100 books I want to read before I die

[@fishshark2009]

War and peace as number 1 took me out 😂😂😂

[@zohabaig6426]

The way I BURST out laughing at S lmao I've been subscribed for yearssss and that book has always been on the TBR

[@LilyCReads10]

It would be easier at this point to vow NOT to read it

[@zohabaig6426]

@@LilyCReads10 Lmao we all have that one book that's been on the list since before our births

[@kousetsuhana]

for Dracula, it being epistolary, I recommend using the website that sends you the letters via email throughout the year so you read them on the dates they are written and you read the whole novel over several months.

[@pretentioussunshine]

It's called dracula daily if anyone's wondering!

[@jodie3950]

@@pretentioussunshine That sounds so cool! Thank you! I remember reading Dracula in high school but it was the abridged version. Gonna re-read it with this.

[@marianamauricio]

"Every now and then a classic will just call to me. Idk why. Maybe it's calling for help bc it's been on the TBR for probably like 5 years" lmaooo

[@juliaguedes4663]

DIANA’S MEMOIR IS SO GOOD

[@JulEnglefaris]

Frankenstein is short, and good for any time of year IMO.

[@IDK4378]

Video idea: random nuber generator pucks a book from that list to read

[@LilyCReads10]

Hey this is cool!!

[@andrearobyn3701]

For books over 1,000 pages, I'd recommend reading it as an e-book. More comfortable to read for one, but also it makes it far less intimidating when you don't physically see all the unread pages.

[@redsands1001]

100% agree on it being less intimidating

[@imgunnagetyou]

i actually love seeing all the unread pages and seeing my progress :D

[@sophiapetrane8142]

Don Quick Oats and Napoleon Dynamite are killing me hahaha

[@countrye3013]

I've been watching your channel for a very long time and I just want to say that the personal growth you've had has been really great to watch. I appreciate that you can look back and call yourself out. My books: 1984, The Road which has been on my shelf for ten years now, and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

[@LilyCReads10]

Thank you so much! I do wanna read some of Kazuo Ishiguro's books too, especially Klara and the Sun!

[@MiakoKoizora]

I literally just started The Remains of the Day!!

[@becklebooks]

I'm excited for you to read Percy Jackson, you could smash them out so fast cos they're kids books. Also if you need any Brando Sando tips let me know. Mistborn is a good spot to start! I finished my tbr this year so top 3 books before I die??? Idk probably some fantasy that I find intriguing? Don't make me panic.

[@LilyCReads10]

I will defo be coming to you when i start sanderson's stuff 😅🙏

[@densilhmay8262]

You finished your tbr? 😭 what is this sorcery? My tbr has grown so big, I don't even know half the books that are on it anymore or why I even put them on the list to begin with lmao

[@KathyTrithardt]

I made a 40 Before 40 TBR a couple years ago, and got other people to suggest titles. Funnily enough, someone's first addition to my list was _War and Peace_ too! I have completed that one (I am definitely not going in order) but only got through it because my library had an audiobook. Definitely more war than peace in that freaking beast of a tome.

[@Gostpepperchicken]

Girl give us a bookshelf tour!

[@LilyCReads10]

Coming soon!

[@ThatsBrutal1212]

10:50 I wanna hear your review on ACOTAR lol

[@melancholiame]

Night Film is my favourite book ever and i found out about it through your channel ages ago haha

[@RossMcCarthy-qk3yp]

Lily not having read S is just established at this point. It's not changing 😂😂The fact that you've lugged that gigantic book through moving is crazy

[@saschabeth1852]

My two biggest ones are The Book Thief and Frankenstein. I started reading TBT in high school and loved it immediately but I was in the biggest reading slump of a lifetime (lasted 3 years) and never made it past the first chapter. I’ve also been assigned Frankenstein at least twice for class and same thing happened. Started reading, liked it immediately, never got around to properly finishing. I feel like both of these will become instant favorites but their season just hasn’t rolled around yet.

[@xxoldmagicxx]

I made myself do an essay on Frankenstein so I’d finish it lmao since then I’ve grown to appreciate it more, at the time the old school English made my dyslexic brain sob…

[@elainagilbert7663]

I'm excited to hear the On the Road story. 1. Anna Karenina 2. The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings 3. all of the original Grimms Brothers fairytales

[@d.j.i.b.s]

Pleeease do 'a song of ice and fire' aka Game of thrones marathon series 😅😅. Your HP marathon actually got me to read the books

[@fun0fl0ve1]

I think the best time of year for Dracula is July-August for you! You need the cold winter air and candles to get you in the mood

[@LilyCReads10]

This is so true! October may be halloween vibes but it's hard to get into it when the weather is so nice out

[@toplazima]

i also want to read dracula so i decided to subscribe to the dracula daily newsletter next year and read it that way. it's going to take months but i think it's fun

[@t0dd000]

As I get older, the more this topic is relevant to me. My mother was 81 when she died and I remember her trying to get as much reading in as possible because "There're so many books. I just can't get to them all!" I'm now weaving in classics as much as possible. Cuz … we only have so much time.

[@scooby1264]

loved this video too haha ive got so many of these books in my tbr x

[@VampireLaura1997]

I read a lot of the classic books from your list about 2 years ago. My New Year’s resolution that year was to read one classic novel per week for an entire years now that I had a fully developed frontal lobe and stuff. Some of them were absolutely phenomenal. I’d never heard of Steinbeck and started with Mice and Men. It spired me to read all his other books. One even won a novel price. Phenomenal writer! Jane Austen has been my favourite since I was a little girl. You’re going to LOVE her (I predict) as well as all the dystopians you mentioned. Oh and anything Dumas, especially The count of Monte Cristo. However, some of them were such stinkers. I read everything by Charles Dickens including a tale of two cities. It was, in fact, shit. As you said, getting paid by the page. The man waffles, as my English teacher used to say. I read all his notable books and they were all…oh well. Lolita was kind of disappointing, because I really thought the vibe would be thriller-y and psychological. Like actually looking into the head of a pedo. In the end he was just a sad sack of shit honestly 😂 Some other notable stinkers were Dorian Grey (will get crucified for it, don’t care), Don Quixote (first was okay the second was ridiculous even for its own standard) and Moby Dick, my arch nemesis. Not on your list but it had to be said. Bonus: if you read handmaidens tale, definitely get the prequel. It was published a few years ago after a 15 year hiatus and I almost loved it even more than the original. It will literally leave you questioning everything you felt during the first. One of m faves indeed.

[@nka30]

Loved Frankenstein and Dracula, but I would say it’s not for everyone. Curious to hear your thoughts on it.

[@ornellaaribam]

I have the same copy of The DaVinci Notebooks and LOTR! Also, Salem's Lot is so expensive i had to download it from Internet Archive.

[@D1E8V2]

“If you give me a list of 100, I’m gonna block you.” 😂😂

[@ChanelChapters]

“Book blue balls” 🤣

[@lalainez3245]

Loved your note on the old man and the sea. Same goes for 100 years of solitude, I think. I don't know anyone that read it and didn't feel a deep empty void of pure boredom page after page after page. In fact, I don't know anyone that could finish it for that same reason. A must read before you die classic, though.

[@dqan7372]

Some great reading ahead! I hope you enjoy.

[@WanderingLily06]

I’ve also had House of Leaves on my shelf for years 😅 I do absolutely recommend Night Film! Very trippy, very fun My three books are The Alphabet series by Sue Grafton (has to be on my deathbed because the fact we will never get Z will drive me insane) Like you, The Stormlight Archive And my third I have no idea

[@ninakocjancic9346]

S is on my TBR for january! It just came in the mail last week. My three to read before I die: Matterhorn Illuminaries Master and Margarita

[@LilyCReads10]

Let me know the best way to read S. once you've finished! it seems like there's apparently multiple ways to go about it 👀

[@aesyfreedom9655]

House of Leaves and Dracula are my two faves of all time

[@TamilaSushkova]

1) Having Wheel of Time and also Stormlight is so funny because Wheel of time is 15 books and Stormlight at the mo is 5 books with 5 MORE books planned (same with mistborn - 3 in era 1, 4 in era 2 and an era 3 is in the works lmao)

[@ruaks4323]

The nightingale, outlander and rebecca are three i can think i’d need to read before i die

[@Rachaelinwonderland998]

I would actually recommend les miserables over war and peace, it’s such a good book!

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I finished the Percy Jackson series this year!

[@LilyCReads10]

That's awesome!!

[@marianamauricio]

i remember when you first talked about "S"!! i added it to my tbr and it's still there, too 😭😭😭

[@LilyCReads10]

We're in this together 😂🔥

[@marianamauricio]

@@LilyCReads10 one day. we can do it, i believe!!!

[@crnaburma-j1z]

We need more people like this telling us truth! Just finished reading Hidden Signs of the Universe by Olivia Cooper. Its fascinating what they hide from society

[@jasmin_mine]

i started reading the mortal intruments because i want to read all the shadowhunter trilogies before the last trilogy comes out, i mean the final book is going to be called the last shadowhunter

[@lornatw]

100% appreciate Eragon being on your list I’ve had it since it came out and waited patiently for each new one, it gave me my spark again after multiples attempts to get further than 1/4 of the second LOTR book (despite my love for it I stopped many times and moved on)! I’d also add Phillip Pullman’s ‘golden compass’ book series on just because he’s fascinating philosophical to read and the world is pretty intricate. The first two Narnia books a go as they’re short enough to not get too bored and give an interesting back setting to Narnia again philosophy vibes. For any easy mystery lovers/teens I’d say the Roman Mysteries by Caroline Lawrence, very fun and also packed with layers. Any Phillipa Gregory Queen books, and lastly World Without End by Ken Follett!! ❤ Oh and Sophie’s World is a good book by Jostein Gaarder. And Book of Fate by Parinoush Saniee is incredibly written- Iranian women dealing with family and moving across country with a passion to learn and all levels of emotions through life.

[@lornatw]

My Rec List: Yes- Eragon SERIES Phillip Pullman’s ‘golden compass’ book series The first two (pre) Narnia books The Roman Mysteries by Caroline Lawrence Any Phillipa Gregory Queen books World Without End by Ken Follett!! ❤ Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder Book of Fate by Parinoush Saniee

[@tamaralei936]

7:31 'to put me out of my le misery' lmfao i feel you XD my long read for this year is the first volume (i got the two volume set of les mis instead of the 'brick') but im only half way through it and theres only like 12 more days before the end of the year 🥲

[@Boonicopter]

the fear i have that social media has ruined my atttention span to read all the great classics i wanna read before i bite the dust :/

[@VampireLaura1997]

@@Boonicopter try audiobooks, especially in combination with a physical activity like chores or working out or something like that. To me, reading isn’t the act itself, but the process of getting the info into your head and processing it, working with it, have it change and shape you etc. whether you sit your ass down and read it or have someone read it to you, changes nothing, in the grand scheme of things. Physical activity just helps keep the brain more engaged, at least to me. I listened to 52 classic books in one year because I work out every day so that was at least 1h of „reading“ (1,5x speed too) a day 😊

[@zohabaig6426]

It really depends on the classic imo, I started reading a few this year after having been too mentally exhausted by my degree to bother with any 'serious' books these past few years. Wuthering Heights was a surprisingly easy read, easier for me than the Bell Jar (which I know is a bit more of a 'modern' classic, but still). Everyone has their classics that they found enjoyable and their classics that are hard to get through. Read the ones that interest you, and DNF the ones that don't

[@blackcatinoctober]

Then you should read Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport first :) I did the 30-day challenge and it finally cured me from wasting my time on YT It's not forever lost, attention is a muscle :)

[@gretaw2138]

If it makes you feel better I put house of leaves on my tbr after seeing you talk about it ages ago and I also still have not read it 😅

[@Hannah591]

Majority of these are on the 1001 books to read before you die list!

[@superarrowcollarman]

I’d swap Great Expectations for A Tale of Two Cities for Dickens… word count notwithstanding it’s actually enjoyable! And for Hemingway, too bad you didn’t read The Sun Also Rises instead. It was his first novel, and such a stark contrast in every good way to The Old Man. And finally, you MUST read A Movable Feast by him! 😊

[@thebooknitter]

Yes please read game of thrones ❤ some of them I also have on my tbr. Please Steinbeck books are of my favorites

[@shouldntve]

I need to see you read Of Mice and Men. That vaseline glove haunts me lmao

[@LilyCReads10]

Oh no, i've heard of the Vaseline glove

[@ottoismy1dog]

I have my pen & paper ready ... War & Peace ... okay, wasn't expecting that one. You have some Fat Tomes on this list. You are ambitious. I have an S on my TBR shelf too. Water for Elephants was so good. Lolita is a beautifully written book. I want to finish - My Fat Tomes List 1) reading all of 11 Larry Brown's books (next up is A Miracle Of Catfish) Finished Joe, Fay, The Rabbit Factory & Dirty Work (about 2100+ pages) 2) XX by Rian Hughes (992 pages) C) Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann - just because (1022 pages) Love your face

[@LilyCReads10]

Those books are huge! You better get crackin'

[@ottoismy1dog]

@@LilyCReads10 oh no, can you see my future ?!?!?! am I running out of time 😂

[@user-np9lb1xh7k]

The Count of Monte Cristo was so fun and surprisingly easy to read

[@suzannebousquet2710]

You have an amazingv number of fantastic books! I have read a number of them and think you should attemp a bunch of them

[@stardustajm8618]

it's funny - at the library I work at there's at least two families that come in regularly that have little boys named Huxley and every time I'm like 'why would you name your kid that?' lol

[@leecollen8847]

Our lists are very similar and I've read a few of the ones you mentioned. I will say there are some that I absolutely hated in the case of rich dad poor dad and the stormlight achieves. I would suggest looking into some historical novels. There are actually a lot of interesting ones and my favorites the Soong Dystany by Sterling Seagrave. It is my favorite book ever. The Barbizon is one I typically would not pick up but it was also amazing and if you ever thought about reading the Bell Jar, well the author of the Bell Jar is in the Barbizon and it goes through her life as a young woman in NYC.

[@Shaylee_W]

OOO girl starting out STRONG with War and Peace hahaha

[@whatkaylasays]

Your commentary about The Old Man and the Sea 😂 For real though my eyes started getting heavy every time I picked it up.

[@xxoldmagicxx]

I wanted to read Frankenstein and Peter Pan before I died and I did it even as my dyslexic a**brain fought me the whole way through lmao

[@marinova1147]

House of Leaves is an amazing mindfuck of a book, I wish I didnt read it on a kindle

[@LilyCReads10]

i can't imagine the difficulty reading that thing on a kindle lmao

[@marinova1147]

@@LilyCReads10 True the styling gimmicks were a torture but i definitely think the story itself is captivating on it's own, it was a great experience being so engulfed by its darkness that I had a flu fever dream about being swallowed by it. It has been long enough now that I want to buy a physical copy and be completely taken by it for a month again (the proper way)

[@fnw100]

Can't pick top 3 books but these are the three series I MUST read before dying. 1. Lord of the Rings 2. Discworld 3. The Wheel of Time

[@carahamelie]

lol... i would like to think I'm that girl who would WANT to read War and Peace before I die, but I have accepted that I am not that girl, and I don't actually have any interest in reading it. lol

[@elaine5840]

ok i have to jump in to defend a tale of two cities 😭 don’t love his other novels but dickens did his big one with atotc like it changed my life

[@jodie3950]

Understandable that you would replace Ninth House on this list with something else, but in defense of the book, you should read it. It's really good. I read it twice, and gave it 5 stars both times. My 3 books that I want to read before I die are: - Orientalism by Edward Said - Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky - The Count of Monte Cristo (I love revenge stories but the size of that book scares me)

[@tpampe25]

I'ma read The Shining at some point too

[@cer0876]

girl your outro is so loud it jumpscares me every time😭 also currently have had house of leaves, dracula and frankenstein on my nightstand for ages now, they Will be read someday ...

[@LilyCReads10]

Gotta keep you all on your toes haha

[@MiakoKoizora]

1. The Woman in Black 2. The Humans 3. The Handmaid’s Tale I really like books starting with “The” 🤔

[@midallah-]

I've read some of Shakespeare's plays in college but I wanna get to the rest of them before I die, especially some of his comedies because, for some reason, all we seem to study is the tragedies 😂

[@LilyCReads10]

I really want to read the taming of the shrew! I'm over the tragedies haha

[@midallah-]

@LilyCReads10 that's definitely at the top of my list!

[@WhiteRaven696]

I wanna read the Redwall series.

[@booksbyleynes]

I’ve read 50 of those books and 1 is on my TBR as well (War and Peace - will get a physical copy for Christmas). Not too bad, eh? 🤓

[@ThatsBrutal1212]

still wishing for that bookshelf tour

[@LilyCReads10]

Next video is my bookshelf tour :) stay tuned

[@MarelisaFabrega]

Hi Lily, This is the first time I land on your channel, and I nearly died laughing. It does take a lot effort to read classics like "War and Peace" and "Les Miserables", but it's worth it. It's like exercise. At first you think there's no way you'll be able to run a 10km race, but if you build your resistance you discover that it's easier than you thought. You have a great personality.

[@LilyCReads10]

Thank you very much! ☺

[@LadyJaneBooks]

Awesome list!

[@KittyAndTheBooks]

I don't know if the list could possibly be more Lily than this. xD

[@JoanaRodrigues-tc5ek]

war and peace at number 1 is... a choice lol as for mine: anna karenina (actually a reread because I was 16 the last time I read it), emma, and wuthering heights

[@t0dd000]

I just finished Dracula and Frankenstein, ironically.

[@LilyCReads10]

What's the verdict on them?

[@t0dd000]

@LilyCReads10 Dracula. Iconic, but often silly. Rules for vampirism that sorta came out of nowhere, make no sense, and where the protagonists get it right the first time. The dialogue is overwrought and melodramatic. Mrs. Harker is plucky and the most clueful "investigator" and utterly underappreciated. The men spend the whole novel mansplaining and being condescending to the women. BUT. Iconic and interesting. Renfield was arguably the most interesting character. Frankenstein. Tragic and completely unexpected. Both the humans and the monster are … monsters. But eloquently so. You can tell the novel was written by a 19 year old, but still … very literary. Both are worth the read. And after reading both books, you wonder how every single film adaptation fails to even remotely seem to adhere to the stories. I can't think of any Dracula or Frankenstein adaptation that bothers trying to honor the books.

[@sudheerkumar4421]

frankenstein is an amazing book...read it!!

[@mojimoji5368]

1. In search of lost time(!) 2. Anna Karenina 3. David Copperfield

[@AlysterJohnEstur]

I cannot wait for you to read The Dark Tower series one day when we're probably in our 40s lol

[@yoda-wanwindu8704]

Thank you! ❤

[@lornatw]

I think you could make a video- reading the books that have been waiting for me 10 years 😂 me too with the poor waiting books though mine are half read multiple times haha

[@amnal3983]

House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Beloved by Toni Morrison

[@mamin8army770]

Yeah you should definitely read the Wheel of Time

[@JulEnglefaris]

I love S and House of Leaves

[@MetalGearChief]

JR by William Gaddis, and Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon are near the top of the list for me.

[@TheJezza223]

What equipment/software do you use

[@LilyCReads10]

Final Cut & i just film everything on my Canon G7xii since it's easier

[@victoriakohler627]

7:00 totally fair 😂😂😂😂😅😅😅 I started that book before I heard he hadn’t published the next in the series in like a decade 😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅 I read Metamorphosis… dude it’s so short but also, sooooo weird. Definitely get. Commentary to read with it 😂😂

[@anasweety17]

Great list

[@Misseggy24]

Don Quixote is absolutely my number one, but god, it’s huge (and old)

[@felina2014]

Very strong list with some quite chunky books on it but I think it's doable. I've got over 3000 books on my TBR but my 3 books I wanna read before I die would be.. 1. Ana Karenina 2. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell 3. The Covenant of water Because they are hugeeee 😮😢😢😢

[@Lilly-dq5wn]

I bought A Christmas Carol, so I could read it at Christmas. But that was 4 Christmases ago and it remains unread.

[@puknukbooks9022]

Please add Anna Kareina by Leo Tolstoy

[@LilyCReads10]

We're already at 400+ books may as well throw her on too lol

[@tpampe25]

You simply GOTTA READ Wuthering Heights. It has such a good humor and such unbelivable situations. It's a big family gossip. Read it

[@bethanyfisher5048]

Six of Crows, Jane Eyre, and To Kill a Mockingjay

[@kingdongho571]

Old man and the sea haters represent 😻

[@DigitalTiger101]

3 books I want to read before I die: Ulysses, It, Anna Karenina

[@gretaw2138]

lmaooo not S 😂

[@extraHERO]

I've read a lot of those books and they are wastes of time so I'm just gonna give you two books that are actually worth the hype. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel it's a post apocalyptic book but not like the other ones it chronicles a traveling shakespeare troupe 20 years after a pandemic wiped out most of humanity and last but certainly not least The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling. It's the first book in her detective series and you will be addicted to the dynamic of the two detectives and the mysteries. You already have the Girl with the Dragon tattoo on your list so I'll just second that (You gotta get past the darkness because it'll be offputting at first but it's worth it.)

[@roaaexe]

i was listening to the video while i clean and i thought you said one piece as #1😭😭😭😭

[@LilyCReads10]

I've heard of One Piece before but it seems really daunting for some reason 😅

[@roaaexe]

@ its too long

[@sarahlove923]

and i’m ripped…

[@yoda-wanwindu8704]

Hey Glow!

[@blackcatinoctober]

I read Dracula before going to Romania and I was so disappointed 😬 same for Frankenstein, I found both of them crazy boring, not scary at all, didn't like the characters (don't kill me for this please)

[@blackcatinoctober]

I also didn't like Night Circus (dnf, it was just too long and the universe would have worked better in short stories), the Handmaid's Tale, Kafka on the Shore, Cujo Okay, to not sound like a hater, here are some books from the list I did like: Golden Compass (child me was hauling around a plushie pretending it was my daemon), the first Discworld, want to read the rest, loved Fahrenheit 451, Percy Jackson, GOT, the Hitchhiker's Guide, IT (just ignore the sewer scene) I also want to read LOTR, Slaughterhouse 5 (read it a long time ago but forgot), Dorian Grey, the Divine Comedy, the Metamorphosis, the Odyssey, Don Quixote (I believe you said the x like a sh ahah), Of Mice and Men, the Old Man and the Sea, Carrie And you indeed don't pronounce the s in "les" !

[@LilyCReads10]

​@blackcatinoctober I feel like reading Dracula before going to Romania is such a vibe regardless tho. And that sounds like a very good line up, i hope i enjoy most of those as well 🙏

[@zohabaig6426]

To be fair, I actually tried to properly read 1984 for a literature class, and it was the ONLY book for that class that I actually had to skip a huge chunk of in the middle because it was so beyond boring. What's funny is I read Animal Farm a few years later and I LOVED IT, so it's not like Orwell can't write, but you'd think he was being paid by the page like Dickens was if you read 1984. That man rambles more than an alpha dudebro on a podcast. I hated that book, most overrated thing I've ever read

[@zohabaig6426]

Also to answer your question: 3 books I have to read before I die are Pride and Prejudice, The Bell Jar, and Hate List by Jennifer Brown. That last one is basically my S or House of Leaves - it's been sitting on my shelf staring at me in disappointment for like, 8 years. I'll be mad at myself if I never get around to it. Bonus: Good Omens. I see so many people engrossed in the show and I've been avoiding it like the plague so I can read the book