Worst Books of the Year+All the Books I DNF (2024)

 There weren't many books that I gave a low rating, but there are waaaay more books that I DNF (did not finish).

I guess you can consider this an unpopular opinions post. Luckily tomorrow I will post the best books of the year which includes new favorites!

Worst Books (all 2 stars):

1. Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

2. To All the Boys I Loved Before by Jenny Han

3. Magic for Marigold by LM Montgomery

I decided this year to split the DNF list into 3 categories. From books I thought were boring,  books I thought were bad, and nonfiction books that were actually pretty interesting, but made their points very early on and could've been shortened down. 

Here are the books I DNF because I found them boring/couldn't get into them:

1. Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman

2. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

3. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

4. Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth

5. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

6. Rickety Stitch Volume 1 by Ben Costa and James Parks

7. What's Your Pronoun? by Dennis by Dennis Baron

8. Passport by Sophia Glock

9. The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson

10. Trumpet of the Swan by EB White

11. North and South by Elizabeth Glaskill

12. The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontorvat

13. Zachary Ying by Xiran Jay Zhao

14. Tuki Volume 1 by Jeff Smith

15. The Apothecary Diaries Volume 1 by Nastu Hyuga

16. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes

17. The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

18. Spiderwick Chronicles 1 by Holly Black

19. Yokohama Kidashi Kikou Volume 1 by Hitoshi Ashinano

20. My Special One Volume 1 by Momoko Koda

21. Misty of Chincoteague by Margarite Henry

22. Lunar Boy by Cin Wibowo

23. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Here are all the books I DNF because I thought the story was bad, or it got bad after a while:

1. Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender

2. A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson

3. Replay by Sharon Creech

4. The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

5. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

6. The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Bouley

7. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink

8. Summer of Broken Things by Margaret Peterson Haddix

9. Claim to Fame by Margaret Peterson Haddix

10. House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs

11. Little Lord Fauntelroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

12. Iggie's House by Judy Blume

13. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson

14. Emily Windsnap 1 by Liz Kessler

15. A Pho Love Story by Loan Le

16. The Star Thief by Lindsey Becker

17. The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

18. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

And lastly, nonfiction books that were interesting but could've been written better, leading me to DNFing them:

1. Unbowed by Wangari Mathai

2. Apollo's Angels by Jennifer Homans

3. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer

4. Spellbound by Bishakh Som

5. Purple Cow by Seth Godin

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