24 Best Books Of All Time You Should Read at Least Once

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@jimsbooksreadingandstuff 6 ай бұрын

No Kafka? No Steinbeck? No Dickens? But you have Lord of the Flies?

@jamshiddindoust4293 4 ай бұрын

Useful descriptions about great books. Thanks 💗

@willieluncheonette5843 6 ай бұрын

Certainly Tolstoy' s two novels and Just a single man, Fyodor Dostoevsky, is enough to defeat all the creative novelists of the world. If one has to decide on 10 great novels in all the languages of the world, one will have to choose at least 3 novels of Dostoevsky in those 10. Dostoevsky’s insight into human beings and their problems is greater than your so-called psychoanalysts, and there are moments where he reaches the heights of great mystics. His book BROTHERS KARAMAZOV is so great in its insights that no BIBLE or KORAN or GITA comes close. In another masterpiece of Dostoevsky, THE IDIOT, the main character is called ‘idiot’ by the people because they can’t understand his simplicity, his humbleness, his purity, his trust, his love. You can cheat him, you can deceive him, and he will still trust you. He is really one of the most beautiful characters ever created by any novelist. The idiot is a sage. The novel could just as well have been called THE SAGE. Dostoevsky’s idiot is not an idiot; he is one of the sanest men amongst an insane humanity. If you can become the idiot of Fyodor Dostoevsky, it is perfectly beautiful. It is better than being cunning priest or politician. Humbleness has such a blessing. Simplicity has such benediction."

@lanbaode 7 ай бұрын

Correction to number 6 on the list: it should now be “Special Military Operation and Peace.”

@jimsbooksreadingandstuff 6 ай бұрын

Only in Putin's Russia...

@fishjj76 Ай бұрын

That's very good. 😅😅😅

@aldovergara9035 7 ай бұрын

Great list! I would have included East of Eden, but your list us wonderful.

@laurelcosten1012 10 ай бұрын

To Kill A Mockingbird; The Brothers Karamazov; 1984; Anna Karenina; Madame Bovary; War and Peace; Lolita; The Great Gatsby; 100 Years of Solitude; The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; In Search of Lost Time; The Handmaid’s Tale; The Master and Margarita; The Lord of the Rings; Pride and Prejudice; Jane Eyre; Animal Farm; Gone with the Wind; The Catcher in the Rye; Wucherung Heights; Moby Dick; Lord of the Flies; The Prince by Machiavelli; Things Fall Apart

@donaldmartineau8176 2 жыл бұрын

dante's inferno, solzenitsyn's gulag archepelago, dickens,dickens,dickens, tebecca by daphne demourie, shakespeare,

@TheSalMaris 10 ай бұрын

exactly and Faulkner

@evildead167 2 ай бұрын

I've read everything except for ‘Gone with the Wind’ by Margaret Mitchell!

@bibsann861 Ай бұрын

I liked the book better than the movie.

@jesusdelcanto9715 6 ай бұрын

Wuthering Heights should not even be there since it's terrible. I don't even know how it became a classic. I agree with many others. I would have add the Arabian Nights, Robinson Crusoe and Odyssey.

@evildead167 2 ай бұрын

I agree, did not care for Wuthering Heights.

@joebeaulieu1511 3 ай бұрын

18/24 with plans to do 4 of the 5. Maybe GwtW at some point. I agree with some of the ideas above, especially DQ, Invisible Man, Steinbeck and Shakespeare. I’d toss in the Sun also Rises and Catch 22 but I don’t feel strongly about what I’d take off, though imho GwtW (on reputation) To Kill a Mockingbird and Animal Farm wouldn’t appear on my list though I’m not pounding the table especially TKaM as it’s loved by so many

@markanthonycastillo8262 6 ай бұрын

Don Quixote, Great Expectations, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.

@psikeyhackr6914 9 ай бұрын

The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase George Orwell mentioned Chase in an essay about politics. He published A New Deal shortly before FDR's famous speech. He was a member of FDR's brain trust. Daemon & Freedom by Daniel Suarez Technologically up to date.

@PraveenSrJ01 Ай бұрын

1) to kill a mockingbird 2) the brothers Karamazov 3) 1984 by George Orwell-about a totalitarian regime 4) Anna Karenina 5) Madame Bouvery 6) war and peace ☮️ by Leo Tolstoy 7) Lolita-most controversial novel of all time about a deviant perverted mind. 8) the Great Gatsby set in the 1920s. 9) 100 💯 Years of Solitude 10) The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. 11) in search 🔍 of Lost Time-4K pages 12) The Handsmaid Tale 13) The Master and Margarita- 14) The Lord of The Rings-Journey through middle earth. 15) Pride and Prejudice-courtship between different social statuses. 16) Jane Eyre-strong courageous woman 👩 17) Animal 🦒 Farm- animal rebellion 18) Gone with the Wind-set during the civil war in 1862 19) The Catcher In the Rye- Lonliness of adolescents 20) Wuthering Heights 21) moby Dick-sailors mission to get revenge on a whale 🐳 that bit him 22) Lord of the Flies 23) The Prince by Machiavelli 24) things fall apart (1958)-oppressed people in Nigeria 🇳🇬 25-should be crime and punishment

@jodiatenlightenya3287 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve read 95% of these books and agree!! Great video. Thanks.

@gtbooks7779 4 жыл бұрын

Jodi at Enlightenya I’m glad you enjoyed the video! 😊

@Rimzaka 6 ай бұрын

I've read half of these. Enjoyed: ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D. Salinger ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding 'The Brothers Karamazov’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky ‘1984’ by George Orwell ‘Madame Bovary’ by Gustav Flaubert ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ‘The Diary Of A Young Girl’ by Anne Frank ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell Did not enjoy: ‘Lolita’ by Vladimir Nabokov ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fizgerald ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood

@philtheo 5 ай бұрын

No Shakespeare (plays could count as bound books in general)? No Dickens? No KJV Bible for literary influence? Yet The Handmaid's Tale is on here even though it's a contemporary work which is highly debatable as to its timeless literary value (e.g. Scarlet Letter is arguably artistically superior for similar themes). 😬

@3chawkins 10 ай бұрын

Great list. Have read 16 of them; plan to read a few more; purposely skipped some for lack of interest. Could easily add many more great books to this list.

@Rangersly 7 ай бұрын

Seriously? No Edgar Allan Poe? No John Steinbeck? No Kurt Vonnegut? But you got Gone With The Wind and Lord of the Rings in this limited list of 24 best? The rest of the list is fine, but these two certainly don't belong on any credible list of this sort. A popular book doesn't mean it is well-written or brings anything new to literature. If you are going that route, then just add the Harry Potter books, Fifty Shades of Grey, and all those romance novels by Danielle Steel!

@fishjj76 Ай бұрын

No list will ever please anyone. I have my criticisms too. I'd like to know which works of Poe, Steinbeck or Vonnegut should be included. (I haven't got to Vonnegut yet and welcome suggestions).

@janach1305 10 ай бұрын

I have read only nine of them, but that is because I prefer history to fiction. Personal preference.

@worldobserver3515 Ай бұрын

Any list that has Catcher in the Rye gets disqualified.

@PraveenSrJ01 Ай бұрын

Why???

@iconoclastforever7065 10 ай бұрын

A pretty good list, I've read 10 of them. To anyone who hasn't read it I recommend scratching "Wuthering Heights" off your own list. The character Heathcliff is a very sour person, and the author did not explain clearly in her book that the novel does not proceed in sequential order, so it's confusing. "In Search of Lost Time" is one I don't plan to read, it's way too long. Most such lists include Don Quixote by M. Cervantes, which is long but less than half the length of Proust's opus. The narrator erred when she said Lord of the Rings goes back a century. The Hobbit, its prelude was written in 1937, and Lord of the Rings, I believe, in 1955 or '56 (The N.Y. Times did its review of L.O.T.R. on Jan. 22, 1956.) I believe The Catcher in the Rye is overrated, the narrator, Holder Caulfield, isn't a vile as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, but he's a spoiled teenager. Some of these books go back in time quite a while, and I've found that because times as well as vocabulary and ways of speech have changed a lot over time, it's hard to understand period novels without knowing about their time period. Enough for now.

@thebusinessgraduate9565 4 жыл бұрын

Great video!!

@gtbooks7779 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊🙏

@Hendrix312002 10 ай бұрын

Everyone should read the bible at least once.

@i.ivanovich6946 6 ай бұрын

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@i.ivanovich6946 6 ай бұрын

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@NettieThomson1andonly 2 ай бұрын

Why?

@davidthenewtheologian7757 2 ай бұрын

And the Quran, and the vedas, and the Pali canon, and the Tao te Ching, and the Bacchae !!

@PraveenSrJ01 Ай бұрын

The vedas is much better

@marimuthuelakkuvan1011 9 ай бұрын

❤ reallybest collections

@prayashg9891 7 ай бұрын

Where is crime and punishment?

@igorgoliney9494 7 ай бұрын

Karamasovs are stronger

@solitarianihilista1454 4 ай бұрын

Bargain bin, where it belongs.

@tollyliciouskitchen7379 4 жыл бұрын

Good idea

@gtbooks7779 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 😊🙏

@shyamalmukherjee9204 10 ай бұрын

Ad of American movie, no sarte, no cammu no Balzac no Gorky, no lusun

@richardrose2606 9 ай бұрын

Cannot agree with The Handmaid's Tale. It's just a radical feminist screed. Replace it with Dicken's Great Expectations.

@fishjj76 Ай бұрын

I love "Great Expectations" as well and it definitely deserves a place on this sort of list. But I think there's more to 'The Handmaids Tale" than you realise. A great book (but not better than Dickens).