5 star books of 2024 + Predictions for 2025

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on January 18, 2025 | 0 Comments


A few years ago I saw Cristina @ Girl in the Pages post about her 5 star reading drought (which was originally inspired by Lauren @ Bookmark Lit’s post here), and I thought it was such a great post, so I did one of my own! It was really interesting to see what me 5 star reads looked like for last year, so I’ve been doing it ever since!

Past 5 star books posts

5 star books of 2018
5 star books of 2019
5 star books of 2020
5 star books of 2021
5 star books of 2022
I didn’t make a post for 2023, oops

5 star books of 2024

This number is usually low, since I’m a picky rater. I actually had 16 in total (out of 53 books finished), but 12 of them were re-reads, so that means I only had FOUR new 5 star books this year. If you don’t count re-reads, my 5 star books only account for 8% of what I read all year. Ouch.

New 5 star reads

 
 

5 star Re-reads

 



I am a huge fan of re-reading old faves via audio! All of these were audio except The Turning and Possession.

Almost 5 star reads

Here’s the ones that came super close, but fell just a tad short, so I gave them 4.5 stars instead!

 

5 star predictions from 2023

I didn’t make a predictions post for last year, so I’m going to go over my predictions for 2023 instead!

Books I knew would be 5 stars

Books I hoped would be 5 stars

 

  • Heavenly Tyrant – didn’t actually come out until 2024
  • The House With Good Bones – ★★½
  • Godkiller – ★★★★
  • Briardark – ★★★
  • What Moves the Dead – ★½ (I read this last year, though)
  • Some Desperate Glory – ★★★
  • The Lives of Puppets – ★★★★½
  • Kill Your Darlings – ★★★

5 star predictions for 2024

It’s SO hard for me to predict which books I’m going to love (as you can see above, heh), because I just never know. Sometimes I expect to love something, and don’t; sometimes I don’t think I’ll like something at all and I end up loving it. I have high hopes for these, though!

Books I know will be 5 stars

Red God would be on here, but I highly doubt it will come out this year. I’m pretty sure it’ll end up being released in 2026. Not sure if Empire of the Vampire 3 will come out this year or not, either, but if it does it would be in this section, too!

Books I hope will be 5 stars

 

  
 

How many 5 star reads did you have this year?

Jessi (Geo)

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