Open Thread: Books You Feel Bad about Not Liking?

Friends, Coworkers, Society—They All Want Us to Like Certain Books, but Sometimes You Just Can’t Get into Them

There are books you’re supposed to read, supposed to know, supposed to love. Often these books rank as classics and bear such names as Austen, Brontë, Conrad, and Dostoevsky. Other times those names signal the “it” authors of the moment with books praised in the Atlantic, New Yorker, and Esquire.

And then there’s you: You who live in a society, a person …