Folded Pages Distillery uses a five star rating system to rank each book. It is based on the same guidelines that Goodreads uses, but with some more details and additions of our own.
It is defined as the following: (using a first person perspective)
- 1/5 stars = I did not like it; emphasis on it being a waste of my time and I don't know why I even bothered finishing it at all. I have very little, if any good things to say about it.
- 2/5 stars = It was OK; I definitely have more bad to say about it than good, but I didn't mind pushing through and can see some good in it.
- 3/5 stars = I liked it; I am on the fence about it because there is about as much bad I have to say about it as there is good. I probably won't end up reading it again.
- 4/5 stars = I really liked it; there are more good things to say about it than bad, but I can find things I didn't like that draw me back from raving about its awesomeness. I can see myself reading it again someday, but I might not get around to it.
- 5/5 stars = It was amazing! I have very little, if any bad things to say about it and I will make time to read it again in the future.
5 Star Reads:
- Everyone Brave is Forgiven - Chris Cleave
- The Wander Society - Keri Smith
- Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy - Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, Robin Wasserman
- Goose Girl - Shannon Hale
- Bitter Greens - Kate Forsyth
- The Serpent King - Jeff Zentner
- He Will Be My Ruin - K.A. Tucker
- The Memory of Light - Francisco X. Stork
- Vengeance Road - Erin Bowman
- November 9 - Colleen Hoover
- The Hours Count - Jillian Cantor
- The Rose Society (Book 2: The Young Elites) - Marie Lu
- Carry On - Rainbow Rowell
- Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
- Illuminae: The Illuminae Files _01 - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- The Love That Split The World - Emily Henry
- Shadow and Bone (The Grisha Trilogy, Book1) - Leigh Bardugo
- Ruin and Rising (The Grisha Trilogy, Book 3) - Leigh Bardugo
- The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson
- End of Days - Susan Ee
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth - by Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos H. Papadimitriou
- All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
- The Shell Collector - Anthony Doerr
- Chasing the Milky Way - Erin E. Moulton
- Momo - Michael Ende
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North
- State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
- Crazy - Linda Phillips
- Perfect State (A Novella) - Brandon Sanderson
- The Goddess of Small Victories: A Love Story - Yannick Grannec
- What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty
- Fish In a Tree - Lynda Mullaly Hunt
- The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Breath to Breath - Craig Lew
- Everything Everything - Nicola Yoon
- This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty-First Century - Mark Engler and Paul Engler
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
- Palace of Lies - Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Valiant - Sarah McGuire
- Uprising - Margaret Peterson Haddix
4.5 Star Reads:
- This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity #1) - Victoria Schwab
- One True Loves - Taylor Jenkins Reid
- A Gathering of Shadows (Book 2) - V.E. Schwab
- The Unexpected Everything - Morgan Matson
- Iron King - Julie Kagawa
- Jane Steele - Lyndsay Faye
- Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices: Book One) - Cassandra Clare
- Find Her - Lisa Gardner
- The Ramblers - Aidan Donnelley Rowley
- A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab
- The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
- Once Upon a Zombie. (Book One: The Color of Fear) - Billy Phillips and Jenny Nissenson
- The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
- The Fill-In Boyfriend - Kasie West
- Mosquitoland - David Arnold
- China Rich Girlfriend - Kevin Kwan
- Tell Me - Joan Bauer
- A Curious Tale of the In-Between (Pram #1) - Lauren DeStefano
- Ice-Bound - Aaron Reed and Jacob Garbe
- The Madwoman Upstairs - Catherine Lowell
4 Star Reads:
- Children of Icarus - Caighlan Smith
- The Cresswell Plot - Eliza Wass
- The Last Boy and Girl in the World - Siobhan Vivian
- When We Collided - Emery Lord
- Sunday's on the Phone to Monday - Christine Reilly
- The Portable Veblen - Elizabeth McKenzie
- The Paris Journal: Book 1 - Nichole Robertson and Evan Robertson
- Saving Wonder - Mary Knight
- Thanks for the Trouble - Tommy Wallach
- Their Fractured Light (Starbound #3) - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
- Library of Souls (Book 3: Miss Peregrine's) - Ransom Riggs
- Because You'll Never Meet Me - Leah Thomas
- Starflight - Melissa Landers
- Burying Water - KA Tucker
- Winter (Lunar Chronicles #5) - Marissa Meyer
- New World: Rising - Jennifer Wilson
- Food Whore - Jessica Tom
- Uprooted - Naomi Novik
- Siege and Storm (The Grisha Trilogy, Book 2) - Leigh Bardugo
- The Evolution of Mara Dyer (Book 2) - Michelle Hodkin
- The Legacy of Us - Kristin Contino
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Saenz
- A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas
- The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
- Pocket Hole - C.K. Edwards
- The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
- The Painter - Peter Heller
- City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments: Book 6) - Cassandra Clare
- Tell the Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka Brunt
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
- The Three - Sarah Lotz
- Hollow City - Ransom Riggs
- Gender Stories: Negotiating Identity in a Binary World - Sonja K. Foss, Mary E. Domenico, Karen A. Foss
- A Sudden Light - Garth Stein
- Parenting Beyond Pink and Blue: how to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes - Christia Spears Brown
- The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain - George Lakoff
- City of Thieves - David Benioff
- The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You - Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin
- The Marvels - Brian Selznick
- A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
- Einstein's Intuition: Visualizing Nature in Eleven Dimensions - Thad Roberts
- The Sword of Summer - Rick Riordan
- Dream Ender - C.K. Edwards
- The Honest Truth - Dan Gemeinhart
- George - Alex Gino
- The Thing About Jellyfish - Ali Benjamin
- Happinessby Matthieu Ricard
- Edenbrooke - Julianne Donaldson
- Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality - Edited By Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, Rachel L. S. Harper, Jeff Sap, Jody Sokolower, and Melissa Bollow TempelRethinking Schools, Ltd.
- The Familiar - Mark Z. Danielewski
3.5 Star Reads:
- The Girl in the Tower - Lisa Schroeder with illustrations by Nicolette Ceccoli
- Iron Daughter - Julie Kagawa
- Hatter Madigan: Ghost in the H.A.T.B.O.X - Frank Beddor with Adrienne Kress
- The Princess and the Bear - Mette Ivie Harrison
- Why We Came to the City - Kristopher Jansma
- Crescent - Mary Jane Capps
- Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
- Soundless - Richelle Mead
- New World: Ashes (Book 2) - Jennifer Wilson
- Chasing Spring - R.S. Grey
- Oh! Your Pretty Things - Shanna Mahin
3 Star Reads:
- The Halfling - H. D. Gordon
- Stolen Magic - Gail Carson Levine
- This Raging Light - Estelle Laure
- Frost - E. Latimer
- Placid Girl - Brenna Ehrlich
- Annabel Lee - Mike Nappa
- See How They Run - Ally Carter
- We All Looked Up - Tommy Wallach
- Fallen - Lauren Kate
- The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer Trilogy Book 1) - Michelle Hodkin
- Shutter - Courtney Alameda
- P.S. I Still Love You - Jenny Han
- Magonia - Maria Dahvana Headley
- Paper Towns - John Green
- Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story - Jim Holt
- The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer
- The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
- Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
- Whistling Past the Graveyard - Susan Crandall
- The Bees - Laline Paull
- If I Stay - Gayle Forman
- Counting by 7s - Holly Goldberg Sloan
- The Most Dangerous Book - Kevin Birmingham
- Capital: A Novel - John Lanchester
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce
- Deep Dark Down: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free - Hector Tobar
- The Categorical Universe of Candice Phee - Barry Jonsberg
- This is the Story of a Happy Marriage - Ann Patchett
- Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis - Robert D. Putnam
- We Are Not Ourselves - Matthew Thomas
- The Shepherd's Crown - Terry Pratchett
- Primates of Park Avenue - Wednesday Martin
- The Season of Migration - Nellie Hermann
- I Lived on Butterfly Hill - Marjorie Agosin
- All Fall Down (Book 1: Embassy Row) - Ally Carter
- The Brain: The Story of You - David Eagleman
- A Safe Place With You - César L. Baquerizo
- You Are Not Your Brain:The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life - Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Rebecca Gladding
2.5 Star Reads:
2 Star Reads:
- The Retribution of Mara Dyer (Book 3) - Michelle Hodkin
- The Snow Queen - Michael Cunningham
- The Rosie Effect - Grame Simsion
- Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class On the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up - Marie Kondo
1 Star Reads:
Unrated Reads:
- The Trials of Apollo (The Hidden Oracle: Book1) - Rick Riordan
- Dangerous Creatures - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
- Tiger's Promise: A Prequel Novella - Colleen Houck
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
- Orphan Train - Christina Baker Kline
- The Falconer - Elizabeth May
- The Word Exchange - Alena Graedon
- The Headmaster's Wife - Thomas Christopher Greene
- Cinnamon and Gunpowder - Eli Brown
- The Night Guest - Fiona McFarlane
- The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
- All That is Solid Melts into Air - Darragh McKeon
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin
- Since You've Been Gone - Morgan Matson
- We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
- Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
- The End or Something Like That - Ann Dee Ellis
- The Book of You - Claire Kendal
- Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
- Pen & Ink: Tattoos & The Stories Behind Them - Edited by: Isaac Fitzgerald - Illustrated by:Wendy Macnaughton
- The Young Elites - by Marie Lu
- FOUR: A Divergent Collection - Veronica Roth
- Snow Like Ashes - Sara Raasch
- Atlantia - Ally Condie
- The Age of Miracles - Karen Thompson Walker
- Landline - Rainbow Rowell
- Looking for Alaska - John Green
- Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins
- The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender - Leslye Walton
- Egg & Spoon - Gregory Maguire
- I'll Give You The Sun - Jandy Nelson
- The Truth About Alice - Jennifer Mathieu
- All The Bright Places - Jennifer Niven
- Legend Series (Legend, Prodigy, Champion) - Marie Lu
- The Darkest Part of the Forest - Holly Black
- I Was Here - Gayle Forman
- To All The Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han
- The Selection Series - Kiera Cass
- Zodiac - Romina Russell
- These Broken Star (Starbound Series Book 1) - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
- This Shattered World (Starbound Series, Book 2) - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
- Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard
- Not That Kind of Girl - Lena Dunham
- Alienated - Melissa Landers
- An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir
- Royal Date - Sariah Wilson
- The Heir - Kiera Cass
(Last updated 7/8/16)
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