Best Books I Read in 2023 & Some Books I Need to Read in 2024

It’s often the most enjoyable books that become the most challenging to talk about. These are the best books I read in 2023 and, later on in the video, I mention some books that I am excited to read in 2024 (really psyched about the first one).

My favourites of 2023 (in no particular ranking order):
1. Marcel Proust's Swann’s Way: https://amzn.to/3xgbiXb
2. Hermann Melville's Moby Dick: https://amzn.to/47jMTzu
3. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: https://amzn.to/47onzbv
4. H. P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu: https://amzn.to/41rWNwy
5. J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: https://amzn.to/41MdvXu
6. Arthur Schnitzler's Dream Story:https://amzn.to/3v6g3EU
7. Knut Hamsun's Hunger: https://amzn.to/4aF72CV

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:39 - Swann's Way
2:18 - Disgrace
3:59 - Moby Dick
5:17 - Heart of Darkness
6:20 - The Call of Cthulhu
7:18 - Dream Story
8:40 - Hunger
9:45 - my TBR
10:00 - Eugene Thacker
10:45 - Rainer Maria Rilke
11:09 - Clarice Lispector
11:26 - Oliver Sacks
11:52 - Letters to Milena
12:03 - Man Without Qualities
12:44 - Ulysses
13:01 - Outro

Books that are on my TBR to read in 2024:
1. Eugene Thacker’s ‘Horrors of Philosophy’ Trilogy:
- In the Dust of this Planet: https://amzn.to/3TM85e5
- Starry Speculative Corpse: https://amzn.to/3TLgBdi
- Tentacles Longer Than Night: https://amzn.to/3TLgG0A
2. Oliver Sacks’ work:
- Awakenings: https://amzn.to/3RC2B32
- Hallucinations: https://amzn.to/4aGBmwO
- Seeing Voices: https://amzn.to/4aBxVYt
- The Mind’s Eye: https://amzn.to/3RN4oT2
3. Clarice Lispector’s Complete Stories: https://amzn.to/4aGBsVc
4. Franz Kafka’s Letters to Milena: https://amzn.to/3H6mOsO
5. Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities: https://amzn.to/41KM4OX
6. James Joyce’s Ulysses: https://amzn.to/3tHr2UP

Other books I mention:
1. Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves: https://amzn.to/4aEYcVM
2. Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: https://amzn.to/3NQp6Ae
3. Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G. H. : https://amzn.to/3X9KZMy
4. Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell & Illuminations: https://amzn.to/3jzmGKm
5. The Ernest Becker’s Denial of Death: https://amzn.to/3xHYMjU
6. Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: https://amzn.to/48efRSu


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