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straightforwardly) wrote2026-03-26 07:27 pm
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.)
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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Cinder House by Freya Marske
To Clutch a Razor by Veronica Roth (sequel to When Among Crows which also got 5 stars)
The Duke at Hazard by KJ Charles
the entire Last Binding Series by Freya Marske (a series reread which all got 5 stars from me)
You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian
if graphic novels count, I had a lot of fun with The Demon of Beausoleil by Mari Costa and The Glass Scientists series by S.H. Cotugno which all recently got 5 stars
I had to go kinda far back to get enough 5 stars (mid-2024), apparently I'm liberal with my 4 stars but I guess I save 5 stars for my fave authors (of which Marske, Charles, and Sebastian definitely count). I just like a fun fantasy or historical romance or fantasy-historical-romance.
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apparently I'm liberal with my 4 stars but I guess I save 5 stars oh, I feel this! There's a surprising amount of books that I would consider to be favorites that I actually only gave four stars to...
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5 stars to me feels like...there maybe critique to be had with this thing but I don't want to hear it because it just hit all the right notes for me sjdhfkjhsdf