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📚 5 Star Book Recommendations
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items Consider this my ‘cancel your plans’ list. Every book here is a 5-star, lost-sleep, can’t-stop-talking-about-it read. Highly vetted by a former reading-slump survivor!
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🌟 If You Only Read a Few...
🦋 Butterflies & Book Boyfriends
🤯 Plot Twists & Trust Issues
😭 Books that Wrecked Me (Respectfully)
📒 Highlighter & Notes Required
💕 Love Well Library
🌟 If You Only Read a Few...
My absolute ride-or-dies. The elite tier.
I have nothing but good things to say about this book. As I'm writing this I am currently in tears, but for all the right reasons. This book pulled me in from the very first page and I found myself falling in love with every single character. Every L...
Every Last Word
It seems like I am in the minority...but I am not ashamed to say I LOVED this book. I honestly think it's my favorite McFadden book yet. Just when I thought I knew what was happening...I started questioning my own thoughts. This book had me convinced...
Ward D by Freida McFadden
This. Book. Is. Phenomenal. Read. It. Now. In all seriousness, this book is SO GOOD. Every chapter had me on the edge of my seat and coming up with theories of my own. I personally did not see the ending coming and that made me love this book even mo...
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Usually when it comes to books in a series, I feel as though the first one is the best...but I'm surprised to say I enjoyed this book even more than the first!!! I know some comments say it got off to a slow start, but I disagree...I was hooked from ...
Good Girl, Bad Blood
**Spoilers Ahead** ...I can't believe it's over. I've been incredibly attached to these characters since I started reading this series earlier this year and now that it's over...I feel kind of empty inside. Somehow Jackson was able to write a series ...
As Good as Dead
HOLY MOLY! What a trip! This book is unlike anything I've ever read before, if I could give it more than 5 stars...I would. I legitimately could not put this book down. Even when I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it! Just when you think you'v...
Dark Matter
🦋 Butterflies & Book Boyfriends
Books that made me blush, swoon, and stay up way too late smiling at fictional men.
I love this book because it doesn't sugarcoat life. The reader is thrown straight into the difficulties of every day life and shown how something can change so quickly.
All Your Perfects
This is my favorite book of 2023 possibly my favorite romance book of all time. This book was recommended to me by my sister and I was skeptical at first, but I was hooked from the very first word. Painter does an amazing job at creating likable char...
Better Than the Movies
This is not the first time I have read a book by K.A. Tucker and it definitely will not be the last. The moment I picked up this book, I knew that I wasn't going to be able to put it down...and I wasn't wrong. I'm a sucker for Cinderalla-based love s...
Until It Fades
I do not have enough great things to say about this book. My sister recomended this book to me and I was engulfed in it the second I began reading. I was stuck on the book's every word. This is my first time reading a Julie Cross book, but it definit...
Whatever Life Throws at You
**Spoilers Ahead**
Oh my goodness...words cannot describe how much I enjoyed this book. SO. MANY. FEELS. I can't get over how exceptionally cute this story was. I just think it's beautiful that they fell in love with each other twice!! Ahhh...I'm in...
Alex, Approximately
I'm going to be 100% honest and say that this book surprised me, in a good way. This was my first experience reading a "Christian" romance book that didn't make me want to die inside. I've attempted to read "Christian" romance books in the past, but ...
My Stubborn Heart
🤯 Plot Twists & Trust Issues
Fast-paced, twisty, cancel-your-plans reads I couldn’t put down.
I came across this book on tiktok...and it didn't let me down. This book is RIDICULOUS!!! It's like an episode of Criminal Minds on steroids. I love the way the authors utilize the third person narrative to allow you into the minds of so many charact...
The Stowaway
**Spoilers Ahead** I've been wanting to read this book for awhile now, but I had heard so many mixed reviews I was almost afraid to read it. Jeez...I'm so glad I did though! I had actually been in a book slump prior to picking up this book, but I dev...
The Silent Patient
Although I basically predicted who was involved in Gabe's death from the beginning...I still couldn't put this book down. As I said, I had a prediction from the beginning, that ended up being correct, but that doesn't mean I didn't question my mind w...
Zero Days
Holy moly! I think this book gave me whiplash with all the twists and turns. I had a theory about who was responsible for the six friends getting stranded from the very beginning of the book and although I ended up being right in the end...I could no...
Five Survive
**Minor Spoilers Ahead** I'm happened upon this book on an accident and it quickly became the best book I have ever read. Redfearn's style of writing is one that had me hooked from the very first sentence and held onto me every single page. I've neve...
In an Instant
I. loved. it. Did I predict the plot twist only a few chapters into the book? Yes. Was I still glued to every word regardless? Also yes. Freida's books are such easy reads! Can't wait to see how they bring it to life on the big screen!
The Housemaid
**Spoilers Ahead** I haven't read a book in over a year, every single book I had picked up failed to grab my attention...except this one. Just when I thought I had the book figured out, another twist hit me in the face. I throughly enjoyed Megan Lall...
That's Not My Name
I've never read a book written in this style before and I LOVED it. The fact that it was written in an interview format really added to the mystery...because you never fully knew who was telling the truth. Even if each person wasn't lying on purpose,...
Tell Me What Really Happened
😭 Books that Wrecked Me (Respectfully)
The books that broke me, healed me, and left me staring at the wall when I finished.
This book has become one of my favorite books. The book took me on an emotional roller coaster ride. I laughed, I cried, I smiled, and I fell in love with the characters along the way. In the end, the book held an important message. Mental illnesses ...
All the Bright Places
I've wanted to read this boom for the longest time and I'm glad I finally got the chance. It is beautifully written and offers a whole new perspective of the holocaust. It is definitely a tear jerker, so make sure you have tissues nearby. But overall...
The Book Thief
I was hooked from the very first line. This book takes a very emotional topic and allows the reader to see it from varying persoectives. I loved the way the author allowed the reader to see every aspect of the shooting. We weren't seeing just one sid...
Nineteen Minutes
Ahhh!! I can't believe I finished it. This book brought upon so many emotions within me that I'm not even sure how to describe it. I loved every single character in this book and I could feel the pain that Miles was experiencing. I predicted the "ugl...
Ugly Love
Woah, what a rollercoaster that was. I started this book less than 48 hours ago...and I'm finished. If I didn't have to take breaks to eat, shower, sleep, and go to the bathroom...this book would've been finished a long time ago. Much like all of Hoo...
Hopeless
**Spoilers Ahead**
This book broke me...enough said. I found myself in tears before we even knew which of the most important people in Jessa's life had passed away. Gray makes us fall in love with both Riley and Kit before inevitably ripping one of ...
Come Back to Me
📒 Highlighter & Notes Required
The kind of books you can’t read without underlining half the page.
I've been struggling a bit mentally over the past few weeks and this book really helped to improve my thinking and my mood this week. I'm grateful for the kick in the butt that Jen Sincero provides in this book. Everything she said was definitely som...
You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
The only reason it took me more than a year to read is because my kindle unlimited subscription ended right in the middle of me reading it and I just now got my subscription again, otherwise I would've been done with this book within the first few da...
30 Days - Change your habits, Change your life: A couple of simple steps every day to create the life you want
This book hit me hard in all the best ways. Wiest does not beat around the bush as she shares her advice and insight into how we self-sabatoge on the daily. She opened my eyes to the various ways I am self-sabatoging my life without even realizing it...
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
This book was such a great reminder of how easily comparison can creep us and keep us from being grateful for God's goodness. I love Ashbury's argument that nobody is in front or behind instead we are exactly where we are meant to be in God's story f...
You Are Not Behind: Building a Life You Love Without Having Everything You Want
💕 Love Well Library
Books that helped me love well, date smart, and build healthy, intentional relationships rooted in faith and wisdom.
This book was extremely eye opening to me. I've read many self-help books in the past that referenced the 5 Love Languages...but I had never read it myself. I loved that there was a version just for singles that I could read. This book definitely pro...
The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition
I throughly enjoyed learning about attachment styles within this book. Not only was the information backed up with research, but there were also personalized stories as well. My favorite part was at the end when there was like a little quiz to see if...
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep--Love
I loved how truly honest this book was and how Hussey uses real-life stories to help readers feel less alone. Being single is something I struggle with on the daily, especially when everyone is getting engaged/married/pregnant, but this book reminded...
Love Life
As a 26 year old who has never been in a relationship...this book was extremely eye opening for me. I am on a mission to read all of Gary John Bishop's work because he always hits the nail right on the head. The best part about this book is that he h...
Love Unfu*ked: Getting Your Relationship Sh!t Together
🗣 Real Life, Real Stories
True stories that moved me, stretched my perspective, or stuck with me long after the last page.
This book was honestly so enlightening. The amount of joy and happiness that Esther showed during a hard time in her life was astounding. It made me realize how good I have it. I can't believe she was able to stay so positive throughout her journey. ...
This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
The first ever album that I bought and I listened to was a Britney Spears album. I idolized her as a child growing up and I knew when this book came out that I had to read it. As someone who is now 26...it pains mean to read everything she had gone t...
The Woman in Me
As someone who grew up watching the Duggars on TLC and not realizing until later in life how crazy that show actually was...I KNEW I had to read this book. Reading this book sent me into a spiral of emotions as I felt for Jill and her family. Jill's ...
Counting the Cost
I don't even know where to begin...I guess this book truly goes to show you that you NEVER know what someone is going through. Jennette does a PHENOMENAL job bringing light to all the trauma she experienced and how that trauma continues to haunt her ...
I'm Glad My Mom Died