Books that no one should read

1.
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones 3.86 avg rating — 2,439,551 ratings
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Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages
Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages 3.91 avg rating — 442 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies 3.70 avg rating — 3,117,612 ratings
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Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog 4.14 avg rating — 475,400 ratings
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson 4.20 avg rating — 1,154,140 ratings
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,342 ratings
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I Wish My Kids Had Cancer: A Family Surviving the Autism Epidemic
I Wish My Kids Had Cancer: A Family Surviving the Autism Epidemic 1.26 avg rating — 50 ratings
8.
Michael Jackson Was My Lover: The Secret Diary Of Jordie Chandler
Michael Jackson Was My Lover: The Secret Diary Of Jordie Chandler 2.86 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black 3.72 avg rating — 204,771 ratings
10.
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones 3.86 avg rating — 2,439,551 ratings
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf 3.17 avg rating — 43,175 ratings
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,231 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,951 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,345 ratings
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The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing The Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal
The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing The Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal 4.34 avg rating — 1,271 ratings
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In the Dream House
In the Dream House 4.40 avg rating — 153,048 ratings
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Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues 4.53 avg rating — 34,590 ratings
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive 3.86 avg rating — 109,542 ratings
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Fingersmith
Fingersmith 4.02 avg rating — 115,239 ratings
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,085 ratings
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Tipping the Velvet
Tipping the Velvet 4.05 avg rating — 76,493 ratings
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Rubyfruit Jungle
Rubyfruit Jungle 3.91 avg rating — 45,995 ratings
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 4.01 avg rating — 45,377 ratings
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 4.11 avg rating — 286,487 ratings
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Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses 3.42 avg rating — 903 ratings
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Lockdown (Escape from Furnace, #1)
Lockdown (Escape from Furnace, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 20,481 ratings
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The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe 2.74 avg rating — 786 ratings
28.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 3.87 avg rating — 249,856 ratings
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DEAD[ish] (DEAD[ish] #1)
DEAD[ish] (DEAD[ish] #1) 3.01 avg rating — 4,082 ratings
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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man 3.82 avg rating — 95,064 ratings
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Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know about
Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know about 3.14 avg rating — 1,978 ratings
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Sleeping with the Fishes (Fred the Mermaid, #1)
Sleeping with the Fishes (Fred the Mermaid, #1) 3.66 avg rating — 7,410 ratings
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Ice Cream Man
Ice Cream Man 3.67 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them 3.31 avg rating — 3,256 ratings
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Sharks Don't Get Cancer: How Shark Cartilage Could Save Your Life
Sharks Don't Get Cancer: How Shark Cartilage Could Save Your Life 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1)
Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 735,782 ratings
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Metaplanetary
Metaplanetary 3.90 avg rating — 486 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,377 ratings
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Sweetening the Pill
Sweetening the Pill 3.56 avg rating — 335 ratings
40.
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
The Giver (The Giver, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 2,733,222 ratings
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Maradonia and the Seven Bridges (Maradonia #1)
Maradonia and the Seven Bridges (Maradonia #1) 1.86 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Holy Terror
Holy Terror 1.99 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
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Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 1: Introduction and Death Counts and Estimates
Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 1: Introduction and Death Counts and Estimates 4.59 avg rating — 3,729 ratings
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I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 4.15 avg rating — 850 ratings
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
by: Miep Gies
4.30 avg rating — 66,126 ratings
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Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 2: Update and Examination of Lockdowns as a Strategy
Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 2: Update and Examination of Lockdowns as a Strategy 4.68 avg rating — 1,290 ratings
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COVID Lockdown Insanity: The COVID Deaths It Prevented, The Depression and Suicides It Caused, What We Should Have Done, and What It Shows We Could Do Now to Address Real Crises
COVID Lockdown Insanity: The COVID Deaths It Prevented, The Depression and Suicides It Caused, What We Should Have Done, and What It Shows We Could Do Now to Address Real Crises 3.32 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Butch Is a Noun
Butch Is a Noun 3.95 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
48.
COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey
COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey 4.37 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Dagger: On Butch Women
Dagger: On Butch Women 4.01 avg rating — 188 ratings
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False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet 4.17 avg rating — 2,631 ratings
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The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World 3.87 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming 3.71 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 3.73 avg rating — 89,529 ratings
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BLOOD IN ZION: How the Jewish Guerrillas Drove the British Out of Palestine
BLOOD IN ZION: How the Jewish Guerrillas Drove the British Out of Palestine 4.08 avg rating — 40 ratings
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More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws 4.07 avg rating — 840 ratings
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In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror
In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror 3.32 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants 4.11 avg rating — 1,680,863 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,440 ratings
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Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology 4.07 avg rating — 74,935 ratings
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Infidel
Infidel 4.20 avg rating — 91,947 ratings
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Nocturnal
Nocturnal 4.08 avg rating — 8,085 ratings
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A Story of Yesterday
A Story of Yesterday 4.53 avg rating — 16,489 ratings
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 4.13 avg rating — 1,251,988 ratings
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The Hours
The Hours 3.96 avg rating — 146,854 ratings
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Satan's Underground: The Extraordinary Story of One Woman's Escape
Satan's Underground: The Extraordinary Story of One Woman's Escape 3.03 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Gollywhopper Games (Gollywhopper Games, 1)
The Gollywhopper Games (Gollywhopper Games, 1) 4.03 avg rating — 4,130 ratings
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Una historia de ayer
Una historia de ayer 4.53 avg rating — 16,489 ratings
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Gould's Book of Fish: a Novel in Twelve Fish
Gould's Book of Fish: a Novel in Twelve Fish 3.70 avg rating — 5,774 ratings
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Betraying the Nobel: The Secrets and Corruption Behind the Nobel Peace Prize
Betraying the Nobel: The Secrets and Corruption Behind the Nobel Peace Prize 3.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Outsiders
The Outsiders 4.14 avg rating — 1,538,421 ratings
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Antigua: The Land of Fairies, Wizards and Heroes
Antigua: The Land of Fairies, Wizards and Heroes 1.61 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Roughing the Princess
Roughing the Princess
by: Ivy Smoak
2.66 avg rating — 1,284 ratings
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Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan 3.90 avg rating — 16,723 ratings
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The Book of Two Ways
The Book of Two Ways 3.66 avg rating — 108,976 ratings
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Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before
Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before 3.58 avg rating — 2,781 ratings
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Blindsided by the Spotlight
Blindsided by the Spotlight 3.30 avg rating — 450 ratings
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The Door to Lost Pages
The Door to Lost Pages 3.36 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Pikachu Meets the Press: A Pokemon Newspaper Strip Collection
Pikachu Meets the Press: A Pokemon Newspaper Strip Collection 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement
The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement 3.62 avg rating — 2,567 ratings
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Palimpsest
Palimpsest 3.66 avg rating — 5,220 ratings
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Butterfly
Butterfly 3.21 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
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Batman: Fortunate Son
Batman: Fortunate Son 2.05 avg rating — 252 ratings
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The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)
The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 231,969 ratings
81.
The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,693 ratings
81.
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner 4.35 avg rating — 3,402,259 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 4.06 avg rating — 281,444 ratings
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The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality 3.97 avg rating — 916 ratings
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The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds 3.83 avg rating — 340,303 ratings
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Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,264 ratings
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I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood
I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood 4.16 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right 3.45 avg rating — 6,560 ratings
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City at the End of Time
City at the End of Time
by: Greg Bear
3.17 avg rating — 2,231 ratings
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The Dressmaker
The Dressmaker 3.50 avg rating — 31,332 ratings
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The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 176,937 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating — 269,416 ratings
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East of Eden
East of Eden 4.43 avg rating — 602,274 ratings
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Magical Thinking: True Stories
Magical Thinking: True Stories 3.96 avg rating — 57,120 ratings
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The Clone Elite (Rogue Clone, #4)
The Clone Elite (Rogue Clone, #4) 3.83 avg rating — 900 ratings
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Girl in a Blue Dress
Girl in a Blue Dress 3.57 avg rating — 2,520 ratings
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