The Best and Worst Books of Each Month of the Year!

This Year's Best and Worst Books: A Reader's Reflection

As I sit down to reflect on the books I read this year, I'm reminded of how much I love discussing my reading experiences with others. From the first book of the month that caught my eye to the last one that left a lasting impression, every title played its part in shaping my literary journey. And now, as I look back on the past 12 months, I'm excited to share my thoughts on what worked and what didn't.

My favorite books of the year were Coraline by Neil Gaiman, which unfortunately earns me three out of five stars due to its dark themes; The Witchy by Ariel Slamet Reese; and Kingdom of the Wicked by Carrie Maniscalco. While I enjoyed these books, I couldn't help but feel that Coraline was my least favorite. There's something about the story that just didn't click with me, perhaps due to its eerie atmosphere or the way it explored themes of identity and belonging.

On the other hand, Cemetery Boys by Aidan Thomas stands out as one of my top reads of the year. I loved how it blended elements of horror, fantasy, and coming-of-age drama to create a narrative that was both captivating and thought-provoking. The characters were well-developed and relatable, making it easy for me to become invested in their stories. Overall, Cemetery Boys is a masterclass in storytelling, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good mystery with a hint of the supernatural.

In contrast, my worst book of the year was Coraline by Neil Gaiman. While I know many people have enjoyed this novel, it just didn't resonate with me on an emotional level. The story had some interesting elements, but ultimately felt disjointed and difficult to follow at times. Despite its reputation as a modern classic, I found myself struggling to connect with the protagonist or become fully engaged in the world she inhabited.

The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel Volumes One and Two by Neil Gaiman also fell under my radar this year. While I appreciated the unique take on traditional fairy tales, I didn't quite love it as much as some of Gaiman's other works. The story had an intriguing premise, but ultimately felt a bit predictable and lacking in depth. Still, fans of fantasy and adventure will likely find plenty to enjoy here.

Tragicly, my worst book for the month of October was Coraline by Neil Gaiman. I still remember how much I disliked this one, and it's hard to pinpoint exactly what didn't work for me - maybe it was the creepy atmosphere or the strange, otherworldly setting that just didn't quite click with me.

Moving on to November, things started off strong with Kingdom of the Wicked by Carrie Maniscalco. This book had everything I love in a fantasy novel: magic, romance, and adventure all mixed together in a delicious pot of intrigue. The characters were well-developed and complex, making it easy for me to become invested in their stories. Overall, Kingdom of the Wicked is a must-read for fans of fantasy and romance alike.

Punching the Air by Ibz Zoe Boy was another highlight from November's reading list. I appreciated how this book explored themes of identity, community, and social justice with sensitivity and nuance. The writing was engaging and accessible, making it easy to become fully immersed in the world the author created. While the story itself wasn't entirely new or groundbreaking, its execution was top-notch, and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a compelling narrative.

The Tea Dragon Tapestry by Katie O'Neill rounded out November's reading list with another delightful fantasy novel. The art was stunning, and the story had all the makings of a classic: magic, adventure, and romance all mixed together in a beautifully crafted package. While not everyone may appreciate the more whimsical elements of this book, fans of fantasy will likely find plenty to love here.

The Great Gatsby Graphic Novel by Illustrated and Adopted by Fred Fordham was my final read for November, and unfortunately, it left me feeling underwhelmed. Don't get me wrong - I know The Great Gatsby is a classic, but this graphic novel adaptation just didn't capture the essence of F. Scott Fitzgerald's original work for me. Perhaps that's because I've already read the book multiple times, or maybe it was simply the execution that fell short. Either way, fans of the novel may find this adaptation lacking in some key areas.

As the year draws to a close, I'm excited to share my thoughts on the books I'll be reading in December. From Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore to Well Met by Jen DeLuca, there's something for everyone on this list. And while it's too early to say which book will emerge as my favorite of the month, I'm confident that at least one (or two) of these titles will leave a lasting impression.

For now, I'll leave you with my predictions for December: it's going to be a great month for readers!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eneveryone it's haley and today is bookmaster so i'm going to be playing a little game here where i'm going to be picking a best book and a worst book for each month of the year so for yesterday bookmas day 9 i talked about all the 2020 new releases that i didn't get the chance to read that i really wish i had so i'll have that link down below just in case you missed it as well as the entire bookmas playlist so you guys can get caught up but today we are going to be talking about a best and a worst book and i think this is such a fun idea it's kind of like the best and worst for each shelf video that i did it's gonna bug me you can see too much white on that side once again okay there we go we are back sorry but that was also an idea from one of you guys and then one of you suggested this video when i was asking for bookmas ideas and i just loved it there's also the idea of doing a best and worse for each genre but that one i felt like might be a little bit more repetitive i don't know what's happening with my hands here but so i decided to do the each month version because there's some months where i feel like i read like two books that i really loved some months where i didn't really like the books i think it's just going to be an interesting little switch up of things so i'm going to be looking on my phone here for the like what i read in a month thankfully we have good reads or else i definitely wouldn't remember so i'll be starting with december actually because my reading year ends in november every year i talk about that and i you know i know it's annoying but i'm sorry but everything that i read in december of the previous year i count toward the next year's bookmas so december will be my first month of reads here goodreads is such a terrible app i have to say like i love the program i love the service but the actual like hardware of the app i don't know if that makes sense but it's always so slow and so glitchy for me like it's taking 12 years just to load the books that i have read i feel like that's not that complicated i don't know i just feel like i have a million issues with goodreads glitching like the app i guess is just really slow but the actual like desktop website always has so many glitches for me which is really annoying but we're almost there okay we made it so in december i read 10 blind dates by ashley elston the 12 days of dash and lily by rachel cohn and david levithan hidden sea by gregory maguire one day in december by josie silver 25 days till christmas by poppy alexander the simple wild for some reason is showing up here but that i think i finished reading in november so i'm not sure why that's there so we'll just ignore that 11 other train wrecks by leah conan and that was that so immediately a couple are standing out to me as books that might be the best 10 blind dates for one is one that i loved like i just i really thoroughly enjoyed that book however we have one day in december by josie silver which was on my favorite books of the year list this year if you watched that video you know that so that one is like i don't know it's like creeping up there that one is definitely potential but i did love ten blind dates so it's kind of hard to pick for that one i will go with one day in december though because obviously like it's on my favorites of the year list i love that one but 10 blind dates is definitely a close second now as far as least favorite goes we have a couple of potential like 12 days of dash and lily i gave a 2.5 but i didn't hate it i just didn't love it then 25 days till christmas by poppy alexander that one i i didn't really like i included that on my worst books of the year list that when i gave it 2.5 though because like that i just was expecting something different which is where the struggle happened so i also have uh where is it where did it go i didn't see i gave two out of five stars i think that's a little bit generous that one's a nutcracker retelling that i was just kind of confused by so that was also on my worst books of the year list so i'm gonna go with hidden c so my best book of december was one day in december by josie silver and my worst book of december was hidden seed by gregory mcguire so moving on january i actually didn't technically read anything i don't know if i just marked this wrong or whatever what's happening here but the toll by neil shusterman i apparently started on new year's day but didn't finish it until february 3rd so i don't think that's accurate i don't really remember though and then the right swipe by alicia ray i started january 15th but didn't finish until february 2nd as well i guess i don't know so i'm just gonna skip january and move along to february so in february i read the toll by neil shusterman the right swipe by alicia ray the bromance book club by lisa k adams the flat share by beth o'leary all your twisted secrets nope we're going into march i literally just got on a roll of reading there and did not pay attention to the actual dates so we have the fletcher bromance right swipe and the toy the toll i was kind of let down by the right swipe i did enjoy but the bromance book club i really really really loved i did really like that one i totally got invested in the relationship i loved that it was a pre-established relationship and the concept of like using the romance novels as guidebooks a bunch of these guys having a book club to do that is so fun to me so i'm going to go with that one for my best book of janu no february and for the worst book there's not really competition here it would have to be the flat share by beth o'leary i did also include this in my worst books of the year video but that one i was just so disappointed by i was so bored by it it was just it was a very strange experience because i really thought it was going to be something i would love so for february my best book of the month was the bromance book club by lisa k adams and my worst book of the month was the flat share by beth o'leary so both romances but one was just super let down so now getting to march this is where things get interesting so all your twisted secrets by diana urban american royals by catherine mcgee the key to happily ever after by tiff marcelo come tumbling down by seanan mcguire wolf by wolf by ryan graudin the night country by melissa albert lovely boar by julie berry and then oh i did actually read that one starry eyes by jen bennett is also on there so we know where things get difficult here because i read lovely war and wolf by wolf in the same month so if you watched my top books of the year video then you know that that is literally lovely war and then wolf by wolf are my top two favorite books of the year and that that's so that's so hard like why why did i have to read them in the same month but i like it honestly is neck and neck because i love these books both so much for such different reasons but i i'm gonna go with the lovely war but also like i i love wolf by wolf so that is such a difficult decision but final answer is lovely war but also wolf by wolf ooh i have a plan i know what's gonna happen anyways okay so for the worst book of the month on the other hand i read some pretty like i enjoyed them like mostly 3.5 and point seven five out of five stars this month but i did also read come tumbling down by seanan mcguire which i gave a 2.5 out of five stars that one i always struggle with like that series i keep reading them because they're really short and i am interested in the concept but they never quite connect for me so that was also the case with this one so i will say that come tumbling down is my worst book of the month so my best book of march which wasn't a great month but it also was a great reading month so that's interesting but lovely war by julie berry but also wolf by wolf but like you know and then my worst book is come tumbling down by seanan mcguire so at the end of march things kind of you know fell apart the world became a very very interesting place so i didn't read all that much in april but i did still read some so the books that i read in april are the fountains of silence by rudis of petty's songs of innocence and experience by william blake i read a poetry collection the librarian of auschwitz by antonio iturb translated by lilith thwaites so that's three books so obviously that's kind of a hard one but it also isn't necessarily a hard one i didn't give a rating to william blake just because like i feel like it seems weird to write an entire poetry collection i don't really like doing that so that has no rating so i mean we have two choices here so fountains of silence is going to be my best book of the month obviously because i mean i loved that one it was on my top books of the year list and then the librarian of auschwitz i super super super disappointed by just the writing and like i don't know i will talk about that more in my surprises and disappointments video which is coming out i don't know when but it should be relatively soon but yeah that one was a major letdown so that will have to be my worst book of the month so fountains of silence by rudy pettis is my best book of april and the librarian of auschwitz by antonio i term translated by sweets was my worst book of april unfortunately now moving on to may the honey don't list by christina lauren the bride test by helen huang undercover bromance by lisa k adams say you still love me by k.a tucker the betrothed by hira cass alex approximately by jen bennett time of our lives by emily whiberly verona comics by jennifer dugan what was happening i read so much clap when you land by elizabeth acevedo opposite of always by justin a reynolds actually i finished that one in june but uh i'll i'll include it in june because i did read a ton in may what was happening there wow okay so we have a competition here really so clap when you land i loved it was amazing i also really enjoyed alex approximately undercover bromance was good the honey don't list was also really enjoyable but i think clap when you land has to get it it was on my top books of the year list so you probably knew that but it was just such a powerful story told in verse and definitely very different than a lot of other books that i've read because it has sisters who didn't know the other existed until their father dies so super cool especially because i mean not cool cool is the wrong word it was very i didn't want to say interesting again but interesting i guess is the only word that i can come up with but i liked the fact that one of them was living in dominican republic one was in new york so entirely different worlds and her writing is just so great and then for the worst book it's not even really a competition if we're being honest because i read the betrothed by kiera cass then so hmm that one definitely whole yeah that is definitely my worst book of the month so for my best book of the month of may i read clap money land by elizabeth acevedo and my worst book for the month of may was the betrothed bakura cast so moving on to june so opposite of always by justin a reynolds slay by brittany morris i also read white rage by carol anderson but i don't give a rating to non-fiction books that i'm reading so i will skip that one as well as white fragility by robin d'angelo so next is like a love story by abdi nazemian long way down by jason reynolds let's talk about love by claire kahn the black flamingo by dean ada moon cakes by suzanne walker heart stopper vol 3 by alice oseman felix ever after by case and calendar princess ever after by katie o'neill i kissed alice by anna birch and that was it for the month okay wow once again i read a ton in june i don't know what's happening here but oh this one's tough so i really enjoyed opposite of always slay also really loved i gave that one a 4.5 out of 5 stars also like a love story i super super loved like really enjoyed that the black flamingo another one of my favorites from my favorites list and felix ever after is also on my favorites list so we have like a lot of runners runner-ups for my favorites list here and we have some that like actually made the list i'm going to have to go with for my favorite book felix ever after just because it is one that really stuck with me the characters totally like made their way into my heart and they're still there and i just love them so so much so i do have to go with that one even though it is super tough to choose and for a worst book i actually had like really good luck with what i read so oh i guess i'll go with my dnf which was i kissed alice by anna birch but i mean if i have to pick something different i guess the one that i would go with like they're all kind of four out of five star reads i guess moon cakes by suzanne walker although that is a 3.5 out of 5 star read so like not bad by any means so my best book for the month of june was felix ever after by case and calendar and my worst book for the month of june was moon cakes by suzanne walker i think there's another author but it just doesn't show it there wendy zoo yes so it just shows on the cover but like on goodreads it just has the one author's name so now in july i started off by rereading alice in wonderland and through the looking glass so that happened but those i won't count because i feel like it doesn't make sense my calamity jane by cynthia hand brodie ashton and jody meadows almost american girl by robin hobb beach read by emily henry tiny pretty things by sona chairipotra and danielle clayton the paper girl of paris by jordan taylor and dear haiti love elaine by micah molite and maritza moly so i really liked almost american girl my clamity jane let me down but i didn't like hate it by any means beach read is gonna have to be my favorite i feel like i kind of had like mediocre luck with july reading but beach read i did super enjoy loved the story line loved the characters love that it was a romance with an emotional impact i'm a sucker for that but i did also really like tiny pretty things so that's a tough one but the paper girl of paris would have to be my least favorite and it's not that i hate that book but i think that it was more so like a younger end of why a and for someone who's more starting out with historical fiction so my best book for the month of july is beach read by emily henry and my worst book for the month of july is the paper girl of paris and by jordan taylor so now for august so in august i read love boat taipei by abigail heng wen summer of salt by katrina leno under a painted sky by stacey lee a song below water by bethany c morrow maybe this time by casey west tweet cute by emma lord get a life chloe brown by talia hibbert actually get a life chloe brown i finished in september so i'll count that towards then so maybe this time i feel like that will be my worst one and it's not that i didn't like that one once again i gave it a three out of five stars it's just like this month i had a pretty good reading month once again so maybe this time out of those books is kind of the most underwhelming of them as far as a favorite goes though i really like summer of salt and love boat taipei also under a painted sky so i think out of those ones i'm going to go with love bow taipei i'm kind of torn but i will go with love boat taipei as my best book of the month because it did it definitely surprised me i wasn't really sure what to expect from it so my best book for the month of august was love about taipei by abigail hing when and my worst book for the month of august was maybe this time by casey west and now for september get a life chloe brown by talia hibbert blood for blood by ryan groudin iron to iron by ryan graudin iron cast by destiny soria house of salt and sorrows by aaron a craig shiny broken pieces by sona chiripotra and daniel clayton series moonlight by jen bennett when we were magic by sarah gately cinderella is dead by kailyn bayern and odd and true by catwinters so once again i had a really big reading month in september i i really okay so cinderella is dead was great and serious moonlight also great house of salt and sorrows that one really enjoyed and then blood for blood this was my plan was to pick blood for blood but then there's also house of salt and sorrows which like i did i really liked it but out of the two i would have to say that blood for blood gets it as my best book of the month now as far as worst book goes i think that that is going to have to go to when we were magic by sarah galey i was hoping to enjoy that one more but i kind of just had too many issues with it so my best book for the month of september was blood for blood by ryan grodin and my worst book for the month of september was when we were magic by sarah galey and now for october dreamland burning by jennifer latham allegedly by tiffany d jackson cemetery boys by aiden thomas beetle and the hollow bones by eliza lane long way down the graphic novel by jason reynolds sean's tea party by ramina yi the witch boy by molly ostertag sheets by brenna thumler coraline hmm coraline by neil gaiman i have a three out of five stars here that's gonna change the witches by roald dahl the graveyard book graphic novel volumes one and two by neil gaiman which light by jessie zabarski an embarrassment of witches by sophie goldstein i think there's another author for this one too but i can't i can't see it uh jenna jordan witchy by ariel slamet reese and the wicked deep by shea earnshaw the king of crows by libba bray the bone houses by emily lloyd jones among the beasts and briars by ashley poston master of one by jada jones so i read a lot in october because i did that whole like month not month long i did that whole uh 48 hour read-a-thon with graphic novels so that's what most of those are coraline is going to have to be my worst book of the month you know that already so coraline oh my gosh i still i can't best book in the month is kind of hard like cemetery boys but i also really loved sean's tea party and the king of crows but i'm gonna go with the cemetery boys by in thomas i know there's not a the sometimes i just add the in the beginning of a title even if it's not there but yeah so cemetery boys i just i really loved that one so my best book of the month of october was cemetery boys by aidan thomas and my worst book for the month of october was coraline by neil gaiman tragic and finally november so i actually i haven't like finished reading on the books for november yet but i'm just gonna i'll pick anyways so this might change i might like pop in while editing to tell you that it has changed but so far in november i have read kingdom of the wicked by carrie maniscalco punching the air by ibb zoe boy and yusuf salaam the tea dragon festival by katie o'neill the tea dragon tapestry by katie o'neill ninth house by leigh bardugo the great gatsby graphic novel by illustrated and adopted by fred fordham and anne of green gables graphic novel by mariah marsden so i will definitely be reading four more books i just don't know which ones or how i'll feel about them obviously i'm currently reading bringing down the duke by evie dunmore and well met by jen deluca so i think like bringing down the duke might kind of change things but the tea dragon books i love so those are like close for the best books but kingdom of the wicked just it got me man like i mean punching the air is also like a really great one but the romance and the angst and kingdom of the wicked i have to give it the best book for that i don't know i didn't really read anything that i didn't really like in the month of november at least not so far so as of now i will give it to the great gatsby but it wasn't like that wasn't bad by any means but oh well so my best book for the month of november was kingdom of the wicked by carrick maniscalco and my worst book was i forget i just said it the great the great the the great gatsby by fred fordham okay so that was every month of the year broken down into my best and my worst book i hope you guys enjoyed if you wanted to know more specifically about like what exactly i read this year every single book i will be doing a video later on in bookmas showing you every single book that i read this year even though i know i basically just said all the titles but it'll be more of a fun video and i will also be breaking down all of my stats and just my thoughts for the year so stay tuned for that later on but i hope you guys enjoyed i don't know like this was kind of hard but it was a lot of fun too so i hope you liked it but don't forget to join me tomorrow for bookmas day 11 where i'm going to be talking about the books that you guys said were the most hyped up the most talked about books of 2020. it's a giant list so that's gonna be fun but don't forget to click that subscribe button so you won't miss any of the videos that i'm posting for bookmas i will be posting a video every single day for the month of december so you can also click that notification bell so you can be extra sure that you won't miss any but thank you guys so much for watching and i will see you in my next video tomorrow bye youeveryone it's haley and today is bookmaster so i'm going to be playing a little game here where i'm going to be picking a best book and a worst book for each month of the year so for yesterday bookmas day 9 i talked about all the 2020 new releases that i didn't get the chance to read that i really wish i had so i'll have that link down below just in case you missed it as well as the entire bookmas playlist so you guys can get caught up but today we are going to be talking about a best and a worst book and i think this is such a fun idea it's kind of like the best and worst for each shelf video that i did it's gonna bug me you can see too much white on that side once again okay there we go we are back sorry but that was also an idea from one of you guys and then one of you suggested this video when i was asking for bookmas ideas and i just loved it there's also the idea of doing a best and worse for each genre but that one i felt like might be a little bit more repetitive i don't know what's happening with my hands here but so i decided to do the each month version because there's some months where i feel like i read like two books that i really loved some months where i didn't really like the books i think it's just going to be an interesting little switch up of things so i'm going to be looking on my phone here for the like what i read in a month thankfully we have good reads or else i definitely wouldn't remember so i'll be starting with december actually because my reading year ends in november every year i talk about that and i you know i know it's annoying but i'm sorry but everything that i read in december of the previous year i count toward the next year's bookmas so december will be my first month of reads here goodreads is such a terrible app i have to say like i love the program i love the service but the actual like hardware of the app i don't know if that makes sense but it's always so slow and so glitchy for me like it's taking 12 years just to load the books that i have read i feel like that's not that complicated i don't know i just feel like i have a million issues with goodreads glitching like the app i guess is just really slow but the actual like desktop website always has so many glitches for me which is really annoying but we're almost there okay we made it so in december i read 10 blind dates by ashley elston the 12 days of dash and lily by rachel cohn and david levithan hidden sea by gregory maguire one day in december by josie silver 25 days till christmas by poppy alexander the simple wild for some reason is showing up here but that i think i finished reading in november so i'm not sure why that's there so we'll just ignore that 11 other train wrecks by leah conan and that was that so immediately a couple are standing out to me as books that might be the best 10 blind dates for one is one that i loved like i just i really thoroughly enjoyed that book however we have one day in december by josie silver which was on my favorite books of the year list this year if you watched that video you know that so that one is like i don't know it's like creeping up there that one is definitely potential but i did love ten blind dates so it's kind of hard to pick for that one i will go with one day in december though because obviously like it's on my favorites of the year list i love that one but 10 blind dates is definitely a close second now as far as least favorite goes we have a couple of potential like 12 days of dash and lily i gave a 2.5 but i didn't hate it i just didn't love it then 25 days till christmas by poppy alexander that one i i didn't really like i included that on my worst books of the year list that when i gave it 2.5 though because like that i just was expecting something different which is where the struggle happened so i also have uh where is it where did it go i didn't see i gave two out of five stars i think that's a little bit generous that one's a nutcracker retelling that i was just kind of confused by so that was also on my worst books of the year list so i'm gonna go with hidden c so my best book of december was one day in december by josie silver and my worst book of december was hidden seed by gregory mcguire so moving on january i actually didn't technically read anything i don't know if i just marked this wrong or whatever what's happening here but the toll by neil shusterman i apparently started on new year's day but didn't finish it until february 3rd so i don't think that's accurate i don't really remember though and then the right swipe by alicia ray i started january 15th but didn't finish until february 2nd as well i guess i don't know so i'm just gonna skip january and move along to february so in february i read the toll by neil shusterman the right swipe by alicia ray the bromance book club by lisa k adams the flat share by beth o'leary all your twisted secrets nope we're going into march i literally just got on a roll of reading there and did not pay attention to the actual dates so we have the fletcher bromance right swipe and the toy the toll i was kind of let down by the right swipe i did enjoy but the bromance book club i really really really loved i did really like that one i totally got invested in the relationship i loved that it was a pre-established relationship and the concept of like using the romance novels as guidebooks a bunch of these guys having a book club to do that is so fun to me so i'm going to go with that one for my best book of janu no february and for the worst book there's not really competition here it would have to be the flat share by beth o'leary i did also include this in my worst books of the year video but that one i was just so disappointed by i was so bored by it it was just it was a very strange experience because i really thought it was going to be something i would love so for february my best book of the month was the bromance book club by lisa k adams and my worst book of the month was the flat share by beth o'leary so both romances but one was just super let down so now getting to march this is where things get interesting so all your twisted secrets by diana urban american royals by catherine mcgee the key to happily ever after by tiff marcelo come tumbling down by seanan mcguire wolf by wolf by ryan graudin the night country by melissa albert lovely boar by julie berry and then oh i did actually read that one starry eyes by jen bennett is also on there so we know where things get difficult here because i read lovely war and wolf by wolf in the same month so if you watched my top books of the year video then you know that that is literally lovely war and then wolf by wolf are my top two favorite books of the year and that that's so that's so hard like why why did i have to read them in the same month but i like it honestly is neck and neck because i love these books both so much for such different reasons but i i'm gonna go with the lovely war but also like i i love wolf by wolf so that is such a difficult decision but final answer is lovely war but also wolf by wolf ooh i have a plan i know what's gonna happen anyways okay so for the worst book of the month on the other hand i read some pretty like i enjoyed them like mostly 3.5 and point seven five out of five stars this month but i did also read come tumbling down by seanan mcguire which i gave a 2.5 out of five stars that one i always struggle with like that series i keep reading them because they're really short and i am interested in the concept but they never quite connect for me so that was also the case with this one so i will say that come tumbling down is my worst book of the month so my best book of march which wasn't a great month but it also was a great reading month so that's interesting but lovely war by julie berry but also wolf by wolf but like you know and then my worst book is come tumbling down by seanan mcguire so at the end of march things kind of you know fell apart the world became a very very interesting place so i didn't read all that much in april but i did still read some so the books that i read in april are the fountains of silence by rudis of petty's songs of innocence and experience by william blake i read a poetry collection the librarian of auschwitz by antonio iturb translated by lilith thwaites so that's three books so obviously that's kind of a hard one but it also isn't necessarily a hard one i didn't give a rating to william blake just because like i feel like it seems weird to write an entire poetry collection i don't really like doing that so that has no rating so i mean we have two choices here so fountains of silence is going to be my best book of the month obviously because i mean i loved that one it was on my top books of the year list and then the librarian of auschwitz i super super super disappointed by just the writing and like i don't know i will talk about that more in my surprises and disappointments video which is coming out i don't know when but it should be relatively soon but yeah that one was a major letdown so that will have to be my worst book of the month so fountains of silence by rudy pettis is my best book of april and the librarian of auschwitz by antonio i term translated by sweets was my worst book of april unfortunately now moving on to may the honey don't list by christina lauren the bride test by helen huang undercover bromance by lisa k adams say you still love me by k.a tucker the betrothed by hira cass alex approximately by jen bennett time of our lives by emily whiberly verona comics by jennifer dugan what was happening i read so much clap when you land by elizabeth acevedo opposite of always by justin a reynolds actually i finished that one in june but uh i'll i'll include it in june because i did read a ton in may what was happening there wow okay so we have a competition here really so clap when you land i loved it was amazing i also really enjoyed alex approximately undercover bromance was good the honey don't list was also really enjoyable but i think clap when you land has to get it it was on my top books of the year list so you probably knew that but it was just such a powerful story told in verse and definitely very different than a lot of other books that i've read because it has sisters who didn't know the other existed until their father dies so super cool especially because i mean not cool cool is the wrong word it was very i didn't want to say interesting again but interesting i guess is the only word that i can come up with but i liked the fact that one of them was living in dominican republic one was in new york so entirely different worlds and her writing is just so great and then for the worst book it's not even really a competition if we're being honest because i read the betrothed by kiera cass then so hmm that one definitely whole yeah that is definitely my worst book of the month so for my best book of the month of may i read clap money land by elizabeth acevedo and my worst book for the month of may was the betrothed bakura cast so moving on to june so opposite of always by justin a reynolds slay by brittany morris i also read white rage by carol anderson but i don't give a rating to non-fiction books that i'm reading so i will skip that one as well as white fragility by robin d'angelo so next is like a love story by abdi nazemian long way down by jason reynolds let's talk about love by claire kahn the black flamingo by dean ada moon cakes by suzanne walker heart stopper vol 3 by alice oseman felix ever after by case and calendar princess ever after by katie o'neill i kissed alice by anna birch and that was it for the month okay wow once again i read a ton in june i don't know what's happening here but oh this one's tough so i really enjoyed opposite of always slay also really loved i gave that one a 4.5 out of 5 stars also like a love story i super super loved like really enjoyed that the black flamingo another one of my favorites from my favorites list and felix ever after is also on my favorites list so we have like a lot of runners runner-ups for my favorites list here and we have some that like actually made the list i'm going to have to go with for my favorite book felix ever after just because it is one that really stuck with me the characters totally like made their way into my heart and they're still there and i just love them so so much so i do have to go with that one even though it is super tough to choose and for a worst book i actually had like really good luck with what i read so oh i guess i'll go with my dnf which was i kissed alice by anna birch but i mean if i have to pick something different i guess the one that i would go with like they're all kind of four out of five star reads i guess moon cakes by suzanne walker although that is a 3.5 out of 5 star read so like not bad by any means so my best book for the month of june was felix ever after by case and calendar and my worst book for the month of june was moon cakes by suzanne walker i think there's another author but it just doesn't show it there wendy zoo yes so it just shows on the cover but like on goodreads it just has the one author's name so now in july i started off by rereading alice in wonderland and through the looking glass so that happened but those i won't count because i feel like it doesn't make sense my calamity jane by cynthia hand brodie ashton and jody meadows almost american girl by robin hobb beach read by emily henry tiny pretty things by sona chairipotra and danielle clayton the paper girl of paris by jordan taylor and dear haiti love elaine by micah molite and maritza moly so i really liked almost american girl my clamity jane let me down but i didn't like hate it by any means beach read is gonna have to be my favorite i feel like i kind of had like mediocre luck with july reading but beach read i did super enjoy loved the story line loved the characters love that it was a romance with an emotional impact i'm a sucker for that but i did also really like tiny pretty things so that's a tough one but the paper girl of paris would have to be my least favorite and it's not that i hate that book but i think that it was more so like a younger end of why a and for someone who's more starting out with historical fiction so my best book for the month of july is beach read by emily henry and my worst book for the month of july is the paper girl of paris and by jordan taylor so now for august so in august i read love boat taipei by abigail heng wen summer of salt by katrina leno under a painted sky by stacey lee a song below water by bethany c morrow maybe this time by casey west tweet cute by emma lord get a life chloe brown by talia hibbert actually get a life chloe brown i finished in september so i'll count that towards then so maybe this time i feel like that will be my worst one and it's not that i didn't like that one once again i gave it a three out of five stars it's just like this month i had a pretty good reading month once again so maybe this time out of those books is kind of the most underwhelming of them as far as a favorite goes though i really like summer of salt and love boat taipei also under a painted sky so i think out of those ones i'm going to go with love bow taipei i'm kind of torn but i will go with love boat taipei as my best book of the month because it did it definitely surprised me i wasn't really sure what to expect from it so my best book for the month of august was love about taipei by abigail hing when and my worst book for the month of august was maybe this time by casey west and now for september get a life chloe brown by talia hibbert blood for blood by ryan groudin iron to iron by ryan graudin iron cast by destiny soria house of salt and sorrows by aaron a craig shiny broken pieces by sona chiripotra and daniel clayton series moonlight by jen bennett when we were magic by sarah gately cinderella is dead by kailyn bayern and odd and true by catwinters so once again i had a really big reading month in september i i really okay so cinderella is dead was great and serious moonlight also great house of salt and sorrows that one really enjoyed and then blood for blood this was my plan was to pick blood for blood but then there's also house of salt and sorrows which like i did i really liked it but out of the two i would have to say that blood for blood gets it as my best book of the month now as far as worst book goes i think that that is going to have to go to when we were magic by sarah galey i was hoping to enjoy that one more but i kind of just had too many issues with it so my best book for the month of september was blood for blood by ryan grodin and my worst book for the month of september was when we were magic by sarah galey and now for october dreamland burning by jennifer latham allegedly by tiffany d jackson cemetery boys by aiden thomas beetle and the hollow bones by eliza lane long way down the graphic novel by jason reynolds sean's tea party by ramina yi the witch boy by molly ostertag sheets by brenna thumler coraline hmm coraline by neil gaiman i have a three out of five stars here that's gonna change the witches by roald dahl the graveyard book graphic novel volumes one and two by neil gaiman which light by jessie zabarski an embarrassment of witches by sophie goldstein i think there's another author for this one too but i can't i can't see it uh jenna jordan witchy by ariel slamet reese and the wicked deep by shea earnshaw the king of crows by libba bray the bone houses by emily lloyd jones among the beasts and briars by ashley poston master of one by jada jones so i read a lot in october because i did that whole like month not month long i did that whole uh 48 hour read-a-thon with graphic novels so that's what most of those are coraline is going to have to be my worst book of the month you know that already so coraline oh my gosh i still i can't best book in the month is kind of hard like cemetery boys but i also really loved sean's tea party and the king of crows but i'm gonna go with the cemetery boys by in thomas i know there's not a the sometimes i just add the in the beginning of a title even if it's not there but yeah so cemetery boys i just i really loved that one so my best book of the month of october was cemetery boys by aidan thomas and my worst book for the month of october was coraline by neil gaiman tragic and finally november so i actually i haven't like finished reading on the books for november yet but i'm just gonna i'll pick anyways so this might change i might like pop in while editing to tell you that it has changed but so far in november i have read kingdom of the wicked by carrie maniscalco punching the air by ibb zoe boy and yusuf salaam the tea dragon festival by katie o'neill the tea dragon tapestry by katie o'neill ninth house by leigh bardugo the great gatsby graphic novel by illustrated and adopted by fred fordham and anne of green gables graphic novel by mariah marsden so i will definitely be reading four more books i just don't know which ones or how i'll feel about them obviously i'm currently reading bringing down the duke by evie dunmore and well met by jen deluca so i think like bringing down the duke might kind of change things but the tea dragon books i love so those are like close for the best books but kingdom of the wicked just it got me man like i mean punching the air is also like a really great one but the romance and the angst and kingdom of the wicked i have to give it the best book for that i don't know i didn't really read anything that i didn't really like in the month of november at least not so far so as of now i will give it to the great gatsby but it wasn't like that wasn't bad by any means but oh well so my best book for the month of november was kingdom of the wicked by carrick maniscalco and my worst book was i forget i just said it the great the great the the great gatsby by fred fordham okay so that was every month of the year broken down into my best and my worst book i hope you guys enjoyed if you wanted to know more specifically about like what exactly i read this year every single book i will be doing a video later on in bookmas showing you every single book that i read this year even though i know i basically just said all the titles but it'll be more of a fun video and i will also be breaking down all of my stats and just my thoughts for the year so stay tuned for that later on but i hope you guys enjoyed i don't know like this was kind of hard but it was a lot of fun too so i hope you liked it but don't forget to join me tomorrow for bookmas day 11 where i'm going to be talking about the books that you guys said were the most hyped up the most talked about books of 2020. it's a giant list so that's gonna be fun but don't forget to click that subscribe button so you won't miss any of the videos that i'm posting for bookmas i will be posting a video every single day for the month of december so you can also click that notification bell so you can be extra sure that you won't miss any but thank you guys so much for watching and i will see you in my next video tomorrow bye you\n"