*Tolstoy writing resurrection* “I hope people like.” A girl in the future “hate it.”

“I may be a zoomer but…I don’t zoom very fast” never have I related to something so deeply 🥲

No matter what anyone says, classics will forever be my fav genre to read. They’re always the most meaningful and beautiful, and are never failing to sweep me to other places more than anything I read. Thank you for romanticizing them for me and give me motivation to read them Emma!

This is so cool! Please do more tier lists, like characters, other genres, or just random things like the kind of tea you prefer. :)

I'm determined to finish at least 5 classic books this year....starting with War & Peace✨

i just love it how emma encourages people to read more classic lit with her videos!!❤️

emmie you literally made me fall in love with classics.

Hi Emma! As an Italian, I can confirm Dante's Inferno is really lyrical and most of all cryptic. It's written in a language Italians don't understand anymore. We're not able to read it by ourselves, that's why we only study it in school or university. I think the translation plays a huge role in how you perceived the book, for sure it has been simplified. Still glad you enjoyed it! It's always a pleasure to watch your videos :)

I love how this tier system isn’t just going from what you loved to hated

omg im so happy you placed anne of green gables on your highest category! that story was a huge part of my childhood and is a story that will stick with me forever :) lovely vid

excited for this one!!!! i've been reading more and more classics now because of your and carolyn marie's channels and i am loving every second of it!

Getting into more classics is definitely one of my top goals for this year. The recommendations on this channel fit my interest perfectly and it's just wonderful

I love you most ardently: Anne of Green Gables, First Love, Letters to a Young Poet, Paradise Lost Tattoo it on my face: The Prophet, Astrophel and Stella, The Book of Images, Julius Caesar What excellent boiled potatoes: Sonnets from the Portuguese, Dante’s Inferno, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Alienist, Beowulf, Anna Karenina, The Faerie Queene, The Haunting of Hill House, Christmas Carol Thank you for the trauma: War and Peace, Bengal Nights, King Lear, The Overcoat, Snow Country Cool story bro: Oliver twist, The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairytales, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, Maurice, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Nicholas Nickleby, Beyond Good and Evil, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Childhood Boyhood Youth, Micromegas, Thou lump of foul deformity: Resurrection, The Pickwick Papers, Utopia

What I love the most about your work is absolutely your devotion and passion for the classics. I always appreciate that. I love you!!!

i love watching these tier list ranking videos and hope you do another one soon ✨💕

Omg your outfit 😍😍😍 And I love your tier ranking categories!! Definitely gonna be using this to pick up future classics 💕

Ayee releasing a tier ranking video the same day as THE Emma must be a good sign! Rilke is at the top of my classics list because of you. Amazing video, as always :)

You are incredible. Love this so much!!! You keep adding books to my list and joy to my life! ❤️✨

This was such a brilliant concept?!! I loved every little bit of this video most ardently.

I'm glad to see that your opinion of Roger Ackroyd has improved. If you ever get the chance to reread it, you may come to appreciate even more the skill with which it was written. Information was withheld, but the reader was never lied to. Very enjoyable video, as always.

Just poured some coffee, so ready for a long video! I absolutely love tier lists!

Omg i am so excited for this one! I have recently discovered your channel but I am already in love 😂♥️

This was great! I’d love to see you do a video of the all time best audio books that you’ve read/listened to. I’ve seen you mention some that are particularly good on audio, from time to time. I’d be interested in seeing your favorites. 💚

i would LOVE a video about modern classics, because I am really confused what books are considered a modern classics

There's something so soothing about classics, no matter their subject matter. Thanks for tgis ranking! 😊

Been reading classics ever since I discovered your channel and I’ve been enjoying my experience so far! Currently reading Phantom of the Opera and I’m looooving it 🖤🖤🖤 I also find that we have similar tastes with classics because I also read 100 Years of Solitude and Letters to a Young Poet and they both ended up in my top books of 2021 hehe might need to read War and Peace soon just because of how much you talk about it 😅🤗

Loved this video! I have been looking for classics to read and now I have some! Btw totally off-topic, but plssssssssssss make more of the trying to solve Agatha Christie's mysteries! I loved it!

u inspired me to read more classics! this year ive already read Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis and now im reading Voyage au centre de la Terre ( in portuguese tho hahaha )! and im loving it! hopefully ill soon get to the classic books u liked the most!! hope u r well! kisses :*

I read "The Muder of Roger Ackroyd" in my graduation and I fell in love with Agatha Christie books...this is my one of the best books I have read. Hey Emmie, this video is so cool...keep it up❤️👍

Ever since I saw "Anne with an e" I had to put my hands on the books and I'm currently reading the forth one (Anne of Windy Poplars). I just love them so much they feel like a hug in form of a book, which btw I also feel reading Agatha Christie's books. It's pure coziness in my opinion, despite the murders you know

I’m currently reading The Insulted and Humiliated by Fyodor Dostoevsky, really enjoying it so far! I’m working my way up to Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov (so excited to read this one). Also read his short story An Honest Thief and really liked it as well

I love this layout for watching how you rank them!! :)

good afternoon💛 I am very glad to see how you inspire as many people as possible to read the classic works of Russian classics, even I, living in Russia, was motivated to make this a goal for 2022⚡📚

In Italy we study Dante for three years + at university and it’s honestly very interesting to see someone read it just out of pure interest and curiosity, when I spent so much school years deeply analyzing every line and being questioned about it 😂

Really like the format of your ranking, Emma, i think i'll use it for ranking my readings. My five stars classics of 2021 were Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, and The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux.

Really enjoyed your insights and you being honest and critical but also gentle

Have been waiting for you video!! Aaaaa finally💖💖

This was sooo good! Also very off topic, but I absolutely LOVE your outfit in this

The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Peter Pan were my favorite classics from 2021. Thanks for the list, it gave me lots of ideas for this year!

I love reading classics. It really helped to improve my English.

Well I must say, these are some pretty deep cuts, as far as classics are concerned. Some of these I ain’t never even heard of!

I LOVE THAT SOME OF EMMAS CRITERIAS ARE QUOTES FROM PRIDE AND PREJUDICE!

Maurice hits harder when you’re gay, because you can relate to it and then cry tears of joy when you reach that ✨blessed ending✨

I’m right on time!! My favorite booktuber 💜

Love this tier-ing vid hahahaha such fun classifications 😆

that top is everything omg

I tried first love by Turgeynev because of your video and I loved it! It was so short but oh my god the prose. It was angsty and dramatic but not in an annoying way like how Catcher in the Rye is. It was so out of my comfort zone because I normally read scifi, fantasy or history books but First Love was just gorgeous.

this is awesome! one of my 2022 reading goals is to get at least 10 classics done. I don't know if Mark Twain's Huck Finn is considered a classic or not HELP! 😔 LOL! love this video idea emma super fun! xoxo 🥰📚

Not sure if you've done this but you should do a tier ranking for book tropes. I love watching those

this year marks my round three of me re-reading Anne of Green Gables! It's just so precious to me, and I guess you could also say that it's my one and only comfort book, and I'm so so glad you loved it. 💞

I read a handful of Ancient Greek plays, inc Medea. I read Twelfth Night. I agree with you on reading plays though. I always try and find a version to watch after I've read it. I read a lot of poetry but not sure how much of it was "classics". There was a fair chunk of books from around and about World War One. I did finished In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. After which I think I can read anything ever. I loved it. But it is a commitment. I also read The Phantom of the Opera, which is entirely down to watching this channel. I enjoyed it, which I wasn't necessarily expecting. So thank you for that.

My favourite classic is Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo. I think it's so underrated. I enjoy rereading it every year. ♡

Snow country didn’t work for unfortunately and I was so shocked because of its ratings on Goodreads. Also, I’m reading Leave the World Behind upon your recommendation Emma, and oooooh, it’s already (on page 7) setting itself up to be eerie and twisted - everything I LOOVE 😍😍

Finally some Prince Edward Island representation 😂 I feel seen my neighbours distant (long dead) relative knew Lucy Maud Montgomery well.

Just got up for work. Can’t wait to watch this hehe.

LOVED THIS!

It was very helpful! I'm looking forward to it ♪

I picked up a copy of the Heaney Beowulf translation recently and I'm really looking forward to it. Also I read Paradise Lost for the first time in 2021 and now I'm scouring every bookstore I can find for a copy of William Empson's "Milton's God."

Love your recommendations

Now I know what "ardently" means. One of my new favorite words, I think. Thank you for that

Which Rilke translation or edition speaks to you the most ? Love your ranking categories !!! Thank you for doing this

this is the third video I watch of this style and my favorite, the categories are hilarious xD I want to start a booktube channel just to make one of these xD Kinda sad Klarna doesn't work in my country :( sounds super cool

I love your vibe

This was great! I think my favourite was Orlando or Rebecca

I’ve recently read “first love” and was very surprised by that bdsm twist

I’m so happy that one of my native languages is German, so I can read Rainer Rilkes Poems In original language haha love him too ❤️ I would recommend you Thomas Mann, genius writer, One of my favourites. Rilke, Mann and Wilde my beloved

"Very subtle, very quiet, but as devastating as the fallen snow" whoa very poetic of you miss Emmie

I loved this video ! The frist video that i saw on you channel was your favourite classics in 2020 and i fall in love with you it was amazing and this one is great too ! My favourite classics in 2021 (most of them are recommended by you so thanks for making me excited to read more classics) Anne of green gables Letters to a young poet The picture of dorian gray Hercule Poirot's Christmas Daddy long legs Christmas carol Matilda

Ugh, thank you for choosing the best banger from my fave girlboss Lady Anne. I got to do that scene in theatre school and it was the best experience. My Richard was the kindest guy and it was so hard to get him to be creepy. We rehearsed for like 6 hours a day for a week. Good times.

I tried first love and it was great. I think it’s a good story to introduce people to Russian literature as well since it’s easily comprehensible. Thanks for introducing me to some books!

It is so amazing that you read Machado, i am brazilian and i highly recomend reading his novels!

This channel has inspired me so much to read more classics! I just started reading war and peace which has been on my list since I can remember. Also so curious what software you used to do these rankings?

So glad to see machado de assis in your list, he's our jewel

Such a coincidence, I also liked Ann of Green gables very much and Emily,, First Love, and Rilke, nearly all of his writings, if I can understand them( the poetry). He has beautiful short stories like Brother & Sister etc.

Anne of green gables has the most special place in my heart, definitely recommend Emily of new moon if you haven't read it already, same kind of vibes, not as good but still great.

I loved Maurice, as I do all the other Forsters that I've read. I'd recommend the movie (with a young Hugh Grant!) and of course A Room with a View. Both ARWAV is one of my all-time favourite books- top 5 at least so would really recommend it, though if you didn't like Forster's writing itself I guess maybe not so much. I found his writing stunning in both.

this year i want to make an effort read a few longer classics. i'm already reading east of eden and honestly flying through it. i also want to pick up don quixote, the iliad, and either anna karenina or war and peace

You should definetly read more of Turgenev. I got so excited when you mentioned him. He is one of my favourite, comfotable writers and from what Ive read so far, Fathers and Sons is definetly the best for me.

I read the original version of Gogol’s Overcoat for a Russian literature class and I definitely agree, the end was just so hard hitting, and I thought the whole story was very well written too!

I’m currently reading War and Peace in Russian and it’s absolutely marvelous. Толстой’s original prose is super sharp and often hilarious. I have a long way to go but I’m enjoying every chapter so far. I’m also not a huge fan of Dickens. I think his writing is a bit too whimsical for my tastes.

I really loved If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin, A Passage to India by E. M. Forster and Other Worlds by Teffi last year 💛 The classics on top of my 2022 TBR are Maurice, To the Lighthouse, The Importance of being Earnest and Invisible Cities

I grew up with LM Montgomery. Tied for first with Anne of Green Gables, is The Blue Castle. TBC is a very SWEET read!

Woooow!! Hi!!! You just made my day!!!!!

turgenev's writing is exquisite. if you enjoyed first love i'd recommend reading diary of a superfluous man. your history with tolstoy is the same as mine tbh. the more i learned about the man the more i disliked him.

I'm catching up for the Dickens vs Tolstoy debate and so far I attempted Oliver Twist and read The Pickwick Papers and I was mildly horrified that I didn't love it because I love Charles Dickens. I'm rereading Anna Karinina in February and starting War and Peace so I'm looking forward to that. I also agree with you about Tolstoy. I read some of his later novellas and reading about him and how he treats his female characters just makes me not like him as a person but his early stuff has been great so far.

love this :)

‘I might be a zoomer but I don’t zoom very fast’ is my new catchphrase

Hearing your take on Utopia is so interesting to me; when I read it, I never thought that it was Moore's idea of what could comprise a utopic society, as much as it was a demonstration of the impossibility of achieving utopia and how everything sort of comes at a cost or requires sacrifice from someone or something. If I'm remembering right, didn't the society he described require slavery? Am I nuts? Or thinking of another book?

I love Agatha Christie, I read as many of her books as I can get my hands on. Roger Ackroyd is one of her best IMO. Also, Death on the Nile and The Clocks had my jaw-dropping

Would love to see more tier lists

Hi Emma! I largely agree with your review of Inferno, I studied the Divine Comedy in university and it was confusing despite all the literary criticisms I read. I would urge you to read Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso as well! Inferno wasn't meant to be read in isolation. You'll certainly be able to appreciate the themes and discern its influences better.

I live this vídeo:)♡ Ps:It's so sweet when you say "potatoes" hahahahhaha

For Leo Tolstoy, theres a great podcast from 'Legacy with Whiskey' and she goes into the lives of famous writers! Really good you get their whole history, but I would highly recommend listening to her Leo Tolstoy episode because he himself has a drastic change, he's one person and then all of a sudden just completely changes and tries to give himself all these "rules" and becomes extreme in his views, I think this is after W&P - you may know this already but I think its a good thing to perceive about him and perhaps link which works are tied to which 'personality' of his :)

Dear Emmie: Love your channel. You have to be the sweetest person in the world.

I remember you laughing at the pungent sauces in the bloopers video

what do you use to make this set up for sorting the books into categories? I love your category titles btw might steal "tattoo it on my face" lol

Seeing Dante's Inferno in the "boiled potatoes" category breaks my heart. The thing about the Divine Comedy is that, like Shakespeare or Neruda, it must be read in the original language or it loses its magic. Plus Dante introduces more than two thousand different characters that come from the bible, the Koran, Italian history (especially Florence), mythologists and other contemporary writers; Here in Italy, we studied it for two years, during high school, and still I found it impossible reading by myself.

My parents have a print of one quote from The Prophet that they got for their wedding and is now used as decoration in our toilets and it's so beautiful I know it by heart

My favourite piece of classic literature will likely always be Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables" (specifically the Norman Deny translation) It's a stonkin big boi of a book but I just love it so damn much

My favorite classic that I read in 2021 was Fahrenheit 451. I especially liked the double wording.