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What were the best and worst books you read in 2010?

2010 is just short of being over now and we've all done our fair share of reading this year. What were your best and worst books? Feel free to explain and include as many or as few as you feel fit each category.

Best:

Carrie by Stephen King

Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves

The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart

Worst:

Angel Star by Jennifer Murgia (Not just the worst book I read this year, but the worst book I've ever read. It hit all my pet peeves and nearly offended me.)

Delcroix Academy: The Candidates by Inara Scott

Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

Update:

Gee-Gee: Hush, Hush just wasn't my kind of book. Personally, I found Patch a little creepy and it made me uncomfortable that Nora fell in love with him despite how he treated her. That was just how I felt about it and I don't mind that you liked it. To each their own and such.

Why would you think that you won't get best answer just because our opinions conflict? I'm not one of those people who will only select an answer as best because it agrees with her. Who knows? You just might get best answer on this in a few days!

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    My favorite book of al,l time: The Host, was read this year. It cannot evens be placed on this list...it was amazing! Stephanie Meyers reclaims her name with that one...I just cannot even describe it!

    One question, what did you not like about Hush, Hush? That is probably my fourth pick! I guess we have different opinions...this won't get me a best answer, though. Ha ha, just speaking my mind.

    Best:

    1) Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Claire (her other series, Mortal Instrument Series, come in number two of all time.)

    2) Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly (it took a while to get into it, but definitely worth my time at the end!)

    3) The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks (number one page turner, spine-tingling read ever!)

    Worst:

    1) Heist Society (not a bad book, just not right for me.)

    2) Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick (it completely let me down after Hush, Hush. It was not good, whatsoever.)

    3) Fallen (so reoccurring...bleaaaaa)

    It was hard to make my worst list...but my best list was even harder! I have read so many amazing books this year....but my favorites have came from previous years.

    Great question, by the way.

    Source(s): barnes and noble....borders...amazon
  • 1 decade ago

    Best-

    Look Again-LisaScottoline

    The Quickie-James Patterson &Michael Ledwidge

    Hard Eight-Janet Evanovich

    Master of the Game-Sidney Sheldon

    Northern Lights-Nora Roberts

    Mr and Miss Anonymous-Fern Michaels

    Worst-

    Candles Burning-Tabitha King & Michael McDowell

    Dough-Mort Zachter

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Best:

    Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

    ^ This book blew my mind away. I had high expectations, but it surpassed them alright. It was heartbreaking, but at the same time, I loved the plot, and seeing how the main character evolved.

    Worst:

    Shadowland by Alyson Noel

    ^ I thought that the series couldn't get any worse, but it did. The protagonist drove me absolutely crazy. She never learns from any of her mistakes. The whole story revolves on her and her boyfriend being together, except that there's always some obstacle that Noel throws in their way, stopping them from being together. She's like Bella #2. The first book wasn't too bad though.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I didn't read that much that I can remember, if that gives you an impression on things...

    Best:

    Harry Potter series by JK Rowling

    Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (I think that's how you spell it... It was a while ago)

    Water For Elephants

    Boy in the Striped Pajamas

    The Book Theif

    Shutter Island

    Worst:

    I realllllly didn't like Lord of the Flies. My teacher raved about it... I don't know if I just wasn't in the mood, but I just thought it was morbid and silly.

    I didn't like Breaking Dawn... I can't believe I read it...

    The rest I can't even remember the names! :/

    EDIT: I forgot... I LOVED Revolutionary Road!

  • Best:

    The Shining by Stephen King-A former alcoholic gets a job as a caretaker for a hotel. He and his family move there only to find out it's haunted.

    Cujo by Stephen King-A St. Bernard with rabies terrorizes a small town. (This scared me, and I don't get scared)

    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins-A teenager competes in "The Hunger Games" organized by her country's capitol. In the games, 24 kids fight each other to the death. (All three, but Catching Fire is the best)

    Gone by Michael Grant-Suddenly, everyone over the age of 15 disappears, leaving the kids to fend for themselves. Some kids develop strange powers, and animals mutate to survive. Looming silently in an abandoned mine is the Darkness, an evil god-like being made from radioactive chemicals. (Again, all three, my favorite so far is Lies)

    Re-read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling-Harry Potter, a wizard, tries to destroy Voldemort by doing what his former headmaster told him to. (The best book ever!!)

    I tried not to give away much, but all of these books are really good.

    Worst:

    The Hobbit by J.J.R Tolkien (It was rather entertaining, but it got slow in the middle and I couldn't finish)

    Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer (Ugh. Hit my pet peeves and was BORING)

    I'll bet there are others that I just don't remember, but these are the biggest ones I do.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown!

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  • 1 decade ago

    Best: Safe Haven -Nicholas Sparks

    To Kill a Mockingbird -Harper Lee

    The Host -Stephenie Meyer

    Go Ask Alice -Anonymous

    Worst: Catcher in the Rye -J.D. Salinger

  • 1 decade ago

    best:

    josie and jack

    soulless

    the man who mistook his wife for a hat

    worst:

    cant remember the titles as i immediately stop reading bad books

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