Something I've noticed is that the books I most frequently recommend are usually 4 stars. Which I think is interesting! My hypothesis is that 4+ means it's a great book, but the 5th star is more personal and may be from things I connect with that aren't as universal? I don't know! But it's interesting!

@multimedia7034

2 күн бұрын

i feel the exact same way!

@cherryfreckle

2 күн бұрын

I understand that. Even some of my 3 star reads I can acknowledge are still rather good books, for example are written well and have a good plot. However, it's my 5 stars that have hit me more on a deeper level.

@rurubelle2920

2 күн бұрын

So true. Most of my 5 star books are pretty disturbing and can have quite a lot of triggers. Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, and Beloved by Toni Morrison are both 5 star reads for me, but they're not necessarily something I would recommend to a person I just met.

@ellarosemarie

Күн бұрын

I completely agree! My 5 stared books have made me feel something others haven’t, and it’s not to say the other books are bad, but to me they don’t quite match to the same degree.

@delaney8949

21 сағат бұрын

Completely agree!!

You should do a video called “Every book I’ve rated 5 stars in my life described in one or two sentences” I think is a way for us to discover hidden gemes. And for you to talk about books you love that you haven’t talk about them in a long time

@Emmy-rw8yl

Күн бұрын

Omg yes I’d love this!!

@annehk39

Күн бұрын

I think it would be easier to just scroll through his goodreads tbh! I really enjoyed this video, I feel like Jack hasnt had the time recently to film a video where he talks about a book for more than 1 minute (each), which I think is such a shame. I love it when the description of the book goes beyond a mere summary. It seems like Jack doesnt have that much time, and I would rather encourage him to make longer video essay-ish content.

@readingwarlock

Күн бұрын

Omg yes yes to this video idea! Tier-ranking all the books Jack rated 5 stars also sound exciting

Keeping us fed with this crème de la fresh content, I see.

Not me watching a Instagram reel where someone said "When you're stupid every book is 4-5 stars" and then I got the KZread notification. Hahahahahaha I can't this is so funny

@meremeth

2 күн бұрын

All my books are 4-5 stars bc if they're not I don't finish them 🚮

@jessummlee8866

Күн бұрын

Oh, I'm toooo nice. The only books I've rated less than 4 stars are two I really did not enjoy and even then I rated them 3.5 and 3.75. I'm studying a masters in literature and writing so I don't think I'm stupid lol, but I can see merit in most books I read. But I have been reading (trying to read) The Beautiful and Damned by Gatsy for the last 12 months and as soon as I get through it, it's getting 1 star. I don't care how much merit is has, it does not deserve any more (and even as I say that, I feel guilty).

@jessummlee8866

Күн бұрын

That being said, I only have two books that I actually consider 5 star books... I just have a lot of 4, 4.25, 4.5, and 4.75's.

@teentitansrock88

Күн бұрын

That's a stupid thing for someone to say XD you can rate books for any reason you want, and none of them are depended by your "IQ," education, or literary analysis skills. You can rate books based on how much you enjoyed the story, by how well it was written, how well the characters were developed, how well it connected with you, or conversely how well it connected you to a different group of people. For how much it made you laugh, for how corny it was. If I'm looking for a corny read, I want to know if it was an ENJOYABLE corny. Don't anyone fall for that classist rhetoric, the way you review things does not determine nor is determined by your intelligence. ❤

@chauswriting

Күн бұрын

@@teentitansrock88 yass!!!

The way you can so beautifully and casually describe books is unparalleled !!!! Also I highly recommend you read Sunburn ☀️ the writing is incredible

@karishmad604

Күн бұрын

queen i love you please make book content!!

"how could you do this to me but also thank you" is the review I am looking for 😂

My TBR did not need to get longer but here we are…

@bradythecamel

2 күн бұрын

Seriously, same!

@freiyakd

Күн бұрын

sAme

* searching a new video to watch bc I’ve caught up on jack’s vlogs * * jack uploads *

@small_and_dangerous2068

Күн бұрын

Jack’s vlogs are great!! If you’d like, here’s my recommendation for some really good but not as well known book creators you can watch in between Jack uploads! My favorite is allisonpaiges. She’s my queen, she is an icon, she’s the moment. Unfortunately she’s on an indefinite hiatus, but if you’re interested, just take a look at her stuff! Her editing is some of the best I’ve ever seen on the site period. She encourages self care, positive mindsets, and living life to the fullest to the best of your capabilities. Her videos are comfort videos for me and I rewatch them all the time! JesseTheReader is a channel I’ve watched for years. I’ve even met him in person at a book event lol! He’s an OG booktuber and I think his content still holds up today! He has a nice balance of chatting about both currently popular books as well as lesser known titles! He has a fun personality and a lot of original video ideas! Finally, plantbasedbride. I’m still new to her content, but it’s been so good! She gives cozy, long haul type videos and she’s been great from what I’ve watched! I hope this helps fill the need for good book creator content, lol!

so much new content bros really been blessing us

I heard about White Nights because of the aforementioned Jack video. A week later I noticed that different versions of White Nights were on the “Trending on Goodreads” tab on Audible and I’m so glad I listened to it.

adding some of these to my tbr! My five star reads so far are: - martyr! - kaveh akbar - In memoriam - alice winn - idlewild - james frankie thomas (queer chaos speaks to my soul) - the rachel incident - caroline o'donoghue - east of eden - john steinbeck - bellies - nicola dinan - words of radiance - brandon sanderson !!!! i've had a really incredible reading year so far it feels so good

@meremeth

2 күн бұрын

Ooooh I want to read bellies!

@abbieheath9521

2 күн бұрын

Loved the rachel incident !

@fashionjackie

Күн бұрын

In memoriam was AMAZING!!!

@bookandart371

Күн бұрын

in memorian and words of radiance , ❤

@minjavla

Күн бұрын

EAST OF EDEN MENTION🗣🗣

every book you talk about immediately gets put on my wishlist

Love this lighting! So relaxing 😊

Omg..when you read that part in blue sisters I teared up. I have 3 sisters so this book will probably kill me.

@misschaudarie7333

Күн бұрын

you and i, both!

The Blue Sisters opening paragraph gave me CHILLS I have to buy it now

I listened to White Nights on the Sleepy Bookshelf (on Spotify) and this story made me go through all the emotions 💙

' i think i'm a tough critic' U THINK JACK U THINK ?????????

Reading that excerpt of blue sisters convinced me to put it into my tbr

Your content really helps me find good reads Lots of love from Balochistan

Always find great books on your page Jack! Thanks for sharing great content

Love your enthusiasm!

loved your recs - your enthusiasm makes want to read them all.

thanks again jack!! you are my favorite place to get book recs and just added these to my want to read list my five star books this year have been - open water by caleb azumah nelson - young mungo by douglas stuart - in memoriam by alice winn - the kite runner by khaled hosseini - funny story by emily henry - song of achilles by madeline miller

@sercemwksiazkach3446

2 күн бұрын

what a great list

Currently reading white nights per your recommendation! And I literally underlined the paragraph: "we thank some people for merely living at the same time as we do"this morning. It was just so stunningly frased. Made me think of all my wonderful, wonderful friends without whom I could simply not live! At least not in such bliss as I am currently living.

I read The Details after you recommended it in a prior video and I loved it! I then recommended it to my mom, and she read it and enjoyed it too! Really made me think about characters and how to write in a detailed way - which is important to me as a writer myself. Your recommendations always hit.

omg bestieeee I love ur videos sm **adds all to tbr**

you reading that blue sisters paragraph… amazing!

As a french person, "la crême de la fraîche" actually makes sense lmao

@elsaluvsnutella

2 сағат бұрын

Je suis d’accord

This video made my TBR grow exponentially!

we all really appreciate your work, Jack 🦋✨

keep going with your content I love it! excited to watch the new video! greetings from The Netherlands :))

Wonderful video!

another video so soon? i’m the happiest

Totally with you on the Colwin (which I read in my 20s as well but the book was new then *sob*), White Nights, and The Details. My own latest 5* joys were Completely Kafka: A Comic Biography by Nicolas Mahler and the slightly smutty The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles. Evenings and Weekends is on the weekend stack. As always thanks for giving me hope for the reading men of the future.

Laurie Colwin was also a food writer for the now defunct Gourmet magazine and other publications. She also wrote 2 memoirs about food and cooking. I was so surprised to see her book on your list, since I haven’t heard about her in so long…she died suddenly at a pretty young age sometime in the 90s. Thanks for bringing back the memory of her.

I’m sending you love❤❤❤

Jacks video’s are the crème de la fraîche of booktube 👌

Omg 3 more for my tbr thank you thank you (I’m so thankful libraries exist)

That paragraph from Coco Mellors😮😮😮Omg❤❤❤

Kairos is my book club's August selection. Glad to see it on your list.

EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS WAS AMAZING! Great video as always!

I always anticipate videos with your favourite books. I adore the way you describe books and the feelings they evoked in you. I genuinely think you have incredible taste, so finding the books you've rated so high is incredibly refreshing and exciting, because I know that I have the chance to read a masterfully written or thought-provoking book that I might not have found otherwise. Sooo excited for these books. When you compared the writing in Evenings and Weekends to Baldwin's and Morrison's I actually gasped. What a high praise. I will definitely read Boulder soon, because that's one I've been eyeing for a long time because of you. Funnily enough, my only 5-star read of this year is Alice Winn's In Memoriam that I discovered thanks to you. Forever grateful for that recommendation, that book broke me to pieces and mended me back together. This reading year was quite mediocre for me, but I did get some 4,5 stars. I might need more of your 5 star reads to get some myself this year 😂

always a good day when jack posts

Picked up White Nights after your recommendation and what a book! One od favorite reads of the year.

I feel like every book you recommend is a book I end up falling in love with. Definitely adding all of these to my never ending TBR list! My ONLY 5 star book so far is "The Book of Everlasting Things" by Aanchal Malhotra. I truly loved this book and I think it's so exquisitely written and it delves into such a heart-wrenching topic (The India-Pakistan Partition). Malhotra's writing style is so beautiful and it's one of those books where I thought every line was frame-worthy.

Great video! I read this year and loved Eugene Onegin by Pushkin. It's so good!! There are a lot of lines from this that are popular in Russian culture, even more than I realized. Almost on every page. Also it is quite funny and short. I recommend. I'm not sure how it is in translation, because Pushkin is a master poet it would likely lose some of that poetic perfection, but probably still great. I'm curious what you would think of it if you read it. I also like his short poem "Winter morning".

JACK EDWARDS UPLOADED AT 3 AM OFC IM GONNA WATCH IT RN

I read the Booker short lists every year. I usually consume that media by audiobook or kindle, but I always buy a physical copy of the winner, and usually 1-2 others that were my favorites. This year my favorite buy was The Details, and last year it was Boulder. So right with you there, man.

I want to read all of them now!

Love your videos so much so creative ❤😊❤

genuinely want to read every single one of these!!

Okay! I had the ARC of Blue Sisters sitting in my bookshelf, now you've convinced me! My favorite reads of the year so far would be : - Babel by R.F. Kuang - The Guest by Emma Cline - Lie with me by Philippe Besson - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai

love these recs!! my five star reads so far: everything begins and ends at the kentucky club - benjamin alire sáenz, there there - tommy orange, childhood’s end - arthur c. clarke, and wellness - nathan hill

These are going on my birthday wishlist and getting sent on the family gc

I've only read 4 pages of white nights but im a bit confused. So far the main character is giving creep. He chased the main love 'saving' her from a different creep. Then followed her home and told her he would be outside her home the next day waiting for her. Do i need to turn a blind eye because its a product of the time? Should i expect it to get better?

Your videos are the crème de la fresh 🙌

I bought happy all the time because of youu. Cant wait to read them buttt am currently in a book slump. Hope i cn get back into reading!

You always read incredible and inspiring unique books and love it Jack ❤😊❤

Adding Evenings and Weekends to my TBR.

That paragraph of Blue sisters !!!!!! *instantly adds to cart* My absolute fav this year has been These impossible things by Salma El-Wardany. It's so beautifully written, I want to read it for the first time again.

"Crème de la fresh" actually makes more sense.

i just finished reading swimming in the dark,, and it might be a new favourite! i also read bith Douglas Stuart books-man that guy can write!

Dang it!! I went to Barnes and noble today I and I was going to buy Evenings and Weekends!!! I’ll have to go back now

My favourite read so far this year was Long Island by Colm Toibin. I was a big fan of Brooklyn for the love story, but Long Island really introduces some of the complexities of relationships and it made me think of the characters in Brooklyn in a different light.

The first book I read this year was a short story collection called Topographica Hibernica by Blindboy Boatclub and I immediately rated it five stars. It was so beautifully written and captivating, a wonderful example of modern Irish literature.

Jack is FEEDING us with all these new vids

Please release the modern classic - future classic books content, i have bought all the books in your last video and it was all so freaking incredible

Jack you must read “talking at night” It's just so up your alley and normal people coded My most recent 5⭐️ so beautifully written and character oriented Please please please I'm dying to hear your thoughts on it ❤

and my tbr keeps growing. The meanest thing about Kairos is that I'm German but the English cover is so much prettier than the German one TT My favourite books of the year so far (no particular order): In Memoriam, Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Beartown, A Half-Built Garden, Young Mungo, Notes of a Crocodile and Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow

Could you do a book UNhaul again? I‘m mostly obsessed with these and you are always so entertaining

noooOooOOOO I wanted to read Boulder in Spanish (I only know castellano, which is definitely closer to Catalán than English is haha) but the Spanish edition cover is just the stock image of a rock 😭 So I think I'm gonna get the German Expressionism xylography inspired cover of the English Version instead (I'm sorry, but I can't read a book if I'm not inspired by the cover)

jacks upload schedule will never not be confusing to me lol

I only have 2 five star reads so far. The first is Lady Tan's Circle of Women, I loved it so much I read the acknowledgements (which is something I never do) because I wanted more. 6/5. The second is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, I am late to the game but I got here and it is definitely worth the hype. Will check out the ones you mentioned!

Have you ever read Machado de Assis? He is good

At the midpoint of this year, it has been a lot better than I expected. Already eight 5-star reads (three more than the entire last year). Three were non-fiction. The other five were The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, The Shining by Stephen King, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman.

I read white nights after you recommended it, literally finished flipped back a few pages, read the end again and stared at the wall. Whenever I think about it which is at least once a week I still just stare into a wall. But like honestly yeah one of the best books about love

@user-td6sg6hd2s

Күн бұрын

I agree, the same happened to me. Dostoevsky is incredible! I would recommend so many books of his

I absolutely loved Kairos. I read it in the original German and is honestly one of the most affecting books I've ever read in my second language. It's so beautiful

I've read forty-nine books so far this year and I don't know whether to give any of them five stars. So looking forward to reading a perfect, unforgettable book. Fantastic video.

jack is in his lover era; loving books about love❤

I’ve recently gotten back into reading and have heard a lot about Dostoyevsky. I’m reading A little Life currently but once I’m finished I plan to go to Barnes & Noble and pick out a novel by Dostoyevsky, can recommendations of what to read first? 😅

@user-td6sg6hd2s

Күн бұрын

I would recommend reading "Crime and Punishment" first, because it's such a good book, even though it's quite long. I would also recommend "The Gambler", it's really short and very meaningful

@Billie_Cook

Күн бұрын

@@user-td6sg6hd2s Roger that type ty 🫡

Love the content. ❤ Can u make a video highlighting *self-published work in some way.

A recommendation for you is an Australian book called Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, published early 90s. It’s a classic aust novel following the individual lives of 2 grieving families living in one house over a 20 year span from mid 40’s to mid 60’s. very much about the human condition with Aust post war backdrop

I went to the Palestine Writes literature festival in October and bought 3 books. So far I’ve only read one, Arsonist’s City by Hala Alyan but it was an easy 5 stars from me! Started off a bit slow but by the end I was hooked!

Honor by Thrity Umrigar

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll is one of my top reads and lives rent free in my head!! Totally underhyped IMO. Other 5 star recs for you and your audience would be: Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason, The Silence That Binds Us by Johanna Ho, Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig,

Great that you have so many 5 star books. Best wishes.

Thank you for sharing that "crème de la fraîche" joke. As a french native speaker, I really appreciate it even more I think 😂

I have completed 57 books so far in 2024 and my five star reads were… 1) JAMES- Percival Everett 2) SAY NOTHING- Patrick Radden Keefe 3) THE BULLET SWALLOWER- Elizabeth Gonzalez James 4) SOLDIER SAILOR- Claire Kilroy 5) WANDERING SOULS- Cecile Pin 6) GLORIOUS EXPLOITS- Ferdia Lennon 7) BROTHERLESS NIGHT- V.V. Ganeshananthan

The books I have rated 5 Stars were recommended by you so... But I have one called "Belo: un héroe del campo (a countryside hero)" by Nicole Sánches. It's a beautiful child's book which depicts a tough part of our history (the Colombian internal conflict), using different species of animals as metaphor. It was so hard for me, but simultaneously narrates a violent reality with so much compassion.. I just, I can't be the same after reading it...

See the title. Open my notion TBR list. Click on video. Add all.

Ok this convinced me to pick Kairos back up. It just got too devastating at one point and I needed a break 😂

I loved Sarah Perry’s recent novel Enlightenment. It’s a new favourite. 5 ⭐️

I started crying when you read the section from Blue Sisters 😂 I must buy it immediately

Bought literally 5 of these books in my last few trips to the book store and this video is just a sign to get to them even faster!!!

Dostoevsky is one of my favourite writers. I highly recommend to also read "The Gambler" and "Crime and Punishment". Both of these books are soooo good!!

"Guy-doe". Lol. Um. No. Guido is pronounced Gwee-doe.

I've rated 6 books 5 stars (I've read 61 books so far) this year and I just realized I am more critical than I once thought I was 😅

9:12 Fun coincidence cuz I'm actually filming a video about reading white nights on your recommendation xD

You should read How We Named the Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica, I read it recently and it seems like a book you’d really enjoy!

I've never been this early here, it feels both intimidating and exciting lol