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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
Middlemarch
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Possession
Possession
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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
The Sense of an Ending
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Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited
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Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera
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Parable of the Sower (Octavia E Butler)
Parable of the Sower (Octavia E Butler)
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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)
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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
Vanity Fair
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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)
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The Mothers (Brit Bennett)
The Mothers (Brit Bennett)
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The Near Witch (V.E. Schwab)
The Near Witch (V.E. Schwab)
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The Brothers K (James David Duncan)
The Brothers K (James David Duncan)
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The Velveteen Rabbit
The Velveteen Rabbit
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On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
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A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
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The Silent Patient (Alex Michaelides)
The Silent Patient (Alex Michaelides)
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Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
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The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
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Daisy Jones & the Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
Daisy Jones & the Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
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The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
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