Then don’t read “The Bone Doll Twin”… (which I actually liked, in spite of the truly horrible events at the start…).
Annie Proulx: The Shipping News
Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged
Michael Crichton: Congo
Tom Clancy: Debt of Honor
Carlos Castaneda: The Teachings of Don Juan
Dennis Lehane: Mystic River
I dislike Tom Clancy. His female characters are either saints or whores.
Rhetoricae distinctiones in Quintilianum. A real one trick pony.
Another problem with Tom Clancy books is the characters tend to have one syllable first names and two syllable last names and they’re usually Anglo-Saxon names (just like Tom Clancy!) so it gets very confusing.
Any book in which the female protagonist makes a foolish financial decision because ‘it’s the right thing’ to do.
I agree with The Poisonwood Bible. Any book that becomes a political screed instead of a story is a failure.
@sue22 We had that same nickname for The Runaway Bunny!
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian - S was supposed to read in HS and even HE could not get through it. And he reads stacks of stuff. I tried and gave up after 3 pages.
Hated Moby Dick and Silas Marner, both of which I had to read for school, but probably wouldn’t have finished if I’d tried to read them on my own.
If I don’t like a book, I don’t continue to read it …that would include books I have put down and not finished. DaVinci Code comes to mind.
I’m with @lje62 on this one. The only book outside of school that falls into this category is The Hobbit. Hated it and could not finish.
For books that I had to read in school, Heart of Darkness is definitely on the hate list.
I actually liked the Poisonwood Bible. 
My friend adored the Poisonwood Bible and insisted I read it. I couldn’t read more than a few torturous pages. Same with the Hobbit; I even tried watching the movie and had to shut it off. I remember hating Cien Anos de Soledad in college. I detested The Bell Jar too, and pretty any book by an author who killed him or herself out of depression at a young age.
Adult books: I tend to stop reading books that I don’t like. That said, I really disliked The Heart of Darkness. I read it only to help #1D in one of her AP classes. She wanted me to quiz her. The things we do for our kids! I’m not that crazy about American lit in general, so struggled with all of the classics and read only what I had to read.
I hated reading Berenstain Bears and Magic Schoolbus books to the girls. Hated them. They were actually thrown out.
I never told my HS friends that I only made it through the first few pages of Watership Down; everyone loved that book.
The Scarlet Letter. Required HS reading. I read up to the movie photo inserts in the middle and read nothing more.
I hated the Scarlet Letter and the Metamorphosis, but at least I got through them. I could not make it to the end of Anthem even though I had to read it for school.
Fully agree with I Love You Forever and especially The Giving Tree - saddest book ever.
Most hated? hands down * Catcher in the Rye.* Had to read it for a class, but hated every single minute of it. Nothing redeeming about it.
I was on a Henry James marathon when I lived in Germany until I got to The Ambassadors - I got bogged down and never read another one. Glad to know it wasn’t just me!
I thought The DaVinci Code was terrible, but I kept reading it and enjoyed the plot. It was more that the style was so terrible.
I’ve never been able to read more than fifty pages or so of * A Hundred Years of Solitude*. I keep hoping that this time I’ll figure out why other people love it so much. Nope.
Edited to add:
Love you Forever is super creepy. Never got it for my kids. Hate the illustrations too.
I put the The Giving Tree in much the same category. Is this really the message we want to give to our kids? No thank you! (Love Silverstein’s poetry though, which is wonderfully subversive.)
Also totally loathed the Berenstain Bear books and also the illustration style. The (few) ones my kids were given disappeared beforethey ever realized they’d gotten them.
“Eat, Pray, Love”
The Eat part was ok but I found myself bored to tears during the Pray part and binned the rest of the book. I’m in the boat with the others who don’t finish reading books I don’t care for.
I hated The Iliad and The Odyssey, along with Ulysses, which was all we read in my 11th grade English class. It was an excruciatingly long year.
Never could get into Sometimes a Great Notion. Couldn’t read the first Harry Potter, too episodic. I don’t hate it, but didn’t see any reason to finish it. The one I really didn’t like was The Time Traveler’s Wife. I gave it up about 50 pages in. The only book I ever threw across the room was Pet Cemetary (but I finished it the next day.)
reading Lolita in Tehran, Ahab’s wife, kitchen confidential, running with scissors, curious incident of the dog in the night, cold mountain