My Favourite 50 Books

[@TKTalksBooks]

I’m speechless! I watched it all straight through, taking notes along the way. I adore your way of speaking and you are great on camera. I’ve read and loved about a third of these; heard of but not read another third, and the other third were new to me. Excellent Excellent video. My number one go to channel. Thanks ever so much 😊

[@MarcNash]

Thank you for such kind words TK.

[@kintrap5376]

This video has made me fall in love with books I haven’t read and of which I’ve never heard. What an amazing contagion of enthusiasm you have dispersed.

[@MarcNash]

ha, thank you very much 😀

[@bmaei5]

I have watched you for years and I am infinitely grateful for the reviews you post. The books you recommend are the ones I am most excited to get to. Carson’s Nox, Brand’s Blue clerk and Griffith’s Tomb Guardians.

[@rororeads]

An utterly fantastic video! Thank you so much.

[@PaperBird]

fantastic list, Marc! looking forward to checking out some of the unfamiliar ones, also nice to see Burrough's trilogy mentioned

[@MarcNash]

Yeah, I didn't half mess that one up! 😃In truth all 3 are damn fine.

[@BookishTexan]

This video makes it clear how much you have influenced my reading. Thanks for all the good leads.

[@MarcNash]

My pleasure Brian

[@bbbartolo]

What a delightful way to spend an hour on a temperate NYC afternoon. Expected some of the usual 16th - 19th century fare but you're all about Modernist 20th-21st c. standouts, so why not--and post-Ulysses, post-Beckett, too. Especially happy to see The Long Form, which I might include in a top 30 of my own. Happy to see Markson (I'm a "completist" of his oeuvre), might have given the edge to Wittgenstein's Mistress but certainly no quibble, Ben Marcus totally went over my head, but shared your admiration for Grimmish, the mock-Auction catalog, Thread Ripper, Gaddis, White's Requiem, Invisible Cities, all but two of those heard about here. As to the rest of the list, given your predilections bring aligned with mine so often, I see dozens of these recommendations worth pursuing! thanks so much.

[@MarcNash]

I'm afraid I almost never read anything written before 1900. And my pleasure and thank you for your continued support.

[@babettesfeast6347]

Here’s my top ten books I absolutely adore; 1838 Charles Dickens- Oliver Twist 1847 Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights 1847 Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre 1891 Thomas Hardy-Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1922 Marcel Proust- In search of Lost Time 1922 James Joyce- Ulysses 1927 Virginia Woolf- To the Lighthouse 1938 Evelyn Waugh- Scoop 1939 George Orwell- Coming up for air 1955 Vladimir Nabokov- Lolita

[@absurdistoxymoron]

Stumbled upon this channel very recently when looking for some Ben Marcus reviews online. So glad to have discovered it, as this channel is a goldmine for literary, experimental recommendations. Funnily enough, I studied The Mersault Investigation with The Stranger as part of my last year of high school English (it's one of the options on the curriculum of NSW, Australia). Definitely made me think more critically about texts and representation in art (even though I love The Stranger). I always wondered if Daoud deliberately appropriated the novel's interlocutor structure from Camus' The Fall as well (I have to imagine that he did, as even the setting of a bar is the same).

[@MarcNash]

Welcome to the channel! I hadn't made that connection before but you could be on to something there! If you like experimental fiction, one of my videos wrestles with the concept of whether one can truly say there is even such a thing (even though I purport to write it in my own books!) I can't post the link in this comment on KZbin, but if you search something like Marc Nash 'what makes experimental fiction experimental', hopefully it will come up.

[@absurdistoxymoron]

@@MarcNash Thanks. I’ve made a note to give the video a watch tomorrow at some point. Curious to hear your thesis

[@ianp9086]

That was a wonderful listen so thank you Marc. I have long appreciated your interest in the more experimental and unconventional novels out there so I recognised many of these 50 from your channel and I even guessed the top 3 correctly 🤓. I have only read 11 of the 50 but good to see The Unfortunates, Ducks, Austerlitz and Milkman getting a mention. I actually have another 14 of these on my shelf but as I only manage about 4 books a month I am a long time getting to them. Wittgenstein’s Mistress by Markson was planned for next month. One question - the version of This is not a novel that you have - does it contain all four of the books of what some call The notecard quartet (Readers Block, This is not a novel, Vanishing point and The last novel)? Cheers

[@MarcNash]

Hi Ian. Readers Block is not contained but the other 3 are. I got hold of Readers Block as a stand alone edition.

[@jobuckley2999]

Wow, that was some list. I am 71 and read quite a bit but the only books I have even heard of on this list are Ducks, Newburyport and The Great American Novel. Whole worlds and planets left undiscovered as well as these novels. I am almost out of time ;)

[@MarcNash]

I hear you absolutely about the time thing. I do wonder how many more books I'm going to get the chance to read and also write myself.

[@pauldembina837]

Fantastic list. I knew of a number of them (and have read a subset) but you've now made me add a number to my already too large backlog of books to check up on. Cheers!

[@MarcNash]

My pleasure Paul!

[@liapique]

Hi, Marc. I'm an aspiring reader and a first time watcher of your video here. Thank you for the wonderful recommendations, never have I added so many new to-read items from a single recommendation list. I will be staying tuned to your next contents. I hope you have another wonderful reading month. Happy July, cheers from Japan!

[@MarcNash]

Thank you very much! 😀

[@karlalikestoread]

I got so excited when I saw you posted this video. I saved so many titles to look into, woo! Still looking forward to your thoughts on Conversations with Friends lol. Steve Donoghue posed the question of how one finds and picks books they want to read and I'd love to hear the ways you find books, if you'd be interested in sharing of course. Hope you're having a great summer!

[@MarcNash]

Thank you Karla. I did actually do a video on this a year ago. If you go on to YT and type Marc Nash how Do I Choose Books hopefully it will come up. Good luck!

[@karlalikestoread]

@@MarcNash Ah, perfect, I will look it up. Thanks for letting me know!

[@bookladyreads]

This was an incredibly video. I’ll be rewatching this one I’m sure.

[@MarcNash]

Thank you BL! 😃

[@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711]

I need to watch this with a notebook and make a list.

[@MarcNash]

😀😀

[@pandittroublejr]

Great... 📚😍📚❤️

[@MarcNash]

TY

[@MarinaK03]

Not done watching yet…but wanted to say that it’s pretty easy to find your reviews of specific books through the links you leave on Goodreads.

[@MarcNash]

Ah byes of course, I should have thought of that! Thanks very much 😄

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

I’ve had to watch more than once as I didn’t have a pen the first time. Our taste in books overlaps with books like Women Talking Trust The Lost Children Archives

[@MarcNash]

such great reads Jacqui!

[@suggestmeabook727]

wow wow wow thank you,

[@MarcNash]

My pleasure! 😀

[@shoresofpatmos]

My list is already long enough😭😭

[@MarcNash]

An all-too common affliction for all us readers! 😀😀

[@eastwoofer]

You read too fast, bro. You're not really reading.