WORST to BEST books I read in 2021, ranked!

literal pure happiness encapsulated in book form yes it does all the usual things right you know great characters great chemistry blah but it also just genuinely makes you so happy for these characters

it's one of those books that just kind of gets better and better the longer it's been since you read it and the more you thought about it

this is an interesting attempt at highlighting the importance of critical thinking and knowledge but overall the story felt like thinly veiled in a layer of condescension

when i started reading this i fully expected just like a green monster horror story but instead i got a wonderful story about an ambitious scientist driven by this sickly thirst for innovation and a monster that is mostly just like angry with his creation

i always thought that general fiction was not my thing and this book proved me wrong this book is written like an epos of a multi-generational character profile

this is a pretty nice non-fiction book about the importance of hope in politically desperate times

the book has the same ghibli nature cottage gore vibe even though the plot is very different funny character banter magical thunder battles spells potions if you feel like you need a warm hug you need to read this book

the author just kept mentioning like his male scent and female sounds and how melee looked and how female she felt in his hands and i was just like we talking about birds talking about people

my main problem with this book is that for a story that is trying to explore concepts like artificial intelligence and morality it really could have explored concepts like artificial intelligence and morality a bit more

this book also completely lacked any direction because there was just no plot and no sense of where the story was going at all i did really appreciate the more assertive main character

another essay collection of like a range of topics around feminism about the importance of language in feminism our need to always categorize and review everything we see

this is a good example of one of those sad unhinged woman books do not read this if you want your main characters to be likable i loved it

i was expecting a blade runner style cyberpunk book instead i got a super action-packed fast-paced cyberpunk that is so full of unexplained techno jargon that you almost don't notice that the characters are barely developed at all

this is a very good example of a wonderful fantasy concept that gets completely ruined by insufferable characters that the author completely failed to make me root for in any way

yes i am a basic 20 something year old that has fallen in love with a sally rooney book yes i have also fallen for sally rooney's no quotation mark character study of two sad people that just are in love and don't know how to communicate with each other

whatever you expect from the story when you first start reading it's probably wrong this book throws you in the deep and then once you think you're kind of happily floating around kind of understanding what's going on it hits you with a wave and then another wave and then a tsunami

a book that is a romance between the prince of england and the first son of the united states of america that sounds ridiculous doesn't it and it is this whole book is ridiculous but like in the best way possible

do you ever go into a young adult contemporary book just for like the funsies sapphig romance and then you are hit with like such an emotionally honest story about breakups and teenage problems

talia hibbert has become i think my favorite romance author this year she is so good at writing interesting characters with their own problems and their own b plots that also have perfect chemistry with each other

i do kind of feel like this was mostly disturbing i would have liked it if this book dug a little deeper

if you're gonna write a super cool dark academia about the library of alexandria maybe show the library of alexandria at some point i don't know maybe give some descriptions about what everything looks like

the perfect book series for anyone who loved all kinds of mythology as a child but then didn't really do anything with it when they got older because life kind of got too busy

which is a wonderful middle grade fantasy that incorporates aspects of malaysian folklore

i mostly loved all the chapters from the second main character henry and honestly his character saved the book for me v schwab really shows her storytelling prowess with this one just not her characterization prowess

there's a fine line between creepy and cringy and to me this book just constantly toppled over into cringe territory especially because all of the romantic moments were forced upon them by side characters

have you ever had a vivid dream that kind of makes no sense when you think about it because it's a dream but it's so real and it feels so palpable all the settings so magical that's exactly what this book is

it's very nostalgic very emotionally nuanced i totally understand why so many people love this book it's just one of those cases where i just know that this probably just isn't my genre

taylor jenkins reads put something in her book that makes them so addicting this book lures you in with its promise of famous people celebrity gossip and then you stay because you just love these characters so much

this is your run-of-the-mill hate to love romance there was some good chemistry but just like it's sex scenes my memory of this book has just completely faded to black

i think this is the non-fiction version of the unhinged woman book it's a collection of essays about being a woman in the age of the internet and also self delusion

i hate this book because it absolutely ruined itself in the last 50 pages with the most unnecessary stupid miscommunication third act plotline that i've ever encountered

there's nothing really wrong with this book i did have a fun time reading it just really didn't stick to the old brain folds at all

i want to say that this book this series this middle grade series should be the next harry potter

it really wasn't as in-depth as i hoped that it would be and i really felt like the side characters and the love interest just existed to further the main character's plot