[fwdude]

Never heard of any of these titles, but coming from the source cities listed, I'm sure they were intellectual dreck.

[BenLurkin]

What?

You don’t want to know about Emily’s Happy Hairy Place?

[dfwgator]

[PUGACHEV]

They are all what I call drip books. Countless numbers of them published for women who read them incessantly. It’s a good business. They are consumed like a starchy snack, without much engagement or thought. I recall once that my wife got halfway through one before losing it at the beach. She never even bothered to look very hard to find it but simply went to the nearest Walgreens and bought a couple more different drip books to replace it.

Likewise, there are many, many drip films produced, and most do moderately well. There is little in a drip film for the male: there are no explosions, no car chases, no aliens, no monsters, no gunplay or sword fights, nor anyting of the sort. It’s all mostly about relationships.

[Fai Mao]

Often people borrow books that they want to read but disagree with so that they don’t support the author

[Robert DeLong]

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

On the opposing view point is:

Anyone else think "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" is terrible?

🌐 reddit.com

Yes, I really disliked it. The games they designed seemed super niche, but strange for a successful company. They are both toxic individuals, are terrible friends, and both had zero character growth. The author went into huge detail about games pretty much everyone knows the basic mechanics of, like Super Mario Bros, but used archaic words pretty much every other page without providing any further context for those words, which gave off a very pretentious attitude. Learning the ins and outs of game design would've been fascinating if perhaps a different author wrote this. Some reviews said the author really must be a gamer because she knows so much, but I didn't get that vibe at all. I really don't understand the acclaim and so many people constantly qualifying their praise with, "I'm not a gamer, but I loved it!" I am a gamer and the book was awful.

Reddit Reviews

[TalBlack]

I know libraries have diversified like crazy to stay alive but I had no idea people were still checking out books and reading them.

[rlmorel]

"...Kristin Hannah's The Women, Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing, and Emily Henry's Happy Place..."

I see a pattern here.

[Soul of the South]

Librarians across the country tend to be liberal. The books they acquire for their libraries reflect their personal points of view. At my library there are multiple copies, gathering dust on the shelves, of books by Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mary Trump, etc. to check out immediately.

Book buying is done centrally for the multiple branch system in my county. There is a long wait list to check out the few copies of individual novels by currently popular author C. J. Box, Kristan Hanna and Jeffrey Archer. When I ask at the desk of my local branch why they aren’t buying books based on demand, the librarian at the desk shrugs and say “Your aren’t the only one asking the question.”

Sadly libraries are just another government bureaucratic operation like the DMV where the employees follow a script, initiative is not rewarded, and the needs of the citizens the “public servants” are supposed to serve are incidental to the operation of the department.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

As an Englishman once said, those books are all “martyrs to the pie and relics of the bum.” (Toilet paper was not a commercial endeavor in the 1600s, so pages of idiot books still had value. Could also be used to wrap pies.)

[MNDude]

Here’s top 100. I didn’t know any until I got past number 80:

1. **Happy Place** by Emily Henry
2. **Fourth Wing** by Rebecca Yarros
3. **Lessons in Chemistry** by Bonnie Garmus
4. **The Women** by Kristin Hannah
5. **The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store** by James McBride
6. **Remarkably Bright Creatures** by Shelby Van Pelt
7. **It Ends with Us** by Colleen Hoover
8. **Verity** by Colleen Hoover
9. **The Covenant of Water** by Abraham Verghese
10. **The Night Watchman** by Louise Erdrich
11. **Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow** by Gabrielle Zevin
12. **Demon Copperhead** by Barbara Kingsolver
13. **A Court of Thorns and Roses** by Sarah J. Maas
14. **People We Meet on Vacation** by Emily Henry
15. **Malibu Rising** by Taylor Jenkins Reid
16. **The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo** by Taylor Jenkins Reid
17. **Carrie Soto Is Back** by Taylor Jenkins Reid
18. **Project Hail Mary** by Andy Weir
19. **Book Lovers** by Emily Henry
20. **Ugly Love** by Colleen Hoover
21. **Atomic Habits** by James Clear
22. **Spare** by Prince Harry
23. **The Body Keeps the Score** by Bessel van der Kolk
24. **The Midnight Library** by Matt Haig
25. **The 5 Love Languages** by Gary Chapman
26. **Where the Crawdads Sing** by Delia Owens
27. **The Light We Carry** by Michelle Obama
28. **Greenlights** by Matthew McConaughey
29. **Braiding Sweetgrass** by Robin Wall Kimmerer
30. **How to Win Friends and Influence People** by Dale Carnegie
31. **Think Like a Monk** by Jay Shetty
32. **Can’t Hurt Me** by David Goggins
33. **Becoming** by Michelle Obama
34. **A Man Called Ove** by Fredrik Backman
35. **Anxious People** by Fredrik Backman
36. **The House in the Cerulean Sea** by TJ Klune
37. **Under the Whispering Door** by TJ Klune
38. **The Paris Library** by Janet Skeslien Charles
39. **The Alice Network** by Kate Quinn
40. **The Rose Code** by Kate Quinn
41. **The Diamond Eye** by Kate Quinn
42. **The Huntress** by Kate Quinn
43. **The Nightingale** by Kristin Hannah
44. **Firefly Lane** by Kristin Hannah
45. **Fly Away** by Kristin Hannah
46. **Winter Garden** by Kristin Hannah
47. **True Colors** by Kristin Hannah
48. **The Great Alone** by Kristin Hannah
49. **Before We Were Strangers** by Renée Carlino
50. **Every Summer After** by Carley Fortune
51. **Meet Me at the Lake** by Carley Fortune
52. **The Summer I Turned Pretty** by Jenny Han
53. **It’s Not Summer Without You** by Jenny Han
54. **We’ll Always Have Summer** by Jenny Han
55. **To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before** by Jenny Han
56. **P.S. I Still Love You** by Jenny Han
57. **Always and Forever, Lara Jean** by Jenny Han
58. **If He Had Been with Me** by Laura Nowlin
59. **We Were Liars** by E. Lockhart
60. **Family of Liars** by E. Lockhart
61. **One of Us Is Lying** by Karen M. McManus
62. **One of Us Is Next** by Karen M. McManus
63. **Two Can Keep a Secret** by Karen M. McManus
64. **You’ll Be the Death of Me** by Karen M. McManus
65. **Nothing More to Tell** by Karen M. McManus
66. **The Cousins** by Karen M. McManus
67. **Good Girl, Bad Blood** by Holly Jackson
68. **As Good as Dead** by Holly Jackson
69. **The Last House on Needless Street** by Catriona Ward
70. **The Haunting of Hill House** by Shirley Jackson
71. **Mexican Gothic** by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
72. **The Hacienda** by Isabel Cañas
73. **A House with Good Bones** by T. Kingfisher
74. **The Only Good Indians** by Stephen Graham Jones
75. **My Heart Is a Chainsaw** by Stephen Graham Jones
76. **Don’t Fear the Reaper** by Stephen Graham Jones
77. **The Final Girl Support Group** by Grady Hendrix
78. **How to Sell a Haunted House** by Grady Hendrix
79. **Horrorstör** by Grady Hendrix
80. **The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires** by Grady Hendrix
81. **The Exorcist** by William Peter Blatty
82. **Rosemary’s Baby** by Ira Levin
83. **Dracula** by Bram Stoker
84. **Frankenstein** by Mary Shelley
85. **The Shining** by Stephen King
86. **It** by Stephen King
87. **Pet Sematary** by Stephen King
88. **Carrie** by Stephen King
89. **Salem’s Lot** by Stephen King
90. **The Stand** by Stephen King
91. **Misery** by Stephen King
92. **11/22/63** by Stephen King
93. **Under the Dome** by Stephen King
94. **Billy Summers** by Stephen King
95. **Fairy Tale** by Stephen King
96. **Holly** by Stephen King
97. **Later** by Stephen King
98. **The Institute** by Stephen King
99. **The Outsider** by Stephen King
100. **If It Bleeds** by Stephen King

[PUGACHEV]

"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin"

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time" [or page]...

I'll bet it does.

[unread]

Yeah, that figures...

[The Louiswu]

2024 was the year I finished the Master and Commander series by Patrick O'brian, a wonderful read that spans 21 books and takes the reader around the world on thrilling adventures.

Forget the woke junk, get with Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin!

[Karliner]

Yeesh, danged NPR and old hippies. Never read any of them, again.
Remember my uncle sent me Bridges of Madison County 30 years ago, trash book.

[1Old Pro]

Public libraries are no longer needed, just another tax drain on taxpayers.

[PeterPrinciple]

The most interesting and scary thing is WHAT IS NOT BEING READ.

[Allegra]

I liked Kristin Hannah’s “The Women.”

I saw “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” in the bookstores but never felt a desire to read it. Also saw “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” there and it seemed to scream of woke BS. No, thanks.

I think Emily Henry writes romance novels. Probably fine, if that’s your thing. It’s not mine.

I haven’t heard of the other ones.