My Home Library Tour

[@omensix]

As you were talking about the found letters that made the epistolary novel is kind of like the found footage films that became popular with Blair witch. Les liaisons dangeruses - was made into a BRILLIANT movie in 1988 with Michelle Pfeiffer- John malkovich - Glenn close and more- must see!

[@stirlingpiano]

This is an incredible bookshelf! I love the style of organizing. Also, I am so glad to have found another who loves Les Mis. In my opinion, not enough people appreciate how great it truly is.

[@vozamaraktv-art5595]

My favourite book hands down!! Just great beyond words!

[@PhillipInbody]

Very good book collection on a lot of subjects. Good penguin collection too

[@victorhayden1183]

This is like my library:-) except all my books are in boxes at the moment. When they were up on the shelves I separated everything mostly by classical works, fiction and nonfiction, and modern historical books. Its amazing how much can be known about a book even without ever reading it, then it becomes amazing how unexpected a book can be once you read it, like Marco Polo’s Journal.

[@littleredflying-fox]

Your tour was quite enjoyable. I am always heartened by bookshelf tours that have serious content. I feel that there is an overrepresentation of girls with their YA and FuncoPop collections on KZbin. At the moment I am reading The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (trans. George Long), and American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett. Try anything by Umberto Eco.

[@thetimeofthewolf257]

Yukio Mishima,Eiji Yoshikawa, Jack London,Conn Illgulden,Bernard Cornwell and Robert E Howard are all great writers.Those are my favorite writers. I am more into historical fiction and dont care much for Classic Lit other than Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. I am looking for a good hardcover book on the collection of poems written by Rudyard Kipling.

[@Mmgin9]

What a beautiful and inspiring collection! Thank you for sharing!

[@phaedrussmith1949]

Very nice. I like the rug. It really pulls the room together.

[@hansvriend4327]

Thank you for this video. Greetings from a fellow reader and bookcollecter from the Netherlands. Keep reading, keep thinking.

[@Manuel421]

You probably wont see this but I currently have Letters from a Stoic by Seneca on my list of future books. Is it a worthwhile read? Stoic philosophy is new to me but for now I have begun with The Enchiridion by Epictetus as well as Meditations by Marcus Aurelius which also is favored by many. I took a Philosophy course in College so I do have a bit of background on the subject in general. Anyway thanks for providing me some inspiration for my future small library.

[@rogermaxson2512]

Very nice, Ryan!

[@swethak4687]

Its really fantastic home library....super....great orginsing of all books and the room

[@34missgreen]

I thoroughly enjoyed this tour of your library! I am incrementally building my personal library with the intention of adding more depth to the literature (monographs, novels, etc.) that I already own. In high school, two of the fictional works we had to read for IB English were: Madame Bovary and Tartuffe. I didn't enjoy either one, with a slight hatred towards the former lol. However, I did really enjoy Candide. When you described The Man Who Laughs and the connection with The Joker, I got so excited! Maybe I will give French literature another chance after all 😂.

[@eleonoralydia8884]

Your library reminds me of my own. There's a little bit of everything in it. Right now I'm doing a "read the world challenge", so that I can get to learn more about the world. After that, we'll see... but I definitely want to study more about literature

[@cindyann727]

Wonderful library. Interesting way of organizing the books. I tend to categorize by size of book and just keep a detail online catalog of where everything is. Thanks for sharing.

[@mariaquintino1670]

Great library and decor. Thank you for sharing your lovely space with us.

[@lykins8]

This is an incredible set up

[@Amarantis]

Nice home library! really liked it!

[@BoganBrett]

Love the Charles Dickens bust! I've only read his A Christmas Carol, and it's one of my favourite novellas. :)

[@shethewriter]

I love watching library tours!

[@teatimewithtraceyandcrew]

Wow you have a stunning collection. Seriously. So many treasures and you pl pal Pete to keep you company. What a cutie he is. Love videos like this. I get such inspiration. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed #257. Peace love and happiness ~ Tracey

[@missjenny1953]

Beautiful library and beautiful room! Oh you must read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I just finished it and it’s marvelous. A lot of sermonizing in the middle but may be interesting to you as I can see you have a lot of theology. I read a biography on her and the rest of the family. In Search ofAnne Bronte. Fabulous.

[@rorocio93]

I would love to have a library like that one. I'm 21 and I don't have a job so I don't have many books yet 😅. I loved watching this video because I can't find in KZbin readers of Philosophy or of this type of books. If you know some other channels, it would be nice if you share them with me.

[@momengaber7717]

Same problem, but I found some channels here, you might be interested. (Theory & Philosophy) (TheBookchemist) (Richardson Reads) (Bookish) (Richardson ReadsThe Archive) (Dane K. Jóhannsson) (Roger Maxson) (Book Club) (Biblio Atlas)

[@Stevendesanta]

Loved this man! Keep making these videos, I really enjoyed this.

[@thelmaerasmus7232]

Thanks. Enjoyed to see your books.

[@noseonscent1935]

Great books, lots of choices. Classic to modern, very nice.

[@historical_lisa315]

Thank you for sharing. Your library is wonderful. I feel like you share many of my sentiments and your reading choices are similar to mine. Les Miserables is also my favorite work.

[@AndrewRayGorman]

I have to laugh, I had many of the exact same young adult books. We sold off all our Hardy Boys books at a yardsale. Surprised I didn't also see the Magic Treehouse in your collection!

[@davidbradley301]

I saw you had Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Wondering if you have read his Theory of Moral Sentiments, I think the Penguin Classics edition is really good.

[@joffrethegiant]

INFINITELY re-readable, though? lol What a cool idea.

[@John-lt8bh]

Great Library, thanks for sharing.

[@أفلاكالأفكار]

Very nice bookshelf! I like the idea of categorizing them chronologically, I may have to do that to mine as well. I don't recall it being mentioned, but Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is an absolute must. And if you are into Americana, then Andrew O'Shaughnessy's "Men Who Lost America" is excellent for understanding the British side and the Library of America's collections of the writings of Franklin, Jefferson, and Adams are very useful (the Franklin one is quite entertaining because it has his Almanacks).

[@616Haggard]

We have very similar libraries. We are both students of Christianity and Old Western culture!

[@doctor1alex]

Wow this is extensive! Given so many I was a bit surprised not to see more theology?

[@thomasthompson6378]

You really should read "Cloud Atlas" -- it's one of the most extraordinary novels I've ever read, and I believe you'd find it fascinating. It's really unlike anything else. (But don't see the movie, which utterly fails to capture the beauty of the book.)

[@Dc-zv4zi]

Just stumbled across your video. Amazing library! So much knowledge in one place. Best wishes from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@magdavelas]

Wow! You’ve got a nice “man cave” library!

[@holissarbeni2652]

Thank you for sharing. That is such a great video. I was wondering how much time you invested to read all those great books collection of yours?

[@juanconstan7402]

bro we like the same books and interests !! congratulations!

[@ARod-br2ui]

I don’t know much about Shakespeare, but one fact about him I found rather fascinating. The fact that he himself invented about 1700 words in the English language.

[@vanessa271]

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed seeing the treasures you hoard in your library. You need Peterson's Beyond Order and other Mortimer Adler's works, in my opinion.

[@vanessa271]

@@ryangriffiths6807 I like Adler's Philosopher at Large; How to Speak, How to Listen; and The Time of Our Lives. Of course, it would be nice if you can complete the Great Books set.

[@LeoModest1]

Hi Ryan! Happened to come across your video - lovely library, I'm sure I could spend some enjoyable hours in it! :-) And you didn't come off pretentious, more excited about the wide range of books you have! I'm very curious about your books by Homer. Which version would you recommend? What's the most pleasing to the eye - nice edition, but also when reading it: not too tiny print etc. Any recommendations to share? And what is this Ovid book we see at 10.08? Do you have any details on that? It looks great and I'd love to have a comprehensive book on Ovid.. So thanks for your video - good stuff. And - by the way - Anne Bronte is the best of the sisters where poetry is concerned. :-)

[@islas357]

I’ve got a lot of the same books, i dig the decor.

[@climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191]

I have read "Atlas Shrugged" bit of a slog but a great read, the potrayal of relationships in the novel is great.

[@mockingbird3099]

If you're ever in Flagstaff, be sure to visit Percival Lowell's library. It is one of my favorites. Yours is quite nice, too. As wonderful as it is, your Russian collection is incomplete without the works of Anton Chekhov.

[@MarkelBeverley]

SEE this is what the hell I'm talking bout. Subscribed!

[@oliverromm5869]

What are the three books before the epic of Gilgamesh on your chronologically organised shelves?

[@MAPologeticsIPeter315]

You need to get some of my former professor of apologetics and law, Dr. John Warwick Montgomery's books. Such as "History and Christianity, "Faith Founded on Fact," "Law Above the Law," "Human Rights, Human Dignity," "Slaughter of the Innocents," "Shape of the Past," "Where is History Going?" "In Defense of Martin Luther," "Myth Allegory and Gospel," "Demon Possession," "Christianity for the Toughminded," "The Suicide of Christian Theology," "God's Inerrant word,""The Quest for the Ark," "Evidence for Faith: How To Decide the God Question," "China in Chains," amongst others. He's written widely and considered one of the world's foremost evidential apologist. Check him out.

[@ryanoneiljohnson8743]

Literally occupy world literature. Great tour brother.

[@NC1195_]

What is the measurements of your Shakespeare bust?

[@kristigathercoal8108]

If you are a fan of Arthurian legend give Susan Cooper a read. I read them as a child and loved them. They also made a movie based on the books. It was ok, but you really needed to have read the books to understand the movie.

[@BrianJonson]

I enjoyed this; thank you. Just curious about the theology works starting with the Reformation. Do you have any interest in earlier Greek and Latin theologians? Again, thank you for the great tour. You gave me ideas

[@frisco61]

Because nothing happened in Christondom before then.

[@abigailhortencia5901]

Awesome👌

[@dsmoons]

Like for Gogol and Dostoevsky. "Demons" ("The Possessed") - my favorite book

[@borderbioscope1180]

great, thanks

[@mediafreak5609]

No H.P Lovecraft?

[@joffrethegiant]

There's a whole lotta California on that map of yours!

[@chen-Po]

Thank you for sharing.

[@climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191]

Read some Bryce Courtney, he is a fun read

[@oscarsalesgirl296]

18:40 "you have to remember that there's a lot of humor there" wow they sound so funny 🙄

[@Aaron-xn7dg]

do you have any reading list on Catholicism?

[@thetimeofthewolf257]

I come from a pentecostal background. My wife grew up Catholic. I am looking into Catholicism. I have heard that Matthew Levering is excellent. The church fathers are great. Aquinas is good. Joseph Ratzinger on the theology of the liturgy is good. E Michael Jones books are great. They have been banned from Amazon I think so you would have to order them from his website. Overall Matthew Levering is probably the best.

[@dragonofchaos7843]

You got an idol behind

[@lewisesoplin8809]

amazing

[@allen5455]

Do you collect "queer" books? Do you live in a basement? Have a lil' gammy? That map left out the Baja. Do you read the Bible? O.K., tell me-- "Where is the Blood?" Geographic position?

[@helioliskfire5954]

Dracula is an epistolary novel hehe.

[@halaldunya918]

Not bad,I don't like fiction, always after history and science, and philosophy for reading.

[@Stevendesanta]

RIP Pink Toe Pete

[@ednorton47]

The "Brian Kilmeade" books don't fit in with the others.

[@joffrethegiant]

A Greek Bible next to a Turkish one...truly the lion shall lie down with the lamb...

[@derbuchhandel]

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[@joffrethegiant]

Chronological order is a pretty good idea, but I think organizing by color could be the way to go.

[@eriolduterion8855]

By color, you end up with a series scattered all over the walls, and since one can never remember whether color of a particular volume was green, blue or yellow, one cannot go directly to a bookshelf to find it. Depending on the size of the personal library - mine is approaching 2500 books- one can either do Alphabetical by Author or a combination of Subject/Alpha by Author, or a more formal Dewey Decimal/Library of Congress. The real problem comes with non-fiction where the subject matter overlaps several fields - for example does North American Indian Art get shelved under Art, Art History, or American Indians. Series, particularly where there are multiple authors/guest authors such as Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar or the Robert Asprin/Lynn Abby Thieves World books become difficult to determine how to group. Another issue is where you have a hardbound volume, but the sequels were never issued as hardbound.

[@fredarcher7264]

An interesting examination of your library . Although I must admit that I found that your continual mispronunciation of the names of authors' to be rather disconcerting .

[@climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191]

Glenn Beck...bruhhhh

[@dami3894]

The title and video style definitely reminds me of early KZbin for some reason lol