Best/Worst

The books we've loved and . . .  didn't love, since 2005 when we starting surveys.

2005-2006
Top three:
  1. A Thread of Grace
  2. Birds Without Wings
  3. Lolita
    Scorned:  Mrs. Kimble

    2006-2007
    Top three:
    1. Fidelity
    2. Wicked
    3. Daughter of Persia
      Scorned: The Dive from Clausen's Pier

      2007-2008
      Top three:
      1. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
      2. Interpreter of Maladies
      3. Small Island
        Scorned:  Matrimony

        2008-2009
        Top three:
        1. To Kill a Mockingbird
        2. All the King's Men
        3. Watership Down
          Scorned:  The Human Stain

          2009-2010
          Top three:
          1. Sula
          2. Bel Canto
          3. Dracula
          Scorned:  The Emperor's Children

          2010-2011
          Top three:
          1. Their Eyes Were Watching God
          2. My Antonia
          3. Alias Grace
          Scorned:  Pillars of the Earth

          2011-2012
          Top three:
          1. Cutting for Stone
          2. Death Comes for the Archbishop
          3. Murder in the Cathedral
          Scorned (but not really, because we liked it pretty well):  Ordinary Wolves

          2012-2013
          Top three:
          1. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
          2. O Pioneers
          3. Remains of the Day
          Scorned:  The Marriage Plot

          2013-2014
          Top three:
          1. Let the Great World Spin
          2. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
          3. Angle of Repose
          Scorned:  Swamplandia

          2014-2015
          Top three:
          1. Stoner
          2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
          3. The Things They Carried
          Scorned:  Still Alice

          2015-2016
          Top three:
          1. All the Light We Cannot See
          2. Rebecca
          3. The Age of Innocence
          Scorned:  Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

          2016-2017
          Top three:
          1./2. (Tie) Jane Eyre
          1./2. (Tie) Americana
          3.  Between the World and Me

          Scorned: The Sunken Cathedral

          2017-2018
          Top three:
          1. Homegoing
          2. East of Eden
          3. The Underground Railroad

          Scorned: Difficult Women

          2018-2019
          1. A Gentleman in Moscow
          2. Death in the Family
          3. The Picture of Dorian Gray

          Scorned: Improvement

          2019-2020
          Top three:
          1. Song of Solomon
          2. Disoriental
          3. Ethan Frome

          Scorned:  The Name of the Rose

          2020-2021
          Top Three
          1. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
          2. Dessa Rose
          3.  The Nickel Boys

          Scorned: Blindness

          2021-2022
          Top Three
          1. Hamnet
          2. The Warmth of Other Suns
          3. The Heart's Invisible Furies

          Scorned: The Dutch House

          2022-2023
          Top three:
          1) The End of the Affair
          2) Interior Chinatown
          3) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

          Scorned:  Yellowbird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country