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.

[Shawna]

best: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (reread)

worst: Unzipped

[sarah]

Loved The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane such a heart warming story, absolutely hate The Red Tent I hated the way she depicted some of the story lines of the characters. I always recommend you read the books for yourselves as this was my friends fave book but I put it on my worse to read book list.

[BethK]

I tend to be pretty good at selecting books that I won't hate. The best one of the year is close to a tie! The one I have to give "Best" to is https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... by David L Robbins. Soon to be published. It has everything! Trains. Nuclear disaster. Historical fiction. Thriller. Spies. A touch of romance. Thanks to Netgalley and the author for the ARC copy of this book.

A very close second-"Best" - too close to call - which is nonfiction is https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... by Cat Bohannon. This is mostly of how and why many of the inventions which gave early humans their culture, and various inventions were done by women on the home front while men were away in hunting parties.

The most disappointing, or "Worst" if you will, is I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid, which was recommended to me, but wasn't what I expected. I found the plot a bit confusing and the characters had unclear motivations, and an unclear resolution.

[Barb]

Best: Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Worst: Counterfeit by Kirsten Chen

[Simon]

Best: Bunny by Mona Awad
Worst: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

[Valentina]

Ugly love - worst of my life and Mystic river as amazing one

[karissa m]

Best: Caraval
Worst: #murdertreading

[Eli]

Best - The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes

Worst - The Sun And Her Flowers, and Enterrer La Lune (a french poetry book)

[Scot]

Best - Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli or The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

Worst - Orphans in the Sky by Robert Heinlein

[BookishDramas]

Best will take some thinking but the worst is right here -
Spare
Took me the whole year to complete jan to dec. :)

with a 1 star review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Siddharth]

The best book I read in 2023 is easily Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami. Find my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... .

None of the books would qualify to be called the worst, as I enjoyed all of the books that I read. In fiction, possibly the one I enjoyed the least was Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente - I enjoyed it a lot while reading it and thought about it for some time immediately after, but it is the least memorable one among all the books I read in 2023. You can find my thoughts here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... .

[Nicole]

Best - Tie between "Go As a River" and "The Bandit Queens". Very different books genres so it's too hard to pick

Worst - The Last Letter (Rebecca Yarros). I don't think I'll ever read a book by this author again.

[Valeria]

Best - King of Fury, A good girl's guide to murder
Worst - The sweetest oblivion

[Sarah]

Best- Sail
Worst- Graceling

[T.]

Best book of 2023
Sula by Toni Morrison (love this book so much)

Worst book of 2023
Leave the World Behind (did not finish, and I almost always finish books I don't like, hated it so much)
Big Swiss (didn't like it, finished it so I could thoroughly complain)

[Mila]

worst_Daisy Jones and the six/If he Had been with me

best_ The cruel Prince/ Dial A with aunties

[Lucy]

worst: amari and the night brothers, that book was absolutely horrendously written ☠️
oh and the first keeper of the lost cities book which i didn’t even finish—all u need to know abt that one is that there are vegetarian dinosaurs and a character is called Dex Dizznee, and in the elven world twins and triplets are considered “inferior” because it means that their parents were deemed “a bad match” meaning they’re “genetically incompatible”???

best: Shadow of Kyoshi, Gallant, Little Women (i can’t just pick one 😭)

[Faith]

Best - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. A masterpiece

Worst - The most recent Keeper of the Lost Cites book. That was hard to get through.

[tania ✩]

worst: you and me on vacation (idk why 😭)

best: DEFINETLY agggtm or the silent patient <3

[Salima]

worst: Every Sumer After
best : The Silent Patient

[Elvira]

So the year just started, and the only book I’ve finished reading 2024 so far is A Little Life, which is really good but not the best. 2023 the best book was a tie between Frankenstein and Orlando, and the worst was probably Lady Susan (Jane Austen). Which is sad bc it’s my first Jane Austen. I’ve heard Emma is one of her better books (along with Pride and Prejudice ofc, but Lady Susan made me a bit annoyed with the “ppl going to each other’s houses and gossiping” thing and I heard Emma wasn’t as much of that) so anyways I’d like to try that one out.