My 5 Favorite Books of 2021

Video Sponsored by Ridge Wallet: https://www.ridge.com/BETTERTHANFOOD Use Code “BETTERTHANFOOD” for 10% off your order WHAT WERE YOUR FAVORITES OF 2021? LET US KNOW IN THE COMMENTS! OUR NEW BOOKSTORE!   / btfbookstore   BUY BOOKS (or anything) USING THE AMAZON LINKS BELOW to Support the Show - THANKS! OBVIOUS CHOICES: Gravity's Rainbow (paid link): https://amzn.to/3JYLR15 Review:    • Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon BOOK RE...   The Old Man and the Sea (paid link): https://amzn.to/3nfZyPz Review:    • Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea...   The Elementary Particles (paid link): https://amzn.to/3GfIGQB Review:    • The Elementary Particles - Michel Houelleb...   The Cask of Amontillado (paid link): https://amzn.to/3qfYQUC Review:    • The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe ...   FAVORITES: 5. His Name Was Death (paid link): https://amzn.to/31JnqUc Review:    • His Name Was Death - Rafael Bernal BOOK RE...   4. As I Lay Dying (paid link): https://amzn.to/3FcO9WP Review:    • William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying BOOK REVIEW   3. Lord of Dark Places (paid link): https://amzn.to/3roVIVR Review:    • Lord of Dark Places - Hal Bennett BOOK REVIEW   2. Miss Lonelyhearts (paid link): https://amzn.to/3r8AY4b Review:    • Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West BOOK RE...   1. Crash (paid link): https://amzn.to/3rcMzzA Review:    • Crash - J.G. Ballard BOOK REVIEW   HONORABLE MENTIONS No Longer Human (paid link): https://amzn.to/3zLVRWV Review:    • Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human BOOK REVIEW   The Cathedral of Mist (paid link): https://amzn.to/3GgPNs0 Review:    • The Cathedral of Mist - Paul Willems BOOK ...   Train Dreams (paid link): https://amzn.to/31JsIz4 Patron-Only Review:   / 60574022   SUPPORT / PATREON:   / booksarebetterthanfood   INSTAGRAM: @booksarebetterthanfood   / booksarebetterthanfood   MUG: https://www.zazzle.com/better_than_fo... --------------------- PATREON INFO: For $5+ per video Patrons you'll receive (in addition to all below): Entered in the Book & Coffee Jar For $1+ per video Patrons you'll get access to: Patron-Only Reviews All Reviews Ad-Free Discord Channel Better Than Friday Newsletter (5 things I'm interested in sent to you every Friday) ------------------------------- PATRON ONLY REVIEWS: Train Dreams by Denis Johnson   / 60574022   The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop - Halloween 2021   / 58073911   Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima   / 55759685   Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard   / 53139833   The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki   / 51134117   Platforms by Nina Power   / 48914140   Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk   / 45465524   Bookshelf Tour 2020: Part 1:   / 41287302   Part 2:   / 42817306   Part 3:   / 43783138   The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat   / 38823138   Margery Kempe by Robert Glück   / 38645694   Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov   / 37527267   The Lover by Marguerite Duras   / 35574016   11 Books to be read in 2020:   / 33921584   Atomic Habits by James Clear   / 32697977   Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal   / 30969884   The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene   / 29515320   Reading is Expensive (A Rant)   / 29065141   White by Bret Easton Ellis   / 26771749   A Room on the Garden Side by Ernest Hemingway   / 21573550   The Return by Roberto Bolaño   / 21019229   Darkness Visible by William Styron   / 20276630   "Blindness", an essay by Jorge Luis Borges   / 19529985   The Alligators by John Updike   / 18428537   The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain   / 17281418   Animal Crackers in My Soup by Charles Bukowski   / 16924023   A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez   / 16133547