Have I Read All The Books I've Hauled? 📚Calling Myself Out!

[@doesitmatter13]

This unlocked the memory of 18 year old me in my bedroom at one of the University of Manchester dorms watching you haul The Drum Tower and remembering that I saw that book at a second hand bookshop a day prior and going to that bookshop again the day after your haul to buy it... it is also still in my tbr 😅

[@jenvcampbell]

Hahaha, well, I'm glad we're both failing at that! x

[@leeah8419]

You should give The Buried Giant a go, it's such a beautiful story about an older couple, growing old together, time and forgetting. It got negative reviews because it is partly fantasy and fantasy readers were disappointed as it is not a traditional fantasy novel. I would say it is a literary novel with fantasy elements.

[@rosegreensummer]

actually it is a good book, i loved it, and i'm hard to please

[@ameliareads589]

I can't share your love for The Buried Giants unfortunately, but I love your channel name. 😉

[@CoynieReads]

I LOVE The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Definitely think Anne Bronte is the under appreciated Bronte! 😊

[@MilenaReads]

🙌🙌

[@clairemarge5310]

Agreeeeeeed!

[@sophiaz.1083]

I have the same edition! 😍

[@thelibrarybat4254]

The longest I've ever had a book sat on my shelf unread was 12 years. I bought it in 2007, aged 12, and finally read it in 2019, aged 24. I had literally doubled in age between buying it and reading it, but it was absolutely worth the wait and it was my favourite book of the year, and I'm not sure I'd have fully appreciated it had I read it aged 12. It took me a decade to get to, but I definitely read it at the right time and not a minute too soon. It was David Copperfield by Charles Dickens for anyone interested 😂

[@LaurenAndTheBooks]

This was a lovely trip down memory lane and a revisit of all the books I bought because you spoke about them, before I had even met you in real life and now LOOK AT US. HEART EYES xx

[@Nina-md3tm]

Congrats on 60 000! You deserve it x

[@ameliareads589]

This was so sweet! So nice to meet the former versions of you again! 😍 Loved watching this.

[@mmilbeb]

Congratulations on the subscribers! As usual I've left your video with many, many new books on my tbr and I couldn't be happier about it so thank you! I'm excited about the russian translation, hope you enjoy it and can't wait to hear your opinions on any of the ones you haven't read

[@ella5452]

and congrats! you truly deserve it🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@natashagoldup567]

Just discovered your channel and I’m really excited! I have a new baby (9 months) and can’t wait to get him your children’s books too xx

[@jenvcampbell]

♥️

[@braincabbage]

watching this is such a blast from the past, considering I've started watching your videos way in the beginning and have seen those book hauls when you posted them haha. crazy how time flies.

[@quirkydee45]

It's *very* impressive that you've read over 90%; i can't imagine who'd think that's a low percentage! Did you count books you DNF'ed as read? I think it's fair to, bc you gave them a go and decided they weren't for you, but just wondered... you seem to know your reading taste very well, so it may be you chose so well you finished them all. Also can't remember if you've mentioned if your attitude toward DNF'ing has changed over time (i feel like most of us get better at it over time). Congrats on 60k+ subscribers!! You so deserve it!

[@barbarahelgaker390]

Oh I loved the Buried Giant - I hope you get round to it. I also have a hit and miss relationship with his books but this is a favourite.

[@tinaw94]

For Ishiguro, I also loved Remains and didn't like Orphans, and I really enjoyed Buried Giant! I'd recommend it :)

[@AngelaTolsma]

Love the idea of this and seeing what you haven't read. Would love to see more. Updates to tbrs are fascinating to me. Good luck!! Congrats on 60,000!!

[@oliviarobinson1366]

Daydreams of Angels is so great! I think you'd really enjoy the stories!

[@jenvcampbell]

The blurb certainly sounds right up my street x

[@bethanwilliams2503]

I loved A Place Called Winter, it's the only Patrick Gale book I've read. But I really like historical fiction and especially books about people trying to make a living off the land in cold places (quite niche!). I think it is a good book and emotionally definitely pulled me in but it's quite straight forward in the way it's written and a little convenient in parts if that would put you off.

[@MaryAmongStories]

congrats on 60k, I've been watching your videos for years now and you absolutely deserve all this love and support 🖤🌿 edit: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is amazing!

[@amyconnolly1288]

Congratulations! Also, fun video. Do you think you'll make this a mini series and do your other years ?

[@rueluxprince6982]

Fairytales for Wilde Girls! I remember reading that book nine times in a single month when I was in eighth grade. Most underrated witchy book I've ever encountered

[@tiyuki5]

I bought "The Hopkins Manuscript" some time ago, because you mentioned it in one of your videos and I got immediately intrigued by it. I have to admit that it is still on my TBR, though haha Anyway Jen, I wanted to thank you. Thank you, because especially in these times we are living, your videos keep me great company and I am super excited every time you post a new one. Thank you for being a positive presence in my tiny life.

[@krissyn.3366]

Congratulations on 60k subscribers!! 🎉 Great video. Love your channel Jen!

[@clairesavage855]

I really enjoyed The Buried Giant. It wasn’t what I expected at all and is more like a very slowly unfolding fable, but I liked that about it. Worth checking out!

[@michelepastele5347]

Congratulations Jen!

[@klaudiahautsalo9995]

This is the first booktube video I've watched in months and let me tell you if took me back. I've been watching your videos since 2015 and I'm pretty sure your videos are a huge part of the reason I had an amazing reading year in 2015. Also, Tenant of Wildfell Hall might be my favourite Bronte.

[@sophiaz.1083]

I was guessing 60 unread books, which still would have been an amazing result. Good job! Most of my unread books are yeaaaars on my shelf’s and I am reading less and less every year. I am not sure if I should go on a book buying ban or purge them all haha. But I think it will all just stay the same. On another note: do you know books and lalas closet unhaul series? It has the same concept (a little more gamified). I lived for that series so this video is my favorite content ever!! Much love! ❤️

[@jenvcampbell]

I follow Kayla but haven’t seen that series; I’ll take a look ☺️

[@YourTrueShelf]

Wow that's amazing, I'm sure I'd have read way way less!! So nice to see old video clips (the pre- Lucy & Yak days! I'm now an addict too). A fab concept for a video, and it would be nice to see another year too. The only one I've read from the list is a place called winter by Patrick Gale and I absolutely loved it. Listened on audible & 5*. One I still think of. Hope that tempts you 🙂

[@savannah5358]

Congratulations!! Also- I would love if you made this a series! I love watching these kind of videos

[@misskit123]

I'm impressed you've read so many! If I kept such records I know my hauled/read ratio would not be as high! I love Goodbye to Berlin. Mostly because I love Cabaret and it was interesting to read the source material. I've read Notes From and Exhibition by Patrick Gale and really enjoyed it and read it quickly, although it was about 10 years ago now and I can't remember a whole lot about it!

[@donreadsalot4932]

Over that much time and that many books, you did fantastically as far as having read the fast majority, already!

[@boojingleful]

Congratulations on 60k! This was great, I guessed at 150 hauls and 40 unread, I very rarely get to books quickly myself so I think my ratios would be much worse. Looking forward to the reading vlogs on these ones!

[@MilenaReads]

The Tenant of Wildfell Hal was one of my favourite reads of 2020! Also: love the outfit commentary, haha.

[@indubitablyzara]

I'll look forward to the reading vlogs! You've also given me an idea for catching up on some of my unread books (and I'm afraid my ratio is probably much worse, though since I don't keep track I don't have to know how much worse 😅). I keep my unread books on a separate shelf and organize them very roughly by when I got them, with most recent at eye level and going outward from there. So I'm thinking in April or May I'll devote a month to just reading books from the top or bottom shelf, because I am still excited about most of them!

[@slugabed7]

The Sparrow is one of my all-time favorites. Hope you enjoy it!

[@amyelainethomas]

Also this video was brilliant and I would love you to do this for other years if/when you have the time/energy ☺️

[@charlieri6338]

I now feel like I’m going through some sort of book tube right of passage by filming on a stack of furniture and books, with the rear camera on my phone, praying it is still filming 😅

[@mery5989]

I would read the buried giant, I definitely liked it. I do admit at first the ending pissed me off because I was like what why... but when you think about it really it makes sense. I really liked it :)

[@EmmaLiz1984]

The Buried Giant is lovely! ❤️

[@anothergreatetcetera]

Yaaaay congratulations on 60.000 subscribers, that is amazing 🙏 (Also I haven't even watched more than the first minute of this video, but this idea is great and I can't wait to watch more! Edit: I'm guessing you hauled 120 books and have read 97 of them.)

[@Hillary429]

Random thought when you mentioned building a collection: adding Braille to all of your book spines. Do they make Braille label makers?? Thought this could be a fun way to boost your Braille vocabulary while also going through your collection

[@jenvcampbell]

Yes, they do.

[@bookishfairygodmother]

Jen you genius woman, I love the idea of this video so much!!!!

[@kimswhims8435]

Great Stats Jen! Far better than mine, I'm sure! Love these sorts of videos, love the nostalgia element to it all.

[@xShlingAttackx]

I love The Tenant of Wildfell Hall!! It is spooky and gothic and feminist. Goodbye to Berlin is also really cool. It felt like a time capsule of a community that was just about to be torn apart. It's this really interesting autobiographical picture of 30's Berlin. I read it a decade ago but I still think about it a lot. I also really liked A Place Called Winter. I hadn't read a book for fun in a while when I came to it, on account of master's burnout, but it managed to hold my interest. I

[@mypeacefulrevolution]

This was a lovely video, thank you 🙂 xx

[@tiffanyanne7861]

congratulations on 60k! I love these kinds of videos. You've done so well lolol. I doubt I've read 5 of the books I bought last year. I have such a bad habit of holding onto books I'm excited about instead of just..reading and enjoying them

[@curioushmm9027]

that was fun...i haven't read many of those but i did read and enjoy the bronte and read and disliked the ishiguro...if i'm not mistaken the gale is a favorite book of simon savidge. i think it's remarkable you've read so many of the books you acquired that year.

[@ina_loves_books]

Congratulations on 60k! 🥳 I guessed 100 hauled, 20 unread - wasn't far off with the unread number, but the percentage was wrong 😄 My percentage would probably have been 50% unread at least 😬 I read The Buried Giant for book club a while ago. Or rather: I started reading and then DNFed it. But the others enjoyed it. I'd love to see your reactions to your hauls from the next years - it's such a lovely idea.

[@nthabiandherbooks]

I guess 56 in the first year of and that you've read them all! The fact that you read most of the books is quite impressive. I haven't read most of these books so I'm looking forward to those reading vlogs. Congratulations on 60k! I am new here so I have a lot to catch up on and binge on.

[@jenvcampbell]

I just discovered your channel, too, and have been loving your videos. xx

[@rosegreensummer]

Books With Lala did a great 'reacting to my old vlogs' series, a 'reading my tbr' one, and she played her old video and paused it to react, and it was hilarious. But i gave up trying to imitate her (in life, not in art - no way i'm vlogging) after one glance at the shelves. You've probably seen that series. But it is hilarious.

[@zzyzxrd0]

Please please read Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, I am pretty sure she came to my attention back in 2014 from your haul video and I have enjoyed her stories immensely. Top tip though would be to maybe investigate the environment beforehand and to look at some photobooks beforehand of soviet buildings, streets and flats :) Especially the kitchens :D

[@Odzerful]

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a lovely read 👌👍

[@suzannahdarcy6903]

Daydreams for Angels is so good! I love all of Heather O'Neill's books

[@paperbackmo]

Congrats on 60k!! 🎉 love this video 🤣

[@jenvcampbell]

thank you! x

[@starflash8316]

Your book choices are different to mine, thankyou for the list of new authors to investigate!

[@LizTheFlyingDutchman]

Love you saying attic that’s not an attic. We always talk about our basement about our storage space, which is on streetlevel and not underground.

[@bonnaedavis8679]

Because of you recommending books by Michel Faber I have become a big fan.

[@marylawrence358]

I enjoyed Notes on an Exhibition by Patrick Gale

[@elizabethh9950]

Lovely video Jen:) I am very impressed by how many you had read, I try to read around as many books as I buy now but I already had so many built up on my tbr, I'm not sure I will ever catch up! Every year I go to YALC and buy many many books which always prompts me to remember how many I haven't read from all the previous years!

[@TheBookishLand]

congrats on 60K Jen! 🎉thanks for being on Booktube for the last 6 years, this is an amazing video and I actually added Jellyfish to my books of interests 😂

[@jenvcampbell]

Let me know if you get to it before I do 😂

[@TheBookishLand]

@@jenvcampbell 😂

[@hill7912A]

Commenting as I go. Okay I am going to play the Game I used to play with Books and LaLa's channel. If a book appears that I own but have not read yet - it now gets added to my TBR for 2021. Okay let's go! 20/196 is not bad. And I have to read. The Tennant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale The Sparrow by Mary Dora Russell This is a great way of getting to a few I probably have for a while yet!

[@jenvcampbell]

Love that!

[@paulwinchell6904]

I blinked congratulations on 60k well deserved.

[@amyelainethomas]

Well I am now absolutely desperate to get my hands on a copy of Fairytales for Wilde Girls but its not avail in US as far as I can tell and not available on Book Depository. Please do read it tell us all about it ♥️

[@paulwinchell6904]

Your doing way better than I am. I have the a covid pile. Bought not read. BNR.

[@jenvcampbell]

Tbf if I did this for this year that would be.... a whole other story, ha! x

[@paulwinchell6904]

Glad it's not just me. But also sorry for words not read ideas not shared

[@Larissa_KD]

Oh yes, I'm so ready for this video, love these hahah!

[@heidilanders9807]

I loved Jamaica Inn, but based on what I'm picking up from you, it might not be sufficiently highbrow. It's like a really fun historical adventure/romance/mystery, but definitely not literary.

[@RahulSingh-books]

Please read 'The Buried Giant'. It is my favourite book by Ishiguro and my second favourite is 'Klara and the Sun'. 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' is another great one. I hope you enjoy all of these.

[@ChaoticBibliophile]

You’ve been so good at reading your own books I feel a bit ashamed of myself 😂 but congrats! It’s a shame Goodbye to Berlin disappeared, I love that one!

[@jenvcampbell]

'Goodbye to Berlin'? More like goodbye to that book, am I right? * facepalm * x

[@ChaoticBibliophile]

@@jenvcampbell why did I laugh so much omg

[@ella5452]

this is really neat💚

[@BeatrixOnyx]

Honestly the amount you hauled and the amount you didn't read was really good. I thought you would have not read 40/50. This was an enjoyable video, Jen. Could you do another one for your next big mile stone? Read Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildhell Hall. It's brilliant and it shocked Victorian society for its proto-feminist story.

[@jenvcampbell]

I would definitely like to do this again! Perhaps next year I can do my second year on booktube (or before then, if the mood strikes!) x

[@booksandbargains]

When I started watching this I thought ooo maybe I could do a video like this .... but I'm pretty sure I would end up with hundreds to read 🤣

[@ReadingWithMoe]

Loved this!! 💕

[@sandra7319.]

Wait what? I've read some of the books because you hauled them!! . haha...The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has such a surprising feminist view and is wonderful, Almost Famous Women is okay, The Buried Giant is so atmospheric...

[@sandeesandwich2180]

I read The Buried Giant and did not like it. Also did not like When We Were Orphans. But I really liked An Artist of the Floating World, and liked A Pale View of Hills (which was my late mother's favorite). I agree with your take that Ishiguro is very hit or miss.

[@rosegreensummer]

i had the Patrick Gale, i didn't read it, it has the kind of beautiful (i guess i mean prettyy) writing you're more into than me and it's got lgbtqi in it, so you'd be more into it than me. I think it would be easy to read at the sentence level/style (as opposed to, stupid plotting etc). But you said you found Ruman Alaam's book hard to read, i found the beautiful prose with hilarious jokes really easy. I read a Ludmila P___ book years ago during the soviet era when she was new, and loved it, but that is a long time ago.... that and By Night Mountain Burns are what i'm adding to me tbr, who's the translator? In general, if it's Jull Costa i try it. Sparrow sounds good. But i will check those last two on goodreads first.

[@bookishfairygodmother]

I’m guessing....124 books!

[@AthynVixen]

Well done! Don't bother with the Patrick Gale. I've read a couple of his for book clubs and tried a few others.. just don't find them appealing.. maybe it's cos I'm called Jen Campbell too hahah

[@cindibrumpton1768]

I am going to say you hauled 125 books in your first year on BookTube.

[@rosegreensummer]

not sure how long i've been following you, because as Savidge reads said, all time before the pandemic has been flattened and is the same time period 'pre pandemic' and without order, one dimensional

[@judybrown1624]

30 of 60 read

[@judybrown1624]

Holy cow! I was way off.

[@jenvcampbell]

Haha, I'm glad you were! x

[@bookworminchrist1987]

I'm guessing you hauled 65 books in your first year and have read maybe 25? Lemme go back and watch and see how close I am to the answer 😂

[@Nastya-uj9bg]

I've read sparrow and Metamorphosis by Ovid. Metamorphosis is incredible (horace gregory translation). sparrow - disappointing

[@racheyt9196]

My guess was a lot lower than the number of books you actually read, sorry to doubt you Jen 😂 good job 👍

[@jenvcampbell]

It's ok, I doubted myself, too! x

[@jenniferbrown6427]

Oh my god stop stop stop everything pause pausing paused!!! A Place Called Winter was my favourite book of 2018 it is amazing I think you would love it read it next please!

[@jenniferbrown6427]

Sorry for yelling

[@careinthelibrary]

I've only read one, The Buried Giant. I liked elements of it but overall it was forgettable because of its mediocrity. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@ReadingWithKT]

My guess: 40 books hauled, 12 still unread.

[@ReadingWithKT]

I’m pretty far off but this was fun to watch! I haven’t read any of these but have the Patrick Gale on my TBR. Hope you enjoy them when you get to read them!

[@ReadingWithKT]

Oh, and the Janice Galloway one is on my TBR too

[@megumirocha2678]

I thought it will be a lot more unread books o.o

[@FaeryLaume]

I'm going to go with twelve books a month - if my math is right, 144 books? And you seem to do a pretty good job of reading your shelves so I'll guess you read .... 85% of them. Math again..... nope, I can't be bothered, approximately 85% is... 125?

[@rosegreensummer]

goodbye to berlin is funny but slight, jamaica inn is crap/silly, and i'd say Rebecca is good. Wildfell Hall is typically Bronte ie depressing, but readable. It's supposed to be very feminist. Ovid is bloodthirsty and vomit-inducing. Buried Giant is easy his popular, emotional fiction like Never Let Me Go, not his complex, but it's very feeling and atmosphere. Because i'm very into prehistory/dark ages, it's period setting is fascinating, it's both factual (early saxons displacing/fighting Celtic tribes) and unreal (Arthurian legend) simultaneously: he posits that the early British myths (mabinogion, arthurian legend, King Alfred tales) cover a particular historical period. Never Let Me Go was basically 'starcrossed romance' this is 'dementia ruins marriage', so if you liked the Lurve or the scifi in NLMG, you won't like it, but if you don't mind fantasy rather than scifi in your semi-realism and can live without Lurve interest, you'll like it. Also, the plot doesn't resolve so keenly: you have to work it out. It's not a 'couldn't be bothered to finish it' type of you resolve it, rather, you have to be Sherlock Holmes.

[@lulu_frances]

My guess is 100 hauled books

[@lulu_frances]

Oh gosh I underestimated this ha

[@annakarlien1952]

Im guessing 40 😂