10 Books I Recommend to Everyone (all the time)

[@serenity8910]

I just borrowed Convenience Store Woman and The Penelopiad from my library, can’t wait to read them!

[@Seolhe]

I've only read Oranges are not the Only Fruit, and unfortunately it just wasn't for me. But there are so many books here that I really want to get to and that I'm sure I'll enjoy! :)

[@GreenBitterfly]

I've read Oranges are not the Only Fruit about 3 or 4 times now and I really love it. I don't have my original copy which I'm still sad about. I read The Thirteenth Tale years ago when I was on a historical fiction binge after reading Sarah Waters' novels.

[@stephanierobb4486]

Let’s have an updated favourites please? I loved this video

[@JeansThoughts]

I’ll make a list and see how different it is ☺️

[@rebekkahaugen2800]

I just discovered booktube yesterday and I love you already

[@maryannbland6049]

I read two of these books based on your recommendations, Daughter of the Forest and the Convenience Store woman, i liked both of them. I couldnt put down Daughter of the Forest, it was emotional engaging, and beautifully written, i hope book 2 is just as good, thanks for your suggestions!!

[@GreenBitterfly]

I'd recommend the Radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy if people struggle with the book. I found the Radio series a lot more accessible. I'm now listening to it on my library's Overdrive.

[@martineolsenlysvand7400]

I read Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit on your recommendation - one of the best books I’ve read all year! A book I would recommend to everyone is The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas. It’s a Norwegian classic, a heartbreaking story and just beautifully written.

[@mariat6171]

Convenience Store Woman and The Thirteenth Tale (just read) gave both 5 stars.

[@twittubee]

Orange are not the only fruit, book title is attractive !

[@rukminiprabhu2397]

I love this backdrop with the plants and the cart!

[@JeansThoughts]

thanks! it felt very forest ^_^

[@Juultje11111]

I read Daphnis and Chloe last year after I heard you recommend it and I absolutely adored it! Made me explore and appreciate the ancient literature a lot more :)

[@ts_editor]

Daughter is still on the longlist, but Penelopiad and Convenience Store downloading now. Thank you, Jean. :)

[@anxious_apparition]

I've read The Thirteenth Tale, Hitchhiker's Guide, Daughter of the Forest, and Convenience Store Woman. Loved them all. The Penelopiad is currently waiting on my shelf for Victober to end. My most recommended book a 3 way tie between The King Must Die by Mary Renault, Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword or Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling. All are excellent books by some of my favorite authors that I don't hear mentioned much.

[@kompas29]

It is so difficult sometimes to recommend a book to another person! This a great selection!

[@copperfoil8373]

I read Daughter of the Forest after you recommend it and it was so so good. I couldn't stop thinking about it and and all the characters for so long after I finished.

[@JeansThoughts]

Oh yay that’s so wonderful!

[@sashahawkins]

Definitely some books I'll be checking out! Thanks so much!

[@potatoesofdefiance]

Missed Sir Terry Pratchett on that list :-) Read The Peneolpiad couple of years ago. Being a lifelong Greek myth/ancient lit enthusiast, I loved it. Thirteenth Tale has been on my TBR for a while now. Hope to pick it up soon.

[@PunkyDory80]

I read The Penelopiad due to your suggestion. Thank you!

[@paragoncumulus6636]

I recently bought the audio book of The Thirteenth Tale but I haven't got to it yet. I am looking forward to it. The Convenience Store Woman sounds intriguing and I also like the sound of Daughter of the Forest.

[@rebecca.reader]

Thank you Jean! I really enjoyed this. I have read Daughter of the Forest ( which is one of my all time favourite books, infect pretty much all of Juliet s books are) and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ( which I read as a teenager and didn't leave a big impression on me) After your video, I really want to pick up The Penelopiad, Kindred and the last one on the list...... which name escapes me and I can't seem to be able to look whilst typing 🙊. And yes please to an updated top ten favourites!!!!

[@rebecca.reader]

Aha! The Thirteenth Tale!!

[@ABookFiendNamedMel]

I have read Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Penelopiad, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, and Daphnis and Chloe! I love all of them, so I will definitely look into the others you've recommended, thank you. I often recommend Terry Pratchett books (any really), The Time Travellers Wife, Big Little Lies, and Pride and Prejudice. Have you read these? What do you think of them?

[@joshhedgepeth]

Kindred is one of my all time favorites! I bought The Thirteenth Tale the longest time ago, but I finally have added it to my TBR for November. I really hope I like it!

[@rachd9073]

Brilliant video! My TBR just got bigger! BTW Sorcha is an Irish name, pronounced more like sore-sha.

[@JeansThoughts]

Maybe it varies where you are in Ireland? The Irish audiobook narrator pronounces it sorka which the loch noise and that’s also what google is telling me. So glad to have given you a few new recommendations ☺️

[@rachd9073]

@@JeansThoughts hmm maybe there are different ways to say it! One of my besties is called Sorcha and I hadn't heard it any other way before. Though Saoirse also gets 'seer-sha' 🤷‍♀️

[@danecobain]

I read Oranges literally a week ago, it was very good :)

[@ronwarrenmusic]

I picked up a J Winterson on your recommendation and am now reading everything I can find from her. Thanks! My top five recs are all NDN as I think our wonderful writers don’t get enough luv. All are novels 1. Leslie Marmon Silko / Ceremony (she is my most necessary writer and this is a good starting point) 2. Louise Erdrich / Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse or anything else, really... 3. Linda Hogan / Power (her poetry collection Dark, Sweet is also fine) 4. Stephen Graham Jones / Mongrels (werewolves reimagined) 5. Tommy Orange / There, There (a very recent must read debut novel by a gifted younger writer) Bonus rec Poetry Joshua Whitehead / Full Metal Indigiqueer (A fellow doctoral candidate for you and a brilliant title, yes?)

[@JimiCanRead]

Yeeaaah i love Convenience Store Woman!! I haven't read any of the others 😱 but many of them are on my list!

[@n4nette]

I really wanted to like Hitchhiker' galaxy but I could not engage.. I have to give it another try sometime :) Great video!

[@kimbookgirl2904]

I always recommend Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf. Such a beautiful and touching story.

[@PullDownTheMoon]

This was a wonderful video, although I have been following you for perhaps a year I haven't heard you talk about some of these books, so it's good to hear what they're about but also why you recommend them to people. Great video idea and great execution. I haven't read Stay With Me but have heard what it's about, but nothing more than the second wife thing, so it was nice hearing more about the plot. I have a huge Octavia Book on my shelf and it contains 4 books and I can't wait to read it. Hearing about Kindred was wonderful and of course, excites me as I've heard so much about her. Still, need to read Chavs, said it on one of your videos when you mentioned but and I still haven't but it's on the list. May have to be a non-fiction November thing!

[@Amyduckie]

I don't think I have any books that I recommend to 'the most people'. My tastes are a little too specific for that, I think. If someone does ask for recommendations, I just try my best to think about what they have told me they like. I recently recommended Serpent & Dove and A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue to a mate because I know she likes genre fiction and she wanted something funny and that's what I could think of. Turned out that she loved Serpent & Dove, and is about to start A Gentleman's Guide. Do recommend Juliet Marillier in general to fantasy readers because of course.

[@elizabethsaunders9640]

Loooooove Hitchhiker’s

[@SparklesBooks]

I’ve not read any of these yet but last time I was in Edinburgh I nearly grabbed Chavs from the Waterstones.

[@JeansThoughts]

Next time! ;)

[@tinytoadstoolcottage8794]

Great books! I love retellings of ancient myths. I want to read all of the myth series that The Penelopiad is part of. Next one on my to buy list is Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith.

[@TBCaine]

almost anything by Octavia E Butler is pretty solid! (I say only having read 2 of her books lol but both have been 5 stars!)

[@JeansThoughts]

I really need to read more!

[@MaryAmongStories]

absolutely loved this video 💗 thank you so much for the great recommendations!

[@wordsofclover]

No Discworld - but I'm betting that would prob be a whole other video :) I know you've done some Discworld videos before, I must go back and watch them again as I'm really starting to get into the series now.

[@JeansThoughts]

Yeah I want to do ‘my fave discworlds soon’ ☺️ since last time it was just about where to start

[@elizabethsaunders9640]

I just read The Penelopiad after reading Circe.

[@barbarabaker5552]

I loved CIRCE, so I'll have to get a copy of The Penelopiad.

[@2BOLD4U]

I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I loved the beginning of the book and it was a book that I couldn't put down, but I hated the ending. I don't even remember what happened because I'd struggled to finish the book.

[@bookvirago]

I knew Daphnis and Chloe would be here 😄😄

[@JeansThoughts]

;)

[@clarifyrobinson]

I really loved Convenience Store Woman!

[@floydshady2]

Have u read any good king Arthur books

[@DrinkingByMyShelf]

This has made me want to re-read Stay With Me - that was such a fab book.

[@JeansThoughts]

I keep thinking about rereading it too!

[@heavynov]

I've only read the Hitch-hiker's Guide (because of many recommendations) and Daphnis and Chloe (because of Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's musical interpretation of it), but found both really disappointing. The Hitch-hiker's guide especially as it had been hyped as hilarious and extremely witty, yet I found it severely lacking. It's far from let's say Pratchett, but even Rankin and Jonathan L. Howard have been consistently funnier and more entertaining to me. A couple have been added to my list, though :-) As for my top recommendations; The Silmarillion and Tolkien's poetic work (Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Fall of Arthur, Lays of Beleriand,...) or lesser know short works (Leaf, by Niggle, Farmer Giles,...), Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire, Klingenmann's Nachtwachen des Bonaventura, Mann's Doktor Faustus and E.T.A. Hofmann's Lebensansichten des Katers Murr.

[@rachelrice9266]

Margaret Attwood is amazing!

[@JeansThoughts]

Yes she is!

[@mohankashyap3534]

.. The Thirteenth Tale 👌

[@dragonmonster2950]

entendi tudo que disse. aEKRkaer

[@super8mmo]

Do you support Boris Johnson?

[@JeansThoughts]

I can safely say absolutely not!

[@super8mmo]

@@JeansThoughts Corbyn is an antisemite.

[@jwatson11]

@@super8mmo And life is not a binary.