21 oddly specific book recommendations

When you said the category to ‘stare at a wall’ I immediately said my dark Vanessa. I’m doing a predictions game with this video I’m not gonna lie. Also I’m doing my NEA for my literature a level on my dark vanessa and the goblin market (it’s one of my favourite books of all time)

Can you recommend me some books that are similar to The Picture of Dorian Gray? In a sense of good character development, beautiful & poetic writing style, dark gothic

After I watched this vid I read The Secret History (my all time favourite book now) and I pictured you as Camilla just because you mentioned it

its my life mission to recommend Circe by Madeline Miller to anybody and everybody so here I am. Read Circe. It's legendary.

I would love a video on books to read in public that make you seem like dark mysterious slightly unhinged stranger 💋

just found your channel! love your taste in literature. im a litttle sick of the same 10 fantasy books being recommended on here so this is fabulous 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

Fun fact: Someone once gifted me Cioran's "The Trouble with Being Born." She said she knew nothing about the book; the title just made her think of me.

Book that make u feel femnisist , hit , smart -- gone girl Julian flyaan
Book which has old French aesthetic -- old man goria

Is that a nana necklace? If not ignore me lmao but it looks so familiar to me

not well known, but powerful. ralph ellison "Invisible Man"

I LOVE THIS you should make more of these<33

I haven’t read queens gambit but I gotta admit I soooo was hoping you’d say stranger in a strange land. As someone with autism that book made me feel so less alone in the world. (Shyly chuckles) I know he isn’t technically autistic but… well that’s how I read it at least.

ok dakota, we need a part two pls !!

I tried to read the secret history but had to put it down as soon as I saw the n-word being dropped by a white author

You’re so cute

You’re so adorable ❤

Got another one for you blondie...CONAN in the original Robert E Howard

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCuller

hot take but sad rich girl should have been catcher in the rye

Come back dakota and teach us how to be hot

More on male manipulator! Cold/independant/ hot girl

Sad book about death. Yeah no that's it

The recommendations are on point and super good, can't wait to read more of them
Also can we low key stop for a second on how gorgeous she is?

I was reorganizing my bookshelf while watching this and just happened to be holding Crime and Punishment when you recommended it :)

one video on TOP BOOKS EVER!!!!! ever!!!

please please please a full video on Hot mysterious stranger. please queeen!

obsessed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am terribly late to the party, I know... You are the first person on booktube to ever recommend a book written by a Romanian writer! I am impressed!

A protagonist we’re supposed to hate but love was Alex in A Clockwork Orange. Especially the proper 21 chapter British edition in where the experiment also doesn’t work but Alex gives up his old habits by the process of maturing. Still keeping with the intention of advocating free will over well-meaning control, while sticking close to reality the propensity to criminality greatly reducing by the early 20s. .

I may or may not have binge-watched all of your videoes bt anyways so..

Trust me if I can read trainspotting so can you! I’m German so that means I first have to kinda understand the Scottish accent so I can read it in English and then translate it into German…it was a journey

the fact that you READ ROMANIAN LITERATURE OMG

what print of crime & punishment is that?

i LOVED the secret history and i highly recommend if we were villains by m l rio for anyone who liked it! it follows a group of students at an arts school who perform shakespeare and its soooo good (and for english literature lovers, the way the boundaries between prose and verse are obscured really emphasise the motif of the transgression of the stage into reality, transgressions of morality etcetera) arguably i preferred it to the secret history but it’s phenomenal!

OMG the lighting 😍

for books where a lot happens on a train, allow me to also recommend "one last stop" for people who like sapphic, rom-com esque found family books

Girls Against God 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

it's true you do remind me of camilla a lot. i'm reading tsh for the first time ever, still in the first half, but i picture you in every part she's on

Omg she’s so pretty :0

Feminist, hot, smart, male manipulator book: Suzanne by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (English translation of La femme qui fuit). The author hired a PI to retrace the life of her grandmother (the eponymous Suzanne) through the 50s, 60s and 70s. The info the PI found inspired this novel, written almost as a letter from the author to her grandmother. The story takes place through multiple historical events across many places, from Montreal to Harlem to Louisiana and more. If you’re looking for a book about the female condition, familial ties and personal freedom, with a complex, flawed and unique protagonist, with a voice specific to places and a history that you may not be familiar with (Quebec specifically), I cannot recommend this book enough! If you can read French, I recommend you read the original version, but the translation has won prestigious prizes for how well it has been translated😇

as soon as you were like a book with a group of unlikeable characters i was like it’s secret history isn’t it

Also, sapphic horror weird: The River Has Teeth.

@Dakota Warren hi i'm desperate here, what about a book to read when visiting rich, philosophy and literature professor grandparents that will make them take me seriously? for reference, i love russian writers (just finished /the idiot/) and pseudo-science gothic (loved jekyll and hyde). love your channel!!

TW for Queen's Gambit: s3xual assault!

CMBYN is the only book i’d buy with the movie cover.

Very good. Very interesting .Très intéressant !!!!!!!