SO many 5-star reads!! December Mid-Month Wrap Up

It has been an amazing reading month so far with lots of 5-star reads!! Let's talk about what I've been reading in this December Mid-Month Wrap Up.

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[leahharlann]

Teller of Small Fortunes shot WAY up my tbr when the author's father came into our bookstore with a stack of postcards to gush about his daughter's authorial debut!! So glad to hear you liked it ❤

[LiteratureScienceAlliance]

I am so happy you enjoyed Awakened Kingdom!!

[WildeBookGarden]

Oooh, Illusions of Fire sounds so good!

[heabooktubes]

The Queen’s Thief series really is one of the best rereads.

[bmvanloo]

My biggest surprise was the Dungeon Crawler Carl series! It's an indie-published LitRPG that has some of the most engrossing writing I've ever read (well, listened to, cause the audiobook is out of this world excellent).

[sweeteliz]

my surprise this year was Ruth Reichl's The Paris Novel ... I have loved her NF and liked her fiction well enough but The Paris Novel was just such a delightful read and soooo much of what i needed at the time! Merry Christmas, Bethany -- and wishing you only great things in 2025 ❤🎄

[bethloubet]

My surprise this year was the memoir How to Say Babylon. Not my usual fare at all, but it's beautifully written and heart-scarring with its rawness and honesty.

[janenightreadsandwrites]

I read one perfect couple this year also and I enjoyed it a lot. It was my second Ruth Ware. My first didnt realky work for me but this one was so fun

[jessicastraw]

I'm looking forward to book club with Divine Rivals - I finished it this week and I really loved it actually

[casuallybrady]

My biggest surprise recently has been the His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman. I’ve been trying to read the series for 20+ years and always dnf’d, but I felt like this was the year to have it not hanging over my head anymore. I wasn’t expecting much considering I’d never enjoyed it enough to continue before, but this time around I binged the series. I think I cried the entire last hour of the final audiobook lol

[amaresuify]

For fiction most surprising read is a toss up between The Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes and What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell as they both of have premises I was a bit iffy on, but executed them so amazingly well.

Non-fiction most surprising read was one I picked up for Choose Your Story. Duped: Why Innocent People Confess and Why We Believe Their Confessions by Saul Kassin - I figured it would be interesting and a bit fury inducing, but it was so much more.

[sandeesandwich]

I recently read A Teller of Small Fortunes and really enjoyed it, too. Also just listened to Sandwich by Catherine Newman and it has really stuck with me. The main character/narrator is somewhat annoying at first, but then as the book goes on, you see the push and pull of her contrary feelings. Speaking about her husband: "I love that about him. (long pause) And I hate that about him." Ended up being way more real life than I expected. 4.5 - 5 stars for me,

[iheartwalle]

Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova was my surprise. Debut author, barely heard anything about it, first chapter was meh. But i ended up loving the duology.

[Tarasreadingnook]

Need to read The Thirteenth Child

I also dont understand why no one said Devine Rivals is WWI fiction.. took mw back a second

[Sad.Purple.unicorn]

I dnfed horror movie early on. Could not stand the writing