Started this channel in 2020, so if you want to watch top 10 books of 2020, here is: kzitem.info/news/bejne/lK2vrK53hmJ3nmk
@avinashkishore4067
2 жыл бұрын
We need to make this channel flourish. Beautiful.
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
Yes please!
@rajivbhatia7960
2 жыл бұрын
Respected sir, your videos are best…no comparison…you tell too much about novels and literature and every thing about writer in such a short time…hats off to you with regards from core of heart.
@sharontheodore8216
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this recap. So many books so little time but you manage to read so much and share. God bless you.
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! You too!
@robinbergfeld5140
2 жыл бұрын
1) Agua viva - Clarice Lispector 2) Things fall apart - Chinua Achebe 3) Blauwe maandagen - Arnon Grunberg 4) The trouble with being born - E.M Cioran 5) Everything like before - Kjell Askildsen 6) The doors of perception and heaven and hell - Aldous Huxley 7 Against empathy - Paul Bloom 8 Ways of seeing - John Berger 9 The ballad of the sad cafe - Carson mcCullers. Thanks for the videos and your list.
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
these are awsome books. Lispector and Cioran sound intriguing. My kind of pessimistic stuff, which i love. A while back I read a Cioran's book about despair and really loved it.
@ohohnenyeoo2654
2 жыл бұрын
@@Fiction_Beast Agua Viva was one of my fav books this year
@justinereina
2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video! You read very diversely
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
Appreciate it!
@Ian.D.
2 жыл бұрын
Great video and particularly satisfying to see a Greek novel among the ones mentioned (me being not only Greek but Cretan, just like Kazantzakis himself). In my humble opinion, his best novel is Christ Recrucified. The Notebook Trilogy is amazing indeed. Need to read twice to fully enjoy it, if you ask me.
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
Hey always amazing to hear from some from Greece, the land of giants. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
@danchis9423
5 ай бұрын
I enjoy your work! I red The baron from thr three when i was a kid😅
@laurakuhlmann1626
2 жыл бұрын
Looks like the only classic I covered this year was "The Origin of Species", most of my other reads being contemporary authors. What I love is how diverse the voices are right now. If I had to choose, probably my favorite 5 books (including 2 works of non-fiction) are: Americanah- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Life Finds a Way - Andreas Wagner (non fiction about evolution in the biological and mental world) Fault Lines - Emily Itami Detransition Baby - Torrey Peters Know My Name - Channel Miller (memoir)
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
I have watched so many documentaries on Darwin that I think I know the book pretty well, but I haven't actually read it. I have heard of Americanah, but the other ones are all new to me. Thanks for sharing.
@vaibhavnayak5890
2 жыл бұрын
Great video. Waiting for more video on 10 novel of each country
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
Working on it
@GarryCochrane
4 ай бұрын
I saw your Bukowski vid, it was great.
@kwaemsam96
2 жыл бұрын
Disgrace by JM Coetzee King Solomons Mines by h rider Haggard On a side note In General, you can look up the “African writers series” if you’re interested in African literature. Although the imprint was discontinued, its a starting point.
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
I read things fall apart by Achebe years ago, i believe it was part of African writers series. Thanks for the suggestion.
@itstheava
2 жыл бұрын
Love to see Hamsun make the list!
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome.
@stacksnshelves
2 жыл бұрын
Hi, Fiction Beast - Very much enjoyed watching your videos these past few months. I think the best novels I read this year were “The Post-Office Girl” by Stefan Zweig, and “A Heart so White” by Javier Marias. Keep up the great work!
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
for sharing! I got Chess by Zweig sitting on my desk, kind of saving it for next year. Appreciate your kind words.
@ohohnenyeoo2654
2 жыл бұрын
@@Fiction_Beast Nice. I read Chess by him this year
@donaldkelly3983
2 жыл бұрын
I am reading The Post-Office Girl right now! It's written a little differently from Zweig's earlier novels, but I'm enjoying it!
@stacksnshelves
2 жыл бұрын
@@donaldkelly3983 “Post-Office Girl” is the only one of his I’ve read. Which of his earlier novels do you recommend? I do have “Beware of Pity” but have not gotten to it yet.
@donaldkelly3983
2 жыл бұрын
@@stacksnshelves I have read some of Zweig's short novels: The Chess Story, Journey into the Past, The Burning Secret, The Invisible Collection, and Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman. All of them were a good read. I plan on reading Beware of Pity soon.
@mounia128
2 жыл бұрын
A tale from Paul Valéry An Evening with Mr.Teste I would be so grateful to hear you talk about it , really. Thank you
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
I'll check it out!
@buttslaya
2 жыл бұрын
I am so glad I found this channel, thanks for your work
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
Welcome!
@donaldkelly3983
2 жыл бұрын
Top ten books for 2021 1. The Time of Gifts - Patrick Leigh Fermor 2. A Woman's Life - Guy de Maupassant 3. Metamorphosis - Ovid 4. The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington 5. Omar Pasha Latas - Ivo Andric 6. Confessions of a Crap Artist - Philip Dick 7. Black Swans - Eve Babitz 8. Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi 9. The Simple Past - Dris Chraibi 10. The Ladies Paradise - Emile Zola
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
I have read none of them. 6 sounds interesting. I wonder how Omar Pasha compares with The Bridge on the Drina.
@donaldkelly3983
2 жыл бұрын
CCA by Philip K. Dick was written early in his career, before Dick went for science fiction. It's nominally realistic, set in 1950s California. With the exception of the protagonist, every character is horrible and the conclusion is tragic. All of PKD's fiction is worth investigating. In one way, Omar Pasha Latas resembles BD in that both novels revolve around a single character, but instead of a bridge, the center is Latas. Where things happen to the Drina Bridge, events transpire around Latas.
@dwipasaputra363
2 жыл бұрын
Please read the Novels of Our (Indonesia) greatest author, Eka Kurniawan. The novels that have been translated: Beauty is wound, Man Tiger, Vengeance of Mine. Thank you for creating this channel, I feel like meeting a new friend who has a special perspective.
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tip! I have reviewed his novel Beauty is a Wound here. Please check it out.
@dwipasaputra363
2 жыл бұрын
@@Fiction_Beast 😱, I have to watch it.
@eduardoruano8649
Жыл бұрын
Buchi Emecheta, nigerian writer, is a good idea.
@stevescott1454
2 жыл бұрын
Lots of good stuff here for my TBR. Thank you. My top reads of 2021 in no particular order: 1 & 2. 12 Chairs & The little Golden Calf - Ilf & Petrov 3. Moscow Stations - Erofeev 4. The Blizzard - Sorokin 5. Last Summer in the City - Calligarich 6. No Longer Human - Dazai 7. Amsterdam Stories - Nescio 8. The Tartar Steppe - Buzzati 9. The End of Me - Alfred Hayes 10. Convenience Store Woman - Murata.
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
I have talked about 6, 7, 8 and 10 on this channel. All great reads. Moscow Stations sounds interesting. I should read more contemporary Russian.
@stevescott1454
2 жыл бұрын
@@Fiction_Beast totes - Soviet/Post-Soviet fiction is excellent. It’s quite possible I read 6 7 8 & 10 after watching your videos. If so - awesome!
@TheSalMaris
2 жыл бұрын
I don't know if that was the worse novel or the funniest. Thank you for this! There is the South African writer Damon Galgut with this year's Booker Prize winning entry The Promise-- a book I mean to read soon.
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Feel free to steal the plot and make a novel of your own :) The Promise is a good one. I actually reviewed it here.
@TheSalMaris
2 жыл бұрын
@@Fiction_Beast I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood, Mr. Caulfield, but I’ve never been taken for a plagiarist.
@eduardocarbonellbelando6865
2 жыл бұрын
The death of Ivan Ilich( Tolstoi ) Madame Bovary( Flaubert) War and Peace ( Tolstoi) Fields of Níjar ( Juan Goytisolo) Estate and Revolution ( Lenin ) Solitudes, galeries and other poems( Antonio Machado, this is poetry but who cares ) The problem of the three bodies ( Cixin Liu) Six of crows( Leigh Bardugo ) Twenty poems of love and a desperate song ( Pablo Neruda, again poetry )
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
These are some great books here. if you have pick one that was the best, which will you choose?
@andrewdunbar828
2 жыл бұрын
The African novel I used to hear a lot of recommendations to read, but I never have read, is Things Fall Apart by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
I have actually reviewed it here a while back. Thanks anyway!
@BemuzedBookworm
2 жыл бұрын
such great choices. I'm hoping to read more translated literature and definitely marked some of these to give a try
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Thanks for watcing.
@FrenchUncleLou
2 жыл бұрын
An African novel that I enjoyed is "Season of Migration to the North" by Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih.
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
I have actually reviewed it here. It's a fantastic book.
@mrcoffy1
2 жыл бұрын
The epic of sundiata was a classic from western africa (it was even made into age of empires)
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
Epic sounds fantastic. That's the kind of thing I am looking for, so thanks a heap!
@mrcoffy1
2 жыл бұрын
@@Fiction_Beast no problem! Having you explain it to me is a win for me too so its win-win. Idk if penguin has an edition of it
@jaydorota3625
2 жыл бұрын
I read 53 books in five years. . and I don't think that I'm gonna make my own library, may be or just maybe I could have my own minimalistic library. . like a cowboy.
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
Yes I like minimalistic library.
@olivergormlie3346
2 жыл бұрын
Read at least one of the four Chinese classics
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
I'm the middle of a Chinese classics marathon. lol
@albobbydusty
2 жыл бұрын
You shoud read novels by Ernesto Sabato
@paulandreigillesania5359
2 жыл бұрын
Noli Me Tangere, Jose Rizal; then Demons, by Dostoevsky
@Fiction_Beast
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome. I read Noli a while back
@capy222b
Жыл бұрын
Lol your worst novel! I love it! 😂
@jaydorota3625
2 жыл бұрын
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. . I'm on the 3rd part of this thick as a brick novel. . .
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