For me, it’s Jude the Obscure. That book is easily the worst book I have ever read, without a single redeeming quality, other than that it finally ends. I only finished it because Far from the Madding Crowd was so damn good.
But really, Jude is the gold standard of awful books, in my opinion.
What’s your so-awful-it-deserves-shelf-space book, if you have one?
Or am I just weird?
I remember a book that had the main character as a black woman, and I could tell within the first few sentences the author was definitely not black or a woman. And then later introduced a timid nerd professor character (main love interest) that when I googled the author, the description of the character matched his looks exactly. Oof it was a slog to read.