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Top 40 Bad Books (Plus Extras)

"Top 40 Bad Books" is actually a collection of 40 short commentaries about bad books, from which, amazingly, I have been able to extract precisely 40 books that received a specific mention (but admittedly varying widely in their perceived degree of badness). You'll have to at least skim the commentaries to find out why a particular book was called bad (they are usually only a few paragraphs long).
The remaining 24 books are from a variety of sources, mostly from 'the complete review' website (which itself links to multiple reviews). I've included a few of my own 'favourites' (I never got beyond a few pages).
Please check an item only if you have made it right to the end. And you have my profoundest admiration if you managed that with "Tarantula".
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Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates)
Revolutionary Road
1
Richard Yates
James Bond Complete (Ian Fleming)
James Bond Complete
2
Ian Fleming
Women in Love (D. H. Lawrence)
Women in Love
3
D. H. Lawrence
Pierre (Herman Melville)
Pierre
4
Herman Melville
The Genius (Theodore Dreiser)
The Genius
5
Theodore Dreiser
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
6
Zora Neale Hurston
Tarantula (Bob Dylan)
Tarantula
7
Bob Dylan
Dildo Cay (Nelson Hayes)
Dildo Cay
8
Nelson Hayes
The International Squid Cookbook (Isaac Cronin)
The International Squid Cookbook
9
Isaac Cronin
What a Young Woman Ought to Know (Mary Wood-Allen)
What a Young Woman Ought to Know
10
Mary Wood-Allen
The Hard-Boiled Virgin (Frances Newman)
The Hard-Boiled Virgin
11
Frances Newman
Quiet Drinking (Virginia Elliott)
Quiet Drinking
12
Virginia Elliott
A Mercy (Toni Morrison)
A Mercy
13
Toni Morrison
The March (E.L. Doctorow)
The March
14
E.L. Doctorow
Saturday (Ian McEwan)
Saturday
15
Ian McEwan
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)
All the Pretty Horses
16
Cormac McCarthy
The Second Suspect (Heather Lewis)
The Second Suspect
17
Heather Lewis
Across the River and Into the Trees (Ernest Hemingway)
Across the River and Into the Trees
18
Ernest Hemingway
Grimus (Salman Rushdie)
Grimus
19
Salman Rushdie
The End of the Affair (Graham Greene)
The End of the Affair
20
Graham Greene
Sag Harbour (Colson Whitehead)
Sag Harbour
21
Colson Whitehead
Pamela (Samuel Richardson)
Pamela
22
Samuel Richardson
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
23
Mary Shelley
Poetic Gems (William McGonagall)
Poetic Gems
24
William McGonagall
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
25
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann)
Let the Great World Spin
26
Colum McCann
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
27
F. Scott Fitzgerald
People of the Book (Geraldine Brooks)
People of the Book
28
Geraldine Brooks
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
The Da Vinci Code
29
Dan Brown
Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (Wai Chee Dimock)
Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time
30
Wai Chee Dimock
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
31
Theodore Dreiser
Poems, 1959-2009 (Frederick Seidel)
Poems, 1959-2009
32
Frederick Seidel
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
33
Mark Twain
The Secret (Rhonda Byrne)
The Secret
34
Rhonda Byrne
The Malleus Maleficarum (Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer)
The Malleus Maleficarum
35
Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer
Chasing Shakespeares (Sarah Smith)
Chasing Shakespeares
36
Sarah Smith
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Rebecca Wells)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
37
Rebecca Wells
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
38
Ernest Hemingway
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs)
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
39
Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century (Barbara W. Tuchman)
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
40
Barbara W. Tuchman
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