Let's FINALLY reorganize this bookshelf! (a tour of my rare and weird books)

You're really going to you're going to feel powerful because I do feel powerful as a woman reading this. Such awesome storytelling. And you can't help but feel something for these characters.

And if we're talking about plays, h one of my favorite plays of all time. We have got oh my goodness, The Amazing Angels in America by Tony Kushner. Come on now. Awesome. Can't suggest this enough.

Black Swan's just gossipy stories about Hollywood. I love that.

Talking about the Bass Country, Lunenburgg, all these places that I've explored and know pretty intimately are huge players in the cod industry and I didn't realize that. So that I took away from it and I'm interested to learn about salt.

And then we also have the complete plays of Sarah Kaine. Put your mind in a blender. Experience it. That's my suggestion for this.

Two really disturbing books that I love. I have Crash by JG Ballard. Awesome. If you love transgressive fiction, this one is a granddaddy of that.

This book is nuts. I've read a lot of crazy stuff. I pride myself on reading things like that. This book, I was reading out loud sections of this to people. Mouth's hanging.

I wasn't a huge fan of this and I feel like h everybody's going to drag me for this. I was not a huge fan of this book.

And then I read Giovani's Room. Fantastic. , everybody who says that this is a good book is not lying. You should listen to them.

You have Jazz by Tony Morrison. read this year. How do I want to explain this book? So pressurized in its urgency.

I found this really illuminating. I do think that Bourdain has a great voice. He's very pessimistic in his writing, but I think that's pretty true to his character and it comes through on the pages and it's interesting to see the origin story of somebody that we know so much about now.

I was going to suggest Less than Zero to him. young people partying in Los Angeles getting up to no good. But I don't think that it has the same weird mysterious flare like The Shards does, but still very good.

We have three books that I absolutely loved. We have Lightety Years by James Salter. Amazing.

Some amazing characters. Such graphicness in this writing that I wasn't expecting, but really beautiful. Just feels like an American classic.

They put out one of my favorite books of last year and a book that I think about all the time, Orlando by Jacqueline Chapman.

The Golden Cochril and Other Writings by Juan Rolo. I need to read this. I haven't read it, but I did read Pedro Pamo. Challenging writing.

If you've been on this channel for a long time, you know that this was one of the worst books I've ever read, but I just love that cover.

Love this book. really interesting take on how we interpret like trauma images, images that are really disturbing in nature and how we how we transmute them.

I was going to suggest Less than Zero to him. young people partying in Los Angeles getting up to no good. But I don't think that it has the same weird mysterious flare like The Shards does, but still very good.

The first book that I want to talk about, oh well, I'm just going to put up is Such Times by Christopher Co., one of my favorite books of last year now of all time.

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood. Such a good book. Loved my experience with this.

I will say I am listening to The Body Right now by Bill Bryson. Awesome book. If you are into non-fiction that really gives you something that's easy to comprehend and we should all know about our bodies, I think a little bit more, this is awesome.

This is all just a stream of consciousness about somebody kind of unraveling in Los Angeles. Very funky.

Was just talking about this book, teared up about the ending. Happens to me every single time I talk about this book. Really so impactful.

The Ukrainian and English version of The Great Gatsby. I've talked about this so many times before. Holds a really special place in my heart.

The moon is down. That one interesting like war propaganda. It peeps into it peeps into it seeps into him being a playwright.

We have three books that I absolutely loved. The Secret History by Donna Tart. Also, you guessed it, amazing.

And then we also have John Irving's World According to Garp, which I love. Talked about this a million times on the channel before. Such a formative piece of writing for me.

And then also my book club pick, which if you're not in the know, is Isabella Aendai's, The House of the Spirits, which is awesome so far. I really think that this is one of the funkiest books I've read. Very magical realism.

I read this for my book club last year and I wanted to like this a little bit more. Thought that this was a really interesting book. Not a favorite, but feels very Scandinavian.

This was an advanced reader edition, but I will keep this and put it on the bookshelf just because I like this book. Very 70s, very exploration of bodies and [sighs] Yeah.

Because we have Red and White, we're also going to match that with David Sedaris's Theft by Findings. Awesome little book.

It doesn't really hold a super linear storyline, but I think it's fun. Very campy feeling. Very of the time.

I read this last year. I've talked about it before, but I think the ending of this is so much better than the entirety of it.

And I always whenever I see somebody reading a book that I love or I have suggested on the channel, I just want to go up to them and say, "You made the right choice. It's really good. You're going to like it."

Wide Saraso Se not crazy about this book. Think that the cover of it is stunning. Not crazy about this. Had a little bit of a complicated time reading this.

We have three books that I absolutely loved. Written on the Body by Janette Winerson. Amazing.

Or Joan Diddian slouching towards Bethlehem. Shut up. You know, it's great.