Skip to content
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Awful Library Books

Awful Library Books

Hoarding is not collection development

  • Home
  • Why We Weed
  • Submissions
  • Practical Librarian
  • Sample Collection Documents
  • Contact Us
  • Home
  • year’s best

Tag: year’s best

Best of 2017 award

Best of 2017- Part 1

December 21, 2017 Mary Kelly Best of the Worst One comment

Well, we are finally at the end of 2017. We are still here. We haven’t run out of weird books, and our little dog and pony show still keeps plugging along. Who knew? The ALB disclaimer: Remember, “awfulness” is in

Continue reading
Freedom From Fear cover

Terrible Titles and Crappy Covers

December 29, 2016 Mary Kelly Best of the Worst 8 comments

As time runs out on 2016, we include these last few titles to round out our lists of the best of the worst.  Think of this list as the “Miss Congeniality” list of ALB’s best of the worst. We had

Continue reading
Applehead Dolls cover

Holly’s Favorites for 2016

December 28, 2016 Mary Kelly Best of the Worst 4 comments

This is always one of my favorite posts of the year! I have so many favorites this year that it was hard to narrow my list, so Mary and I compared lists and divided the ALB goodness between us. Crafting

Continue reading
How to Survive an Atomic Bomb

Mary’s Favorites of 2016

December 27, 2016 Mary Kelly Best of the Worst 2 comments

This really has been a weird year for just about everyone I know, and not just because of politics and baseball. As 2016 comes to a close, Holly and I endeavor to create a “best of” list for the year.

Continue reading
How to be attractive cover

Best of 2015 Part 1

December 29, 2015 Mary Kelly Best of the Worst One comment

2015 is nearly gone, and one of the rules of the Internet is to do a best/worst list for the year. We hope you will add your particular favorites in the comments. We hope you have time to relax this

Continue reading
Royal Knits cover

ALB Best of the Worst 2014 – What Were They Thinking?

December 29, 2014 Mary Kelly Best of the Worst 3 comments

As we wrap up 2014, for our final list of the worst, we have some titles and cover art that have left us wondering what were these people thinking? I think that just about everything is represented here. We have a

Continue reading
Your Power as a Woman

ALB Best of the Worst 2014: Helpful Advice

December 28, 2014 Mary Kelly Best of the Worst 12 comments

Continuing part 2 of our 3 part series of the Best of the Worst 2014, we are addressing the world of advice. Ladies, without ALB this year you wouldn’t know how to use your secret lady powers, survive a hostage

Continue reading
Saturday Morning Mind Control

ALB Best of the Worst 2014: Kids and Parents

December 27, 2014 Mary Kelly Best of the Worst 5 comments

To kick off our Worst of 2014 posts, we are focusing on those books that would be likely to “interest” kids and parents. Our friend Doris had a banner year on this site with quite a few selections. I think

Continue reading

Posts navigation

1 2 Next Posts»

Categories

Popular Posts

  • Satan for kids
  • Train Up Your Child
  • Crafts for (the) retarded?
  • Things Librarians Say
  • What’s In a Name?
  • Kids Cook Too
  • Skirtains, Anyone?
  • Satan for Kids, Part 2
  • Glorious Macrame
  • Romance in the Stacks
WordPress Theme: Tortuga by ThemeZee.