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But don't say which is which!

I saw this really fun thread on Reddit, and I couldn't resist posing the same question on here to see what books y'all absolutely love and which ones you guys despise.

To make this fun, don't make the choice super obvious. It will be really fun to try and guess the books ourselves, so don't say which one was which until there's been a bit of discussion. Ideally, the more challenging, the better.

Also, just a note. You don't have to hate the book on the other end of the spectrum, it's ok to include a book you love and a book you mildly dislike. I know hate's a pretty strong word, and as for me, I don't really hate many books, but there are books that I dislike and probably won't read again. So even if you don't hate hate a book, but you just don't like it, still put it on the thread! It just sounds catchier that way, that's why I named the thread like that.

Mine are Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I couldn't resist doing another one, so The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and the Stranger by Albert Camus

Oh, fun! Mine are Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling and Insomnia by Stephen King. I hope it's not super obvious, but it probably is, haha...

This is a good one!

My guess is Philosopher's Stone is the one you hate and Insomnia is the one you love. I haven't read Insomnia but the blurb sounds cool.

This is a cool idea, but I'd have to think more about it. Life is too short and attention span too small to have fully read many books I actually hate.

Sure, I guess I'll play.

And then there were none - Agatha Christie.
Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn is not usually the Sanderson book that people hate, and And Then There Were None is famous but not the strongest Christie book, so I think you love Mistborn.

The Lord of the rings.

Harry Potter.

"The Name of the Wind" and "The Aeronaut's Windlass"

I'll do two sets! I don't hate any of these books, but I was disappointed by two of them because I had really high expectations.

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens and Turtles All The Way Down by John Green

and

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn