Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
First time out for a South African "oldie"/Newbie who's been enjoying Booktube for ages and wants in! @RiffRaffReads
Chapters
0:00 Beginning
0:22 Hello! I'm Mike (Introduction)
0:55 Q1 Why did you start this channel?
1:41 Q2 What are some fun and unique things you can bring to Booktube?
2:21 Q3 What are you most excited for about this new channel?
3:41 Q4 Why do you love reading?
4:32 Q5 What book or series got you into reading?
5:31 Q6 What questions would you ask your favourite booktubers?
7:16 Q7 What challenges do you think starting a booktube channel will be the hardest to overcome?
8:20 Q8 When did you start reading?
8:56 Q9 Where do you read?
9:55 Q10 What kind of books do you like to read?
10:48 Q11 What does your book collection look like?
12:21 Thank you
Booktubers mentioned :
Steve Donoghue - youtube.com/@saintdonoghue
Shelly Swearingen - youtube.com/@UCk-jilp_VucStY1kA8W1JtA
Benjamin McEvoy Hardcore Literature - youtube.com/@UCJPpE22GR3Tt8TJQmFtQjwQ
Tristan and the Classics - youtube.com/@UCi6NV8iNdtixG7Q2kOzbnnQ
Aaron Read a Book - youtube.com/@UCfGxCZEoVD-4n5yU2p2L3Jg
Bren Booth-Jones - youtube.com/@UCkOptTY3_9svRO-aicOr8nQ
Randy Ray The Literate Texan - youtube.com/@UCfBp2Zpc_rKXAIgAKLDg4eA
HannahsBooks - youtube.com/@UCoZWZSc556UqWLoAQDNKLhg
Books referenced
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
1001 Books You Must Read before you Die
How to Be Well Read - John Sutherland
Revolution In The Head - (The Beatles Records & the Sixties) - Ian McDonald
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Liberalism and its Discontents - Francis Fukuyama
The Ascent of Man - J Bronowski
12 Books That Changed the World - Melvyn Bragg
The Modern Library (200 Best Novels in English since 1950) - Carmen Callil & Colm Toibin
A Short History of the World in 50 Books - Dan Smith
Enid Blyton series - Noddy, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Magic Faraway Tree
Just William (series) - Richmal Crompton
Billy Bunter (series) - Frank Richards
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Adam Bede - George Eliot
Agatha Christie mysteries (series)
Frederick Forsyth novels (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War et al)
50 Great Short Stories - Editor Milton Crane
The Allies - Winston Groom
The Presidents - Richard Calland & Mabel Sithole
Erotic Vagrancy - (Everything about Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor) - Roger Lewis
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Tender Is The Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Promise - Damon Galgut
The Mayor of MacDougal Street - Dave Van Ronk
Politics On The Edge = Rory Stewart
Countdown to SocialiSm - Anthea Jeffrey
I Alone Can Fix It - Carol Lenning & Philip Rucker
Captured In Time (5 Centuries of South African Writing) -compiled by John Clare
The Hidden Thread (Russia & South Africa in the Soviet Era) - Irina Filatova & Apollon Davidson
The Death of Democracy - Benjamin Carter Hett
Twilight of Democracy - Anne Applebaum
The Story of Music = Howard Goodall
A Little History of Music - Robert Philip
Why Dylan Matters - Richard F Thomas
Lightfoot - Nicholas Jennings
Travelling (Joni Mitchell) = Anne Powers
Paul Simon A Life - Robert Hilburn
Dusty (Springfield) - Lucy O'Brien
The Philosophy of Modern Song - Bob Dylan
You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song - Glenn McDonald
The Western Canon - Harold Bloom
Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
National Populism (The Revolt against Liberal Democracy) - Roger Eatwell, Matthew Goodwin
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times - Michael Burleigh
The Rise of Fall of South Africa - Frans Cronje
Rainbow Nation My Zulu Arse - Sihle Khumalo
The Super Cadres - Pieter Du Toit
The Newbie Tag questions:
Why did you start this channel?
What are some fun and unique things you can bring to Booktube?
What are you most excited for about this new channel?
Why do you love reading?
What book or series got you into reading?
What questions would you ask your favourite booktubers?
What challenges do you think starting a booktube channel will be the hardest to overcome?
When did you start reading?
Where do you read?
What kind of books do you like to read?
First time out for a South African "oldie"/Newbie who's been enjoying Booktube for ages and wants in! @RiffRaffReads
Chapters
0:00 Beginning
0:22 Hello! I'm Mike (Introduction)
0:55 Q1 Why did you start this channel?
1:41 Q2 What are some fun and unique things you can bring to Booktube?
2:21 Q3 What are you most excited for about this new channel?
3:41 Q4 Why do you love reading?
4:32 Q5 What book or series got you into reading?
5:31 Q6 What questions would you ask your favourite booktubers?
7:16 Q7 What challenges do you think starting a booktube channel will be the hardest to overcome?
8:20 Q8 When did you start reading?
8:56 Q9 Where do you read?
9:55 Q10 What kind of books do you like to read?
10:48 Q11 What does your book collection look like?
12:21 Thank you
Booktubers mentioned :
Steve Donoghue - youtube.com/@saintdonoghue
Shelly Swearingen - youtube.com/@UCk-jilp_VucStY1kA8W1JtA
Benjamin McEvoy Hardcore Literature - youtube.com/@UCJPpE22GR3Tt8TJQmFtQjwQ
Tristan and the Classics - youtube.com/@UCi6NV8iNdtixG7Q2kOzbnnQ
Aaron Read a Book - youtube.com/@UCfGxCZEoVD-4n5yU2p2L3Jg
Bren Booth-Jones - youtube.com/@UCkOptTY3_9svRO-aicOr8nQ
Randy Ray The Literate Texan - youtube.com/@UCfBp2Zpc_rKXAIgAKLDg4eA
HannahsBooks - youtube.com/@UCoZWZSc556UqWLoAQDNKLhg
Books referenced
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
1001 Books You Must Read before you Die
How to Be Well Read - John Sutherland
Revolution In The Head - (The Beatles Records & the Sixties) - Ian McDonald
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Liberalism and its Discontents - Francis Fukuyama
The Ascent of Man - J Bronowski
12 Books That Changed the World - Melvyn Bragg
The Modern Library (200 Best Novels in English since 1950) - Carmen Callil & Colm Toibin
A Short History of the World in 50 Books - Dan Smith
Enid Blyton series - Noddy, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Magic Faraway Tree
Just William (series) - Richmal Crompton
Billy Bunter (series) - Frank Richards
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Adam Bede - George Eliot
Agatha Christie mysteries (series)
Frederick Forsyth novels (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War et al)
50 Great Short Stories - Editor Milton Crane
The Allies - Winston Groom
The Presidents - Richard Calland & Mabel Sithole
Erotic Vagrancy - (Everything about Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor) - Roger Lewis
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Tender Is The Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Promise - Damon Galgut
The Mayor of MacDougal Street - Dave Van Ronk
Politics On The Edge = Rory Stewart
Countdown to SocialiSm - Anthea Jeffrey
I Alone Can Fix It - Carol Lenning & Philip Rucker
Captured In Time (5 Centuries of South African Writing) -compiled by John Clare
The Hidden Thread (Russia & South Africa in the Soviet Era) - Irina Filatova & Apollon Davidson
The Death of Democracy - Benjamin Carter Hett
Twilight of Democracy - Anne Applebaum
The Story of Music = Howard Goodall
A Little History of Music - Robert Philip
Why Dylan Matters - Richard F Thomas
Lightfoot - Nicholas Jennings
Travelling (Joni Mitchell) = Anne Powers
Paul Simon A Life - Robert Hilburn
Dusty (Springfield) - Lucy O'Brien
The Philosophy of Modern Song - Bob Dylan
You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song - Glenn McDonald
The Western Canon - Harold Bloom
Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
National Populism (The Revolt against Liberal Democracy) - Roger Eatwell, Matthew Goodwin
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times - Michael Burleigh
The Rise of Fall of South Africa - Frans Cronje
Rainbow Nation My Zulu Arse - Sihle Khumalo
The Super Cadres - Pieter Du Toit
The Newbie Tag questions:
Why did you start this channel?
What are some fun and unique things you can bring to Booktube?
What are you most excited for about this new channel?
Why do you love reading?
What book or series got you into reading?
What questions would you ask your favourite booktubers?
What challenges do you think starting a booktube channel will be the hardest to overcome?
When did you start reading?
Where do you read?
What kind of books do you like to read?
