The Best Books to Learn English | From Intermediate to Advanced

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English with Veronika Mark


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hello guys and welcome back to my YouTube  channel in this video I would like to talk  
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to you about books that's why I have even created  this beautiful stack of books believe me guys I  
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have read all of them or maybe almost all of them  but I have definitely read this one and this one  
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not these two ones but they really do look pretty  together but anyway in this video I wanted to give  
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you the easiest books you can read as a non-native  English speaker if it so happened that you clicked  
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on this video if you are a native English speaker  don't worry because you can read those books too  
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they are perfect for everyone so to prepare for  this video all I did was go on good reads because  
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I absolutely love this website guys if you like  your stack if you feel like you don't know which  
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books to read I highly recommend Goodreads and  especially in this video I will be talking about  
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books for young adults so the reason why I chose  books for young adults is because I think they are  
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easier for non-native speakers to understand to  read and to enjoy because when authors write those  
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books they usually use vocabulary that native  speakers actually use so most of the words in  
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those books are extremely useful so let's begin  with the first book the first book is called Paper  
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Towns by John Green it is an amazing fiction novel  that tells a story of Quentin an obedient and shy  
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geeky kid who spends all of his time with two of  his also geeky friends however he's always had  
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romantic feelings for his neighbor Margot Margot  is a very unique character who Embraces life who  
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is very daring and he wants to live life to the  fullest I really love this book because it talks  
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about teenage love about you know being a teenager  about growing up about adulting and if you're not  
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teenager anymore you're an adult for example  and you're not sure if you will enjoy reading  
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this book I'm sure you will guys because uh  you know we're still even as adults we fall  
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in love we talk to different people we talk to  our friends like all of those topics are still  
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something that we have encountered every single  day and obviously the vocabulary that the author  
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is using then the book is extremely useful a lot  of informal words but actually useful informal  
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words if you love watching movies as well you  can watch the adaptation with the same name  
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Paper Towns and this movie is actually extremely  famous and I really like it too and if you like  
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this book I highly recommend reading more works  by John Green John Michael Green is an American  
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Author YouTube content creator and podcaster his  books are extremely popular and he has sold over  
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50 million copies worldwide I think you probably  know his most famous book The Fault in Our Stars  
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this one and guys I'm sure maybe you have read  this book before even if you haven't if you like  
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Paper Towns for example I highly recommend all  of the books by John Green now let's move on  
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to Classics and talk about the secret garden by  Francis Burnett this is an incredible classical  
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novel The Centers on Mary Lennox who's living  in India with her wealthy British family she's  
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a selfish disagreeable 10 year old girl who has  been neglected by her parents and who has been  
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spoiled by all of the servants in the house but  unfortunately something happens and she loses  
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her parents and becomes an orphan and then she  discovers The Secret Garden that she has like all  
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of those different things that are happening in  the garden and obviously this is an amazing novel  
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with like this like mystical aspect attached to it  when I read it for the first time I was absolutely  
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in love with it from the first chat after guys  I highly recommend this book because it is very  
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popular in schools in Britain and the United  States too so a lot of native speakers have read  
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this book as well and again guys this book has  been made into an adaptation with the same name  
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if you like this book I highly recommend checking  out other Francis Burnett's works because she's  
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extremely painless for her three children's novels  the first one is little Lord Fauntleroy the name  
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is very difficult to pronounce the second one is  a little princess and the third one is the secret  
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garden and talking about other ways to improve  your English and learn something new I would  
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now if you want to learn a new skill but now guys  let's continue and talk about our next book the  
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next book is called sender by Marissa Mayer and  it's perfect for everyone who loves fantasy this  
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is a fantasy book that has been nominated for  a lot of different Awards so if you're not sure  
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if you like fantasy if you're like uh I don't  know I still really recommend reading this book  
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because the plot is very interesting so Cinder  is basically a mechanic but also a cyborg she's a  
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second class citizen with a very interesting past  and like all of those stories are intertwined in  
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the book beautifully her life suddenly changes  when she meets the handsome prince Kai and again  
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guys just like in a lot of different books love  always changes something sometimes that the book's  
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love is beautiful but in this book obviously  it is beautiful too but at the same time she  
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has to struggle a lot because there's like an  Intergalactic fight because she really loves  
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this guy but then something has to happen for them  to be together I don't want to spoil too much but  
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it's definitely an amazing book for non-native  speakers especially if you like fantasy Marissa  
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Mayer is an American novelist her novel Cinder was  released on January 3rd 2012. and it is the first  
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book in her series The Lunar Chronicles so if you  find Cinder interesting make sure to check out  
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all the other books in the series now let's move  on to book number four which is called The Hague  
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you give by Angie Thomas this is a contemporary  novel that talks about such important topics as  
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race and social injustice the main character is a  girl named star Carter she's 16 years old and she  
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moves between two worlds she grew up in a very  poor neighborhood but she goes to a prep school  
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in a very bougie fancy White Middle High Class  neighborhood so the balance between these two  
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worlds is shattered when she sees the fatal  shooting of her best friend and it happened  
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because of a police officer so guys as you can  see this book talks about a lot of sensitive  
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topics that are especially important to talk  about nowadays such as racism police brutality  
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social injustice and other things the reason why  I love this book so much is because the story is  
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beautifully written and also gets the moment this  book was released is became the international  
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best seller and also something that a lot of you  guys will appreciate is that there is again an  
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adaptation with the same name so if you like  watching movies you can read the book and then  
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watch the movie Angie Thomas is an American young  adult author best known for writing the hate U  
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give her second book on the come up was released  in 2019 so if you like reading books about such  
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topics as races and activism her books will  definitely hit the spot and now let's talk about  
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our final book Fango by rain ah fangirl by rainbow  Fane fan girl fan girl bye I can't speak anymore  
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oh and the last book I wanted to tell you guys  about is fangirl by Rainbow Rowell it is a romance  
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novel about two twin sisters they grew up without  a mother and with a very busy father and one of  
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the twins is an introvert and she lives in this  like book world she loves reading she loves being  
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by herself she doesn't really love talking to  other people but the other twin is very sociable  
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she's very extroverted and they both consider each  other their best friends but obviously the problem  
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for the first to win the introverted twin is that  it's very difficult for her to make new friends  
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right so this book talks a lot about this like  sister relationships about social anxiety about  
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how to cope with stress and how to find new  friends Rainbow Rowell is an American Author  
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known for young adult and adult contemporary  novels especially her young adult novels have  
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been subjects of a lot of critical acclaim and  guess maybe some of you know her as the writer  
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for Marvel Comics because she's currently writing  for She-Hulk and She-Hulk is a very famous comic  
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it's also a show on Disney I think on Disney  plus you can watch She-Hulk as well so yeah guys  
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I think that's gonna be it for this video these  five amazing books are something that I highly  
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recommend reading to every single native speaker  or non-native speaker out there because I believe  
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that it will help you improve your English a lot  and the best part is these books are very easy to  
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understand and to read and I leave all the links  to all of the books mentioned in this video in  
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the description also guys if you want to learn  a new skill whatever it is if it's about sewing  
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to to use skillshare completely for free for a  whole month if you want to watch another video  
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about books about literature in English make  sure to click this video right here because in  
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this video I talk a lot about classical books  in particular a lot about American and British  
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literature and thank you guys so much for watching  this video I'll see you in my next one bye
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