you describe books you love so beautifully, it makes me want to read things I would never be interested in otherwise

@badobsession28

5 ай бұрын

Same here!

@hrtzjaehyun

5 ай бұрын

samee

@lihaec

5 ай бұрын

Right!! His reviews should be on the back of books!

@alicebennett1160

5 ай бұрын

Couldn’t agree with this more. I’ve read so many books that I never thought I would’ve gone for because of you 😊

@user-hi4xk1bs2o

5 ай бұрын

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As a translator, I really appreciate that you mentioned the translators of those books. It's a small action but it means a lot because translators' effort doesn't get recognized often. Thank u Jack ! ❤❤

@user-gs5ot2nw8i

5 ай бұрын

Totally agree that's such a nice thing to do

@susanalfieri4487

2 ай бұрын

@@user-gs5ot2nw8i And such an important skill.

watching this in the barnes and noble parking lot is dangerous

@eleftheriak.8889

4 ай бұрын

Oh my god

@gracieliann7341

21 күн бұрын

Im walking to one rn

this is MY spotify wrapped

@nishthagupta1357

2 ай бұрын

SAME😂😂😂😂

jack says it’s the best, we listen ✍🏻✍🏻✍🏻

@thehegracietehe4558

5 ай бұрын

CORRECT SISTER !!!

@shramanadasdutta3006

5 ай бұрын

And go broke trying to get them

@andrewpilling5322

5 ай бұрын

Cringe

@user-hi4xk1bs2o

5 ай бұрын

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every time I get in a reading slump, I just watch one of your videos and just the way you talk about books inspires me to want to read again

Just a note on the amount of children the family in Foster have. It's set in 1981, and contraception was illegal in Ireland until 1980. That's one of the main reasons Ireland was known for having big families. Unfortunately, women had no choice but to have more children. My parents told me people would drive to northern Ireland to get condoms and smuggle them back into the Republic.

@laramadden4697

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for saying this! It’s such an important point. My grandmother had 13 children and not by choice. I always feel the need to stand up for the families who had no choice in the matter of these huge families they had to take care of.

@angharadjenkins83

4 ай бұрын

@@bethmcmullan7686you think if they weren’t allowed to use contraceptives they were allowed to say no to their husbands?

@AnnEast85

4 ай бұрын

@@bethmcmullan7686that is really naive though…

Love this video so much every year! :) Also, Timestamps below: 1:52 Demon Copperhead 5:40 In Memoriam 9:55 I’m a Fan 12:46 The Guest 16:24 A Little Luck 18:47 Foster 21:51 The Bee Sting 25:20 Prophet Song 28:25 After Sappho 30:40 If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English 33:46 The Hero of This Book 35:44 All the Lovers in the Night 38:19 Love in the Big City 41:27 Couplets (I’ll also leave the details to join the community book club we made below if anyone’s interested in joining :) )

@anthropomorphicpeanut6160

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@chichayk2487

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@PokhrajRoy.

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the list!

@aulbayne8600

5 ай бұрын

Join below:

@aulbayne8600

5 ай бұрын

It’s on re

She ripps my heart out, tears it into tiny little pieces and throws it over me like confetti. ✨And I love it ✨ - Jack Edwards 2023

The ones I catched:) 1:51 Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver) 5:44 In Memoriam (Alice Winn) 9:57 I’m a fan (Sheena Patel) 12:47 The Guest (Emma Cline) 16:26 A Little Luck (Claudia Piniero) 18:45 Foster (Claire Keegan) 21:52 The Bee Sting (Paul Murray) 25:21 Prophet Song (Paul Lynch) 28:23 After Sappho (Selby Wynn Schwartz) 30:41 If an Egyptian cannot speak English (Noor Naga) 33:46 The Hero of This Book (Elizabeth McCracken) 35:44 All the lovers in the night (Mieko Kawakami) 38:19 Love in the big city (Sang Young Park) 41:36 Couplets (Maggie Millner)

@JB-mm4jp

5 ай бұрын

I caught!

@lao6823

5 ай бұрын

Thank you

thank you for mentioning translators! it is useful for readers to know which specific version you've read, and it recognizes translators' authorial work :)

As a translator I love when you name the translators after the authors

What I love about Jack is that he recomends books that are not popular but very good, and those are so diverse that acomplish to satisfy all kind of tastes from his viewers✨️ Thank you for existing 🥺 among all those booktubers who surrender to the hype books of social media 💔

@susanalfieri4487

2 ай бұрын

I think they're definitely popular in the literary fiction world, just not in the BookTok world, which leans much more heavily into Romance, Fantasy, YA, and Romantasy.

I love how your passion for books transpires in each video you make... but specially in this one! It's obvious you LOVED all of these books. You speak about them as you speak about a loved one.

To everyone who enjoyed foster, it’s now a movie with an alternate name. “An cailín ciúin” (the quiet girl) is the best and most accurate book to screen adaptation i’ve ever seen.

Demon Copperhead is my favorite book this year as well. I miss Demon and it left such an impact on me.

jack, i have to thank you for getting me into literary fiction this year. i was never interested before but the passion in which you talk about the books in this genre made me pick up some of your recs and now i'm obsessed with lit fic and will be a huge part of my reading next year ❤

as a diehard fan of alice winn when she was publishing fanfiction, it is just so so amazing to see the incredible success of her debut novel. bc i swear, everyone in the fandom was enamoured with her writing

@emana3704

5 ай бұрын

i always knew her writing was so special, a gift to the world truly, and ugh i have nothing but love and excitement for her and her future works

@SunNY-sz2gf

5 ай бұрын

Oh I loved her work as well. I don’t know many fanfic authors where I can say I liked all of their work. Naturally, I had very high hopes for her debut novel. Then I read In Memoriam and it somehow surpassed my expectations. I’m just so excited for her career as an author!

@josipon

4 ай бұрын

omg!! i was so surprised to find out that alice winn was gallaplacidia bc i knew them both independently…

i love all the lovers in the night so so so much! i wrote my final english high school essay on it and it took up 26 pages... it really impacted me and i think of it to this day.

I'm so happy Barbara Kingsolver is getting so much love. She is my favourite author of all time I love her so much!!!

It's so interesting that the Paul Lynch quote you chose is also the passage he chose to read at one of the meets he had a day after his win. It really hits you in the face when he reads out loud too, like poetry almost. Much deserved win, absolute banger of a novel.

this is my favorite video of every year cause i know ill hear about a bunch of new books instead of the same lists ive seen all over social media

aahh i'm happy to share the same love for In Memoriam as Jack! I just finished reading it last week and it was a 5 star read for me. Loved it from start to finish ❤

Jack, I haven't yet finished reading the books I bought based on your 2022 recommendations 🤧💖

In Memoriam! I absolutely adored it. What a wonderful debut. I’m looking forward to whatever Alice Winn is working on next as well!

Haven’t read any of these but they’re added onto my TBR list!

I was so excited to watch this video and I realized it’s because of YOU and the way you always get me excited to find and read new books. Thank you for all that you do Jack!!

I'm new here and I'm loving your videos. The way you describe and review the books is so thought provoking that I keep finding myself adding each book to my tbr

every book I read this year was something I discovered thru this channel, and it makes me so happy to be reading again! Thank you so much for getting so ma ny people in love with books again

Loved this recap so much, can’t wait for part 2! I gifted ‘Foster’ to my sister-in-law this Christmas based on your previous review, then listened to the audiobook in the car with my mom. We loved it and I know my SIL will, too 💗

Favourite book videos always make me so excited to read more books 📚

I love how you are so eloquent and put your thoughts into such beautiful words 🤍

i love the lights on your bookshelves!

That quote from In Memoriam, the one about Heracules and Hector, ripped my heart out

Happy to see Mieko Kawakami here, planning on reading all the lovers in the night soon as I've read her other two books, fell in love with her writing, it's so beautiful.

I really appreciate the writings of the key sections appearing on the screen. I have an auditory disability, and it's hard to keep up sometimes when people read things outload without any sort of visual aid. Please continue to do that in the future. It's MUCH appreciated.

I love that you included quotes, if gave a better feeling for the books! Great recs

such a stunning way to talk about books, the exact perfect words you always find and how intelligent it sounds while also being true! "I'm a Fan" was one of those reads where I, as a bookseller, had a good/interesting time reading it but never know how to recommend it to customers or if i wanna recommend it at all 😅

I read in memoriam and completely devoured it I loved it, it has now become one of my favorite books of all time!! ❤❤

thank you for this Jack- this was brilliant! it's an absolute pleasure to listen to such a well read person

I'm currently reading All the Lovers in the Night. Enjoying it so far!🙃

I am a mood reader....and when I want a book that will be a gut punch, that will make me think and feel things deeply, that is interesting and different from anything else I am reading...I come to Jack 🤗

I picked up In Memoriam after seeing it in one of your hauls (Hay Literature Festival?) and it became my best book of the year. It absolutely broke my heart and healed it all in one go, and I'm so so glad I got to read it. Thank you for introducing me to it!

I used to watch a lot of booktube a few years ago, but with time I realised most of the recommendations from people I followed just weren't my cup of tea, then I started following you and all of the recommendations I take from you are the best books I read!!!! I really trust you on this one, I'm gonna buy all of these

In Memoriam was absolutely incredible - the way Winn crafts characters is breathtaking, I cared so much about her characters and their relationships and her writing was just beautiful - one I will be re-reading over and over again - and an Author I will be watching for more!

Hey! Just want to say thanks for these lovely videos, as the love and passion you pour into them show inmensely. Plus, as a reader from South America, it is truly wonderful to hear about all these books that don´t reach my country because of inflation and other issues. Books in Argentina are currently a luxury (especially those in english), and I am so grateful to have the means to treat myself to one every month, although of course I know that so many people cannot.

I cannot overstate how many times I typed best books 2023 Jack Edwards in the hope this video would drop. Thank you for blessing us with this content. 🥹🥹🥹 Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎉

In Memoriam was so so beautiful, i read it twice, because i couldn't get enough!🥺

Love in the big city was also one of my favorites this year! I love how it balanced comedy with more serious examinations of life and death at the backdrop of such a vibrant city. I've never experienced a book that was so easy to read yet hit me so hard.

I enjoyed the whole video, Jack! Happy new year to you~

I'm obsessed with how you describe books. You're absolutely lovely to listen to.

I'm so happy that you gave In Memoriam so much love! It was my best of the year. Agree - instant classic!

Thank you for sharing this ❤️ your channel has helped me find so many wonderful books

Hope you had a fabulous merry Christmas 🎄 Jack

I had bought In Memoriam before I even finished the video. How you describe books is just inspiring!

Ohhhh, that Paul Murray quote about parenthood = absolute !!! Now I need to read it, if only to see if he adds something about that “new person” is frequently, but 100% sporadically, swapped out for ANOTHER new person with altered sore spots, touch points, tastes, emotions, and opinions …. but who, nevertheless, condemns you for not somehow proactively & magically keeping up with the changes. Parenthood is not for the weak of heart. - From one who almost didn’t survive the storm.

I loved in memoriam, truly my favourite this year made me cry and that is not easy, truly beautiful

I love your end of year content Jack! In Memoriam sounds so good 😊

In Memorian was my favorite book of the year, and I'm with you, I can't wait to see what Alice Winn does next. Adding Demon Copperhead, Prophet Song, and Love in the Big City to my TBR immediately!

@fireboyjacob3881

5 ай бұрын

I recommend The Bee Sting too, such a great book! My favorite this year.

"In Memoriam" was one of my top novels of this year as well. It was brutal, but it changed my mind about war novels, which formerly I rarely enjoyed.

That Demon Copperhead quote just single handedly convinced me to read it

Can you please make a video of recommended books based on vacation places one visits? I’m traveling to Japan in march and usually take a couple books w/me when I travel. I love that later when I re-read them it reminds me of the setting I was in and makes it all so special. Kinda like how you mentioned being in Korea cherry blossoming while reading your book ✨

I just finished watching season 1 of Why Women Kill and the way you described The Guest reminded me so much of the character Jade, from the show. I’ve definitely added it to my list!

You might be the first social media book lover I actually find worth listening too, a big part of that might be that we both have the same taste in books but also the way you describe books you love and hate. There are so many people online that either get too political, or snobby, or just plain boring in their critiques and descriptions; but you are such a perfect balance and so entertaining, but I also blame you for turning my TBR into such a huge mountain.

Yayyy🎉 i was waiting for this because I'm going to the bookstore tmrw 😊 Perfect timing ❤

I am not usually one to post comments but thank you, Jack, for reccing “In Memoriam”! Just finished reading it two days ago and it is my favourite book of the year (what a way to end 2023 🎉) If you’re interested in more M/M WW1 fiction, Pat Baker’s “Regeneration” trilogy is probably the OG of this very specific genre and it is excellent, exploring real life characters like Sassoon and Graves.

Thank you so much for this beautiful list! ❤

What a perfect mix of books I loved and books I will come to love. Epic curation.

jack,I LOVEEEE the way you talk about books💓i love it so much that i could cry(ifykyk)💓💓💓

I read "If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English" for a class and the discussions we had around this book were amazing. It's really well-written and just describes class and social discrepancies in post-2011 Egypt perfectly. I'd suggest you read Beer in the Snooker Club also, it's so good and deals with similar issues but from a different perspective and in a different Egyptian era.

Absolutely amazing incredible books Jack 😊

You inspire me to read more and more and I'm definitely grateful for that

ADORED the guest. i love when something has an undertone of menace

i love your comments on good reads. i always trust your judgement

JACK please do a video on all of the scandals of the year you mentioned. I don't really follow book-tok/publishing news but I'm nosy and I want the tea. Also I can't wait to read the ones you listed that I haven't read yet!

I was about to watch your video last night, but I knew I had to be wide awake and ready to "take notes", note down the books I want to read. I knew I was going to adding to my tbr...

Aiming to read 100 books in 2024! Was literally JUST making my TBR for the year and was thinking ‘I wonder when Jack will post his best books to help me out’ thank you!!! ✨

First person I saw read In Memoriam this year, THANK YOU!

Love the sound of all of these. I've just started The Bee Sting 😊

I already had my 52 picked out for next year…looks like we need to up the 2024 goals

love the way u talk about this stories

Jack, Thank you for posting.

I read All the Lovers in the Night because you recommended it - it's one of the best I've ever read too!!

Thank you for the list!

Thank you for your thoughts on these books. Though I may not gravitate towards all of the books you choose to read, I appreciate how straight forward you describe them so that people looking for a recommendation can easily say "Yes, that's for me. I"m going to read that." Read A Little Life based on your recommendation and have a hold on The Bee Sting that I'm waiting for from the library.

That quote from demon copperhead is my favorite I am so happy you referenced it

I went to Paris recently and Shakespeare and Co! Just the vibes were immaculate, can see why you liked it Jack! Bought Ernest Hemmingway’s book you read during your time in Paris. Recognised the Bee Sting from your videos on it but it’s big and big book fear you know

Thank you for giving me reading goals❤

I'm so glad I finally form an opinion of my best books of 2023. Thanks Jack

Demon Copperhead is so good!!! I’m glad so many people like it, and Barbara Kingsolver has so many great books

I took notes and made my list. Thank you so much. 😊

Finally the video we've all been waiting for!!!❤

I need to know: How long do you usually read in one day?

@MademoiselleBleme

5 ай бұрын

His last short was a kind of storygraph wrapped mentioning about 85,000 minutes of reading. That would be about 4 hours per day on average.

i loved foster as well. her book "antartica" is next on my list. cant wait to check out your other recs!

Jack I love the way you talk about books! You should definitely read Always Forward by J. Gardner Hurd!!!

I've just started reading In Memoriam because of your recommendation and holy fuck, I'm loving it. I'm only about 50 pages in right now but I'm already very attached to the characters and I love the writing style. If that keeps up it'll end up as one of my favorites of all time!

New subscriber! What I love about this wrap up is that you mentioned book that other book tubers I am following have not talked about talked Will be adding these to my TBR. You came up in my recommendations list when I was watching Haley Pham:’s recent video.

As someone who doesn't typically enjoy bildungsroman novels or Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities is the exception), I was super nervous about Demon Copperhead. But, I trusted my faith in Barbara Kingsolver's writing style and I am so glad I did. It's so unbelievably gorgeous and heartbreaking.

Just got on KZread hoping for this. Thank you 🎉❤

I love your channel & I'm so happy to hear about your favorite books. The background music was so distracting I was gritting my teeth!