Worst book lists

       What with all the best-of-the-year book lists coming out I'm kind of disappointed that there aren't more worst-of lists to be found, a reminder of the year's over-hyped crap and flops and disappointments. Admittedly, they can be hard to put together -- after all, there are a limited number of good (or great) books, but seemingly no end of mediocre to terrible ones, and it's not so much a matter of scraping the bottom of the barrel as figuring out which of the many barrel-fulls to consider ..... But reviewers or publications would certainly be performing a public service if they at least pointed to the worst they've covered during the year, for example.
       Among the few worst-lists is Entertainment Weekly's -- disappointingly not even a bottom-ten but rather only 5 Worst Books of 2014 -- one of which I've even read (The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, by Joël Dicker -- which, I agree, is pretty bad).
       At his stevereads weblog Steve Donoghue offers 'best-of-the-year'-lists in all sorts of categories, and fortunately also a few 'worst'-lists -- notably the Worst Books of 2014: Fiction ! Some notable names here (he has a somewhat unusual populist/contrarian streak), but, alas, none that I've read.

       While my fervent wish would be not to see any more book-lists at all for the remainder of the year, given how many best-of lists I'm sure to come across I hope that there will at least be a few more worst ones as well.