8 fiction books you need to read📚(& that will keep you entertained during your quarantine)

you know what's sexy books so welcome to another very sexy video all about books there's a famous and kind of funny quote by the filmmaker John Waters that I actually think about a lot and it is if you go home with somebody and they don't have books don't look and while John Waters may be a bit extreme in this thought process I actually understand where he's getting with this books have not only allowed me to expand my mind but honestly they've allowed me to expand my consciousness my spirituality my skillsets my education and also they have helped me get through more darker periods of my life and also just enjoy regular life more because they allow you to get submerged in beautiful fictional worlds understand different people's perspectives and just enjoy writing so much I just love books so much so my love for books is most likely evident at this point so without further ado these are my favorite eight fiction books that can keep you entertained and sane during this quarantine or during any time or you can just add them to your bookshelf so you can get laid book number one is going to be The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson or steak steak Larson Stiegler you know I'm not exactly sure if pronounce the name but this is the book this freakin book was so good and I was like you guys but this book like used to be recommended to me so much and it's been around for a while and it's been popular for a while and I just never ended up reading it until I was seeing this guy and his sister recommended it to me she was like it's just really good you should read it and I'm not gonna lie the only reason why I read it was because I was trying to impress this guy but turned out I freaking loved it and turned out I'm gay anyways this book is a mystery crime / thriller which honestly he usually is not really the genre I go for but I still freaking love this book it thrilling it was enthralling and I really loved the way that Larson wrote it it was just really detail-oriented and really kept it on the edge of your seat through the whole book the way he wrote this with a lot of just like subtle storylines that weaved throughout the like encompassing storyline just made it very enticing and exciting throughout and one of the main characters Lisbeth Salander is so freakin hot and I actually love this about this book that actually has a main female lead that's not over sexualized she's actually independent she's intelligent and she's so cool like she's so freakin cool overall it was literally a gripping book and I loved it from the beginning to end actually the first hundred pages are a little bit slow I'll admit that but literally write on page 100 it gets really exciting and I read this book in two days and this is like over 600 pages it's perfect one disclaimer is that it does include quite mature content at times that potentially could be triggering to some but yes so freaking good absolutely recommend alright next book number two is Dracula by Bram Stoker and this book is one of my favorites of all time and just like books in general I freaking love this book so much and I will admit I just love Gothic literature a lot I just love the atmosphere it creates it always creates this like elegant but mysterious and a little bit poetic atmosphere and I just love it so much but ultimately besides the fact of loving Gothic literature I think Dracula is such a fantastic read and a lot of times when you do read Gothic literature it can be a bit like more dense and poetic and it's nature but I like Dracula it's more straightforward in its storytelling which allows you to just be in the like livelihood not livelihood be more in the in the in the home give me a second I don't know what word I was trying to find and I was trying to not use the word atmosphere again but basically I just like this book as it really allows you to just get enveloped by this atmosphere quite easily because the actual read of it is a bit more straightforward of course it's Gothic literature so it does have that poetic element to a slight degree but for the most part it's pretty straightforward and I really love that and I love any stories that include vampires but this one specifically and it actually surprised me a little bit that it isn't like super romanticized at all and the storyline actually differed more than I thought it would because we grow up with like stories of Dracula and movies and stuff like that I really recommend it regardless feel like classics or not and actually recently for reading classics I've begun reading them or listening to them as audiobooks so I can read like more modern type books or like nonfiction books but also get the enjoyment and education of classic books and a way you can listen to audiobooks is actually through an awesome app I've been using for the past like 6 years called audible and yes this video can be sponsored by audible so what is audible you ask well audible actually already mentioned it I said it's an app that you listen to audiobooks but little did you know audible has more than just audio books they have podcasts they have comedy they have the news they even have guided reel itself the guide have really got a guided meditations there we go I need I need to do one of those now clearly and like I said I've literally been using audible for anything like the past six years I've been using it ever since I was like in high school and um excuse me if you are such a book lover why would you listen to audiobooks instead of cherishing books in their ultimate form which is print I'm not quite sure how you got into my house but I'm glad you asked because audiobooks are actually awesome and super convenient because unfortunately not everyone has time to sit down with a book a Pew study actually showed that 27% of our population didn't even read a part of a book in the past year due to not having enough time that is where audiobooks come in and I am so passionate about this because personally loving books so much but also dealing with the frustration of not having enough time to actually sit down with a book I'm just so happy audiobooks exists especially because audiobooks sometimes are okay dare I say it sometimes more fun than the actual read because on audible sometimes audiobooks are actually read by the authors so you get the full authenticity and of course it's just convenient you can listen to it when you're on a run when you are cooking when you're trying to drown out your family as they fight in the background because it's day 14 of quarantine I actually recently started listening to brave new world by Aldous Huxley which is a book I've been wanting to read for like years but for some reason just keep kept putting it off but now I get to listen to it and it's actually making me read it which I'm really excited ok I get it audiobooks are actually great and super helpful and convenient and sometimes can actually be a better reading experience than print but something so awesome and revolutionary has to be super expensive oh well first and foremost and let but you realize how freaking awesome audiobooks are it's actually not expensive because you can go to audible.com slash supreme banana or TechSoup free banana to 500 500 and you can get a free 30-day trial which comes with one credit and two free audible originals and one credit can get you one ebooks you get to try it out and see if you like it and you get a free book which can last on your library forever okay that's enough back to the books please all right books three four and five which I'm all parent together because they're all the same author and I literally could not choose one because I love him so much our cost got on the shore dance dance dance and the windup bird Chronicle and I just I can't even explain how much I love these books as much as it pains me to be a favoritest when it comes to books I think haruki murakami is my favorite author of all time his writing style is just genuinely unlike any author I've ever read when you read his books it feels like you're dreaming it's just so incredible so I'm not entirely sure what genre he falls under but I'm pretty sure it's under what is it called something realism dream what does it go I need a look this up god damn it I'm so professional okay so it's surrealism and magical realism but I want to say that it isn't like some fantasy type book because his plots are still all set in modern society at least in these books but he adds these details and flares of surrealism and magical elements so it's just almost confusing at times and just like so dreamlike and surreal and I know I keep using that word but that's just how to explain his writing so if I had to rate these which again hurts me dearly because I love all these books so much I would probably first and foremost recommend dance dance dance the back little writing point of this book is as Murakami's nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend he's plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and Meza metaphysical dread like what does that even mean I don't know that's Murakami I would then recommend on the shore this is my first Murakami book I read and I just hold it so dear to my heart I love it so much there's also a library in this book that I just like to dream about one day visiting and then lastly the wind up birth Chronicle which was a fantastic read but admittedly it's longer and at times it can go through just like a little bit of a lull because he will like go back into history Murakami really loves to interject with history and like his music knowledge which is really cool but this one can be a bit of a denser read especially because it touches on topics of like isolation solitude subconsciousness like for example a lot of this book is about a man spending time in a well again whether Murakami oh like I said I just love Morikami so much and 10 out of 10 would recommend reading him I've read a lot of his books these three are definitely my favorites um anyways next book number six is the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and we are currently sitting in front of a fireplace because there's a character called Lord Henry that I feel like sitting would sit in front of a fireplace and just talk like this while he smokes his cigar and that's kind of the vibe that is throughout this book and this is just undoubtedly my favorite classic slash Gothic literature book it is so good I will admit it's very poetic in the way it writes or reads rather and being someone who loves poetry I love that but I have heard a complaint that people didn't like it because it's so poetic in its nature but I think it added to just the elegance of the novel it really has this elegant feel to it with very dark undertones along gay undertones which I of course love it also has a message throughout it which I really like but the actual story lineup this just develops so beautifully and as it builds it becomes darker and more gruesome and just goes places where you wouldn't expect this was one of those books that when I finished it I literally just like sat there and was like that was like a piece of art especially like the last sentence but of course like I said the actual writing style of Wilde can be quite poetic at times like here's one of my favorite quotes that I highlighted which I think illustrates my point and it is to him man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations a complex multi form creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead I'm not remembering another reason why I really like this book because it has like kind of cynical undertones which I love cynicism in books definitely recommend it it's not gonna be like an easy read but it's worth it I'm gonna tell you that okay next book number seven is perfume the story of a murderer by Patric Seuss kind sounds kind i I know I'm pronouncing it wrong have been called that before I would like to preface this by saying a lot of people hate this book but as you know art and books are subjective and especially when it comes to a book like perfume which boy oh boy is freaking weird not only is it weird but it can be very gruesome and gross at times and explicit but I just love the storyline it's so freakin weird but also poetic in its nature again and it takes you on this journey of again like mystery and suspense but also this like strangeness and puts you got a the synonym for atmosphere standard pressure air atmospheric state or I kind of like that so this kind of puts you in this aura that is kind of gritty and intense and gross and also confusing because it's one of those books that when you read it you're like wait who's the bad guy Who am I supposed to light throughout this and it makes you just question society as a whole the ending of this book almost made me tear up because it was just so beautiful and all just so unexpected I'm like getting emotional right now because I appreciate writing so much oh wait I know there's a quote in here that made me love this book so much because I was like I relate oh here it is Oh minutes another good thing that I relate Brendon will which is the main character that I cannot for the life of me know how to pronounce his name Grenn will no longer wanted to go somewhere but only to go away away from human beings yeah like I said it really touches on like society versus the other and kind of just like being outcasts really truly a work of art all right next okay and now book eight which is actually not book eight it's actually book eight nine and ten because I'm just counting this as one because technically these aren't my favorites like all-time favorites but they are pretty goddamn good runner-up so whisper and darkness by HP Lovecraft factotum by Charles Bukowski and the monk who sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma I actually think I have mentioned this book in my last book video but I had to include it again because it is fiction it's a fable actually so it's intended to like teach you spiritually but it's still fiction and it literally changed my life I love this book so much so I wanted to include it admittedly the writing style isn't my favorite it's very simplistic and straight to the point but in what it taught me definitely is on my list of like just like really impactful books and then in factotum are Charles Bukowski oh my gosh Charles Bukowski will always have a special place in my heart because he is such a unique author you really are be like in a mood to read Bukowski like kind of been like a angsty like like mad at the world food because that tends to be his themes throughout all of his writings I have a of theory that all of his books are actually just like autobiographies because a lot of his books are about like depression and alcoholism and just like struggle of day to day in society if you're in that happy mood probably don't read Bukowski because he might bring you down and then lastly is the Whisperer in darkness which is actually a collection of short stories by HP Lovecraft and oh my gosh Lovecraft is just a master of horror writing so all of these stories are stories of horror and like creepiness I loved his stories so much especially what is it Dexter the case of Charles Dexter Ward but the aged writing style that Lovecraft uses throughout these stories really just adds to the darkness throughout them and I really love it but he does sometimes use words that are just like again aged and dated so sometimes it can be a little bit of a slower read not as easy to read but it's definitely worth it especially if you like horror writing anyways so these are great runner-ups but these are definitely the MVPs of fiction I really love these books and definitely recommend and a lot of them are quite dramatically different so of course you'll depend on your taste specifically oh my god I was about to say my favorite one like the number one out of all these oh wow that's so mean of me to do it like how dare you try to put my babies against each other okay dance dance dance my herb manicotti real huh brookey Merkel anyways thank you guys so much for watching this video I hope you enjoyed and hopefully got to a good fiction recommendation out of this if you guys have any fiction recommendations or any book recommendation I would always love to hear them okay physical copies of books may be a little bit difficult to get now I'm aware of that and that actually makes audible even more awesome right now I would actually definitely recommend audiobooks during this time even if this video isn't sponsored by audible and all you have to do is download the app for free on your phone and you can go to my link which is audible.com / supreme banana or tech supreme banana to five hundred five hundred and you get a free 30-day trial which comes with one credit which you can get one audiobook with and two free audible originals which is three audiobooks which hopefully will last the whole quarantine hopefully we'll be done by then but like I said I've been using audible for so long I think it's such an awesome platform and now they don't only have audio books they have podcasts they have comedy they have guided meditations which actually come for free with your membership which again is really great and helpful during a time like this so audible is super awesome I really love them so thank you so much for sponsoring this video audible and hopefully they help you guys out too because folks are freaking awesome but like we don't have a frickin enough time in the day to always read books which really pisses me off we should really get more time somehow like where do we purchase more time anyways I love you guys so much thank you again for watching this video please thumbs up because I love your thumbs and I will see you guys next time [Music] concentrate oh and don't 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Published: Mon Mar 23 2020