tier-ranking every classic book (so you know which ones to read)

This fruitcake lost virtually all credibility putting LOTR and treasure island at the bottom. The quality of writing????? What in your tiny mind is quality writing? This list looks like it was made by a 15 year old girl.

Not 1984 getting a better rating than Brave New World 💀

This is a poor ranking, please get better taste sir ☹️

You did not just dismiss all of Moby Dick because of the outdated marine biology bits!
[ insert the HAAARK curse from The Lighthouse here ]

I liked the catcher in the rye to😭😭😭

There's quite a gap between the naming system of "Clothbound classic" and "Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy" Isn't there?

jack on life of pi: "it's quite laborious to read"

dude, it took me six years to read that book lmao

"but i am a basic bitch, and i'm owning it" yes, yes you are.

Life of Pi is considered a classic..?

Damn, blud boutta get jumped in the street with that LOTR ranking. 🗿

dude you just reminded me that i had a duolingo assignment due yesterday

This video should be named " tier-ranking every classic book in my opinion"

Thanks!!! I needed this video (:

I absolutely hate wuthering heights the characters are all so unlikable

Charles Dickens and Dune is below The Book Thief? Wow

1984 = FAV ONE 🩷

I understand that the list is all your subjective preferences and I respect that but seeing books like ulysses, dune, lotr, etc down the list triggered me lmao

As a massive LOTR fan I get it. The first 100 pages of the hobbit is an incredibly in depth description of Bilbos dinner party. It can be a tough read

I wanna be this guy's friend. I know nothing about classic literature, yet this whole video had me engaged and i couldnt stop smiling at his way of talking

6 out of 5 stars
Emma by jane austen
Picture of dorian grey by oscar wilde
The bell jar
To the lighthouse

I am so glad that Dracula and Frankenstein received yet another good review. I am reading Dracula right now for the first time and I am so excited about it! I recently read A Christmas Carol and really enjoyed it. I recently bought Great Expectations...so we will see if I agree with your ranking of it! LOL I do know he is famous for his run-on scentences. LOL

Oh my we are such opposites in taste. Though my University Education is in STEM, I’ve always been a bibliophile and I have read most of the books on your list and just about everything you placed at the top tier I placed at the bottom of mine.

In particular I find English Literature of the Romance period to be incredibly boring, tedious, discouragingly pessimistic with a fetish like obsession with class. Emma and Wuthering Heights, to me, would be great for assuaging the fear of a criminal condemned to execution that life is very not worth living. I would rather gnaw my arm out of a bear trap then read any English Romance era novel but these two were particularly horrifically bad reads.

Dune, on the other hand, I place at the very top tier. Maybe it’s my background in STEM that allows me to appreciate Herbert’s staggering level of knowledge in economics, ecology, biology, technology, anthropology, religion and philosophy, etc., was brilliant and the story and subject matter incredibly compelling.

I have to admit that I was very, very disappointed that what I believe to be the two most significant English language Novels of the last 150 years, Huckleberry Finn and Catch-22 weren’t even part of your list.

i could listen to you passive-aggressively talk about the pig from charlotte’s web for hours

Thanks for reading them so I don’t have to :). Dedicated non reader here.

I agree completely about Dracula. Something about it had me literally shivering in bed in the middle of spring when I read it. I have no idea how Stoker did it because they're just words on a page, but the way he described the landscape of the Carpathians plus perhaps a bit of sleep deprivation from staying up so late to read had me thinking I heard wolves howling outside. I did not expect a book written almost 130 years ago to terrify me so much. My message to anyone who still has not read it: read it!

Cannot believe you left out the best Bronte sister. Genuinely think Anne Bronte's writing is amazing and it is 1/3 of my favorite literature (the other 2 of which are Dorian Grey and Pride and Prejudice).

You can say you didn't like something without insulting the work or people who read it.

Homer books should be its own category entirely, but you will only understand what i mean when you become much older.

Esther Summerson from Bleak House is one of my favorite characters ever.

Puts Tolkien on the bottom

Loved this, but one bit really cracked me up - Percy Bysshe Shelley and the vagina sculpture! I'm from the same town but haven't been back for many years. I didn't know they had finally removed it. Brilliant! 😀

Nice Finally gettin my brain fucked

THE DISRESPECT ON LOTR😭😭

This is exactly how I'd expect some 'free thinking' English lit grad with pronouns and a bunch of flags in his Twitter bio to rate these books. Stop reading articles from The Guardian and grow up a bit before you make such sweeping comments about Dickens and Tolkien. But hey, what should I expect from someone who uses phrases like, "girl boss"?

Thank God I'm not the only one who doesn't like LOTR😅

Honestly if you put Dune in bottom tier, I don't enen wanna listen to any of your opinion on anything subjective, cause you just live in a different universe

No WAY can you put In Cold Blood above Jane Eyre!!

I read one Dickens book a year. That’s the most Old-English-Depression I can deal with in one book

Tell me you didn't understand Dune without telling me you didn't understand Dune. Anytime someone calls a book boring says more about you than the book.

Objectively, your summary of Fellowship is correct 😂

Putting orwell in anything above the lowest teir is a crime

Love the clockwork orange shirt :)

Can someone with more time than me create a channel or YT series for TL;DR Classics? I'm 14 chapters into Jane Eyre and i really dont want to finish it. Yes, there is Spark Notes, but i really like the video format. Please and thank you.

I haven't read a lot of these and will be sure to start with the top of the list. I agree Lord of the rings was boring, fell asleep watching or reading it. I disagree with Treasure Island! I read it first when I was 13 while camping by the sea during a storm- almost straight through in one night, so it always brings me right back there and holds a special place in my heart. I thought it was fantastic for what it is. I think it deserves the middle tier.

I watched half this video thinking you were jimmy tatro

Of Mice and Men is pulp.

Moby Dick was literally the most boring book I've ever read. I actually read pretty much exclusively classics, and I read and enjoyed War and Peace, but I just could not like Moby Dick.

Please enlighten me.
Why do you personally consider "The Great Gatsby" a modern classic !
I realize we all have subjective preferences, but I keep seeing "The Great Gatsby" mention so often that it bewilders me.
made sure to read it several times and I still find nothing special in it !