I think you should read these books because I liked them a lot.

But also this list is going to be kinda crazy. 3 stars is def my “I don’t know what to think of this book category” so a lot of interesting stuff goes in that category and it’s the same for the 4 star category, just slightly better quality. ALSO the books that I rated 4 stars at the beginning of the year were before I got my heart broken and became more cynical about things lol.

Last, I firmly believe a romance 4 star is different that a regular 4 star and maybe that is because I think less of romance books which is a prejudice I guess I need to start contemplation about myself.

I’ve linked all the books that have articles written about them, a few won’t have any though since I read them before this website was born. I have also separated out the romance from everything else so that way it is easy to find for you romance fans.

Romance

You, With A View by Jessica Joyce

Out On A Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young

Is She Really Going Out With Him? by Sophie Cousens

Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter

Maybe Once, Maybe Twice by Alison Rose Greenberg

Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Everything Else

The Bad Beginning (Series of Unfortunate Events Book 1) by Lemoney Snicket

Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

Open Throat by Henry Hoke

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera (guys i am not classifying this as romance, deal with it)

1984 by George Orwell

The Life of Chuck by Stephen King

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Celebrants by Steven Rowley

A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan

Animal Farm by George Orwell

And Then? And Then? What Else? by Daniel Handler Aka Lemony Snicket

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

The Egg by Andy Weir

Boom Town by Sam Anderson

The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser

These are in order of what I have read throughout the year and it’s honestly quite funny to see how my reading habits changed as I was getting more and more sad. But also, it was nice to be able to get out of my usual reading to learn some things or read different types of books.