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 have a couple of books I bought at scifi conventions because the authors were nice.
They’re signed and I have good memories of chatting with the authors about scifi.
I have no intention of ever giving the books away or of ever reading them.