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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,338,582 ratings — published 2005
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,874,061 ratings — published 2011
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,878,686 ratings — published 2008
Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,999,401 ratings — published 2007
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,134,833 ratings — published 2006
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,144,539 ratings — published 2013
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
by (shelved 14 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,143,480 ratings — published 2016
Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
by (shelved 14 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,946,242 ratings — published 2002
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,175,340 ratings — published 2007
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,907,379 ratings — published 1951
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,393,506 ratings — published 2011
Marked (House of Night, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.82 — 523,996 ratings — published 2007
Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 976,968 ratings — published 2011
Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 915,016 ratings — published 2012
The Selection (The Selection, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,769,784 ratings — published 2012
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,233,779 ratings — published 2011
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,026,442 ratings — published 2007
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,626,618 ratings — published 2012
Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 708,570 ratings — published 2011
Evermore (The Immortals, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.60 — 298,853 ratings — published 2009
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,646,396 ratings — published 2016
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,249,006 ratings — published 2015
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,435,994 ratings — published 2012
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,914,430 ratings — published 1960
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.62 — 815,581 ratings — published 2010
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,738,832 ratings — published 2010
Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.76 — 497,023 ratings — published 2009
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,746,760 ratings — published 2018
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,743,666 ratings — published 1996
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,753,291 ratings — published 2005
The One (The Selection, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.14 — 779,902 ratings — published 2014
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,744,121 ratings — published 2012
The Elite (The Selection, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.94 — 874,478 ratings — published 2013
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,177,064 ratings — published 2009
Crossed (Matched, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.52 — 259,346 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,855,745 ratings — published 1953
Fallen (Fallen, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.72 — 619,045 ratings — published 2009
The Secret (The Secret, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.74 — 535,187 ratings — published 2006
Icebreaker (UCMH, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,303,850 ratings — published 2022
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.54 — 279,021 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.60 — 569,884 ratings — published 2018
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,781,388 ratings — published 2013
The Heir (The Selection, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.62 — 404,332 ratings — published 2015
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.11 — 630,395 ratings — published 2015
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as bad-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 480,487 ratings — published 2013
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,830,566 ratings — published 1590
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,943,917 ratings — published 1925
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (The Twilight Saga, #3.5)
by (shelved 5 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.52 — 243,738 ratings — published 2009
Blue Moon (The Immortals, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.61 — 99,982 ratings — published 2009
Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as bad-books)
avg rating 3.92 — 745,091 ratings — published 2009
“Among some tossed-out books of my daughter's which I rescued...was one too awful to live. I returned it to the trash, resisting the urge to say a few parting words. All day long the thought of its mingling with chicken bones and olive pits nagged at me. Half a dozen times I removed it and replaced it, like an executioner with scruples about capital punishment. Finally I put it on a high shelf where I wouldn't have to see it. Life imprisonment.”
― Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
― Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
“All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact because in my line of work I read a lot of bad books - books so bad they aren't even published, which is quite a feat, when you consider what is published.
And what they all have in common, these bad books, be they novels or memoirs, is this: they don't ring true. I'm not saying that a good book is true necessarily, just that it feels true for the time you're reading it.”
― The Ghost
And what they all have in common, these bad books, be they novels or memoirs, is this: they don't ring true. I'm not saying that a good book is true necessarily, just that it feels true for the time you're reading it.”
― The Ghost
