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Dishonourable Mentions of 2013

Description: What were the 5 worst books you read in 2013?
Members: 63 participating members
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Rank Title Author Added

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by Gillian Flynn

20,423 members

1,498 reviews

3.9

4 Members: priamel, DerBuecherwurm, brookeott, Willoyd

2

5,462 members

402 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: cpg, DerBuecherwurm, Longshanks, lorannen

3

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

16,804 members

1,216 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Longshanks, Kirsten_Feldman, samaxamom

4

by Karen Russell

3,450 members

228 reviews

½ 3.3

3 Members: sjmccreary, dbarrva, Kirsten_Feldman

5

4,798 members

371 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: mdexter, bluepiano

6

by Louise Erdrich

3,733 members

77 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kristenl, socalnovelist

7

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

42,479 members

660 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kristenl, kara.shamy

8

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,308 members

201 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: generalkala, lottpoet

9

10,722 members

492 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: mportley, Mirabelle

10

The Sound and the Fury [Norton Critical Edition]

by William Faulkner

1,814 members

21 reviews

4.1

2 Members: generalkala, socalnovelist

11

by E. M. Forster

8,440 members

125 reviews

4

2 Members: generalkala, kiwiflowa

12

The Postmistress

3,302 members

243 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: DerBuecherwurm, cbl_tn

13

10,351 members

178 reviews

4.2

2 Members: generalkala, Settings

14

by Jhumpa Lahiri

3,134 members

174 reviews

3.9

2 Members: antonomasia, Kirsten_Feldman

15

The Woman Upstairs

by Claire Messud

1,579 members

118 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: mdexter, dbarrva

16

These Is My Words

by Nancy E. Turner

1,726 members

81 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: equal_writes, priamel

17

Fifty Shades of Grey

11,004 members

812 reviews

2.9

2 Members: generalkala, Wassilissa

18

by Hilary Mantel

1,724 members

57 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: equal_writes, priamel

19

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

66,505 members

1,048 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

20

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

20,517 members

354 reviews

4

Member: pdebolt

21

by William P. Young

14,122 members

569 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

22

Who Moved My Cheese?

by Spencer Johnson

8,744 members

156 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: imyril

23

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

by Jonas Jonasson

7,226 members

431 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: souloftherose

24

5,927 members

342 reviews

4.1

Member: timspalding

25

Let the Right One In

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

5,380 members

257 reviews

4

Member: Wassilissa

26

4,556 members

116 reviews

4

Member: equal_writes

27

The Age of Miracles

by Karen Thompson Walker

3,196 members

331 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dbarrva

28

The Broom of the System

by David Foster Wallace

2,818 members

62 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: st_bruno

29

2,118 members

119 reviews

3.9

Member: Bookmarque

30

by Kim Stanley Robinson

2,049 members

111 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: inge87

31

by Laurent Binet

1,953 members

118 reviews

3.9

Member: Luisali

32

An Assembly Such as This

by Pamela Aidan

1,422 members

63 reviews

3.8

Member: Minthe

33

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

1,045 members

23 reviews

4.2

Member: absurdeist

34

by David R. Palmer

645 members

20 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

35

We Are All Made of Glue

by Marina Lewycka

641 members

35 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ursula

36

The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British

544 members

29 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Helenliz

37

The Execution of Noa P. Singleton

by Elizabeth L. Silver

445 members

54 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: LittleTaiko

38

At Some Disputed Barricade

373 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: pjdscca

39

by Daniel Kraus

362 members

32 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: norabelle414

40

Kill Your Friends

349 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Mirabelle

41

Lookaway, Lookaway

by Wilton Barnhardt

281 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: TooBusyReading

42

The Qumran Mystery

by Eliette Abecassis

275 members

11 reviews

3

Member: Dilara86

43

by Jim Thompson

273 members

6 reviews

3.2

Member: SqueakyChu

44

The Eleventh Victim

254 members

12 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

45

Don't Ever Get Old

by Daniel Friedman

233 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MmeRose

46

A Will and a Way

by Nora Roberts

222 members

3 reviews

3.2

Member: Vierran

47

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

by The Believer

205 members

4 reviews

2.9

Member: bookwoman84

48

172 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: sjmccreary

49

The Hungry Ghosts

138 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: zjakkelien

50

The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment

by Isabel Losada

135 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: antonomasia

51

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

by Stanley Coren

132 members

7 reviews

3.2

Member: SylviaC

52

A Really Awesome Mess

108 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: StefanieGeeks

53

by Joanne Pence

86 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: mrmapcase

54

Soulbound: A Lone Star Witch Novel

82 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dylanesque

55

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

by Paul Maliszewski

50 members

2 reviews

2.1

Member: yoyogod

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

42 members

14 reviews

2.8

Member: _Zoe_

57

Journey to Rainbow Island

by Christie Hsiao

41 members

1 review

½ 0.5

Member: foggidawn

58

by Rachel Johnson

28 members

4 reviews

2.9

Member: elkiedee

59

Kimberly's Capital Punishment

by Richard Milward

22 members

1 review

2.1

Member: priamel

60

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

19 members

4 reviews

3.1

Member: jeanned

61

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

1 member

1 review

½ 0.5

Member: andejons

62

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

16,568 members

155 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

63

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

13,942 members

841 reviews

4

Member: Willoyd

64

A Long Way Down

8,506 members

190 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: equal_writes

65

The Stone Diaries

by Carol Shields

5,594 members

118 reviews

3.8

Member: ursula

66

by Robin McKinley

5,463 members

240 reviews

4.1

Member: bookwoman84

67

The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters

4,917 members

337 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Minthe

68

Winter of the World

4,560 members

147 reviews

4

Member: Luisali

69

by Samuel R. Delany

3,518 members

74 reviews

3.8

Member: lorannen

70

The Woman in Black

3,331 members

227 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bookmarque

71

The Interestings

by Meg Wolitzer

2,899 members

202 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: mportley

72

The School for Good and Evil

by Soman Chainani

2,494 members

120 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: foggidawn

73

Running in the Family

by Michael Ondaatje

1,632 members

30 reviews

3.9

Member: kiwiflowa

74

Mr. Churchill's Secretary

by Susan Elia MacNeal

1,445 members

135 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: DerBuecherwurm

75

A Local Habitation

by Seanan McGuire

1,415 members

67 reviews

3.8

Member: dylanesque

76

1,206 members

94 reviews

3.1

Member: dbarrva

77

The Black Cloud

1,109 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: timspalding

78

by L. E. Modesitt

738 members

26 reviews

3.8

Member: zjakkelien

79

The Cosmic Serpent

by Jeremy Narby

683 members

17 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

673 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: mrmapcase

81

by Jens Lapidus

629 members

22 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: MmeRose

82

by Guy de Maupassant

618 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: andejons

83

Manic: A Memoir

by Terri Cheney

579 members

38 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Settings

84

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

by Steven Tyler

489 members

23 reviews

3.2

Member: jeanned

85

Shoulder the Sky

472 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: pjdscca

86

Snow Angels: A Novel

by Stewart O'Nan

433 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

87

by Amélie Nothomb

338 members

8 reviews

2.9

Member: Dilara86

88

by G. M. Malliet

321 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: cbl_tn

89

Mr. and Mrs. Bunny--Detectives Extraordinaire!

by Polly Horvath

269 members

21 reviews

3.8

Member: inge87

90

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

199 members

½ 3.6

Member: SylviaC

91

The Trail of the Serpent

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

176 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: SqueakyChu

92

The Black Violin: A Novel

by Maxence Fermine

157 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: imyril

93

New Orleans Ghosts

by Victor C. Klein

99 members

3

Member: yoyogod

94

by Megan Chance

98 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: TooBusyReading

95

The Best American Short Stories 1984

97 members

3.8

Member: lottpoet

96

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

61 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sjmccreary

97

by Conor Fitzgerald

59 members

5 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Helenliz

98

The Lion of Justice

by Leena Lehtolainen

47 members

1 review

3

Member: Vierran

99

Yes You Can!: Your Guide to Becoming an Activist

37 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: _Zoe_

100

The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life

by Anna Katharine Green

23 members

3.1

Member: souloftherose

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About This List

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

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