favorite books Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/favorite-books/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:01:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg favorite books Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/favorite-books/ 32 32 38398750 My Favorite 2025 Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/12/my-favorite-2025-books/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/12/my-favorite-2025-books/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:58:09 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19419   Remember me? I’m so sorry I’ve let this site atrophy. I’m still reading lots of books, but the attention span and the mental clarity needed to string together words for reviews, has been lost in the onslaught of increasingly surreal corruption and destruction in our government. The cognitive dissonance between what government should be […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/12/my-favorite-2025-books/feed/ 10 19419 More 2024 Reading I Loved https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/#comments Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:54:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18881 I’m back with more books I loved in 2024. On Friday I shared the fact that almost all my 5-star favorite books for the year were backlist, but I still wanted to give a shoutout to this wide variety of new releases I thought were wonderful. Each provided me with the escape I wanted in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/more-2024-reading-i-loved/feed/ 4 18881 My 9 Favorite Books in 2024 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/my-9-favorite-books-in-2024/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/my-9-favorite-books-in-2024/#comments Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:18:40 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18858 As I started reviewing my reading year there was one stat that jumped off the chart at me. Of the 13 five-star books I read this year my favorite 9 were backlist (published before 2024). I’m sure publishing analysts could provide an easy explanation (fewer books published in an election year) or a psychologist something […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/my-9-favorite-books-in-2024/feed/ 4 18858 Wrapping Up 2023 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/wrapping-up-2023/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/wrapping-up-2023/#comments Fri, 05 Jan 2024 08:10:54 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18139   I couldn’t let 2023 go without wrapping up the year in post about 5 additional novels I loved each from a different, previously unmentioned category. And if I could get myself pulled together (wink) I’d also be able to post all kinds of specifics on how my reading actually went in 2023, but let’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/wrapping-up-2023/feed/ 2 18139 My 8 Favorite Books of 2023 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/#comments Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:20:54 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18102   Finally! Let’s talk reading again, specifically my favorite books of 2023 so we can move onto what lies ahead in 2024. It was an interesting year in that I don’t remember another time when I had this many 5-star nonfiction books. I’m not even sure I’ve ever read so much great nonfiction in one […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/01/my-8-favorite-books-of-2023/feed/ 12 18102 Best Books of 2022 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/best-books-of-2022/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/best-books-of-2022/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2022 08:12:15 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17178   I’m going to cut to the chase: it was a challenging year for my reading. Not due to a lack of options, I just lost my reading mojo for a while. However, there were 8 books that broke through my broken brain and gave me all the pleasure I look for in my reading. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/best-books-of-2022/feed/ 8 17178 2022 Underrated Gems https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/2022-underrated-gems/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/2022-underrated-gems/#comments Mon, 26 Dec 2022 08:43:15 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17159 Nothing like waiting until the last week of the year to put out best-of lists. Today I want to share five gems that I adored that didn’t get as much love and attention as they deserve. Hopefully, you got gift cards and pick up at least one of these remarkable novels.   Title links go […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/12/2022-underrated-gems/feed/ 11 17159 My 8 Best Books of 2021 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-8-best-books-of-2021/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-8-best-books-of-2021/#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:19:05 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16350   Best is a big word, especially these days when words that have been a part of the lexicon for lifetimes feel as if they’re losing their meaning. The first that comes to mind is “normal”. There is nothing normal about our weather, our politics, America.  There’s a COVID vaccine and a booster, but the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-8-best-books-of-2021/feed/ 8 16350 My 6 Favorite Debuts of 2021 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-6-favorite-debuts-of-2021/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-6-favorite-debuts-of-2021/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2021 05:53:08 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16321   Happy Monday and welcome to my first yearend best-of lists. Today is a favorite category: best debuts. Finding new authors is one of my greatest reading pleasures and 2021 proved to be a very good year. Of all my reading, 38% was debut authors and of those debuts I rated 36% 3.5 stars or […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/my-6-favorite-debuts-of-2021/feed/ 6 16321 2021 Underrated Gems https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/2021-underrated-gems/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/12/2021-underrated-gems/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:46:44 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16323 Every year I read books I loved, but that seemed to go under-the-radar for most people. Yes, reading is a very personal endeavor and what is 5 stars for me may not be 5 stars for you, but I’ve got 7 underrated gems I read this year that I’m almost evangelical about—I loved them that […]

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