#top five books

[hlmoorewrites]

Top or favorite 5 books?

Okay this was HARD, I have so many favourite books that just choosing five (5) was actually painful, so I cheated a little bit and made a list of my top 5 fiction books and my top five non-fiction books. Thank you for the ask!!

Fiction:

The Woman in White (1861) by Wilkie Collins

Children of Time (2015) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier

Misery (1987) by Stephen King

The Secret History (1992) by Donna Tartt

Non-fiction:

Bad Blood (2018) by John Carreyrou

DisneyWar (2005) by James B. Stewart

Batavia (2011) by Peter Fitzsimons

Antisemitism: Here and Now (2018) by Deborah Lipstadt

Entangled Life (2020) by Merlin Sheldrake

[birdofthunder]

Your local high school English teacher is here with her top five books she read this year!

I adore each of these books! Most of them are for middle grade or YA audiences, but those are the audiences I teach and my kids ask me for book recommendations.

Seriously though, please read Project Hail Mary, it's one of my top five books of all time now and I need more people to read it so that I can obsess over it with them.

[mariathemillennial]

Favourite Reads of 2023

My favourite books of 2023!

It is finally time to look back at 2023 and select the book gems that made my year. In total, I’ve read thirty books while the initial goal was to read fifty. But I’m still content with my reading achievement; I’ve discovered some amazing works of literature and non-fiction. Here are my top five! Fahrenheit 451! – Ray Bradbury So far, I have never been disappointed by Bradbury’s fiction but…

[lithopsies]

[thebookofbill]

I wish I was the book charts

[forcebookish]

depollute me, gentle angel and i’ll feel the sickness less and less come and kiss me, pretty baby like we’ll never have sex

[messrsrobyn]

mary shelley really popped off when she said "how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery" i think about this daily.

[fatedroses]

Behold, a frinos.

[obbsessedfan]

List Your Top Five Favorite Books or Series and Tag Five People!

The Inheritance Games (First is Hawthorne Legacy)

Little Women

Throne of Glass (Queen of Shadows then Heir of Fire)

Harry Potter (Any)

Hunger Games (The first one’s the best)

Absolutely no pressure 🩵💙: @bookish-swiftie13 @1look-at-how-my-tears-ricochet1 @saturntonads @novas2cool4u @herondalesbooklover

[soooooretro]

𝑩𝑨𝑳𝑳𝑶𝑹𝑨 𝑴𝑼𝑺𝑰𝑪 𝑩𝑶𝑿 𝒑.𝟏

While ago i got a music box and decided to make it Ballora themed !! It plays swan lake which isnt her song but it IS in fnaf 3 at least.

[bookwyrminspiration]

Hey quil, I trust your book taste, can you give me some reccs perchance? I’m not picky, whatever your faves are

of course! you'll have seen some of these before in my dragon recs list, but I'll throw in some other ones too :)

A Chorus of Dragons by Jenn Lyons; My favorite book series of all time. I can't tell you what it's about because discovering that is part of the plot. Genuinely changed how I think about fantasy and writing. This post goes into a tiny bit more detail but I cannot stress enough it only covers like 2% of the story it makes me FERAL you just need to trust me and stick it out through the confusion (trigger warnings)

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by RF Kuang; young Robin is taken from his home in Canton to England when his family dies, his knowledge of Cantonese invaluable in a world where language, via silver bars, can literally become magic. The British Empire is working to collect all it can for its own gain, but as Robin grows up and learns more of how the world works, how it wants to use him, the more he finds it shouldn't be this way. A beautiful story on loss, oppression, imperialism, injustice, and language's role in identity. I cried.

The Memoirs of Lady Trent by Marie Brennan; Isabella, now an old woman, recounts how she became the most renowned dragon naturalist in the world--overcoming misogyny, maneuvering through politics, and more. Follow her from childhood to present day around the world, studying dragons in the field. This story has wonderful characters, critiques the "not like other girls" trope, has beautiful relationships (including platonic!), a lot of action and intrigue alongside the fascinating science, animalistic dragons, and!! SO many pictures! the artwork it's seriously incredible. Love this series

The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd Jones; around Colbren, the dead don't stay dead. Ryn, a young gravedigger, agrees to take the mysterious visiting mapmaker, Ellis, to the abandoned castle, because she needs the money to support her two siblings and in hopes of stopping the worsening curse. Ellis, found near the woods as a babe, hopes to find some remnant or clue to who his family was, who he was. together, they must face the walking dead, find the abandoned castell where this all started, find the answers, and find themselves. I adored it's tone, characters, how it handled death and grief, everything. it reads like a fairytale in the best way

The Martian by Andy Weir; Mark Wattney's an astronaut on Mars when a storm hits, forcing the mission to return to earth prematurely--but he doesn't make it to the shuttle in time, they presume him dead, and leave devastated. now alone on Mars, Wattney's got to figure out how to survive--and how to get in contact with earth and let them know, hey, uh, I'm still here guys. one of my favorite hard sci-fi books of all time. Wattney is such an entertaining, intelligent guy; he'll have you laughing, then on the edge of your seat as Mars tries its best to kill him. this one also comes with a movie :)

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn; Bree's in an early-college program, grappling with the very recent death of her mother. when she stumbles into creatures that shouldn't exist, magic, it starts to look like her mom's death might not have been an accident. she finds a secret society of the descendants of king arthur + the round table, inheriting their powers to defend the world from a different plane--and Bree needs to find out what they know. but getting in is difficult as a Black girl, especially when their guard dog is convinced she's a demon. a beautiful story on grief, Black generational trauma, racism, identity, and more. we're eagerly awaiting book three this spring <3

The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir; of course I had to include this one--tonally similar to ACOD in that you WILL be confused <3. The Emperor Undying needs necromancers; Gideon doesn't give a shit, but the girl she's been raised alongside, Harrowhark, the heir of the house on their far away planet, doesn't give a shit that Gideon doesn't give a shit. She contracts Gideon to serve as her guard, her cavalier, as Harrowhark travels to the Emperor's planet to compete to become one of his right hands. Except as the competition progresses, something's...wrong. fatally, lethally wrong. people keep turning up dead, and if they don't figure this out, they could be next.

I'll stop there, but I hope you find something you like on that list! If you (or anyone else) have any more specific requests or guidelines for recs, feel free to send them :)

[thenameofsantiagossextape]

Girls don't want a boyfriend, they want an accurate adaptation of Frankenstein, done with an understanding of Victor Frankenstein's shitty personality, sympathy for the Creature's actions, and a consideration of Mary Shelley's motives for writing the novel and understanding of the circumstances which created it.

[r7inyz]

kinda made my own alec + hazel from lonely freddy!!! designs loosely based on the book descriptions (or the ones in the wiki idk) I LOVE THIS STORY HELP

silly doodles I did last night

this story man,,,,

[salsa-di-pomodoro]

Ok but can we talk about the absolute horror of being watched and monitored 24/7 that the ancients must have had. The citizenship drones being like an Alexa that's constantly following and listening to you (except it's five pebbles and not Alexa lmao). The fucking OVERSEERS. THEY'RE CALLED THAT FOR A REASON. BECAUSE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING THEIR CITIZENS AS WELL AS THE ENVIRONMENT ALL THE TIME. (I would talk about the fact that they all show arti fucking ads as well but honestly idk what else to say about that. Capitalism got yet another society 😔). That's some fucking nightmare fuel dystopian society settings we are being hinted at. You know the Big Brother Is Watching You thing. The book. Yeah that's what it reminds me of.

The Iterator Is Watching You.

[yourhandsomedevil]

"I still don't forgive you. Everything I said is still true. But I'm a medicine cat, and I can't just let a cat die when I could save him."

Jayfeather

[potato-jem]

i don’t see enough people talk about how the scene at the new year’s eve party where alex introduces henry to the song “get low” by lil jon