Worst of lists
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Works of literature we could do without
The Anti-Booklist
Kitsch, Corny and Irresistibly Bad (The top 20 best-worst bestsellers)
A Reader’s Manifesto (not a list but an article skewering modernist works)
The Fifty WORST Books of the Century (according to The Intercollegiate Studies Institute)
Overrated Writers Project (and Philip Roth is first!)
10 Books Not To Read Before You Die
Not the 50 books you must read before you die
Awful Library Books
What were your worst books of the decade?
Books I regret reading
My top 10 unfinishable novels
Top 40 Bad Books
21 Books You Don’t Have to Read
Remaining Unread: The Top Ten Reasons We Don’t Get to Certain Books
Robin Ince’s top 10 truly bad books
The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers
Who are the most overrated contemporary writers in the world? (comments on and additions to above)
The best boring books
10 Top Most Overrated Novels
Bad Classics: Classic Books We Think Are Overrated
Overrated
10 of Literature’s Most Notoriously Incomprehensible Classics
20 Authors I Don’t Have to Read Because I’ve Dated Men for 16 Years
The Most-Rejected Books of All Time
11 Literary Classics We (Not So) Secretly Hate
The cult books that lost their cool