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
5 star books of 2025
This number is usually low, since I’m a picky rater. I actually had 14 in total (out of 51 books finished), but 10 of them were re-reads, so that means I only had FOUR new 5 star books this year, again. 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 audiobooks!
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 2024
Books I knew would be 5 stars
Books I hoped would be 5 stars
- Heavenly Tyrant – ★★★★
- Compendium of Lost Tales – ★★★★
- Fateless – ★★★★★
- Beasts We Bury – DNF
- Bane Witch – ★★★★
- The Scorpion & the Night Blossom – ★★★
- The Notorious Virtues – DNF
- Lightfall – DNF
- His Face is the Sun – ★★★
- Thrum – ★★★★
5 star predictions for 2026
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
It doesn’t have a cover yet, but if Red God comes out in 2026 like it’s supposed to, it will definitely be 5 stars!
Books I hope will be 5 stars
How many 5 star reads did you have this year?
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