books (from every genre) i REALLY want to read -- classics, literary fiction, sci-fi, and dystopian

[@callmechrisy]

Lessons in Chemistry is just wonderful. It was my pick for the Women’s Prize last year.

[@adoreeandrian7508]

Thank Carolyn. ❤ This month I only have 2 books on my TBR, Crime and Punishment and Emma. So this list gives me some ideas about what to read next.

[@CarolynMarieReads]

My pleasure! Those are two FANTASTIC books, so your month of reading sounds amazing 📖💕

[@toneynot]

Oh Carolyn, I just love when you upload a new video. I wait every week for this ❤❤

[@CarolynMarieReads]

Aww I just love it when you comment such sweet words 🥰

[@DavidBrown-om8cv]

@@CarolynMarieReads : What is your opinion of the following? "Comparing Every Version of Little Women" by Be Kind Rewind (BKR), December 26, 2019 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHuqi6KbmLigqKM

[@ba-gg6jo]

The Memory Police is a very fine read, thought provoking and haunting. I hope you manage to read it.

[@CarolynMarieReads]

I’m very glad you think so!

[@BrentMonnett-f4i]

Carolyn! Your videos make my heart (and mind) immeasurably happy. I have already some wondrous books this month from Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy, and Jack Kerouac, and I am planning on reading some Borges, Peter Archer, Nabokov, Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, and more McCarthy (!) next.

[@Bonitolibro]

If you are interested in sci-fi with a focus on characters I can definitely recommend Becky Chambers’ To Be Taught If Fortunate. It’s about a group of astronauts on a mission in space, but also about the relationships and their moral and existential thoughts while on the mission. It was a 5-star for my this year, I would recommend it even if you weren’t interested on those topics 😂

[@mariajosefin]

+1 on To be taught, if fortunate! Or any Becky Chambers in general. Her books are magical

[@jenn9049]

i'm 200 pages into little women and it's climbing up to be my favorite book of the year

[@CarolynMarieReads]

YAY!!! I’m so glad 🥰

[@kateturpin8326]

I am reading infinity in the palm of her hand. X

[@thebookwormteacher]

Carolyn!! You’re going to LOOOOOOVE Lessons in Chemistry! What a fantastic novel and it’s her debut! I can’t wait for her to write more :)

[@mariajosefin]

I think you will love both The memory police and I who have never known men. I read both of them this year and adored them! Such thought provoking books with both melancholy and hope at the same time.

[@heathercumbo.y9332]

I love your videos! I always read 3 books at a time. My husband and I are reading The Anxious Generation. We're reading James and the Giant Peach as a family. And I'm reading Dombey and Son on my own.

[@shybunnymia]

Your TBR has a color theme of Red and White. :) Perfect colors for christmas. 🎄

[@maxkproductions]

All of these books have utterly gorgeous covers!

[@ParadoxKismet]

A very curated selection. Thank you for adding to my potential list! I need to re-read Little Women. I really would like to hear your take on The Memory Police. It has been on and off my interest list a few times. 🤷‍♀

[@renee1292]

Love Little Women! This month I plan to read Yellowface, The Storied life of A J Fikry, The God of the Woods, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. I am also starting to reread all of Jodi Picoult's books.

[@yidayin]

Yellow face is so good! I listen to the audiobook, it was a good one to listen ❤

[@maliha3921]

Your videos have such calming effect on my brain 🥹🫶 thenk you ( i had a stressful day so the timing was perfect) . I’m currently reading - Kafka on the shore ( my first murakami) and A very easy death n I’m enjoying them quite a lot .happy reading 🌼

[@kjgerdes1111]

Hi Carolyn, I'm always fascinated hearing how many books you read during a months time. I am not a fast reader and after hearing you had trouble reading as a young girl wondered if you would do a video on how you learned to read much faster. Thank you. I love all your videos. Kathy

[@Remarkablepepper37]

Carolynnnn!! I'm reading a poetry collection of Louise gluck, Emily dickinson, Second sex by Simone de beauvoir and Madness and civilization by Micheal Foucalt! Orbital is in my Dec TBR

[@adelestaszewski8978]

I loved Lessons In Chemistry, I read it on a whim last year and is always a hard recommend to everyone I know. Lonely Castle In The Mirror is one of my favourite books - it's such a beautiful story, it takes a little while to relax into both the real world and castle storylines but is worth it. It's another that I recommend to others, and have bought several copies for people to read. I hope you enjoy all the books you have on your list, no matter when you get to read them.

[@sagekay]

Lonely Castle in the Mirror is soooo good!!!

[@LibrariesandLattes]

Ah Little Women, one of my favorites and such a comfort book for me ❤️ Looks like you have a great reading month ahead, I hope you love all of these! I had mixed thoughts on Lessons In Chemistry but I know so many people love it. I have an ambitious TBR too (always), I’ve already read Butcher and Blackbird, Us Against You, and All The Colors of the Dark. Currently reading Ninth House and The Thirteenth Tale, and hoping to also read Rhythm of War, Two Twisted Crowns, O Caledonia, and Recursion!

[@sarahroseyang]

Carolyn you’re a queen 🥳🖤

[@denisefreitas6727]

I'll start Little Women soon. I'm going to read One Hundred Years of Solitude also. Have yourself happy readings, Carolyn! ❤

[@iolitakovatchki]

I read “I who have never known men” this year, and I loved it!!

[@ginarw11]

Thank you again for another great video! I am currently more than half way done with The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibi. I'm really enjoying it but it's super long! Oy! Happy reading! :D

[@CarolynMarieReads]

Thank *you* for watching it ☺️ Ooo very nice! So glad you’re enjoying it 📖 Happy reading!

[@bogglegirl8]

You are definitely one of my comfort youtubers!!! I would be so interested in your veganism journey, since you mentioned that you were in one of your previous videos. Your hair is amazing!!! Loving your videos with Leon as well, how amazing the two of you are together! Xx from Greece

[@daria_sfl]

Hi, Carolyn! Thank you very much for the video. Now I am reading two books: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy in Russian (that's my native language) and Hobbit by Tolkien in English. Both books are incredibly fantastic!

[@AngelGail8]

I love love love how you are slipping into our English Language. You said Till instead of Cash Register. 😊 Lessons in Chemistry is very good.

[@colleennewey]

I just visited the Alcott home in Concord and it just made me love Little Women so much more!!! Such a magical home and book and family ✨

[@hmm6411]

Thank you for the video. Short and sweet just like its host. I hope you are enjoying England. Be happy!

[@CarolynMarieReads]

My pleasure ☺️ Yes, indeed hahaha Thank you, I’m loving it here!

[@brensgems7539]

I've never been interested in Lessons in Chemistry - and it's because of the cover!! I agree with you it's cheesey..

[@aashnadevan383]

I love your videos. it's always a joy to watch, and I also bought books based on your recommendations. I have read strange weather in Tokyo and it's one of my favourite books. I hope you enjoy it.

[@deborahlynn9294]

This month’s tbr for me has been East of Eden. Will probably run into December as I’m reading slowly.

[@Rachel-6016]

Orbital won the Booker! I personally loved it, but it really just is in a meditative style with beautifully crafted sentences. There’s not much going on in terms of plot and characters and I know some people found that boring. I found there was a lot of worth in just reading a few pages here and there, as it also very slowly paced. Hope you enjoy!!

[@itsrox9339]

Carolyn! I’m finally reading Anna Karenina and I’m really enjoying it. Thanks to all your videos for encouraging me to encounter my fear head on and finally read it 😁

[@CarolynMarieReads]

YAYAYAY! I’m so happy and proud!!!

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

So far I have read Robin Williams: A Biography of Robin Williams by Ziggy Watson, My Death by Lisa Tuttle, and Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Empire by Tom Holland. I'm currently reading America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan and continuing Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollop.

[@yidayin]

Hiiiii Carolyn! I just finished Joan Didion’s The year of magical thinking, and this morning I picked up “Moonminvalley in November”, becuase, we are in November! I also plan to read Alice in wonderland bd Winnie the Pooh, and to balance it all, Harari’s new book Nexus😂 Always so happy to see you! ❤❤❤

[@mariab6764]

Right now I'm finishing up Les Misérables!! Definitely recommend I Who Have Never Known Men, just be prepared to be disturbed lol, kinda reminds of the The Handmaids Tail

[@apak78]

I have all of these on my physical TBR as well. I read one: I who have never known men and loved it so much, I keep thinking about it time to time. I wish I could reread with a blank mind - same goes for Piranesi!

[@efluvial]

I just finished Flush by Virginia Woolf. What a lovely book recommendation from you! I couldn’t find it for a long time in the library because it is shelved with Biographies and I was looking under fiction.

[@TheChronicReader]

I agree, the U.S. cover of Lessons in Chemistry does not match the story inside. It was one of my favorite books the year I read it.😊

[@crazydavec3861]

I read a book about contact adhesive, it was great... I couldn't put it down! 😊 - I have a book about procrastination... I haven't got around to that one yet! 😉 - I read a book about time management which taught me nothing new... there's a few hours I won't get back! - There must be more of these! 😃 - More seriously I tend to have multiple on the go, usually only one that's a story, one that's factual or biographical and a nerdy one for work reasons! Certain books I find hard to penetrate, having Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" and Robert Sapolsky's "Behave" on the go at the same time wasn't the best idea! - I liked the gentler pace and setting of Trollope's Barchester Chronicles a lot and the curious realisations of "Bullshit Jobs". In the queue as it were are Michael Dobbs "One Minute to Midnight" (Cuban Missile Crisis) and Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" - Good stuff innit! 👍

[@claudiacoy5518]

I'm reading books that have been on my night table for years! I just finished The Secret History (Liked it, but didn't need to be o long), next will be Sula, The Book of strange new things and The Morning Star. I hope I can get through them before the year ends.

[@paradise_nsh]

heyyyy I am very excited to see you are reading japaneese literature😊I already finished strange weather in tokyo which wasn't my favorite one. Memory police is on my list. It somehow sounds like 1984. I also read the men who I have never known (or sth like that😅).This is one of the weirdest ever book I read😂really creepy🤣But I DO LOVE It. Cn't wait to see your review!

[@sumedhareads]

I want to read little women and wellread book club is absolutely amazing 😻

[@paivishaw1163]

Just about to finish If Beale Street could talk. Then planning to read Thomas Hardy’s Far from the madding crowd. And of course The Nutcracker.

[@nightthinker4440]

I would be really interested to read "Strange Weather in Tokyo" as a Wellread Book Club read, it sounds enchanting..

[@beatrizbentes3271]

Hi, Carolyn! "Lonely castle in the mirror" is one of my favorite books of all time, it is pure perfection in my opinion!! But I also really enjoyed "the memory police", I think you will enjoy both >.

[@giedremariarikteryte2057]

Let’s read The Memory Police and Lessons in Chemistry for Well-read bookclub 😊🙏

[@BookishBaddie]

Yesss I agree, I’d love to read Lessons in Chemistry together with the group! 🥰

[@katesjottering4550]

I’m over half way through Howls moving castle 🏰 and loving it - Would highly recommend Lessons In Chemistry ⚛️🥰

[@CarolynMarieReads]

I’m so happy to hear that you’re enjoying Howl!!! Ooo okay, I’m extremely excited to read it ☺️📖

[@amandaj2888]

Just finished Lessons In Chemistry today x

[@circleofleaves2676]

Carolyn, I know you enjoy childrens and middle grade literature. It's time Book Santa (me) visited my 3 little nieces. They are 12, 10 and 7. Do you have any recommendations? 💚💚💚

[@monikatabak9474]

I loved Lessons in Chemistry. When you decide to read it, prepare a box of tissues, just in case. By the way, Bonnie Garmus also did not like the cover of the American edition.

[@LauraGlasgow95]

You will not be able to put Lessons in Chemistry down! Also, Bonnie Garmus is one of the kindest human beings on the planet. 💜 I’m looking for the new paperback edition that you have. It’s one of those books you want every edition of (except the US edition. I hate it as well haha). If it makes you feel better, Ms. Garmus doesn’t approve of it either. She said when she’s in the US, she’ll only carry around that hardback edition with the cover taken off 😂

[@CoreenMontagna]

I read and loved Lessons in Chemistry and I Who Have Never Known Men

[@RickDuran]

I am wrapping up War and Peace. I'm approaching Vol IV. I hope you are proud of me. LOL.

[@takewhisks8193]

Lessons In Chemistry is great and I've been seeing AppleTV advertising their series of it which I might have to watch ❤

[@CarolynMarieReads]

Very glad you think so! Yes, I’ve heard a lot of good things about the series as well!

[@potatopeelpie1380]

lessons in chemistry is a good book , but the tv adaptation is much more better . as a book lover .. saying a tv adaption is better .. is really big thing for me , so my suggestions is that watch the show and also read the book .

[@JohnSaxon-vw5vi]

I love ❤️ little women and I have not read it in about five years so I think I might just have to give it a go prayers and blessings to you and your family love your Aussie family friend John xxx

[@dianewalker9154]

I read Strange Weather in Tokyo yesterday, in one sitting. I still don’t know how I feel about it or the main character, Tsukiko. She seems rather two dimensional, and I don’t really like her (not that I need to). I understand the book’s themes and the writing is excellent, but I need to digest on it some more.

[@h31918]

Thank you always for inspiration😊 I got a kindle after watching your previous video and very satisfied with the purchase😊 ❤ Will the bookmarks be restocked? I would love to get some before I go back to Korea😊 Have a wonderful day❤

[@CarolynMarieReads]

Thank *you* for your kindness ☺️ I’m so happy to hear that you’re enjoying your kindle! Yes, the bookmarks will be restocked in the middle to end of December, when I’m back in New York! ✨ I hope you’re having a wonderful day too!

[@deborahracette9755]

I read and loved Little Women as a child and I reread it about a year ago. I have the beautiful Harper Muse painted edition.

[@CarolynMarieReads]

Amazing!

[@evangelinepoe8952]

You've chosen some interesting books and I agree with you about the covers. I'll be looking further into a few; thanks for sharing them. I'd like to finish 2 books, both by American journalists. Dan Rather ~ What Unites Us Emma Larkin ~ Finding George Orwell in Burma

[@katieg2449]

I haven’t reread Little Women since I was 9 I have such treasured memories of reading it I kinda want to keep it that way in my memory even though I’d also like to reread it if that makes sense😅

[@jamesduggan7200]

Winston Smith stubbornly clung to the naive belief that photographic evidence of the State's duplicity would insulate him from prosecution for his increasingly brazen thought crimes. Yes, states often do manipulate what and how we remember. My favorite novel in this genre is Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Should The Memory Police become one of your favorites, I would like that. Btw, I've read Little Women and am hoping to be able to contribute something to your new book club. Thanx!

[@carolynmonahan2488]

Have you read March? About the family dad? It's by the award winning writer Geraldine Brooks.

[@differentisbeautiful9415]

I would love to hear you're thoughts on lessons in chemistry

[@CarolynMarieReads]

I’ll make a note of that 😊

[@erika20099]

Wuthering heights. I'd like to reread little women in december. 😊

[@CarolynMarieReads]

Two amazing reads!

[@deborahlynn9294]

Wuthering Heights is one of my all time favorites ❤

[@a.__mie7544]

Don‘t think I‘ve ever been this early!😂

[@CarolynMarieReads]

Early bird catches the (book)worm 😉😂📚

[@doowopshopgal]

I am reading a farewell to arms by Hemingway.

[@starswnames]

I’d reeeeeally love to hear your opinions on I who have never know men! ❤

[@CarolynMarieReads]

I’ll keep this in mind ☺️ I’m very eager to read it!

[@anelabajic1436]

Little woman is a beautiful book

[@marianacaffaro]

“Little women” are 4 books, have you read them?

[@earlt.1416]

I love your videos. That is all.

[@CarolynMarieReads]

I’m so glad and honored ☺️

[@lara.ofthetowerr]

I just want to know how you're going to bring all these beautiful books back to the USA 😂 a second suitcase, perhaps ? 👀

[@zinaberger8211]

I read little women this year

[@helliza_]

Huge content warning for SA in Lessons in Chemistry

[@CarolynMarieReads]

Oh okay, thank you for letting me know

[@johnthomas1686]

READ THE MEMORY POLICE!!!!!!!!!! I inhaled it!!!!!!!!

[@CarolynMarieReads]

OKAY!!!!!! I’m so glad 😆

[@CarolineLeSage-k7s]

Are you gonna read Flowers for Algernon? 🐁

[@CarolynMarieReads]

Yes!!! Hopefully soon, but I’ll have to get it on my kindle if I want to read it before going back to NY in December… unless I read it when I get back! The jury is still out on this 😆

[@marynkarollinger9738]

Love your videos! However, please stop saying : O my God.

[@rachitgupta1819]

I got my copy of little women today! I'm so excited to read with all of you 🤎🥹 I've read Lonely Castle in the Mirror, it's so so good I loved it! You should totally read this book and I'm sure you're gonna enjoy it :)

[@CarolynMarieReads]

Yay! I’m so happy to hear that you loved and recommend Lonely Castle in the Mirror 📖✨