14 books you need to read in 2023 *fiction*

of the 182 books i read in 2022, these were the top 16

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😭 what happened to your intro? it got copyrighted ://///
🤠 how old are you? 24!
📆 when is your birthday? 18th october 1998 (libra)
🎓 where did you go to university? i studied english at durham!
🔎 where do you live? new york city
💼 what is your job? research assistant in the publishing industry
🎥 what do you film with? lumix gh5 + canon g7x
👾 what do you use to edit? final cut pro

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[yashi_reads]

I read 67 books the past year which is already 10 times the number of books I had read the decade preceding that all thanks to this man

[makecath]

1:24 An Olive Grove in Ends - Moses McKenzie
2:54 The Bread the Devil Knead - Lisa Allen-Agostini
4:10 Milk Fed - Melissa Broder
6:57 Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Coco Mellors
8:13 Everyone in this Room will Someday Be Dead - Emily Austin
9:02 Sorrow and Bliss - Meg Mason
9:49 Swimming in the Dark - Tomasz Jedrowski
10:33 At Night all Blood is Black - David Diop
11:26 Elektra - Jennifer Saint
11:59 Lie With Me - Philippe Besson
12:46 Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
13:45 The Promise - Damon Galgut
14:49 Nightcrawling - Leila Mottley
15:32 Happy Hour - Marlowe Granados
16:17 Elena Knows -Claudia Pineiro
17:17 Panenka - Ronan Hession

[nellherself]

And all of the covers are beautiful, so clearly you CAN judge a book by it’s cover lol

[narminabdulla]

It’s so adorable how Jack's eyes just got magnified after he put on the glasses. Did anyone else notice ??

[helenkritikopouloss]

whenever i see jack post a new video, i immediately pull up the goodreads search page

[pizzaslices]

“It’s like ranking the Friends characters without Ross” best quote of 2023 so far

[readwithelahe]

182 books seems like a lot to me but I’m a new reader and I’m satisfied with my goal of 23 books in 2023 and I think it’s realistic based on my schedule. And these 4 books went definitely on my TBR so thank you! 😊

[alyssavon]

This man has no idea how much he's encouraged me to read more the past year. So many reading slumps saved!

[thevelveteentreeline]

i loved the bread the devil knead SO MUCH, but no-one i know has ever read it so it's nice to see someone else finally giving it the recognition i feel it deserves

[bangchns]

god i can’t wait until i’m finally reading a whole book written by jack, just hearing his own blurbs about all the books have a grip on me and i can’t imagine how much of a chokehold i’ll be in with his writing 😭😭

[pradnya]

You know it's serious when he puts those glasses on👓😂

[qbhtfrn]

Okay so reading, buying books and hearing you talk about books are 3 completely different hobbies . I spend minimum time on the first one😂.
Btw the except Ross was so accurate

[notjigyasa]

idk why but jack looks so huggable in this vid i literally just wanna hug him so bad💀

[LauraSeeLauraDo]

Molly Ringwald, the actress from the Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, and Sixteen Candles also TRANSLATES?! I had to look it up to make sure, but wow! The talent!

[violetanderson]

Your videos have been inspiring me to read more books and brightening up bad days since early last year, so thank you Jack. :)

[PokhrajRoy.]

I’ve really missed Jack in glasses. I’m having flashbacks to the time when he finished his Thesis in a short period of time.

[cooza]

I just finished Swimming in the Dark a couple of weeks ago & it’s probably one of the most beautifully written books I have maybe ever read. So many moments I paused and internally screamed at particular lines, it’ll stick with me forever. Amazing & important.

[psyrororo]

Thank you, Jack, for making me fall in love with reading again. Your love and joy for books is truly infectious!

[samuelp]

I have read swimming in the dark in Polish, and I remember crying while riding to school listening to the audio book, hearing what decisions characters were forced to make, and that it could be me as an qeer person, me as a polish citizen. Its great that these days are over, but at what cost :C

[sandramish]

Reading is not just enough”. Take the action! Put your newfound knowledge to use. I read for a long time but Action made my life changed in no time ( generally and mostly financially:)

That’s my two cents on this!!