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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 (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
1
George Eliot
Possession (A.S. Byatt)
Possession
2
A.S. Byatt
The Idiot (Elif Batuman)
The Idiot
3
Elif Batuman
Normal People (Sally Rooney)
Normal People
4
Sally Rooney
Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)
Where the Crawdads Sing
5
Delia Owens
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
Stranger in a Strange Land
6
Robert A. Heinlein
The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
The Sense of an Ending
7
Julian Barnes
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
8
Evelyn Waugh
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility
9
Jane Austen
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
10
Gabriel García Márquez
Parable of the Sower (Octavia E Butler)
Parable of the Sower
11
Octavia E Butler
How to Stop Time (MATT HAIG)
How to Stop Time
12
MATT HAIG
The World That We Knew (Alice Hoffman)
The World That We Knew
13
Alice Hoffman
City of the Beasts (Isabel Allende)
City of the Beasts
14
Isabel Allende
My Dark Vanessa (Kate Elizabeth Russell)
My Dark Vanessa
15
Kate Elizabeth Russell
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
All the Light We Cannot See
16
Anthony Doerr
When No One Is Watching (Alyss Cole)
When No One Is Watching
17
Alyss Cole
Dr. Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)
Dr. Faustus
18
Christopher Marlowe
Bellwether (Connie Willis)
Bellwether
19
Connie Willis
The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
The Hate U Give
20
Angie Thomas
A Discovery of Witches (Deborah Harkness)
A Discovery of Witches
21
Deborah Harkness
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
22
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
The Inferno
23
Dante Alighieri
An Ember in the Ashes (Sabaa Tahir)
An Ember in the Ashes
24
Sabaa Tahir
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
25
The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene)
The Heart of the Matter
26
Graham Greene
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
27
Virginia Woolf
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Memoirs of a Geisha
28
Arthur Golden
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Heather Morris)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
29
Heather Morris
The Mothers (Brit Bennett)
The Mothers
30
Brit Bennett
The Near Witch (V.E. Schwab)
The Near Witch
31
V.E. Schwab
The Brothers K (James David Duncan)
The Brothers K
32
James David Duncan
The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams)
The Velveteen Rabbit
33
Margery Williams
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
34
Jack Kerouac
A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
A Suitable Boy
35
Vikram Seth
The Silent Patient (Alex Michaelides)
The Silent Patient
36
Alex Michaelides
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure
37
Thomas Hardy
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
38
John Steinbeck
Daisy Jones & the Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
Daisy Jones & the Six
39
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
The Inheritance of Loss
40
Kiran Desai
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