Five Stars in 2017: 01/04/18

During Monday's "What Are You Reading" link-up, I read a post by another participant that included the covers of all the five star books reviewed in 2017. I got curious to see how mine stacked up. Four days later I can tell you! When you read a lot, it takes a lot of time to compile these sorts of posts.

Last year I reviewed 365 books. From that total list, one hundred and four (just under a third) of the books I reviewed were published last year. The remainder were backlist titles, published in 2016 or earlier.

From the 2017 books, sixty-one of them (or nearly 40%) of the books I reviewed received five stars. It's a combination of 2017 being a really good year for books and me being pickier with titles I decided to read.

For the backlist books, ninety books (or roughly one quarter) of the books earned five stars. The backlists books are a mixture of research and titles that have been sitting on my wishlist for long enough can't always remember why I wanted to read them.

Books Published 2017 that received five star rating

1. All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
2. Amina's Voice by Hena Khan
3. Armstrong and Charlie by Steven B. Frank
4. Avatar: The Last Airbender - North and South, Part Two by Gene Luen Yang
5. Beast & Crown by Joel Ross
6. Because of the Sun by Jenny Torres Sanchez
7. Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk
8. Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen
9. Bird & Squirrel On Fire by James Burks
10. Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation by Kyo Maclear
11. Black Hammer Volume 1: Secret Origins by Jeff Lemire
12. The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken
13. Boundless by Jillian Tamaki
14. Bull by David Elliott
15. CatStronauts: Mission Moon by Drew Brockington
16. CatStronauts: Space Station Situation by Drew Brockington
17. Demon, Volume 2 by Jason Shiga
18. Demon, Volume 3 by Jason Shiga
19. Demon, Volume 4 by Jason Shiga
20. Dragon's Green by Scarlett Thomas
21. Dreadnought by April Daniels
22. Felix the Railway Cat by Kate Moore
23. The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
24. Fish Girl by Donna Jo Napoli and David Wiesner
25. The Fog by Kyo Maclear
26. Giant Days, Volume 4 by John Allison
27. Giant Days, Volume 5 by John Allison
28. The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson
29. The Great Shelby Holmes Meets Her Match by Elizabeth Eulberg
30. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
31. How Mirka Caught a Fish by Barry Deutsch
32. Kitchener Waterloo: A Guidebook from Memory by Robert Motum
33. Knock About with the Fitzgerald-Trouts by Esta Spalding
34. Landline by Rainbow Rowell
35. A List of Cages by Robin Roe
36. The Locksmith issue 3 by Terrance Grace
37. The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue
38. Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar
39. Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess by Shari Green
40. Miles Morales by Jason Reynolds
41. Mrs. Saint and the Defectives by Julie Lawson Timmer
42. My Pet Human Takes Center Stage by Yasmine Surovec
43. One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
44. Ordinary Mishaps and Inevitable Catastrophes by Booki Vivat
45. Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder
46. The Painted Queen by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess
47. A Perfect Day by Lane Smith
48. Paper Girls Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan
49. Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
50. Real Friends by Shannon Hale and illustrated by LeUyen Pham
51. Roughneck by Jeff Lemire
52. Short by Holly Goldberg Sloan
53. Stef Soto, Taco Queen by Jennifer Torres
54. The Stone Heart by Faith Erin Hicks
55. Traveling Light by Lynne Branard
56. Triangle by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen
57. The Unbreakable Code by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
58. Voltron: Legendary Defender, Volume 1 by Tim Hedrick
59. Vampires on the Run by C.M. Surrisi
60. Walking with Miss Millie by Tamara Bundy
61. Yours Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick

Backlist titles that received five star rating

1. Adulthood Is a Myth by Sarah Andersen
2. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
3. All Four Stars by Tara Dairman
4. Are We There Yet? by Nina Laden
5. Are We There Yet? by Dan Santat
6. Before There Was Mozart by Lesa Cline-Ransome
7. Bird & Squirrel on the Edge! by James Burks
8. Bisbee, Arizona, Then And Now by Boyd Nicholl
9. Bookmarked For Death by Lorna Barrett
10. Cadillac Couches by Sophie B. Watson
11. California by Edan Lepucki
12. The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase by Wendy Mass
13. A Castle On Viola Street by Dyanne Disalvo
14. Cleopatra in Space: The Thief and the Sword by Mike Maihack
15. Edible Numbers by Jennifer Vogel Bass
16. The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
17. The 52-Story Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
18. Finding Fortune by Delia Ray
19. Flora and the Peacocks by Molly Idle
20. Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
21. The Ghost of Graylock by Dan Poblocki
22. Giant Days, Volume 1 by John Allison
23. Giant Days, Volume 3 by John Allison
24. Goodnight June by Sarah Jio
25. The Great American Dust Bowl by Don Brown
26. The Great Shelby Holmes by Elizabeth Eulberg
27. The Green Mill Murder by Kerry Greenwood
28. Greenglass House by Kate Milford
29. Half a Chance by Cynthia Lord
30. The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan
31. Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia by Won-Ldy Paye
32. Hilda and the Stone Forest by Luke Pearson
33. I Love Him to Pieces by Evonne Tsang
34. I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
35. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
36. Instructions by Neil Gaiman
37. It's a Book by Lane Smith
38. Jem and the Holograms, Volume 2: Viral by Kelly Thompson
39. Jem and the Holograms, Volume 3: Dark Jem by Kelly Thompson
40. Just Us Women by Jeannette Franklin Caines
41. Kleine Katze Chi #1 by Kanata Konami
42. Knit Your Own Murder by Monica Ferris
43. The Lens by N.K. Guy
44. Lumberjanes, Volume 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson
45. Lumberjanes, Volume 2: Friendship to the Max by Noelle Stevenson
46. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile by Bernard Waber
47. The Magic Cornfield by Nancy Willard
48. March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
49. The Maypop Kidnapping by C. M. Surrisi
50. Merman in My Tub, Volume 1 (オレん家のフロ事情 1) by Itokichi
51. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
52. My Pet Human by Yasmine Surovec
53. Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
54. The Neddiad by Daniel Pinkwater
55. On Mother's Lap by Ann Herbert Scott and illustrated by Glo Coalson
56. Over Easy by Mimi Pond
57. Pantomime by Laura Lam
58. Paper Girls, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
59. Paper Girls, Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan
60. Poison Kiss by Ana Mardoll
61. Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers by Harold Davis
62. The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton
63. The Readaholics and the Gothic Gala by Laura DiSilverio
64. Road Trip by Gary Paulsen and Jim Paulsen
65. Rock with Wings by Anne Hillerman
66. Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
67. Scarecrow Magic by Ed Masessa
68. Sealed with a Secret by Lisa Schroeder
69. Sentenced to Death by Lorna Barrett
70. Shopaholic & Baby by Sophie Kinsella
71. Shopaholic & Sister by Sophie Kinsella
72. Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella
73. The 65-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
74. Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel
75. Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
76. Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea by Robert Burleigh
77. Song of the Lion by Anne Hillerman
78. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
79. The Specific Ocean by Kyo Maclear
80. Stranger on a Train by Carolyn Keene
81. This Land I Love: Waterloo County by Carl Hiebert
82. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padu
83. The 39-Story Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
84. Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes
85. The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce
86. Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
87. Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin
88. We Are the Engineers by Angela Melick
89. Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 25 edited by Rosamund Kidman Cox
90. XVI by Julia Karr

Comments (2)

Comment #1: Monday, January 08, 2018 at 22:49:47

Laura Fabiani

I also liked The Perfect Day and I really really want to read The Hate U Give.

Comment #2: Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 18:47:00

Pussreboots

I hope you do read The Hate U Give.