Episode 10 – Bests & Worsts of 2014 (Part 1, Children’s and YA)

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.5 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Tune in to our Bests & Worsts of 2014 episodes to hear us discuss these titles and read excerpts from our favorites and least favorites! Please note:

We counted things that we read in 2014, regardless of publication year.
We didn’t count anything that we read specifically for this podcast, so our worst books are aside from those.
For that reason, we picked top 5 favorites and only 1 least favorite–we have this whole podcast to talk about bad books, so for these episodes we’re choosing to focus on the positive!
Some of our “worsts” are really just “least best.” Listen to the podcast to hear more detail!

Children’s/Middle Grade

Young Adult

Kait’s Top 5 Best

5.) Adaptation by Malinda Lo

4.) The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

3.) Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

2.) The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

1.) Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Kait’s Worst

The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

Renata’s Top 5 Best

5.) Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A. S. King

4.) Wildlife by Fiona Wood

3.) Cress by Marissa Meyer

2.) Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

1.) Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld

Renata’s Worst

Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid

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(But no pressure, we’re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the worst bestsellers where sometimes we actually read good stuff.
0:15.4	I'm Kate.
0:16.5	And I'm Renata.
0:17.9	And this is our first ever end of year, end of book year in review podcast.
0:24.4	On this podcast, obviously we talk a lot about really terrible books.
0:28.8	So we decided to spread a little bit of joy and compile our best list, our lists of best books that we read in four different categories over the course of the year.
0:41.7	There are books that didn't necessarily come out in 2014, but books that we personally read in 2014.
0:49.1	And we also will be talking a little bit about what we consider the worst book for 20 in each category for this year.
0:57.6	But worst is pretty subjective in this case.
1:02.8	And so is best.
1:04.0	I mean, I'm by no means trying to be some kind of objective reviewer.
1:07.9	Like, it's stuff that I read that I liked a lot for whatever reason. Maybe
1:11.4	it was really good. I mean, everything in my best list is probably good, but I'm definitely not
1:17.1	looking at this, like, I'm the New York Times reviewer. Well, actually, you know, maybe I'm better
1:22.6	than the New York Times book reviewers, but, you know, I'm not trying to just sort of be very objective about this.
1:29.2	It's about our feelings, you guys.
1:33.2	It's true. It's true.
1:34.9	In the year 2014.
1:37.2	And for worst, particularly, with one exception, basically every worst book that I have listed
1:43.8	isn't even a bad book. It's just a book
1:47.0	that I liked less than I liked the other books that I read this year. When I was a bookseller,
1:52.3	I used to read like hundreds and hundreds of books a year and I read everything good or bad,
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