I'm not looking for so-bad-it's-good in a The Room kind of way. I'm looking for books you genuinely enjoyed reading but that you also recognize are, objectively, not "good."
Maybe the prose was clunky, the plot was ridiculous, or the dialogue was cringe, but you couldn't put it down. The book that you'd never assign in a literature class but you'd totally recommend to a friend for a guilty pleasure. In a word, what's your pick for the best bad book?
by ORALDDS
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Fourth Wing, but the sequels weren’t as fun bad. Just meh.
It’s gotta be Queen of the Damned. I will stand by Interview with the Vampire &, to some extent, The Vampire Lestat, because I think they’re both genuinely good. But QOTD? Ridiculous. I liked it a lot, although definitely preferred the first 2. That was the last book that managed the straddle the line of “bad but oh my God I love it”, after that it gets plain bad.
Project Lyra by Vincent Kane
The entire Wheel of Time series. Also The Secret History