Top 10 Most Boring Books of All Time

The Top Ten
1 Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore (Robin Sloan)

I told my best friend this book was great and gave it to her so I could stop reading it!

Hahaaa. I gave this book to my Science teacher to study the source of boringness. Lol. I got a detention for that...

This book is so horrible I threw it in the toilet

What did I just read?

2 To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

I understand that we need to read this book in school because it provides us some evidence of how American literature has changed throughout the years. I know as well that we need to read this book in school to know what the moral/theme of the story is. But for the love of god, this book is just boring. The beginning is slow and boring that it made my mind go to a blank. I couldn't even finish the first chapter without being easily distracted by boredom. As for the middle and the end of it, I honestly can't remember anything. I read it for school and once I aced the final test for this book, I immediately forgot everything about it. Why can't schools just allow students to read whatever book they want to for English class. This will provide diversity among the class and allows the teacher(s) to understand what genre every student likes and what sets each student apart. Also, a bonus, if schools allowed the students to pick whichever book they wanted to read for English class, students ...more

I know I'm not the only one who thinks it isn't boring. No, there aren't a lot of love scenes, or car crashes, or superheroes. Just some terrific lessons to be learned about treating all people as you would like to be treated.

We had to read this book for 8th grade Literature and it was boring as hell. I understand this was to introduce us to American Literature, but this was tedious and hard to read!

I had to read it in year 9, and everyone found it boring. We also had to do a test on it.

3 Allegiant (Veronica Roth)

These books are a disgrace to dystopian fiction. I LOVE LOVE LOVE dystopia books, they are my all time favorite genera, but these books were so bland and boring and unnecessarily complicated, I couldn't even finish the first book. Instead I went back and read Hunger Games for the fifteenth time. I could even plow through Children of Eden, which is a little too quick paced and doesn't have a lot of character development and Joey doesn't let the story build up enough to the tragic parts. But I could not get myself to read these. Just boring. anyway, yeah, it was really disappointing.

Ignored the winning action packed formula of the first two and turned it into a massive exposition heap. A dissapointment to all Divergent fans with actual working brains.

Loved Divergent, got a bit boring during Insurgwnt, and completely lost me at Allegiant. Couldn't even finish the book, very disappointing

4 Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt)

I had to read this for school, but I couldn't get into it. I have pretty bad ADHD, so I just made my mom read it for me. We didn't even have to take notes, so I got away with it. And when my mom was reading it to me, I didn't even pay attention

5 The Dictionary

Don't think this belongs here it is a reference book it would be like saying a book of important historical dates is boring or the phone book is boring, or the yellow pages is boring there there for quick reference not to sit down and read through

I'm not so sure that you can classify this as boring because it's just one of those books that sits on you shelf until you need a definition. It's not a novel, so you obviously would not read it front to back.

It's boring for any person to regularly sit down and read, but it seriously helped my vocabulary, and it is useful to practically any person alive!

The Only Preston Who I Think That The Dictionary Could Be Entertaining To Is Eminem.

6 The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

This book was a garbage reading with absolutely no plot development and it was boring beyond any stretch of the imagination (no pun intended). I came close on several separate occasions on flushing this book down the toilet. Please do not read this book.

Oh my god this book is a plague. I swear nobody should ever have to experience the horror of having to read this book.Stay away it is a place of boredom where people have no taste.If anyone likes this book no offense but I personally think you are probably from another planet.

7 The Man Who Loved Books Too Much (Allison Hoover Bartlett)

This sounds SO cool.
I'm so gonna fall asleep if I read this.

This just sounds painfully awful.

Painful to read

8 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

This is a good book, obviously no book is going to be entertaining to everyone and part of that is relatability and the major problem with this book is that it deals a lot with slavery which most people just can't relate to in this day and age, not saying there isn't slavery now, because obviously there is it just isn't main stream anymore

Comment below me, I am sorry, but this book is boring to the point of just cussing and throwing it out so you can take the nap you wanted to take when you started the book. Look, this book is a classic but I almost could not read it it's really THAT boring

I can't stand this book. My mommmade me read it in 4th Grade and it took me like 3 months because I couldn't handle reading this book. It was just so BORING!

What? This is one of the greatest books of all time, not one of the most boring!

9 The Bible

I'm sorry, but people are saying things like" It was horribly written" and " there's no plot". Guys, this is not a novel. This isn't a story made up for entertainment. This is a piece of religious scripture, and I hate it when people put it on " worst books" lists. This is just plain insulting, even though I'm not catholic. I'm actually Mormon, so we don't really focus on the bible as much, but please don't put religious books on these lists. I know I would be upset if The Book of Mormon was on a list like this, so please be respectful. please no hate, I'm just trying to protect and respect people's beliefs.

This book is horrendous. The plot is rubbish, the ending would of been better if the God character came down and opened fire on the people with big crazy ass lightning bolts or something! I felt the Jesus character could have been built upon better, maybe giving him more of a back story, I couldn't work out what he'd been up to between childhood and adulthood, maybe add some sinful adventure into his adolescent years to make him a more rounded character? Still, I liked the Judas twist, the author clearly had an eye for sub plots.

10 Books: a Memoir (Larry McMurtry)
The Contenders
11 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
12 The Polysyllabic Spree: a Hilarious and True Account of One Man’s Struggle With the Monthly Tide of the Books He’s Bought and the Books He’s Been Meaning to Read (Nick Hornby)

No need to read this book, as it's EXTREMELY boring and the title says the whole thing.

This book has 29 words in the title it already got boring!

The title says it all so why waste a book on it lol

I Think The Tittle Sums Up The Whole Thing

13 The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

You're kidding right. Have you gotten say, halfway through?! I'd say its one of the best books I've read my entire life!

As a matter of fact, this book is worth stealing.

I accidentally voted for it, but I wanted to say that this shouldn't be on the list.

I have a very short attention span, I can not sit still, and I get bored so easily, but I read this book in, like 2 days. And I didn't get bored.

14 The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

ARE YOU KIDDING ME! THIS IS THE GREATEST BOOK OF ALL TIME! It really hits home for me because my dad has cancer. And this book depicts emotions perfectly. It's really heartbreaking to see this book on the list.

John Green is the worst author alive today. Don't let his comments (the ones defending the book) blind you to the truth.

What the heck? This book is awesome!

God, I just couldn't do this book!

15 Reading Lolita In Tehran (Azar Nafisi)
16 Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)

This book is most certainly NOT boring! It is a classic, you uneducated fool! It happens to be my all time favourite. Why put beautiful classic books up here?! I haven't seen one of those stupid books like 'Barry Looser' or Tom Gates?! You should read a little shakespeare and become a little smarter!

Nobody cares about this super whiny kid. Holden please pay attention in school and don't do drugs!

One swear word, wow

I like this book

17 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Herman Melville got drunk and started rambling about everything he knows about whaling. Then he added a little plot at the start and at the end and called it a book.

I haven't read the book myself, but my mom said she had to read it in high school and said the first 19 chapters are about blubber. The 20th chapter had no 👎 plot... I don't think I will be reading this anytime soon,

18 Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Anne Fadiman)

Just sounds like one of those books I wouldn't wanna read unless I had to

19 Phantoms On the Bookshelves (Jacques Bonnet)
20 The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

There is an entire chapter describing a turtle walking across a road. I am not making this up.

No Steinbeck book is boring. Steinbeck was a phenomenal author.

If you want the antithesis of The Fountainhead here it is.

21 The Quran

You pervert how dare you it's not funny

I mean really..

22 The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)

I read a bit of t before quitting, so I don't know what all the fuss about this books series is. ;-;

I read it in 6th grade and gods of Olympus(hehe pjo 4 life) I cannot get the hype! Plot was boring, main character is a horrible narrator, why do people like this book?

How is it boring

Couldn’t even start the book and could barely get through the Movie.
I don’t understand why people love the movie and the book so much.

23 Divergent (Veronica Roth)
24 Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

This book shouldn't be here! It gives a detailed inside look on the sinister activity in Anne's time period, and it doesn't have a plot because it isn't a story! It's real life and frankly (no pun intended), it shouldn't be. Just because there are historic books out there, doesn't mean they should be on this list.

Ohh, so educational books are on here. I get it. Your parents don't let you read it because you NOT OLD ENOUGH. Just like the movie Mean Girls. You can't watch it until your older. For me, I've been obsessed with Anne Frank for almost 3 years.

I thought this book was very tragic and I loved the story, y'all are acting like it's some kind of fiction novel that somebody made up, saying things like " it has no plot." well if it has no plot than you have no good taste in literature.

I really like books, but this one is so boring... it has no plot (yes, I know it is a diary), it has no point, it is not interesting at all, I didn't even know why they published it, it is 300 pages of the same old boring crap

25 I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Malala Yousafzai)

Boring, had to read it for an school assignment, so I didn't read it.

No - this book is amazing

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