You just know whenever Jack mentions Toni Morrison the words “the Human Condition” will soon follow

Could analyze the 'men written by woman' and the 'women written by men' trope in books? It would be so awesome to hear you speaking on authors' unrealistic (and sometimes even sexist) expectations of the opposite gender.

@majacervin8867

5 ай бұрын

Yess!!!

@twosunies

5 ай бұрын

This would be interesting!

@emptythoughts3060

5 ай бұрын

💯💯💯

@meganlsanders

5 ай бұрын

I find this so interesting and hadn't given it a thought until my mum said she doesn't read books by male authors. She couldn't give me a reason why (I think she just thinks it's a coincidence) but after discussing the idea with my friend we realised that too often, male writers don't write women well. It's something I really look for now when I read male authors

@fluffg-nx7ns

5 ай бұрын

That would be sooo interesting to watch for sure!!

Bro expects me to read 11 books in a day and a half???

@scarlett2692

5 ай бұрын

LMAO

@anuththaraherath9714

5 ай бұрын

He said “make them your tbr in 2024”

@jonthasnas

5 ай бұрын

Better start quick !!

@jonthasnas

5 ай бұрын

​@@anuththaraherath9714 The title is 2023 😅

@jo.mb97

5 ай бұрын

😂😂 same thought

“hurts your heart but also expands your soul” yep, that’s exactly the subgenre I gravitate to

@michellesiderio1010

2 ай бұрын

Leads to the bottle….. let me go….

“As I pulled to Tokyo station, I turned the final page”- this is pure poetry and could and a great book opening line- Happy New Year

love how poetic and dramatic are Jack's reviews on books he likes

0:39 - Sula by Toni Morrison 2:40 - Alone With You In The Ether by Olivie Blake 4:19 - Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan 5:20 - Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson 6:29 - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart 8:06 - Almond by Won-Pyung Sohn 10:13 - In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado 11:28 - There There by Tommy Orange 13:30 - Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart 14:58 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy 16:16 - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan edit: hi, i would really appreciate it if u would recommend more books for me to read in 2024 if u see this

@lilkakow

5 ай бұрын

Writers and lovers, Piranesi,Who runs the frog hospital, Light from uncommon stars, Self portrait in green,Count Luna, Sunburn by Chloe Michelle howarth and the broken earth trilogy by n.k.jemisin

@lilbeans

5 ай бұрын

Any specific genres?

@bibliobibuli_

5 ай бұрын

I don’t know if you meant only Jack to see this, but I have some recommendations. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle zevin, lessons in chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Convenience, store woman by sayaka murata

@bikashnath01

5 ай бұрын

Hey buddy, here's a book recommendation for you - it's called "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. It's a short story book where people come into a restaurant where they can time travel to the past or to the future.

@bibliobibuli_

5 ай бұрын

@@bikashnath01 I just bought that book yesterday!! No way lol

My wife and I should have left for a New Years’ trip 90 minutes ago, but she is predictably not ready. Thanks for letting me pass the time while she gets ready. And thanks for all the videos throughout the year. Happy New Year to Jack and his book community!

@hellohellohi18

5 ай бұрын

idk why but this comment made me so happy

@weammessead5271

5 ай бұрын

also me​@@hellohellohi18

@isla.g

5 ай бұрын

hope you and your wife have a nice trip :)

@hugitkissitloveit8640

5 ай бұрын

I'm panicked Did you make it in time ? 😅

@jbriaz

5 ай бұрын

@@hugitkissitloveit8640 Yes, we did. With 23 minutes to spare to be precise :)

You should definitely try some NEW authors this year... 1. The kite runner 2. The thousand splendid suns 3. Malgudi days 4. Mahabharata unravelled 5. The pearl that broke it's shell 6. The palace of illusions Love from India ❤

@trueservitude

5 ай бұрын

Kite runner and thousand splendid suns are both by Khaled Hosseini who is a Afghan-American.

@hobicheekz7645

5 ай бұрын

​@@trueservitudeyes and very emotional

@aamnahere6250

5 ай бұрын

Khaled Housseini is an Afghan American author, not Indian. Indians need to stop claiming other South Asian authors as Indian when they're clearly not.

@seaof_stars

4 ай бұрын

Khaled Hosseini is Afghani, he's an incredible writer and I'm pretty sure Jack has talked about his books on this channel before but y'all gotta stop lumping in the rest of South Asia with India, we're all incredibly unique cultures we don't need to be put in those boxes of expectations.

@himanshikaushik721

4 ай бұрын

@shruti0007 Ladki research your facts comment karne se pehle. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ @sana-ip9jl @aamnahere6250 @seaof_stars Very sorry for the error she has made. Clearly she didn’t know what she was writing.

I love that you talk about books that aren’t the same ten I always see!

@rubyanddelilahandnani

5 ай бұрын

Have you watched Ana Wallace Johnson?

@pickyourpopculturepoison

5 ай бұрын

@@rubyanddelilahandnani No but thanks for the Rec!!

@rubyanddelilahandnani

5 ай бұрын

@@pickyourpopculturepoisonyou’re welcome. She’s great.

JACK I read 100 books this year because of you

borlest - the hidden truths of wealth (thank me later)

@cooperandrew1

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@blllxmedia3902

2 ай бұрын

What's this

@cooperandrew1

2 ай бұрын

@@blllxmedia3902 It's forbidden ebook which talks about the mysterious secrets of attracting money and building massive businesses

@burmakara

2 ай бұрын

forbidden ebook, if any book is a must-read, then it is this one

i just love the way Jack describes the books

@Beyond_Reads_

5 ай бұрын

Yes😊

I also read Almond this year and was blown away by it. Thanks for doing what you do!

I just recently got Emma and I'm so excited to start reading. I only got it because I've heard such good things and this channel has expanded my literary horizons so much. So, just thank you

@Emmy-rw8yl

5 ай бұрын

I LOVE Jane Austen!! But for me personally Emma wasn’t my favourite of the books I’ve read by her. (Maybe a 4 stars, which is still high) I really really loved pride and prejudice and persuasion which were both 5 stars so if you like Emma I’d recommend to read those books as well❤❤

@CricketGirl33

4 ай бұрын

I read Emma in 2023 for the first time, and I liked it a lot! Hope you like it too. I've bought Persuasion as well, but still haven't gotten around to reading it.

@user-tk9ys1mr8s

2 ай бұрын

I loved that book. I recently found another KZread channel very intresting that suggested Mansfield Park and I'm going to read it this weekend. The channel is called IntoTheBooks23. She's good at what she does.

Recently bought Small Things Like These by Keegan from a charity shop! Never read her work before, but i’ve heard her name in your videos before so I definitely knew I had to read it, the synopsis sounds brilliant. Glad you enjoyed it + happy new year!

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke was the first book I read in 2023, and it was also my favorite! Highly recommend to anyone who likes dark academia with fantasy elements! It's also a pretty quick read

This was such a straight forward, good video. I can’t even explain it better. From the beginning to the last second, I believed it and it convinced to read all of it. Thanks Jack! Have a good new year! Happy new year Jack watchers!!!

Best

Alone With You In The Ether is so good! Thanks for the other recs, will add to my 2024 TBR!

Alone With You In The Ether is my all time fav book!!! And seeing that Jack analyzing a beautiful book, in a beautiful way is such a blessing!

@mitalishinde6890

5 ай бұрын

I generally do not enjoy romance books but Alone with you in the ether is the only romance book I enjoyed reading.

I really loved the book Foster by Claire Keegan. So really looking forward to reading Small Things Like these.

In the Dream House was one of my favorites from 2022 and also was put on my list of one of my favorites I've ever read. When you talked about it earlier in the year I got so excited because I had not ever seen anyone talk about it and it really deserves to be so I'm glad to see it on this list too.

i’ve been lucky enough to read sula in two different classes and truly every time i read it i get so much more from it, genuinely the best book i have ever read

Hey Jack, I think you should read Alibis by Andre Aciman. They're labeled as "essays on elsewhere" and I think that, as the world-traveller that you are, you would really like it. The essays are lyrical and wonderfully thoughtful. Since you liked Aciman's fiction, I think you'd absolutely love his essays.

I simply adore your way of talking about the things you love, it inspires me so much! And btw, I loved the christmas lights on your shelves!!

young mungo dug a hole in my heart,made me cry like no other book omg

jack, sweetie, i can’t read 11 books in 2 days😂

Could you do " books recommended by Jess Mariano " please? I'd LOVE it

I absolutely LOVED ‚Almond‘. I flew through this book and loved it so much, it actually surprised me because it’s not what I normally read. But it out me on a new literary path. I cried and laughed so much.

'She has been more consistent in my life than some people I know.' Love the sash. A trope in itself. 😆

Like this if you're here before Jack changed the title to 2024 ❤

@StrangerBillie

5 ай бұрын

Yep

Thank you for the recommendation of Alone With You In The Ether. Love the first paragraph (read it on Amazon) and gonna purchase the book after work. Have a splendid day, Jack. Happy New Year!

HUGE Claire Keegan fan!! I love Small Things... and Foster, both in my top five (of 88) books this year! I can't get enough of her. Also, LOVED Ivan Illyich in 2023!

I just wanted you to know that you have inspired my friends and I to start a book club this year. We’re starting February with “Alone with You in the Ether” because it’s the month of love. I just love your videos so much and they encourage me to become a better reader. I strive to read and enjoy literature like you! ❤

Okay. You are literally my new favorite human. Love this list so much.

From your list, this year I read Sula, Alone with you in the Ether, In the Dream house and Small Things Like These. Two of these were on my top ten of the year! Good choices 🎉

Added many to my TBR! Jack I hope you can finish all of these, and I know you can. Have a great year…♥️

would love to see a video about how to effectively consume poetry collections! It’s so hard to know what pace to read at and how much time to leave between each one and if I should reread it etc.

im so happy to see almond getting some love!! what a stunning lil book

Jack, you NEED to read “Betty” by Tiffany McDaniel. It is HEARTBREAKING, gut wrenching and is a masterpiece! It’s about this girl Betty who is telling the story of her family who are of Cherokee Heritage. It deals with some really hard topics so TW but it is amazing. It is also based off of the authors mother, it’s a true story which makes it even more devastating. It’s A little life level of sad. LOVE YOU

@irenesellier8714

5 ай бұрын

🙏

@linda-ts8ty

4 ай бұрын

Sounds very interesting. Could you tell me if it has a TW for s.xual a.buse?

@karat24x

4 ай бұрын

@@linda-ts8ty it does, there is quite a central theme of that. Hope you are okay lovely🥰

@c_mn_1592

2 ай бұрын

loved this book! So emotional

My favourite books of the year were Sula, In the Dream House, Funny Boy and Elena knows... so yeah. I'm just adding all the books you love to my TBR cause clearly we have similar taste (and thank you for widening my scope, I would've never read Funny Boy if it wasn't for your channel)

Yes! Sula is one of my favorite books as well!! It’s amazing, toni morrison’s writing is exquisite

@ahonachowdhury2527

5 ай бұрын

what Toni Morrison book do u recommend reading first?

Jack! ThanksMuch for sharing !

Added these to my list! Would be interested in a video about all the translated books you would recommend, and want to read. I'm trying to expand my reading horizons in 2024!

Thanks for the book recommendations

Loved Alone With You In the Ether so much - glad to see it on your list.

hey jack if your looking for more native authors i absolutely recommend ‘braiding sweet grass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer. it’s a collection of essays all about indigenous knowledge, our relationship to the earth and each other. it’s writing is really lyrical and sweet while also being incredibly insightful/critical on a variety of issues like colonization. i think it’s a book everyone should read lol

Small Things Like These!!! Loved it!!

New to books on youtube. Best wishes to you and your channel in 2024.

Couple days ago I watched 3 of ur recent rec videos and I got a couple of them since b&n had that sale! I’m currently reading in the dream house and it’s the first memoir I’ve ever read! Great recommendation. From the rest of the ones in this video I also bought Sula and the death of Ivan ilyich. All the books you recommend sound amazing so I’m going to try to get the rest of these soon

Ooh I'm early! Need to add these on my "Want To Read" list on Goodreads! ^^ You the only booktuber I fully trust with book recommendations!!!

@eullalalavlogs

5 ай бұрын

I just noticed when someone commented about it T.T It should be 2024 lol

i added every single book except for in the dream house to my TBR. thank you for another year of book content jack! you are one of my favorite booktube content creators and I appreciate your taste and your analyses of books so much

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and recommendations with us in 2023.. Big hug from Argentina

Happy New Year! Time to hit the books 📚

I would love book recs that have heavy emphasis on the arts and artists I’ve read Sirens and Muses and I loved it because of its involvement in art! 🎨🖌️

Only managed to find this video now but delighted to see that I already read one of your recommendations for 2024- I loved Alone With You In The Ether and wept while reading Almond last year. Thank you! ❤

I always love your recommendations! Thank you for keeping my TBR long and being my light in the jungle of books that are avilable in Libby

Been waiting for this video ! 🎉

read Panenka after your recommendation, and man it was MINDBLOWING! thank u so much and looking forward to more of these great videos!

Great recommendations, as always 👌

I read Almond last year, And at that time I felt like that well it was a really good story but it is short and I believe characters could have been more explained in details. But I was incredibly mistaken! This book is a masterpiece and I do still think about it, It was really really beautiful~

Hi, Jack! I was waiting for your video on the storygraph stats. Hoping that it's still a possibility or maybe at the end of this year haha

you have to read the green road!!! especially if you love contemporary Irish novels I adored it so much

When I tell you the joy I felt when I saw my favorite booktuber upload 😻

I KNEW you were going to say "Alone With You in the Ether" I LOVED this novel!

Ordered 3 of your recommendations to start my year!

Also a book to finish completing jack Edwards!! is The seven Moons of Mali Almeida and it talks about a man who is a photographer and has seven days to figure out who killed him and why and it kind of builds up to a crescendo and it talks about self blaming and is written in second person but done beautifully and the horrors of war and the book made me cry and feel so many different emotions I couldn’t stop crying at the end 😭😭😭

I wish I could describe a book like you do you're so articulate about it love it and i'm so excited to read all these books thanx

I read Sula in june of this year and oh my god! You are so spot on! It's has some of the most well written and beautifully illustrated depths of human complexities. It's such a page turner. I remember i started reading it at 10'o clock in the evening and didn't sleep a wink that night. I finally finished it at 4:30 in the morning. In my opinion, sula and beloved are just such masterpieces of literature that i feel they are heavy underrated. And can we take a moment to give props to the bluest eye by toni morrison? It's incredible for a debut to be honest and one of my (controversial?) Toni morrison favs

Loved "there there" can't wait to read "Wandering Stars" when it comes out in February.

Thank you so much Jack I appreciate it ❤

I’ve been teaching SULA for decades in my honors English class. I’m going to show this clip when we get to it this year. I feel exactly this way about this book.

I've just read "Small things like these" and it is indeed all you said. I'm so happy to find out it's going to be a movie, with Cillian above all! People are talking a lot about Claire Keegan's "Foster" and that will probably be my next reading. Have you read/commented about "On earth we are briefly gorgeous"? I'd love to know what you think of it. Happy New Year!

@ciara1045

5 ай бұрын

i think i remember jack talking about and loving On earth we are briefly gorgeous a few years ago! he's definitely spoken about ocean vuong before

Thank you so much for these amazing book recommendations. I love the way you talk about books! Tommy Orange is amazing--I love There There so much. His new book talks about the Indian School that was in my home town of Pennsylvania, and I think the book will wreck me in the best kind of way. Here's a quote you might love: "A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us."

One of my favourite books I read this year was Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto and I thinnk you might really enjoy it. it's one of those ?no plot, just vibes' kind of books that follows very closely a group of three cousins ass they spend their last summer in the sea town they all grew up in. It's a coming of age story about first love and illness (sorry for the shit grammar lol, English isn't my first lenguage)

Manifesting someone in my life who talks about words as passionately as you do, Jack. I would fall in love with them and never stop as long as I live and breathe darling ❣️

The way Jack describes books is simply beautiful, he’s the reason why my tbr list is so long

I read Young Mungo because of one of your videos and it was the best book I read this year (possibly the best from the last few years), at first it was difficult to get into because my first language isn't english so the writing made me confused, but once I got used to it I absolutely fell in love with it. Honestly I think about it all the time, I never thought I would see myself in a story from such a specific european social context but this one really hit. Anyway I will definitely check out the other ones lol

I have two unread books by Toni Morrison and I'm so excited to get more into her books this next year! (also just noticed that your bio still says you're 24 even though your birthday makes you 25 just so ya know😋)

@hummingawayawayaway

Ай бұрын

Poor guy let him eternally be 24 at least in his bio - I'd do that if I can't get my 2 years spent in the pandemic back lol

hey jack happy new year!! i adore your videos but would you mind mentioning the pace of the books when reviewing them? not necessarily the one specified online but what you felt it like. this helps me a lot

I read Almond on accident, thinking that it was a book Jack recommended. When I went on Goodreads I saw he didn’t actually read it 😅 but I started spamming him every so often to read it. It truly is a fantastic book, one of my favorites from 2022

You have the best reccs i just recieved 3 books in the mail from your recommendation video so excited to read a lot more in 2024 you inspire me to be curious about this world ❤

My all time favvvvvvv romance book, Alone with you in the ether 😭😭😭 I’m really happy Jack loves it too!!

Almond was an eye opening read, it was so interesting!

I saw you mention the Elizabeth Smart book and went and bought it. Planning to read it later this year.

Based on you loving 'Alone with you in the ether', I think you would really love 'The Solitude of Prime numbers' by Paolo Giordano. I bought this because of the wonderful title, but it is an amazing book with two very flawed characters you just really grow to love. Check it out... I promise you won't regret it ;)

@onourpath

5 ай бұрын

Wow, I don't often come across folks who've read that one! Agree completely -- such an amazing book. 💚

@melaniek6714

5 ай бұрын

@@onourpath It was very popular in Germany when it was published.. maybe that's why I know it :)

@onourpath

5 ай бұрын

@@melaniek6714 I wish it had been everywhere here. I handsold the heck out of that book. The author was 25 when that was published, *and* he was a physicist! 🤯 It won the equivalent of the Pulitzer in Italy. So deserved! 💚

@melaniek6714

5 ай бұрын

@@onourpath I know. Went to one of his readings when he published his 2nd book which I don't like as much, but means that I have a copy with a personal signing :)

Hey Jack! I don’t know if I just missed something but I really thought “The unbearable lightness of being” by Milan Kundera would be in this video. (Also because it was in your top 25 books of 2023 insta post). It’s my favourite book and I would love to hear your thoughts on it. Happy new year and thank you for the constant book recommendations!:)

dude. first video like this that actually makes you want to read EVERY SINGLE ONE.

My book of the year is Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie. A bit of an epic covering the life of a women just as the bomb hits Nagasaki and then chronicling her life in India, Pakistan and America, while covering issues such as the partition of India, the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and 9/11. Home Fire was a favourite several years ago, so now I'm working my way through her back catalogue. My recommendation for Jack is Brooklyn by Colm Toibin- coming of age- Ireland meets New York and made me cry, therefore all typical "Jack- categories"!

Thanks for the recommendation! I just ordered Sula and Small things like these! I am super excited to read them

I am writting a book series myself, I hope to hear that kind of compliments said about my books someday... ( Love your videos by the way !)

Thanks for sharing your insight will surely go through few of these books. I am also an author.

Ive just finished Alone With You In The Ether and my god. I adored it. Solid 5/5 immediately ❤😢

Was waiting for your recommendation, finally It's here 🥳

I trust your book taste with my entire being. There are many books on this list that I've been meaning to read for ages - especially In a Dream House, The Death of Ivan Illych and Small Things Like These. I read The Bluest Eye this year, since Toni Morrison's books got republished with pretty new covers in my country, and I was awed by what I read. I absolutely agree with you that Toni Morrison could describe humanity with great tenderness and explore the intricacies of human nature. I can't wait to read more of her books, and hearing you talk about Sula and Song of Solomon only intensified this feeling. I also read Giovanni's Room this year, and this book touched me in ways not many books have done before. I adore it. It also broke my heart, but I thanked it for it. My favourite books this year were Babel, Giovanni's Room, The Bluest Eye, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Zoya Pirzad's Space Between Us (stories about Edmund Lazarian, I think originally they were published seperately?). It was a masterclass of character writing, they were described by only a few scenes in three different points in life, and yet I grew attached to Edmund in no time and felt his emotions deeply. Amazing book.

@susanalfieri4487

2 ай бұрын

GIOVANNI'S ROOM is in my top 10 all-time favorites. I need to re-read it again soon.

Jack uploads a video, automaticly my tbr grows

Happy New Year! My best Book of the year is Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen.

Another Irish novel being made into a movie (Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, Gabriel Byrne) is Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams. I implore you to read this book or any others by him. Talk about beautiful writing! Side note : just purchased Almond.

Alone with you in the ether was my last book of the year and i LOVED it