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?
im older so forgive me, Forced to read “Classics” in early high school. Anything John Steinbeck , that awful Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, that Mill on the River whatever by whoever that was. I am a reader. I devour books but these were destroyed for me.