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i needed a warning for the it ends with us jump scare 😭

THE LITHENING IS HORRIBLE JACK

PLEase LITHENING!!!!

Can’t stand you metaphors and love of tragedy

The books that are considered great later are books you've never heard of. And they certainly won't be the woke books of the day.

I reread hunger games in its entirety probably once a year. It’s a classic for me lol

I feel like The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini should be on this list.

I don't even use tiktok but I feel like a lot of great books became popular because of it, even older ones. The only think I don't really understand is the hype around bad written, shallow romance books? Some things should stay on Wattpad. People can read what they want of course but some people really want to tell me Coleen Hoover is on of the best writers???

Wow the voice of this man, he should voice audiobooks

I remember a while ago ago when I first heard your videos you were so proper and now you curse and said things like “ I’ll sell my soul” 😂. I guess is good to have more confidence but your soul?!

So great to see Black Butterflies on this list. One of the best books I have read in recent years.

This video was really informative, thank you Jack! Even learned something about Amazon 😂

I would add "Babel" and "My Brilliant Friend"

I just recently found your channel and I’ve loved it so far! I love how different your channel is from most book content on RUclips and I like how you recommend classics as well. Subscribed!

“crying in h mart”, “pachinko” and “on earth we’re briefly gorgeous” would be really nice additions to this list! all very personal, intimate stories regarding - in their own ways - the asian diaspora, with beautiful insights about the human condition and its many facets, like grief, love, trauma, family, etc.. strongly recommend them for anyone reading this :)

Well i now have many new books on my reading list

I can't fathom how the author wrote the ending for a little life and thought that was a good decision...

Gonna be completely honest, I was really intrigued by the world building in Fourth Wing but I had to DNF it immediately after the description of the love interest because it weirded me out so much.

I can't have a tik tok acc and get to that community, I already don't have enought time to read as it is 😂 but I see a rise in reading and love that, good video as well, thank you

I love Jonathan Strange and mr Norrel by Susanna Clark btw, it's such an amazing book (do you like it?), I will read it againg for sure. I will also read Piranesi, I've heard so much about it!

I really did not get tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. It felt like I was waiting for something to happen the entire book.

Thank you, I'm happy to find someone who enjoys classics and contemporary books like me

stumbled upon this and i instantly clicked. saw penguins classic on the title and ive been trying to get myself into reading some classics so im excited to see what this video has to say! also the amount of books behind you? i am jealous 🎉

Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Event should be in the list ! ❤❤

For me its any/all of the books by Celeste Ng which are so mother-centric and examines very complicated Asian-American experiences

The Book Thief already has a drama movie, so yeah it’s gonna stay.

Ian McEwan is great tho, especially his book Atonement! I don´t think most dads would pick up his books, since they are often historical fiction, with psychological themes as well as romance, but perhaps my view of dad taste is too narrow. I think Dan Brown books give that dad vibe, maybe because I saw my dad reading Angels & Demons lmao

5 mins in and found that basically if its liberal its a classic.

I have never been so attracted to a man. Watching Jack go on a well-spoken rant about literature has got me feeling some type of way 🥵

This is the proof that the One Piece (anglocentrism) is real. 😂

The secret history not being here is criminal 😭😭😭😭

are any Cormac McCarthy books considered “classics” yet? If not, blood meridian and the road!

The reviews on Pride and Prejudice brought me back to my high school RAGE about that book 😂. It was assigned to us for English class and I remember absolutely hating every cursed second I spent reading it. It was literally the only English class novel I abandoned a quarter of the way through and just Sparknotes-ed for the book report. I hated every character, every scene, every line of dialogue. Up to that point I had never felt so much anger over a book. I never read Austen again after that 😂.

This is so pretentious. “It reads like a classic” means that no one will care. The school system destroys the desire of youths to read. I think the only 2 you have right are The Book Thief and The Hunger Games, and that’s only if people aren’t forced to read them.

I'm sick of this mundane conventional knowledge, guys. Head to Borlest and read the forbidden books, only then will you truly gain knowledge about money

Never Let Me Go is already an all-time classic imo

I am a die hard fan of CMBYN, I completely understand the argument about the age difference and wouldn’t tell someone that they’re “wrong” if they hate it, but I see it as less of a love story and more of a yearning to become the person you admire and love so much. I see Elio’s obsession as being more of a attatching himself to someone he recognises, a home, a person he aches to become and morph into, hence all the nakedness and skin on skin stuff

It’s hilarious how the actual renaissance writer can imagine better for her male leads than the modern writer. The rakish man who wanted to change his ways for a good woman was the VILLAIN in Mansfield park, and the morally consistent man is preferred, and being overtly a sexist (Mr Collins, Mr Elton, to a degree Mr Rushwood) is an exclusion to being a love interest regardless of money. Heck, all the male leads would be villains in Austen

Siddartha was mine. I appreciated it a lot on a technical level, but enjoyment level... nope

I very rarely find a modern author worth-reading. Many are often 'woke' before the term entered the mainstream; 'politics is downstream from culture' and the university, starting with the 60s, began to deconstruct and destroy the novel. Or books are beautifully written without being interesting, that is, the character development takes a backseat to 'look at what I am capable off' sentence structures (don't get me started on books without punctuation or overused stream of conscious ramblings). Or the other extreme: characters are so quirky it feels over-the-top. This list, I will keep in mind but I am tired of the endless disappointment.

Hey there, Jack! Been a silent watcher of your channel thus far♥️ So, it would be real nice if you Could please do some book recommendations on "light -hearted" books that can leave you happy& warm & fuzzy inside🔆 after finishing?? I am not a reader but i am mindful of what i read (enough misery in reality lol). But i have been having this itch to just pick up a book and float into another dimension! I wanna be able to transport myself momentarily, to be able to imagine & dream, to expand my perspective too. And leave the book with a smile on face!🤗 Both fiction & non-fiction would be appreciated, Please. Thank You In Advance♥️

Thank you for recommending Piranesi in an older video ! I read it and loved it ❤

I think that Noughts and Crosses is an amazing series too, it's so unique

i'm not surprised that hunger games are here

You gotta add The Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson it is such an amazing series ❤

You forgot my immortal😡😡

i believe another book that fits is “between shades of gray” it is already seen as a classic where i live, but it could go worldwide!

Id argue life of pi. I took ap English my last year of high school and the reading list had it among a number of well known novels and plays and of the many classics on the list like Beloved and The Awakening, that was the book i remember most. I remember the plays King Lear and Medea and i remember what the teacher said about Arthur Miller when we were reading death of a salesman but the novels? Only life of pi leaves me with a good feeling. I also vaguely remember catch-22 but that was because it was the only one on the list of books we could choose for the summer homework we had to complete before the first day of class i could find at my local library lol

Shame Oprah is a horrible person

Recently started watching your videos regularly. This was brilliant! Some points were absolutely remarkable.