Reading Audit: Common Themes in My 5* Reads Between 2020-2026
Hello, everyone! I have been thinking recently of what kind of reader I am. So, I thought that I'd do a reading audit that I'd seen many booktubers do. To achieve that, I decided to go back and look at the books I'd rated with 5* in the last 6 years. Considering that I usually give 5* to 7-11 books each year, I ended up with a list of 65 books. And as I was looking at them, I started noticing some interesting things. Here are the themes that I gravitate towards according to the books I've loved: #1 Fragile Realities & Fragmented Shelf This is probably the core theme of my reading, and the one I was expecting to appear. These are mostly quiet and esoteric books, with most of them being stories that have changed me as a human being. Memory disappears. Language breaks down. Identity fragments. Perception becomes unreliable. The self is assembled through narration, emotion, or trauma. The are books dealing with how identity survives when memory, language, and reality...
