12 CLASSIC BOOKS I WILL READ IN 2022!

Here is a list of 12 classic books that I will definitely read in 2022.
Every year I create a list of 12 books that I commit to read (a book per month). These classic novels include 4, 20th century modern classics. There are 4 classic books from the latter end of 19th century literature and 4 classic books from earlier in the Victorian literature period.
The authors of these works of classic literature come from France, England, Japan, Germany, Brazil, Russia and Columbia.
If you want to follow along with some of the books that I read in 2022 then get yourself some of these and I will tell you in upcoming videos in which month I will be reading each of these.
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The classic books in this video are:
0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Old Goriot
2:36 - Dombey and Son
5:38 - Mill on the Floss
8:23 - Brothers Karamazov
11:51 - Effi Briest
14:28 - Jude the Obscure
17:29 - Dom Casmurro
20:03 - Resurrection
22:53 - The Radetzky March
25:16 - East of Eden
27:42 - Silence
29:53 - Love in the Time of Cholera
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I wish you joy in your reading.

[@cu00dj]

"Love in the Time of Cholera" is magical. A great book and a lovely one. Enjoy!!

[@jassdad5202]

Love in the Time of Cholera is excellent. Marquez is one of my favorite authors. Tolstoy also.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

I have heard great things about LITTOCholera.

[@ROXCANADA2023]

I love listening to you!!

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Awww you've made me blush Roxana. That is so lovely of you. I hope that you have an amazing day. Love from UK. 😀

[@ROXCANADA2023]

It looks like you have read them already!! I am reading both authors currently, hopefully will finish all Dickens this year

[@Sherlika_Gregori]

Love in the Time of Cholera is so beautiful.

[@peterwilliams6188]

I will definitely follow along with you in February - The Radetzky March. Looking forward to it already.

[@ria9924]

Wonderful to see classics from around the world! Great list!

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thank you Ria. It is great to read from other cultures, I'm very excited about it. Do you have any favourite authors or books?

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Yes!!! More Bros K. Not surprised to see Dom C with your liking and review of Assis’s Epitaph book this year! I think you’ll enjoy East of Eden based on the books that you seem to love. I read that for the first time this year and it was an absolute joy! Nice job Jason the subscriber who got you to read it! That cover is amazing.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

It was my intention to read K Brothers this year but it never happened. Really looking forwards to East of Eden. Am currently finishing the iliad.

[@ladyvampire1496]

You have such a good list! I will definitely read more books by Charles Dickens next year! I hope I can also read George Elliot, and I will perhaps start with The Mill on the Floss or Adam Bede. I also want to finish the book The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope which I was really enjoying, but in the meantime I stopped and I'm not sure why. I would love that you could do in-depth reviews on some of these books, I would love to hear your comments. By the way, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a great new year!

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Have you read any Dickens before? Will be nice to hear your thoughts on Mill on the Floss.

[@indianauthorssalon4953]

I love the consistency of your coverage. Almost machine like precision of around 2 minutes 30 seconds. Awesome👍 I will try Mill on the Floss and Love in the time of cholera.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Oh I didn't even intend to do that 😀 I'd love to hear what you think of Mill on the Floss

[@KpopLovingPenguiin]

I just bought Mill on the Floss and have never read anything by George Elliot before! Super exited to read it this month :)

[@mitzireadsandwrites]

Great list, Tristan! I plan on reading a couple of Dickens books, but not sure which ones yet. I have heard Dombey and Son is a favorite, though. I plan on reading Crime&Punishment this year and I just started Vanity Fair.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Hiya Mitzi! Great to hear from you. I can't wait to get into Vanity Fair again. A sharper contrast between two books, I cannot Imagine, than V Fair and Crime and Punishment. Would love to know your thoughts on both.😀👍

[@klauslispector]

Great list! I've only read two of them but you got me interested in the rest. Btw, "Briest" is pronounced "breest" and "Fontane" is pronounced "fontah-neh". It's such a great book imo!

[@theelegantcouplesbookrevie8734]

Ooooh what a great list. Thanks for this. We can collaborate/ compare our notes on Old Goriot for sure. Maybe don't watch our video on it until you've finished reading it!

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

That'd be good. I'll have to get cracking. Probably read it in January then.😀👍

[@tamaragrottker7677]

Have you read Children of the Alley by N. Mahfouz? I have this on my reading list for this year.I has been in my possession for many years, but so many other pages have interfered. Great list you have!

[@edisonlima4647]

"Dom Casmurro" is great. It is very different from "Epitaph of a Small Winner" in some key aspects, though. I hope you love it. On Machado, I've heard they recently compiled and translated a volume with some of his short stories to English. You might want to check those out. I'm pretty sure that volume includes "The Alienist", which is a surprisingly prescient novella/short story on mental health and hypocrisy. You might want to take a look, because his short stories tend to work quite well.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

I'm really looking forwards to digging into Dom Casmurro. Thanks for the info on Machado's short stories.😀👍

[@troytradup]

Fascinating and ambitious list! We have a fair a bit of overlap in terms of authors, but only one title, I think: Jude the Obscure. Love in the Time of Cholera is glorious, by the way. And the cover on your copy of East of Eden makes me laugh. Cheers -- happy holidays!

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Great, we'll have to compare notes on Jude. Love in time of cholera has been on my shelf for ages. Who else you reading then?

[@troytradup]

@@tristanandtheclassics6538 My classics list for 2022 is lighter in nature than yours: Jude, David Copperfield, Tom Sawyer, Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Lost World, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, House of the Seven Gables, both versions of Frankenstein, Hound of the Baskervilles, and Sense and Sensibility. Plus 12 Shakespeare plays TBD.

[@lizdorrington2851]

Hi Tristan, I 'm new to your channel and I loved it!! I got some great recommendations that I had not heard of before. Have you read The Little Chinese Seamstress by Balzac? I read it a few years ago but I would love to re- read it this year

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Hi L8z, so pleased to hear from you. I've not read that Balzac story but will put it on my wishlist now. So pleased to meet another person with a pass for books.

[@dqan7372]

Endo and Hardy in the same year? You're quite the glutton for punishment. 😮 Both great reads though. I'm already rereading Jude, so I'll be onboard for that. Still planning to read Anna K by October, but I'm quite behind already. I better not make any more plans.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

🤣Yes I really want to depress myself!!

[@ABearandaBeeBooks]

Nice selection! I’ve been wanting to try Effi Briest as well. Next year, I’d like to continue to explore some French classics. I absolutely fell in love with George Sand this year! I’d also like to try some Japanese classics.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

I've never read anything by Sand. What do you recommend?

[@ABearandaBeeBooks]

@@tristanandtheclassics6538 I absolutely loved Little Fadette. It is a beautiful story that features morality, public opinion, and expressions of the need for equality on so many levels. It is at one level a bit rustic but it has stuck with me all year.

[@moniqueheubel8970]

East of Eden is one of my top three ever. Have you read “ The Count of Monte Cristo” ? If so which translation do you recommend? I have always wanted to read The Brothers Karamazov , which translation did you choose?

[@michaelwright6702]

Dombey and Son is such a great novel. It's my favorite Dickens novel and one of my favorite classics.

[@LimesRickie]

A lot of gems in your selection by some of the greatest authors in the world. Does the cover make any difference in your enjoyment of a book? Sometimes it does for me. I wanted that cover of Pere Goriot that you have because he is so lovable & sympathetic looking compared to the more recent Penguin cover that I had to settle for. Happy Holidays and Happy Reading in the coming year! ☃

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Hey Limes! Yes I do enjoy a good book cover. If I have a book but find one with a better cover, I'm still tempted to buy it.

[@elpa6206]

East of Eden got me into reading, great book.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

A great book to begin with. Steinbeck is incredible.

[@charmainesaliba5546]

Great list, looking forward to hearing your thoughts on these novels. I am also looking forward for the readalong. I haven't read any of these classics. I have Dombey and son on my shelf, hopefully I will finally read it next year. Thanks for sharing 😊

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Will be great to hear your thoughts on Radetzky March. I'm very excited about that book. Also, Dombey frequently becomes the favorite Dickens novel of those who read it, outranking David Copperfield and Great Expectations!!!

[@maryfilippou6667]

How Many Miles To Babylon by Diane Johnson, around WWI is super. It has to do with

[@CourtneyReads]

The Brothers Karamazov was one of my favorite books of 2020 and I'm hoping to get to it again in 2022. Dostoevsky has become a favorite for me the last few years. I just read Resurrection and it was very thought provoking and heartbreaking in a lot of ways. Looking forward to your thoughts on these when you get to them! Also, I avoid Hardy after reading Tess for a class - his stuff depresses me so much.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Ooo I'm looking forwards to Resurrection and Karamazov even more. Y favourite book this year was Crime and Punishment. As for Hardy, I totally understand. He is painful. Although you will be alright with Far from the Madding Crowd. The Mayor of Casterbridge is very sad but I'm not sure I'd call it depressing. However on the whole Harfy is about suffering and woe. Tess is heartbreaking 💔 Jude the Obscure is, unbelievably, even worse if I recall.🤣

[@apollonia6656]

Read all of Dostoyevsky 's novels and planning to re-read The Idiot, the reason is because I read it when I was about 16_17 years old before University and it didn't sink in ! I had so many med books that my brain felt like mush😂 Certaintly catching up now ! Tristan, please suggest large font versions of the brick-sized books 😊 Thanks.

[@apollonia6656]

@Tristanandtheclassics, Have you read "The Anna Karenina Fix" by Viv Griskop ? It is a short book about some famous Russian writers, but it is hilariously funny,too. The way she writes about Tolstoy and Anna Karenina is hilarious. There are some wonderful observation about other writers that will make some people wanti to read the Russian masters.

[@Sherlika_Gregori]

For Brazilian literature , you may like Lima Barreto. The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma is translated to English and a masterpiece.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thank you so much for the recommendation. I will add this to my list of books to buy. I also am going to be checking out some Clarice Lispector.

[@Sarah-cd1mj]

Have you seen the miniseries with Jane Seymour? It was great and showed her acting chops? She is amazing in Scarlet Pimpernel as well!

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

I've not seen that series but have seen the Scarlet Pimpernel. Sink me! She was good in that.😀

[@SabineThinkerbellum]

I like your list. I especially like that it contains a German classic. Btw Briest is pronounced “Breest” and Fontane is pronounced “Fontahna” with the stress on FonTAHna

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thank you, Sabine. I want to read more extensively in German literature. It has a phenomenal canon of works and I haven't scratched the surface. Thank you for the pronunciation advice. I really really appreciate it.

[@WriterusAeternus]

Was Silence turned into a movie? Maybe I am not thinking of the same work. Sounds familiar. I would like to join the read along of The Radesky March since I have never heard of it. Thank you for the list. I may check several of them out.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

I'm not sure about the movie though it does sound like it would make a good one. As for the readalong, glad to have you on board.😀👍

[@WriterusAeternus]

@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Yes I just looked it up. Silence was made into a film by Martin Scorsese in 2016 starring Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver. I knew it sounded familiar. Well I look forward to your review of the novel.

[@ErnieCT1987]

Have you read The Cloister And The Hearth? Another booktuber recommended it but when I looked it up on Amazon I saw that there was a single book and multiple volumes. I don't want to get a single book if it is abridged.

[@Whatever_Happy_People]

Jude the obscure is brilliant

[@susprime7018]

Checked the shelves in Volume ll of a 3 volume set of Balzac published in New York in 1893 is Pere Goriot. If I ever read it, I don't remember, but I do remember in high school French, we used Balzac as a swear word. If the assignment particulary heinous, it would be Honore de Balzac. I'll read it when you get to it. I too love Mill On The Floss. Read The Brothers Karamozov, read it after Crime and Punishment, which I really got into and it was a fast read, the Brothers, not so fast. Read Jude the Obscure, but placed Two On a Tower by Hardy on the Kindle, the price was right, free. I plan to read that one in 2022. Don't remember Resurrection, but read a small volume titled The Cossacks. Just placed The Resurrection on Kindle, I'm set. Loved East of Eden. A good list. I adored John Le Carre, I have Agent Running In The Field in the tbr stack.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

You have some beautiful books in your collection Sus. I'm envious. I read Cossacks a long time back. Looking forwards to Brothers and East of Eden. I think I might dip into Old Goriot first of all. I really do hope to get through a few le Carre this year.

[@Joelkaboel]

You have to read The real story of Ah-Q and other tales of China : the complete fiction of Lu Xun and Love in a fallen city by Eileen Chang! I´ll do a reread in 2022. I also want to read The tale of Genji by Murasaki (Japan). I read parts of it, but it was difficult for me to read in English : now there´s a Dutch translation.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Great suggestions, thank you. Lu Xun is something I've been hoping to get to for a time.👍😀

[@edisonlima4647]

So... about South American authors... any chance you might take a look at Clarice Lispector? Because she is an absolute beast and I always love to hear what foreigners think about her writing.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Lispector is definitely on my radar. I've heard such great things about her.

[@omidfazeli2334]

You need to also the dark Iranian masterpiece 'the blind owl' by Sadegh Hedayat

[@dang1244]

No i was say disatisfied by the review of codex cantina. As if they didnt even understand it. Im waiting for ur review on the brothers karamazov

[@petergibson2035]

Please read The Leopard by Tomasi di Lampedusa

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

I most certainly will Peter.👍😃

[@Whatever_Happy_People]

PS have you read Steinbeck's the grapes of warth?

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Not yet, but I will.

[@apollonia6656]

Read Grapes of Wrath and finished it last week. A bit long long ! There are some rather boring chapters eg: when Tom and Al try to fix their old jallopy and have to go to a yard to find a piece they need ...old chap with one eye....then come back and describe each but and bolt of their mechanical operation ! Phew 🙄 The ending is rather prolonged too. The river swelling up...yes,dramatic but still too long. However, it is the barn scene right at the end which is really off-putting 😕 I had read Of Nice and Men and didn't like it. Now I want to read East of Eden but something tells me I might not like it either 🤔 Back to my Emma and love it 😊

[@ludd7929]

Hello. Very nice list. I read "Mill on the Floss" last year and loved it so much... I wish to read "Jude the obscur" this year as I really enjoyed to read "Tess..." last year (but didn't like "Far from...cowd" that much).... Concerning Balzac, I think he's a great author, i hope you will enjoy "old man Gorio(t)" (we don't pronounce the "t" there) :)

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Ooo Jude the Obscure is amazing. But be prepared to cry. Thank you for the pronunciation tip. My sister in law has just moved back from France and her husband is also correcting my pronunciation 🤣 I've nearly finished Goriot and think it is wonderful. How would I pronounce Manon Lescault?

[@ludd7929]

@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Manon Lescau like in "beau" for instance 😉. We don't pronounce neither the "l" nor the "t" there 👍 Glad you're enjoying "Old man Goriot"... Balzac wrote fantastic novels. But there are so many brilliant British Victorian Era novelists too 💟 Have a good evening

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

@@ludd7929 You too Lu. What other French classics would you recommend?

[@ludd7929]

@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Bovary by Flaubert, Bel Ami or Une vie by Maupassant... So many 😊 I do like Zola too. Have you ever read some? I'm very keen on 19th century literature 🥰

[@ROXCANADA2023]

Why don't you write a list of them, there is a couple of authors haven't read yet

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

I have just put a list into the video description. Thanks.

[@18Alpine]

Is there a way one can contact you directly? I work in a bookshop and we are expanding our Classics. Greetings from Cape Town.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Do you have a website Lin? If so I'll email you on your contact info. 😃👍

[@18Alpine]

@@tristanandtheclassics6538 We do, but there are a few shops in our "chain". We all cater to different audiences and the shop where I work has seen a resurgence in classics once I asked my manager to order in more of them.

[@paulboyd561]

I wish that he would enunciate the title of the book and the author better. Sometimes I don’t get the authors name or title. Not often, but sometimes.

[@radiantchristina]

That cover for the Bothers K....yuck 😬 I am long overdue for a reread

[@radiantchristina]

Effie Briest is on my 2023 TBR. I was supposed to get to it this year but did not have the time to squeeze it in.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

The cover is an abomination. 🤣🤣🤣

[@radiantchristina]

I really should wait until the end and then comment once 😺 Jude the Obscure is my favorite Hardy. So depressing... Love that . when I go to Hardy I want complete devastation 🤓

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

@@radiantchristina That is brilliant. It's so true about Hardy. The poor chap really got snagged on the whole suffering dilemma.😀

[@southernbiscuits1275]

I just got through reading The Brothers Karamazov. I found it disjointed, extremely melodramatic and filled with offensive nationalism and prejudice against Europeans, Catholics, Lutherans and Germans. I especially found the attitude towards Russian Orthodoxy shocking. Towards the end of the book there is even a reference to "the Russian God". A month into writing The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky's son died of epilepsy at age 3. Dostoevsky suffered from the same disease which came upon him the year his father died. The book is filled with existential anguish (a lot of guilt) brought about by this event. The ending scene of the book even reflects Dostoevsky's attempt to deal with his son's death. Because of the psychological turmoil going on in his life during the writing of this book, the questions he asks in The Brothers Karamazov should be viewed in light of his personal situation rather than an intellectual exploration of life's meaning. I had previously read Crime and Punishment and Notes From Underground before I started reading The Brothers Karamazov. Having finished this book just last night, I think I am safe in saying I will never read another thing by him. In light of Russia's violent past and its present outrage in Ukraine, I do not wish to read anything that extols the virtue of the Russian people.