Great video! Thank you, Steve. Here is the list of books mentioned in the video: 91. The Elder Edda 92. Tacitus. Annals of Imperial Rome 93. Elizabeth Bishop. North & South 94. Zola. Germinal 95. Shih Naian. The Water Margin 96. William H. Prescott.History of the Conquest of Mexico 97. Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter 98. Arendt Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil 99. Andre Schwarz-Bart. The Last of the Just 100. Joseph Conrad. Heart of darkness

@smokymtnknitter5184

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@pandittroublejr

2 ай бұрын

Thank You... 🙏🏾😃

I am so pleased to see The Scarlet Letter on your list! It is one of my all-time favorites, even though so many readers seem to dismiss it now.

@Tolstoy111

2 ай бұрын

I’ve read it twice and still find it stiff. Will try it again sometime

If the Bible turns out to be #1, I swear I'll write that book about the avocado toast Steve ate one morning.

It isn't surprising to find my fingers are so far from the pulse of quality that I've never even heard of some of these.

I'm waiting to see where "Meg" turns up in this list...

Wow, that was a beautiful introduction. I'm gonna love this series!

I can't think of a better person to come up with this list!

Third decade.

@lamarschlabach3933

26 күн бұрын

I was scrolling through the comments just now, checking to see if anyone noticed. Thank you.

Yes! I have been waiting for you to do this!

Great video, Steve! I can't wait to see the series continue!

Thanks, Steve. Batting a sad 3/10 so far - our TBR's will undergo serious inflation no doubt, but what a great series of videos! We expect 1-10 to be all Conan and Meg books. Wonder what the most modern book will be. The Last Samurai perhaps ...

You should have set up betting parameters! I bet a doughnut that The Magic Mountain is in your top 10.

Wow, eagerly waiting for each of the next 9 parts to come!

An excellent list and loved your thoughtful introduction. I have read The Scarlet Letter and Heart of Darkness, both of which would fall just outside my top 100.

Zola did visit a mine- the lift, the crawling, everything. All for the research, and despite his claustrophobia..

Fascinating. Looking forward to future parts of the series. Making a list.......

Waiting for the next part!!! :)

Oh I love this idea!

Did you say this will become a playlist? That WILL be historic!

Very excited for this list

What a great video!

🤩 Can’t wait for the rest of this!

Great video. It's about time we have a definitive list. Looking forward to seeing the rest. But for your viewers, I'll save you guys the time and jump right to numbers 3, 2 and 1. 3. Conan 2. Lord Of The Rings 1. Dune The End

@KennyStiggs

2 ай бұрын

No Meg?

@GholaMuadDib

2 ай бұрын

@@KennyStiggs Ha ha! The Meg is god tier. It's to good to be on any top list for anything. Because it will just win everything hands down.

"You internet historians who are finding this record who knows how far in the future - I am making this video in the second decade of the benighted twenty-first century..." says the man with a picture of the medieval scholar Erasmus behind him. A wide knowledge of cultural history, science fiction imagination and a sharp eye on the present are part of the reason why I keep coming back to this life raft of books, where the capt'n has an eye on the weather ahead and a lively sense of humour.

@lamarschlabach3933

26 күн бұрын

Third decade.

#1 Mad Magazine's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions by AL Jaffee

Thanks for this Steve, I'm sure my TBR will suffer.

Brilliant Steve

What a wonderful video idea, I've been waiting on this. Blood Meridian is #1, right?

Steve and I have many disagreements on what is happening in the world, I’m sure, but when it comes to the canon/greatest book conversation, Steve is one of the best to ever explain why there is a canon. Love that he is doing this series.

When IS the next installment?

My TBR 🫣

You’re doing Gods work

Pretty sure you’re in the third decade, what year you living in??

Oh no why are you starting now explaining yourself and then i continued listening. Very clever Steve, hope some people think and learn.

Hah! You started! And, I see you’re already farther along in this than I am. 🤣 -T

My.guess for number 1 is Ovid's Metamorphoses

@mdavidmullins

2 ай бұрын

No. I'm thinking the Bible. The title is 'greatest' not 'favorite'.

@aaronmyram6864

2 ай бұрын

No Steve is a biography guy, I think #1 will be the most obscure character from the Regency period that no one but Steve has even heard of.😉

Great intro.

Spoiler #1 is Stoner by John Williams

@llliiliiiiiililiiiliiiilllllli

2 ай бұрын

Followed by Infinite Jest and Blood Meridian, of course

@DuaneJasper

2 ай бұрын

Haha you nearly had me there

@mdavidmullins

2 ай бұрын

I'm sure Stephen King just *must* be on the list somewhere…

@marciajohansson769

2 ай бұрын

Funny😂

@davidnovakreadspoetry

2 ай бұрын

@@mdavidmullinsA whole decade at least. 😂

Wow, can't wait for this series! Predicting now that #1 will be "Meditations".

@ShawnMorey-sx7wm

2 ай бұрын

Anthropological intro, mankind despicable, as a reflective mammal, one must read on....

Please make the next one

Haven’t read a single one of them! And now you have me really wondering what’s number one…Ovid?

@Keyser8Soze

2 ай бұрын

I'm thinking Horace and Ovid in the top 3

read one of ten! I’m on a roll 😅

I'm kind of surprised by your choice of Hannah Arendt

@mdavidmullins

2 ай бұрын

Because her conclusions were flawed/called into question? Is it the subtitle that bothers you? Flawed or not, I get the feeling this book is central to the literature of the Holocaust.

I'll have to put in a word for Conrad, who still hasn't quite found his time yet. Nostromo is a great book, and so is The Secret Agent. He's one of those writers who need to be re-read and it can take time to get the hang of him, but I think it's worth the effort.

@Tolstoy111

2 ай бұрын

He used to be much more read before the “Anti-Colonial” Left took over English departments.

Finally…

Obviously you'll next have to turn your book list into its own book to justify your choices.

#1 has to be Pat The Bunny. 😆

To pithy an introduction to your list.

Germinal is Zola’s second best book in my opinion. L’Assommoir is his master piece.

I think i know what your number one is, but I won't spoil it for anyone who might not be aware of the fact. I wonder if you have seen the light and Erich Von Danieken's 'Chariot's of the Gods?' (1968) is amoung your choices. He has actually written 43 titles, please approac them with your usual open mind.

😮

Where is Elric and Stephen King? Probably will appear later.

Pencil is poised. Instruct me 😊

Eloquently expressed context for what would have to be an overwhelmingly male list. On a positive note, I notice that five of the last six works of fiction I've read most recently are by women, chosen not for gender but the likelihood that I'd enjoy them. History is on the upswing, by some metrics, at least.

@Tolstoy111

2 ай бұрын

What do you mean by likelihood that you’d enjoy them?

@bbbartolo

2 ай бұрын

@@Tolstoy111 Admittedly "enjoy" is a lame word, but I go after anything from life-changing to jarringly creative to seductively charming. In my 80s I need to budget my time more than ever, and there's so much remarkable stuff I haven't read!

@Tolstoy111

2 ай бұрын

@@bbbartolo I was asking what bearing the fact that the writers were female had on that. Your comment radiated a presumed superiority because of it. You choosing to read these works being a symbol of “history being on the upswing” etc

@bbbartolo

2 ай бұрын

@@Tolstoy111 Maybe I expressed myself badly. The fact that the authors were women may be a matter of happenstance, or an upsurgence of female writing, or the fact that BookTuber Mark Nash is a cryptofeminist, since the majority of these recommendations came from him. (He also recommended Grimmish by a male writer, another winner by my lights)

@Tolstoy111

2 ай бұрын

@@bbbartolo most of the prominent 19th century British novelists were novelists were women. The current publishing industry is run by women

i bet that number 1 will be The Old Testament

A steady as she goes opening 10. I’m sure the controversial ones come later.

Wonderful!! Your prologue made me remember that here in Argentina we passed a law that protects students from ideological capture. If a student realizes that the teacher is not teaching the class and instead is doing anything else they can be denounced. I wonder how long it will take Canada and USA to make this happen.

@Tolstoy111

2 ай бұрын

It would have to be public schools. Private schools can teach what they want.

@gaildoughty6799

2 ай бұрын

They are seriously working on it here in Florida.

@ThatReadingGuy28

2 ай бұрын

That could have scary implications though.

@Tolstoy111

2 ай бұрын

@@ThatReadingGuy28 why? Public school teachers don’t have “free speech” while on the job.

@ThatReadingGuy28

2 ай бұрын

@@Tolstoy111 It creates a culture of fear for teachers with students always threatening to denounce them. It is very similar to fascist and communist countries in history.

Oh boi, Infinite Jest is a safe #1, I am so sure :D

But what do you mean by "greatest"? Most influential? Personal faves? Your view of the canon? Books everyone should read? And what do you mean by "book"? Are collections such as the Bible one book, or many? Would texts such as the Declaration of Independence or the Laws of Hammurabi be candidates for inclusion? How about comic books and songs? Should I be looking for Watchmen or Bob Dylan on this list?

Anthropological intro, mankind is despicable, as the reflective mammal, one must read on.....

Why the 10min rant?

@Tolstoy111

2 ай бұрын

New here?

@possibilityspace

Ай бұрын

Because it's necessary. Such is the state of the culture where extremists on the right and the left are each fully committed to their respective social re-engineering programs.

Actual book recommendations starts at 10 mins 45 seconds in.

@saintdonoghue

2 ай бұрын

There's also a list of the books here in the comments, in case people want to skip the video entirely

@heathergregg9975

2 ай бұрын

​@@saintdonoghue I wouldn't want people to miss what you say about the books. After all, I have just given you a positive review in my comment below.

What clickbait!! Arendt's book is the only book I've been unable to give a star rating.....I rarely reread but think this one's mention may force me to.

Spends half the video attentionwhoring. Buh-bye now.

Boomer rant ends 10 mins in lol