Every Book I've Given 5 Stars (And Why You Need To Read Them)
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- This is every book I've given 5 stars to! This is also every book I've ever given 5 stars to and why you should read them.
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Thank you for standing up for Gone With the Wind. Absolute masterpiece
I read the Red Rising series because of your videos and it really resparked my love of reading. I love that series so much
Currently reading 11\22/63 and omg it’s so good and the only reason I picked it up is because of how much you and Ashlynn rave about it! Thanks so much for the great recommendations!!
Come back and tell me what you thought of the end
Read it twice and wept at the end both times.
I dont care what anyone says. Harry Potter is incredible
Harry Potter led a generation astray and sanitised sin which is black magic and sorcery and which is against TMH and His Son and such practices are an abomination to Them. I think Harry Potter is v dull. I think Roald Dahls books are better because witches are always hideous in his books and there was always an ethical and moral lesson at the heart. And Rowling never went that deep with it. She taught an entire generation to get involved with black magic and this was a grave evil.
Yes I agree
I just finished the first book. I'm over 50 and I am glad I finally gave it a chance! And YES I was one of those that trashed on them. NO MORE!
@@SecondActJourney I read them for the first time in 2023, it's never too late to start them. I loved them. I grew up on the movies. I have also rerread them!
We just dont look at the author lol i do love the movies and books too!
I’ve had 11/22/63 on a loose TBR for quite a while. Your channel has made me prioritize it for 2025. I’m loving it so far.
You won't regret it!
I think i need to pony up and read A Secret History. Also am working through The Count of Monte Cristo, soo soo soo good! Keep up the great content
CoMC is my favorite! talk about character driven
@@pteratato for real! Only about 1/3 of the way in. Taking it slower and reading a chapter or two a day along other books. Really loving it
The Count is one of my all time faves
The CoMC really lost me after the prison part. It became so complex with characters and i didnt ever really find myself surprised. While i was invested i was juggling words from ancient mythology that i didnt know. The crossed out names (apparently referring to real life characters that were controversial?) really took my out of the book at times as well. I really wanted it to blow me away, but the end of the book left me feeling like we wasted a lot of time on characters that didnt really matter, and the revenge part was a little lacking.
Having talked to a French person who read the original vs me reading the translated version by Barnes and noble, we came to the conclusion that the book was translated almost TOO well, and a lot of the emotions were lost by using words that would have meant a lot more back in the day, while today they mostly serve to confuse. English words that are the correct equivalent in French, but that does not cover the same second meanings that they have in French. I think ill re read it again in the future, maybe another version. But yea, 1000 pages + for a 2.5/5 for me sadly, still glad i read it either way!
I am currently reading The Brothers Karamazov based off of your recommendation video and have the Count of Monte Cristo on my TBR, also considering Moby Dick based off your recent video with your sister. As far my Five Star recommendation: As long as the lemon trees grow by Zoulfa Katouh, it’s an amazing story of a Syrian Refugee’s survival despite how fear altered her reality.
I read Lonesome Dove and Prince of Tides because of you and they were my favorite books of 2024. Thank you so much for the recommendations!
Lonesome dove is THE best!. All I wanted to do when. I read it was sell everything, ride a horse across the west and make bean and sourdough biscuits in a cast iron.
@ you get me!
A few years ago I read a review that stated something like this: don’t let the fact that Lonesome Dove is a western keep you from reading it. I am forever grateful to whoever posted that simple line. Lonesome Dove, The Grapes of Wrath and The Goldfinch are a few of my all-time favorites.
I ❤ Lonesome Dove
Educated by Tara Westover and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes are two of my favorite 5⭐️ reads!
Great video, thanks!
Educated is a great book
Ordered by author's last name:
- The "Rivers of London" series (aka Peter Grant series) by Ben Aaronovitch
- "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
- "The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi
- "Earthseed" duology by Octavia E. Butler (objective 5 stars, I gave it 4.75; if the first one is too dark for you, don't read the second installment, because "Ow!")
- "the long way to a small, angry planet" by Becky Chambers (yes, I still need to read the rest of that series 'cause I have the time management skills of a carrot)
- "Piranesi" by Susanna Clarke
- "Ring Shout" by P. Djèlí Clark
- "Axiom's End" by Lindsay Ellis
- "Alice Isn't Dead" by Joseph Fink (purely passionate 5 stars)
- "Dune" and "Dune Messiah" by Frank Herbert
- "Dolores Claiborne" (King's best book, though y'all are entitled to your wrong opinions 😜) and "Lisey's Story" by Stephen King
- "Gereon Rath" series (aka Babylon Berlin series) by Volker Kutscher
- "Binti" by Nnedi Okorafor (3 novellas, objective 5 stars, 4 stars for me)
- "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque
- "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel
- The "Calvin and Hobbes" comics by Bill Watterson
Fuck ya to Calvin and Hobbes! I have most of the anthologies and will never give them up
So glad someone else loves “long way to a small angry planet”. Not to hype it up too much but I think book 2 is even better
Totaly agree.. also If there’s one book I think everyone should read this year, it’s keezano’s Your Life Your Game. It beautifully shows how connecting with God and building meaningful relationships can lead to spiritual growth, and success in both your personal and professional life. This book truly changed my life…a must-read... 💟
I’d love to see you start the Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio. It’s my favorite series of all time, and I think you’re going to love it!
I know this book is either hated or loved, but, The Catcher in the Rye is an easy 6 star read for me. I loved it. I read it in high school and it is what ended up getting me into reading as a whole.
My fave book ever🤗🤗
It's wild how some books can be so polarizing because that book is a 1 star for me 😂
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is a six star read for me. It spoke to my soul.
Also, The Last Cuentista is a majorly slept on dystopian sci-fi. Have thought about it ever since I finished it.
Your list is so close to mine! I'm saving this video for suggestions. 👍 👍
So excited The Secret History was on your five star list! Personally it's in my top five books of all time and I'm rereading it now for the 3rd time!
I would recommend The Picture of Dorian Gray if you haven't read it, it's pretty short but packs a lot of themes and characters into it. Favorite book of all time!!
For pure vibes, read The Night Circus. Basically the setting is the main character. 5.5 🌟 for me 😅
The Ever-Loving Truth by Voddie T. Baucham Jr. , And Then There Were None by: Agatha Christie , Unveiling Grace by: Lynn K. Wilder, & Unbroken by: Laura Hillenbrand are all 5 star books for me, I think you would also enjoy👌
One of my favorite short Stephen King books is The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. A few years after it was published a very similar thing happened in real life which made me enjoy the story all the more
That's the only Steven King book I've read. I read it as a early teenager. Truly a great book!!
Off the top of my head my six star reads are: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. A lot of these book I read years and years ago, but I think about them often.
My husband got me The Lies of Locke Lamora for Christmas! I’ve never mentioned it and I have zero idea what it’s about (he actually just loved the painting on the cover of the edition he got me 😆) but I knew it sounded familiar! I’m excited to fit it into my reading this year now that I know you enjoyed it. I’ve never read any grim-dark and I have a hard time with fantasy, so we’ll see how it goes 🤞🏻
It’s a very entertaining book. The characters are so funny you forget sometimes about all the crazy stuff happening around them!
I agree with you about red rising I finished 4 books so far in the series and find it just keeps getting better definitely one of my all time favourite series I’ve read
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien is a 6 star read for me. Although I first read it at 19 for an English class and at the time I knew some guys in my peer group who had enlisted and were going to Afghanistan so the combination of those things definitely contributed to the impact it had. I have read it a few more times since then and probably always will pick it up for a reread every 10 years because it's a completely different reading experience every time.
Some time ago i asked you what book i should read as a first from Stephen King and you suggested Billy Summers, i finally got around to reading it and damn ... I loved it so much, absolutely a 5 star book ! I'm excited to read the other books you suggested now, i'm probably gonna go with pet sematary next ! Thank you so much for the suggestions !
An incredibly underrated masterpiece:
MATTERHORN
A Vietnam novel
It left me completely stunned. Written by Karl Marlantes, a Vietnam vet. It brutal, tragic and oddly hopeful on ways. The BEST war novel I’ve ever read.
The Secret History is my favorite so far! I still love it many years after reading.
Just finished reread/listen of Lonesome Dove. Love it!!❤. The tv series is wonderful as well. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨. Teading Prince of tides now.
The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. The first 100 pages are slow. Once you get through that, you literally cannot put it down.
Exit Unicorns series by Cindy Brandner. I am a 73 year old woman, and I find that we like a lot of the same books. That is what is so great about reading.❤
YES to The Outlander series! Phenomenal books! Memorable characters!
11/22/63 was one of my all time favorite reads. I also loved Billy Summers! Another all time fav is City of Thieves by David Benioff. Perfect books, no notes.
Please read The Wayward Pines trilogy by Blake Crouch. You and your wife influenced me to read Dark Matter and Recursion. It’s super easy to become a fan of Blake Crouch if you like SciFi/Thrillers.
I absolutely thoroughly enjoyed this video.
Lonesome Dove and Gone with the Wind are both amazing books!! I think Shogun belongs on the 5 star list too!
You gained a follower. I'm finally realizing I have a lot more in common with male readers
I was 15 the first time I read The Stand, and have since re-read it like 8 or 9 times, I love that book, and it is definitely an off the charts stars for me.
And The Lion, The Witch & The Wardeobe.
I very much enjoyed Frankenstein & Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde in school.... and the Great Gatsby. I would have to reread them to decide though
IAN you are not good for my TBR. Every time I watch one of your videos it grows. Also, your taste and love of books is so inspiring. Anyway, you're amazing and keep it up. :D
Great reviews and recommendations! 😯👏🏻The passionate 5 star and objective 5 star categorization makes so much sense.
Just a couple of my passionate 5 stars have to be:
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- The Will of the Many by James Islington
And objective 5 stars have to be:
- The Wager by David Grann
- Endurance by Alfred Lansing
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
I'm on book 3 of the faithful and fallen. Ruin! It's been a great journey so far. Gwynne's work is exceptional imo.
I just finished the first book myself, all ready love it
Same here, also on book three. It's been great so far.
@@AnonforGod777 if you love the first book! You're in for a treat reading book 2. Currently 10 chapters in book 3 and so far so good!
@flapjackni6221 it's amazing 10 chapters in so far. Literally binge reading the series without any pallet cleaners. It's that good.
I love how you change your ratings in hindsight 😂 totally understandable!
I have a few 6 star reads. Absolutely Prince of Tides is on that list. Also, The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne - a must read if you love character first. A book I read in the 60’s when it first came out - (I’m old 😂) and many times since - Boys and Girls Together by William Goldman. Another oldie is Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk, one of my favorite books and reread several times. Also, Shogun by James Clavell, East of Eden and The Thorn Birds. Fun video!
I read gone with the wind when I was 10 years old and now as a 35, I still think about it almost every day and how it made me feel. It has been a 5/5, 10/10 all these years. Just like the outsiders which is my all time favorite book that I read in 7th grade. Nothing has made me feel what I felt since. If you haven’t already, I would love to see you and ash read, the book thief
5+ star reads are Memory Sorrow & Thorn read it years ago and is due for a reread. 11/22/63, Jake and Sadie need I say more. Pillars of the Earth and Shogun also read years ago and still favorites. A recent read, The Nightingale is a heart wrenching story of 2 sisters coping with the occupation of France during WWII. I will definitely put Lonesome Dove on my TBR list for 2025. Thank you.
Some my favorite are in this video 😂 I guess we have great taste. Big fan of The King.
I just finished Babel by RF Kuang. Absolutely loved it. It has had me thinking for days and I felt a very real sense of loss now that it has finished.
Just lately there has been a few booktube videos on the greatest/most influential fantasy sci-fi books of XYZ. A book that came up regularly was Twilight, which I read... Anyway, from that experience I was recommended Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. I really enjoyed it as a YA romantasy fantasy. Not something I would normally read, but I thought it was very well written and I gave it 5 stars. I am yet to read the follow up books, which may happen later this year.
My friend, I beg you to check out the synopsis of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. That man has two five-star reads from me, but I think that this book is the best place to start. The world that this author is able to create out of a single setting is incredible! Almost the entire story takes place in a grand Russian hotel, and you root desperately for the main character, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov. The story is hilarious and so deep at the same time. It truly is an incredible experience.
As a sci-fi reader you'd probably love brothers Strugatsky. I can only guess, but "Roadside picnic" and especially "The Doomed city" will be right up your alley. Very deep and philosophical stories, exploration of humanity and so on, but in a form of fantastic sci-fi settings (that have nothing to do with space, mind). I still think of these stories...
East of Eden and Hard Rain Falling. Two of my personal favorite five star reads. Currently in the middle of South of Broad, it may very well join the list!!
I just picked up Lonesome Dove from a library sale and hearing your positive review is motivating me to dive in.
A five star read in my opinion is The complete Eye of the World Series.
I finished the Dark Tower series this year. It is my favorite series of all time. I LOVED the final book so much!
The Binti series by Nneki Okorafor, The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White, American Hippo by Sarah Gailey, Dreadnought by April Daniels, and The Deep by Rivers Solomon. There's more but these are the first to come to mind as my top 5 star reads I'd recommend to others.
Gone with the Wind is the only book I’ve ever given 5 stars so needless to say it’s my favorite. Books that stand out as having come close are flowers for Algernon, tender is the flesh, pope Joan, a thousand splendid suns, and black beauty. I’m yet to read Steven king but that day will soon come!
wow You are an impressive critic. And I have to say, I love the way you distinguish between passionate, and objective groupings. A great plan. Great lists all around. 'Karamazov' is definitely a life changer. And as for Scott Lynch, I have to say that his "Lies of Locke Lamora" single handedly saved fantasy for me. After having read from Tolkien all the way through Stephen R Donaldson ( who also wrote top tier SciFi... ), everything else I picked up was just rehashes. But then I picked up 'Lies' and consumed it. Sheer brilliance.
If you need a palette cleanser of some magical romance - read The Seven Year Slip. Great. easy, fun book.
I've mentioned it so many times and I so wish you'd do a vlog about it....
It has completely overwhelmed me and it is truly life changing.
PLEASE... Please read A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Harry Potter made us readers…there is no denying that!
Based on your list you should check out A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. It was one of my favorite books of the year. A literary fiction book about faith, fate, and grief that not enough people talk about.
John Gwynne is amazing. Happy new year 🎉
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
I agree with you about The Stand and Gone With The Wind. But Pet Cemetery holds a place in my heart because I come from a family of readers and no matter what book I tried I hated it. Then my aunt gave me Pet Cemetery I was like 12 yrs old and I couldn’t put it down. I was hooked from then until now.
I got through 90 books in 2024, some of them from your recommendations. Five star reads in 2024 for me were;
Every book so far in Ruocchio's Sun Eater series.
Gene Wolfe New Sun series, #1 and #2 ---(#3 and #4 were 4.5 stars)
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan.
The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel.
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane.
Darkome by Hannu Rajaniemi.
The Electric State by Simon Stahlenhag.
I've said it a hundred times, and I will say it a thousand times more, Beartown
Everything you said Pat Conroy did for you Beartown did for me. A beautiful life-changing story, and Man! Can Fredrik Backman write a sentence
Definitely on this years TBR!
@@iangubeli I really hope you love it
I give any book in James Patterson Alex Cross series 5 stars. They are so good. I also give the silent patient, the maidens and the Fury by Alex Michaelides 5 stars. When I read under the dome I thought it was 5 stars. I'm sure there are more I just can't remember them right now.
Please read the Bloodsword series by John Gwynn! Super curious what you think!! Just finished the first book!
These four: I read Demon Copperhead in 2023 and loved it! I immediately wanted something similar and heard The Goldfinch was. I picked that up and loved it. I loved Donna Tartt’s writing so much I immediately read The Secret History and loved that. Bam…3 5-star reads right in a row. And then of course A Man Called Ove will forever be up there for me as a favorite/5 star.
I loved Demon Copperhead! I have the Goldfinch on deck.
One of my top favourite books I've ever read have to be 11.22.63, I absolutely devoured that book when I read it, it was so mesmerising and what Stephen King did in that book is absolutely mind-blowing. I am planning on re-reading it some time this year. Another book I absolutely loved was the three body problem trilogy, many people from my understanding did not enjoy the series but it is one of the best sci fi series I have read and shit just gets so insane the further you get into the trilogy.. it's an amazing trilogy that I really think more people should read.
Thank you for what you do !
Cfbr. Revisiting 5 stars is a brilliant video idea!
Love Watership Down. Just read it
LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET. I'LL SCREAM IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS.
You should try Guards Guards from Terry Pratchett absolutely wonderful and fun fantasy book 😊
You should check out IN THE WOODS by Tana French..SO good. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me. It's murder mystery (which I'm not always into but I was for this one). It's the first book of a series but they can be stand alones.
This video it's amazing keep it up:))
Lonely Castle in the Mirror is my top read from the past year and definitely more than a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me!
hey ian i know you have bounced off of mistborn a few times, any thoughts on trying stormlight in the future? i personally resonated so much more strognly with stormlight than mistborn.
great commentary on these 5 star books! i agree with a huge amount of what you discussed
if you havent already, you should 100% try reading brandon sandersons books - starting with mistborn era 1! its turning into one of my favorite series ive ever read!
Jade Legacy is (to me) the best thing ever put on paper. For everyone that Jade City didn't click with and they didn't continue the journey. I feel bad for them for never experiencing Jade Legacy. 10/5
Just finished it for the first time a few days ago. I absolutely ugly cried at the end 😭 I did not expect to feel so deeply about the characters, it was so good
Throwback to your video "how to get your man into reading"...my brother gave me a book for Christmas wrapped in brown paper with "video game" on it. 👌
We always watch your videos together and today's was great as always!
That👏is👏the👏funniest👏thing👏I👏have👏ever👏heard!!!!!
If Cats Disappeared From the World is one I ALWAYS recommend. Super short but looks at how removing a tiny thing from the world can have a huge emotional impact
Have you read The Maze Runner by James Dashner? It's amazing
My six star read was definitely a little life, that book was so incredibly beautiful and sad, the characters felt so real and that was the first time I experienced something so detailed in a book
Memoirs of a Geisha, Fantastic book..., feels like being transported to a specific time and place. I didn't think I would like it. Kept seeing it on the best seller list for ages and figured I would see what all the fuss was about. So glad that I did. Still remains one of my all time favorite books to this day. I'm also a Stephen King fan my all time favorites of his are The Dead Zone, Needful Things, 11/22/63, The Dark Tower Series and Hearts in Atlantis.
Findlay Donavan is Killing it- elle casimano 😊
You need to read A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara. I read it over two years, because it was a very heavyread thatI didn't own, I had to take a six month hiatus after reaching the halfway point, and then to continue I had to put in a hold requesst at the library and wait aniother few months. I finished it during lockdown in April 2020. The book broke me into many pieces and also somehow put me back togeter only to do it again by the end. This is one of the few books that has actually made me cry. I gave this book 5 stars, because the writing was brutally beautiful, and had itnot been for some events in the story I would say it is an unputdownable book. I also wouldmention that I finished Turtles All the Way Down by John Green right after A Little Life, that might seem to be an odd pairing, but John Green's humor helped thelight return to my soul.
Sometimes a Great Notion by Kesey, Go With Me by Freeman, A Short Stay in Hell by Peck, and The Thief of Always by Barker are all 6 star reads. I could not finish them fast enough and they all stayed with me long after.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck. If you want a look into morality and the relationship of humans to good and level, this is it. The way Steinbeck portrays the human soul is incredible.
Farseer trilogy, tawny man trilogy, Fitz and the fool trilogy are all 6 star reads for me
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Totally agree that 11/22/63 is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 20:47
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo.
The Alchemist, Paulo Coehlo. (Passionate 5 star)
I need to know if you’ve read any of R.F Kuang’s work. Babel is one of my all time favorite books it’s soooo good.
My favorite Stephen King novels are Shawshank Redemption, The Stand, but The Shining really scared me. Pat Conroy: please read The Great Santini. What you said about all of his books is spot on. They are so beautifully written. Little Women and Pride and Prejudice as well as A Tree Grows in Brooklyn were my coming of age novels. Love Lonesome Dove and more recently A Gentleman in Moscow.
Happy New Year
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
would have to Say Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Re read both of these from earlier and life and blew my mind!
I thought a Hobb would make it.
5 stars reads in no particular order
The name of the wind, Patrick Rothfuss
The secret history, Donna Tarrt
The ocean at the end of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
Jonathan str and mr norrell, Susana Clarke
Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay
Invisible planets, Ken Liu
I think LOTR is a defiantly 5 star, and Harry Potter was a big part of my childhood, BUT a lesser known absolute favorite is the fantasy series "The Death Gate Novels" by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. The first one is called Dragon wing, but you need to reed at list the first 4 books. There are so many things I love about them. It have all you can want from fantasy, and then on top a lot of characters that I find so interesting. There are themes of life, death, love, faith, loyalty, morality and so much more. Love it so so much!!! Think that is an objective 7 points ;-)
And as personal 5, I have Hunger Games, that to me is super deep, but I get why so dont like it. (best of young post apocalyptic I have read so fare)
And, and, and as historical fictions goes the to books "A voice ind the wind" and "An Echo in the darkness" by Francine Rivers is the absolute best. It is set in the year 70 a.C. and starts with the fall of Jerusalem. You follow a christian girl, a roman family and a gladiator. It is so good! 10 out of five in the genre in my opinion, but if you don't like the religious parts it may be a 3-4 points.
Last year I gave 5 stars to “and then there where none” by Agatha Christie, that literally creeped me out more than any other book I’ve ever read. “green lights” by Mathew McConaughey just genuinely interesting, heartfelt and hilarious, I was so sad when i realized it was ending and Dune by frank Herbert.
My only 5 stars books:
1. The Dark Tower series. As a whole I gave it 5 stars even tho I would only probably gave it to books 1, 3 and 4.
2. Lord of the flies by William Golding
3. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
4. The Little Prince
5. The Green Mile by King
6. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess
8. The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
Plus two books that I gave 4 stars but it's been like 3 years and I keep thinking about them and now I think I would give them 5 stars:
9. The Grapes of wrath by Steinbeck
10. Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut
Also I'm reading Brothers Karamazov because of your video. My God.
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck doesn't get talked about nearly enough, it is phenomenal.
@elijah4642 Oh yeah. I've read a lot of Steinbeck work and I think this one is the best. I don't read books more than once byt I think I will read it again because I can't stop thinking about it.
Book I’ve just finished and is a 5 star+ for me is The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle.
Is the Faithful and the Fallen a good Fantasy Series for a beginner fantasy reader ?
If not what would you recommend I’m trying to branch out !!
I think it is! It doesn’t go overboard with too many fantastic elements. I think the only thing that may bog people down is the amount of characters! But every that isn’t overbearing!
Fairly eclectic list of 5 stars in no specific order:
- The Road by McCarthy (read it before I had kids and can’t imagine trying again now)
- Project Hail Mary by Weir
- Into Thin Air by Krakauer
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by Lewis (read all of Narnia to my son and the ending of this one made me cry)
- Name of the Wind by Rothfuss
- Shoe Dog by Knight
Into Thin Air is so good, it reads so much like fiction and really got me into non-fiction more. My favorite book by Jon Krakauer
I have a lot of your books on my top books list as well. Lonesome Dove was a behemoth of a book, but so good. A couple that rank as 6 stars for me:
"Brightly Burning" by Mercedes Lackey. It's a story of family, and connections during a war, and the lengths someone will go for love.
"Rhapsody Child of Prophecy" by Elizabeth Haydon is an epic fantasy novel about a young girl that has to come to grips with the horrors that have been inflicted upon her and strives to push ever forward, to get stronger, so that she can help those who are weak.
And "The Death Gate Cycle" which is a set of seven books by Tracy Hickmen and Margret Weis. In a post cataclysmic world a lone traveler has been sent to subjugate the last remnants of sentient life and he finds unique worlds, creatures, races, and situations. Each book is an amazing experience of world building, and the twists and turns in the plot keep you guessing till the very end.