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straightforwardly ([personal profile] straightforwardly) wrote2026-03-26 07:27 pm

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I have a request for anyone who sees this on their reading page! Could you please give me a list of five books that you, personally, gave five stars to?

Doesn’t have to be Top Favorite Of All Time (and tbh it might even be more fun if they weren’t, necessarily!), just five books that you liked enough to rate five out of five stars. Any genre is fine, as is nonfiction or other formats like poetry collections and plays!

You also don't have to tell me why you picked those books if you don't want to; just the list is enough. (But if you do want to tell me, then of course feel free to do that as well! I'm open for everything.)

(Context: there’s a reading challenge I do every April—the spring semester of the Orilium Magical Readathon—and this year, one of the prompts I need to fulfill is “ask a friend for a list of five 5 star reads; pick one & read it”, but asking my irl friends would run the risk of me getting lists filled with daddy doms or inspirational nonfiction, neither of which is precisely in my wheelhouse, so I’ve decided to turn to fannish circles instead. Though I've now also become curious & excited to see what books people will name even outside of the context of my needing to pick one to read! <3 It's a fun question, I think.)
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[personal profile] whimsicalmeerkat 2026-03-27 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
  • Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
  • Unhinged by Onley James
  • Prince and Assassin by Tavia Lark
  • The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
  • All Systems Red by Murderbot

I apologize for not coming up with standalones, although Pattern Recognition can easily be read as one.