Favorite Books of the Past Century

Favorite Books of the Past Century | 100th video!

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Thank you all for listening to my bookish rambles. Let's talk about my favorite book from each decade of the past 100 years!
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Books mentioned:
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Great Gatsby - F. Scot Fitzgerald
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
Me- Elton John
The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
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Videos Mentioned:
Lolita Video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qZ6elpdhlse5mHU.html
2022 Favorites: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/opOaaqRhrtHQnX0.html
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@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын

What's your favorite book of the past century? ⬇

@carbonc6065 Жыл бұрын

Camus' The Stranger.

@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын

I really want to read that one! It keeps slipping off the radar

@carbonc6065 Жыл бұрын

@@ThornfieldBooks So many books, so little time!

@tom_k_d Жыл бұрын

1910s: E.M. Forster - Howards End.

@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын

@@tom_k_d another one that’s on my list to read!

@larrymilliken288 Жыл бұрын

I could not agree more about Kindred. Indeed, it was great-I could not put it down. I grew up in Maine and never knew a black person until I was 12. We had moved to Florida, and until that point I did not know what racism meant, but found prejudice, segregation, and bigotry alive and well in 1963. It was my first experience with that type of discrimination. Although I was very ignorant, I soon discovered the many ramifications, social dynamics, and the spoken and unspoken prejudices of this new culture in which I was plunged. This was an eye-opening novel and one that brought back many pleasant and unpleasant memories for me. Thank you, Valerie!

@crus- Жыл бұрын

what a creative concept! congrats on your milestone 🎉Lolita is one of my faves too, what a beautifully grotesque book

@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын

I’ve seen a few similar ideas so I definitely can’t take credit! And I agree completely! Such a great novel, it’s one I already want to reread

@martasgreatlibrary Жыл бұрын

lovely video idea!!! i love 100 years of solitude, it's a masterpiece. i now want to read the maltese falcone hhaha

@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын

Please please read the maltese falcon! My mission is to get everyone to read it haha

@theknightssayme Жыл бұрын

Loved the concept of this video! Congrats on 100, hope you make many more 🎉

@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊

@lisainbookland Жыл бұрын

Congrats Valerie! You are so well read in 20th century literature 😊

@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын

Thank you Lisa! 😊

@MilenaReads Жыл бұрын

New Toni Morrison would come up! Congrats on your 100th video :)

@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын

It would be criminal if I didn’t include her haha, and thank you! 😊

@nedmerrill5705 Жыл бұрын

I'm currently reading _Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy_ by John le Carré. I previously read _The Spy Who Came In From The Cold._ These are excellent, definitely among my favorite of the last century.

@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing! I hadn’t heard of these ones before