See About archive blog posts. The American Book Review has taken stock of literature and come up with its Top 40 Bad Books. The list targets some big, popular favorites -- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ...

The American Book Review has taken stock of literature and come up with its Top 40 Bad Books. The list targets some big, popular favorites -- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic “The Great Gatsby ...

The resulting list — which features bestsellers and beloved classics (see "Top 40 Bad Books" in PDF form here) — has confounded some avid page-turners. "If they're the worst," asks Carolyn ...

A category that Orwell did not investigate is “bad bad books,” required reading despite their badness. We read them for the profit of understanding their time.

When you read books hoping to find a new favorite, you’re bound to be let down. But when you read something hoping that it’ll be terrible, chances are your expectations will be met. Why waste my time ...

The American Library Association (ALA) has just posted its latest list of books that have been "challenged"; Round House Theatre's trenchant production of Sharyn Rothstein's Bad Books "celebrates ...