5 of the (Best) All-Time Favorite Books
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Hello, friends! I’m beyond excited to dive into today’s post, where I highlight five of my all-time favorite books. These are the stories that have shaped my world, captivated my imagination, and stood the test of time. From the magical adventures of Harry Potter to the poignant beauty of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, each book on this list has earned its place as a favorite for years.
These novels aren’t just stories; they’re worlds to get lost in, filled with love, life, and unforgettable moments. So, grab your favorite spot to read, and let’s explore these incredible books together. Ready to find your next favorite book? Let’s go!
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The Poppy War by RF Kuang
The first in this selection is a series that I have started and hopefully will help motivate me to finish, I just hate to see it end which is The Poppy War by R.F Kuang. I just loved the story, RF Kuang’s writing, her style, the characters, and the world that she created. The morally grey characters challenge your ideals of the chosen one and heroes, forcing you to rethink how easily those notions can be skewed. How could this not top a favorite book list?!
In the Poppy War series, a story of revenge and war, we of course start with the Poppy War and the introduction of our main character Rin. Rin is a peasant from the poorest province in the world –the Rooster Province. Although she has some shortcomings she is incredibly talented and ambitious. Because she is a dark-skinned peasant girl from the South, making her a target of her rival classmates when she wins a test that absolutely no one thought that she could win, without cheating.
One day Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. While exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.
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The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty
The Daevabad Trilogy (The City of Brass series) by S.A. Chakraborty
This book is on many people’s lists of favorite books. This story is full of complex multi-generational politics and not in a boring way. The story is entrancing, with wonderful characters that you will fall in love with. This is a debut novel for Chakraborty. We open with a veiled woman fortunetelling in Cairo. Nahri earns her money as a thief and a leader of zars (rituals for the exorcism of bad spirits). Speaking a language, whose names she never knew. She never has believed in magic, when Nahri calls a sly, mysterious djinn that mirrors her during one of her cons, she has no choice but to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real.
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The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
There is no way this couldn’t be on a list of all-time favorite books! It has been almost 2 years and I still think this is one of the best books, I’ve read. If you love a story within a story (a book about books) then you will love The Starless Sea. The writing is sweet and lyrical, wanting more with every page you turn. In this fantasy novel, we follow Zachary Ezra Rawlins. He is a college graduate student, who discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Desperate to make sense of how his own life ends up in a book, Zachary uncovers a series of clues—a bee, a key, and a sword.
These clues lead him to a masquerade party in New York, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth. This place is more than just a home for books and their guardian. It is a place of cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and stories that the dead whisper.
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Fortuna Sworn by KJ Sutton
Fortuna Sworn by K.J. Sutton
Next is the fantastical Fortuna Sworn. Fortuna Sworn is such a different type of story, and I adore her, it’s no wonder she is on this list of favorite books. As a Nightmare, we’re meant to be seductive. We were designed to lure humans in.
Fortuna Sworn is the last of her kind, she is a Nightmare a creature that lures you in and makes you experience the thing/things you fear the most. Bringing true terror to yourself that you are likely to die from the very shock of it. When her brother disappears two years prior she is left alone with no family to speak of. Hiding amongst humans and working in a dive bar searching for him in her spare nights. This pattern of just surviving life goes on and on until she is captured by goblins and forced to be sold on the black market, until she catches the eye of a powerful faerie.
He does not attempt to hide that he desires Fortuna. And in exchange for her becoming his mate, he offers something irresistible. Leaving the comfortable existence she has come to love behind she steps back into a world of creatures and power.
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A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross
Let me say that it was really hard to narrow this favorite book list down to 5 books. The final spot will have to go to A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross. This book reminded me why I love fantasy books. It was a concept that I felt was very original. The writing was whimsical, the story was exciting, it had an element of intrigue, and was just a good time. I love a good story that hits on love and family and this one totally hit the mark. In this, we follow Jack Tamerlaine, content to study music at the mainland university not returning to his home isle in ten years.
There are many spirits at play, and when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. The capricious spirits that rule the isle by fire, water, earth, and wind find mirth in the lives of the humans who call the land home. Adaira, the heiress of the east and Jack’s childhood enemy knows the spirits’ only answer to a bard’s music, and she hopes Jack can draw them forth by song, enticing them to return the missing girls.
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That’s it those are my 5 All Time Favorite Books!
What do you think I should read and potentially add to the list? Drop a comment!
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