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What book is so awful that it deserves a space on your shelf just for being so awful? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by michelleinbal@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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For me, it's Jude the Obscure. That book is easily the worst book I have ever read, without a single redeeming quality, other than that it finally ends. I only finished it because Far from the Madding Crowd was so damn good.

But really, Jude is the gold standard of awful books, in my opinion.

What's your so-awful-it-deserves-shelf-space book, if you have one?

Or am I just weird?

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[–] Attempt_Livid@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, there are a lot of books that deserve that spot on my shelves. It's on the top of my shelf because I can't reach them, and no one can ever see them. That's how bad they are.

Here are my most infamously bad books:

The Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

November 9 by Colleen Hoover (of course, a Colleen Hoover book should be here)

There are more, but these are the ones that made me think that they deserved a spot that no one could reach. I really don't want to be bothered to look at them and be bothered about how bad they are. I sometimes reread them for some enjoyment, or maybe I want to give them a chance, but overall, I don't want to be bothered with these bad books.