tier ranking all the classics i've read

Hey, it's freedom and today I'm going to rank all the

classics

I've

read

. I have had to make some exclusions. No writers who are still alive. There are no children's books. There are no plays. I have reduced it a little. Also some of the books that I literally don't remember at all, um, I haven't included them because that wouldn't be useful to anyone, my tea labels for this are God, good time, she's cute and over the top and I'd rather watch her dry down. the painting. I have also been with authors whose books I have

read

quite a few.

I've only included a couple because you know too much. Something I would like to ask anyone watching this is if they have recommendations for

classics

or really any. books that have been translated into English because I'm trying to read more translated fiction and I could use some recommendations if you like it, please like it. I make all kinds of videos about books, history, personality of all kinds, so check those out. If you want, I'm actually going to do this in slices, so I'll start with the painting. I'd rather watch the paint dry and be done with God level, but I'll put in little sections in case you just want to skip to the best or skip, I won't say much about each book so don't worry about that, so I'm going to jump right into it I prefer to see how the paint dries, now this is for books I almost didn't finish, I didn't really like it, I had a big problem with um, there are actually only two books in this level because as a general rule , if I have so many problems with the book, I don't finish it or You know, if I'm struggling to understand it, I don't try hard, so yeah, there are only two books here.

If you've seen any of my videos before, it'll be pretty obvious what these books are, but it's the professor. by charlotte bronte this was reworked in valet so canonically it's not even considered some kind of fully formed work i guess so i don't feel bad about putting it here and then the other one is jane eyre i'm really sorry. I am not a fan of Charlotte's writing, this is already established and this novel just sums up why I will honestly try to read it again this year because I read it a long time ago and would be interested in reading it.

Look, now that I'm older, I've read all the Brontës now, if I go back I'm going to consider this to be as bad as I thought, I could make a video about it actually, so yeah. the next level is my overrated tearjerker and there is a difference between overrated and overrated so I like all of these books, I think they are good, however I think people in society in general give them more praise than they deserve. I got tired of people saying you have to read this book because you don't trust me. The first is Brave New World and it is a dystopian science fiction novel.

Some of these genre books are better than others and you know other people have done it too. done much better than Brave New World, so yeah, I think it's overdone and I think they should stop making kids read it in school. Well next up is Oliver Twist and that's just my opinion because it's a good book, don't get me wrong, but First of all, it's far from Dickens' best novel and it was shoved down everyone's throat all the time. It's become so ubiquitous in the culture that you know most people know little bits of it or famous quotes from it, but yeah, it's very, very.

Overrated in my opinion, like I'm not going to reread it and if people ask for a classics recommendation or a Dickens recommendation, I don't get to the liver twist next, this might cause some controversy, but the great gatsby, um, You know, I'm not. American I think it might appeal to people more if they're American it's good, I enjoyed it, I think it's one of the best books ever written, no, definitely not, you know, in terms of plot or in terms of writing style, no It is very overrated. in my opinion, the following is of mice and men and I think we are meeting, you know, there is a pattern here again.

I think if I were American, you know, this might have stayed with me more. I enjoyed it when I read it and took things away. about that when I read it, but no, yeah, it didn't stay with me and it's not something that I loved so much that I would ever read it again, so it's everywhere, people are always on this list of the best novels by all the time and just yeah, okay and finally on this level, Mrs. Dalloway, I really enjoyed this book and I love Virginia Woolf, but her overrated stream of consciousness is great if you can get into it and if that's something you enjoy reading and en It's not something that will tire you out or bother you, but it's not for everyone and I think it's important that we don't put too much pressure on books that have a very specific style because it can only disappoint you if it's not something you find you can do. between, yes, I feel like people shout a lot about this book and it's good, don't get me wrong, but it's only surprising to a small number of people.

I would say my next one here is that she is cute and this is a tearjerker for all the books. I liked them, I really enjoyed them, I would probably read them again, but I didn't love them. I'm going to start with the two Jane Austen novels that are at this level. The first is Northanger Abbey, a great novel, a great debut. You know, we've come of age. You have this naive protagonist who can see the world through her eyes. You know it's a very sweet love story and of course it's great as a satire of the gothic novel and shows great things to come in Austin's career, but you know she's cute and the second is Mansfield.

Park now I love Fanny as the protagonist um she's an underrated protagonist for sure um but you know I hate the romance in this um and yeah I mean they're interesting characters and the plot goes well you know I enjoy it but yeah I have problems with this novel and I think it should have ended differently and yes, I hate romance, but it's cute, it's fun, I mean, Fanny really saves this novel from being, you know, later on there's the mystery of the division bell and this It's nice because it's a nice murder mystery, it's set in the House of Commons, um, and it's kind of between the wars, so it's a great time period, an interesting time period, you know, the first women parliamentarians, you know, there's a lot to like about this, but it's In a way, in this whole murder mystery aspect, it doesn't quite become, you know, the main character is not as attractive as you need, but I finished it and I liked it, it was cute and some of the characters. in it they were great, um, but yeah, just barely, this is at the bottom of the level, sure, the next one is where angel fear steps.

I love ian foster as a writer, um, one of my favorites and this one is like you know, the lowest you'll find. Your books in this

tier

list, this particular novel involves a kind of relationship of a woman with her in-laws and you know how they feel about their freedom after the death of her husband and you know how to make your own decisions, how they feel about it. affects and how they become. To have a say in their future, there are some really nice characters and here, they're all interesting and the descriptions of Italy, I mean, oh, it just makes me want to travel so much, I enjoy it, but I mean, if I were to do it. reread, I mean, I reread a view that is rumored quite regularly, so now we have another murder mystery, which is the vicarage murder. um miss marple, ms marble's classic books are always good reads and i never regret buying a miss marvel book and this one is without exception, you know, the setting of the town, a group of characters, a group of suspects, you know that they are all interesting, all the relationships between all the characters are great and you know that the plot was attractive, very cute.

Next is the strange case of Dr. Jacqueline Mustaid. I'm not going to lie, this was shorter than I expected. It's great, it's really great. Everyone knows what it's about, but the joy is mostly in the journey rather than the kind of climax, even though you know the plot moved on and on. It's good to read, I don't know if I would read it again, but I still think everyone should read it next. It's Vallette and this is what the professor was what he reworked into um and it was good, it was really great in some aspects like the writing.

It was really good, the way Charlotte describes Brussels in a sort of fictional way was really great, we had a bit of a passive protagonist, which I found very annoying, and the distinctive features of Charlotte Brontë's writing, which I didn't like. They like it, they were in here, but it's nice, it wasn't, you know, I had, you know, I liked the next one, we have a little Hemingway, the sun also rises, I love Hemingway and this novel takes its protagonist to Spain with his friends , where we arrived. watching him experience bullfighting and life as a tourist in Spain obviously they start in Paris and his collection of friends is interesting and his relationships with all of them um and because it's very much like a social group so he doesn't really get along. with all of them and you know there's a love interest there, she's very good, I've used her, I feel like I've used her, interesting a lot, but interesting, you know, she, I don't really know how to do it. describe it, you know it's kind of unspoken that Hemingway has a problem with women, right, his attitude towards women wasn't very good and I feel like this novel really embodies that because of the way the love interest is written, however, I just love it. writes too much and that probably makes me a terrible feminist, but you know, not really, because the whole point of feminism is to be able to choose and I choose to have my reservations to understand that, know that and get into her books I just have that in the back of my mind but I allow myself to enjoy it and you know what my prerogative is as a reader.

Next up is the house of joy and I think if anything inspired Gossip Girl it was Edith Wharton's novels, um, this is the first of two that I'm going to talk about and this one has to do with old money versus new money, social status and love and the kind of boundaries of marriage and can you have the kind of status of a married person without being married? it's great, i enjoyed it, it doesn't live up to the age of innocence, which is peak edith wharton um, so i think so, yes, this book suffers from the age of innocence, being so good, next we have the outsider and this novel is about not being able to adhere to social norms and the alienation of someone who refuses to do that we love antiheroes and heroes are great and this one refuses to lie which is intriguing and something I feel like every more and more people are resonating with more and more people.

They choose to talk about how they really feel even if it hurts people and that can be good or it can be bad depending on what you're talking about so it's an interesting read. Personally I wouldn't read it again, I think it was an experience I had, I'm happy I had it and I would recommend it to people, we finally have a quality murder, which is the first le carré novel in my level system and I carré is simply the best writer of spy novels and, um, this features george smiley, his very famous protagonist and some kind of circus and obviously we are in the cold war.

This novel is sort of the second in this kind of emoticon series and it takes us out of London and there's a body for emoticons. to find out what's happened, the reason it's a little bit lower is because what I love about emoticons is that you know, the intrigue aspect, the circus, basically the London kind of aspect that we don't understand as much. a lot into this so next is my level of a good time and this is kind of a place for novels that I loved that are not completely divine here the first one is three musketeers I really love it I think everyone should read This, um, is fun, this is historical. fiction, we have great characters, swashbuckling heroes and France, you know, it's a lot of fun to read next, we have three Jane Austen novels, we have sentence capacity, which is that it shares many characteristics with pride and prejudice. but the relationship between the two sisters who are the protagonists is the key to this and you know they are very contrasting, you know it's interesting to read and the plot is good and also the writing is really great, I think this is probably all three on the list probably the best written maybe I don't know maybe foreign prejudices but that's next anyway.

I understand why this is Austin's most famous job and it's a really good time. It's not all good here. There is one. austen who has arrived here um elizabeth is a protagonist of God Tear, although sure and the romance is great, it's a regular reread for me, so you finally know that Persuasion is the third austin in this level, the fact that these two characters in the main type of romance they have the story sets it apart from the rest and ann elliot is a great protagonist and you know, I mean, I highly recommend this book and I think if she hadn't died, I think this book would have been reviewed and it would have still been better because this the book was published posthumously next on this level agnes gray and agnes is a great protagonist, you know, she wants to get out, she wants to help her family, she has ambitions to open her own school, um, the romance in this is sweet agnes a great leading lady, she was a great debut for Anne Brontë and yes, I highly recommend her, she is more thancute, so in this tear, ABC Kills is proof that actress Christie is an amazing author, I mean, it's one of her great murder mysteries. we have the machine stopped and all kinds of short stories about executors because there are a lot of things that he predicted on the internet in this short story and he is an amazing writer and short stories are great because you can really immerse yourself in someone's writing without having to invest too much time on it and they are also intriguing, ideas for stories that he has, so another Agatha Christie now and it is and then there was none, this is a great book, it is not for me personally, my experience. reading it wasn't great, but that was due to a medical emergency, okay, it's a great book, trust me, one of Agatha Christie's best novels, in my opinion, you know, people invite people to the island and they end up dying one by one one and it's you know, can we find out who's doing it before there's no one left?

Next up is Little Women and obviously this is great, everyone knows it, this is great, there are great characters and the plot is great and it makes me feel very warm inside, but I don't love it in the way that would make God break it. You know what's next is a Christmas carol. Everyone loves a Christmas carol and for good reason treat the people in your life well. You know, don't be successful at making money or you won't have anything. one leaves and is alone. The fact that we still need to learn this in 2022 is really sad, but no, yes, it is immensely fun and gives us those lessons.

Dickens writes so well, so well alongside Shirley, this was so close to being a Charlotte. Bronte God Tear, but she ruined it in the final chapter and I'm so upset and I will never forgive her for that. If this ever ends up being an adaptation, I will find the person who adapts it and pay them to finish the adaptation before the end. Chapter Shirley is a great protagonist, you know it until the end and there is so much social commentary in this and it's great, there is a lot to love about this until the final moment of purchase, it is very disappointing and next up is the Edwardians by vita saxo . west and this is sure to be a good time.

Having visited Noel, I can appreciate this book much more because it is about her reflecting on her childhood and her experiences and criticizing the Edwardian. You know, the aristocracy. I highly recommend it. Dracula is the best vampire. Novel, the group of heroes coming together to solve the major crisis that is occurring is a trope for a reason and I think Dracula does it very well. All the characters are great. I really like the way it is told in the letters and the diary. The entries are really unique and close to God level, but not quite. That's why I'm putting all of Tolstoy's stories because he's an amazing writer.

You know he wrote for the common man. All the stories about him are great and again. it's just not quite God here, there are high expectations about what makes a gentleman have money and class and how you are born or who you are as a person, which again is annoying, we still have to deal with the snobbery and all that kind of things. 2022. um dickens is an amazing writer and pip is a great lead again, this might actually be a tear from god. I might have to reread and watch it because I've been itching to reread this for a while.

Actually, next is the resurrection, which is Tolstoy's in this novel. all about remorse and guilt and a prostitute is on trial wrongfully accused and the main character basically has to reckon with the fact that if it weren't for him she wouldn't be in this situation and you follow them both as he tries. to make amends and you know it's thoughtful like tolstoy's other writings the writing is great um again not very good to listen to the following are all flies i think most people in the uk you know my age have read this in school and um yeah I have no idea what kids would do if they were stranded on a desert island, you know, there's no hope of escape, it's just an amazing premise.

Next is the end of Howard, plus e.m Forster again, this is another kind of class and money. um the things you know like the economic storms that the rich can weather and that you know the poor and the middle classes can't weather um yeah this focuses a lot on a couple of families and the characters are great again the movie It's really Well, I think this is cool, but you know, it's not a view room, which I'll talk about a little later, it's the bell jar, which I have my review for this, but I don't remember anything and it's only at a good time. because I have evidence of how much I enjoyed this book at the time and yes, there's not much to say about it other than it's amazing, reading it is an experience everyone should have.

Next is The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's best novel. In my opinion, this one is about infidelity and the chutzpah of a woman who wants to live life on her own terms and you know, duty versus passion, all this kind of stuff and the main character has to decide, you know what? He values ​​and Siddhartha is next. This focuses on a man and his spiritual journey during a sort of Buddha era. It's about the quest for enlightenment and it makes you think hard and in an engaging way, you won't be bored in slaughterhouse five. is next and this is an anti war book focusing on the bombing of dresden and the second world war by the british and americans.

His writing is truly excellent, it made such a deep impression on me when I read it and it's something I think everyone should read, especially now when it's a very pertinent time to read it right now. We have two George Smiley novels. Now the first one is Call for the Dead, which is the first novel in which you meet George Smiley as a character. circus the world of espionage um that kind of thing is um it's so good it's just a great introduction um you know, agents triple double agents and you know the different interactions between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union and East and West Germany and us and by of course there's a corpse that needs to be um you know discovered and everything and george smiley is right in it and the second one is the spy who came in from the cold this is an emoticon novel he's in it but not the main protagonist there's someone else who ends up in East Germany to try to take down the East German intelligence service. uh, cool, cool stuff.

Finally, to God. I feel like I don't need to explain this. It's just the cream of the crop the best classics I've read first it's Jane Austen's best novel and it's Emma Emma is Jane Austen's best protagonist I'd safely say one of the best protagonists of all time romance It's a bit questionable in this because you know the age differences and how they know each other but the bond between them and the love between them is so genuine and it's so lovely to read and the rest of the characters in this are just a real collection. and the chef's kiss um of course the plot is great everyone loves seeing a know-it-all character humiliated in such a universally satisfying way I think the next thing to remember is ian foster's view just yeah yeah I love this , the descriptions of Florence were beautiful and it takes place between Florence and the UK so you can see both.

I think the 20th century, that decade, is really underrated and I want to read more books set in that period. Also watch the movie. Is incredible. Helena Bonham Carter. Baby Helen and Bottom Carter. Next up is fantastic: I capture the castle. I have a very strong connection to this book and I think it comes from the fact that I really loved the movie. I watched it when I was a kid and then I read the book and I'm just the main family. In this book they are all very interesting in their own way and you can see that all the different types of love and romance and, honestly, the best relationships were the ones between the family members, Cassandra, the main character, between you know. , cassandra and her father, and her sister just truly family relationships are the heart of this novel next is frankenstein mary shelley is a brilliant writer and there is a lot more to frankenstein than people think and that is seen in pop culture .

You could rave about this all day um it's essential reading about you know what makes you human what you know what makes you evil next it's not entirely unexpected um the tenant of the welfare room, Bronte's best novel , certainly um is about the plight of married women and mothers and their legal status when you know, it's about being your own person and custody of your children and also questioning the attractiveness and rehabilitation of toxic men because You won't see a Mr. Rochester in this novel. I'm telling you Helen Graham is a huge inspiration too. a heroine um yeah awesome I won't stop until everyone I know has read it so sorry next up is War and Peace yeah I've read War and Peace cover to cover it took me a while but I did it because I grew up listening to the BBC adaptation of War and Peace.

Simply I loved it. I thought he was very good against Simon Russellville. Simon Russell Beale chronicled my childhood. I think he was always in my ear. Yes, the characters. Brilliant, the plot is really nice, it's kind of a perfect combination of um good narrative and plot, and you meet the characters that you love and you also get a lot of kind of story, um, you get accounts of the battles that you know, obviously, with the characters. who are, but you also get omniscient narration, which is really interesting, so yeah, I love this, I think yeah, everyone needs to read it.

It's actually not as difficult to understand as you think. I mean, he's very attractive. a quick read of how long it is, if that makes sense, so you'll read it, it'll only take a minute. I can't speak highly enough of To Kill a Mockingbird, from the explorer to the attic, there are just some great characters in this book. um we're going to ignore the sequel um in this house we pretend that the sequel never happened and that To Kill a Mockingbird is the only book with these characters um because it's social commentary and all that kind of stuff really done well, um, and of course you know which is amazing, people love it for a reason, it's the opposite of overrated, no actually that's not true, it's not underrated, it's the right amount of hype, next up is some sort of Jeeves novels and Worcester.

I'm putting them all together because you know I've read a lot of them. It's hilarious, it's not very funny. But it's like you know it's like Miranda. You're laughing at the ridiculous situations people find themselves in. And simply writing. He does it so well. It's fun to laugh at rich and fancy people, is what I realized when reading this. The British should know that this is apparently how we ended up with our Prime Minister, so next up is The Lord of the Rings. I really do not know. I need to say something about The Lord of the Rings.

The writing of the characters, the plot, the construction of the world is incredible, it is simply the cream of the cream of fantasy, it is the best. I won't take any Lord of the Rings slander, so yeah, again. It's something that I feel is a pretty quick read but it's an investment of time. Next up is Wuthering Heights. This is intense and emotional and wild and turbulent and so good. I mean top of the list of classics that everyone should read. it's just that none of these relationships are healthy and none of these family dynamics are good, it's all very toxic, but it's so good to read and yeah, you can't follow it anyway, don't take any advice away from this book, but it's just it's surprising my hemingway in the god here is a moving party that is a kind of fiction um he is basically bringing his past to life in a series of vignettes um his friends his you know he works he lives in Paris and when he was young he is very good, you have to read it in spring or summer, it has vibes.

You know, next is Anna Karenina and the book is so much better than any movie, it's just, uh, Tolstoy always is, in my opinion, I think. it's too much to put on screen, you know, my favorite story is Levin and his point of view, as opposed to the kind of doomed main romance in this, the middle part that some people don't like, I love it, I love it the reflection that you get with Tolstoy's writings and especially his autobiographical characters like Levin is very fascinating and yes, I think there is something for everyone in this, which is what makes it so great.

Next is the animal farm and the ultimate allegory of totalitarianism that took me a couple of tries. There have always been people who, as you know, seek power and take it for themselves and try to limit people's freedoms, but you know which is still relevant today again sadly but this book is amazing and talking animals are always fun to read I mean come on. next is 1984 which is simply the best dystopian novel, it is simply a world of state control, fake news and suppression of individual rights and freedom, perfect for me obviously this novel is simply evidence of the need for power speak truth to power no matter the consequences um well I mean you know within reason obviously um I mean especially relevant right nowgiven everything that is happening on the other side of the continent and finally I promise that this is the last book that I am going to talk about and it is the picture of Dorian Gray.

Oscar Wilde is up there again. You know, one of my favorite writers. He is just amazing. This novel is incredibly written and is partially autobiographical because he said that Basil is who he thinks he is. it's henry is who people think he is and dorian is who he wants to be um you know, moral disintegration and an examination of society's obsession with youth and beauty and yes please, we've all heard of the painting in the attic even if you haven't read the book you know but yeah it's definitely worth it so that was my Martha video thanks for watching thanks for sticking with me I hope you made it to the end give us a like If you enjoyed it and you know that I make videos about books, history, personalities of all kinds, so check them out and subscribe if you want.

I don't really have much else to say, I'm exhausted, I feel like my throat is about to give out, so yeah, but let me know what your favorite god-level classics are if I haven't read them, bullying me into reading them, yes, happy reading.