April 23rd is World Book Day. It was first established by UNESCO in 1995 as a day of celebrating the joy of reading for enjoyment.
For my World Book Day 2020 book tag I went in the opposite direction of my Book Lovers Day 2019 book tag by sharing the books that I did not like at all and gave 1 star to on Goodreads. For anyone not familiar with the Goodreads rating it works like this:
1 star – did not like it
2 stars – it was okay
3 stars – liked it
4 stars – really liked it
5 stars – it was amazing
Today’s book tag is an update of the 2020 one as, unfortunately for me, I have read 11 1 star books since WBD 2020 (and DNFd 1 book), with 2020 being my worst reading year as I read SIX!!!!!! 1 star books that year 🥴😩😒 Similar to my 2020 World Book Day book tag, the books are arranged chronologically from June 2020 to date.
PS: ever since joining Goodreads in 2015, 2019, 2022 and 2024 remain the only years I did not read a 1 star book. Praise be!
- Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell
2. We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
3. Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir by Stephanie Klein
4. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
5. Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
6. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
7. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
8. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
9. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
10. The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
11. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Special shout-out to the first book I DNFd in six years 😮💨
12. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Lwile the Leo 