modern books that will be "classics" in the future (and why you should read them)

as someone who spends pretty much their whole time reading and is a big fan of both classic and contemporary fiction one question I'm asked all the time is are you a virgin kidding well people probably ask that behind my back but to my face the question I'm always asked is which contemporary books are going to become classic books and this is something I have been spending a lot of time thinking about recently because the New York Times Review of Books asked me as part of a survey that they were doing they got together a jury of lots people all around the world like a real microcosm of society to submit books for a list that they are curating of the top books of the century so far so as we approach 2025 alarmingly this is quite stressful to even think about we are actually approaching the end of q1 the end of the first quarter of this Century the 21st century which is weird because I was 14 years old yesterday I'm pretty sure but in the process of thinking about that I devised my own list of 25 books that have been released recently that I think will be considered to be Classics in 3024 you know the books that people will be studying in school the books that will be being studied by this English Department but first my criteria number one it needs to be a book that has critical or commercial Acclaim and therefore have proven that they appeal to a somewhat wide audience so I'm looking at literary prices as well as bestseller lists two it needs to have some kind of historical significance historical relevancy or context it shaped the culture in some kind of way or it responds to the culture in some kind of way and number three beautiful writing a high quality of writing yes but also specifically books that are highly symbolic and could be analyzed a book you could write an essay about like has a book ever resonated with you so much that you close the final page and you think I want to write an essay about that that is how you know it's great so let's dive in in absolutely no particular order I canot not possibly rank these I think I would have an aneurism if I even tried to rank these books because I just think they're all so excellent and I'm excited to talk about them with you so the first book I would like to propose as a modern classic is girlwoman other by Bernardine everist this is a kind of state of the nation multigenerational book it won the booker prize and that in itself is an interesting history because it was one of the first books to share the book of prize it's a multi-perspective story about a range of modern day women having a range of experiences but they are all interconnected there's 12 core characters whose Myriad experiences we explore and it just feels like a portrait of modern Womanhood and femininity and what it is to exist in the world as a woman interestingly it was also the eighth book by Bernardine everist but the first to really hit the mainstream and kind of launch her into public attention it's kind of like the chapel rone of books that's bear with me here you know how Chapel rone kind of recently blew up but has a back catalog of amazing songs that people people have kind of been sleeping on and now they're only just discovering that's kind of what happened with Bernardine evaristo's literary ER once this book hit the mainstream then people started discovering what an incredible Talent she was and this just feels like something everyone needs to study I love this book now a book that is structurally somewhat similar to gowom other is there there by Tommy orange now this is a really important book a real Landmark book in my opinion about indigenous people in America this follows a similar structure to goom other in the sense that we have lots of different perspectives and lots of different characters who all kind of come together at the end at one major event in this case of powwow it's about the history and identities of indigenous people it's simultaneously about establishing Community but also feeling marginalized within a land that you had taken from you Pace wise it just accelerates and accelerates to this huge Crescendo which is one of the most powerful climaxes of a book I've ever encountered so teach this in the schools if this is about standing the test of time this would get an A+ I think it would trigger a lot of discourse and discussion about its themes it's Dey textured if you write an essay about this I would like to read it I would also like to pump it into my bloodstream and it won the pen Hemingway award and the American book award that is there there by Tommy orange and I want to be wherever there is next I'm going to say it the song of Achilles because the song of Achilles by madin Miller has created this Greek mythology Renaissance in popular culture you know the success of this book has led to a whole range of Greek mythological retellings and I think that is incredibly powerful and should not be overlooked this also won the women's prize and it's the perfect mix of critically acclaimed and celebrated by book reviewers academics but also commercially successful and I already know that some people watching this are going to dismiss this as a book talk book that boils my piss because firstly this book came out a decade before Tik Tok even existed so that's anachronistic even as a statement but secondly just because this book happen to resonate with a lot of people on Tik Tok that doesn't mean it's bad that is actually Testament to how good this book is I've spoken about this a lot recently but I would like to point out that book talk book is just a marketing term in the same way that classic book is really just a marketing term when you go into a bookstore and you see a shelf of Classics which will have these homogeneous covers of like penguin World Classics or the clothbound classic covers thematically most of those books have nothing in common aside from being old and aside from being revered by critics and having Commercial Success they have stood the test of time that's what renders them a classic but aside from books by Tolstoy by Dickens by Austin by Nabokov by Shakespeare you know these books are sitting side by side on a shelf despite having next to nothing in common I feel the same with book talk book shelves in bookstores that it's just a marketing term it basically just means popular today primarily with a younger demographic but news flash buddy that's the future the song of Achilles is the story of Achilles and patrias growing up together and then heading to the Trojan War it's elegantly written it's moving it's heartbreaking like I'm surprised this book isn't water damaged from how much I cried reading it it will take your heart cradle it like this Softly and Tenderly and then rip it into tiny pieces and throw it over you like confetti that's how much this book will affect you this encouraged a resurging interest in Greek mythology and I love it for that okay this next book is The Book Thief this to me feels like a book that has just been around forever and I was really surprised to find out it only came out in 2006 I do think a lot of people may argue that all the light we cannot see is the Modern World War II novel I would argue it's The Book Thief this book is innovative it's narrated by death itself it's tragic it's tough It's also about Hope and The Human Condition the ways that we survive on our own but also together set in 1939 in Nazi Germany about a girl whose family have been sent to a concentration camp and is taken in by a foster family I just think it's about human resilience and it's beautiful but it will make you so angry and I think that's something that great fiction often does it triggers a visceral response I think this a very very special book I think it's a very very important book it's a number one international bestseller so clearly some people agree with me and I think it's one of those books that you will never forget reading and for that reason it's on my list Rachel kusk outline this is a novel told through 10 conversations but it's deeply deeply personal it's spare it's Lucid it's ostensibly straightforward about a novelist in Athens for the summer and you will drown in the level of depth that this book contains I think it's paved the way for a kind of new style of literature which can be very personal and vulnerable and explorative of one individual character it feels like a very significant achievement I feel like you can see the cultural impact it has had on the literary landscape and that's really important and specifically I think it paved the way for writers like this is my segue by the way Sally Rooney hello I would read Sally Rooney's tax returns I would read her shopping list I would read the sequence that she wrote out in fridge magnets normal people I think is an incredibly important book about human relationships the ways that we communicate SL miscommunicate it won the 2018 Costa novel award I'm pretty sure it was book a prize nominated it won book of the year at the British book awards it was a walterstone book of the year and also it has just found its way into so many people's hearts because of the way that it dissects the human heart like it takes you into all four chambers of the human heart and says this is what it is to love this is what it is to feel when s Rooney talks about this book she says that she tries not to have too much distance from her characters she tries to sort of sit with them and observe them rather than having a kind of moralistic standpoint she's just sort of riding with these people and that's exactly what this book feels like and ultimately what the literature s roon has produced tells us is one of the things we think about in life is love and connection and the people around us the people that we love the people that we interact with and that is important and we should make art about it and so I think this is a seminal work I love it and it's a modern classic you can argue with the wall I don't care this is how you lose the time war is such an interesting collaboration between two writers Amal El Mota and Max Gladstone and it's also kind of a collaboration between the two characters as well because alternate between their two perspectives they are two beings on opposite sides of a Time War I think this pushes the envelope of what science fiction can and should be the writing is exquisite it's the kind of book that gets even better on a second third fourth read and that's important too that's what makes books like this persevere over time because people keep wanting to reread them and keep wanting to talk about them and dissect them if I were to speak about how wonderful this book is I would lose my voice before I run out of good things to say that's how good I think this book is and the more I think about it the more that time passes the more I realize this is a modern classic the two beings are kind of writing Love Letters to one another and leaving them for each other to find over time so it's sprawling in such a small volume and I think it's great so you should read this book if you haven't already so ironically this book is called this is how you lose the time War because really this is winning the time War this is going to be around for a very long time I believe before I move on to talking about about the next book I am delighted to let you know that today's video is very kindly brought to you by Squarespace Squarespace is the all-in-one platform for building a website or an online brand and the best news is you don't need any Web building expertise or skills or knowledge because Squarespace has hundreds of incredible templates which you can customize and bring your vision for your perfect website to life they also have incredible features you can create a blog you can make an email sign up list you can use flexible payments on your website and Squarespace now also has a i SEO so they can make sure that your website is being 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war story it's also a love story it's also a queer story it's about these two guys at their boarding school who at the Advent of War start to read the school newspaper which has an in memorium section and they are starting to recognize the names of people they went to school with boys who they studied with who were out on the front lines fighting for their country and being killed one of the two boys has German Heritage and people have started to kind of bombastic side eye him and so he decides to apply for the Army he lies about his age and he suddenly finds himself on the front line This is a boy who Pages ago we were seeing in the School playground and now he is on the front lines of a war and his friend who has always had this kind of latent crush on him goes out to join him on the front lines and it's all about how they negotiate their relationship now that they're in a completely new setting and atmosphere and climate again this book is about human resilience it's a really important novel it won the waterstones debut novel Prize last year as well as countless other Awards it deserves every single one I hope Alice wi's trophy cabinet is freaking huge and I think we're still going to be talking about this for a very very long time another book which is about the brutality of war is black butterflies by Priscilla Morris this is set in Saro during the Bosnian war and it is about this one woman in the bombed remains of a city and while it is specifically about Saro I do think that it speaks to the experience of watching a city you loved become ravaged by War in a more kind of universal way there's this one scene that I will never ever forget reading where snow falls on Saro and just for a moment while everything is blanketed in white there's this kind of Purity to it and this sense of cleansing that things can and will be okay because if this miracle of nature is possible and these delicate intricate snowflakes are able to fall on the city then it's almost a reminder that there is hope I suppose and yet this is problematized by the inevitability that that snow will melt and it becomes slush and sludge and if anything it makes things worse and that just shattered my heart into tiny pieces and then made me tread on it like Lego bricks in your feet It's haunting it's evocative it is astonishing and is an elegy to a place and a community that would destroyed by War this was shortlisted for the women's prize for fiction and is really underrated I feel as well I really think this deserves more attention success and so it's in my list what shall we go for next another recent release the beasting by Paul Murray this book I've chosen because I think it deals with the climate crisis in a very very interesting way so a sensibly this book is about four people in a kind of nuclear family you have the mom the dad and the two children and over the course of the novel we get all of their perspectiv so we start off with the children and when the children are talking about their parents initially they kind of give us like an outline of them they kind of feel like a bit of a caricature and then we get the parents' perspectives and we realize that often the same event can be perceived in many different ways and there is always more than what we see on the surface an example of this is a beasting in the novel which is perceived in very different ways by very different characters as the book progresses we keep seeing each of these characters perspectives but they get shorter and shorter until the book kind of resembles this spiral shape where we're getting increasingly tense and crisis seems to be becoming inevitable there's a point where it can no longer be stopped or prevented each character is skillfully represented and portrayed they burst off the page like I felt like they were sitting in the palm of my hand but beneath all of this there is also a discussion about the climate crisis which also has this feeling of inevitability at a point where it is getting increasingly out of control and I think the idea the concept of the climate crisis is replicated by The Narrative structure I think it's absolutely genius there is so much to this book it's a very ambitious book it will make you do emotional gymnastics this is an emotional Triathlon I feel like I went through all of the stages of grief and when I closed the final page I threw it onto my bed and then just paced around the room for a little bit with my head in my hands that's how good this is if you don't know get to know this is a literal sting Hamet by Maggio farell if you had a pound for every time I've spoken about how much I love this book you would be a very rich person because this again reads like a classic it reimagines the life of Shakespeare but doesn't ever mention William Shakespeare himself it just talks about his wife and his children one of his children whose name name was hamnet died very young this one the woman's price for fiction it is a gorgeous illustration and depiction of grief it will not only take your breath away it will also have you in a custody battle to get it back it's dazzling in its intricate and meticulous descriptions of Nature and what it is to lose someone or something and it's also devastating it just destroyed me and I said Thank you thank you magio farell um could I get a repeat appointment could we set up like a direct debit and I'll just keep coming back for more of this please it's that good like make a list for me of the 10 most frequently visited museums in the world and then hang this up in every single one of them print 10 copies and hang them up because the people need to know the people need to experience this for themselves and so that's why it's in my list Damon Gala the promise this is an incredibly experimental book it kind of uses the narrative perspective very fluidly so the narrative voice and perspective moves freely between people inanimate objects and the book is told in four parts so it's divided up into four and each one is a funeral of a different kind of a different religion or a different practice and so we kind of know that some characters are going to get the chop knocking on death's door if you know what I mean of I mean of course you know what I mean that pretty it's pretty straightforward but the book is called the promise and I can promise you you will be blown away I hope that you are prepared for your feet to be chilly cuz this will knock your socks off the book is set in South Africa and to me feels so Innovative and new like nothing I've ever experienced before it felt generous in the way that it chose to explore each of the different characters and the culture and societies that they inhabit I think this is just sheer Excellence if they could give out melin stars to books this would have three can you tell I have no idea how Mitchell and stars work but my compliments to the chef and this is a 25 course tasting platter the next course is the island of missing trees this is by alif Shaak it is kind of okay this really reminds me of a Romeo and Juliet kind of starcross lovers situation but set in Cyprus it's about a Greek cypriot and a Turkish cypriot who fall in love underneath a fig tree at this restaurant and we're alternating between the time in which they first met and then later on when they're married and they have a daughter together they meet as teenagers in 1974 and the tree itself is a kind of character it witnesses that whole love affair over the decades and it's a book about perseverance compassion the power of nature nature being our greatest teacher which is a very important kind of literary tradition it has this kind of magical quality to it despite also being incredibly brutal as with many of these books love and conflict kind of find themselves hand inand in many situations and love has to keep giving people the strength to carry on and I love this book book a lot if I could marry an inanimate object I'd be on the next flight to Vegas with this book in hand and we would elope so on to the next book come on you knew this was coming you know it was coming small things like these CLA Keegan come on now firstly a book that is short and concise but still so powerful and meaningful must be a huge gift to any English teacher who is having to try and teach kids about books and wants them to actually read it this book won the allwell prize for political fiction it was shortlisted for the Wrath bone folio prize and the booker prize and you know what else it won my heart it won my affection I will never stop talking about this book sorry this book has my allegiance until the day that I die if Clan started a cult I probably would join it small things like these is a historical fiction novel about the way that so-called Fallen women were mistreated by the church it is deceptively simple but CL Keegan manages the pace and the tension so perfectly it's set around Christmas day so it's a great win to read I just feel like not a word is wasted it builds up to be deeply deeply moving and I just want you to know that you heard it here first because the movie is coming out next year I believe with Killian Murphy playing Bob Furlong who is the main character and when that happens I will be wearing one of those Challengers t-shirts that says I told you I want that on the record B because I told you so I did I'm telling you right now small things like these is anything but small this is an incredibly powerful book and you should absolutely read it because I guarantee that your grandkids in the future will be like Oh I'm reading this book at school and you'll want to sound smart to them so do it for your future self the next book I would like to put forward as one of the most important books of this generation is The Hunger Games I really think it's about time we put some respect on the legacy of this B and how culturally significant this is this changed the way that we talk about culture and Society it's very common now to hear people refer to things as Hunger Games esque we saw this a lot with the commentary of the metgala this year people saying it was like the capital if someone said to you I volunteer as tribute you would know exactly what they were referring to and I think that it's important that just because this book was primarily written for a younger audience or had a younger audience in mind and can be understood by that audience it doesn't mean that it's not good it means that it's Universal it means that it is able to resonate with pretty much anyone to me this is an extremely significant and important book it was also part of a cultural wave of teen dystopia and that was a wave I was surfing if your name is Patrick Star and you have been living under an actual rock The Hunger Games is a televised show in which young people have to kill each other and the last survivor is the winner two contestants are put forward from each of the districts in in this land as a reminder from the capital of their power we follow ctis aine who volunteers to enter the games when her sister is randomly chosen we follow her journey as she tries to survive the Hunger Games need I say more now one other quality that kind of makes a classic is when a book is in conversation with another classic when one book is in constant dialogue with another and that is what my dark Vanessa is my dark Vanessa is a modern response to the book Lolita it's by Kate Elizabeth Russell it actually gets it title from a different Nabokov book called pale fire this may be incredibly triggering for some people it is provocative in that way because it is about a highly inappropriate relationship a young girl has with her teacher she is 15 the first time that they do things together and decades later the teacher has been accused of abuse by another fellow student a journalist then asks our main character to comment on this and it kind of creates this in a turmoil where she starts to realize that actually she was the victim as well she has spent her whole life believing or at least trying to convince herself that it was love that she was experiencing and only now as an adult does she start to realize that actually maybe it was something a little bit different and more Sinister it's incredibly gripping it reads like a thriller it's also deeply disturbing but that is my dark finessa next up we have shuggy Bane by Douglas Stewart I chose this book because of the way that it talks about addiction and also the intensity and intricacy I suppose of its character creation it's about a young boy called shuggy but more importantly it's about his mother who is an addict but also kind of through no fault of her own this is a book about poverty and abuse and a real exercise in empathy I think because you really have to walk a mile in both of these characters shoes I found it interesting because you see this very Vivid description of shogi's mother her name is Agnes and you can tell that she is trying her best and you're rooting for her so hard but at the same time you can also recognize that she is a terrible mother to shuggy even though she doesn't want to be bad I think it's a lesson in how two things can be true at the same time you can be really really rooting for Agnes whilst also recognizing that shagy is in an incredibly unhealthy unsafe unreliable environment for him it Chronicles This Woman's downfall but also both of these characters will sort of dig their way into your heart they will like Nestle there I kept forgetting that there was a paper page with writing printed on it and black and white between me and these characters I genuinely felt like I was looking them in the eye and hearing them speak that is how real they feel that is how tangible those characters feel and this is such an achievement it also won the booker prize as well as many many other achievements it was a Daily Telegraph book of the year the times novel of the year and deservingly so this is such a great book so that is shuggy Bane okay this book kind of has similar themes but instead of being set in the Scottish tenaments this is set in where is it Virginia I think I'm double checking that yes I'm right okay this book is a retelling of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens but instead it is demon Copperhead by Barbara Kings solver I actually went to a talk that she did where she said she went to Charles dickens's old house and he spoke to her and told her to write this book and it's wackadoodle time I guess but I'm grateful because this book is incredible again this character is so vividly written every single metaphor or simile or phrase that he uses feels exactly like what this character would he has such a distinctive narrative voice and character voice I felt like I knew him I felt like I just wanted to tell him everything was going to be okay this book also deals with the theme of addiction this and shagy ban are kind of very similar books but I think both very important in fact I would love to write a comparative essay about these two don't tempt me don't tempt me don't tempt me with a good time that's all I'm saying these books are so incredible and I think both of them also considered the idea that poverty is not a choice it is something that happens to you especially if you were born into poverty it's about people who did not win the postcode lottery in this book demon is growing up in a trailer both boys shagy and Demon have abusive fathers you know these books are very interesting demon Copperhead is like a brick of a novel but it's a brick I would like to build a castle from and then live in it barara King solver you sit upon a throne in my brain I think you're brilliant and I think we have five books left sticking with somewhat of a theme of masculinity Open Water by Caleb auma Nelson this is a Modern Love Story which is soundtracked by the most beautiful kind of contemporary references to R&B and Hip Hop it is an exploration of the city of masculinity of police brutality of the black male body and its role and its perception in society what it is to be perceived but also to exist in that body it's so touching and heartfelt it's about those anxieties at the beginning of a new relationship when you're kind of feeling yourself starting to give yourself over to somebody but you're scared that you might not be flying but Falling you know not waving but drowning it's about that feeling of fear that you are being vulnerable but I'm so glad that the author Caleb auma Nelson chose to be vulnerable because this is such a gift if I found this wrapped with a little bow under my Christmas tree I would be very happy about it so lyrical it reads like poetry just silky smooth I want to turn this into a garment and wear it on my body every single day thank you very much next up we have it ends with I'm kidding that one was a joke next up we actually have Home Fire by Camila shami another winner of the women's prize for fiction as well as being shortlisted for the Costa best novel Award of 2017 this is about modern Britain and I think if you keep up with British politics this is so highly pertinent and important we follow two sets of families and a really important facet of this novel is people's relationships to their fathers so on one hand we have these three siblings whose father was a jihadist and one of them becomes radicalized and then on the other hand we have a son of a politician and that politician has sort of stoked anti-muslim politics and policies in order to secure votes for himself and it's those exact policies that have marginalized the boy who has become radicalized so it's really interesting as a kind of dynamic and then one of the siblings falls in love with the son of the politician so you have lots of really interesting Dynamics and relationships going on the End of This Book shocked me to my very core I am still to this day scraping my jaw off of the floor it's one of those books that I will just never ever forget the reading experience because it is in equal parts intimate and shocking home fire more like home run because this Knocks out the park the girl with the louding voice this makes me think of those tweets that are like I don't want to go to school today I'm sorry Malala you should be apologizing to Abid Dari as well because this is a book all about the importance of Education it's set in Nigeria it's about a 14-year-old girl who has a louding voice and she recognizes that education is what can unlock a brighter future for her and so that is her biggest ever goal she embarks on a physical Journey but also an emotional one it is kind of Coming of Age novel all about the way that education can mobilize people and this book is galvanizing it is so so important it is about an extremely courageous character determined to make more from her life than she has been given and I think it's very empowering and important and I do think everyone should read it white teeth Zade Smith come on did you think did you think you were going to get a list of 25 modern Classics and not get a Zade Smith novel in there please behave yourself the fact that this is a debut is frankly outrageous that makes me want to throw myself off the nearest building never mind I've seen this described as a generous big-hearted novel and I think that is so accurate like the way that Zade Smith presents her characters is so fair and I think that's really important you know to have empathy for characters we follow three cultures three families three generations in modern Britain it's funny and idiosyncratic Zade Smith has this kind of wicked sense of humor that I just love but she also writes with this real self assurance in the same way that I think other writers like Tony Morrison and James Baldwin and Christopher isherwood and people who were observing society and humankind and people around them you know Christopher isherwood said I am a camera I'm observing I'm a Voyer of what is going on around me and I'm putting it on paper I think that's what Zade Smith did too and I am very grateful to her for it this is an altar I would worship at Hana get over here you knew it was going to be in the list Han Yan gahara a little life probably the most controversial book on this list it has caused a lot of discourse people have cried on the internet over this book I might be one of them Han Yan gahara should be personally responsible for my therapy bills because what she does is she makes you fall in love with these four characters who are just best friends growing up together and then she destroys them it cut through to the Bone straight to the jugular you know what I'm saying this is severe but Unforgettable it's about love and friendship and we watch these people grow up one thing I really love about this book is that there are no time indicators in the sense that in the sense that oh that's not in the sense that in the sense that I can't say that without thinking of Kelly Osborne for sake let me try one more time in the sense that we know that time is passing because there are thanksgivings and birthdays and Christmases but we never have any mention of specific historical events or technological advances and taking all of those details out that create historical context means that we're just left with the bare bones of these four people and their immediate circle JB Malcolm Willam and Jude and we watch as they Meander through life and face the Peaks and troughs that an existence presents you with they also fall in and out of each other's lives I just realized that my light turned off I forgot to turn it back on okay we're so back sorry about that sorry if I've been dimly lit for the last few books my camera died and seemingly so did the light cuz I've been yapping for so long this is Yap City population one but anyway this book shortlisted for the US national book awards winner of the British book industry award for fiction shortlisted for the booker prize shortlisted for the women's prize I just think this has such emotional complexity and though it's long I race through this book I swear Hana laced these pages with crack cuz I could not put it down so that is a little life but it is anything but little it is big in the things it seeks to convey and I will die on this hill but this is an excellent excellent book and the fact that it triggers such intense emotional responses from people only proves my point and finally pessi panesi is this haunting slow book about a character who is in this kind of unknown and unknowable place where there are columns and vestibules and statues and a lot of water and stairs and it feels hard every time I try and recommend this book I struggle because I feel like the less you know going into this book the better it's one of those books where I would sell my soul to read this book again for the first time and experience it again with fresh eyes and I want you to have that experience too so I don't want to say too much but what I will say is be patient young one be patient child trust the process don't give up on it this is a remarkable achievement Susan Clark is insane like she is mad she wrote this huge book called Dr Jonathan and Mr strange or Mr Jonathan and Doctor Strange what one variation of those two things which is a massive book she disappears for years and years and years like over a decade I think and then she comes back with this slim thing like the OIC of books it's a tiny little thing it's like she gave her literary work OIC like sudden she comes back with this tiny little thing and it's magical and it's wonderful and it's spellbinding and shocking and stays with you forever and I'm being deliberately vague because like I said I think you need to read this without knowing what happens all I'll say is that I've recommended this to multiple people in my life and they've come back to me and said that's the best thing I've ever read thank you and that's all I'll say on that thank you for watching this video thank you so much for sticking with me I feel like I've been filming for absolutely years but these are books I could frankly talk about for the rest of the century that's how good they all are and I hope that people are still talking about them in 10 15 20 100 years time my prediction is that they abs absolutely will be even if it's just me alone like man shouts at Cloud I'll keep fighting the good fight to make sure that more people read these books thank you for watching for more recommendations from me you can follow me on Tik Tok on Instagram over on my second Channel you can subscribe here if you're new and thanks so much for watching this video I love you all the best stay in touch have a wonderful day byebye

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Published: Sun Jun 02 2024