books i want to finish before 2024 finishes me

[@hannakonicki7989]

jack’s candles in the background leaning in to listen / /

[@violetakl3228]

😂😂😂

[@darinetta]

😂

[@warshysjournal156]

Ahahaha good one, cracked me up ❤

[@sunpi]

Jack we’ve got two weeks. 2 weeks!! 😭

[@jack_in_the_books]

sorry i filmed this a few weeks ago but only just got round to editing!!

[@bismutfan2211]

I am worried that I won't even finish the one book I am reading right now

[@cosmari245]

@@bismutfan2211 i believe in u, u got this

[@PopCulturePalettes]

@@bismutfan2211Hey if you don’t, at least it’s 1 book’s worth of a head start for your book count for 2025!

[@Zaranelsonn]

I was just searching for what to watch while eating

[@Ato_ong]

Omgg same! 🤣

[@hippie1325]

I’m glad we all live the same life. 😂

[@show-uchannel]

Eating with one hand adding books to my want to read list with the other 😤

[@Amanda-if7ey]

Same!

[@apple_baked_rican]

😂😂this

[@mtnyas]

"sometimes we need a little charcuterie board in our lives and christmas is the time for.. cheese" so good lol

[@bookowlie4376]

Was just about to post a comment saying exactly this😆

[@amisharanjan1320]

My new year's resolution was to read a book a week, and I'm on the 44th one rn!! I was just reading "Days at the Morisaki Bookshop" when the notification popped up on my screen and I see you holding the sequel!!

[@norajancso2592]

hey completely random idea, maybe you don’t relate since it’s clearly your passion, but I would love a video about how you make time to read so much, or decide what to read

[@daniellerussomanno188]

Honestly, I think we have all earned a silly/cheesy Christmas read this year. Predictable, safe, and relaxing.

[@brianbrady9922]

bestie got me onto piranesi, honestly my favorite book, I have a paperback that I borrow out to friends and a hardcover to love and protect. so many people say it got them out of their reading rut. thank you bestie.

[@aamnahere6250]

I've just finished 'Stoner' by John Williams and I am genuinely surprised by how much I loved it. It's a book that exceptionally navigates the ways in which ordinary people grapple with the presence of absence and the ways in which they attempt to carve meaning in their lives. It's a book that exists in the shadow of a stoic silence as it explores the passion keeping a life ignited and the loneliness that manages to creep and settle into one's bones while doing so.

[@peaseblossom4252]

That’s a beautiful summary-you’ve inspired me to pick it up. Thank you. 🙏

[@alisonwoodrow6424]

Try Carol Shields the stone diaries - it's a female lead similar themes...

[@commonknowledge260]

I read it last year and loved it so much!

[@borolad44]

Yes ! Stoner is my all time favourite. Think I’m due a reread ❤

[@Pingucado]

Hi Jack! I love your content, but I'm also having a request. I've always been a really slow reader and I am also a super busy person which leaves me almost no time to read. I watch my tbr list grow longer and longer but I'm afraid it's just unrealistic for me to read all these books before I retire. Could you maybe do a video about books you think someone with little time on their hands should absolutely read? Just a small collection of "Everybody should've read that". Maybe also books who won't take someone busy 3-4 months to finish (which is for me 1000 pages approx). I'd love to see something like this. Keep up the good content and have a beautiful Christmas!

[@jmsl_910]

do you ever use audiobooks?

[@nyquildaydream]

it makes me giggle when you can tell jack realizes his mic isn't working because suddenly the audio quality goes up 🤭

[@ahrin_22]

Just started the pumpkin spice cafe, I also have the 2 other books in the series for my cozy reads this year and try to finish them before EOY. I also have the Morisaki Bookshop series which I will be including on my next year’s TBR..

[@matildemortensen7304]

For so long I have been wanting to read "Just kids" by Patti Smith, and finally my mom got it for me on December 1st and I love her for that!!

[@just_swiftly_shake_it_off_1989]

yay for you!!

[@user-qu8zs7vs1x]

I miss reading wrap ups. Havent seen one on this channel since this summer.

[@Bookswithcharlotte]

Love watching reading wrap ups too ❤

[@valitianime]

Wait what about Intermezzo, you owe us an explanation darling

[@just_swiftly_shake_it_off_1989]

REAL

[@valitianime]

@ that will end me

[@jmsl_910]

maybe he is still thinking on it... he loves SR & im sure he wants to get his review *exactly*right.

[@user-qu8zs7vs1x]

The Rooney cult is so strong that KZbinrs are afraid of saying they didn't like it probably

[@sapphire_1710_lost]

Christmas themed books this year are just ABSOLUTELY SLAPPING. On the track to finish reading 30k pages this year but its a pretty tight deadline. Anyways love the videos and Merry Christmas!

[@annabellemcghee]

I am reading Mammoth right now after hearing you talk about Boulder and Permafrost and devouring them myself!!

[@Simmi_]

The end of year ambition hits hard. My last final is on the 23rd and I have at least 4 books I plan to finish that last week of the year.

[@SuperSibsGaming]

1:40 exactly how I felt about "What You Are Looking For Is in the Library" by Michiko Aoyama (translated by Alison Watts); it was the exact book I needed in that moment and hit me so hard because of it that I find myself always recommending it to people now.

[@71gauri]

God I m reading Christmas tree farm and I needed something exactly like what you described!! V Christmassy, breezy, warm, cozy and requires no thought. I have been v burnt out lately- gonna take some time to read for some days and recharge.

[@96iceshell]

Ooh, the Selma Lagerlof book should be really good. One of her stories called The Christmas Rose is in the Penguin Book of Christmas Stories clothbound classic, and it's my standout favourite from the first half of the collection that I've read so far over the last 2 years - I even took it round my friends house to read it out loud to them last week. I imagine her other writing is just as wonderful. I hope you enjoy x

[@eventingbyjulia]

Omg a GASPED when you had a book from THE Selma Lagerlöf in your hand. As a Swede she is an absolute legend and I’ve read almost all her stories, they are incredible. I really encourage you to read more about and from her, she’s a fascinating person. I recommend En Herrgårdssägen if they have it translated.

[@gabiwonderwall0582]

The wonderful adventures of Nils was one of my childhood books, which I loved very much and have never forgotten❤

[@anurlailika]

Mine is Wuthering Heights!! Didn’t really like it in my first attempt, but now the weather is gloomier it seems like the perfect time to start again

[@Sh3rrr]

I did that with Jane Eyre, glad I did. Good luck :)

[@nabussumlaskar9813]

I am on the 15th page for the last 10 days . Just can't read it . I seriously need to complete reading it .

[@anurlailika]

​@@Sh3rrr omg i loved jane eyre! Seems the bronte sisters likes brooding man so much huh 😂

[@anurlailika]

​@@nabussumlaskar9813this was me but now i enjoyed it much more. Read it with me! 😄

[@conchesodan]

All of these options sound so good. I have to check my library and see what tbr for the season... Now that I think of... I might as well, read Maurice again.

[@victoriakohler627]

A Christmas Carol was #1 to finish. I failed to read it last year but I just finished it last week. Now, hoping to finish “A visitors guide to Jane Austin’s England” by Sue Wilkes before the end of the year.

[@PinkyJapan]

Sadly I felt the exact same way about The Pumpkin Spice Cafe and The Christmas Tree Farm. The covers and small town cozy vibes were a 10/10, but the characters weren’t likable or memorable at all. 😭 I prefer cozy mysteries when I need a cozy fix. Oftentimes they’ll have an array of lovable, whacky characters and a slow burn romance that is just perfection.

[@alexandraszabo9925]

Seeing how much you love books brings me so so so much joy and hope, thank you for sharing and inspiring! Also the library looks so good! I really want to finish The Setting Sun but I was in a different mental space when i started that one (aka I broke my arm and am somehow feel more alive than I did pre-break???)... so Im reading Anxious People instead... but yeah The Setting Sun is my dusty bedside book atm.

[@schlossburg985]

God, not the AI-translated/voiced audio tracks for other languages 😭 Got jumpscared hearing that stuff upon clicking

[@my4hvids]

Try the auto translated captions instead if you can. That sounds horrible

[@schlossburg985]

@@my4hvids Oh no worries, I'm perfect fine with English, it's just annoying youtube automatically switched me to these horrible AI-voiced audio tracks

[@aficklefangirl2566]

it does that for me all the time for random languages! idk why they think I can speak 27 different languages, but they do...

[@schlossburg985]

@@aficklefangirl2566 At least for me it turns on the track for my native language but it's still so weird! I want to hear the actual guy who made the video lol

[@meikusje]

Were you able to get it back to English? Because that doesn't work for me for some reason, so I'm stuck with an Italian audio track, even though I'm not Italian and also not in Italy :')

[@juliehughes1258]

Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm is in the Folio Society Christmas book and I read it for the first time a few days ago. It was BONKERS and I absolutely loved it. I’ve ordered the full Cold Comfort Farm book and I can’t hardly wait to read that as well.

[@Marina-nz7mb]

makes me so happy that you're reading catalan fiction

[@LibrariesandLattes]

When you said you don’t care if the characters from The Pumpkin Spice Cafe live or die, I’ve never related to anything more 😂 I recently read The Christmas Tree Farm and it was about the same for me haha

[@cloverkpop]

the one book I really want to finish by the end of 2024 is Pachinko, It's been sitting on my nightstand for months and I reallllly want to get to it since I've heard such good things about the writing

[@balletbookworm]

Oh boy, if you haven't read *Cold Comfort Farm* do that - it's like what if Emma had to move in with the Bates' family but they have a farm and secrets LOL My end of year targets include *Orbital* by Samantha Harvey, *Butter* by Asako Yuzuki, also have *The Christmas Tree Farm* on there (haha), *Let it Glow* by Marissa Meyer and (some other author who's first name I forgot but the last one is Levy), and the fifth *Before the Coffee Gets Cold* book

[@beaniebaby485]

I love Cold Comfort Farm, I watch the movie at least once a year

[@just_swiftly_shake_it_off_1989]

"you don't have to have it all figured out. you don't have to know where you're going or what you're doing at all times," damn that hit me cause i feel behind and not enough on a daily basis... the pressure to be dating someone, having a lot of friends and going a lot of places; whereas I don't have any of those. It's just 😭

[@mc99-gs21]

I cannot recommend “What you are looking for is in the library” enough if this is how you’re feeling

[@just_swiftly_shake_it_off_1989]

@@mc99-gs21 which author? is it Michiko Aoyama?

[@Marina-nz7mb]

so excited to hear what you think of the susanna clarke christmas novel. piranesi is so good

[@joan98610]

Eva Baltasar’s new book in Catalan was published this year, I don’t know if it will be translated, but it focuses more on poverty and the dynamics that come with it. Not her best book but worth it, I hope they translate it soon

[@kirstylou4615]

lol there's a petting zoo kind of farm near me called christmas tree farm and I had an intense phobia for chickens for like a decade because I got pecked to shit by their evil chickens while trying to feed them when I was like 7 so hearing the words 'Christmas Tree Farm' gave me war flashbacks

[@lottajarvi2907]

I just read piranesi from your recommendation and you were so right, it was amazing!!

[@silergal9994]

Just put more days at the morisaki bookshop in my bag for a skiing trip😂😂

[@sarahfrith1984]

Fair play to you for continuing the dream harbor series Jack, the pumpkin spice cafe was enough for me! I’m trying Christmas books myself this year - I’m reading snowed in at the cat cafe, lovelight farms and one set in Ireland called snowed in 😊

[@chaoticidiottt]

jack that background is absolutely stunning

[@diya_777]

The most hilarious title jack has ever made.

[@melissavankasteren103]

Currently starting to read A farwell to arms by Hemingway. I LOVED A moveable feast. So christmas is the perfect time for another banger of him!❤😊

[@Ankesadventures]

Jack, I would love to know how many of these books you always end up reading.

[@MissAnnenas]

Currently reading Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, which I picked up in the local bookshop after reading the back of the book. It is a slow read for me, so kinda wished I just bought it in Dutch (my native language), but it is such an interesting and beautifully written book. Therefore, I am hoping I will be able to finish it in 2024. I have seen it on your bookshelves, which keeps me wondering if you have read it and what your opinion is (or will be) 🧐

[@BenJohnson-tt5ed]

Finally reading spring snow by mishima, need it done by Christmas Eve bc I’ve reserved that night for small things like these!!!!

[@pranee_27]

BESTIE POSTED!!!!

[@abirhussein9781]

Hay, I was just wondering where to start with my Joan Didion journey. Much appreciated 😊

[@michelleizoco]

I want to the Scum Villain's Self-Saving System quartet before the year is out, as well as a few graphic novels I've been putting off. I really want to read Mongrel but it's not out yet digitally and at the moment I'm not buying any physical books.

[@etienneenthusiast]

wasn't expecting to see svss under a jack edwards video 😂

[@michelleizoco]

@@etienneenthusiast LOL I know what you mean. It's like when I see TGCF or MDZS anywhere where I don't expect to. 😝

[@missshutova]

Whatsup with the candles?

[@helenaYaps]

you should do a reading vlog!!!

[@Bookswithcharlotte]

That would be great if he did ❤

[@vegemite_toast]

Candle advice lol: Drip some wax into the bottom of those candle holders and set the candle into it and then they wont fall

[@IsabelleHols]

Jack thanks to you my Reading List is getting to the Size of a small Library 😫

[@MsIlovemusic07]

Im reading a ton in the next two weeks. I just got back into reading and I’ve only read like 10 books these past couple of months. Gonna try for a total of 30 this year. I will have like a week and a half off work tho so that’ll help. Reading lots of shorter books for sure.

[@Hannah_Ray]

Oh my gosh you are going to love more days at the morisaki bookshop! It’s the most heartwarming book❤️

[@melancholiclamb]

i love how much jack admires and speaks of woman, we love you too!

[@aralka01]

I want to finish a book of Oscar Wilde short stories and then I have The Catcher in the Rye and Beowulf ready. ...yes I am slowly catching up with essential reading. It's been a few years since I've left school, but I've never actually read these.

[@jmsl_910]

Catcher in Rye first!!! it's seasonally perfect!!!

[@aralka01]

@jmsl_910 That's the idea! I got it in October and read the first few pages and then I decided to keep it for December to fit with the season

[@julia-xi2jp]

The leaning candles omg😂 have you tried holding a flame to the bottom of the candle stick before placing it in the holder? If you hold the candle still while it cools that can sometimes help the candle not fall crooked. Not fool proof but possible fix!

[@Lili_Maybe]

The three books I'm hoping to finish before the end of the year are 'After Sappho' by Selby Wynn Schwartz, 'dd's umbrella' by Hwang Jungeun and 'Biography of X' by Catherine Lacey! I also have audiobooks going for 'Rejections' by Tony Tulathimutte and 'The Centre' by Ayesha Manazar Siddiqi, so I'm hoping to finish those before the end of the year as well. I'm not sure how realistic it is to finish all of those, as I'm currently quite busy, but we can dream 😅

[@jil8091]

I really wanted to finish Almond and I actually did just yesterday. I LOVED it

[@djunaskye6220]

I'd love to get to My Best Friend's Exorcism before the end of the year. I've been wanting to read it since last year and I bought a copy in October thinking I'd read it right away. It's literally been collecting dust on my TBR shelf.

[@cajsa1809]

my next book that im so excited to read is called queens of sarmiento park by camila sosa villada? so that one! also hope ill be able to get another book in before the end of the year but we'll see😭(not decided which one though)

[@georgiac2993]

I'm going to be really interested in how you like Mongrel because I too thought it sounded great, but I finished it feeling like it didn't live up to its potential. It was good, but relied on too many tropes and also completely failed to fully explore some really interesting aspects of these women's lives that I felt could have made the book so much more intriguing

[@dx_1]

Jack make your mic work challenge

[@jack_in_the_books]

impossible

[@eieiasuki]

those candles represent me and my 2024 reading goals 😂

[@GreytHound]

For frivolous fun the Christmas Trees Farm was okay. I've read all 3 in the series and the second one Cinnamon Bun Bookshop was my fave. They 're cute and cosy and totally a seasonal vibe. Also a nice break from crime thrillers of difficult to navigate fantasy. And. welcome break from reality.

[@lisalavelle3608]

Jack no pressure but where's the intermezzo vid

[@marabookstagram]

If you're looking for a fun holiday romance, Second Chances in New Port Stephen was so good! It’s a second chance romance with Guncle vibes.

[@kaizen2049]

The title is so relatable 😅

[@nataliekaye8708]

Just a lil note as it was mentioned, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm is a sequel of sorts. Stella Gibbons' is best known and plauded for her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm written in the 30s. So if you don't dig xmas at CCF, you might still like Cold Comfort Farm. It's a parody of romantic pastoral novels (think Thomas Hardy). Or if the book doesn't appeal, there was a rather fun movie adaptation (featuring Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen, Rufus Sewell, etc.)

[@justinestacey222]

ahh, im finishing The Memory Police and im so so so obsessed

[@alexreid1173]

I have so many books that I’ve started but haven’t finished this year… and I keep thinking that I should finish them, but then I get distracted and start another one lol

[@laurenschenck5355]

Merry Christmas happy holidays Jack! 💚☃️🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻❄️🎁🌨️🎁❤️🎅🏻☃️🎄💚🎅🏻☃️💚💚

[@brittanymcmcmc9730]

"Our Share of Night" is a book I started in October and then due to other circumstances couldn't finish - now my goal is to finish that and just one poetry book I also already started! I'm about 50% through Our Share of Night!! 🤞 What a better way to celebrate Christmas than with Cults LOL

[@abirhussein9781]

I found the Morikami trio you purchased in New York . The one that fell out of your hand.

[@jakiblue_jb]

Cosy Christmas books never work for me - they’re always set in UK or America and full of crackling fireplaces, hot toddies/hot chocolates, snow, cold and invoke visions of snuggling up in a comfy chair before the fireplace…meanwhile here in Australia at Christmas, I’ve got the air con blasting, and refusing to leave the house to go out in the 36C+ heat! 🥵🥵 Drenched in sweat from the heat while reading about magical white Christmases just…doesn’t….work 😢😢 I do however, want to read the Satoshi Yagisawa bookshop ones you mentioned at the beginning - I’ve recently discovered these Japanese ‘cosy’ books and am really enjoying them. As to your question…’Lola in the Mirror’ by the incomparable Trent Dalton has been sitting in my TBR pile for MONTHS! I really really want to read it, but I’ve put it off for so long because I love his books so much, I won’t want to finish it! I keep thinking, I’ll hang on till his next book is out so I’ll have another one to read straight after..but at the same time, I desperately want to read ‘Lola..’! 😅 Does anyone else ever put off reading a book by a favourite author cos you can’t bear to finish it, knowing there isn’t another one out to read?? Lol!

[@nicolemikaelson8493]

I am reading Intermezzo right now and I REALLY LOVE IT SO FAR!!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

The title is awesome 🙌🏽

[@MadihaChaudhary-vf2xs]

I don't really comment on videos but i just wanted to tell you i Love your videos jack

[@scarfacekid97]

My favorite book youtuber 🙌

[@Bookswithcharlotte]

Jack really is one of the best

[@marabookstagram]

Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm sounds great for my grumpy heart!

[@BlakeFrancis]

Kings of the Wyld and Man on the mountaintop because they were recommended by friends and cannot wait to discuss it with them!

[@ollieb.9731]

I'm trying to finish Ocean's Echo before the end of the year. I paused it to read a couple of Christmassy romcoms but it's a little daunting to get back into it cause it's a dense (for me) scifi, but I was liking it.

[@csmith5704]

I just binged "Compound" by Andrew Joseph White all day today. I bought the book for my friend for christmas but I really wanted to read it first lol so I finished it just in time!! I'm giving it to him tonight ahaha. It is in good condition (I took the sleeve off the hardcover and everything) Usually with this author, I gift him the book whether it's christmas or his birthday and after a week of reading it, he loans it to me to read but I just had to read it first. It was sitting in the giftbag just calling my name. So I binged read it 🤣 I'll tell him later ahaha

[@Q88888i]

I need to read more 8 books to achieve my 2024 reading goal 🙏🏻💀

[@Bookswithcharlotte]

You’ve got this, I’m sure you can do it ❤

[@banana6236]

I need to know where the jacket in this video is from - its so cozy, i need it!!!

[@sharinajarmila]

Dream harbor sounds like a good place to park your boat for a bit.

[@my4hvids]

I'm freestyling for the end of the year. I have some books available free on Audible Plus that won't be free after the 31st. So, I'm listening to an Alien Novelization right now. I don't know what's next. On paper I have "Wait For Last Year" by Philip K. Dick. I'll probably get another short paper or ebook in. As always, thanks for your video. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. 🎉

[@orian57]

I’ve amassed a huge collection of stuff I just haven’t listened to so I’ve just been doing a random number generator to help me pick. Currently in the middle of “a tale for the time being” by Ruth Ozeki which I’m having a lot of fun with. The next book my randomiser spat out is some trashy military sci Fi I was sold on at some point. I must obey the number though.

[@AO2437.]

I need to finish Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, started it at a time I just wasn’t in the headspace for it but feel like I might be kinda soon. The Cork Dork is my next read though, after the last two chapters of Intermezzo

[@kingboogy7706]

Perfect first video to watch today :D

[@Mirabelle_maier]

im so close to finishing 'the razors edge' by maugham, hopefully i can finish it before the new year! merry christmas!

[@lisa-fairytale]

I am currently reading Selma Lagerlöfs book "Gösta Berlings saga", as it is called here in Sweden. I suppose it could be translated into "the saga/story of Gösta Berling" I'm reading it for my litteraturescience programme at uni. I also have three other books I need to finish after that, Bram Stokers Dracula, Brontës Jane Eyre and "Drottningens juvelsmycke" by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist. We're reading alot of different books published during the romance era, different novels from different genres, such as adventure novels, picaresc novels and bildungs novels. (Unsure if I've spelled or translated them to english correctly. 😅) So I've already finished two books for this and still have all of these left now. Wish me luck! 🙏😂📚📚 I hope to be able to finish as many of them as possible during the holidays. 🙏📚 On that note, have a wonderful holiday season, Jack, and everyone else! 💖🎄❄️🎉

[@bestest_mensch]

Feel like I need to give Piranesi another try. I couldn’t get into it

[@JustLisaLife]

I just went to the library to get one (!) book. I left with five... So now I have some work to do😅

[@laurenschenck5355]

Wonderful books Jack! ☃️🎅🏻💚💚🎅🏻❤️☃️🎁💚🌨️🎄❤️☃️☃️❄️❄️🎁🎁❄️

[@BessmaITube]

I'm more astonished for the idea of reading all of that in 10 days only lol

[@davidrees_]

Not me waiting as well for each season to arrive to continue reading the Seasonal Quartet

[@seymakara5641]

How can i be so early ? Love what youre doing with this channel btww !

[@Books_with_Bethan]

2024 is definitely going to finish me before I finish my TBR 😂 I've already accepted defeat.