Ranking Every Book I Read in 2024

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@BG-bj7jr Ай бұрын

The Hail Mary placement/non-mention has me still rolling. 💀

@Irohbro Ай бұрын

that book was grate IMO

@meesalikeu Ай бұрын

a terrible book 😂🎉

@sofadhana1289 Ай бұрын

is it a troll from him, or does he honestly think it's as bad as the Abominable Snowman et al?

@JakeFromMaine Ай бұрын

I laughed so hard

@qlqnen Ай бұрын

He absolutely hates it.

@Warstub Ай бұрын

I will forever cherish the 28:10 Andy Weir moment 🤣

@HakimALIGHT Ай бұрын

That was absolutely hilarious 🤣🤣

@Phoenixzs1012 Ай бұрын

I was a bit disappointed about that :D. Wanted him to take shred it :D.

@yelisieimurai Ай бұрын

Wow it was so great:))) this is the right place for Weir

@meesalikeu Ай бұрын

@@Phoenixzs1012he has shredded it enough - all its worth shredding. 😂

@ButOneThingIsNeedful Ай бұрын

Book might've gone in F, but that was S-tier wry.

@XaviInc Ай бұрын

I'm about to get violently stoned while listening to Bookpilled rants. It's gonna be a good night

@Thefantasybookwarrior Ай бұрын

I freaking died laughing when you “rated” Hail Mary!! I love Gene Wolfe. Not sure I am smart enough to comprehend it all, but I find joy in his work. I plan on reading the rest of the solar cycle, peace, fifth head, etc. I am sure I will gain 1 IQ point by the end.

@shoeshiner100 Ай бұрын

limmy's face just stares into your soul for most of this vid

@PwninMcduff 26 күн бұрын

S Tier - The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D.G. Compton - He Died With His Eyes Open by Derek Raymond - The Reefs of Earth by R.A. Lafferty - Inverted World by Christopher Priest - Change the Sky and Other Stories by Margaret St. Clair - The Female Man by Joanna Russ - Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard - Moderan by David R. Bunch - Chronicules / Chronocules by D.G. Compton A Tier - Gypsy by Carter Scholz - Mama Black Widow by Iceberg Slim - The Snail On the Slope by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky - Eden by Stanislaw Lem - The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette - Eric John Stark: Outlaw of Mars by Leigh Brackett - Hard to Be a God by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky - Salt by Adam Roberts - Amerika by Franz Kafka - Fury by Henry Kuttner - Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard - Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo - In Quest of Candlelighters by Kenneth Patchen - The Two of Them by Joanna Russ B Tier - A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction - The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson - The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester - The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson - The Forever War by Joe Haldeman - The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts - A Wreath of Stars by Bob Shaw - The Space Merchants by Frederick Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth - The Puppies of Terra by Thomas M. Disch - The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe - The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison - Mistress of Mistresses by E.R. Eddison - The Garments of Caen by Barrington J. Bayley - Lilith by George MacDonald - Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog - Echo Round His Bones by Thomas M. Disch - The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien - Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny by Limmy - Red as Blood by Tanith Lee C Tier - ..And All the Stars a Stage by James Blish - A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge - Space Prison by Tom Godwin - We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick - The Compleat Traveller in Black by John Brunner - A Feast Unknown by Philip José Farmer - The Game Players of Titan by Philip K. Dick - The Complete Chronicles of Conan by Robert E. Howard - Soviet Science Fiction by Isaac Asimov - The Eye of the Lens by Langdon Jones - Strange Relations by Philip José Farmer D Tier - The Abominable Snowmen by Eric Norman - The Philosopher's Stone by Colin Wilson - Midworld by Alan Dean Foster - The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde by Norman Spinrad F Tier - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - The Third Eye by T. Lobsang Rampa

@SciFiFinds Ай бұрын

So many books here that intrigue me, particularly Moderan and the Comptons. I have a very similar video coming up and there are a few overlaps in what I've read this year, including Inverted World and a completely different Abominable Snowmen book. Cheers!

@joannatrefethen1197 Ай бұрын

Le Guin praised Eddison for writing Elizabethan English in the 20th century, but admitted that, to quote a character in the book, can be 'cramped and most damnably long'. She praised it for being written in language that really felt like fantasy, as opposed to fairies speaking in modern vernacular.

@krjames203 Ай бұрын

Really gratifying to see how high you place Joanna Russ, both in this specific case and in general. As a writer she is just unbeatably good.

@Etherchannel Ай бұрын

I AM PILLED UP!

@Narcisa-800 Ай бұрын

Thank you for doing these, this is highlight of many of my days.

@MirrorReaper1 Ай бұрын

Can't wait for Blindsight to slip to C-tier in a year.

@meesalikeu Ай бұрын

NOPE! 🎉

@MirrorReaper1 Ай бұрын

@@meesalikeu You know it's gonna happen, lol.

@mcs5869 Ай бұрын

@@meesalikeuI don’t want to reread Blindsight, I have a suspicion the prose does not hold up. Also the Dawkins references

@MirrorReaper1 Ай бұрын

@@mcs5869 The prose holds up and then some. Just finished reading it a few months ago, with mind blown in many places.

@meesalikeu Ай бұрын

@@MirrorReaper1 yep, we can only encourage people to jump in snd read it. its a quick read and i could not put it down. fresh, sharp, flinty and interesting as it gets. 🎉

@zazbellum7350 Ай бұрын

A super underrated sci-fi war book I really enjoyed is Brigador by Brad Buckmaster, a book based on the universe of a game with the same name that follows three characters having to deal with their planet and way of life changing after the world leader has died and every person in a mech has gotten a contract. One character struggle's with maintaining order and trying to lead in this time, another character is conflicted and would rather leave the platoon but if he does he'll be hunted, and another that has a new lease on life and is using the chaos to settle a personal challenge. I'd highly recommend if you like sci-fi war or mech/tank war books as Buckmaster was a tanker and uses his experience expertly.

@Sticks_And_Glue Ай бұрын

I love that you seem like such a reddit atheist at times but Sasquatch being real is a hill that you die on

@arekkrolak6320 Ай бұрын

Reddit atheist is just another way of saying normal person :)

@GeneralCrabs Ай бұрын

@@arekkrolak6320 no i promise you its really not

@meesalikeu Ай бұрын

of all the genre interests dying on squatch hill isn’t a bad one 😂🎉

@matthewm5581 2 күн бұрын

@@arekkrolak6320Touch grass.

@mysteriousoul Ай бұрын

There was not even a Hail Mary for that Project! 🤓

@kriskrisSILESIA 10 күн бұрын

Not sure if you are going to see this comment, not related to this video but I just saw an interview by Grzegorz Braun (when he was still a movie maker, not a weirdo) with Stanislaw Lem. In it Stanislaw Lem mentioned that he was invited once to Moscow by the Strugatsky brothers and they tried to outdrink him. They failed. Interview is in polish. Just something I wanted to share with you since I know you loved Roadside Picnic. His son finished Theoretical Physics at Princeton and had transtaled PKD books. Lem was a great fan of him, even though he mentioned that PKD was a drug addict. Incredible interview and view in to the past. Greatest quote from Lem that just resonates with me is: "People do not read anymore, and even if they do, they do not understand what they read, and even if they do understand they quickly forget." Lem was trully a great man. If you can find someone who can correctly translate his interviews you will be amazed what kind of a man, scholar, author he was.

@Cmdtheartist Ай бұрын

Thank you for your patience in holding off your ascension to a being of pure energy so you could finish this list. Go. Go now, join the galactic choir. And let us know if you see any asteroids heading towards us, thank kew.

@Bookpilled 27 күн бұрын

Keep my name alive in the hearts of the people

@toddblanchard7765 Ай бұрын

Just finished “The Inverted World” this morning at 4:30am. I very much enjoyed it, but only gave it an 8.5 out of ten. I fight recency bias very diligently. I was ok with the end, because it left you exploring yourself and how you would react. Thought provoking read on perspective and shackling oneself to that perspective.

@pepe_sasia Ай бұрын

As a spanish speaking person, very happy to see Pedro Paramo in your list, A tier is fair, although for me it's one of my top books, perhaps because I read it in my youth. I don't know if you've read it already, but I tyhink you'd really enjoy A hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which was very much inspired by Pedro Paramo.

@meesalikeu Ай бұрын

absolutely - pedro is great and solitude is on my top ten of all books ever. i like the argentine great borges a lot too and chilean neruda. i visited all three of neruda’s famous casas in chile - they are very cool. 🎉

@p4lmtree Ай бұрын

Love the content! A suggestion for other tier lists: put the finished tier list in the video description, or show a link to it toward the end of the video! I find myself wanting to remember what you had on your S and A tiers but don't want to click through the video to see what they were (the thumbnails are too small to just pause the video and read the covers)

@oyeahtoys 28 күн бұрын

We got ourselves a reader. Love what you do. Very pleasant manner of communicating. I'm curious to see what would happen if you wrote some short stories or summaries of the genres. The integration of your consumptive habits could produce some multi-dimensional gems.

@chrisw6164 Ай бұрын

I loved A Feast Unknown and was waiting for your take. For me, I loved the ultra violence and the other outrageous stuff in it, and didn’t try to look for any subtext. I’m not so sure it’s really there, other than goofing on the superhuman absurdity of Tarzan and Doc Savage. What got me was the fact that something so over-the-top was published in the 60s. It’s closer to 80s action/horror in the way it was written; no holds barred stuff.

@meesalikeu Ай бұрын

this sounds right up by alley plus i loved the tarzan books and doc savage marvel comic books when i was a kid. 🎉

@DaVinciwithaphaser 3 күн бұрын

You are a role model and a book shaman. Thank you.

@AngryArgie Ай бұрын

I loved the no-comment Project Hail Mary goes to the F tier. Completely agree.

@brettrobson5739 Ай бұрын

I've read slightly less of this year's list than previously (about 80%). Of the S tier, I'm missing Moderan and about half the St Clair book. I'll have to give Bunch a run. Thanks. Great list - you had a good year.

@salty-walt Ай бұрын

Oh Yes. Psionic powers and whole plot points based on Freudian theory is the meat in the Jell-O mold of old school SF. . .

@GentleReader01 Ай бұрын

But sometimes it’s really good meat! Sometimes not, of course.

@Bookpilled 27 күн бұрын

Hahaha

@DZIGIN Ай бұрын

That Hail Mary yeet 😂😂😂😂😂

@stuartrusso6948 Ай бұрын

Thank you very much, plenty of ideas for future reading there :-)

@nathancroft Ай бұрын

Love this. Love hearing your thoughts. Can I make a request for future such vids that you always vocalise which tier a book is going into (unless not saying it is for reasons of humour) because I like listening to these as podcasts and I always want to know where you're ranking something. I think there were a few times where you don't say where things have ended up, maybe due to editing, and I had to stop and bring up the video and rewind.

@davlang3783 Ай бұрын

Currently reading We Can Build You. Finding it a slog. You're right about the writing. Will follow with The Demolished Man or Mortenhoe.

@samuelhudson4091 Ай бұрын

My recollection of the Freeze Frame Revolution is not that the chimp goes bad rather it wont let the crew abrogate their mission due to its inflexibilty, the mission having gone on for billions of years objective time

@Larkarran Ай бұрын

I'm not surprised you loved Limmy's book. After all, he does have an intelligence of a certain kind.

@yokooyea Ай бұрын

Finished ‘Katherine Mortenhoe’ last month, one of my favorite reads this year as well

@joelchrono Ай бұрын

can someone explain to me how fire upon the deep ended up on C tier? I thought it was one of his favorites in previous videos?

@aedrianys Ай бұрын

He reread it and disliked the prose and the characters and still liked the novel ideas but since he already knew about them, they're not as exciting

@nathancroft Ай бұрын

There's a recent vid (one of the last four maybe?) rerating things and he goes into it on some depth.

@meesalikeu Ай бұрын

he discovered he hates dogs, so … 😂🎉

@theslyngl 25 күн бұрын

Have you read Hard to be a God by Strugatsky?

@blaarfengaar Ай бұрын

Would be really interested in hearing your thoughts on Neal Stephenson, he's my favorite author and Anathem is my favorite book of all time. Have you ever read any of his work?

@douglasdea637 Ай бұрын

I do not understand the love for Anathem. It's often dull, too long and makes little sense. ("Hello, we're from the government and want you to join a secret project. Good luck getting there as we're not going to pay your ticket. See ya!") Why were ninjas attacking a train at the north pole again? I dunno. And the ending had bits left in that should have been removed, or something. I remember one guy died but then was still alive later. Just a mess.

@meesalikeu Ай бұрын

@@douglasdea637his books are always cluttering bookstore scifi shelves. 😂🎉

@CODENAMEDERPY Ай бұрын

Am I stupid? Why is the general agreement that Hail Mary was terrible? I thought it was alright.

@jbarelds78 Ай бұрын

I don't think you're stupid. I think he generally leans towards dispair, and doesn't like optimistic sci-fi. He also generally dislikes Clarke if I remember correctly.

@CODENAMEDERPY Ай бұрын

@ how does Clarke fit into Hail Mary?

@yelisieimurai Ай бұрын

@@CODENAMEDERPY both are dry hard SF?

@jeremymontgomery998 26 күн бұрын

I thought it was quite good.

@JohnAnderssonSWE Ай бұрын

I'm not insane! Well I might still be, but at least I'm not alone in thinking Hail Mary is severely overrated. That pause was spot on. That pretty much summarizes my views on it.

@ramadaomar5676 18 күн бұрын

Idk if you read all the comments, but I just finished Alien Clay by Tchaikovsky and I think it's the best thing he's written. I haven't read his entire oeuvre, but it's far superior to the couple series I've read. Much tighter focus first person perspective with body horror and revolution. Definitely your taste, politically.

@ButOneThingIsNeedful Ай бұрын

I agree with you on sasquatch -- that is, that it is a real something. Just what, I don't know.

@jungfellow Ай бұрын

any intention of reviewing A Voyage to Arcturus? I’m reading it and I don’t know whether it’s terrible or if it’s trippy good

@Bookpilled 27 күн бұрын

Yeah it's on the TBR

@onurcaksu3145 Ай бұрын

Before you mentioned Wolfe, your description of The Reefs of Earth was already reminding me fo The Fifth Head of Cerberus. I know Wolfe was a fan of his. I haven't read Reefs or any other Lafferty though, so maybe I'm off with the Fifth Head thing. Might try it soon, thanks to you. ❤

@meesalikeu Ай бұрын

ive only read lafferty’s short stories collection. they are very quirky but he is an excellent writer. 🎉

@ButOneThingIsNeedful Ай бұрын

Insightful summarizing of Eddison. In the best sections (not a lot of them, but ...) I found the writing so beautiful I'm unsure whether to classify it as prose or poetry. Is "poetic prose" an oxymoron? It was lovely.

@bambiterranova5837 Ай бұрын

I was watching this in fear you were gonna shit on Worm Ouroboros lol. It's my favorite book ever. It's unhinged, the story is childishly dumb in a way (because he made up everything when he was 10) and yeah it's dull in parts, but it's such a singular and strangely beautiful book that I can't help but have respect for it. The Bantam version has an awesome cover but for reasons you stated, I think an annotated version is a better rec. Salute as always, thanks for having such great taste

@Bookpilled 27 күн бұрын

Didn't even know there was an annotated version.

@bambiterranova5837 26 күн бұрын

@Bookpilled oh yeah, there's a couple versions with a whole glossary in the back. I don't know if the book would've hit for me like it did without it. Idk wtf a grickle is, man.

@TheLimitlessLegacy Ай бұрын

Do you actually like any contemporary books? 🤣

@yelisieimurai Ай бұрын

@@TheLimitlessLegacy they are shit.

@vdr3846 Ай бұрын

Bookpilled was a Necco Baby.

@cloudbloom Ай бұрын

Absolute power move

@Rumham7291 26 күн бұрын

the inverted world sounds similiar to Logan's Run

@chrisw6164 Ай бұрын

I’m starting to dislike space opera, and it doesn’t make me enthusiastic about many books in my TBR stacks. Oh well.

@spuzzbunky_rock 17 күн бұрын

I humbly request Mistress of Mistresses to be moved to S tier. Fish Dinner in Memison is even better, the best of the Eddison books IMO.

@jeroenadmiraal8714 Ай бұрын

Nice bell curve. Some content creators end up with inverse bell curves which is a sign of an insane mind.

@GiuseppeSole-i3t 22 сағат бұрын

Do you like "Change the sky and other stories" more, or "The shadow people"?

@StrangerThanNonfiction Ай бұрын

I know I can trust the S-tier recommendations because I placed Project Hail Mary in the same tier. 😅

@hughjazz5608 Ай бұрын

Are you reading Lord of Light?

@kingj282 4 күн бұрын

*Smash cut to Andy Wehr in F tier* 😂😂😂

@danjameson1572 Ай бұрын

E.R. Eddison was a civil servant with a.....big....imagination. I believe he worked for the Board of Trade and wrote at night.

@hughjazz5608 Ай бұрын

Lmao what happened with project hail mary? 😂

@kingj282 10 күн бұрын

Clearly the Fire Upon the Deep reread is still painful lol

@meesalikeu Ай бұрын

iceberg slim & chester himes had a revival and were very popular in the 1980s, along with jim thompson and others like chandler for the ‘hard boiled’ crime fiction revival craze. mostly i think thx to james ellroy getting so much notice and the vintage series authors like haruki murakami and cormac mcarthy and the like back then. since the 80s slim, himes and thompson have all but disappeared again. tastes change & cancel culture won’t allow them i guess. 🎉

@thescrewfly Ай бұрын

Good video, considering that I normally find the tier structure an annoyance. Still interested in your opinions, regardless.

@thebrokenorder Ай бұрын

I appreciate your honest opinion on Project Hail Mary. It is baffling how many booktubers love it. I can't take seriously any reviewer that gushes over that book.

@meesalikeu Ай бұрын

thank you - me neither. the guy doesnt write books, he writes mid movie scripts. i can’t stand that. 😂

@drcarnage83 Ай бұрын

It seems like this is the only safe space on the internet for those of us who see that book as it really is. I honestly don't understand the praise it gets.

@braydenpresley1437 Ай бұрын

Quit interrupting my reading with S-tier book content, Matt.

@lissavanhouten6628 Ай бұрын

Poor Project Hail Mary. I read a lot of great sci-fi, though I still liked this one.

@chocolatemonk Ай бұрын

Snowmen and Bigfoot are also folklore so the haters can kick rocks

@zuma4847 Ай бұрын

Guys try "alien clay"

@markphillips3186 Ай бұрын

Aw, I wanted to hear the reasons why you put say Project Hail Mary in the F tier. I can think of many reasons why you would. But I’d only be guessing. Personally I would have placed it C/D tier. Better written than The Da Vinci Code which definitely would be F tier.

@human_garbage666 Ай бұрын

Andy Weir fans in shambles.

@SteveHolthof Ай бұрын

Not to worry, when he writes a book half as good as any of Andy Weirs, then I’ll start taking his opinions seriously…critics are a dime a dozen. Let him be happy selling used books. 😂

@TG-ld8hl Ай бұрын

36:49 Failed No Nut November cuz Matt said “Dick cylinders”

@meesalikeu Ай бұрын

😂

@Sefiros Ай бұрын

You read Limmy's book!

@arekkrolak6320 Ай бұрын

The best review of Project Hail Mary ever! ;)

@aresisis5427 Ай бұрын

me over here waiting for the hail mary review 🙃

@thekeywitness Ай бұрын

Hail Mary? Hell no! 😂. Also, you make me want to re-read Super Cannes, Ballard’s best later work.

@meesalikeu Ай бұрын

i read super cannes right when it came out in 1997 i think it was. i was on a second wave for me big ballard kick. around 1990 i went on the first ballard kick when the outstanding re/search atrocity exhibition came out. 🎉

@ftlbaby Ай бұрын

Moderan S tier please! LOL not a live stream

@jameshendrix8217 Ай бұрын

dam , got a hate on for mary.

@ftlbaby Ай бұрын

Surprise! Surprise!

@bambiterranova5837 Ай бұрын

Also, sorry for the double comment, but the adjective "pre-Tolkien" is very dumb to me. I'm not trying to come at you over it, but Tolkien is post-Eddison fantasy, and all epic fantasy is. Popularity and commercial success are meaningless.

@conorquinn607 Ай бұрын

Benny Harvey RIP

@chrisfeichtner7675 Ай бұрын

Do you ever get burnt out on reading?

@Bookpilled 27 күн бұрын

Every once in a while

@jnmortell66 Ай бұрын

Do the other Kids in the Hall share your taste in books, Kevin McDonald? Are you the better version of Kevin McDonald a la The Substance? Is that why we see you only every 7 days or so, Other Kevin?

@floeten-olm8396 Ай бұрын

28:10 😂

@IISHOUTII 16 күн бұрын

BP your sense of humor is so dry and you have to really be a veteran of the channel to get it but once you do. It’s great.

@marcingluszek7564 Ай бұрын

28:11 I love how you just took Project Hail Mary and without a word put it in E tier. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@OXyShow Ай бұрын

You look like John Wick

@rosem6124 18 күн бұрын

❤❤

@mtotheatothedoubled Ай бұрын

Sasquatch being real is so funny to me. Of all things! Sasquatch!?

@outlawbookselleroriginal Ай бұрын

Nice to see that someone besides me has finally read Manchette- 'Fatale' is my favourite and it has surprising synergies with Muriel Spark's 'The Driver's Seat'. I enjoyed 'The Prone Gunman' too, but then I am a French Noir nut. NYRB hve been pumping out reissues regularly for some years now and I've even managed to get some of my co-workers reading him, even though my big 'European Noir Redux' phase was a decade ago. Nice to see D G Compton riding high. Take care of yourself, Matt.