1. Take your pick of of the works of James Joyce. Most highly over-rated writer, IMO.
2. Catcher in the Rye. Another vastly over-rated writer.
3. I could come up with a rather long list of nonsensical scribblers and their works to put in this position, but I’d put Howard Zinn’s history book here as my first choice of the worst among the rest.
Gotta agree with you on Howard Zinn’s garbage.