MIDDLE of the Book MARCH | The 50 Toughest Books for Extreme Readers @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
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My Blood Meridian review:
Blood Meridian REVIEW - NO Spoilers
youtu.be/wQJNpp7hXwo

Tough books from the list, that I have read:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_14
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien goodreads.com/book/show/52699258-the-silmarillion
Out by Nitsuo Kirino, translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder goodreads.com/book/show/863846.Out
Sophie's Choice by William Styron goodreads.com/book/show/228560.Sophie_s_Choice?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_15
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion goodreads.com/book/show/7815.The_Year_of_Magical_Thinking?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_28

My video about Violent Books that Impressed me: youtu.be/COPNUjKXlhA
Blood Meridian review video: youtu.be/wQJNpp7hXwo

Books from the list on my TBR:
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust goodreads.com/book/show/133539.Swann_s_Way
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13
Book that should be on the list:
Ulysses by James Joyce goodreads.com/book/show/10545.Ulysses

My additions to the list:
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot goodreads.com/book/show/374414.Daniel_Deronda
The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot by Gertrude Himmelfarb goodreads.com/book/show/20494943-the-jewish-odyssey-of-george-eliot?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=zlBD9JqBJY&rank=3
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley goodreads.com/book/show/58537371-nightcrawling?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13
Before the Fallout by Diana Preston goodreads.com/book/show/1180301.Before_the_Fallout
Freshwater by Akwake Emezi goodreads.com/book/show/39218061-freshwater
Paradise by Toni Morrison goodreads.com/book/show/5198.Paradise?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=eUyRh9Mnd4&rank=10
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison goodreads.com/book/show/16981.Invisible_Man?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13
Red Comet by Heather Clark goodreads.com/book/show/48721389-red-comet?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=R18xG2SR8N&rank=1

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