Why? This is not some great divide where 50%+1 read no books and 50%-1 read a book per week. If you want interesting information with details you’ll look at distributions and historical trends and so on but if you are only looking at 1 or 2 numbers, you’ll get limited info.

As other comments have noted, avid readers raise the mean considerably.

Which is exactly why any reasonable person would look at the median rather than the mean. I also think you are greatly overestimating how many avid readers there are. If one in ten people reads a book every month (which seems very unlikely), that still only amounts to 1.2 books/year on average from them.

Ugh, I struggled so hard with The Awakening and I really really tried but couldn’t finish. I think I ended up abandoning it at 85% mid final battle because I just didn’t care about anyone or anything in that story. It is definitely a 1/5 book for me.

That said the actual worst book I’ve ever finished is Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas. Every paragraph was terrible and the sum of all its parts is significantly worse than any single piece. I’ve actually picke up some worse… I hesitate to call them books but I quickly abandoned them. For Throne of Glass I had decided to persist as a personal challenge.

Ugh, I struggled so hard with The Awakening and I really really tried but couldn’t finish. I think I ended up abandoning it at 85% mid final battle because I just didn’t care about anyone or anything in that story. It is definitely a 1/5 book for me.

That said the actual worst book I’ve ever finished is Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas. Every paragraph was terrible and the sum of all its parts is significantly worse than any single piece. I’ve actually picke up some worse… I hesitate to call them books but I quickly abandoned them. For Throne of Glass I had decided to persist as a personal challenge.