My favorite of the last 25 years is “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles, as evidenced by the fact that I’ve read it at least five times since it came out in 2016. It would be in the top 25 on my 75 years list (I’m 73) and my top 50 all time.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

I somehow still haven’t read an Amor Towles book and I need to fix that.

@pokemonmaster9196

9 ай бұрын

I absolutely loved this book! Couldn't agree more.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

@@pokemonmaster9196 I'll get to it at some point!

@andersdottir1111

9 ай бұрын

Thank you - I just reserved it at my library.

@snowysnowyriver

9 ай бұрын

If you haven't read Towles' The Lincoln Highway, I would recommend it!

I don’t read very much, but I would definitely think The Kite Runner (2003) deserves consideration. A great story set in Afghanistan.

- The Happening, Annie Ernaux (2000) - Atonement, Ian McEwan (2001) - Fingersmith , Sarah Waters (2002) - Never let me go, Kazuo Ishiguro (2005) - Half of a yellow sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006) - The whole My struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard (2009 and onwards) - Bondrée, Andrée A Michaud (2014) - The Kingdom, Emmanuel Carrère (2014) - The Catholic School, Edoardo Albinatti (2016) - And their children after them, Nicolas Mathieu (2018) - Crimson, Niviaq Korneliussen (2019) - Homeland elegies, Ayad Akhtar (2020)

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your list! Some solid choices and many I haven’t read yet.

@angelacraw2907

10 ай бұрын

I've read more of your list.

@shelleyaultman1193

9 ай бұрын

I love Sarah Waters' work

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

@@shelleyaultman1193 I still need to catch up to Sarah Waters.

@shelleyaultman1193

9 ай бұрын

I'm about to order several from your list : Never Let Me Go; The Secrets Lives of Church Ladies; and Plague of Doves -- I'm anxious to read these. I'd like to recommend the Susan Howatch series about the C of E books. Excellent! Hyperion series by Dan Simmons; the Hugh Howey Silo series; and The Foundation classics by Asimov

I just discovered your channel not too long ago and I'm so glad I did! As a hardcore music nerd trying to get back into reading as an adult, it's overwhelming how many books are out there that I really want to read. Your down-to-earth personality and enthusiasm for literature really resonated with me so I will gladly check out these books you have suggested. Thank you so much for everything you do and keep up the good work!

@VirginiaCorley

26 күн бұрын

I'm new to his channel as well as in like the last 3 weeks. I'm watching his back list plus new ones. I'm sorry I didn't find him during the covid lock down he's more productive than pimple popping videos

I love your enthusiasm in your videos, Greg! I read Gilead this year and it's easily one of my favorite books ever. So much heart and humanity in this work. Always looking forward to your videos!

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

"All the light we cannot see"....best book I've read in years and years. Couldn't put it down. The Pulitzer prize was so richly deserved.

@createone100

9 ай бұрын

Wasn’t it a fabulous read!?

@agmcconnell5650

7 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤ Agree

This has been the first video of your channel I've watched - and I'm hooked! Fascinating list, a few of which I have read (Never Let Me Go and Small Things Like these I've read this year and could very much see them making their way on to my own list). There are a few there that I've wanted to read - The Poisoneood Bible is definitely one I'm going to pick up, especially having recently read Demon Copperhead, which I feel is very likely one of my all time favourite books. Gilead has been sat on my shelves for a few years now and for some reason i always seem to overlook it - having listened to your discussion of it, I have just taken it down and am about to start reading this evening! I particularly connected with your notion of how books change for us depending on who we are and where we are at in our lives. There's a very interesting podcast by The Women's Fiction Prize called Book Shelfie which interviews female authors and has them talk about five books that have left a mark on them, Barbara Kingsolver was interviewed last week and it was a fascinating insight into her own writing, she talks about Demon Copperhead. During the interview she talks about how we never read the same book twice, because we are never the same person we were on previous readings. This resonated with so much of what you said when you talked about Gilead. Thanks for a really interesting introspective on your top 25 of the last 25 years - I look forward to watching more of your videos 😊

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I hope you like Gilead! The Poisonwood Bible is definitely one I recommend--especially if you liked Demon Copperhead. I'll need to listen to that podcast episode with Barbara Kingsolver--I always love hearing her discuss her work. Thank you for watching! 🥂

This is a great list, of which I have only read (and loved) 4, but have many more on my TBR. Just started Interpreter of Maladies yesterday and holy wow, is it good!

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I’m so glad you’re liking it! That’s a book I’m always recommending and I always get so excited when people love it as much as I do.

Loved this video, thank you! I have read (and agree with you on) quite a few of these. But the others are quickly getting added to my tbr. I probably would have had Gilead as my number 1 too (or at least top 5) but I can’t actually bring myself to reread it because the first time was such a magical reading experience and I’m worried it won’t be as I’ve remembered it.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I'm the opposite--really looking forward to a reread of Gilead!

Good job, really enjoyed this. What a wide variety of titles you've loved, talked about, retained. There's just nothing like a great book.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

Definitely nothinn like a great book!

What a terrific service ! Thank you sooo much. Really interesting. I definitely will add a few of your top 25 to my TBR.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I hope you enjoy any of the books you pick up!

@glendadry893

5 ай бұрын

For sure Siri Hustvedt: What i loves

Thank you for all the time and thought put into this video! Love your compilation. I am inspired to give Gilead another go - had tried in my 20s and put it down then.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I hope you enjoy Gilead better the second time around.

You have given me a great list to read since my favorite authors made the cut. Erdrich, Kingsolver, Proulx. You have filled up my autumn with recommendations. I look forward to it.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

Yay--I hope you enjoy any of the books you pick up!

Great video! Thanks for the recommendations! 😄

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

I haven’t read enough for a top 25 yet. My number 1 book is Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and is the only one on this list I’ve read. I found it darkly beautiful, very tender and moving scenes between the man and the boy. Most emotional I’ve ever gotten over a novel. House of Leaves is high on my list as well, it really hooked me when I read it in 2006. The highly detailed, esoteric academia nature of it really made it feel real. I’ve gotten back into science fiction lately, and two newer books I really loved are Blake Crouch’s Recursion and Andy Wier’s Project Hail Mary. In terms of prose and character development, they’re not that sophisticated, but they both told stories I found fascinating with really solid pacing. It’s older than 25 years, but I would highly recommend Octavia Butler’s Dawn (book 1 of a trilogy) if you’d like to explore some science fiction. It’s some of the best prose I’ve ever read. I’ve heard many great things about Gilead so that’s been on my list. I look forward to reading some of your other top picks as well, thank you.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the recommendations. I've heard good things about the books you mentioned.

@tarico4436

9 ай бұрын

"The Road" is one of the best post-apocalyptic novels. The children chained to the wagon train as it trudged along is one scene not depicted in the movie. Couldn't do it. Could film it easily enough, but couldn't release it to the public. And if you read the book, I know you know why. That sequence is just one part of the novel where Cormac McCarthy really hit the nail on the head, such a realistic portrayal--"The Road" is--of how awful a post-apocalyptic world would be.

@TheFaby2410

4 ай бұрын

I LOVED THE ROAD!!! ❤

So many great recommendations! I had to keep pausing the video to update my list of books I want to read.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I hope you enjoy any of the books you pick up!

Greg, thank you for this list. It introduced me to a load of new books and I'll try to pick up a few.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

I hope you enjoy any of the books you pick up!

The Known World by Edward P Jones is magnificent. Lyrical writing and a shocking story. If you were moved by Beloved this will have a similar effect.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I'm really looking forward to reading The Known World.

@shelleyaultman1193

9 ай бұрын

an absolutely wondrous reading experience

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

@@shelleyaultman1193 Hopefully, I will ge to it soon!

This was a very fun and interesting video Greg! You are always so thoughtful in what you say about books. I loved Gilead also, the writing is so beautiful and it is a book that really stays with you. Looking forward to reading more Robinson in the future.

Thank you for a fantastic list! Most of them I have read, and the ones I haven’t , went straight onto my TBR list.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I hope you like any of the books you pick up!

First time viewer, loved it! Your earnest hard work and brief descriptions are perfect for me. I'll be exploring your other videos and look forward to new videos as well. I loved Poisonwood Bible too.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! This video was a lot of work but I had a great time doing it.

Thank you so much for you effort, totally loved your video.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

If you haven't read it, do yourself a favour and read "Five Little Indians" by Michelle Good. It has received a lot of love from Canadian readers, but I rarely hear of anyone outside of Canada talking about this book. It's my favourite book of the last several years. (and if you can't tell by my spelling, yes, I am Canadian 😆).

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the recommendation! 🇨🇦

@turntablesrockmyworld9315

8 ай бұрын

I agree! I have the book, too! There are many great Canadian novels, some recent, some older

Not in order but these are among the top books I would consider: Ring Shout - P. Djèlí Clark A Perfect Spy - John le Carré The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu (Translated by Ken Liu) The Wall of Storms - Ken Liu Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie Shadow Life - Hiromo Goto & Ann Xu The Enigma of Rm 622 - Joël Dicker Lady Joker - Kaoru Takamura Fool’s Assassin - Robin Hobb Butterfly Winter - William Kinsella Alif the Unseen - G Willow Wilson American Gods - Neil Gaiman Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell The Removed - Brandon Hobson Razorblade Tears - SA Cosby Piranesi - Suzanna Clarke The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr The Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler The Winter King - Bernard Cornwell The Immortals of Tehran - Alireza Taheri Araghi And, for my taste, you are exactly right about Louise Erdrich, Barbara Kingsolver, & Hillary Mantel.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Great suggestions--thank you for sharing.

@meaulnes6643

9 ай бұрын

Piranesi is a great call!

Thanks for the effort you put into this. I really learned a lot.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I hope you enjoy any of the books you pick up.

“A cilantro book” - love that phrase!

@SupposedlyFun

8 ай бұрын

Me too!

@deh23

Ай бұрын

what does that mean?

@betsyc5123

Ай бұрын

It means you either love it or you hate it

Very interesting video. I really enjoyed it. Thank you

I absolutely love The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. I read and reviewed it just this last month. I don't read a lot of short stories but I LOVED this collection.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

It's such a good book!

Great list. Many on the list are also my favorites. Yes, I can tell all the hard work that went into preparation for this video. I don't think I have the stamina to do the same. Poisonwood Bible is one of my all-time favorite books. In addition I love The Good Lord Bird. We will be seeing James McBride in August 2023 in Nashville. So excited. Thanks for a wonderful video

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I'm so jealous that you'll get to see McBride in person!

Wow! So well read. Every book that you listed that so have read are books that I really enjoy and would be in my top 25 - Kav and Clay, Road, Homegoing, Ishiguro) makes me keen to check out others from this list 👍

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I hope you like any of the books you pick up.

Thank you for creating and sharing such wonderful and inspiring content! You have really encouraged me to consider how I can elevate and expand my reading experience. I've even started to consider developing a few long term reading projects for myself because of you. Your enthusiasm and passion for reading is delightful. I also really appreciate your videos with your husband. He is so sweet and I love that you both share such deep love and appreciation for reading. I hope Jamie continues to heal and feel better. Sending lots of love to you and your family.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. Joel really is a sweet man--I'm very lucky!

This was fun. I started working on my list while I watched.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Ahhh, I can't wait to see your list!

A list imma try to finish within this year and the next...a very strong list, no doubt...I did see a very good number of regulars from binging your channel over the past year!! I have only read one...Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan and own other 7 from the list!!! So looking forward to exploring your comprehensive and passionate picks with shrewd objectivity...a very immediate addition to my TBR for sure 💙👍💙👌💙📚💯

I love Sing Unburied Sing. I have read it twice…..and recommend to everyone!

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Jesmyn Ward is a tremendous writer!

this is such a great vid! put so many books on my radar!! i dont think i've read enough to make a comparable video lol!! but hopefully one day :)

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I believe you could, but it's up to you.

Great list, well presented. Now a new subscriber.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Thanks for the well thought out list. I predicted you were going to say Demon Copperhead then when you said you were going to wait on it . I said Poisonwood Bible and Gilead was a good choice. I’m glad you are going to try to get to more translated fiction, it’s a whole big world out there

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

It definitely is!

I really enjoyed this video! New subbie 👏🏾

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

This was such a well thought out video! I added a few of these books to my own TBR list, including your cheat book about the dust bowl that I had never heard of until today. Every book you mentioned that I have read would have been included in my own list, but I would have also included Rebecca Makkai’s the Great Believers and Love Songs of WEB DuBois would have been in my top five. I’ve had Gilead and Call me by your Name on my TBR list for years so this video might motivate me to finally read them. You said you never read Tin Man, is there a reason? You mentioned a couple small books that pack a punch in this video, when I think of small books that pack a punch Tin Man is always the first book that comes to mind. I loved this video and look forward to reading both the new additions to my TBR list as well as some of the gems that have been sitting there for awhile 🙂

@SupposedlyFun

Ай бұрын

I’m so glad you loved this video! I think I was concerned about recency bias with Love Songs of WEB du Bois, but I should have made it top five. The Great Believers was on my longlist. Honestly, sometimes a book I really want to read just keeps sliding by-and that’s the case with Tin Man. I also think so many people have told me that I’ll love it that I’m worried it’s become overhyped. But I need to get over myself and try it.

Great idea for a video. I wish the Times would rerun this list every few years (and considering how much people love clicking on top X lists, I actually don't understand why they haven't)! It's interesting to think about how reputations of books even in the quite recent past shift over time. I really have not read enough of contemporary literary fiction to offer a list this exhaustive. My main contenders as of now for the title would simply be Gilead and The Known World (and perhaps DeLillo's Underworld would've made it if this had been done one year ago). I'm still in search of books from this century to reach those heights for me, so excited to read some of the recs in this video that I haven't gotten to yet.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I'm a little surprised the Times hasn't updated the list as well, given how much time has passed. I definitely want to read The Known World soon!

Great list, some of my faves and a few I will look for now after hearing your intros. I loved The White Tiger, I hope you will make time for it soon. Cloud Atlas too. I wanted to ask if you'd read/had opinions about Cloudsplitter (1998), one of my faves that still haunts me. I had such a strong negative reaction to the series version of Good Lord Bird that I had no desire to read it. I find it hard to imagine the setting and themes of Cloudsplitter from a comedic perspective. If you never read Cloudsplitter I highly recommend it, more grounded in history and a very powerful impact. Poisonwood Bible is also one of my favorites, and Gilead has been on my reread list for a long time, after lots of life experience like you;) Life of Pi, another one to read if you hadn't gotten there yet, I don't think I heard you mention in it in your still to read list

Just seen that your over 10k subs! Amazing stuff. Hope you’re well.

@rororeads

10 ай бұрын

Also, this is a great video. Must have taken you so long to think about and put together. I decided I would only add one book from your list to my tbr (the list is getting too big to add any more) I think I’ll go with Gilead.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! I feel confident you'll be at 10k soon enough. I would be very curious to hear your thoughts on Gilead when you get to it.

Thank you for this list! I picked up a few books that you recommended. I am currently reading Matrix which so far is gearing up to be really great. I did also read The Rain Heron.. I felt that the majority of the book was exactly as you described and very engaging but I wasn't sure how I felt about the ending. Once again thank you!

@SupposedlyFun

7 ай бұрын

I can see how the ending of The Rain Heron might feel a little too tricky.

Thanks for the great lists

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

My pleasure--thanks for watching.

This was a great video and it made me think. First thing - I love your use of the term cilantro book. Second - I run into problems making a list of my own like this because I don’t often read the type of books that make it on to these lists. I also need to include some non-fiction which is usually parsed out into its own list. So I made a shorter list that includes some nonfiction. Strange Weather in Tokyo, White Oleander, Circe, The Lesser Bohemians, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, American Gods, The Housekeeper and the Professor, The Outlaw Ocean, Idaho, Cleopatra A Life, The 7th Function of Language and The Machineries of Empire series.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I feel like any list of best books is welcome regardless of whether or not it has the "conventional" choices. Lists without the typical books can be more interesting! I haven't read any of the books on your list, so it definitely caught my attention.

Super thoughtful. Thanks.

Some of my all time faves on this list. Never Let Me Go is probably my number 1…my gut punch reaction to that book is still with me almost 20 years later. And your reaction to Gilead (I love) was my same type of reaction to Lila in the same series- I saw so much of my life in that book and it just made me cry and cry…for various reasons! I didn’t love Housekeeping but maybe I was too old when I read it. I probably would’ve included Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet on my own list but those are in translation.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Never Let Me Go is definitely a haunting novel. I'm not sure how I would respond to Housekeeping if I read it now--I think it would be the opposite of the experience I had with Gilead. I've only read the first Neapolitan book but it was very good.

@tarico4436

9 ай бұрын

Over the years I have not often been one of those "I saw the movie, didn't read the book" people, but for "Never Let Me Go" I'm one of those bad people. Very special film. Touching. But mostly there's the "I'm a great artist, why am I not recognized as a great artist??!!" feeling that the movie conveys, and we artists eat it up. Crying for ourselves. Of course, one of the main characters is a visual artist, and my artistry is with words. But same thing.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

@@tarico4436 Very interesting!

Just found this….love your picks and your good taste! Subscribed, and am happy to find a fellow book lover of literary fiction. So much book/ lit commentary on KZread and IG focuses on YA and fantasy, so I’m happy I found you…..also what did you think of The Dutch House? It would be on my list for best of last 25 years! Thanks for your channel!

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I had stayed away from Ann Patchett after hating her book Run, but I’m going to give her another try soon.

@kathleena4038

9 ай бұрын

@@SupposedlyFun yeah, Run was sub-par, I agree.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

It was! But I look forward to reading more of her work.

@kathleena4038

9 ай бұрын

@@SupposedlyFunI hate pushing anyone into a book! Read The Dutch House only if you like crazy family drama that takes place in an old, architecturally interesting home, complete with evil stepmother, eccentric childhoods, generational family saga….that combo is like catnip to me.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

@@kathleena4038 I am interested in all of those things!

Very interesting list, thank you! I've added quite a few to my TBR. For me, the top 3 are "Atonement" by Ian McEwan, and 2 translated works: all of Karl Ove Knausgaard's autobiographical books, starting with "death in the family", translated from the Norwegian; "History of violence" by Edouard Louis, translated from the French.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I should reread Atonement sometime. I remember loving the first and last sections but not liking the middle.

@4thlinemaniac356

9 ай бұрын

@Mauro Biglino The Naked Bible ,& When The Gods Walked Among Us & God's of the Bible @ Paul Wallis Escaping Eden & Scars of Eden & Echoes of Eden & The Conspiracy of Eden @ Marcel Grauile The Pale Fox & Conversations With a Dogon Elder. These are the proper books on OUR origins The Nommo created US before the Anunnaki Enslaved Us genetically altering Us downgrading Us from x 12 strands DNA to x 2 strand DNA where WE only experience 16% of OUR reality in the Materium.

Before I watched this, I knew my next read was going to be Empire Falls, so I was happy to see it on your list.(I usually decide my next read when I'm about halfway through my current read.) Small Things Like These was on my Amazon wish list. It isn't anymore, I have ordered it. Poisonwood Bible is on my very extensive and overflowing tbr bookcase . I think I'm going to have to purchase Gilead and squeeze that onto my tbr bookcase. Great video!

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

If only there were more time in the day to help us get to all the books we want to read!

@4thlinemaniac356

9 ай бұрын

It is good but Nobody's Fool is much better.

Amazing video❤

@SupposedlyFun

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I would highly recemmond... 1..Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree 1,Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami 3 Feast of GOAT by Mario Vergas ilosa 4.Klara and the sun by Ishiguro 5.All the pretty horses by Cormac Macrathy 6.Unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kunders 7.poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver... 8.Correction by jonathan Franzon 9.Autumn by Ali smith 10.Buddha of Subarbia by Hanif kureshi Above lists are my favourte..They are truly awesome..Greetings From Kathmandu..Nepal.😁

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

Greetings! Thanks for the suggestions. Several of these have been on my list to get to.

As for a mix of my favorite fiction and nonfiction I've read as an adult, that will be a challenge to narrow down. Educated by Tara Westover, Lab Girl by Hope Jahren, The Field of Blood by Joanne Freeman, Jesus and John Wayne by Kristen Kobes DuMez, Floating Coast by Bathsheba Demuth, The Deep by Rivers Solomon, The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder, The Bone Witch series by Rin Chupeco, The Beast's Heart by Leife Shallcross, Red Notice by Bill Browder, Say Nothing by Patrick Keefe, Hero of Two Worlds by Mike Duncan, As You Wish by Cary Elwes, Revolutionary Backlash by Rosemarie Zagarri, An Empire on the Edge by Nick Bunker, The Widow Washington by Martha Saxton, They Were Her Property by Stephanie Jones-Rodgers, The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray

There are so many wonderful books that I love on your list, and some that I own but haven't read yet, including Homegoing, The Plague of Doves and The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. A video about "cilantro" books would probably yield a lively batch of comments!

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

It probably would!

@shelleyaultman1193

9 ай бұрын

Yes, love the concept of cilantro books

Very good collection! Definitely added the ones I haven’t read to my list. I would strongly recommend Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon, I truly believe it’s the best novel of the 21st century (or, less definitively, my personal favorite) Edit (near misses): so glad u mentioned hamnet!! I thought it was phenomenal

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation!

_The Murmur of Bees_ has been my favorite book since I read it. By Sofía Segovia, written in Spanish ( _El Murmullo de las Abejas_ ), translated into English, this book of magical realism is stunningly beautiful and profound. Not a day goes by that I don't think of Simonopio. When I finished reading it, I said college courses will make it required reading within 10 years. I stand by that. I hope it will find its way into your hands.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

That sounds incredible! Thank you for recommending it.

I knew as soon as you said you DNFd The Goldfinch that I could trust your taste. Added 6 books from your list to my TBR, and had already read 5 others. Great video!

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! I hope you enjoy any of the books you pick up!

@d.e.s.2919

9 ай бұрын

Right on!!! THAT was my immediate reaction, too :)

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

@@d.e.s.2919 Goldfinch DNF-ers need to stick together. 😉

@macylightfoot

9 ай бұрын

@@SupposedlyFun I Fd it, but it was the last book that I forced myself to F. I learned my lesson the hard way.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

@@macylightfoot I can see how that book would be a good source for that lesson.

How lovely that you included Australians in your list. The Yield would make my top 25 too. Robbie Arnott is in with a chance of winning the 2023 Miles Franklin Award today with Limberlost, I can't pick between either Limberlost or The Rain Heron as my favourites of his. I love The Poisonwood Bible that would also make my list. The only other one I've read is the Claire Keegan and I prefer her Foster. So many of the others are still on my TBR and I might add a couple more. A great idea to share. Happy Reading.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I think the only other Arnott book published in the US right now is Flames. I'm hoping more of his work makes it over here.

@tarico4436

9 ай бұрын

Am going to have to respectfully disagree with your choice of Arnott. It should be Am-To. No. It's Arnott. Am-To. Are-Not!

This is a wonderful video, and so are the comments. Totally agree about Lahiri, Kingsolver, McBride, Groff, Keegan, and Philyaw. I'm a little late to the discussion, but I would also add: *Richard Powers' The Overstory (not an easy read but wow); Roth's The Human Stain; Also (for books translated into English): Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series; Ferrante's Days of Abandonment; Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow... ; & W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz. Thanks for all you do. Love your channel.

@SupposedlyFun

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words. Your additions are interesting!

I just went out and grabbed Empire Falls and Train Dreams thanks to this vid. I am especially interested in EF because nostalgia and existential dread is something I struggle with deeply now that I am in my mid-40s. The Poisonwood Bible and Gilead are already on my TBR shelf. I will def look into some of the others.

@SupposedlyFun

8 ай бұрын

I hope you like them as much as I did! I’m in my early forties so I can relate to nostalgia hitting hard.

@jr4bz

3 ай бұрын

@@SupposedlyFunI finally sat down to read Train Dreams tonight and read it straight through in one sitting without coming up for air. It was amazing and I would've never known about it had I not watched this video a while back. So, thanks again!

@SupposedlyFun

3 ай бұрын

@@jr4bz I'm so glad you enjoyed it! It's a beautiful book.

New subscriber here...This was absolutely so much fun to watch. 😊

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Greg Thank you for your list … Barbara Kingsolver is one of my favourite writers and I have always said that for me Poisonwood Bible has been my favourite read . Because of this I feel that we appreciate the same thing about books . I will add a lot of your suggestions to my reading list. 😊❤ 📚

@SupposedlyFun

7 ай бұрын

I hope you enjoy any of the books you pick up!

I like your list! You reminded me of a couple I’ve wanted to read. Off the top of my head I think I’d also include Lost Children Archive, Middlesex, Cloud Atlas, White is for Witching, and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Maybe also 2666…I mean, I couldn’t finish it 😂 but I could tell it was brilliant.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Middlesex was on my longlist but I feel like I should reread it given how much understanding of that subject has changed over the last twenty years.

@Elizabeth-Reads

10 ай бұрын

@@SupposedlyFun Good point, I had the same thought after I wrote this comment. I read it when it first came out, and was blown away by the writing, Cal’s struggle felt so real, and I would have called it my favorite book for several years, but I do wonder how well it’s aged.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

@@Elizabeth-Reads I feel fairly confident it will hold up, but it will be interesting for sure.

@tarico4436

9 ай бұрын

Same here with "2666." I read about three-quarters of it, then quit. I found it moving for a while, but then it just fizzled. Or I grew bored? Can't remember exactly what happened. I think if I tackled something similar now, I would quit even sooner. Why? Because at least twice as many males disappear in these kinds of deals, only to be ignored by everyone. Just the cartel doing cartel things is why all the missing people.

I'm new to your channel. Don't know where I have been 😊. Clearly I have lots of catching up to do. Really pleased you picked 2 of my top 25. Wow. The Poison wood Bible and Gilead.

Great list. I finally picked up Love Songs of WEB du Bois. I don’t know if I could narrow a list down like this. The Poisonwood Bible is one of my all time faves. Still need to read Demon Copperhead. Jhumpa Lahiri is a fave too. 😊💙

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I hope you enjoy Love Songs as much as I did!

Great list. I agree with you on Gilead. Definitely in my top 5 all-time favorites and I'm due for a reread. My top 5: The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes Gilead, Marilynne Robinson People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks Wolf Hall trilogy, Hilary Mantel The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Steven Erikson (fantasy series) Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier would be in this list but misses eligibility by a year.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I haven’t read People of the Book-I’ve only read March by Geraldine Brooks. I need to work through more of her writing.

It's easy to see how much work this was. I enjoyed it very much. I've read books 2&4 of the Gilead Quartet. I really must read the other 2.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I want to reread Gilead before I try any of the others.

Quite a list. I haven't read most of them but your selection of Never Let Me Go gives you full credibility to me. You mention short story collections -- have you read Ted Chiang's collections Stories of Your Life and Others, and Exhalation? There's some great ones, in my humble opinion. Any thoughts on Pynchon's Bleeding Edge , or Inherent Vice, which fit in your timeframe? I know that lots of Pynchon fans consider these "Pynchon Lite", but I enjoyed them. I was taken aback by one of the comments by Susan Townsend praising A Gentleman in Moscow which I stopped reading at page 51 (just pulled it from the bookshelf and I had a marker in the page), but I think I will give it another try if she has devoted quite a bit of time to it (5 readings). Someone else recommended Le Carre's A Perfect Spy, but that came out in the mid 80s. A really great read, that one. Speaking of spy novels I certainly enjoy Mick Herron's Slow Horses series. Anyhow thanks for doing this video. I have never gotten around to Cormac McCarthy but I intend to shortly.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

I’ve actually never read a Pynchon book, but at some point will likely try Gravity’s Rainbow. And I have not read Chiang’s stories, but I’ve heard good things. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Great video. And so many women - wonderful. I've read 4, and have noted down 15 others (some of which I was peripherally aware of, just as a kind of underlining). Thanks! The best fiction reading experiences I can recall from recent years were The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch and Burntcoat by Sarah Hall. Oh, and Ducks, Newburyport.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I haven’t read any of your picks and only own Ducks, Newburyport-so thanks for sharing. I didn’t realize how female-driven the list was until I started pulling all the books off of my shelves. It was a pleasant surprise.

@tjpieraccini

10 ай бұрын

@@SupposedlyFun I should warn you Book of Joan is SF - but Yuknavitch is a very serious, literary writer.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

@@tjpieraccini SF is fine! It's not my typical read but it's important to get outside the ol' comfort zone every once in a while.

When I saw the title I thought you were doing the best book for each of the previous 25 years, which seemed an impossible task. Although I wonder if what you have actually done isn't even more difficult. The list of acclaimed books from the past 25 years that I haven't read yet is a lot longer than yours. I definitely read more older books and just can't keep up with publishing. Oryx and Crake from your "haven't read" list would definitely be on my 25 best list though. From your 25 list, I would probably include Kavalier & Clay. (Ten of the others are already on my TBR. Definitely bumping Gilead and the Poisonwood Bible up towards the top of that tbr list.) I would add Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to my list, for sure. That book has really lingered since I read it four or five years ago.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I got in the habit of staying up to date on newer books while I was working at Borders. I credit that experience with how I usually do a mix of older and new books.

I was kinda hoping you might add Demon Copperhead to the list! Loved it.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

So here's a spoiler: I'm going to keep updating and working on my list for the next two years so in 2025 I can do "The 25 Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)." Demon Copperhead is on that list at the moment.

thanks for so many ideas for my next reads. wonder if you ever reviewed All Aunt Hagar's Children.

@SupposedlyFun

6 ай бұрын

I haven’t read All Aunt Hagar’s Children! I hope to do The Known World first.

@bbbartolo

6 ай бұрын

@@SupposedlyFun I think you have great rewards in store. Jones is a great soul. But my mind boggles that even with your voraciousness as a reader, you haven't read everything of genuine merit. It has to be a testament to the quality and quantity of the cultural output we all enjoy!

@SupposedlyFun

6 ай бұрын

@@bbbartolo There are so many books out there! My Pulitzer Project is, in part, my way of forcing myself to get to some of them. I'm hoping to read The Known World in 2024.

I read Gilead many years ago and loved it. I am due for a reread. Thank you for this incredible list. May I ask your name and a bit about your background ? I will share this list with one of my best friends.

This is an interesting premise for a list, can't say I'd personally agree with your choices though since I'm not really literary fiction reader and haven't really heard or read any of those (i prefer historical fiction, mystery novels and SFF). Still i like seeing what others find the best books since lists are generally very subjective to our own tastes and experiences in life. 😊

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

I definitely have blind spots in my reading. I'm hoping others will pick up the idea and share their list to balance things out. And I love seeing how other people fill out their lists!

Love Songs of WEB DuBois and Gilead definitely would be in the top five of my list. If pressed. I'd say Louise Erdrich may be my favorite author, and Love Medicine in the running for my favorite book of all time, but I'd have to look closer at her books in the last 25 years to pick a favorite. Ditto for everything else....I don't think in terms of years, so I'd have to think about it!! Thanks for a fun video!

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! Louise Erdrich is a very powerful writer.

Thank you for this. I would also consider Amor Towles's "A Gentleman in Moscow," "Cutting for Stone" " by Abraham Verghese , Saint Maybe" by Anne Tyler, and "A God in Ruins" by Kate Atkinson.

Great choice! What a book! It's been on my top 10 list forever. It's not quite at the top, because my #1 and #2 spots are taken by The Enchanted by Denfeld, and Mink River by Doyle, respectively. I think you'd really love The Enchanted -- it makes you sob for the awful, but also for the beautiful. 💚

@SupposedlyFun

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation!

1. Ducks, Newberryport is the best. Read it sooner than later. 2. I've read very few from your list, so won't comment. However I did notice several crucial contemporary literary novelists missing, perhaps just pushed out by others you prefer, or whatever. I'll list 25 here; anybody looking for a good book could use this list as a reliable head start: Martin Amis Muriel Barbery Peter Carey J.M. Coetzee Doouglas Coupland Jennifer Egan Bret Easton Ellis Lucy Ellmann Gillian Flynn Tana French Michel Houellebecq John Irving Cixin Liu Tom McCarthy David Mitchell Jean d'Ormesson Jose Saramago Lionel Schriver Gaétan Soucy Neal Stephenson Donna Tart William T. Vollmann

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

Interesting list! I have read some of those authors and some were edged out and others were not my cup of tea. And there are many others I still need to try!

Kent Haruf’s trilogy especially the first two Plainsong and Eventide would be on my list. Homegoing is the perfect novel in my opinion; it’s a writing prof’s dream from 1st paragraph to the last, and would be on my 25 best book list also.

@SupposedlyFun

8 ай бұрын

I've been wanting to read Haruf for about twenty years at this point and somehow have failed spectacularly. The only book of his I have read is Our Souls At Night, which was great.

Hello Greg, I enjoy your videos even though we have very different tastes. I Could not handle the Poison wood Bible and I love to foster more than small things. But that’s what makes booktube so unique and fun. And thanks for the video suggestion. Aloha

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed this! And I look forward to your version if you get to it.

Thanks for the list! Two authors from your list who wrote books superior to the ones included here: Erdrich’s Master Butchers Singing Club Ishiguro’s Klara and the sun. I admit, didn’t read Never L M Go with enough focused attention. But Plague of Doves… it struck me as a set of short stories shoehorned into a novel, so some of the characters’ actions and attitudes seemed inconsistent across chapters.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

To be honest, I was not a fan of Klara and the Sun. To me, it felt like a lesser rehash of Never Let Me Go. I haven’t read Master Butchers yet, but many of Erdrich’s books have stories that span many characters and storylines.

Small things like these is a wonderful book. Happily it is shortly shortly to be released as a movie starring Cillian Murphy, I am really looking forward to it

@SupposedlyFun

Ай бұрын

I'm looking forward to the movie!

Gilead is so great. Great choice.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! It was a tough decision.

Interesting list. I've read 10 of the books from your list and from those ten my top three would be 1. Plague of Doves, 2. Kavalier and Clay, 3 The Yield. I have a copy of the Poisonwood Bible which sounds very good but Gilead wasn't one I really enjoyed.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

That's fair. I wasn't sure I enjoyed Gilead the first time around.

I must be blanking on this, but I don’t remember you really talking much about Gilead before, which is why it’s a surprise choice for me. Lots of books on your list that I’ll be adding to my wish list. I’ve only read two of these (Keegan and Philyaw), but I have a bunch here waiting to be read/listened to. There’s no way I could do a list like this because my reading urge was only reawakened around 2017 after many years away. However, Hamnet is the book that came instantly to my mind and it could be my best/favorite. The Many by Wyl Menmuir and Stillicide by Cynan Jones would be near the top as well. Oh, I forgot to add that I don’t do “best” since I don’t have any skills to analyze the quality of writing. I think I have a feeling when something is well written, but that’s as analytical as I get. So, it’s more favorite than best for me.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

It's very difficult to do a best list of any kind, so I hope other people start making their own lists. It would be interesting to see where commonalities lie. I haven't read either The Many or Stillicide.

Tricky to come up with titles, as after making a list, a book that you had completely forgotten pops into your head, so here are some off the top of my head : Toibin's "The Master", "Shuggie Bain", "Girl, Woman, Other", Jaume Cabre's "Confessions", Orhan Pamuk's "A Strangeness in My Mind", "The Luminaries", "This Thing of Darkness", "Atonement", "The Sense of an Ending", "Cloud Atlas" and from two wonderful writers, "The Lacuna" ties with "The Poisonwood Bible" and my favourite Robinson set in Gilead is "Home", but "Lila" remains to be read.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

There are several on your list that I want to read at some point! Lacuna is a prime example.

Also was completely blown away by Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’. It is stunning.

I have so much reading to do! But off the top of my head I really loved: In the Distance - Hernan Diaz (therefore Trust was disappointing) Piranesi - Susanna Clarke And Zeroville - Steve Erickson I really hated Bewilderment by Richard Powers - so it’s hard for me to want to read Overstory. Anyway just some random thoughts.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I haven't read any of your titles yet, but I would like to!

Several of these are on my TBR. I'm looking forward to reading The Poisonwood Bible and The Love Songs of w. e. b. du Bois.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I hope you like them!

Thanks for your great list -- I also love Lauren Groff's Matrix and other work. And last but not least... The Quiet Tenant; Growing Things by Paul Tremblay; and non-fiction: What the Dog Saw; The Postcard; and fiction--The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction by Robert Goddard

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the recommendations!

@lennylan3223

8 күн бұрын

I liked the Matrix, too. Great book. She is good at setting a scene. It was fun to go back hundreds of years to a nunnery out in the middle of nowhere and to have to face horrible privation. Love the book. It has stayed with me.

I loved your Top 25!!! So many I haven't read that now are going on the to be read list. My Number one from the last 25 is easily Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin. That book is stuck to me

@SupposedlyFun

7 ай бұрын

A lot of people love that book.

Cloud Atlas. Definitely put that one at the top your list for reading next.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

It's on my list! Thanks for the recommendation.

So good! So good!

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

🤗

This list makes me realise why I've stopped reading newer fiction

Interesting list - I just of just dabble in lots of genres so mine is all over the place. Also to me 21st century seems a better cut of so didnt want to go before 2000. I just did 20 :- Caitlin Kiernan - The Drowning Girl - kept to 1 book per author or would have been a short story collection by her too House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski - The way the sentences are constructed is a bit pedestrian and there are points when this is a slog but it is so unique and whatever efforts you put into it get rewarded with a compelling main plot and many Easter eggs Junot Diaz - Hard keeping just to one but This is How You Lose Her just wins out - I just love his writing Richard Ford - It feels a cheat because my favourite of his by far is Rock Springs which was written earlier but both Canada and Multitude of Sins would still make the 21st century list - I think I liked Multitude of Sins Slightly more The Dead Lake - Hamid Ismailov - One of those that I really liked but might have just given 4 stars to. However this haunting fable like tale has lived long in my head afterwards so that jumps it into the list Danez Smith - Black Movie - I could have done the full list with poetry but feel that should in some ways be a seperate list - But I could not leave this one out Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan - A very compelling SF tale full of ideas - I DNFed the second in the series but this I eat up China Mieville The City and the City - another great weirdish SF ish work that manages to blend genres very satisfyingly Lydia Davis - Short Story collection - I got the complete Lydia Davis and read it all together and then went on to read Can;'t and wont all within a short time of each other - as a result its hard to choose a specific collection but her distinctive writing style certainly deserves a place Cory Doctorow Little Brother - A YA SF tale that at times feels a bit preachy but just really captures a moment in time now past so very well A river Called Time Mia Couto - Much to love in this magical realist tale - Meg Wolitzer - The Wife - really well done, very memorable and whilst it does not 100% live up to its fantastic start it comes close Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Just a wonderful reading experience - a great hybrid of a novel and a graphical novel Lorrie Moore - A Gate in the Stairs - I really like her short fiction too - This just takes the spot A Land Without Jasmine - Wajdi Al-Ahdal - Sort blend of crime fiction and other elements that I dont want to share as they can spoil it - really short but also really memorable Natalie Shapero - Hard Child - Another poetry collection I will squeeze in - but been reading it and re-reading it so much lately it deserves a spot - other great collections that I really wanted to include but didnt let them take over the list include Tony Hoagland, Dean Young, Hannah Lowe, Carol Ann Duffy, Robert Wood Lynn, Natalie Diaz and Kay Ryan The Night Fairy - Laura Amy Schultz - A really great childrens story - there are probably loads of great ones I have read Phillip Roth - The Human Stain Stone in a Landslide Maria Barbal - This was written before the 21st century but not translated into English - Its a wonderful novella from Pierene Press about catalan Spain and a womans life in a rural area. Counting it feels kind of wrong but excluding it feels worse. Interesting translated fiction should not suffer from categorisation issues I excluded Non fiction and drama and otherwise would have a lot of those in there - so much great works of each. Crime and Thrillers are hard to include because they are often read once and done. I also excluded graphical novels as I feel many of the strongest in that genre are autobiographical and I was excluding non-fiction otherwise I would have included a drifting life, Persepolis, days of destruction, days of revolt etc.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

This Is How You Lose Her was on my longlist and didn't make the final 25. You have some very interesting selections! I need to catch up to a lot of them. I've had Lorrie Moore and Lydia Davis on my pile of possibilities for a while--I have one book for each of them that has been patiently waiting for me on my shelves.

Homegoing or Transcendent Kingdom would be on my list. I am excited to read Gilead

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I love Transcendent Kingdom, but I love Homegoing more.

I believe that in a hundred years Wolf Hall will be remembered as the outstanding classic literary masterpiece of our time.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

I can agree!

@skeovkp48598

9 ай бұрын

Agreed. It's phenomenal.

So, I haven't read a lot of the "big" books that have been on all the best-of lists year to year, but I went to my 5-star shelf on GR and sorted by pub date and put together a list of my personal top 25 from the past 25 years. There are probably some here that some people would roll their eyes at, but you know, this was about my own enjoyment and impact from the books. 1. Daughter of the Forest (1999) 2. Fingersmith (2002) 3. The Hummingbird’s Daughter (2005) 4. Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) 5. A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) 6. Olive Kitteridge (2008) 7. Wolf Hall (2009) 8. The Surrendered (2009) 9. The Night Circus (2011) 10. Dear Life (2011) 11. My Brilliant Friend (2011) 12. The World We Found (2012) 13. The Snow Child (2012) 14. The Golem and the Jinni (2013) 15. Homegoing (2016) 16. The Underground Railroad (2016) 17. The Weight of Ink (2017) 18. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017) 19. Circe (2018) 20. Girl, Woman, Other (2019) 21. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019) 22. Cantoras (2019) 23. The House in the Cerulean Sea (2020) 24. Hamnet (2020) 25. Sistersong (2021) And then the top 5 from that would be (starting from 5th) Homegoing, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Circe, The Weight of Ink, and my absolute favorite, my top book I've ever read or likely will ever read, was Hamnet.

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

That's a good list! There are several that I haven't read, so thank you for sharing.

@user-fz4sq2bn1l

10 ай бұрын

Lots of good ones here but I just wanted to say that The Weight of Ink is so so good and I don't think it got the attention it deserved!

@arp711

10 ай бұрын

@@user-fz4sq2bn1l AGREED!!!

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

@@user-fz4sq2bn1l That's one that I haven't read!

- Call me by your name - Andre Aciman (2007) - A man called Ove - Fredrik Backman (2012) - The shadow of the wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón (2001) - The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (2003) - Piranesi - Susanna Clarke (2020) - The night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (2011) - Kafka on the shore - Haruki Murakami (2002) - Where the crawdads sing - Delia Owens (2018) - Atonement - Ian McEwan (2001) - The song of Achilles - Madeline Miller (2011) - Never let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro (2005) - House of leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski (2000) - Words of Radiance (The stormlight Archive 2) - Brandon Sanderson (2014) - The Name of the wind (Kingkiller Chronicle 1) - Patrick Rothfuss (2007) - The sword of Kaigen - M.L. Wang (2018) - A storm of swords (A song of ice and fire 3) - George R.R.Martin (2000)

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

I’ve only read five from your list. Oops! Thanks for sharing it.

@Ninaofthe90s

10 ай бұрын

@@SupposedlyFun which ones? 🙂

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

@@Ninaofthe90s Turns out I miscounted. I've read six! Call Me By Your Name, A Man Called Ove, The Kite Runner, Atonement, The Song of Achilles, and Never Let Me Go.

@Ninaofthe90s

10 ай бұрын

@@SupposedlyFun the last 4 on the list are part of a fantasy series - so that might not be your thing. But out of the other ones you haven't read I definitely recommend "The shadow of the wind" and "where the crawdads sing" the most!

@SupposedlyFun

10 ай бұрын

@@Ninaofthe90s I've heard a lot of good things about Shadow of the Wind. I should read it at some point. I saw the movie for Crawdads, but I have a copy of the book waiting for me.

‘Ducks, Newburyport’. Nothing better, ever.

@SupposedlyFun

9 ай бұрын

I definitely want to read that one!