The book you like most discussion

I've got three 5⭐ ratings this year.
A Good Girls Guide to Murder, The Outsiders and Beartown.
Beartown is my favorite out of the three.

gotta say The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Powerless by Lauren Roberts which were both shockingly intriguing and pleasant.

There are definitely no 5 star books that were published this year, but several older books that deserve 5 stars like "Dancing at the Harvest Moon" by K. C. McKinnon, Strange Fits of Passion" by Anita Shreve, "In a dry Season" by Peter Robinson, "The Olive Farm" volume 1 by Carol Drinkwater, "No Time for Goodbye" by Linwood Barclay, "Plum Island" by Nelson DeMille and definitely the four novels "Winter Solstice", "The Shell Seekers", "September" and "Coming Home" by Rosamunde Pilcher.
They don't write such wonderful books any more...

„tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow” and „binding 13”!

Powerless by Lauren Roberts was a 5 stars ✨

mistborn trilogy, First law trilogy and Babel

5/5 ⭐ deserving book
Rock, Paper, Scissors

I have actually read a lot this year so far with many that were 5 star reads, however novels that were actually written this year that were also 5 star for me were:

You Like It Darker
Diavola
The Book of Doors
The Women

The other books that I read this year, that were written prior to 2024, that I felt were 5 star reads were, in order of my reading them:

Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
The Book of Lost Names
Enemy of God
Excalibur
Bag of Bones
The Reformatory
Revival
The Woman in the White Kimono
The Dead Zone
Oliver Twist
The Mist
Do Not Let Your Dragon Spread Germs
Mind of My Mind
Bloodchild and Other Stories
There There
The Sword of Kaigen
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dawn
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Seven Year Slip
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Under the Dome
Charlie the Choo-Choo
The Raven
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
When Women Were Dragons
The Frozen River
Elantris
Flowers for Algernon
My Best Friend's Exorcism
Interview with the Vampire
Adulthood Rites
The Giver
Sand
The Long Walk
The Secret Garden

This list was actually longer than I thought it would be! Lots of great reads this year!

I've got four 5⭐ ratings this year.
Alexandra's Legacy (Legacy, #1),
Hemlock (Tales of a Traveler, #1), What Have You Done,
A Duchess in Name (The Grantham Girls, #1)

Silence of the Lambs

The Vault Secret

Ancestry: The Untold Rise Of The Fourth Reich by Mike Handcock

@Panda wow, definitely going to check some of this out.

Disha Singh ;) read the book but dnfed it, thinking about reading it again though

My favorite 5-star read in 2024 was Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, a fantasy inspired by Mesoamerican and Pacific Islander mythology.

I have 3 favorite 5 star reads!

- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (all vibes no plot)
- Her Soul for Revenge by Harley Laroux (VERY dark romance and 🌶️)
- Darker by Four by June CL Tan (YA dystopian fantasy)

My fave 5 star reads this year so far are Icarus, The Hollow and the Haunted, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, and A Tempest of Tea <3

I have read a couple books this year and rated them 5 star...
Mountain Fast by S.J. Shank (Available June 24th) (Horror)
The Last Summer by Karen Swan (Historical fiction/forbidden love)
The Craft of Novel writing by Dianne Doubtfire (Non-fiction)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Classic/adventure)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Classic/thriller)
The Smallest Man by Frances Quin (Historical Fiction)
A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin (Fantasy/fiction)
Spirited by Julie Cohen (Historical fiction/Spiritualism)
The No-show by Beth O'Leary (Romance/feelgood)
Flying on the inside by Rachel Gotto (Memoir/Trauma)
Fall of the School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani (YA/Fantasy)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Classic/Love confession)

Mercury by Amy jo burns

Broken and Screwed (BS, #1 by Tijan

It was probably a Joe Pickett book.

powerlesssss

and the prison healer series

"A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself"

By Katherine Howe

Vile Bodies
Earthlings
Mary
The Garden of Evening Mists
A Ladder to the Sky
Three Apples Fell from the Sky
Carmilla

i rate all my reads 5 stars 😐 unless i can't finish it

Favorite 5-star rating this month is The Wicked King