I'm a very bored human being who has a holiday tomorrow so: 0:30 books about disease and death 1:09 a romance to obsess about that isn’t poorly written and the female character is awesome 1:54 A book who wants to read fantasy but always gives up 2:26 For the young woman who feels the need to escape to Europe 2:58 A book about current affairs in the form of a page-turner fiction book 3:57 something to read between big books ~ads for book of the month~ 5:29 a book so bizarre you question the sanity of the author 6:09 Strange books that are fun to read 6:47 a book with beautiful descriptions of the sea 7:28 Books for an introvert who relates to Donatello from teenage mutant ninja turtles 7:48 Crazy cat lady vibes 8:07 A book to read on a train ride across ireland 8:44 A book that makes you feel like you’re inside the colour green 9:03 book with folklore vibes 9:30 Books for when you want to feel creatively inspired 9:54 Sunshine on your face, the smell of sunscreen, and sand between your toes 10:02 Something to soother your early 20s I don't know what I am doing chaos 10:32 pop lit that doesn't feel like pop lit 11:28 a book that feels as uncomfortable as putting socks over sandy feet 12:03 Grotesque short stories 12:18 Been in a slump for a long time and need a book to remind you of the joy of reading 13:14 A book to read while worrying about forgetting to water your plants 13:34 Girl in her twenties with mummy issues 14:20 A book that would make harry styles stop his concert to talk to you 14:44 A cozy book about found family 15:15 Want to tear your hair out crying out loud screaming aaasdvebwkkakabagwgvabaggh 16:22 A book from the villain's perspective (an actually horrible person) 16:48 Books to read as a fan of Greek mythology 17:19 Translated queer fiction (to understand how other cultures represent queerness) 17:49 Horny melancholic qay in their early twenties 18:10 A book for someone who collects tote bags and takes pictures of everything everywhere 18:39 A book that will make your enemies bow before you when they see you reading it in class 18:57 A book to pose with on your Tinder profile so you look cool and intriguing 19:21 A book for your book club of women aged 25 to 32 19:53 A book that gives you an insight into the intricacies of human life ~and that's all folks~

@hejoric

Жыл бұрын

THE GOAT

@kojagoribhattacharya7720

Жыл бұрын

You're amazing, I hope you know that

@sundipped

Жыл бұрын

this obviously took SO much time, but you taking the time to write out that key smash is above and beyond 👏👏👏

@idontknow_whattowritesooo130

Жыл бұрын

@@sundipped i tried hard to do that because jack went through the hardship of trying to pronounce it so i thought might as well type it out to do it justice

@_khanmahdia_

Жыл бұрын

I was searching for this so THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE

I trust Jack's book recs more than anyone else suggesting me a good book.

@valvelocity4252

2 ай бұрын

yesyesyesyes agreed. any book jack recommends: *added to the list*

i like how jack says "harry is a huge murakami fan" as if they are best friends who go bookshopping together and exchange books every week

@azalea1718

Жыл бұрын

They do wdym

@marcelleeroy1175

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, he is a big murakami fan. Its a known fact.

Oh my goodness finally a book-recommendation video where I haven’t read ANYTHING. I’m only halfway through, but I’m excited to get some of these! You’re so good at intricately describing these books, thanks Jack!

When you mentioned Alone With You in the Ether it made me remember the beautiful book dedication “for the old you, from the old me” and made me think it’d would be cool to do a video on favourite book dedications or something! There’s lots of funny ones out there too

We are being absolutely spoiled lately on both your channels! 😊

@sweethoney1304

9 ай бұрын

What's the name of the other channel?✨

Jack giving us the greatest gift right here, absolute legend

watching these videos takes me like 5 times as long as the video is because i end up looking every single book on goodreads and adding them to my tbr

@jack_edwards

Жыл бұрын

hahahahaha

@yaradrawmeraki3702

Жыл бұрын

Same 😂

@Sophie-lf9zn

11 ай бұрын

Life hack: just take screenshots and then add all of them in one go later 😅

i would love a video on books that remind you of albums!! seeing mary oliver for taylor swift's folklore just left me wanting more recommendations based on music

@jack_edwards

Жыл бұрын

working on this!

@nathaliaalves8595

Жыл бұрын

@@jack_edwards will be looking foward to it!! love your videos

@sskitty2532

Жыл бұрын

@@jack_edwards Would love a specifically Taylor Swift version of this too. Your folklore one was so good, I can just imagine what your other recommendations might hold.

@NaomisNeedles

Жыл бұрын

Hollywood Park by Mikel Jolett (Airborne Toxic Event) is amazing. It’s a memoir but it reads like one big song, just lovely to read

Jack I can't stress enough how incredible your recommendations are, I am positive now that you could get any person on Earth into reading more. So grateful to have found your channel!

We have been FED by Jack recently!!! THANKS JACK FOR THE RECS!!!!

Please make this a recurring series!

@jack_edwards

Жыл бұрын

I will! maybe every other month!

@ultravioletpisces3666

6 ай бұрын

I love this suggestion.

this is my favorite book series that KZreadrs do!! even if I’m not interested in some of the books i just absolutely love hearing about them

This is such a great idea for a theme and these recommendations do not disappoint! I hope you do this a few times a year!

Please make this a series! I’d love to see the prompts get weirder and weirder 😂

@jack_edwards

Жыл бұрын

absolutely!

@MaelysCha

Жыл бұрын

@@jack_edwards yes please do that more often or make it a series 😍

@lovingthismoment4726

Жыл бұрын

​@@jack_edwards I really want to request too.

i truly have to say jacks videos always make me a bit less worried about everything else going on. it takes my concentration just enough to not have to think about all the things i'm stressing about but i also get to just have a laugh and think about like carelessly reading a book when i'm okay again. i just really appreciate these videos.

Would you ever consider doing a video ranking greek mythology retellings? I would absolutely LOVE to hear your thoughts on them, from a fellow retelling lover:)

@jack_edwards

Жыл бұрын

once I’ve read enough of them I’d love to!

Can we have a “judging my viewers book shelves” please???

@perrine502

Жыл бұрын

Yeeees that would be so much fun!!

@eduardordz4223

Жыл бұрын

Yeeessss

I loved this! You mentioned so many books that I had never heard of before and now absolutely can’t wait to sink into! I hope you do another video like this again. It was so enjoyable and inspiring 😊

The vibe if your videos is the best, now I am looking for some of this books as always you are super entertaining 😊

OMG Jack, you don't know how blessed we are with you and this video! As someone who also loved the books you've loved, and didn't like the books you didn't like, your recommendations are a blessing! Keep shining ✨

Really happy to see you're enjoying Baldwin's writing. I'd be interested to see your 'modern classics' recommendations or recommendations based on authors/writing style someone already enjoys

@hydrosphere8447

Жыл бұрын

Second this! New hooks or authors for people who love certain authors. Would love to hear recommendations for Haruki murakami lovers as I've never found anything else like his style

Wow your knowledge of books is so impressive!! Adding all of these to my reading list for sure

Jack is on fire we are getting so many videos and I feel grateful 😅❤

I really loved the concept of the video, and the recommendations you gave are immaculate !! Thank you so much

love your specific recommendation videos. please do more of them i always find so many more interesting books.

This type of book recommendation has done more for me than any of your other type of rec videos. Would highly suggest this style of video again!!

This is such great format!!!! More of this!

Absolutely need a part 2 of this!!

I absolutely looove that you recommended andrej kurkov, I loved that book, everything that happens is so absurd and kind of depressing but it never feels like that way

As someone obsessed with books (fiction and nonfiction) about disease and death, those are incredible recommendations. I absolutely love both of those books

Great recommendations, would love a part 2!

never change jack, i love watching your videos after a long day❤

I rarely watch your videos but always find so many good books when I do lol I love you give us short novels.

I'm just genuinely blow away with how wide read you are and how much you remember and appreciate each and every single one of them. I can barely remember the books I read last year and I would never be able to come up with such great book recommendations. Also none of these books seem to be widely popular and perhaps overlooked, which even attests further to your wide-read-ness (idk what word to use). The world doesn't deserve you Jack xx

For anyone who's interested in exploring mythology outside of the western world, I highly recommend The Immortals of Meluha by Amish. The book is his take on Indian mythology and the world-building alone makes the book absolutely worth it!

@johnniegee1959

Жыл бұрын

Will be looking for this.

ive never seen your videos before and this video was an immediate subscription. cant wait to read a bunch of these books.

wow! this was the very first video of yours that I've ever watched and it was just an amazing experience! been trying to find some nice books to read and this video was exactly what I needed. Thank you so much

Incredible title: I was just thinking how needed an update for the specific recommendations was today when I was watching your latest video! Thanks, Jack!

@Carolina-rd3gh

Жыл бұрын

timing*

I'm actually surprised how quickly and accurately you came up with some of these

Thank you SO MUCH for this. I have been looking for book recommendations for a long time now. I used to have a literal library room of well over 5,000 books (which I had read a lot of, but not all - sometimes you go back to those favourites like comfort food) but I was staying with my folks whilst having several surgeries and one day the house burned down and my dad died in the hospital on that same day, and most of them were gone. I’d packed a small bookshelf worth of boxes as I was moving back into the city, but not all of my things were there yet. I’ve made due with what I had (unreads and some favourites), and having my Kindle but I’ve been really wanting to go on a true physical book binge for a while now, since losing my father pulled me out of everything I loved including reading, for a very long time, and getting back into it was hard for me, with the recommendations I was seeing in articles and videos usually being titles I had already read. (I also worked in a bookshop for about a decade, so asking my friends hasn’t really been a good option, since they’re still working on reading huge backlogs of book recommendations from me). Almost every list of books was a “been there, read that, and I don’t need to replace it” kind of deal for me. But in your list here, I’ve only read the ones you mentioned by Tolstoy, Murakami, Du Maurier, and David Sedaris. I’ve read a lot of Stephen Frye’s books, as I adore him, but I have not read Mythos. It was one I had but it was not in one of the boxes that made it during the slow move. I’ve heard of a few of the authors and/or titles before, but have never even gotten a chance to peek into them. I’m sorry if this was a lot of a too much personal information type of comment, but I truly feel excited to read again, and from the brief descriptions you gave for more than 50 titles in about 20 minutes, pretty much all of them are things that I think I will love. It’s a very diverse list that I am excited to dig into. You’ve got a new follower, and I will definitely be checking out more of your channel too for other books that may make it to my growing (and now thankfully much longer list). It may be rather odd to say, but this video truly meant a lot to me, and it really and truly finally fired up the kind of spark for reading that I was looking for. Thank you so much.

i loooove this little prompt book recommendation videos, i always end up saving so many of them in the end

@jack_edwards

Жыл бұрын

I’ll make more! I loved filming this :)

love this type of video and love the way u talk about books!

I really enjoy these videos, slowly but surely gaining my reading habit back by these amazing recommendations. It is a struggle to get these books sometimes cause they are not translated and original is expensive. Imagine my excitement when i saw cursed bunny in the bookstore. It’s a really interesting read, i find myself closing the book when a story ends and just think about what i just read

Loved all these book recs! I've never heard of some of these, so thank you so much! Great video ❤

I haven’t read nowhere near enough books to recommend as well as you. There are so many books you’ve mentioned that have caught my attention, thanks!

loving the content lately!! ❤️❤️

love this video concept, btw. thanks for posting!

So much content. I’m drowning in content and I love itttt

Thank you for the great recommendations ! :D Another Country is also one of my favorites. It made me really think about the meaning of love ❤️

Love this recommendation list! Got some really good ideas on what to read next. 🥰

I put way too many books on my tbr list, just because of this video. Very unique recommendations, Jack! :D

Wow Jack I'm sure you get this a lot but your enthusiasm for books is just infectious! I don't read as much as I'd like to but when I do I feel so alive and happy. Watching your videos encourages me to read more so thank you for that!

I really like this content, recommendations were so specific 😅

JACK THIS IS THE MOST WONDERFUL CONCEPT. Please do this again and may I request people to give hyper hyper specific situations this time.

This is great! I'm reading Kafka on the Shore right now and am blown away by its surrealism and depth. I'd love to see more of these!

thank you Jack for the recommendations !! 😊

Thank you so much for these great recommendation, most of them ended up on my TBR list

i love how this helps me a lot

Thank you Jackkk. I’m so excited because some of the reccos in the video I’ve read already!!! Would trust you on the rest :))❤

you literally saved my life right now, thank you!

You are a true legend Jack, keep up the great work.

For the person who wanted to get over their ex boss I suggest you watch German film Im Your Man. There are mentions of a previous relationship with a coworker that the main character hasn’t fully gotten over and there’s a lot of introspection about loneliness (and robots and technology). It’s kinda like ex machina and her but from a female perspective.

I got Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Open Water for my birthday yesterday. Extra excited to read them now!

Loved this video!! I added lots to my TBR list :D

I love this. I want to read almost every book on your list.😊

Thanks for these recs. :) This was a blast.

the manorism book’s 2:58 cover is so beautiful omg

@jack_edwards

Жыл бұрын

right!!!!

I really liked this type of video!!

Open water love the cover and definitely adding all these books to my TBRf for April or May❤

I want a second part of this video!!

This video is everything I didn’t know I needed 😍🎉

great video!! I would love to see you cover more south asian authors as well!

would love to see an updated day/week in the life from you! as a youtuber and someone who reads so much, how many hours a day are you reading??

I love his positive energy so muchh

well my tbr is now frowning at me and all the screenshots I took from this video. Thanks Jack!

Can you please do a recommendation video about books that give Studio Ghibli / Slice of Life vibes ? Would really really love to see your recommendations!

time to add more to my TBR list!

YES! I was waiting for this

Got so many great recs, I will be going to the bookstores in Amsterdam this weekend!! Elena Knows sounds like a must!

I LOVE the inclusion of argentinian books, they´re all going into my to-read list. As always, thanks for the recommendations!!

I love love this channel! Thank you for your insight:)

8:03 If you're into this genre, I also highly recommend "the travelling cat chronicles" by Hiro Arikawa. It's a really cute story about a man going on a road trip through Japan to all his old friends because he needs to leave his cat with one of them because he can't take care of it anymore. Everything is told form the perspective of the cat. It's amazing! We get to learn about the dreams, fears and personalities of both all the humans and all their pets and the climax (where will the cat end up?) will also just tear you up at how wholesome it is.

i needed this so badly right now

I am at a stage in my life when I haven't read anything fiction in over 5 years. So many of these recomendations are so intriguing this will probably change very soon! Thank you so much, Jack 😊

This is the best thing I’ve seen on the internet all day 😍😍😍

The fact you recommended Open Water and Our Wives Under the Sea🥹🥹🥹❤️📚two of my favorite books

THIS is such a great list!!!!

I can't believe that you remember all of the author names!! I also thought about some books to the request while watching but ı was legit thinking about the author's full name whole the time. Mad respect!!

It's so funny to see Jacks's eras like you can date a video of his with the books he's recommending because he's always so excited about the books he's read recently. So cute, so good

Omg I've been waiting for this

Omg yes alone with you in the ether is SO good I love it

you really need to do a video dedicated to your favourite books because I kinda need to feed my TBR

Loved this! Thank you!

So many recommendations now😂 will be tough to pick which one to read next

YES! Bless you for this! Keep more coming! And brownie points for including Upstream! On a different note, to everyone who made it to the end of Me Talk Pretty One Day, how did you find it?

please make this into a series - I love this format!

@MademoiselleLeonore

11 ай бұрын

ok I can't believe you literally recommended exactly what I was looking for with talking about hex by jenni fagan lol thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!

I need more of these videos!

I LOVE YOU JACK ❤❤ THIS IS A BLESSING

Loooooove the concept ❤