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  • Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday.

  • So this week, my book The Fault in Our Stars is at number one on USA Today and New York

  • Times best seller list, which is bananas, and it's made me think about all the books

  • I've loved that aren't best sellers. So Hank today I want to introduce you to 18 books

  • I've loved that you haven't read and probably very few people watching this video have read.

  • And then Nerdfighters, in comments, if you could leave names of books that you love that

  • I probably haven't read, I'll read 18 of them and review them in a future video. Okay, let's

  • get to it!

  • Okay, let's start with sports! This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own by Jonathan Rendall.

  • Best book title ever! Also my favorite boxing book ever.

  • Speaking of unusual areas of my expertise, One of Us by Alice Domurat Dreger, which is

  • by far the best non-fiction book ever written about conjoined twins. It's also just an amazing

  • book about disability and unusual anatomies and how people in power tend to essentialize

  • and marginalize the other.

  • Okay, couple of funny books: Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks, not Tony Hawk.

  • It's about a guy who hitchhikes around the circumference of Ireland with a refrigerator;

  • it is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Also excellent, Tony Hawks' follow-up

  • book, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis, in which he plays tennis with every member of

  • the Moldovan National Soccer team.

  • The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green by, yes, that is Zach Braff's brother, Joshua.

  • Great coming-of-age novel, worth the price of admission just for Jacob Green's Bar Mitzvah

  • thank-you notes.

  • Now you may have read MT Anderson's The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, one of the best

  • novels of the past decade, but you probably haven't read MT Anderson's surprisingly brilliant

  • vampire novel, Thirsty.

  • And speaking of great YA novels, Cecil Castellucci's book, Boy Proof came out in 2005, and the

  • haunting and beautiful story of this outcast girl named Egg, has stuck with me ever since.

  • Also E Lockhart's Fly on the Wall, a brilliant feminist reworking of Kafka's Metamorphosis,

  • ugh, it's so hard to say metamorphosis, [to himself]: they're gonna know about your lisp

  • now; they already know about your lisp now, no, just...moving on!

  • Tayari Jones is most famous for her book Leaving Atlanta, which is great, but this book, The

  • Untelling, captures the precariousness of working-class life just beautifully.

  • Speaking of beautiful, The Golden Rule by my mentor, Ilene Cooper. If you have a child

  • you may have noticed that they don't, like, inherently excel at empathy. This book has

  • been huge for us in talking to Henry about imagining how other people are feeling.

  • One more picture book: Show Way by Jacque Woodson, one of my all-time favorite picture

  • books and also one of Henry's favorites.

  • E.E. Cummings' first book, The Enormous Room. I don't know why this isn't famous. It's Cummings'

  • memoir of being imprisoned and falsely accused of treason during WWI, it's also a brilliant

  • examination of, like, the relationship between the individual and the collective.

  • Hugely influential book: Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others which made me think a lot

  • about the difference between representing and exploiting pain in art. Also in an image

  • saturated age, this is absolutely required reading about the unreliability of the image.

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather may be the most important novel about American

  • religion. Why doesn't every American high school student have to read this? I don't

  • know.

  • A book I'm almost sure you haven't read, This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun,

  • I'm probably saying his name wrong, I apologize. It's that, that, that name! This book fictionalizes

  • the story of real political prisoners who lived for decades in complete darkness in

  • 6' x 3' rooms. It's a little intense but it's really, really good.

  • Speaking of which, Kendra by Coe Booth. Her first book Tyrell is more famous, I like this

  • one just as much.

  • The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty. Out of fashion these days, but I think the best

  • book by one of the best 20th century writers.

  • Speaking of the South, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone: The Carter Family and their Legacy

  • in American Music. This book inspired an early VlogBrothers video, link in the dooblydoo,

  • but it's also just excellent!

  • And finally The Last Summer of Reason, a novel about a bookstore owner who lives in a country

  • overtaken by extremists who believe that art is evil.

  • So there you have it, 18 books I loved that aren't bestsellers but should be; I look forward

  • to your suggestions, Nerdfighters - I will see you in comments. Hank - I'll see you on

  • Friday.

Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday.

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18本你可能沒讀過的好書 (18 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read)

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