I’m speechless! I watched it all straight through, taking notes along the way. I adore your way of speaking and you are great on camera. I’ve read and loved about a third of these; heard of but not read another third, and the other third were new to me. Excellent Excellent video. My number one go to channel. Thanks ever so much 😊

An utterly fantastic video! Thank you so much.

This video has made me fall in love with books I haven’t read and of which I’ve never heard. What an amazing contagion of enthusiasm you have dispersed.

What a delightful way to spend an hour on a temperate NYC afternoon. Expected some of the usual 16th - 19th century fare but you're all about Modernist 20th-21st c. standouts, so why not--and post-Ulysses, post-Beckett, too. Especially happy to see The Long Form, which I might include in a top 30 of my own. Happy to see Markson (I'm a "completist" of his oeuvre), might have given the edge to Wittgenstein's Mistress but certainly no quibble, Ben Marcus totally went over my head, but shared your admiration for Grimmish, the mock-Auction catalog, Thread Ripper, Gaddis, White's Requiem, Invisible Cities, all but two of those heard about here. As to the rest of the list, given your predilections bring aligned with mine so often, I see dozens of these recommendations worth pursuing! thanks so much.

This video makes it clear how much you have influenced my reading. Thanks for all the good leads.

fantastic list, Marc! looking forward to checking out some of the unfamiliar ones, also nice to see Burrough's trilogy mentioned

I need to watch this with a notebook and make a list.

Fantastic list. I knew of a number of them (and have read a subset) but you've now made me add a number to my already too large backlog of books to check up on. Cheers!

Great... 📚😍📚❤️

I got so excited when I saw you posted this video. I saved so many titles to look into, woo! Still looking forward to your thoughts on Conversations with Friends lol. Steve Donoghue posed the question of how one finds and picks books they want to read and I'd love to hear the ways you find books, if you'd be interested in sharing of course. Hope you're having a great summer!

This was an incredibly video. I’ll be rewatching this one I’m sure.

Hi, Marc. I'm an aspiring reader and a first time watcher of your video here. Thank you for the wonderful recommendations, never have I added so many new to-read items from a single recommendation list. I will be staying tuned to your next contents. I hope you have another wonderful reading month. Happy July, cheers from Japan!

Wow, that was some list. I am 71 and read quite a bit but the only books I have even heard of on this list are Ducks, Newburyport and The Great American Novel. Whole worlds and planets left undiscovered as well as these novels. I am almost out of time ;)

That was a wonderful listen so thank you Marc. I have long appreciated your interest in the more experimental and unconventional novels out there so I recognised many of these 50 from your channel and I even guessed the top 3 correctly 🤓. I have only read 11 of the 50 but good to see The Unfortunates, Ducks, Austerlitz and Milkman getting a mention. I actually have another 14 of these on my shelf but as I only manage about 4 books a month I am a long time getting to them. Wittgenstein’s Mistress by Markson was planned for next month. One question - the version of This is not a novel that you have - does it contain all four of the books of what some call The notecard quartet (Readers Block, This is not a novel, Vanishing point and The last novel)? Cheers

Not done watching yet…but wanted to say that it’s pretty easy to find your reviews of specific books through the links you leave on Goodreads.

wow wow wow thank you,

I’ve had to watch more than once as I didn’t have a pen the first time. Our taste in books overlaps with books like Women Talking Trust The Lost Children Archives

My list is already long enough😭😭

You read too fast, bro. You're not really reading.