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I hope you bring back the "every book I read in one sentence each" videos because I genuinely enjoy them so so much!

I’m so happy to see the immaculate library situation we have here. 👏🏽

Storygraph literally gave life back to my reading culture and played a big role in getting me out a four year reading slump...in addition to discovering Jack of course ☺️

Jack, I NEED another video about everything Isaac reads in Heartstopper S2 !!!

never gonna get tired of seeing your bookshelf in these videossssss

I haven’t read one book this year, and my 1,000+ TBR is SCREAMING

Claire Keegan is a brilliant author and I enjoy her writing style very much... So glad you love her too! By the way, the man of the moment Cillian Murphy is adapting one of her novels for the screen... that's his next project. Highly anticipated!

So sweet you read "Love in the Big City" in such a sublime environment but also I loved reading this novel - even though I just read it in wintry rainy London next to a creaky radiator. 😅❤

The bookshelves background is so great so at least your hard work has paid off in that regard 😂 My reading goal for the whole year was 12 books to read as I didn't want to overshot after coming back to reading but... Well. Yeah Ive already finished my goal well before the midyear hit 😅

your new bookshelves look sooo pretty and the lightwood pops so much against the deep blue i can't stop staring at them

jack, ur prob not gonna see this but i just want to say thank you so much for being such an inspiration to not just me and my reading journey, but all of the people who watch your videos! great video! 👏

I love StoryGraph so much! Although I've also read very few 'lighthearted' books this year, but I'm also very excited Heartstopper Volume Five!

Lost it at, "this girl just goes to Berlin and is just insufferable everyday". The disappointment was palpable lmao

I laugh when you show your StoryGraph stats. They show why I follow you, but also why I don’t read all of your recommendations. My first two categories are also emotional and reflective, in that order, and are almost half my graph. But then I read lighthearted, adventurous, and mysterious. Dark and challenging are in the middle somewhere. I’m 83 books into my 130 book goal. Thank you for your channels, your recommendations, and the recommendation of StoryGraph. I really enjoy knowing more about what I’m reading.

young mungo was an absolute standout book for me this year (and I've read some absolute bangers), and I've just started demon copperhead, these two really give off similar vibes in the best way possible

entirely unrelated but having FREUD: A general introduction to psychoanalysis standing right next to THE a little life is crime xD

Love your content, favourite book youtuber. And this bookshelf is screaming amazing 🫶🏻

You are are so genuinely fascinating to listen to! I can't get enough of you!

I always love your end-of-(half)-year videos. I hope you’re doing well now, even if the year was rough for you ❤️

I'm so excited for you to finish The Great Believers I sobbed through the last 10 chapters but it's my favorite book I've read so far this year I think you'll love it!

I read The Great Believers a few months ago! It immediately became an all-time favorite and just thinking about it now makes me emotional, it's such a special book. I hope you enjoy it!

so cool to see your library as the backdrop! 😍

OMG just finished The Great Believers this morning...in tears! It was a slow burner for me but so glad I stuck with it, absolutely loved it! Also now read Small things like these and Foster after you were raving about her and love her! Irish authors for the win! Love your videos ❤

i’ve been in such a slump this year (blame my new hyperfixation on dnd not allowing me to do anything else) but this week i watched a couple of your videos and got back into it! currently reading great circle and rereading the shelf by helly acton 😊

Your video came exactly on the right time 😭🙏 - sending love and support from Morocco 🇲🇦

Loved this video Jack and now my tbr is growing even longer after hearing about all the great books you have read. I’m so surprised and disappointed that you didn’t mention “A Little Life” as one of the books that made you cry. It was certainly my favourite book that I have read this year.

I read Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These because of you and I absolutely loved it! I was so happy to hear it will be a movie! I can’t wait to read more by her

Not be being estatic about meeting my goal of 20 books yesterday, and Jack casually just annouces that he's read 140. 😭😭

I watch your videos with my library’s catalog in another window so I can easily put them on hold 😂

Omg I am so pumped to read Heartstopper volume 5 😭😭🥰 I am also looking forward to the fourth book in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series

Freud being next to A Little Life is such a vibe 😂

The Great Believers has genuinely become one of my favourite books since reading it a few months ago. It goes so much deeper than just looking at the main couple and the way Yale's life unfolds is told so beautifully considering the subject matter. It's long and a little arduous but it's so rewarding in the end.

I am so proud of you Jack you are doing amazing job ❤❤❤

Loving the bookshelf!!

love you Jack. Been watching your content since 2019❤️

i loved watching this video!Thank you,Jack!

I think it’d be super fun if you did a video where you rate your own reading positions. Just compile a bunch of different places you like to read or positions you sit in and rate them 😊👍🏼

i’m literally just about to pick up alone with you in the ether after watching this video and now i’m so excited

I also loved Jerusalem! The ending produced literal goosebumps and its such a witty play. Excellent choice!

So glad you enjoyed Young Mungo, I just finished it and thought it was incredible, I’ll have to check Demon Copperhead out now!

I was waiting for this video since June!!

I found my copy of alone woth you in the ether yesterday and i had bought it when i went to Chicago in February so i think hearing you rave above it means I'm gonna read it before summer ends. 🎉

Jack-your videos make my day.

Wow, thank you for this amazing video! :)

Hope you’re doing okay, Jack! You got this.

I have been WAITING for you to finish The Great Believers bc I feel we have similar taste, and I just think you will love it! It is a book I still think about... months after reading. PUH leeeeaaase pick it back up!! 😊

Was surprised to see you bring out Jerusalem because I studied that in my English a level coursework but I agree with what you said. You may be pleased to know there is a play you can watch but it's not on stage now - just a past recording but it's got Mackenzie Crook in it so worth a watch ;)

this library looks so good it makes me feel feelings

chain gang all stars has been my fave 2023 release and is definitely on my all time faves list

With you on the Novelist! I am struggling to finish--it's just so self-indulgent.

Always great to get a notification from you😁

ahh ive been reading another country because i read giovanni's room for alevel coursework and loved it, but it's been a bit of a slow read for me so far. the writing is amazing but its not clicking with me for some reason. but since its got the jack edwards seal of approval im defintely going to give it another go! great videos as always :)

This home is a cure for the soul. Readers and brilliant minds come together to hear the sweet melody of Jack. Thanks for the amazing content 🎙️✌🏻

Ugh, your bookshelves look so good now!! 😵

I'm currently halfway through Chain-Gang All-Stars and it is SO GOOD

Totally with you on Claire keegan. Foster just blew me away. She’s definitely a pick up immediately author for me now. Also agree with you about Demon. Unforgettable character, the way she manages to transition him from being about 8 into being a teenager and growing up, keeping him the same person but obviously maturing at the same time. Absolutely genius characterisation, the skill that something like that takes just puts Barbara Kingsolver on a different level for me.

when the question about the favorite characters came up, i immediately thought of demon copperhead too xd. the book was so amazing, definitely an all time favorite!!

Thank you for making wonderfully heartfelt booktube content and take care Jack! Idk maybe it's the skeptic in me but I heard a lot of morbid references from you in this video 🥺 (more than usual)

You made me pick up The Novelist and it was such a grueling experience to slog through. Lol

Claire Keegan love her incredible author and love her style of writing and love her stories ❤

Keep up the good work Jack ❤

The fact that you're wearing a sweater and that we are in august, is unbelievable to me, bro it's literally burning outside. Btw, cool video, it permites me to have book recommendation at the speed of light, thanks !

I just read and reviewed Bellies over on my channel. I'm a LITTLE past that stage of my life but it totally took me back to my early 20s. Loved it.

As a Canadian where a paperback costs around 25 each, the fact you have more than 1000 in that room has my brain in that starstruck feeling of "there are more then 25 thousand dollars in books in that room!!" lol If you can't tell, I am broke, so buying a physical book for me has to be one I REALLY want. I found when I was reading physical books I barely read bc of money. Now that I have a kindle I read so much more and I am really excited about that bc while I had to invest some 160 dollars initially, I have more than saved that much on books through prime reading, free or next to free "sales" and through kindle unlimited! I've also got a kobo now so I can get the digital books from the library without having to worry about bringing books back, another already paid for investment when it comes to books read vs price of a paper copy. I do envy the full library but I do have several hundred books I've collected over the years, it just isn't an affordable hobby to only buy them. I wish I lived in a larger town so I could find high quality used book stores. We only have one book store in town and while it is ALL used books I find it anxiety inducing to have NO organization in it. I am not asking for the actual library style organization but something basic like "classics, thrillers, romance" type of thing would be nice!

love the library 😭😭

speaking of sequels, you NEED to read the elena ferrante's neapolitan novels!! it's a quartet and the books are 400+ pages each (which we know you hate a long book), but the writing is SO so good! it's all about relationships, the complexity of friendships, desire, education, class systems in 20th century italy, EVERYTHING!! and it's literary most of all! no fantasy or YA elements!! if you liked watching the lost daughter, she wrote the novel it's based off!!

The same thing happened with me and The Great Believers! I got a few pages in and then just never picked it back up, it's been on my shelf forever now!

That library is making me properly jealous!!! Best books I've read so far this year have all been non-fiction- Broadmoor: My Journey Into Hell by Charles Bronson, The Devil Makes Work by James Baldwin, and I'm currently racing through the engrossing nightmare of Killer In The Kremlin by John Sweeney.

3 videos in one week?? you’re on a roll 🙇‍♀️

Getting so interested in Chain Gang All-Stars! I read his short story collection Friday Black and it was so cerebral and interesting!!

Loving the new background ✨

Reading Chain Gang Allstars currently . About halfway through and think it’ll be one of all time favorite dystopian novels .

chain gang all stars is so good its the best book i’ve read this year

Dang I need to get on Storygraph

You should add Prima Facie to your reading tbr. It is a play that Jodie Comer was in. I got to see her performance on Broadway. It was the best play I’ve seen in a long time. It has such an important message. I bought the book as well and it was just as good!

Not me, watching this while being behind on my 20 book goal for the year ._.

I love your content ❤

How about a video about all the greek mythology re-tellings? Maybe from worst to best. Love all the content though ;)

It seems like the book Bellies may be a great book for this time with so many people who are going through or thinking about going through a major change. I’m not sure that there are many books out there discussing the subject and it’s become more prevalent in the last few years.

Wow, that’s just impressive! I’ve only read 10 books so far, with some of them being super tiny ones lol

that freud book on the shelf spent the whole vid staring at me oml

Reflective & emotional are my top two moods as well, for a second year running. I am constantly fighting against the growth of the gd yellow pie slice...if Plus came with the ability to change colors based on preference I'd throw my money at them 😅

He’s more himself in this channel, I’m an old subscriber and this video feels like his really old videos and it’s so heartwarming

Chain Gang All Stars is so compelling. I am still thinking about its central themes months later

My TBR is screaming, I’m behind on my reading goal as Goodreads likes to remind me. Hey ho, it happens ig

idk if it's really your thing but if you wanna keep up with french reading a bit, can i just suggest Fred Vargas' crime novels ? It's so fun and crime-y but written in such a poetic and pretty way, with interesting characters🥰🥰🥰

You should make a reading vlog cause I'm just wondering how you have the time to read all these books and process them. :,D

I just recently read Another Country by James Baldwin; one of my new favorites of all time!

I did miss the character in Young Mungo so much. The weeks after I read it, I tought about them alot. I even had a dream about them once.

i feel like he made this video just to be able to pull out books out of his new library shelves and i absolutly love it😂

Oh Jack you HAVE to finish The Great Believers it is probably my favourite book of all time!!

140... and the year isn't even over... at all. 😱

A few literary sequels, series.: Larry McMurty - Lonesome Dove series (Lonesome Dove being the most well-known) Rachel Cusk - Outline Trilogy (Three books that more or less are a series) John Updike - The Rabbit series - starting with Rabbit, Run It's more of a fun read than a serious read, but at the same time a awesomely important read: The Godfather and The Scicilian (to me a duology) The others are ghost written and don't count. Hilary Martel and the Cromwell series, fascinating -- so good Obviously N.K. Jemisin The Broken Earth trilogy which are pure literary GOLD but that's an easy one. Just a couple of other literary sequel novels or series I think are quite fascinating.

Jerusalem was on not too long ago at the lyric in London! Shame you missed it!

Claire Keegan is the love of my life too. Foster made me cry, which is such a rarity. So beautiful.

I've seen Young Mungo everywhere but I feel like I couldn't read it in public with the cover and also I kinda don't want the cover on my shelf 😂 but I'm desperate to read it

My bank balance is weeping😢 your taste is immaculate.

THE LIBRARYYYY IS FINALLY HEREE

With what you like of books, you remind me of Ariel Bissett! It would be amazing to see/hear you on her podcast! 😍🥰