We’re coming up to a quarter of the way through the year, and I’m a big chunk through my TBR pile, so it needs a top-up. What books have you read this year so far that you’d give 5 stars to? by Specialist-Web7854 Related: help me romanticize my new life pls Audiobooks for someone who struggles paying attention Just finished reading the HP books! What are your favorite books? Books with a disempowered protagonist gaining power Open ended endings
roguescott on March 27, 2025 4:49 pm I’m about to finish books 13 and 14 this year. The Secret History and Pachinko have been faves thus far.
Most-Chocolate9448 on March 27, 2025 4:49 pm The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison The Reformatory by Tananarive Due Beloved by Toni Morison
I-Like-What-I-Like24 on March 27, 2025 4:53 pm What Belongs To You by Garth Greenwell Idk if it counts but I re-read Racher Kushner’s Creation Lake which I also rated a 5/5 last year.
GlitterbombNectar on March 27, 2025 4:54 pm I have 13 new 5s out of 122 books so far this year. (13 of the 122 are rereads, 11 of which are 5s). Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett. Thornhedge by T Kingfisher. Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest. And the second book, Flight Risk. Unloved by Peyton Corinne. Play to Win by Jodie Slaughter. The Love Lyric by Kristina Forest. A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer by Maxie Dara. Do You Take This Man by Denise Williams. Loving vs Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell. The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata. Scythe & Sparrow by Brynn Weaver.
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I’m about to finish books 13 and 14 this year. The Secret History and Pachinko have been faves thus far.
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Beloved by Toni Morison
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
Against the Loveless World and A Woman is No Man
What Belongs To You by Garth Greenwell
Idk if it counts but I re-read Racher Kushner’s Creation Lake which I also rated a 5/5 last year.
I have 13 new 5s out of 122 books so far this year. (13 of the 122 are rereads, 11 of which are 5s).
Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan.
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett.
Thornhedge by T Kingfisher.
Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest. And the second book, Flight Risk.
Unloved by Peyton Corinne.
Play to Win by Jodie Slaughter.
The Love Lyric by Kristina Forest.
A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer by Maxie Dara.
Do You Take This Man by Denise Williams.
Loving vs Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell.
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata.
Scythe & Sparrow by Brynn Weaver.
Parable of the sower
Stoner by John Edward Williams
Three Wild Dogs by Markus Zusak
Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones