my favourite books of all time | the best books I've ever read

[@xfluffysoftsatanx5963]

1:34 Phantom of the opera 3:48 phantom 5:26 Book of Hours 9:37 Cloud Atlas 13:30 House of Leaves 16:50 The picture of Dorian Gray 18:17 After Dark 22:05 100 years of solitude 23:57 Solaris 26:03 Frankenstein in Baghdad 27:26 Dark Interval 31:46 The turn of the screw 32:44 War and Peace 34:38 The iliac Crest, Untold night and day 37:02 The bloody chamber 38:11 A castle in the clouds 39:12 Frankenstein

[@Lyleelou11]

Thank you

[@meghana1113]

Thank you a lot❤

[@Martin-sp4zf]

I have an equal number that includes only half of what's on your list but that's life.

[@kevinrussell1144]

Wow. I'm an old man and a reader, yet I've only read 0ne and a fraction of your list. How is that possible? Are not life and taste strange? Thanks for some things to consider. You're very persuasive, and I can see why you have so many views.

[@borntogazeintonightskies]

Thanks!

[@Andrelegaluhuu]

The way you talk about literature is something that touches me really hard, the love and passion that you put into your speech makes me crave to read the most books I can and experience that feeling of satisfaction that this authors gift to us, thank you for that Emma.❤️

[@Andrelegaluhuu]

Hoping my grammar is correct, English is not my first language so I always pick hard on me to write correctly

[@folksurvival]

Quality over quantity.

[@brawlstarsgaming7800]

@@Andrelegaluhuu pick hard on myself* just a little correction! ur english is great 💓

[@Andrelegaluhuu]

@@brawlstarsgaming7800 oh thank you😁 I didn't knew that

[@jonesjermaine4387]

Cool, I've been reading Tropic of Cancer except I like to pretend the character Van Norden is like a Bailey Jay, mite write my own book think I'll call it "Beyond the Valley of Penises"

[@harshikabardhan]

you've introduced so many beautiful books and authors to me that i doubt i would've found myself. so thankyou for existing

[@emmiereads]

could not be happier, I'm so glad

[@timaxavier]

I love watching people talk about their favourite books. It's one of those moments where you can see the sheer passion being exuded so palpably. Hope you're doing well. 🤍

[@NatalyaVins-blueflower775]

My favourite books of all time: 1) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 2) The man who laughs by Victor Hugo 3) And then there were none by Agatha Christie 4) The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 5) Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 6) The Kite runner and A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini 7) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 8) Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera 9) Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking glass by Lewis Carroll 10) The white guard by Mikhail Bulgakov 11) Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Montgomery

[@shelbymcclintock3557]

i’d love to know why les miserables made the top of the list! I have it sitting on my shelf but the page count is daunting to say the least :)

[@distheone9120]

Huge W for Hugo

[@distheone9120]

@@shelbymcclintock3557 It's a freaking masterpiece ! (It's even better if you're in love with the history of France, and even if you're not, this book can make you love it ♡)

[@NatalyaVins-blueflower775]

@@shelbymcclintock3557 It's my favourite book of all time because it shows sincere faith in God. As for the page count, the War and Peace in this video is even longer =).

[@toliyeptho3313]

Flowers for Algernon was sooooooo good to me😊

[@annabelle7603]

I feel like I found Emma at just the right time in my life. She's been such a comfort through difficult times 💜

[@dianagonzalezbejar1343]

Hope everything starts going better soon

[@annabelle7603]

@@dianagonzalezbejar1343 It has been. thank you so much. You're so sweet 💕

[@allysonhutchens831]

I can relate to this so much 💜

[@jonesjermaine4387]

Cool, I've been reading Tropic of Cancer except I like to pretend the character Van Norden is like a Bailey Jay, mite write my own book think I'll call it "Beyond the Valley of Penises"

[@taliw7736]

Saw some of the movie and she's amazing ❤ one of my fav fictional women I wanna check out the book

[@Vamplove5]

The way you explain and advertise your love for these books, is so poetic and believable that I added them to my list as well. You’re the type of person to give the love of reading to those who don’t. Amazing.

[@joaquimg5361]

I wish everyone could read One hundred years of solitude in spanish. I'm very sure you can grasp the beauty of the book with a good translation, but besides transforming me deeply, that book made me realize my language is so beautiful. I haven't read anything else in spanish as beautiful as that book. Or maybe it's just the book itself, idk, this book is crazy good... heck I think it's even worth it to learn spanish in order to read this book in the original version

[@ellavictoria1532]

I’m in the process of becoming fluent in spanish and was looking for another thing to read to improve my language skills. your comment made me go buy the book immediately!! it sounds amazing.

[@sfepea777]

Then you should read Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, a book that highly influenced One Hundred Years of Solitude. You might like that one too.

[@sfepea777]

@@ellavictoria1532 It’s a difficult book to read, even if you’re fluent in Spanish. Get an annotated version in Spanish with footnotes, like the one published by Catedra, or the Commemorative Edition printed by the Real Academia Española, which includes a glossary.

[@joaquimg5361]

@@sfepea777 Thanks for the suggestion, turns out my dad has it in his personal library. I'll begin with it as soon as I finish what I have between hands now!

[@aszeehagh2844]

Jokes on you I'm learning Spanish just to read One Hundred Years of Solitode

[@Lily_James]

It's so rare hearing people mention The Phantom by Susan Kay, so happy you talked about it again! It's one of my all time favourites too, absolutely breathtaking.

[@emmiereads]

I haven't heard many people talk about it either! I really need to reread it as well

[@christinajones8131]

I loved both Susan Kay books. After reading Legacy I had to go to the Tower of London

[@ipek8209]

some of my favorite books of all time would probably be: - beartown by fredrik backman: i think that, if i could choose, this would be my favorite book that i've read at this point in time. i still cannot wrap my mind around it and love it so, so much. it's so poignant and full of heart and depicts humanity in the most accurate way. fredrik backman is an astounding writer. i heavily recommend it if you are interested. (check trigger warnings) - heidi by johanna spyri: this was my favorite book as a child and has instilled in me an ever-present dream of visiting the alps one day, lol. it means so much to me and feels like a warm hug. i feel like i'm due for a re-read soon. - percy jackson and the olympians by rick riordan: just the whole series. these books have always been my greatest source of comfort through thick and thin and i hold them very dear to my heart. i think i've re-read them 4 or 5 times each. there's definitely more, but these are the big three. also, thank you for all the beautiful recommendations, i'm currently reading letters to a young poet because of you!

[@connoringram5304]

Percy Jackson books were a pretty important part of my childhood, I was just infatuated with mythology for some reason. I’ll check out the other favourite books of yours thanks for sharing :)

[@ipek8209]

@@connoringram5304 they were just the best books to read as a child!! i feel like they’re pretty fun at any age, but reading it as a child is just so much more special because you connect to the characters a lot more. and that’s so exciting, i hope you enjoy them!!

[@funpolice5821]

Heidi is very much an underrated gem. I remember this and Pollyanna were absolutely poignant to me.

[@MatildaTheBookDragon]

As a Swede, I always get so happy and proud when i see someone loving a book by fredrik backman :) have you seen the tv series on netflix of People with Anxiety? it was so good, and close to the book. the bridge scenes are made in Stockholm, and my house in the backgruond!

[@ipek8209]

@@MatildaTheBookDragon omg that’s so cool!!!! i haven’t seen it yet, i really want to!

[@samanthaesparza1514]

Your love for literature makes me want to engross myself in the world of reading again. I love how you talk about books, its beautiful.

[@tobi_adediran]

So so sooo happy you introduced me to the Iliac Crest! Some of my all-time faves currently are: • Cursed bunny - Bora Chung, Anton Hur • The Master & Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov • On Earth we're briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong • Know my name - Chanel Miller • In the dream house - Carmen Maria Machado • The unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera • The Poppy War - R F Kuang

[@jenniebaker7180]

The Master and Margarita, YES

[@muhtasimshammo]

How is the book The master and margarita? I'm planing to buy it?

[@tobi_adediran]

@@muhtasimshammo it’s a unique and wonderful insight into Stalin’s regime in Russia! However, it’s an extremely absurd, wacky and nonsensical take, so you have to suspend disbelief from the beginning, which won’t necessarily be for everyone!

[@sophspice32]

ok jack edwards

[@elfaba128]

War and Peace was definitely a landmark read for me. I don't think I've ever read a book that has left such an impact on me. I so badly relate to Pierre and honestly he is my favorite character ever.

[@lalikarra612]

i love the way you speak. you use beautiful words and it’s not pretentious. they flow so well and describe exactly what you’re thinking. i love this about readers. they understand the importance of words.

[@KritterRaw]

i just have no words. this might be one of my favorite booktube videos ever. you've opened my eyes to books i never even knew existed and reminded me of others i'd dismissed for no obvious reasons. also a reminder that i CAN get through War and Peace.

[@Alirezajax]

Actually, the first book I have read is the best book I have ever read and it is: One Hundred Years of Solitude and the others are: 2. The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky 3. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 5. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 7. Stoner by John Williams 8. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust ( I absolutely love the whole series but my favorite is the first one) 9. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

[@marychery9134]

dostoevsky and hesse slap tho:)

[@donovanjones7546]

I didn't have a single negative feeling for like a month after reading Siddhartha, thought I had life completely figured out lol.

[@dasha5019]

the insulted and humiliated is a great book by dostoyevsky too

[@Dahras1]

Man, I really didn't expect someone else to love Stoner. That's a deep cut but a good one.

[@inesrobles2971]

Really....your first book was 100 years of solitude??? That seems like a lot for a first book...how come?

[@jeffbeamer9882]

I don't know how old this sweet kid is but she is in for a lifetime of joy. She has so much literature in her future to look forward to.

[@Abril-1234]

She’s not a kid

[@Ozgipsy]

She’s a real sophisticated reader. I’ve picked up so many recommendations here.

[@madelynstrauss3764]

I also had a debilitating brain injury. When I was eight I had a large stroke. I know completely what it’s like to have to grieve the loss of the person you used to be, and I am still learning to accept that now, 13 years later. You are growing and healing, and you should be proud of that!

[@hanismdy]

i really love how you always introduced books that i never heard of. i recently read Iliac Crest and had a good mindblowing moment. thank you for this video! my tbr shelf is shaking 😂

[@emmiereads]

ooh so cool you picked it up! you're so welcome lovely!

[@gleekypotters]

I am falling in love with the way you describe and speak about Rilke

[@JimSaysHey]

100 years of solitude was profound for me. I read it in Spanish for a college class, and it just gave me life as a reader. But one of my all time favorite books is Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

[@louaneriga3222]

Omg its my favourite book too !!

[@kallie_w]

Shadow of the Wind is my favourite book of all time too 🥺

[@stephaniehopkinsartist]

Shadow of the Wind is mine as well.

[@reginar3951]

Siiii si si la sombra del viento ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ mi favorito

[@czarina-q4i]

It's our midterms tomorrow and you posting will be my serotonin and my motivation because i will add more books in my tbr

[@tayyebafaisal296]

good luck!

[@czarina-q4i]

@@tayyebafaisal296 thANK UUU

[@RafaelMarquesCeBr]

I love the way you talk about your experiences reading those books, so intense! To read a book and have this kind of reaction to it, just amazing. Thank you for sharing.

[@kevynlevi9894]

My (currently) favorite books: 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2. The Paul Streets Boys - Ferrenc Molnar 3. The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien 4. Barren Lives - Graciliano Ramos 5. Captains of the Sand - Jorge Amado 6. The Hobbit - Tolkien 7. The Outsiders - S.E Hinton 8. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote 9. The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank 10. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

[@vonhammershark]

any book at the receiving end of Emma’s praise goes straight to my tbr ☺️

[@trombonist-bo6yi]

i love listening to your talks!! i love listening to how excited you are about literature! thank you for introducing me to so many wonderful new books

[@princessmary2958]

i get so excited when u upload a new video 🥺 and i feel so grateful knowing this channel exists. u radiate such comforting energy ! i feel so very safe when i listen to u 💌

[@emmiereads]

you've just made my entire day, thank you so much for your kind words, sending you the biggest hug

[@raina651]

one of my absolute favorite books has got to be the perks of being a wallflower. that book makes me feel so comforted and seen and heard. i think everybody can identify with Charlie in some way and just the way it’s written makes it so intimate and it really is like he’s writing letters to you. and the way Charlie sees the world is just so unique and pure and poetic and just. I love that book. I can’t wait for my yearly re read.

[@chelseal6957]

I love your genuine optimism for reading. It’s absolutely contagious

[@caroline912]

you introduced me to phantom of the opera almost a year ago and it completely changed my life. Genuinely could not imagine my life without that story. 🖤

[@luhsea]

I literally started tearing up when you read that passage from The Dark Interval. I've been dealing with grief these last two years and it has changed me a lot, so I'm definitely picking that book up as soon as possible. Brilliant video as always!

[@sarwarkaur8011]

this video was so wholesome, hearing you talk about books and describing your experiences and the way you talked about everything just made my heart full. thankyou for this video :)

[@urseliusurgel4365]

1) Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (read when I was seven, my first real book. I wanted desperately to be a pirate; I still do) 2) Elidor, Alan Garner (a gem, awoke a lifelong interest in fantasy and mythology, read to me by my cousin when I was eight) 3) Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan (got me through the first few weeks of university - things could have been worse, I might have been in prison!) 5) Clayhanger, Arnold Bennett (the extraordinary in ordinary lives) 6) Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (read it at breakneck speed at 12 years old, had reactive depression when I finished it, because there was no more to read) 7) Ulysses, James Joyce (has the reputation of being a masterpiece, it is one) 8) Darkness Visible, William Golding (strange and disturbing) 9) The Robe of Youth, François Mauriac (how an object of love can disappoint by a change in their perceived nature) 10) Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis (just very funny, the most hilarious description of a hangover anywhere) 11) The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, J.P. Donleavy (funny and affecting) 12) Persuasion, Jane Austen (it's Jane Austen and my favourite of hers) 13) The Mauritius Campaign, Patrick O'Brian (the superb Aubrey-Maturin series is Jane Austen, but with cannon, storms and boarding pikes - my favourite single book in the series)

[@cuteromantictexting3600]

Honestly, I have never been so intrigued to watch book talks and others. I have had the ritual to just pick up books at random. But you made my book journeys and bibliophilia so nuanced & cultured... Thank you so much Emmie.... 😘

[@sydneydenham5778]

Your channel, and the passionate way you talk about books, inspired me to get into classic literature. I started the year with Frankenstein, then Pride and Prejudice, just finished Wuthering Heights, and now reading Crime and Punishment. All three I have finished are my favorite books of all time! Immediately after finishing Wuthering Heights I restarted it to start annotating

[@elisabethh.5891]

The way you talk about books in this video honestly made me cry. Thank u!

[@Kpopheaven]

I just love to watch these videos that people talk about their favorite books! People have different book tastes and different favorite books and that's so interesting :)

[@elisegerard6851]

I love the way you talk about books, it’s really beautiful and shows the power a really good book can have on a reader.

[@rickartdefoix1298]

My favourite books are : Alexandria's Quartet (Lawrence Durrell) 1984 (George Orwell) Short Stories (Guy de Maupassant) Kiss kiss Someone Like You (Roald Dahl) Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo) A Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez) The Death of Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes) The Demon (Hubert Selby Jr) Glue, Filthy (Irvine Welsh) Orlando (Virginia Woolf) The Pugilist at Rest and Cold Snap (Thom Jones) Laughter in the Dark (V. Nabokov) At Swim Two Birds (Flann O'Brian) A Turn of the Screw Washington Square (Henry James) The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) The Castle of Argol (Julien Gracq) Belle du Seigneur (Albert Cohen) Red and Black (Stendhal) Nana (Emile Zola) Depths (Henning Mankell) In Praise of Lies (Patricia Melo) The Barrier (Robin Maugham) Deep Water and The Blunderer (Patricia Highsmith) A Moveable Feast (Hemingway) Room with a View (E.M.Forster) The Last September (Elizabeth Bowen) The Erls King (Michel Tournier) The Rainbow Women in Love (DH Lawrence) Jude the Obscure Tess D'Uberville (Thomas Hardy) The Demons The Gambler (Dostoyevsky) There are much more I could mention, but the list would be too long. Hope you liked them too. Nowadays reading : Nightland (Louis Owens), Northline (Willy Vlautin), The Round House (Louise Erdrich).

[@MercurialMoon]

The enthusiasm in the way you talk about your favourite books is just so satisfying and calming omg

[@s-day_]

Your enthusiasm for literature never fails to lift a grey day. For me, your thoughtful, interrogative commentary on the books is most inspiring. I look forward to reading some of the books in this video when I have time. Thank you for your interesting videos.

[@anisntsyaa]

this is random but out of all your videos, this is The Most Calming and i listen to it whenever im stressed or when i couldnt sleep

[@SandrineDamfino]

Yes !! ❤ we have two favorite classics in common, War and Peace and Frankenstein ❤

[@summer.1638]

i'm back on campus ( i am lit undergrad in my second year) and it's been nothing but terrifying and overwhelming and lonesome at times. Your videos remind me my place here, the incomprehensible. magic of reading, and a strange appreciation for looking ahead. thank you, have wonderful weeks ahead.

[@booksmith6061]

Beginning 100 Years of Solitude next week! I enjoy your videos so much-In this crazy world they are like a breath of fresh air.

[@sealisa1398]

Top five best books list of my life, affected me greatly ….it’s fabulous! Enjoy

[@emmiereads]

oh my gosh so exciting, can't wait to hear your thoughts!! thank you dear!

[@juli3836]

Cool :) I'm gonna read it after finishing Anna Karenina.

[@skylark4485]

it feels so special knowing what books exactly are going to be here just because i've been watching u for a long time, and i also distinctly remember what u said about them in ur old videos, ah time flies by

[@habibaheltoukhi]

Thank you so much for recommending a castle in the clouds or “Wolkenschloss” in german. I have been searching for good german books to read and couldn’t be happier with this one Im currently reading it and it’s just been the most wonderful experience. I literally love it so much, it’s definitely going to be one of my all time favorite books too! Just like you said this book is pure joy and serotonin. I’m nearing the end but I really really don’t want to finish it 😭 I’ve been watching your videos for a few months now and i love the way you talk about books in your videos. It’s so soothing and comforting and calming and I really enjoy watching them and getting great book recommendations and just learning more in general. You are such a kind and wonderful soul so thank you so much for creating these videos and sharing your experiences with all of us

[@kathy2539]

You've recommended books I've never seen or heard of that's one reason I love to listen to your reviews of books and your favourites. I've just purchased a Rilke you've recommended and the After Dark stories, I'm so excited to be able to read them. I now have a list in my journal of books that have been reviewed and recommended by you, so I have no excuse but to open my mind to reading, some perhaps out of my normal comfort zone! Thank you so much!

[@litera.dreams3274]

You really are my reading twin!! I absolutely love House of Leaves. I read the wiki page after I finished it and it mentions how a woman came up to the author and told him that HoL was a love story and its something I agree with. Yes it's about trauma but it's about the love between Johnny and his mother and Will and his family. If I ever reread it, I would read it from that angle. I read After Dark when I was 17 years old and it absolutely changed my life. Without Murakami, I wouldn't be the reader I am today. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is his best work imo but AD has such a special place in my heart

[@annieelisas98]

I was told to read the bloody chamber by my tutor at university, I was looking at the grotesque and gothic fairytale narrative, as a fine art student. It’s awesome to find someone else who’s read it as well! The way Angela Carter uses descriptions, I still have memories of what my imagination conjured up with the stories. She understood historical fables so well. I haven’t put it so eloquently as you have, I’m just glad that you’ve read it as well😅 Plus I loveee Phantom of the Opera as well, it’s such a good mystery thriller, and set in the gorgeous 19th century France!

[@GabrielLopes-dz6xr]

It's beautiful to see your connection to these books. Great recommendations with comments that pique your interest. I loved ✌🏾

[@mayral7230]

The way you described how Rilke's words affected you, like a salve to your wounds... that's EXACTLY how I felt when I read The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath ❤

[@brunamgc]

I just bought phantom of the opera because of you, so I’m very excited to read it!!!

[@emmiereads]

ahhhhh hope you love it!!

[@johnkehe9082]

You are so inspiring. So intuitive and in touch with what you love and what moves you. And you’re so good at explaining it to us. I feel like someone very dear to me who I lost has been somehow channeled through you, Emmie. She was a well-known book reviewer and editor, and she absolutely lived to read.

[@blymperopoulou5410]

Omg I love the phantom of the opera. Is often considered silly or just not good literature but personally I believe it contained so many points for discussion especially Erik and Christine’s characters had so much depth. I read phantom recently and it was just as good.

[@emor4767]

I bought a print from an artist that was inspired by house of leaves. I had never heard of the book before buying but after hearing your description it makes me appreciate & understand the piece so much more. All while being more afraid to start the book.

[@mundolipdub]

FRANKENSTEIN OMG is one of my top 5, just perfect, intense, godly, cathartic, terrifying, i just want to scream every time i think about it. It has Amazing characters, the issues are huge and just so directly addressed yet so poetically, the representation of healthy human values is so in cre di ble nowadays no one has come to depict them with this clarity and honesty, i mean Mary was *18* when she wrote this mature and beautiful and interesting and enjoyable piece of literature that everyone can make of their own. Read Frankenstein you'll never regret.

[@mirodil]

I occasionally found this channel and fell in love with this girl - her voice, vibe, atmosphere, serenity that give her videos😍

[@raeiyea18]

im calm IM CALM. it's not like i have been waiting for this since i was born or anything. EMMA THANK YOU FOR THIS ILY HAVE A GREAT WEEK

[@savnicole]

I had the exact same experience reading the Picture of Dorian Gray. That feeling of when words perfectly encapsulate the beauty that can't usually be put into words... Incredible.

[@mikaelagirard]

Wow, I'm surprised to see someone even mention Cloud Atlas let alone have it be one of their favorites! The book and film are some of my favorite things, both are gorgeous and thought provoking and have stayed with me for years. You have good taste!

[@MartinDSmith]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if sixty years into the future a grey haired dignified lady revisits these books with the same passion,reflection and insight,and smiles in gratitude for the beauty she gained from them and imparted to others.A thousand thanks!❤️

[@AishlingONeill]

Honestly 100% read House of Leaves again. I read it for the first time last summer and reread it at the end of the year into the start of this year and I honestly thought I wouldn’t get much more out of it but Omg I was wrong! You get so much more from a reread. Highly recommend doing that! Also one of my all time favs ❤️

[@rainb6735]

I'm so glad to see someone speak about cloud atlas in such a poetic way! Truly a wonderful book.

[@木木-t6p]

I only picked back up my reading habit recently, so I really haven't read a lot of books, but my favorite list definitely includes The Three Body Problem (all three books as a whole). It just has so much impact on me, for one thing, my interest in astrophysics increased 100 folds (I studied Math as a major, but did not really like Physics in school). It also challenged the boundary of my understanding of the physical world. Reading the trilogy made me feel my existence and even the existence of the whole human race is so insignificant, but at the same time gives me this romantic feeling towards the vastness of the universe and our beautiful planet earth. Another book that I really like is On the Road by Jack Kerouac. I know some people love it and some people hate it. And I think it's interesting that I actually like it, because I come from a completely different cultural background than the generation that the author is writing about, but I enjoyed the experience of reading his words that described his experiences and feelings. I could really feel the author's love of America as is described in the intro of the book. Based on all the hype, I'm planning to pick up 100 years of solitude soon!

[@EuskaltelEuskadi]

Some of my favourites (random order): all the Sherlock Holmes stories (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien), The Secret Island (Enid Blyton), Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer), Les Miserables (Victor Hugo), Bleak House (Charles Dickens), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), probably a hundred more I'm forgetting right now... I read Cloud Atlas a couple of years ago and loved it, so this was a nice reminder that I'm due a re-read! I also just read my first Hemingway (A Moveable Feast, because I'm living in Paris at the moment) and I can tell I am going to fall in love with his work.

[@graceb.5885]

wow this was so great! i could listen to you talk about books endlessly. your love for books is so infectious so thank you for that:) i’ve added so many books to my tbr now 💖

[@AnKiT_T]

I (we) played The Phantom of the Opera play during school festival. It’s so nostalgic 🥹. Thank you for reminding me. ❤

[@khalilahd.]

Yesss! I’ve been waiting for this video! Your book recommendations are always so good and I just finished my last book so perfect timing! 💜 can’t wait to pick up some of them ☺️

[@emmiereads]

thank you! ooh what was the book you finished?

[@JalenZachhM]

My favorite books of all time in no particular order: A Thousand Splendid Suns Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Light in August by William Faulkner A Sound in the Fury by William Faulkner A Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Dubliners by James Joyce The Reivers by William Faulkner

[@peixemp4]

once I described a book in the same way you did, that it made me cry because the writing was so beautiful not because it was sad (the book is by jose saramago, the gospel according to jesus christ, it's brilliant)

[@õümåymaBD-p1h]

I just like the way that you express your thoughts and feelings about the books, it's just wonderful because i'm struggling with this. I do have so many things to say about what i read but i just keep feeling his impuct on me without saying anything.

[@meowchowpanda]

You make every book you recommend sound like the best book I’ve never read. You’ve got yourself a new subscriber!

[@ReadingNymph]

Such amazing books, I'm planning to read Phantom of the Opera this year and want to get Bloody Chamber. I adored Dorian Gray, Turn of the Screw and Frankienstien. My favourites are Jane Eyre and Name of the Wind

[@misaetmi]

Please do a try to solve with “the seven and a half lives of Evelyn hard castle” if you haven’t read it yet. The agatha Christie one was so fun and I think this is a perfect book for it

[@Well_well3124]

It is honestly such a flex to be someone who inspires people to pick up a book and read (myself included). You are seriously one of the most impressive people I have ever come across. Greeting from Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺!

[@alexscorner6453]

new subscriber here! i am absolutely enamored with the way you describe books with so much love. thanks for making this video, i'm excited to dive into your recommendations! :)

[@emmiereads]

awe hi! so nice to meet you, thank you so much that means the world

[@tigerhunter8878]

Hey, I actually never liked reading growing up, in middle school I got introduced an approachable book, “Fahrenheit 451”, and was in awe. I didn’t know books could have so much depth and beauty in them. Through out high school I also never read at all, it was until right after high school that I started having a deep appreciation and love for literature. Currently I’m reading ‘Moby Dick’ and I have to say so far it’s one of the best pieces of literature I’ve ever read, becoming my favorite book.

[@Cubehead27]

Brilliant, I am very excited for this one 😊 Honestly I wish I loved any writer as much as Emma loves Rilke.

[@S317537]

I’ve been going though this list and I just finished 100 years of solitude and I loved it! So many emotions with that family, but the writing and use of time is so magical. Now I am reading Dark Interval and I don’t want to finish it because it’s so good. So just ordered Book of Hours and when it arrives I’ll finished the Dark Interval! Thank you for your recommendations ❤

[@varshi4979]

Am i the only one who finds the way she talks so satisfying? Idk how to explain it but its so peaceful..

[@peace345ToTheWorld]

thank you so much for being so vulnerable and willing to show us a glimpse into your authentic soul. my imagination is already churning just from listening from you discussing these novels! thank you so much! brb logging onto thriftbooks

[@patrickkeyes5916]

There is an unabashed love of reading here. Simply beautiful.

[@joychalaby]

After finishing watching this list, Emma, I loved hearing the personal connection you had to each book. That for me is so significant in what has shaped my favourite books and memories of those texts. Here are some of mine: - The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom - Nothing Else Matters by Patricia St John - The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien - Perelandra by C. S. Lewis - Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell - Persuasion by Jane Austen - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - The Keys of the Kingdom by A. J. Cronin - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - Pilgrim's Progess by John Bunyan - The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas

[@sonimaharjan208]

Currently reading “Love in Time of Cholera “ and loving it! “One hundred time of Solitude” is my next read.. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is my new favourite author now!

[@EpicoNubletto]

Love the grumpy octopus in the background. Also, War and Peace is excellent! Probably my favourite book of all time

[@Niki-gi2dn]

Excited to read One Hundred Years of Solitude with you! I've been wanting to read it, and you mentioning doing a read-along sounds like just what I need. Thank you for being you and all your glorious book recommendations that I can't wait to devour in the future :)

[@emmiereads]

ah amazing, I cannot wait for the summer - thank you lovely!

[@ainenicgiollachoille9407]

Did the readalong happen last Summer? New subscriber and would love to participate.

[@Niki-gi2dn]

@@ainenicgiollachoille9407 yes! here is the first vlog: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nl6sf4CJeNiWaas

[@romanticdove]

My favourites are The Night Circus and The Humans and Heidi. All three are so different yet so beautifully written.

[@sarahroche9181]

If you love books set in hotels, you might enjoy A Gentleman In Moscow. I read it a few months ago and the Count is super charming x

[@scofah]

came here to find the comment and totally agree that this hotel book was a great story. I listened to it on Audible and it was excellent!

[@sarahroche9181]

@@scofah yay! I'm glad you liked it.

[@maria-pk8zu]

honestly i have this itching feeling of wanting to immerse myself in reading some classics for the first time and also some dark and lonely feeling recently due to my present personal situation that i really appreciated your recommendations! i can’t really begin to tell you how hard it’s going to be to try and narrow the ones that i want to and can order now and the ones that i will wait a bit for! - also i’m having eye surgery so i’m going to have to wait a little, that’s def not going to be fun lol anyway, thank you so much Emmie

[@asaber4528]

There is nothing in this world that compares to reading 100 years of solitude for the first time. I'm glad someone from a completely different culture loves it so much! Also ur adorable 👉👈

[@bookoffholicbookwart5945]

That book is true masterpiece

[@sealisa1398]

Changed my life…for the better! Yes.

[@martamiteva3464]

It's too good 😭

[@bookoffholicbookwart5945]

Anne of green gables and lust for life by Irving stone are my forever favourites

[@sealisa1398]

@@bookoffholicbookwart5945 Lust For Life was a favorite of mine when I was in my college years. Yes!

[@hyemiyah]

yes to everything. but especially house of leaves. reading that book was AN EXPERIENCE. at a certain point i realised i had got as obsessed as johnny and it blew my mind. i also had the weirdest dreams while reading this. ugh. so good.

[@jasmin5246]

I also discovered Rilke through Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver series. He just touches your soul, doesn't he?

[@emmiereads]

will be forever grateful to that series haha, and YES yes yes

[@Kamila_Koziol]

Beautifully put when talking about Wilde's skill in writing. I agree 100% with that statement. I've read that book when I was around 15 yo, it was the summer I've decided to read our classics collection we had in our house. At first I thought I'd get really bored with "stuffy" books, but oh, my... what jewels were waiting for me... The Picture was I think the second one of that pile I've read. Still thinking about that book regularly. I feel exactly the same about 100 Years of Solitude. I'm also due for a reread. It's funny that I think I know this book so well, and yet I've read it only once, 20 years ago. Props for Lem. I had taken me some time to read it and even more to appreciate it, but now I read his works quite often.

[@literaturewhispersasmr9511]

Love this list! If you wanted another Stanislaw Lem recommendation, His Master's Voice is one of my favourite books, about scientists trying to decipher what they think is communication from alien life across the galaxy. And definitely check out the Tarkovsky film version of Solaris if you haven't, it's very slow and creepy and meditative (the one from the 1970s, not the 2000s version with George Clooney lol)

[@d-5037]

Solaris! That book basically got me into reading. I found the atmosphere and the philosophical themes very interesting that it stuck with me for years. It made me understand how much there is to discover in literature.

[@EmmaRiddle543]

I’m as obsessed with The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde as you are with Phantom of the Opera, which I have on my shelve waiting to be read. You are amazing Emma!! My name is also Emma, I know 6 Emma’s personally. 😊

[@JeffRebornNow]

Have you seen the movie? It was made circa 1945 and is really good.

[@EmmaRiddle543]

@@JeffRebornNow Not yet but my friend has.

[@wordsaremyhobby]

I love that I was right about two of your favourites. I guessed the phantom of the opera and one hundred years of solitude. I honestly want to read all of them.

[@liamfrederic5203]

oh I love this list

[@ryanl4614]

I absolutely adore your passion for books. Some of the other channels I seen for book recommendations can put me to sleep this channel definitely has passion for novels.