Oct 19, 2025
You can now view the top 100 disliked books on the site in the explore page 👁️
amf7 months ago
On the Road, 1984, Animal Farm, and Old Man and the Sea are in the bottom 10. Still pissed at our 10th grade English teacher, are we?
I mean, save for Hemingway, they are kinda shit. I'm just surprised Fahrenheit isn't lower than 1984
amf7 months ago
I will forever defend On the Road as having been life-changing, even if it is a bit silly as a grownup. And even 1984 and Animal Farm are just mid. A Little Life (which deserves its ignominious position) is not better than 1984. I'm also shocked, given the community, how low Ottessa Moshfegh and (per tokyodrifter below) Dazai are rated.
tokyodrifter7 months ago
No Longer Human at #7, what the fuck?
Viva hate
But yeah, it's probably not worth jumping to any conclusions too quickly based on the limited data - It takes 3-4 dislikes to get into the top 10. And for any book to be high it has to feature in a few bookshelfs, so something like Mistborn #1 forcibly isn't there because no one's added it. Idk if effective weighting would be possible at this scale
Yea I just realized this! It's a bit too heavy on the N to get accurate data. Maybe top 10 most disliked is more than sufficient.
Maybe in the future you could introduce a minimum N (e.g. added to at least 8 bookshelves) then calculate the position based on what proportion of people disliked the book. So like 5 dislikes in 20 bookshelves would be higher than 10 dislikes in 100 bookshelves. But the current model is interesting as it is and I don't want to ask anymore of you than you've already done 🙏