@NinaBinaXO
Love all of your recommendations. Reading the Count of Monte Cristo now!😊
@TriumphalReads
Good to see more March of the Mammoths content and cool recommendations. I don't read much fiction but Piallars of the Earth is always one of those historical classics that I might get to some day. Glad to have found your channel through this reading event!
@knitty781
I had a history prof who said Pillars of the Earth was the closest thing she's read to actual medieval life. That era was her specialty. The class was Women and Children of Medieval Period. I thought it was great. And yes, Tom Builder was a pompous a$$.
@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk
Plan on reading count of monte Cristo this year. Best wishes to all.
@bookstalgic
Great list! 🎉 I’ve heard so many good things about The Count of Monte Crisco and it’s definitely on it list. I’m still working on Clarissa and a little over halfway done so that will be the only one I continue to tackle 😂,
@annmarie3520
I never thought of reading The Count of Monte Cristo but since your numerous recommendations I might give it a go. As I recently mentioned to you I was reading Fresh Water for Flowers. Well, almost 500 pages later, I really enjoyed it. I will look for her other novels.❤🥰
@heatherauton655
Stunning historical fiction, so large the amazing Vikram Seth even has a poem at the start apologising to your wrists A Suitable Boy Just wonderful
@jimsbooksreadingandstuff
I really should tackle The Count of Monte Cristo some time, I have just finished my mammoth "The Eighth Life" by Nino Haratischwili (944 pages in Hardback, 1258 pages on Kindle), I am still processing my thoughts, I think March of the Mammoths is a great event to encourage us to read such behemoths.
@my4hvids
I love to add some long books in the mix. I plan to listen to "Trinity" by Leon Uris in March. I'm also going to tackle "1916" by Morgan Llewellyn and "Finnegans Wake " by James Joyce this year. I'm reading books about other places this year as well, but the longest ones planned are about Ireland and Northern Ireland, totally by coincidence!
@insearchofwonder
Jane Austen!!! My favorite!!❤❤❤ I'm working through rereading ask her novels, and Mansfield Park is the last one I have to read and I'm hoping to get to it in March. And Les Mis! My other favorite. I love it so much and I also plan to reread it this year. I do recommend skipping the tangent about the Paris sewer. Totally unnecessary. 😂
@marthacanady9441
There is no better book than Les Misérables. Monumentally fabulous. A thinking person’s book. It’s not trivial. If you need shallow, go with Follett.
@DianaLong-om3ck
I re-read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and added the Silmarillion and some of his other stories, in the movie of The Lord of the Rings I did miss Tom Bombadil. Pillar of the Earth I loved and finished reading all the other books in the series. Les Miserables was great although I learned more about sewers than I needed to know ( it's like Moby Dick and the whale guide). I have a similar Jane Austen book (a gift from my daughter) love it although I have read all her work. Count of Monte Cristo was wonderful. I would add to the list Don Quixote and anyone who enjoys Historic fiction Sharon Kay Penman has written some wonderful books. I am currently reading her series starting with When Christ and his Saints Slept. Happy reading and thank you for posting this. I have to admit that I am not an ardent King fan, I have read a number of his work but he's hit or miss with me.
@Starrysong
I read Battle Royale last year and I really enjoyed it. It was a quick read.
@HilaryBGreen
I just started a 1300-page book called The World: A Family History of Humanity. It's excellent so far, and the audio book has many different narrators representing some of the diverse cultures the author writes about. I have the hardcover as well so I can switch back and forth between them.
@alishalee6618
I just finished rereading Battle Royale. It was one of my February books not knowing that I was going to be participating in March of the Mammoths. It is my favorite book but I only read it once after I saw the movie in the early 2000's. I was scared but interested to see if it still held up to be my favorite and it does. I'm going to try to get two mammoth books done or close to it this month. I've been in a fantasy/sci-fi mood lately so I picked to reread Lord of the Rings and read for the first time The Planet Pirates. I'm also already thinking about what I want to read next year and Count of Monte Cristo is on the list.
@dsmoons
"War and peace"
@fabiancalderon6729
It's called Les Miserables, not Jean Val Jean! 😅
@bridgetmcarthur155