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?
I wish I remembered the title and name of the “author” but it was a friend of a friend who had self published a book and offered to sign it for me. I never did get a copy but I read an excerpt online. I think it was about a guy and a girl who were running away from some guys who wanted to hurt them… there were also random “love poems”. The book was a spelling and grammatical mess. It made no sense, went nowhere and the characters names kept changing.