 Hello everybody, E here. Back again with another video. Today we are going to do five books. This is something I haven't done before. This is five books that I read that I'd enjoy that I never hear anybody talk about. So, and it's also not a topic I hear much, booktube, you know, in the community with people showcasing books that they liked, maybe didn't love, maybe not perfect experiences, but books that they wish people would actually read more or see more people reading. The first one is Palisades Park by Alan Bernard. It's a very weird name, B-R-E-N-N-E-R-T. I've never heard it before. This takes place, I'm a sucker for any stories set in a carnival, circus, amusement park, and this one takes place in the Palisades amusement park. Alan Bernard, or I know I'm getting his name wrong, but Alan here has a healthy obsession for Hawaii. And even though this happens in New Jersey, there is a lot of stuff that happens in the book that has to do with Hawaiian culture. But the big selling point here is the family interactions. And I'm not huge for historical fiction, this takes place in 1930, but it's one of the books that has stuck with me. I think I gave it four or five stars, I can't remember. But if you haven't read it, I know I got it at Barnes and, not Barnes and Noble, but books a million for like five bucks. So I'm sure you could find it cheap somewhere. Next up we have one. People always ask me if I like Dan Simmons the Terror, what should I read next? And I always tell them this one, Veronica, hello. The North Water by Ian McGuire. Sorry about that. This book is super short. It's nowhere near as long as The Terror of the Terror is like 700, 900 pages, depending on which one you get. This is 252 pages. There's nothing, well I don't want to spoil it. There's nothing really supernatural about this one. And there's not as much time in the wild, not as much time out on sea. But the story does cover shipping. It is historical fiction and I loved every minute of it. I did have some slight issues, but they were nitpicky. I think I ended up giving it four stars. If you've read this one, I'd love to hear what you think. It's also very dark and disturbing. Because one of the main antagonists has a certain thirst for certain type of thing. Next up, this is one of my favorite books of all time. I never hear anybody talk about it. Probably because I came to it long after it came out. I think I got this one, let's see here. I got this one about five years ago and it was actually released in 2008. So I was a little late to the party. That's ten years old. But it's The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. Going back to, I like books in cold weather. I like books in carnival, circus and amusement parks. I love books with stories within stories. This is almost like a short story collection because the main female character in here, she tells the main male character all these stories. And the stories were my favorite part. Their story together isn't as good as the stories that she tells. But I did enjoy it and the main thing I remember about this one is a character, well not really a character, but a thing in the book called The Bitch Snake. It lives in this dude's spine. But anyways, so if you haven't read it, pick it up. If you have read it, let me know what you thought. Next up, this one actually won my book of the year, I think two years ago, three years ago, something like that. Crown Publishing sent me this for review. I guess the author one, either the book one or the author one, The Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. And that's The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney. Anyway, I put your names all the time. You know how I do. But this one is, this is one of those books. If you like Sons of Anarchy, the television series, you will love this book. I believe it occurs in Ireland and it's one of the things where the author really put me in another place with a different culture and different type of people that I'm not usually around. Last but not least, we have Eleanor by Jason Gurley. I guess it's Gurley. This book is fantastic. There's some scenes in here that I have never read anywhere and I will get down with anybody who can do something original. The way grief and sorrow is personified and the way it is treated and handled in this book, I've never read anything like it. Now there's a little bit of a story behind how this book got published. It was first and foremost a self-published book and then it kept on getting edited down, edited down, and then finally a publisher picked it up. And now he's with, I think it's Crown. Yeah, Crown. This is another one Crown sent me for a review that I ended up just loving. And the author on Instagram sometimes will send out the book with drawings on the actual board. And if you don't know about it and you never take the dust cover off, then if you get a copy of this in hardcover, check the inside. But this is a great book. I don't personally know the author, but he seems like a good dude. The book, like I said, is fantastic. If you like Neil Gaiman or Scott Hawkins Library of Mount Char, this is one of those books. It's not as brutal as Library of Mount Char. It is very Neil Gaiman, but it is also its own thing. So that's everything. If you have any recommendations for books that you love that nobody ever talks about, or maybe it's even an unpopular opinion that you like it, a like book that isn't good, kind of like my buddy Landon loves Dreamcatcher, leave your comments down there. I don't care how long your list is. I'd love to see it. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been a list of books that you need to check out. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye.