What is the worst and best book you have read this year?

[Abby💕]

My best ones are The seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and She’s too Pretty to Burn.
The worst one is The giver.

[Anna]

Worst - Haunting Adeline 💀🔫
Best - Throne of glass series, Babel, OUABH, The grace year, six of crows duology

[Haley]

My worst was Shatter Me

My bests were Divine Rivals, Crescent City: House of Sky and Breath, The Plated Prisoner series, a Soul of Ash and Blood, and the Bridge Kingdom series (: lots of favs lol

[Aly]

Worst - This Is Not A Love Scene and The Americam Roomate Experiment

Best - Six of Crows(I'm obsesseddddd) and Fourth Wing

[andie]

Worst was easily Haunting Adeline (fuck that crazy qanon nut author), but I dnf'd it so honorable mention to You, Again which I actually did finish.

Best is almost impossible to choose but probably the Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston!

[Yomejo]

Best is the ballad of never after
Worst is بحيرة العشق

[Austin (Weird)]

Best is Styxx by Sherrilyn Kenyon and The Infernal Devices Series

Worst is Fifty shades of grey

[f4iryerims ౨ৎ ⋆｡˚]

best : the cruel prince
worst: thousand kisses for a boy

[Nicolette]

Worst - Haunting Adeline 🤢
Best - Kingdom of Ash (the entire TOG series), Throne of the Fallen, Fourth Wing, and the Kingdom of Wicked (I just finished the second book in the series and it was also really good!!)

[~☆~Autumn]

The best is Mrs. Plansky's Revenge and Fourth Wing. Both are excellent.

The worst was Time Is a Mother!

[nour]

best: All the Light We Cannot See, Six of Crows, and Radio Silence
worst: the whole twilight series

[Reagan]

Echo. I could not stand that book

[Reagan]

Best? Probably between As good as dead, Catching fire, or the Final Gambit

[vivxreads]

best book shatter me
worst book november nine, could us even finish it

[Miren]

Worst: Iron Flame

Best: Babel, The Greenbone Saga, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

[Sean]

Worst (most disappointing): The Song of Achilles and Run, Rose, Run
Best (most surprising) Where the Crawdads Sing and Hello Beautiful

[Susanne]

Best - Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence. Despite the darkness of the story and the bad reviews from some people, I couldn't read it fast enough!
Worst - Beneath the surface by Trey Everett. The premise looked great but the husband was weak and the wife so self centered and paranoid it was just annoying. Got to about 40% and gave up!

[EdIsInHell]

Best Wallflower
Worst IDK

[Annika]

worst: gulliver's travels
best: the crimson petal and the white

[Ivana]

worst is easily One True Loves (still can't believe it's by the same author that wrote Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)

best Recursion by Blake Crouch and, though I'm not done yet, I am loving Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis so I wanna add it

[Joanna Maria]

Worst was definitely Icebreaker and I can’t choose best I’ve read so many good ones 😭

[LiteraryCryptid]

Worst: Shadow and Bone (yes controversial but I shall explain). I had to DNF this book because I found it so whiny. Normally I love teen fantasy, and the world-building has spectacular promise, but when you spend the first 2 almost 3 chapters moping about how much attention your friend is giving everyone else and not you, I'm out. I had such high hopes starting it (my partner binge-read the entire series and loves it), I found it overhyped and a flop. That being said - I still recommend it at work for teens interested in fantasy since it is definitely geared toward that age of reader, and I know plenty of people who swear by it. - Just not for me.

Best: Tie -
Legends And Lattes - A cozy fantasy book that is perfect even if you don't like fantasy. World-building is the right about for the plot, and the characters are so adorable. Described best as a book with the vibes of a cup of hot chocolate on a cold snowy day. Warm, comforting, and soothing.

Yellowface - This book made me rethink everything about how I sell books and why I recommend them. My copy has annotations out the wazoo and is very well loved for being less than a year old. Definitely on my re-read list for next year.

[Tanja]

The frugal wizards handbook for surviving medieval england by Brandon Sanderson was such a nope. 1 star.
The best book so far was the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

[Elizabeth]

I loved Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and I hated You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose. I think thats her name.

[Susan]

If you guys like The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo you might like More than You will Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez...both stories intrigued me and include a strong female character. One is a romantic tell-all and the other is a confession/thriller. For 2023 those were two of my favorites. I did really like Riley Sager's latest The Only One Left but I like all of his books...there are no faves for me when it comes to him. I don't know if there were any titles I hated?? I make sure to read reviews before I consider reading a book. There was only time I tried to read a friend's recommendation and it was Where the Crawdad's Sing. I didn't like it. So that would be my 'hated' book I guess. I can't remember if I tried to read that in 2023 or 2022 though.