As I have a few sections and listings on books I love; recommended reading; and other adolescent gushings on matters literary, it seemed only fair and reasonable to include a section on Books I Really, Absolutely, Passionately Hate, and consider to be the Worst. Books. Ever. (Admittedly, some of my bile has been induced by the crippling effect of Senior High School English Lit. classes ... ) Some of them may be your favourite book ever; let's discuss.
"Classic Literature" or Books on Everyone Else's Top 100 Lists
Margaret Drabble. The Radiant Way
Arundhati Roy. The God of Small Things
A S Byatt. Possession
Emily Bronte. Wuthering Heights
George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss
Isabel Allende. The House of the Spirits; Eva Luna
Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter
Henry James. Portrait of a Lady
D H Lawrence. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley's Lover
Perhaps Not Quite as Classical ...
Jean M Auel. The Shelters of Stone
"Oprah" books - anything featuring multi-generational, angst-ridden, traumatic women
other books I was supposed to like ..