As journalists examine the year in publishing, their minds turn to both the Best Books of the Year and the Worst. These cantankerous lists invariably include popular books that helped keep the publishing industry afloat during this long recession.
If you are looking for anti-inspiration, check out the Guardian‘s Worst Books of the Decade list. Jane L also pointed readers to GoodRead’s Books I Regret Reading list. What do you think?
Here’s a Guardian excerpt, mentioning an old favorite cheesy book on this GalleyCat editor’s bookshelf: “It helps create that strange cultural telescoping that makes us think that the past was always better; that odd warping of collective memory that enables us to recall even the 1970s fondly … Of course, the real beige and brown reality was Alf Garnett on TV, ‘Jonathan Livingston’s Seagull’ in the bookshops and the Carpenters and David Cassidy in the charts.”