Bookshelf Tour 2020 // Classics, Non-fiction & Essays

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Hi guuuuuuys, the annual bookshelf tour has returned. As ever I chat you through the different editions I have an how I organise my bookshelf
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0:00 Intro
2:23 Organisation
3:30 Oxford World's Classics
8:16 Penguin Modern Classics
10:13 Penguin Great Ideas
14:28 Vintage Classics
23:12 Penguin Classics
27:17 The Miscellaneous Shelf
37:40 The DVD's & The Extra Miscellaneous Shelf
38:50 The Bedroom Shelf
39:43 The Bedside Table Pile
42:07 The Outro
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[@sarcastic_fish]

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[@delfinamoyanopicca]

Penguin classics is the dark mode version of Oxford editions

[@myratogonon]

Penguin is Dark Academia Oxford is Light Academia 😅😅

[@shelbyskeen105]

Every time I buy a used book I want it to come from someone like you who heavily annotates. It’s so fun to see what different people find the most meaningful.

[@lunarhuman]

I'm here to not feel alone about book hoarding 🤣

[@sruthi195]

same i bought some 80 books in the past 2 months...it's actually out of control

[@albioncala]

@@sruthi195 you're living my dream life!

[@CharlesJosepDelDotto]

I'm really excited that since George Orwell and George Bernard Shaw are finally entering public domain, Oxford World's Classics is putting out a TON of Orwell and Shaw books in the next year.

[@danni.phantom8184]

As a Lit grad, I'm not ashamed at how hard I "BAHA"-ed at, "My copy of thy Odyssey has gone missing...THAT'S ironic....anyway...."

[@wingcastlereads5657]

I get so many lesser known book recommendations in this video, which is GREAT

[@sarcastic_fish]

That makes me really glad!!!

[@AA-nl2lq]

This is such a sexy bookshelf tour and you organised and labelled the time stamps which is very much appreciated. Thank you for that. Can’t wait for uni to be over so I can have more freedom in what I read

[@amandamichele3293]

I am so enthused by your enthusiasm for Audre Lorde! Don‘t know if you’ve yet come across her biomythography, “Zami: A New Spelling of my Name,” but I highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend it. In any case, love your bookshelf tour!

[@authorgreene]

When my bestie and I combined bookshelves, he was tempted to organize by year. Tempted because he knows that it would have made me unable to find a thing, but he could have had a good laugh. In the end, we went with subject and author last name. I have more or less stuck with that in my new home library-a library consisting solely of books belonging to my wife and myself.

[@sarcastic_fish]

man that's really one of life simple pleasures right, to be able to merge libraries with someone you love like aw damn

[@nhopec]

Emma, I don't wanna be a creep, but I have watched some older videos where you mention MY FRIEND LOTTY (?) HAS MY COPY OF THE ODYSSEY.. So... there you go ahahhah

[@nhopec]

I am really bad with spelling haha so the name is probably not written well, but you get the gist :)

[@sarcastic_fish]

THIS COMMENT HAS ME. CREASING. so she had it for like 2 years but I did get it back!!!! So I think my brother took it to uni

[@rydenr.2999]

I would recommend ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ by Hemingway. Hemingway was American but was also heavily influenced by many other non-Americans. He might be a good one to read if you’re having trouble with American stuff.

[@amandakate4951]

I don't get why everyone hypes Hemmingway...I read both these books and I just didn't care...truly overrated and boring. I honestly think it might be a name where folk often hype without actually getting it themselves. I LOVED Yates and within a couple of say of starting my first Yates, I had bought all his books. Could be a taste/personal preferance thing.

[@ryanwhite2838]

In the Sun Also Rises Hemmingway mentioned "The Purple Land." I have a signed first edition of that.... and it's the very reason I read Sun Also Rises. It's (Purple Land) is so easy to read, despite being from 1885.

[@VampireHeart518]

@@amandakate4951 I read 'The old man and the sea' and I loved it, found it so beautifull written - one of the most beautifully, fluently written things I've read, actually. :) - Honestly, not 'phony' :)) Also, while 'overrated' can be something more or less debatable, something can't just BE 'boring', that's strictly preference, yeah. I can't wait to read Yates, only got a glimpse of him and was captivated, but I want to buy a physical book ^^ edit: wait, I'm talking about the poet :))

[@nursemain3174]

I love Oxford world classics, they’re the only editions I buy when I want a classic

[@saziaehesana3583]

Yes, i like everything about them except the spine, i wish the small pic on the spine be a lil big imo but i feel thats just me.

[@alyssa406]

Your bookshelf tour videos are always my comfort videos.

[@sarcastic_fish]

aw hunny

[@romysuter9642]

the exact same thing happened to me with Norwegian Wood - read it in a couple days and fell in love with it! so phenomenal

[@abi_rose]

i hardly ever read non fiction, but i ADORE the design of the penguin great ideas books, so i might just have to get some haha. i love how each cover is designed in the style of the art/design that was popular at the time it was originally written

[@oliviavirgolino7572]

i love how your books are in collections

[@natasham4184]

This was so satisfying 📚💖

[@aloragroup7831]

00:23 "ohh boy" - sounds great amazing books collection ✨

[@Laulki]

Those editions are so pretty 😍😍 Hugs from Colombia Emma ♥️🇨🇴

[@emma-gv3rn]

i read roxana because of you and i loved it so much! it’s become one of my favorite books so thank you. also definitely read war and peace!

[@tianyan3542]

I read dangerous liaisons because of you and I LOVED it so thank you 😃

[@chiaradigirolamo]

*sees title* YES, just yes, I'm ready 😍

[@josephine7583]

lol i’ve been binging your book videos lately & they’re making me so excited to maybe go into comp lit (i’m on a gap year). so thank u :>

[@tejasdeepsingh456]

Woah such a wonderful collection!😀😀

[@krosero]

Planning to read The Female Quixote myself. You really gave your copy some love there!

[@soumavagoswami7487]

If you haven't read Lolita, please do. It's not about the story, it's about the writing.

[@brontehill6346]

wow!!! Loved this

[@ignaciocorbalan3598]

Really loved the hand movements.

[@223raulh]

You are so lucky to have had read all of these books.

[@daesusasa]

As a PhD student whose dissertation deals with paratexts, I applaud your allusion to them ;). I just found your channel and I am impressed by your collection. Some comments: Pamela: you are right! I recommend Fielding's 'Shamela' which is short and a funny parody of Richardson's. Candide: in booktube I found some people who love it and some who hate it; no middle ground. When one in informed about Liebniz, it is really fun to read. Russians: The Death of Ivan I. is such a classic; for some the greatest novella ever. It's a fast read. Pushkin has such a beautiful prose (at least the Spanish translation I read). It is simple yet full of life and authentic. Your edition of 'Crime and Punishment' is enormous! The one I read was really small. It is an intriguing book. Add Gogol to your collection and you are set ;). So many other comments on Greek and Latin books, but this is a long one already. Thanks for the video.

[@thiago.stoianov]

It’s funny how we have the same Oxford collection here in Brazil, but it costs almost a kidney lol I’m enjoying your channel. Keep going!

[@billkeon880]

Wow, smart, charming and pretty... and a runner. Dive into Crime and Punishment. I was a little apprehensive but I flew through and totally enjoyed it, one of my favourites. Very modern feel, like an Alfred Hitchcock story. Murakami truly is fantastic

[@amysweet2973]

The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of my fave books! Give it a go one day! Loved the video - thank you :)

[@skylarwalker8023]

oh Emma, why you got to do this to me. Of all the days, in all my life, when I have never had so much school work due the next day, yet here I am. unapologetically about to watch your video because my god i fucking love you

[@ryang7759]

I'm reading The American right now. love it.

[@zaharan5581]

please do a video compiling all the books you love from this video!!

[@zlzlzl2]

I do similar things with my shelf, though I have higher preference on Penguin (blue>white>black), then Oxford/Vintage. For classics and translated work, I do think Oxford is a bit more superior.

[@followedtodeath5850]

You're so lucky, so many books!

[@xarnahstewart6935]

hey, emma! I'm a big fan, any book recs for someone loosing their love of classics?

[@audreyng9457]

when Emma said "i really have a soft spot for Oscar Wilde" i almost died

[@wormdoodles]

My heart belongs to Brideshead Revisited. There's a deep melancholy to its nostalgia that has always resonated with me, as if even Charles knew while at Oxford that these were the happiest years of his life and he would never feel that way again, but he'd spend the rest of his life searching for it again.

[@lizdorrington2851]

Hi Emma, I'm new to your channel and I love it! I'm an English Lit student in my first year at uni, any good advice for me? I love Murakami so much! I just finished 3 books as part of a global literature unit Exit West, Signs Preceding The End Of The World. and UFO In Her Eyes, they were so good. Looking forward to watching more of your videos.😊

[@korvmaja1]

Uuuuh I loved Circe, I wish I read it for my first time again

[@AdamLazzara77]

You are like the modern version of Catherine Zeta-Jones' character in High Fidelity. SUBSCRIBED!

[@kaceym7171]

hiya how do u annotate poetry??

[@azmendozafamily]

Can I ask for a recommendation on how to take notes on what you're reading? I see the notes and underlines in your books and I always wondered how you go about analyzing books.

[@amberfranklin5512]

I studied Macbeth for my GCSEs. I loved it I also loved great expectations by Charles dickens

[@bethanymills1945]

"I had a copy of the odyssey, which has now gone missing. That's kind of ironic." 😂

[@maria-teresa5772]

I aspire to have a bookshelf like this🥺

[@marhamahsohail6356]

Where did you get your Penguin black spine classics? I can’t find them anywhere!

[@AMAR9933]

The Name of the Rose = 10/10 RECCOMEND!!!!

[@SelinHanim]

Based on your bookcase, I feel like you would really vibe with The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (romance) and Close to Home by Christine Delphy for some good ol feminist theory regarding the relationship of marriage and work. Both are some of the best books I’ve ever got to read 💕

[@OpheliaVert]

OH MY GOSH YEEEEES ALSO YOU LOOK STUNNING MY GOD

[@sarcastic_fish]

THANK YOU LOVE YOU MISS YOU

[@victoria6964]

Where did you get your bookshelf?

[@andrewrussell2845]

Interesting insight into your reading, having just stumbled across your channel. If you haven't read Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde, I can highly recommend it - never hear it mentioned but it is breathtaking. Also - you skipped over Charlotte Gordon's Romantic Outlaws as though it was the poor adopted sister in the family of books on your shelf 😂

[@21vgkoab]

In the Vintage Classics edition and reading for pleasure I would recommend the Berlin Novels by Christopher Isherwood it was one of my favourite reads this year

[@wormdoodles]

I have a special place in my heart for A Goodbye to Berlin, but, in my opinion, A Single Man is the best of his work. Just don't touch the movie.

[@Onmysheet]

You referring to the Tom Ford movie? I loved it!

[@wormdoodles]

@@Onmysheet Ruined the message of the book completely. It's about moving on and realizing that you will love again. George dying at the end of the movie felt completely tone deaf.

[@Onmysheet]

@@wormdoodles Never read the novel, so I saw the movie for what it was alone. The colour tone in the cinematography is what I liked about it.

[@lasaves3207]

Holy shit Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; no one ever talks about that masterpiece! I love both the play and the film (Taylor and Burton both were amazing in it and so were their co-stars in my opinion).

[@sophiegordes4734]

Love your bookshelf 😍 and I don’t know a no buy 😂😂 (ups)

[@zoepoeloe]

What bookshelves do you use

[@megreads9]

Amazing library, where do you get your oxford world's classic, I search in the websites but I didn't see the same as you show, please send me the link to this because I'm building my classic genre library, i have only french classic. Thank you.

[@kicica13212]

Hiya, if you're interested in books about reading then I suggest Language at the Speed of Sight by Mark Seidenberg. I read it for my undergrad degree in linguistics and it was really comprehensive! It's not exclusively about dyslexia but that subject is talked about quite a bit.

[@alinamostov1394]

I think Richard Yates is the most underrated writer. Revolutionary Road, Young Hearts Crying and Easter Parade are fantastic novels.

[@the-law5065]

is random organization ok ?

[@jyotiranjan7062]

Hey emma, what's your career plan after graduation ? (Just saw your grad. day video & it was really cool)

[@alinamostov1394]

Funny, I picked up Oxford World's Classics edition of "Pride and Prejudice" as I realized I've never read anything by Jane Austen. I am stuck on page sixty. It's not very exiting, is it?:)

[@minadorissa]

Try an audiobook, there's one on youtube i think. It makes the boring things go faster

[@alinamostov1394]

@Sabsile T I am not going to quit. I think maybe I got distracted by other books. I read usually five books at the same time. I always enjoy watching the movies based on Austen novels, so I will finish the book I am sure!

[@VampireHeart518]

I found it very exciting :)) and she's funny, too Did you finish it in the meantime? :D

[@alinamostov1394]

@@VampireHeart518 Nope! I had it for a year sitting as one of the unread books and I decluttered those. If I ever feel the urge to give it another shot at some point, I will get it from the library. Maybe one has to be in a right type of a mood to appreciate Jane Austen or sadly she might not be for me... I think the modern Jane Austen is Barbara Pym. She is delightful and very witty.

[@jorgelopez-pr6dr]

I recommend a twentieth century classic ( and it is a warning for times to come): Alexander Solhenitzsin's The Cancer Ward and The Gulag Archipelago.

[@ameliahoward2876]

I open this video and automatically open amazon in the next tab. Ooops x

[@sarcastic_fish]

bookshop.org and hive.co.uk !!!! we try not to give jeff lizard man money in this house!!

[@ameliahoward2876]

@@sarcastic_fish Don't worry the bookshops of Bath get my money, Amazon is purely for the lists x

[@danielapiovesan3791]

I prefered The Death of Ivan Ilych over Anna Karenina tbh, plus it's very short

[@Books_Anime_92]

I bought The Name of the Rose last year and it was made into a movie with Sean Connery and Christian Slater in the 80's.

[@VampireHeart518]

Nooo, it looks horrid - I mean, ok, it's alright for a movie by itself, but the book is fantastic

[@caitlinhession4749]

Off topic video suggestion but you should do a video of your favourite underrated/hidden gem films! Also, have you seen the new Sofia Coppola film yet?? ❤️

[@sarcastic_fish]

ooooooo good shout, and I haven’t yet!!! I’ve heard positive things tho so I’m looking forward to it

[@taracorradi2045]

11:05 if you'd rather watch it, there is a really good film adaptation of La Princesse de Montpensier, directed by Bertrand Tavernier - you can find it on Netflix.

[@sarcastic_fish]

Thank you so much for this recommendation I just watched it I am in love

[@alb0zfinest]

I’m not a fan of American 19th century classics, but 20th century American classics overshadow Russian, French, English, Italian classics. Grapes of Wrath, 42nd Parallel, Black Boy, Johnny Got His Gun, Ham on Rye, Jews Without Money, Mother Night, 100%: The Story of a Patriot all excellent books.

[@wormdoodles]

20th century American literature is so good, probably because that's when America stopped trying to mimic European literature and started doing its own thing. Love me some Shirley Jackson, William S Burroughs, James Baldwin, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, etc. All radically different writers, and all wonderful.

[@brendanrodrigues9798]

I am gonna recommend a book for you "Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved India".🙂🤩

[@meganh6619]

I regret buying all those penguin classics when I was in my early twenties. I was obviously trying to fit some sort of image, but good god are they boring to me. I gave all mine away.Your shelf is so satisfying to look at though. Maybe I should of kept all my "high literature" just for display purposes.. hmmm naaah :D

[@BruceWayne-fs8ty]

I think I'm inlove...

[@bunnygirlerika9489]

Thanks a lot! You just added tones of books onto my already huge list of books to buy and read! Book tour videos are going to bankrupt me lol

[@alec187]

You must read Kafka on the shore

[@arianamini645]

Loving your channel🧡🧡🧡Hope all is well!

[@martynaweronika1330]

Nice collection! It was just hard to watch when you were showing your lovely books with notes on them.

[@tomk.williams1186]

When you showed Albert Camus I sighed and rolled my eyes and then you said he a miserable sod...I started laughing 👍

[@CharlesJosepDelDotto]

Also, I didn't notice a copy of Flaubert's Madame Bovary???

[@sarcastic_fish]

On the shelf in my bedroom!!

[@CharlesJosepDelDotto]

@@sarcastic_fish I discovered your KZbin channel a few weeks ago when I saw your London bookshop tour -- I used to spend my summers in London and spent hours upon hours perusing the bookshops in Bloomsbury and along Charing Cross Road. I miss the city so much. As a fellow bibliophile with at least 10,000 books, your channel clears my skin, waters my crops, feeds my soul. When I was an undergrad (1995-1999), I was an English major because at the university I went to (Princeton), comp lit was hardcore and demanded not only proficiency in at least one foreign language but also coursework to develop proficiency in a second foreign language (and my foreign language skills were lousy). Hence, English for me! Anyway, I finally read Madame Bovary this summer and loved it, and part of the reason I read it was the fact that it was part of the required reading list for all comp lit majors when I was an undergrad. The list has changed dramatically (for example, there's now a whole film sub-list), but you might find the old required reading list from my time there to be interesting: Epic- Homer: The Iliad Homer: The Odyssey Vergil: The Aeneid Dante: The Divine Comedy: Inferno Milton: Paradise Lost Lyric- Sappho: Lyric Poems and Fragments Petrarch: Canzoniere: 1-5, 16, 23, 30, 35, 52, 126, 129, 189-190, 234, 264, 267, 281, 310, 323, 348, 359, 362, and 364-366 Milton: "Lycidas" Keats: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale" Baudelaire: Les fleurs du mal Rilke: Sonnets to Orpheus Yeats: Selected Poems: "The Secret Rose," "Easter 1916," "The Second Coming," "Sailing to Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," "Among School Children," "Byzantium," "Lapus Lazuli," "The Circus Animals' Desertion," "The Tower," "A Dialogue of Self and Soul," and the "Crazy Jane" poems Drama- Aeschylus: The Oresteia Sophocles: Oedipus Rex Euripides: The Bacchae Aristophanes: The Clouds Shakespeare: Hamlet and King Lear Molière: The Misanthrope Büchner: Woyzeck Ibsen: Hedda Gabler Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children Beckett: Waiting for Godot Novel- Cervantes: Don Quixote La Fayette: The Princess of Cleves Brontë: Wuthering Heights Melville: Moby Dick Flaubert: Madame Bovary Dostoevsky: The Idiot Proust: Swann's Way Joyce: Ulysses Woolf: Between the Acts Other- Old Testament: Genesis and Exodus New Testament: Matthew, Acts, Epistle to the Romans, and Revelation Plato: Symposium and Phaedrus Aristotle: The Poetics Augustine: Confessions Swift: Gulliver's Travels Voltaire: Candide Diderot: Rameau's Nephew Goethe: Faust Kafka: The Metamorphosis

[@sarcastic_fish]

this is such a comp lit list i love it thank you!!!!

[@CharlesJosepDelDotto]

@@sarcastic_fish Apparently, at Princeton, each comp lit major now basically creates herr own required reading list, which is the basis for the senior departmental exams that all students take before graduating. This link has the full range of choices for each genre, including film. It's pretty interesting and definitely shows that the department has tried to think beyond the Eurocentric canon: complit.princeton.edu/undergraduate-program/current-majors/reading-selection-list

[@oscarsalesgirl296]

"It is useless for a woman to be young but not beautiful or beautiful but not young." Dude speaking facts 👌:)

[@valentinasinkovic8116]

I read The name of the rose this summer and I didnt really like it. If i wasn't listening to it as an audiobook i never would have finished it.

[@stephkennedy6796]

I read If On A Winter's Night A Traveller because you recommended it in your last bookshelf tour and it is easily one of my favourite books of all time now, thank you so much!!! Also can we please start a Jane Austen hate club because I cannot stand that woman.

[@spicyshizz2850]

6:31 😂

[@crybaby7613]

I would appreciate if you talked about the plots of the books. These are just titles

[@wbbartlett]

These are the books that people put on their shelves to show other people how smart they are. They never read them of course, as there is more reality tv to watch instead.

[@mariagiseladelgado8831]

i've been craving to read some 18th/19th century fiction that reads like a literary version of Downton Abbey/gossip girl, you know what i mean? i want drama, i want scandal, i want yearning and longing. if anyone can recommend anything like that, it's definitely you, so please please help meeee (also, loved the video. i can't really buy many books so i live vicariously through your bookshelves, so thanks for that :))

[@harperbredbere6322]

Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood might appeal. My 18th century authorship class when I did my MA compared it to a period equivalent of a Harlequin / Mills and Boone but with much better plotting. It's not quite Gossip Girl but it's a lot of fun.

[@mariagiseladelgado8831]

@@harperbredbere6322 oooh that sounds right up my alley, i'll definitely check it out. thank you so much!!

[@sunshinehobi8954]

My English teacher compared 'Brideshead Revisited' to downtown Abbey. So you might like that:)

[@izabellaschanel1887]

The OCD just screams inside me!!!

[@juancnunezm2518]

Hello Emma, th for the video, do you know someone who collect Math books?, Id like to contact that person. Greetings.

[@cografyace.a6319]

@Sadecebirsayfa daha instagram hesabindan geldim Türkiye'de popüler olmayan klasikler hakkinda baska bir bakis acisi görmek güzel👍🇹🇷

[@ParminderSingh-yp3us]

You are soo pretty

[@uptown3636]

But last year, last year there were thirty-seven.

[@byronlovelace8379]

The perfect woman

[@folksurvival]

You look a bit like Kelly Brook.

[@aryanpandey8262]

You are so cute🤓

[@lemonysticket]

Yeah that sucks about Fitzgerald, you honestly have to live in America to really appreciate him, and even then his writing is odd.

[@Andrea-rj7lp]

loved your books, but it annoys me how you just bang your books against the bookshelves hahahaha

[@fabiancalderon6729]

6:30 fiiting coming out of a young and beautiful women