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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

22,063 members

1,542 reviews

3.9

4 Members: priamel, DerBuecherwurm, brookeott, Willoyd

2

5,880 members

420 reviews

½ 3.4

4 Members: cpg, DerBuecherwurm, Longshanks, lorannen

3

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

18,440 members

1,275 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Longshanks, Kirsten_Feldman, samaxamom

4

by Karen Russell

3,596 members

236 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: sjmccreary, dbarrva, Kirsten_Feldman

5

5,040 members

385 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: mdexter, bluepiano

6

by Louise Erdrich

3,923 members

78 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kristenl, socalnovelist

7

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,404 members

693 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kristenl, kara.shamy

8

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,197 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: generalkala, lottpoet

9

11,697 members

509 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: mportley, Mirabelle

10

The Sound and the Fury [Norton Critical Edition]

by William Faulkner

1,858 members

21 reviews

4.1

2 Members: generalkala, socalnovelist

11

by E. M. Forster

8,769 members

131 reviews

4

2 Members: generalkala, kiwiflowa

12

The Postmistress

3,401 members

245 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: DerBuecherwurm, cbl_tn

13

10,970 members

185 reviews

4.2

2 Members: generalkala, Settings

14

by Jhumpa Lahiri

3,306 members

177 reviews

3.9

2 Members: antonomasia, Kirsten_Feldman

15

The Woman Upstairs

by Claire Messud

1,627 members

119 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: mdexter, dbarrva

16

These Is My Words

by Nancy E. Turner

1,797 members

83 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: equal_writes, priamel

17

Fifty Shades of Grey

12,019 members

837 reviews

2.9

2 Members: generalkala, Wassilissa

18

by Hilary Mantel

1,803 members

59 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: equal_writes, priamel

19

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

69,510 members

1,078 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

20

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

21,064 members

368 reviews

4

Member: pdebolt

21

by William P. Young

14,822 members

581 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

22

Who Moved My Cheese?

by Spencer Johnson

9,187 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

7,768 members

457 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: souloftherose

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6,572 members

379 reviews

4.1

Member: timspalding

25

Let the Right One In

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

5,696 members

263 reviews

4

Member: Wassilissa

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4,509 members

125 reviews

4

Member: equal_writes

27

The Age of Miracles

by Karen Thompson Walker

3,321 members

335 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dbarrva

28

The Broom of the System

by David Foster Wallace

2,933 members

62 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: st_bruno

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2,237 members

125 reviews

3.8

Member: Bookmarque

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by Kim Stanley Robinson

2,186 members

121 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: inge87

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by Laurent Binet

2,070 members

122 reviews

4

Member: Luisali

32

An Assembly Such as This

by Pamela Aidan

1,463 members

64 reviews

3.8

Member: Minthe

33

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

1,130 members

22 reviews

4.2

Member: absurdeist

34

We Are All Made of Glue

by Marina Lewycka

662 members

36 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ursula

35

by David R. Palmer

660 members

19 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

36

The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British

556 members

29 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Helenliz

37

The Execution of Noa P. Singleton

by Elizabeth L. Silver

455 members

53 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: LittleTaiko

38

At Some Disputed Barricade

395 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: pjdscca

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by Daniel Kraus

380 members

34 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: norabelle414

40

Kill Your Friends

364 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Mirabelle

41

Lookaway, Lookaway

by Wilton Barnhardt

288 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: TooBusyReading

42

by Jim Thompson

286 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: SqueakyChu

43

The Qumran Mystery

by Eliette Abecassis

284 members

11 reviews

3

Member: Dilara86

44

The Eleventh Victim

266 members

12 reviews

3.2

Member: dara85

45

A Will and a Way

by Nora Roberts

244 members

3 reviews

3.2

Member: Vierran

46

Don't Ever Get Old

by Daniel Friedman

239 members

29 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: MmeRose

47

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

by The Believer

216 members

5 reviews

2.9

Member: bookwoman84

48

178 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: sjmccreary

49

The Hungry Ghosts

147 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: zjakkelien

50

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

by Stanley Coren

139 members

7 reviews

3.2

Member: SylviaC

51

The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment

by Isabel Losada

137 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: antonomasia

52

A Really Awesome Mess

114 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: StefanieGeeks

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by Joanne Pence

92 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: mrmapcase

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Soulbound: A Lone Star Witch Novel

84 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dylanesque

55

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

by Paul Maliszewski

51 members

2 reviews

2.1

Member: yoyogod

56

Journey to Rainbow Island

by Christie Hsiao

46 members

1 review

½ 0.5

Member: foggidawn

57

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

44 members

14 reviews

2.8

Member: _Zoe_

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by Rachel Johnson

29 members

4 reviews

2.9

Member: elkiedee

59

Kimberly's Capital Punishment

by Richard Milward

24 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

17,764 members

168 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cej1027

63

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

14,969 members

851 reviews

4

Member: Willoyd

64

A Long Way Down

8,656 members

191 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: equal_writes

65

The Stone Diaries

by Carol Shields

5,773 members

121 reviews

3.8

Member: ursula

66

by Robin McKinley

5,641 members

243 reviews

4.1

Member: bookwoman84

67

The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters

5,084 members

343 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Minthe

68

Winter of the World

4,939 members

157 reviews

4

Member: Luisali

69

by Samuel R. Delany

3,729 members

74 reviews

3.8

Member: lorannen

70

The Interestings

by Meg Wolitzer

3,054 members

208 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: mportley

71

The School for Good and Evil

by Soman Chainani

3,012 members

125 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: foggidawn

72

Running in the Family

by Michael Ondaatje

1,705 members

30 reviews

3.9

Member: kiwiflowa

73

A Local Habitation

by Seanan McGuire

1,524 members

65 reviews

3.8

Member: dylanesque

74

Mr. Churchill's Secretary

by Susan Elia MacNeal

1,514 members

139 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: DerBuecherwurm

75

1,243 members

91 reviews

3.1

Member: dbarrva

76

The Black Cloud

1,189 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: timspalding

77

The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story

891 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bookmarque

78

by L. E. Modesitt

803 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: zjakkelien

79

The Cosmic Serpent

by Jeremy Narby

733 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

707 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: mrmapcase

81

The Horla (short story)

by Guy de Maupassant

685 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: andejons

82

by Jens Lapidus

649 members

22 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: MmeRose

83

Manic: A Memoir

by Terri Cheney

608 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Settings

84

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

by Steven Tyler

528 members

25 reviews

3.2

Member: jeanned

85

Shoulder the Sky

493 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: pjdscca

86

Snow Angels: A Novel

by Stewart O'Nan

443 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

87

by Amélie Nothomb

357 members

9 reviews

3

Member: Dilara86

88

by G. M. Malliet

336 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: cbl_tn

89

Mr. and Mrs. Bunny--Detectives Extraordinaire!

by Polly Horvath

299 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: inge87

90

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

205 members

½ 3.6

Member: SylviaC

91

The Trail of the Serpent

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

186 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

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

107 members

3

Member: yoyogod

94

The Best American Short Stories 1984

104 members

4

Member: lottpoet

95

by Megan Chance

101 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: TooBusyReading

96

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

66 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sjmccreary

97

by Conor Fitzgerald

64 members

5 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Helenliz

98

The Lion of Justice

by Leena Lehtolainen

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

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