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Inspired by List Challenges – You Win Some, You Lose Some!

List Challenges has inspired me to read books I might not otherwise have considered. This is a list of books in which I found little merit and/or that they did not live up to their hype. Many were formulaic or cliché (so much YA). Many were too long, even for serialized publications, and, hey, when did they invent editors? Some were preachy or toxically racist and sexist; no amount of context can excuse that. I am glad I read most of them. Only a few were a waste of time (Batuman's The Idiot; Possession). This led me to look at List Challenges about 'new classics' because, I agree, we really need some new ones.
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Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
George Eliot
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Possession (A.S. Byatt)
Possession
A.S. Byatt
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The Idiot (Elif Batuman)
The Idiot
Elif Batuman
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Normal People (Sally Rooney)
Normal People
Sally Rooney
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Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
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Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
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The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
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Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
9
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
10
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
11
Parable of the Sower (Octavia E Butler)
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E Butler
12
How to Stop Time (MATT HAIG)
How to Stop Time
MATT HAIG
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The World That We Knew (Alice Hoffman)
The World That We Knew
Alice Hoffman
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City of the Beasts (Isabel Allende)
City of the Beasts
Isabel Allende
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My Dark Vanessa (Kate Elizabeth Russell)
My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell
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All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
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When No One Is Watching (Alyss Cole)
When No One Is Watching
Alyss Cole
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Dr. Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)
Dr. Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
19
Bellwether (Connie Willis)
Bellwether
Connie Willis
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The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
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A Discovery of Witches (Deborah Harkness)
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness
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Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri
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An Ember in the Ashes (Sabaa Tahir)
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
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The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene)
The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene
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Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Heather Morris)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris
30
The Mothers (Brit Bennett)
The Mothers
Brit Bennett
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The Near Witch (V.E. Schwab)
The Near Witch
V.E. Schwab
32
The Brothers K (James David Duncan)
The Brothers K
James David Duncan
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The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams)
The Velveteen Rabbit
Margery Williams
34
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
35
A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
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The Silent Patient (Alex Michaelides)
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides
37
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
38
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
39
Daisy Jones & the Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
Daisy Jones & the Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
40
The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
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