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Dishonourable Mentions of 2013

Description: What were the 5 worst books you read in 2013?

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Rank Title Author Added

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by Gillian Flynn

26,162 members

1,634 reviews

3.9

4 Members: priamel, DerBuecherwurm, brookeott, Willoyd

2

6,956 members

450 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: cpg, DerBuecherwurm, Longshanks, lorannen

3

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

22,215 members

1,384 reviews

4

2 Members: Longshanks, samaxamom

4

5,602 members

396 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: mdexter, bluepiano

5

by Louise Erdrich

4,378 members

82 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kristenl, socalnovelist

6

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

49,662 members

780 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kristenl, kara.shamy

7

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,534 members

251 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: generalkala, lottpoet

8

13,979 members

541 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: mportley, Mirabelle

9

The Sound and the Fury, A Norton Critical Edition

by David Minter

2,053 members

22 reviews

4.1

2 Members: generalkala, socalnovelist

10

by E. M. Forster

9,664 members

144 reviews

4

2 Members: generalkala, kiwiflowa

11

The Postmistress

3,630 members

248 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: DerBuecherwurm, cbl_tn

12

12,664 members

198 reviews

4.2

2 Members: generalkala, Settings

13

The Woman Upstairs

by Claire Messud

1,767 members

131 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: mdexter, dbarrva

14

These Is My Words

by Nancy E. Turner

2,026 members

92 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: equal_writes, priamel

15

Fifty Shades of Grey

14,530 members

882 reviews

2.9

2 Members: generalkala, Wassilissa

16

by Hilary Mantel

1,953 members

63 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: equal_writes, priamel

17

by Karen Russell

4,002 members

251 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: sjmccreary, dbarrva

18

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,089 members

1,197 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

19

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

22,377 members

384 reviews

4

Member: pdebolt

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by William P. Young

16,568 members

594 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

21

Who Moved My Cheese?

by Spencer Johnson

10,506 members

175 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: imyril

22

The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

by Jonas Jonasson

9,006 members

490 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: souloftherose

23

8,650 members

423 reviews

4.1

Member: timspalding

24

Let the Right One In

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

6,450 members

283 reviews

4

Member: Wassilissa

25

5,451 members

138 reviews

4

Member: equal_writes

26

The Age of Miracles

by Karen Thompson Walker

3,579 members

349 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dbarrva

27

The Broom of the System

by David Foster Wallace

3,244 members

66 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: st_bruno

28

by Kim Stanley Robinson

2,535 members

130 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: inge87

29

2,490 members

137 reviews

3.9

Member: Bookmarque

30

by Laurent Binet

2,382 members

130 reviews

4

Member: Luisali

31

An Assembly Such as This

by Pamela Aidan

1,560 members

67 reviews

3.8

Member: Minthe

32

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

1,405 members

26 reviews

4.2

Member: absurdeist

33

We are All Made of Glue

by Marina Lewycka

710 members

36 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ursula

34

by David R. Palmer

709 members

21 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

35

The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British

590 members

29 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Helenliz

36

The Execution of Noa P. Singleton

by Elizabeth L. Silver

475 members

53 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: LittleTaiko

37

At Some Disputed Barricade

440 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: pjdscca

38

Kill Your Friends

419 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Mirabelle

39

by Daniel Kraus

415 members

38 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: norabelle414

40

by Jim Thompson

325 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: SqueakyChu

41

The Qumran Mystery

by Eliette Abecassis

314 members

12 reviews

3

Member: Dilara86

42

Lookaway, Lookaway

by Wilton Barnhardt

306 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: TooBusyReading

43

The Eleventh Victim

293 members

12 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

44

A Will and a Way

by Nora Roberts

271 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Vierran

45

Don't Ever Get Old

by Daniel Friedman

258 members

32 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MmeRose

46

You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice

by The Believer

233 members

5 reviews

2.9

Member: bookwoman84

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188 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: sjmccreary

48

The Hungry Ghosts

163 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: zjakkelien

49

The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment

by Isabel Losada

147 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: antonomasia

50

The Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes and Consequences of Left-Handedness

by Stanley Coren

147 members

8 reviews

3.2

Member: SylviaC

51

A Really Awesome Mess

119 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: StefanieGeeks

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by Joanne Pence

100 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: mrmapcase

53

Soulbound: A Lone Star Witch Novel

89 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dylanesque

54

Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders

by Paul Maliszewski

53 members

2 reviews

2.1

Member: yoyogod

55

Journey to Rainbow Island

by Christie Hsiao

50 members

1 review

½ 0.5

Member: foggidawn

56

Tiger Babies Strike Back: How I Was Raised by a Tiger Mom but Could Not Be Turned to the Dark Side

by Kim Wong Keltner

48 members

12 reviews

2.8

Member: _Zoe_

57

by Rachel Johnson

33 members

4 reviews

3

Member: elkiedee

58

Kimberly's Capital Punishment

by Richard Milward

29 members

1 review

2.1

Member: priamel

59

13 Is the New 18: And Other Things My Children Taught Me--While I Was Having a Nervous Breakdown Being Their Mother

by Beth J. Harpaz

22 members

5 reviews

3.1

Member: jeanned

60

Polletten som trillade ner: metaforer - hur förstår vi dem?

1 member

1 review

½ 0.5

Member: andejons

61

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

21,010 members

191 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

62

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

17,644 members

887 reviews

4

Member: Willoyd

63

A Long Way Down

9,071 members

201 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: equal_writes

64

The Stone Diaries

by Carol Shields

6,171 members

128 reviews

3.8

Member: ursula

65

by Robin McKinley

5,987 members

252 reviews

4

Member: bookwoman84

66

Winter of the World

5,840 members

175 reviews

4

Member: Luisali

67

The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters

5,627 members

357 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Minthe

68

The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story

4,200 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bookmarque

69

by Samuel R. Delany

4,191 members

80 reviews

3.8

Member: lorannen

70

The School for Good and Evil

by Soman Chainani

4,140 members

137 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: foggidawn

71

by Jhumpa Lahiri

3,693 members

184 reviews

3.9

Member: antonomasia

72

The Interestings

by Meg Wolitzer

3,417 members

214 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: mportley

73

Running in the Family

by Michael Ondaatje

1,855 members

30 reviews

3.9

Member: kiwiflowa

74

A Local Habitation

by Seanan McGuire

1,701 members

72 reviews

3.8

Member: dylanesque

75

Mr. Churchill's Secretary

by Susan Elia MacNeal

1,691 members

149 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: DerBuecherwurm

76

The Black Cloud

1,378 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: timspalding

77

1,350 members

96 reviews

3.1

Member: dbarrva

78

by L. E. Modesitt

887 members

30 reviews

3.8

Member: zjakkelien

79

The Cosmic Serpent

by Jeremy Narby

848 members

20 reviews

4

Member: norabelle414

80

Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II

by Jennet Conant

786 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: mrmapcase

81

The Horla [short story]

by Guy de Maupassant

748 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: andejons

82

by Jens Lapidus

696 members

24 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: MmeRose

83

Manic: A Memoir

by Terri Cheney

662 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Settings

84

Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

by Steven Tyler

620 members

29 reviews

3.2

Member: jeanned

85

Shoulder the Sky

551 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: pjdscca

86

Snow Angels: A Novel

by Stewart O'Nan

473 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

87

by Amélie Nothomb

387 members

9 reviews

3

Member: Dilara86

88

by G. M. Malliet

381 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: cbl_tn

89

Mr. and Mrs. Bunny--Detectives Extraordinaire!

by Polly Horvath

354 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: inge87

90

The Barmaid's Brain: And Other Strange Tales from Science

219 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: SylviaC

91

The Trail of the Serpent

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

205 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: SqueakyChu

92

The Black Violin: A Novel

by Maxence Fermine

173 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: imyril

93

New Orleans Ghosts

by Victor C. Klein

116 members

3

Member: yoyogod

94

by Megan Chance

112 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: TooBusyReading

95

The Best American Short Stories 1984

111 members

4

Member: lottpoet

96

Dangerous Water: A Biography Of The Boy Who Became Mark Twain

72 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sjmccreary

97

by Conor Fitzgerald

71 members

5 reviews

3.2

Member: Helenliz

98

The Lion of Justice

by Leena Lehtolainen

52 members

1 review

3

Member: Vierran

99

Yes You Can!: Your Guide to Becoming an Activist

37 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: _Zoe_

100

The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life

by Anna Katharine Green

29 members

3.1

Member: souloftherose

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Started: _Zoe_
December 2013
Type: Numbered
Limit: 5 books

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