You asked, we delivered. Please enjoy our long-awaited Fiction Bookshelf Tour of 2024.
00:00 Vibey intro
00:43 Building the shelves
02:01 1 – Ben Aaronovitch
02:31 2 – Joe Abercrombie, Stephen Aryan
03:38 3 – Robert Jackson Bennett, Ray Bradbury, Christopher Buehlman, Octavia E Butler
05:12 4 – Ted Chiang, Susanna Clarke
07:18 5 – Eoin Colfer, Amal El-Mohtar, James S A Corey
08:08 6 – Philip K Dick, Steven Erikson
09:16 7 – Jennifer Delaney, Raymond E Feist
10:10 8 – John Gwynne, Frank Herbert
11:25 9 – Robin Hobb (1)
12:53 10 – Robin Hobb (2)
14:30 11 – Robin Hobb (3)
15:29 12 – Stark Holborn, S L Huang, James Islington, Simon Jimenez, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
17:13 13 – Robert Jordan (1)
17:57 14 – Robert Jordan (2), Guy Gavriel Kay, Stephen King, R F Kuang (1), Thomas D Lee
19:22 15 – Fonda Lee, Ursula Le Guin, C S Lewis, Elizabeth Lim
21:10 16 – Scott Lynch, Emily St John Mandel, George R R Martin (1)
23:10 17 – George R R Martin (2)
24:10 18 – Jeff Noon & Steve Beard, Taran Matharu, Robert McCammon, Walter M Miller, Erin Morgenstern, George R R Martin (3), Gourav Mouhanty
25:48 19 – Naomi Novik, Nnedi Okorafor, Rogba Payne, Mervyn Peake, Mary Doria Russell
27:14 20 – Kim Stanley Robinson, Patrick Rothfuss, Christopher Ruocchio
28:57 21 – Brandon Sanderson
30:10 22 – Andrzej Sapkowski, Wole Talabi, Adrian Tchaikovsky
31:43 23 – J R R Tolkien (1)
33:49 24 – J R R Tolkien (2)
34:51 25 – J R R Tolkien (3), M L Wang, Andrew Watson
35:55 26 – Brent Weeks, Mary Shelley, John Wyndham, H G Wells
37:16 27 – Tad Williams, Martha Wells, Chris Wooding, Neon Yang, Stephen R Jones
40:00 28 – Terry Pratchett (1)
41:28 29 – Terry Pratchett (2)
42:38 30 – Terry Pratchett (3)
43:01 31 – Terry Pratchett (4)
45:21 32 – Margaret Atwood, Kaveh Akbar, Nikkitha Bakshani, Shusaku Endo
47:12 33 – Susan Hill, Sadie Jones, Jack Kerouac, Rebecca F Kuang (2)
49:33 34 – Jackie Morris, Carson McCullers, Max Porter, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie
51:29 35 – Carlos Ruis Zafon, Eiji Yoshikawa, John Steinbeck (1), Jack R Williams
53:06 36 – John Steinbeck (2), Rosemary Sutcliff, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley
54:42 The long awaited outro
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17 Comments
Your collection is everything 😍 so many special books and your handmade shelves are absolutely amazing!
Rookie numbers
That purple cover of Magician is the one I had that has disappeared somewhere along the way
Glass Hotel (Emily St.J.M) is highly recommended Ross, if you’ve not read it yet. One of her best (in my humble opinion)
do you think Laura will notice if I take a signed Robin Hobb? no? when can I look after Fang.
That first print Gardens of the Moon 😍 You should definitely try to get that signed at one point! I'm pretty certain that Erikson would love to see one of those in the wild.
Skipped straight to the end just to see your faces, great video!
The Years of Rice and Salt, the Years of Rice and Salt! I read that book at the tail end of last year and it blew my mind. I've tried making a review video and just couldn't do it justice. Then today, this very day, I finished reading Plato's Republic and it made me so want to read Rice and Salt again. And I very well might.
Would love a peek at that Winnie the Pooh on the old shelf!
What an amazing collection. I’m so jealous 😍.
New booktuber here. I just have to say I'm drooling a bit over those shelves. Those are GLORIOUS! 🙂 Ross, you did an amazing job. You have every right to be proud.
New subscriber! 🙂
I want to thank you guys for the time and effort that was put in this video!
I want to say, I am not a book collector (I have too many books and no space) but I really love those editions that take a book and make it more than one nice bound volumes. Because I have small hands, and most these big novels are just too heavy for me to be fun to read. Or big short story collections. So I really love when I can read a small really nice bound hardcover. Have a Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft by Arcturus Press, six hand sized volumes, really nice bound and easy to read sitting in any position. Maybe this is why I like novellas more, it is not the length, it is the weight!
Nnedi Okorafor 🔥
Many thanks for such an enjoyable hour! A wonderful collection
oh shit, i have a new obsession channel
If you go to Seattle WorldCon, we are DEFINITELY meeting up! We have some family in that area, but a few hours away, so can't help you there. And seriously, props to Ross (and you) on the shelves. Quite impressive! Beautiful shelves full of beautiful books. And yes, book collecting is NOT the same hobby as book reading… 😉