books i want to finish before 2024 finishes me

[@hannakonicki7989]

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

[@Kristinaxprr]

Underrated comment 😂

[@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!!

[@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

[@daniellerussomanno188]

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

[@mtnyas]

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

[@valitianime]

Wait what about Intermezzo, you owe us an explanation darling

[@just_swiftly_shake_it_off_1989]

REAL

[@AD-ig2br]

... He read it and didn't like it?

[@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.

[@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. 🙏

[@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!!

[@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.

[@melancholiclamb]

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

[@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

[@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 .

[@nyquildaydream]

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

[@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 :')

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@dx_1]

Jack make your mic work challenge

[@jack_in_the_books]

impossible

[@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!!

[@Praneetha_Devarakonda]

BESTIE POSTED!!!!

[@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.

[@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

[@silergal9994]

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

[@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.

[@annabellemcghee]

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

[@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?

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@jil8091]

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

[@Marina-nz7mb]

makes me so happy that you're reading catalan fiction

[@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.

[@missshutova]

Whatsup with the candles?

[@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

[@sharinajarmila]

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

[@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 😅

[@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

[@Marina-nz7mb]

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

[@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?

[@MichaelThompson-f5u]

it's really crazy how nobody is talking about the book The Hidden Path to Manifesting Financial Power, it changed my life

[@kaizen2049]

The title is so relatable 😅

[@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.

[@nicolemikaelson8493]

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

[@BlakeFrancis]

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

[@Hannah_Ray]

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

[@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 😊

[@lottajarvi2907]

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

[@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

[@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

[@MeghanReadsFantasy]

Did pumpkin spice cafe do anything for my intellect? Nope. Did I enjoy it as a pallet cleanser after reading super heavy depressing books? Absolutely. Purely for cute cozy vibes

[@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.

[@readingobsessedRAH]

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

[@michelleizoco]

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

[@eieiasuki]

those candles represent me and my 2024 reading goals 😂

[@MadihaChaudhary-vf2xs]

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

[@davidrees_]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@laurenschenck5355]

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

[@MizzEanaj]

I keep saying I’ll read James Baldwin. Definitely high on my list.

[@jmsl_910]

giovanni's room is one if the most memorable books. you won't regret starting there

[@MizzEanaj]

@ saw it recommended a few times so I put that one on hold on Libby. Looking forward to it!

[@kingboogy7706]

Perfect first video to watch today :D

[@Books_with_Bethan]

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

[@AliceLeadle]

when I tell u I was SAT when I saw the notification

[@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. 🎉

[@JustLisaLife]

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

[@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

[@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! 💖🎄❄️🎉

[@spiritedreviewexc]

guess im taking a 14 year break ._. all joking aside i now use your saying: ¨that´s a problem for future me¨ so thank you for that saying the christmas tree farm is in the same setting....you will hate it but the cinnimon bun book shop is the second one...well dreaming of a heart lake christmas is a libary book so i kinda HAVE to finish that, and the rest of the second Mistborn book...I just dumped 17 books away today so while i feel good, im rather tired.

[@scarfacekid97]

My favorite book youtuber 🙌

[@laurenschenck5355]

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

[@jasdancer20]

Dropped in to see if Brat is in this video because it's been on your "Reading" list on GR forever queen

[@abirhussein9781]

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

[@helenaYaps]

you should do a reading vlog!!!

[@celeste_072]

ooo I spy The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBriiiiiddddde! That was on my top five this year, woo!

[@Realmisskrose]

Because I think I'll finish The Obelisk Gate by Christmas, I'm going to pick back up Obsolescence which is a collection of short Sci-Fi, fantasy and horror short stories.

[@haruka.h560]

My slow -ass- of a reader with my " Little Women" copy watching this: 🤡 I gotta step up my game 😂😂

[@PokhrajRoy.]

The title is awesome 🙌🏽

[@maisytidwell3080]

criminal for me to be this early on my binge

[@isabellajohnson956]

I’m rereading my favorite book of this year(Merciless Saviors by H.E.Edgmon) and post Christmas I have one book I want to read but I don’t know what it is yet. My sister said she found a special edition of a book I’ve wanted to read, and my mom said I’m going to cry when I open it BUT I have no idea what it could bc I never shut up about books😂

[@desireesterner1393]

Yay! Some swedish representation that is not Fredrik Backman! Selma Lagerlöf is an icon

[@seymakara5641]

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

[@diya_777]

The most hilarious title jack has ever made.

[@Q88888i]

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

[@just_swiftly_shake_it_off_1989]

I actually SCREAMED when I saw he posted

[@grff_]

Can anyone write down the name of the book and author for 4:37 I can't seem to find it

[@jack_in_the_books]

Eva Baltasar! Permafrost / Boulder / Mammoth

[@just_swiftly_shake_it_off_1989]

Yes, it's the trilogy by Eva Baltasar - so the first book is Permafrost, second is Boulder, and the last book in the trilogy is Mammoth

[@grff_]

@@jack_in_the_books Thank you!

[@grff_]

@@just_swiftly_shake_it_off_1989 thank u so much!

[@just_swiftly_shake_it_off_1989]

@@grff_ oh i didn't see that he replied too loll woops there u go (I think it was cause I hadn't refreshed or something?)

[@kimberlypuetz6020]

Just started The People in the Trees by Hanya Hanagihara. It’s the last book I have to read from her.

[@biyaskarmakar6363]

Jack I am about to read my first James Baldwin book... I was thinking "If Beale street could talk"... Do you have any better recommendations to start with or any tips?

[@katjabolstad9104]

beale street is a great intro to baldwin, avery quintessential baldwin book. however, another country is mye favorite (and i assume, also the fan favourite)

[@LinnieCat]

Selma Lagerlöf ❤

[@Daisypatel-xx4qb]

Now he's gonna think I"m a fan

[@AD-ig2br]

Is there no way to stop youtube from automatically translating the audio (and saying the original is "english (USA)" ) ? automatically translating the titles of the videos ? (I assume they do that especially in December to boost their ad revenue? I use an adblocker cause it's ******* impossible to enjoy this website otherwise)

[@runrgrl35]

Have been so busy I haven’t been able to get through the book I’m currently reading “Kiss Her once for Me” then I hope to read (before Christmas 🤦🏻‍♀️) The story of Santa Clause by L Frank Baum

[@TheLastNonWriter]

Hey Jack just wanted to ask what mic you are using! The sound is crisp and has depth

[@maitryvaghela2079]

Hello Jack, I hope you're doing well. I was wondering if you could provide information or create a video about the book banning that's supposed to take place in America in January. As a well-known booktuber, I thought you might be able to shed some light on this situation.

[@swandogmillionaire]

The pumpkin cafe book is single handedly the worst written book I’ve ever read. It’s absolute nonsense and I hated every character

[@Trampolina2000]

Selma Lagerlöf wheyyyy Scandi rep

[@lament22]

jack slayward

[@annad1590]

Jack have you read Intermezzo 😭😂💙

[@meikusje]

Please turn off the AI audio track setting if you can, YT is glitching tf out and it won't turn back to English :')