If You Liked This... | Book Recommendations

[@jenvcampbell]

I hope you enjoy this video, folks! Let me know if you have read any of these books in the comments section below. Also, my new book 'The Girl Aquarium' is published this week. It’s about girlhood, disfigurement & queerness - the history of the freak show. If you'd like to check it out, that would be lovely. Details, links & sample poems can be found here: www.jen-campbell.co.uk/the-girl-aquarium xx

[@r.hunterpatterson9787]

I purchased your new book on Sunday but unfortunately live in Australia so may have some time to wait.So frustrating as I am soooo excited and can't wait to have it in my hands.Youe videos encouraged me to write poetry and I recently read one of my poems at an event where an author from one of the big publishing houses was in attendance.She approached me later and told me I should send some of my work for appraisal as she thought I was a very talented writer and all because I watch your youtube channel.I cannot thank you enough and will be buying the rest of your books as I can afford them as I am a disability pensioner and we don't exactly make the big bucks.Sending lots of hugs and best wishes for your recovery.

[@jenvcampbell]

Congrats on reading your poem! And thank you for your kind words x

[@ingertsvard6731]

Just started to read The Girl Aquarium and so fare it is brilliant like all your writing. I can't read poetry for hours I need to read two three poems and then think for a day or two and then continue. That makes to book last longer:)))

[@radreads3269]

April has been one tough month, glad to hear you’re starting to feel better, though! I just finished Disobedience. I really loved how Alderman used different styles of narration as well as weaving Orthodox Jewish beliefs/culture in a way that I found really enriching to the plot and especially intriguing for readers such as myself who don’t come from that particular background!

[@markosilov3911]

'Swimming Home', 'The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am' & 'In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods' really caught my eye(s)! Thank you for these lovely recommendations.

[@audreyh7892]

Feel better soon! What a wretched April.

[@clarnivore]

I also preferred Conversations with Friends!

[@Gagging4Lit]

I love how you drop in you send things to authors you love sometimes! Ah that's so cool. And thank you for coming on even though you've been feeling so ill. I received my copy of the girl aquarium, so thanks so much for that. It's brilliant so far :)

[@jenvcampbell]

Ah, thank you. I’m glad you’re enjoying it x

[@janedrilling3494]

So glad you are feeling better! Love the book recommendations, will be adding to my list of TBRs.

[@habibadesai1071]

Hope you are getting better Jen x You're videos are such a comfort xx

[@jenvcampbell]

❤️ xx

[@sakshi2897]

Such a great recommendation list, Jen. Thank you so much. I am picking up a few from these :)

[@B3njam11n]

This video made me very excited about reading ! Hope you get well soon Jen.

[@sarahallen7073]

I would love to see one of these for Circe/ Song of Achilles

[@jenvcampbell]

Girls Meets Boy by Ali Smith, Weight by Jeanette Winterson, A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes.

[@MaryAmongStories]

i hope you feel better soon! 💜

[@PancakeTutu]

Welcome back! I'm sorry that you have been so unwell. I'm wishing you a speedy recovery! 💖 Oh, and I wanted to tell you that my copy of "The Girl Aquarium" arrived last Thursday, and I absolutely loved it!!! I don't read much poetry anymore because I tend to put a lot of pressure on myself to "understand it correctly". But after I've read one of your posts, where you talked about author intent and opening a text up to different interpretations by sending it out into the world, I felt really encouraged and motivated to give it a try. So, I sat down with a pencil and gave myself all the time in the world to think about every word and sentence and wrote down my thoughts. And I have to say, it was wonderful! Thank you!

[@jenvcampbell]

Ah, this means so much Theresa, thank you! x

[@thebritishbookworm]

So happy to see you back, Jen! Feel better soon!

[@jenvcampbell]

Happy to be back! Thanks, Rachel ☺️ x

[@karendale9926]

Thank you Jen. Wonderful recommendations here and I do love this "if/then" format! I was worried about you. Hope you fully recover very soon 🌺🌼🌷

[@jenvcampbell]

Thank you, Karen. x

[@angelahampson391]

Such a fabulous, clever and creative vlog . You should have your own tv prog .

[@margiesantiago7227]

Jen hope you feel better soon! ❤️❤️recommendations❤️❤️

[@abbypage4722]

I hope you feel better so soon!!! Thank you for spoiling us with a video.

[@jenvcampbell]

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[@JillianMatchett]

Great video, Jen. I hope that you start to feel better soon.

[@TheBookishLand]

Thank you so much for such amazing recommendations, and hope you feel better soon! ❤️

[@salp7426]

Hope you feel better soon 😊

[@eve3103]

Get well soon, Jen! :)

[@teaspoones]

Such a joy to watch! I think I need Mrs Gaskell and me right now!

[@AuburnAfterglow]

Just finished Stay With Me. What a great book! Ayobami is coming to Warsaw in June for a book festival, which is very exciting. :) Very interesting recommendations :) Hope you feel better soon!!! xx My favourite book is Bronte's Villette and oh how I wish I could find a book like that again, big sigh :)

[@jenvcampbell]

Try The Half Sisters by Geraldine Jewsbury ☺️ x

[@AuburnAfterglow]

@@jenvcampbell Ohhh thank you so much! I definitely will! :D

[@VeronicasShelf]

Lovely video! I hope that may will treat you better than april did.

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

Get well soon Jen ☕️🌻🐰🐣🍀

[@jenvcampbell]

Thank you x

[@angelahampson391]

Really missed you Jen !

[@jenvcampbell]

Glad to be back! x

[@GreenBitterfly]

I love those Puffin Classic covers, it makes me sad that they're no longer available and the covers have been redesigned.

[@karlalikestoread]

I love recommendation videos like this so much! Your recommendations are always so good 😊 Hope you keep feeling better!

[@jenvcampbell]

Thank you, Karla x

[@katiejlumsden]

Yes, Mrs Gaskell and Me is so, so good! I definitely preferred it to Normal People. So many other great recommendations here! The Faster I Walk The Smaller I Am sounds amazing.

[@ЮлияАнтюфеева-ш2г]

An off-topic question about disfigurement. Are you familiar with Dissolution, Dark Fire, etc. by C.J. Sansom? It's a historical mystery written from the pov of a hunchback lawyer in 1540 London

[@ΔέσποιναΠασχαλίδου-ρ9ω]

You are the greatest booktuber no matter what is your health condition... I wish you to feel better soon! Greetings from Greece!

[@emilysmith3741]

Love your book recommendations. I was wondering why you don’t put ratings on books you’ve read on goodreads.

[@jenvcampbell]

Because I find star ratings slightly reductive without a written review, so I prefer to review on here instead. I just use goodreads as a way to track my reading.

[@emilysmith3741]

Makes total sense. 😊

[@sherlockholmeslives.1605]

Hi Jen! Perhaps you could try the debut novel by the classical pianist Stephen Hough, entitled 'The Final Retreat'. It is quite explicit and strong at the beginning, to do with homosexual sex within the church, but if you are a book lover why not give it a try if you wish? Cheers - Mike.

[@bluebell3441]

Thank you 🙏

[@milaces1323]

I told myself i wouldn't watch this video because i knew i'd want at least one book and my credit card is in red lol. But here i am and i think i'll order The Chameleon 😱 Welcome back Jen! I hope you're feeling better. 😙

[@jenvcampbell]

Thanks, Camila! x

[@electricmastro]

Interesting. My recommendations: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908) A Princess of Mars (1912) The Lost World (1912) O Pioneers! (1913) The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) Queen Lucia (1920) Whose Body? (1923) Red Harvest (1929) The Big Sleep (1939) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) Cannery Row (1945) Titus Groan (1946) The Member of the Wedding (1946) The Caine Mutiny (1951) The Dharma Bums (1958) To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) Call for the Dead (1961) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) Dune (1965) The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) Dragonflight (1968) Ringworld (1970) Rendezvous with Rama (1973) The Forever War (1974) Shōgun (1975) The Thorn Birds (1977) A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977) The Sword of Shannara (1977) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) The Bourne Identity (1980) A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) Housekeeping (1980) Gorky Park (1981) Alanna: The First Adventure (1983) The Color of Magic (1983) The Hunt for Red October (1984) Contact (1985) The Alchemist (1988) The Bean Trees (1988) Postmortem (1990) The Eye of the World (1990) The Firm (1991) All the Pretty Horses (1992) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994) The Alienist (1994) The Golden Compass (1995) Sabriel (1995) Daughter of Fortune (1998) Motherless Brooklyn (1999) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) The Eyre Affair (2001) Empire Falls (2001) Inkheart (2003) Case Histories (2004) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) Moon Called (2006) The Thirteenth Tale (2006) The Name of the Wind (2007)