26 books with an extremely high rating on Amazon
Happy Tuesday!
The week is starting quite smoothly for me although I find many people, including my boyfriend and few co-workers, catching or going through a cold. Hope I find you well while reading this!
I recently re-read this post by Modern Mrs Darcy titled ‘Why I changed my mind about star ratings’. I was pondering later about it and if we-readers should trust it.
Many readers agree, reserving five-star ratings only for life-changing reads, for lifetime favorites, and for “bones.”
Was hard for me to believe it as I tend to overrate the book rather than underrate it. But spending some time completing the list you see below has unfortunately confirmed the statement. The list was meant to contain around 50 titles, not 26. That wasn’t the goal of course- I undoubtedly thought that the amount would come up to 50 very quickly. It turned out that the objective of 80% or over on 5-stars and at least a thousand voices (for reliability) wasn’t as easy to accomplish as I thought. We really DO not give 5-star very often.
To be clear- I am always looking only on kindle ratings as there are two extra layers for physical book rate- delivery and book format; was/wasn’t delivered quickly, a book cover was bent, a font was too small. One or all of these, many readers actually do so, might be expressed by the rate.
If the rating system is different, maybe we wouldn’t be purchasing a book viewing star rating before reading its description. I sadly, often do it. The rate, in its most straightforward purpose, answers the fundamental question if people have found the read enjoyable- and that’s what we all want. The use of your reading might be different every time- the pure joy of reading, solace from every day or more significant problems, curiosity and willingness to learn something new or just a moment in silence. But most of all you don’t want to waste your time with a bad book.
The rating system is undeniably a topic for broader discussion. As for now, let’s enjoy the wintertime with an excellent book in our hands.
The list of 26 books having 80% or over on 5 ⭐️s and at least a thousand voices:
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy
Sword of Destiny: Tales of the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
One Moment by Linda Green
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Still Me by Jojo Moyes
The Beekeeper’s Promise by Fiona Valpy
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Red Notice by Bill Browder
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Once A Pilgrim by James Deegan
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley
The Shadow Sister by Lucinda Riley
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan
The Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
