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The Most Overrated Books of All Time

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  1. 1

    The Catcher in the Rye

    J. D. Salinger
    #13 on the ultimate list
    “ It was probably a great book when it came out, but it has not aged well at all. „
    BUY
  2. 2

    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy
    #29 on the ultimate list
    BUY
  3. 3

    Atlas Shrugged

    Ayn Rand
    #5 on the ultimate list
    “ Read the Fountainhead instead. Ayn Rand needs to learn to express her ideas in a more straightforward method and not in 1000 pages. „
    BUY
  4. 4

    A Confederacy of Dunces

    John Kennedy Toole
    #36 on the ultimate list
    BUY
  5. 5

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    George Orwell
    “ Everyone gets very excited about 1984, but Brave New World is so much better. In 1984, it is clear that the system is bad and it has no support. Its a boring book. At least in Brave New World you have intelligent characters arguing for the dystopia. „
    BUY
  6. 6

    The Scarlet Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    #48 on the ultimate list
    BUY
  7. 7

    In Search of Lost Time

    Marcel Proust
    #45 on the ultimate list
    BUY
  8. 8

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Brontë
    #47 on the ultimate list
    BUY
  9. 9

    The Stranger

    Albert Camus
    BUY
  10. 10

    Das Kapital

    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
    #56 on the ultimate list
    BUY
  11. 11

    On the Road

    Jack Kerouac
    #64 on the ultimate list
    BUY
  12. 12

    Ulysses

    James Joyce
    #66 on the ultimate list
    BUY
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    Finnegans Wake

    James Joyce
    #72 on the ultimate list
    “ This is not even a book. There are, for the most part, only groups of letters that do not make words. „
    BUY
  14. 14

    Ivanhoe

    Walter Scott
    BUY
  15. 15

    How to Win Friends and Influence People

    Dale Carnegie
    #63 on the ultimate list
    BUY
  16. 16

    Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Friedrich Nietzsche
    BUY
  17. 17

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Harper Lee
    #90 on the ultimate list
    BUY
  18. 18

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Mark Twain
    #85 on the ultimate list
    BUY
  19. 19

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    Arthur C. Clarke
    BUY
  20. 20

    Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

    Elizabeth Gilbert
    #7 on the ultimate list
    “ A lot of navel-gazing. „
    BUY
  21. 21

    Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson
    #77 on the ultimate list
    BUY
  22. 22

    The Da Vinci Code

    Dan Brown
    #1 on the ultimate list
    BUY
  23. 23

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

    J. K. Rowling
    #84 on the ultimate list
    BUY
  24. 24

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Edward Gibbon
    #86 on the ultimate list
    BUY
  25. 25

    Little House on the Prairie

    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    BUY
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  1. Clark Benson
    The Most Overrated Books of All Time at 4/27/2012 10:31 AM
    Out of the ones on here that I've read (about 1/3) I agree more than disagree with your choices (tho i do love Snow Crash)
  2. thereader
    The Most Overrated Books of All Time at 4/16/2011 10:20 AM
    What? Catcher in the Rye?! Ivanhoe? Jane Eyre? You can't really be serious saying that these are overrated... I admit that some you said were right on the mark - need I say Dan Brown and one with a recent Julia Roberts adaptation? Sadly, Tolstoy and Joyce, both excellent books, are usually marked as feats of endurance or, god forbid, blatant displays of intelligence. I read them, because they were good. I didn't read them just because they're "books that make you look good". Just take books as they are!
  3. AnthonyTravisShoot
    The Most Overrated Books of All Time at 4/13/2011 7:12 AM
    You can't be serious...

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