On 110 books so far, I rated 10 5 stars (in no particular order):
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
- Berlin: City of Stones by Jason Lutes
- The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds by Leigh Calvez
- A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
- The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
- Blue Nights by Joan Didion
- Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
- Wonder Woman Omnibus, Vol. 2 by George Perez
The oldest book was The Fountain Overflows (1956) and the newest was Prairie Fires (2017). The highest rated book I read that was published in 2018 was Margalit Fox's Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer, which I gave a 4.
Other stats:
- Two graphic novels/comics
- Two science fiction
- Four non-fiction
- Two by one author - it is really hard for Didion to go wrong for me