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The Guardian's Best Boring Books Plus 2 Extra Lists

I've concatenated a few potentially controversial lists, as follows:
The Best Boring Books (1-10)
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Top 10 Most Overrated Novels (11-21)
https://listverse.com/2009/02/09/top-10-most-overrated-novels/
10 Literary Classics We (Not So) Secretly Hate (22-31)
https://lithub.com/11-literary-classics-we-not-so-secretly-hate/
Bonus point for having read "Wuthering Heights", which appears on 2 sublists. (I quite enjoyed it.)
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The Anatomy of Melancholy (Robert Burton)
The Anatomy of Melancholy
1
Robert Burton
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
2
Robert Musil
The Unconsoled (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Unconsoled
3
Kazuo Ishiguro
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano
4
Malcolm Lowry
The Waves. (Virginia Woolf)
The Waves.
5
Virginia Woolf
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
6
James Joyce
Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe)
Look Homeward, Angel
7
Thomas Wolfe
Pendennis (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Pendennis
8
William Makepeace Thackeray
Capital (Karl Marx)
Capital
9
Karl Marx
The Diary of a Country Parson (James Woodforde)
The Diary of a Country Parson
10
James Woodforde
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
11
Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
12
Emily Brontë
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
13
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
14
John Kennedy Toole
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
The Da Vinci Code
15
Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
16
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged
17
Ayn Rand
White Noise (Don Delillo)
White Noise
18
Don Delillo
Underworld (Don Delillo)
Underworld
19
Don Delillo
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
20
E.M. Forster
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
21
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
22
Victor Hugo
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
23
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
24
Ernest Hemingway
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
25
Herman Melville
Pamela (Samuel Richardson)
Pamela
26
Samuel Richardson
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
27
J.D. Salinger
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
28
Jack Kerouac
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
29
Emily Brontë
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
30
George Orwell
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
Walden
31
Henry David Thoreau
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