5 STAR TOURNAMENT! 🌟 finding my #1 favourite of 2023

let's put my 5 star books from 2023 to the test! who will come out on top?
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[@Anna2187_]

you should do this for genres!! like a competition for your favorite mystery, fantasy, etc.

[@Anna2187_]

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[@katywall1898]

Yes!!

[@chloe.imogen]

Yes yes yes!

[@imaginepageant]

Megan: Everyone loves Legends & Lattes! Me: **eyes my three-star rating** Well this is awkward…

[@charliescozycorner]

Eyes my dnf

[@imaginepageant]

@@charliescozycorner My response every time Megan mentions Babel. 😆

[@vamieses]

Bahahaha same it was a 3 for me 😅

[@chelsey8737]

I won't read it bc of this exactly. I feel like it's so overhyped I couldn't possibly love it

[@sharonariellalevy7114]

Ahh, Emma! My second favorite Austen novel. It knocked Northanger Abbey down to third for me, and that had been my second favorite for almost ten years. Nothing will ever beat out Pride and Prejudice though.

[@miss.neurotika]

I feel the exact same about the writing retreat! So defensive about it 😭💗

[@Angela41541]

you should do smth similar with like top disappointing/worst book at the end of the year

[@SarahAtHeart]

Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley is one of my favorite books of the year so far! I cried, it's just so well-written and brings Jane to life so well. 💗

[@ba-gg6jo]

He biography of Agatha Christie is also very interesting.

[@SarahAtHeart]

@@ba-gg6jo I'm so looking forward to reading that one!

[@flipfloppoet4377]

Sitting here, mentally hiding, because I have started Legends & Lattes twice and DNF'd it twice. Minutely detailed descriptions of everyday actions does not a cozy book make (for me). I found it tediously boring.

[@pigsrlife14]

💗 Emma vs The Writing Retreat is such an iconic pairing

[@bookishabbey]

💗 I’m reading the writing retreat next and I’m so excited for all it’s ridiculous glory.

[@elskabee]

omg my libby hold for legends and lattes came through while i was watching this video, here's hoping I love it too!

[@elskabee]

update: it was a 1 star babes

[@Bellaandthebooks]

I am so excited for all of the end of year content🤗!!!! This was so fun

[@KristinKravesBooks]

I love that so many of my faves are also your faves! Emma is hilarious. I know not everyone loves her as a character but I think she's so fun!

[@bookswithtofucado]

Oh i cant wait to watch this 😍😍

[@alliemonreale]

I just picked up a copy of Emma, while I was on vacation. Clueless was inspired by it so it's always been on my radar. So excited that you loved it!

[@story.struck]

I've only given out 14 5 stars this year so I feel your pain 😂 I might have to steal this method to figure out my #1! 💗

[@karenjobim5794]

hahaha, I loved the struggles w The Writing retreat (btw I loved the book, so refreshing and entertaining compared to other thrillers!). Emma is great! And Legends and Lattes is my fave :)

[@paperbacksgalore]

if you want a book that parodies the mystery genre and is also pitched as Jane Austen meets Agatha Christie, read A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales 😊😊

[@tandemcollective]

Love this!

[@vamieses]

YESSSS. I picked up the writing retreat to see if I would be team hate or love… I finished it tonight and I’m HAPPY TO REPORT THAT I’M TEAM LOVE 😂🎉❤ wackadoodle time!!

[@anasofiaaceves]

I'm doing the same thing over at my bookstagram! Great minds think alike! Can wait to see your bracket.

[@KatieColson]

Somebody needed to give The Writing Retreat her flowers. And you took the helm 🫡

[@Sleeping.Bookerella13]

💗 I still have to read Legends and Lattes but I can't wait!

[@ellereadsalottt]

I’ve read three of your top four and I didn’t like any of them 😢😂, but that just shows how I’m watching because I really like you and your personality ❤

[@gabbylikestoread]

this was so fun to watch! I need to read Emma and Pride & Prejudice soon. Maybe I'll read those during Thanksgiving & Christmas. I feel like I should do this for my 5 star reads but I've had quite a few this year.💕

[@clarissalol]

Immediate like for Julia Adams!! But Ready Player One was the first book I read this year and it's also the first one I think of as my favorite book of the year, so I get it 😅

[@yasminnn8]

15:17 exactly!!! Jane Austen is so funny I’m always giggling when I read her novels!

[@eloisechartier4079]

I really like Lucy worsley's historical fiction Books. Eliza Rose is the best !

[@katiek3258]

So here for your classics era starting!!!! I would love to see you read Passing by Nella Larson- it was my fave of the year so far!

[@torib3862]

Love your Jane Austen journey, and I highly recommend Claudia Gray's Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney mystery series!

[@TheAbigailDee]

Honestly I love your videos! You've got me to explore new titles and new genres!! The round robbing bracket here is such a good format!!! My controversial opinion is I think the Writing Retreat is even too highly rated at 3.4 on GR 😭 my shock horror at how many people that I think are iconic giving that book 5 stars when I thought my 1 star was too high 😢 But I'm a hater 😂

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I’ve been the same way with my 5 stars this year… I’ve barely had any 😭

[@bethmw28]

Yes! Pleeease fall down that Jane Austen hole! My favourite thing is how every Jane Austen fan has a completely different order of favourites even though we can appreciate them all (only one slight side eye to one of the books for me 😂😂) - and it's endlessly fascinating to me and I want to know yours 👌

[@shellkay]

I only had 8/88 5stars this year, so I feel your struggle! 5 landed 4.75 stars. I gave The Writing Retreat 4.5 but Legends & Lattes only 3.

[@dianabanana7394]

I've given 24 5-stars so far this year, what a coincidence that it's the same number as you from last year haha. I hope the rest of your reading year is much better!

[@jedibookmasterivy]

The Writing Retreat was a good and fun read! 💗

[@kylierussell0207]

As someone who loved The Writing Retreat, I approve this video 😂

[@tealahiggins]

Great video idea!!!!!! Definitely do more brackets, if you enjoyed making this! Xoxo

[@surpriseitsus9622]

I only have two 5 🌟 books this year. Ive read some great, fun books, but those are typically my most enjoyable books. Wolfsong by TJ Klune was a 5, and Ravensong was 4.5. Kings of the Wyld was my second 5 🌟

[@gabrielleg497]

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[@arobinreads]

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[@nikkimillar]

I've only found five new 5 star reads so far this year!! 😫

[@morganarosana]

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[@amylouise7289]

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[@Neverrgreen]

Curveball there, I though her majesty's royal coven would go further!

[@chelsey8737]

Not me having 39 5 stars this year😂 this would take me forever

[@ohladysamantha]

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[@jorichner6678]

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[@andrewf7732]

I think the more five stars you read, the harder it is for more books to reach that standard. I'm at 11 five stars out of 149 books this year. I wish I had more, but for me a five star has to earn it. I'm very happy with my many 4 and 4.5 star books, though.

[@saraackerman8019]

I loved learning that the movie Clueless is based on Emma. Even if you've already seen it, I highly rec a rewatch after reading Emma.

[@ineshelsen7523]

Not me only having 7 5 stars out of the 91 books I read this year, don't know if I should cry or laugh

[@heabooktubes]

Jane Austen is funny!! ♥️

[@sleuthytv1228]

Loathed the writing retreat 😂

[@ChemicalPenguinn]

Megan right now: 👁👄👁

[@ellereadsalottt]

For me this year it’s 18/163, but I’ve looked at my past years and they’ve been similar… 2022 was 17/167, 2021 was 14/138, and 2020 was 25/151. I must just be a harsher critic than I thought I was 😂

[@meghanwalsh8952]

Omg a fellow Julia Andrews Stan 🙌🏻

[@avsambart]

Me with my three 4.5 stars, two 4.75 stars and zero 5 stars for the year 2023 😅 and I gave L&L 3.5 stars 🙃

[@anasofiaaceves]

Omg Lucía Worsly is also my favorite historian!!! If you need any Jane Austen inspired books let me know, I've read a ton!

[@smarnold182]

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[@libraryofjonna]

not me giving your two favourite books 1.5 and 2 stars… still loved the video though!💗

[@ashleyslittlelibrary]

me watching with only 11 five stars (😭) wondering if I can find 5 more by the end of the year: 🤔

[@Sarasstorytime22]

I love how you pretended Legends and Lattes vs Finley was a difficult decision.

[@LindsayPuckett]

...do it with 1-2 stars 👀

[@honestlyholly7657]

i've had three five star reads this year. THREE :|

[@sofiasamou]

Well, i have given only three 5 stars, so 13 isn't that bad lol.

[@Bellaandthebooks]

Catherine house and bunny are 5 star top reads for me so I must immediately read writing retreat🫢

[@ozsaur6655]

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[@rebeccamarsden2128]

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[@shannone3210]

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[@delatoba]

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[@sunshinelorena]

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[@bethmetcalf3447]

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