Top 10 books of 2023
Hi everyone! Here are my top ten books of 2023. I forgot to mention that I did not include the Shakespeare plays I read this year because I love Shakespeare, and they would have taken at least three places from the top ten.
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Books, authors, tv shows, and movies mentioned in this video:
- The Violent Bear It Away | Flannery O'Connor
- Affinity | Sarah Waters
- Alias Grace | Margaret Atwood
- William Butler Yeats
- A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles
- My Best Friend's Exorcism | Grady Hendrix
- Stranger Things
- Heathers (1988)
- The Souls of Black Folk | W.E.B Du Bois
- Playing in the Dark | Toni Morrison
- Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner
- Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw
- My Fair Lady (1964)
-Pygmalion (1938) • PYGMALION (1938) - Ful...
- The Waste Land and Other Poems | T.S. Eliot
- The Secret History | Donna Tartt
- The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas
- Lord Byron
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How many books did you read this year? What was your favourite one and why? 👀
So you were a ballet dancer too. I started old and had to quit at 24, when fully accepting I wasn't gonna make it. Anyway, thank you for the recs. Since you included Pygmalion, below is a quotation of my own rec to you, if you haven't read it. Not sure you'll like it, most probably not; but it's bound to trigger and maybe haunt you as well: «If our gods and hopes became scientific matters, why wouldn't our love as well? [...] I offer you a scientific Eve. Chimera by chimera, sin by sin. [...] Farewell then to that alleged reality, to that ancient impostor [...] I represent science with the omnipotence of its mirages; you, humanity and its Paradise Lost.» -V. De L'Isle-Adam (L'Ève future) Have a great year.
Felices fiestas, honestly this year was a rough one for me so i only comfort books that i now have and happy endings and fanfiction of my ships, so i guest I read again like 15 books.
@evasliteraryparlour
6 ай бұрын
Felices fiestas para ti también! I understand. I also read Fanfiction and reread my favourite books as a coping mechanism whenever life gets tough. I hope next year treats you better ❤️
I have read several books this year, both fiction and nonfiction. One I just finished which applies to this channel be The Safe Coffin by Alan Chudnow. It’s a short novella, has the feel of a wonderful Gothic horror/ romance. Clearly inspired by classic fiction, but a new work.
@evasliteraryparlour
6 ай бұрын
I’m gonna check this book 😊
I only read like 3 books this year (if it was more it must've been early in the year). In the summer I reread Frank Herbert's Dune before reading Dune Messiah. Then I read Orwell's 1984 a couple months ago. Hopefully I read more in 2024. Happy New Year!
@evasliteraryparlour
6 ай бұрын
Quality > quantity. Those seem like great choices. I’ve never read Dune, but many people I know love the books. Happy new year!
I myself the special book of the year was for whom the bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway.
@evasliteraryparlour
6 ай бұрын
I have never read this novel, but I was about to buy it last week. It’s one of my brother’s favourite books.