the 100 essential novels -- how many have i read?

[IlovelmandD]

You should make your next celebrity book club about Pedro Pascal! He has great taste

[MauraVH]

At this point with how many books you've been meaning to read for ages, I feel like you should make a 'Subscribers hold me accountable'-video where we get to pick which ones need to get off your really old TBR-pile first

[bishop_breloom]

I have officially read 2 books that Jack Edwards has not. This will do wonders for my ego. Also, Infinite Jest is a behemoth and I just kind of know you’d hate it despite its incredible writing and themes.

[lauraelizabeth_]

as i counted along with you, i had to make sure i was only counting novels i *actually* read and not the novels i *pretended* to read for my degree lmaooo (42/100)

[nabaaeyddan]

Kinda mad that The Picture Of Dorian Grey isn't on this list.

[linatenenbaum]

I've read only 19 of these, but most of the ones I've read are ones that Jack hasn't read, so that feels like some kind of selfish redemption 😂

[Littlerose]

I read 12/100. I realized recently that my high school English class curriculum was severely lacking because there are so many of these books that everyone else reads in high school that I was never given an opportunity to. These past few years, it has been my goal to change that, and watching Jack and Emmie's videos have really helped with that! I'm in the same boat as Jack when he kept saying he had books on that list that he hadn't read but are currently on your TBR. We'll get to them someday!

[ninja_boy]

Your pronunciation of "I, Claudius" is gonna make me chuckle for some time to come 😅

[PokhrajRoy.]

So happy to see Jack being a fan of ‘Easy A’. He’s the Lobster Todd of Booktube.

[mourningpapers]

Anna Karenina is a lot less intimidating than other Russian lit in my opinion - it's large but easy and stunningly real to read, highly recommend! Also Grapes of Wrath (or any Steinbeck, for that matter) is super easy and beautiful, and has that metaphorical underlying nature that books like 1984 do in a strange way.

[juliannegarlich]

As a 14 year old, having read 13 books already I feel pretty good about myself

[Kamila_Koziol]

I've got 42/100. That's an extremely Anglo-focused list. Not that it's a bad thing, it's an English speaking chanel after all. And I love those scratch off gifts like that. And of course a canon is a canon. Even though I haven't read most of them I at least heard about all but two of these books. The one that I'll probably never read: Wuthering Heights, I feel like I've missed the time to read it. There are some of my faves on here: Catch 22, One hundred years of solitude, Fahrenheit 451. Nice, it is so satisfying to scratch it off.

[bibi-nocu]

as a Polish medical student (so no literature background really haha), I have read 13 of these, so i guess not bad!
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Jane Eyre
3. Crime and Punishment
4. House of Darkness
5. Animal Farm
6. 1984
7. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
8. The Catcher in the Rye
9. Fahrenheit 451
10. Lolita
11. To Kill a Mockingbird
12. Wide Sargasso Sea
13. Handmaid's Tale

[tiakiwi]

I actually read Their Eyes Were Watching God because it was in one of your videos haha!
It’s become one of my favourite book titles of all time, as well as one of my favourite opening lines of all time! Such a great novel.
Can’t wait to see what you think whenever you get around to it, Jack:)

[magdalenaarias]

one hundred years of solitude is AMAZING. LIKE AMAZING. and without it and its contributions and being the book that essentially made magical realism a genre, we would not have so many of the amazing books we have today. besides it's so beautifully written and SO SO GOOD

[magda_mf]

'If on a winter's night a traveler' is so great! Really makes you think about the structure of a novel

[lizzy]

I only read 9 out of these 💀 but on the other hand, I'm not British. I'm German and I read many German classics and not so many British ones which I feel like they dominate this list. But this is a really cool poster 👌

[ketasar]

Now do a video series of reading books from this list, that you haven't read!!

[Evermorereads]

So happy to see A House for Mr. Biswas and Wide Sargasso Sea here. Two amazing post-colonial, West Indian reads. Read Caribbean month is in June, it would be nice if you did a challenge to read Caribbean books in June.

[MRJarwson]

I’ve only read 6 of these, but so many are on my tbr 😂😭