tier ranking everything I've read so far this year & midyear stats 2025

Best read overall I feel like was probably A Little Life. This one just really hit me in the fields.

This one in particular I really enjoyed. It's probably one of my favorites of the series to date about a adopted girl and she ends up in a drowned world and it was just so wholesome.

This one was a reread for me and I would recommend this to most people. I love it. I love Cat Howard.

I wouldn't recommend it. I'm going to be so honest. I feel like I could have gone without reading this.

Honestly, I had a really fun time with this. I thought the plot was a good balance between like the smuttiness.

Beautifully written. Fantastic. I would recommend anyone give this a try.

It's perfect. It's perfect. You like book one, but then you get hooked by book two and then you can't stop.

I think this is a really forgettable story. I honestly keep forgetting that I read it in general. Definitely her weakest story to date for me.

Really lovable characters. A little bit of a found family thing going on. Really enjoyable.

Honestly, I had a really fun time with this. Can you tell it's written by a man? Yeah, a little bit.

And Ironside to me, it's nice to wrap things up from the first one. I think it's just one of those ones where it's like I probably could have gone a little bit without reading it.

And I thought this was creepy and all the best ways but also fun at times. I like the different elements that get sprinkled in.

I did enjoy learning about the ways of life that this character goes through, but the overall way that this story goes down is so boring. It's an apocalyptic story where we know it's an apocalyptic story going into it.

Pretty interesting read horror novella I think delivers. It's creepy. It's action-packed.

I could have gone without reading it. Maybe throw it away. It's I feel like there's so many other better things to read than that.

Political aspects of this, the storytelling of this, the characters are some of the best characters I feel like that have ever been written. There are times when you despise a character, but you completely understand their motives.

And I think I could have gone without reading the sequel. I want to be so honest. It really felt unnecessary.

I enjoyed this for the most part. It's not my favorite Chuck Pollenuk, but there's just something about his writing that I think is so brilliant.

Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. Honestly, it kind of had similar vibes along the lines of how to become the dark lord and die trying.

And I thought this was really fun. I am going to put this one up here and everyone go read it cuz I do think it is a good one of this world.

It's not forgettable I had a good time with it I'm glad that I read it.

There is one particular character who feels like they have a whole personality shift within the prisoner's throne war scene that happens in the prisoner's throne that I just did not feel very impressed with overall it kind of just felt kind of thrown together.

There is one story that really stands out to me in this that I loved and I could have just read a whole book about it, but the rest of it overall was fine. Most of the stories in my opinion were pretty forgettable.

And I thought it was brilliant to be told in such a short span. I read this for Tiny Terrors and I think most of us enjoyed this to some degree. So honestly, I say give it a try.

I love them. I will eat up any berry things the Holly Black wants to give me.

Felt like I just was not getting what I expected out of it, and it just bored me. So, I ended up dnfing that.

Honestly, you can go read it if you want. I recommend it. I think the series is really fun.

This one is about a girl who finds out that she is a fairy after living in the human world and is like what the hell. I think the first one is fun.

I think the standout was valiant and that's because it was just so much darker than like what I was expecting.

This was a really interesting story. I definitely would not recommend this to people. Things about society.

Wake up and open your eyes was a great disappointment. But this is one of the first books that I have felt a great anxiety upon reading.