172. Overrated Books I
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1599-1601)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1599-1601)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002) VS The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
Killing King: Racial Terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. by Larry Hancock and Stuart Wexler (2014) VS The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe by Jay Novella, Steven Novella, Cara Santa Maria and Evan R. Bernstein (2018)
The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (2010) VS Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Vaclav Smil (2022) VS The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell (2023)
Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold (2015) VS Open by Andre Agassi (2009)
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton (2018) VS On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (2019)
Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force) by Craig Alanson (2016) VS The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin (1972)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962) VS Conversations With Myself by Nelson Mandela (2010)
Here Is New York by E. B. White and Roger Angell (1949) VS Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)
Christine by Stephen King (1983) vs The Haunted Car by R. L. Stine (1999)
The Hooligans of Kandahar: Not All War Stories are Heroic by Joseph Kassabian (2016) vs Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard (2011)
Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb (2016)
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller (2020)
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (2021) vs The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (2016)
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (2022)
Pulitzer Prize Winner Trust by Hernan Diaz (2022)
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (1889)
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann (2023)
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (2020) VS The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton (2006)
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson (2020) vs Looking for Alaska by John Green (2005)
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (2016)
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (2021)
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (2021)
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (2003)
The Peregrine by J. A. Baker (1967)
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino (1957)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (1962) vs The Animal One Thousand Miles Long: Seven Lengths of Vermont and Other Adventures by Leath Tonino (2018)