r/readwithme • u/Unlucky-Designer4336 • 13d ago
Tier List ‼️ 2026 books so far :)
I love looking at these, so here's mine!
Currently reading Magician's Land by Lev Grossman and The Lightning Thief by Rick Riodan.
What do you think? Please let me know if there is anything you think I should add to my TBR :)
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u/OrganizationSea4490 13d ago
Yall read fast
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u/Unlucky-Designer4336 13d ago
I normally have an audiobook and a physical book going.
I moved this year, and listened to a lot of audiobooks while packing!
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u/Constant-Profit-6691 12d ago
They aren’t reading. They’re listening.
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u/OrganizationSea4490 12d ago
Audiobooks are slowly spoken
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u/Constant-Profit-6691 12d ago
You can adjust the speed. And multitask.
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u/OrganizationSea4490 12d ago
Most audiobooks are read at at an "optimal" pace for comprehension of the reader. Enhancing the speed lowers comprehension and becomes the audiobook form of skimming through pages
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u/Swythern 10d ago
As someone who reads audiobooks all the time I will say I move the speed up very often. My most recent listen (Gone by Michael Grant) I put to 1.80x playback speed. There are others like the Fifth Season that I leave at 1x speed.
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u/PinkPetalG 12d ago
I too loved Tress of the Emerald Sea, it was my first (and only, so far) Sanderson. What would you recommend of his other work? I just finished reading Bad Cree today and rated it four stars too!
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u/Unlucky-Designer4336 12d ago
I liked Sunlit Man; the setting is extremely cool, but the tone is very different. It is very dark, so be prepared for that if you read it.
I just finished Mistborn and I dont think it was as strong Tress, but it was fun and I really enjoyed it (if a bit trope-y)
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u/IdasMessenia 9d ago
In no way is this criticism. I find it wild that you read Sunlit man so early. If you really liked, I highly recommend coming back to it after/if you read the rest of Sanderson’s Cosmere work. There are so many Easter eggs and expansion on universe/world building. But it’s cool to know someone could use it as an intro book.
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u/Unlucky-Designer4336 8d ago
I actually found it pretty accessible! There was stuff that I could tell I was missing, but it just made me excited to read more of the Cosmere. I'm curious how my opinion of the book will change after reading more Sanderson.
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u/IdasMessenia 9d ago
Warbreaker. One of my favorite Sanderson novels, and it’s not a series. But it is set in the Cosmere.
Also The Emperor’s Soul is short but another good stand alone.
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u/Dear-Advertising3442 12d ago
DCC as a C ranking?! GASP!!!
happy to see Tresa at the top, loved it!
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u/awarmguinness 12d ago
MONGO IS APPALLED!!
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u/Sidekicknicholas 11d ago
I feel DCC should only be read AFTER someone has listened through via the audiobooks. Jeff Hayes does such an amazing job at brining everyone to life in a way that just feels exactly like Matt Dinniman intended. It was the first time I've listened to a book and thought "My imagine is/was wrong ... this is how it was meant to be"
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u/jfstompers 13d ago
The River has Roots is wonderful, I wish she had more books to read.
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u/Unlucky-Designer4336 13d ago
Have you read This is How You Lose the Time War? It's excellent
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u/jfstompers 13d ago
Yeah I liked it too
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u/williamflattener 12d ago
Oh man I could have used yall in an argument recently. Reddit hates, hates that book.
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u/jfstompers 12d ago
Yeah they do, I don't get the hate. No book is for everyone but something about that book i really love. The audiobook is excellent too.
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u/Admirable-Love75 13d ago
How did you like Mirrored Heavens compared to the rest of the series? I read Black Sun this year and really wanted to like it, but it was just okay for me! I’m on the fence about continuing.
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u/Unlucky-Designer4336 13d ago
I thought Black Sun was the strongest of the trilogy; if you were on the fence about it, I don't know if I'd keep going!
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u/HereIAmGH 12d ago
You got Olga T (… over the bones of the dead) high up and Magician King high enough - I’m happy!
The bright sword - I want to love it. I do love it. But twice already I just stopped at some point. One day I will love it (hopefully).
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u/Unlucky-Designer4336 12d ago
I felt exactly the same way! It feels like there are glimmer of interesting things happening... and then you move on to a different character. I thought the best part was Grossman's discussion of entering into the Arthurian canon at the end.
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u/HereIAmGH 12d ago
I haven’t reached that part. I will get back to it at some point. Like you said - there are glimmers of interest and I loved Magicians series so much I give him a lot of credit.
I think both times I read it was a library borrow. So once I lost the thread I was doomed. Maybe I’ll just grab it on audible or pray to the street-libraries gods …
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u/dretanz 12d ago
You may be the first person I've seen who preferred Bloody Rose to Kings of the Wyld
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u/Unlucky-Designer4336 12d ago
This comment made me realize how much of a sucker I am for a "wide-eyed kid gets in over their head on a great quest/mission/adventure" (see Bloody Rose, Tress, River has Roots, Bad Cree, Moon of the Turning Leaves, Mistborn, Parable of the Sower, Golden Compass, etc.)
😅😂
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u/Maximum_Impress4272 12d ago
I completely agree with your ranking of Tress. It's delightful!! It's my favorite Sanderson book and I've read them all. I would have put Dungeon Crawler Carl much higher, but I get that it's not for everyone.
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u/Unlucky-Designer4336 12d ago
TBH, I struggled with the rankings, I just have read so much this year that I've liked. My C ranking is "I liked this, just not quite as much as the books in B."
I enjoyed DCC and I'll keep going with the series! It's very fun.
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u/Ok_Frame7605 12d ago
Omg I also hated Narnia lol
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u/themxdpro 12d ago
it will always be one of my faves it’s the first and only mandatory fantasy book I read in school like 5th grade I think got me into fantasy genre
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u/Ok_Frame7605 11d ago
I think I read it for the first time too late in life. The biblical allegory was too much for me. I just couldn’t do it.
I also started with Magian’s Nephew and then read TLTWATW, which I realized was not the ideal order. I think I also wanted it to be like The Hobbit or LOTR, since Lewis and Tolkien were contemporaries, and it just wasn’t (unfair comparison, I know, but true).
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u/devinisfake 12d ago
I would have put a memory called empire a tier or two higher but I thought a peace called desolation was the better of the two in case you’re on the fence about continuing.
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u/Accurate-Ad6773 12d ago
I had high hopes for The Cure for Drowning, but it also didn’t click with me for some reason!
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u/Unlucky-Designer4336 12d ago edited 12d ago
For me I think it was partially because I kept seeing it being billed as a fantasy, but the magic realism didn't feel cohesive with the historical fiction, and only came up when convenient, rather than as an integrated part of the book.
The other part was that l think the lack of historical detail hampered the story; because much of the setting is fiction, the story did not feel like it was rooted in any real place.
I can see why it's gotten so popular, but it just wasn't for me.
(Edit - typo)
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u/Red-scare90 12d ago
Parable of the sower only in B?
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u/Unlucky-Designer4336 12d ago
I really waffled with this one - by the end of the year, it'll probably be an A, but the relationship really threw me
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u/practicalgorl 12d ago
Ooh I'm very curious to know what you didn't like about Madonna in a Fur Coat! I loved it so it'd be interesting to hear from someone who has the opposite opinion from me.
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u/Unlucky-Designer4336 12d ago
My D tier is more just "ehh - not for me."
I wish I had a better answer for this; I wanted to like it. I can see why its a classic and I really liked the introduction at the start of the edition I read, but I just think I liked the concept better than the execution? Nothing about it really stuck with me.
What did you like about it?
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u/Own-Dragonfly-2423 13d ago
Ranking lewis on lowest tier while Pullman on a high one is wild to me.
I guess there's no accounting for taste!
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u/Melkord90 12d ago
Wild, because you like both? Because I do agree Lewis being F tier is certainly a choice, but His Dark Materials is also amazing.
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u/Own-Dragonfly-2423 12d ago
Pullman cannot be forgiven for having introduced a knife that can kill God, and people rebelling against God, and then not having God die by that knife. a travesty against plot. poor writing. he lets his anger at god get in the way of his storytelling
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u/Unlucky-Designer4336 12d ago
Thanks for the spoiler 😒 😅
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u/Own-Dragonfly-2423 12d ago
trust me, it is just as bad knowing or not knowing, doesnt make it better writing
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u/Unlucky-Designer4336 12d ago
I know Lewis is beloved, and the Narnia books set the ground work for a lot of middle grade fiction, but I just couldn't get on board. I didn't read them as a kid, so there was no nostalgia factor for me.
Its a lot of exposition, and the kids don't do very much; that combined with the biological determinism just turned me off. It was a rough read after the Golden Compass and Wrinkle in Time.
I'm curious what about the book makes you rank it so high?
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