Taste has to be developed. If one doesn’t like Henry James or James Joyce the fault is not with them but with the reader. The obligation is on you to get to their level of sensibility.
Taste doesn’t have to be anything. People like what they like and anybody that thinks there’s a problem with somebody else’s taste is quite simply wrong and should mind their own business. James Joyce was a drunk whose writing is crap, and Henry Jame is dull. I have no obligation to suffer through books that bore me. If you like them fine, but that doesn’t make you right and me wrong, that makes you someone that likes those books and me someone that doesn’t.