The BEST Books I’ve Ever Read…Ranked

I know it was really good, but for like 65% of the book, and this is like an 800-page book, it was just building it up. And then at the end of the book, that's when all the suspense and crazy stuff happened. it got really good.

It was so good, but also eerie to read in these times. I'm pretty sure I read this in 2024 and it hit me like a brick.

When I saw that original title and I saw her background information, I said, "Wrap it up. Not for me." How did she get here?

It was a hard book to read at first, not because it was dense or a difficult to understand, but like I was just like frustrated, but that's the point of it.

I love this book. It was so nice to see her backstory, her life, where she came from, and who she became.

Black Cake, I think it's more like a 4.5. How did she get here?

This book was so good. There's so many things that I highlighted, underlined, tabbed in this book. So many good life lessons.

I've read it at least six or seven times. I really like that book. And I'll listen to the audiobook just on loop every single year.

And then she left that establishment, but it was a really, really good book. I'll put it in I'll allow it.

That book was perfect, actually perfect. Like this series this trilogy is perfect.

It is so incredible. It changed my life. It is the only book I have ever read that the second I read the last word on the last page of the end of the book, I immediately wanted to restart it.

It's probably the love of my life. I really like that book.

This was the book that was my favorite book of all time until I read Demon Copperhead. It's very awkward to have this book after we just talked about Demon Copperhead. Y'all know how much I love this book.

This book was everything to me. It's perfect. No notes.

I love that book. I finished that book in a single day. It was so beautiful.

It's a very short book. It's literally just explaining her writing process and why she writes the way that she writes. I highly recommend it.

And this is one of the books where I finish it and I was like, that was incredible. I wouldn't change a single thing.

That book was incredible. I really, really enjoyed it. It wasn't my favorite classic, but it was the book that introduced me into James Baldwin.

This is a book that I read this year, my first five star of the year. I read it happenstance. It was absolutely incredible.

It's really heartbreaking, and it's from the perspective of someone who passed away, and that was just such a unique and very interesting way to talk about the war, and I really fell in love with it.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, it's a five star, but it's not my favorite. So I'll put it in I'll allow it.

As someone who had an abusive mother, this book changed my life. It was like a book where I felt seen and it was insane to hear someone else's story and the way she told it was absolutely incredible.

With that being said, I finished it and was like really, really happy with it. I enjoyed it the entire time. However, I would say this is probably more of a 4.5 than anything, but it just got me into more of her books, so I'll say it was for the plot.

I love this book. I feel like it's such a universal experience for women, and that is very unfortunate, but it made me feel very seen even though I don't have children.

It was a really good story, but it wasn't like perfect to me, but I also couldn't put it down.

TBH, I don't understand what happened, but it's still my favorite book. And for like a year straight, I would tell people that was my favorite book. And to be honest, it's not my favorite book.

I absolutely loved her. This is definitely the love of my life.

The Lord of the Flies is by far one of my favorite classics. When I read that, it was so eerie, so scary, and so like realistic.

It was the first romance book I've ever rated a five-star, and I would put it in the love of my life. I have not reread it since I read it, but I remember things while I was reading it where I was like, , I like hated when she was talking cuz it did a lot of time jumping, and I hated when she would jump to the present and she was talking about the man that she was with currently.

The reason why I rated it a five star is because those children had a very difficult relationship with their parents, particularly their dad, and ding, ding, ding, trauma alert. I also very much related to that and resonated with that, so I'm going to put for the plot.

It is definitely my Roman Empire. Not because it's necessarily written well, but because he is this incredible human being.

I will put it in the love my life. It's a very good story about community, found family, and just finding out who you are.

This book rocked me. This book was so scary. Reading it in 2026, , spooky.

Red Rising, don't even need to say it. Do you even know me at all? You know how much I love this series.

It was still such a good book because she's such a good writer. It's just my personal preference.

Six of Crows, we already talked about this. My Roman Empire.

This is a really, really good book. This is the love of my life. I recommend it all the time.

Song of Solomon, I don't even remember her, TBH. I think I read this in high school, but I remember really liking it.

This was a crazy story, very, very good. I was disappointed with the ending though, so I'll put I'll allow it.

It is a perfect read. It's not a book that you easily understand. It's one of those books that you read over and over and over and over and over again and still learn something new.

That's one of the best thrillers I've ever read. It's very fast-paced. It's not going to like change your life or you're not going to think about it after, but it was a really, really good book.

I love that book. Genuinely loved that book. But is it a perfect no notes book? You know what? Yeah.

And then I also read her other book, it was The Familiar and I just thought that was okay.

It was one of the most pivotal times in my reading life, and I read this in middle school, and it was so incredible, because it had a message underneath the message.

The Joy Luck Club, I love that book. I love that book. It's a hard read, but I think this is in my Roman Empire.

The Mountain is You. Again, my Roman Empire. I read this book every single year.

I think it just taught me a lot. So, I'll put for the plot. It just made me a better person with money.

This is probably the first book that I read for real for real when I was getting into reading. So, I would put for the plot, but it was a very good story.

The audiobook was so good. It did a lot for my heart with regards to grief and like self-exploration and self-growth and because of that it is the love of my life.

This is one of the first thrillers that I really enjoyed and I think that because of that it's probably for the plot cuz it got me into reading other thrillers.

I still think about it monthly. One of the most tragic love stories ever, and I love Greek mythology. It was my first book into a retelling of Greek mythology, fell in love with it.

This was good, but it happened within the course of a day and a lot of it like didn't seem realistic to me, even though it was a cute story. I don't think it deserves to be my five-star list.

Then we have The Wedding People and this is definitely going in the love of my life. I love this book, so many good life lessons. I think that's a book that I'll definitely want to reread.

I don't think it was perfect. It was a little slow. It had British humor, but it was really, really heartfelt, and I had such a wonderful time reading it.

That book made me cry. It changed my life in the moment and I never think about that book anymore.

It is a bad book objectively. Do I recommend people to read the book ever? No. It's my dirty little secret.

I absolutely love this because of the atmospheric descriptions of the environment and the setting and just the characters.

This book is so good. Completely clean. No sex scenes whatsoever. No spice whatsoever and yet the tension in this book was crazy and that is an art.

This is a book that I read very recently and it was so insane, so good, but I don't think about it anymore. It's just a really good social commentary on the tradwife situation, so I'll put I'll allow it.