel like I also have a freakish memory with stuff like first lines, so I felt very seen watching Emma absolutely crush this

this was so enjoyable to watch! love listening to you both talk about books

"Marley was dead." Great job, Emma! You and Carolyn makes such great videos! 🙂

Emma crushed this, buuut, being fair, Carolyn had to guess some books that she hadn't read hahaha. I want the rematch!

I love this!! So entertaining! Please make this a series, also Carolyn is so lovely. Love the both of you!! ❤️❤️

You and Carolyn together is such a vibe!! I love these vids ❤

The perfect duo! This is so fun!! 😍 Min. 16:08 🙌🏽 OMG, Emma! You have such a good memory! 💪🏽 I forgot the first lines of the “Broken Wings” although I read it this week! 😂 I’m Carolyn!

Classic books are essential to read when you're a newbie when it comes to literature. There's a variety of authors to choose from. The writing styles in that particular time period are far more eloquent and captivating right from the get go. Emmie and Carolyn may be the definition of friends for life. They just get on with each other seamlessly.

thank you, thank you! Didn't realize I needed this in my life

You nailed it, Emma! You and Carolyn are perfect together! Love this video! ❤️❤️

I did enjoy this "first sentence guessing" thing. You two are just gorgeous and both videos are simply amazing ! Thank you for the fun and book recommendations ^^

this and carolyn's are so cute to watch 🤍

Emma is so good, I was like Carolyn with her omg all the way through 😄

That was delightful. Thank-you for putting a smile in this rather dull day.

This was so much fun! I love your energy together

this is very nicely edited, so nice to guess along! :)

Emma, you killed this! I am terrible at this. I got 0! To be fair I hadn’t read any of them. I am intrigued by most of them now. Also loved watching you two together 💙

The first line of The Old Curiosity Shop is "Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking." It isn't until page 7 that he mentions the 'inquiry'. I think you have an abridged version of what is a very long novel.

so happy to see you guys together !

I needed this duo sm😊

Love seeing you guys together!!!!

Have been waiting for this aaaaa!!!!

Platinum friendship, I'm still moved that you two finally met

Was waiting for this one after seeing Carolyn's. Very impressed. With both.

Wow!!!!! That was amazing! You have a memory like an elephant. Never let me go. This book blew me away! I still can’t stop wondering what it was about that book that moved me so deeply. I’m still confused and can’t explain it to myself. I would love to hear your review on this book one day.

I did enjoy this awesome challenge. Looking forward for the next one.

Your videos inspire my love for literature

That was fun. I read the Turn of the Screw and the Yellow Wallpaper and I didn’t guess. You are so good in this ❤

Y’all are so fun together. Countries cannot divide and hope to see more crossover content (and maybe even Emma in NYC).

Wonderful this is one of my favorite challenges 💟🙂 I really like this older booktuber challenges. Super fun thanks Emmie

Literally pulled "A Moveable Feast" off my shelf to start now!

this was so fun to watch! I was wondering if you could recommend some books that deal with losing your passion. Thank you for all your book recommendations and other content

Even though i read to kill a mocking bird and brave new world, i couldnt get it. Congrats Emma👏👏👏 you are amazing girls. It is Wonderful to see you together.

Your friendship is so precious!

Hell yeah 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 I don’t know who to root for, lol. These videos are so entertaining though!!! Can’t wait to watch!!

This was fun, you guys need to develop this idea of literary games/trivia for a whole series -- it has real potential, like the book guy who's gotten millions of views simply roasting bookshelves. For example, it might be fun to use the maps in Malcolm Bradbury's "Atlas of Literature" and guess what book happened in a specific map. Or guess places on Tolkien's Middle Earth map. Or guess a fictional world by its map. More of these trivia type videos, please!

Emma you’re a star! ✨

My fav gorgeous gorgeous youtubers together !!!! 💗

✨Please please please do this a again! This was so fun! For example, you can also guess the front cover of a book (and then cover the title of course).✨

I felt validated as soon as you said, you thought it was to How To Kill A Mockingbird. Because that what’s I though for awhile as well 😅😂

emma your brain omg!!!!!!!!!!!!! this was sooo much fun

Your videos together are amazing

Love your enthusiasm

Wow! What an amazing memory! I am in awe😅

I got 3 and I’m impressed already (?) So mad at myself for not getting cloud atlas and the yellow wallpaper!!!

Excellent Emma,and Carolyn is so gracious!❤️

I love On the Road and was fortunate to have read it at the perfect time, but I agree it's not the best opening line.

I gotta say I am impressed too. I just read Dorian Gray because of Emma's straw poll of best books in which Dorian Gray was frequently at number one. Have you memorised all the books you have read?

Emma we need the rest of your vlog of reading Hundred Years of Solitude!!!!

this was so fun!! can't say i found as many as you but still

Emma is off the chart!

OMG！Love this video so much！❤

Although I am not usually a novel reader (I prefer non fiction) I find your videos charming, absolutely charming.

Im so impressed by both of you playing this tbh you'd both trounce me lmao

Love you guys! Both winners to me 🌷

Emma, can you do a short books recommandations video

Great job Emma😃😃😃. I’m happy that I was able to guess the second one😂😂 The Great Gatsby.

I didn’t get any right, mostly because I haven’t read most of them, except Cloud Atlas and Great Gatsby. Those lines sounded vaguely familiar, but there’s no way I’d ever place them. Definitely not that quickly!

Awesome! I loved both videos! Hopefully Emma likes Eugene Onegin!

i only got the great gatsby and cloud atlas :) nice video

I have read most of those and missed most of them, LOL. But on the other hand, my superpower is being forgetful of plots so I can read books I've read before or watch movies I've seen before and it's all new again. It was very cool that you got so many right though! :)

With Kerouac it is not the actual first sentence but the rhythm of the opening paragraph that one can gauge what his book is supposed to be. The pastoral and florrid opening of most novels were passé to Kerouac and his peers by then and he took off the reins a bit so that, while there's a period, it behaves like a drum beat of phrases that are meant to have a run-on feeling.

I was so impressed with myself that I guessed the great gatsby correctly 😮 almost everything else though … I had no clue.

I got a few of those, but have not heard of many of them. 😮

yeees omg my favourite type of content

Our hosts' erudition, pleasant demeanor, and beauty all blow me away.

The ending of Orient Express was a cop out.

omgg you're soo good haha I do not trust my memory to play this game 💀

Hahaha you did amazing!! I knew Dorian Gray so im pleased about that 😅

I played along and my score was zero. BUT to encourage myself to read more, I will still buy myself a book😂

I'm looking for romance books about already married couples. Does anyone have any recommendations?

I can not wait for yours next video

I did great with Carolyn's but only got one of yours! 😭

I already commented this on Carolyn's video haha but watch the opera Eugene Onegin (music by Tchaikovsky) after reading the book, it is incredible 🙏

"It's giving Dickens" God When!! 😭😭

I also always wanna say "how to kill a mockingbird" instead of "to kill a mockingbird" lmao

Wish I had that memory :’)

Cute collaboration 💓💕☺️

It’s like the Beadle game where you have to guess the song after hearing one second.

So much fun!

Oh my god. Same I too uses to think its "How to kill a mockingbird" idk why😂 aa if trying to finish the sentence. Then my friend told me "girl its not a guide book😂 its to kill a mockingbird." Btw i absolutely adore that book.

I feel so bad for Carolyn 🤣

That was fun!❤️

Emma forgot to struggle 😭😭😭

Feeling proud because i got them all correct ❤🎉

I bought myself a book and then played with you guys

i got the great gatsby and i was so proud

Emmie, you mentioned in a previous video a book about snow, with very simple but powerful language and that piqued my interest. I’ve been searching your videos without success for your mention of it. Do you know what I’m talking about?

Emma Thompson does a good version of Turn of The Screw on audible.

It’s so impressive that Dorian Gray was Oscar’s first and last novel ever written. He wasn’t a novelist actually at all. This man with so sensitive and soft soul had much potential.