 | My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Buy used from: £0.01 A bit like Heat magazine or Neighbours. You know it's bad. It's not even entertainingly bad, but somehow you keep reading it.
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 | Dombey and Son (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £18.64 / Used from: £0.01 History's dullest writer's dullest book. I confess I didn't finish it - maybe something really exciting happens on page 670, but by that point, who cares?
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 | Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Relationships by John Gray
Buy new: £2.68 / Used from: £37.86 Men are from earth, women are from earth. Just deal with it.
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 | Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel by Helen Fielding
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 Actually, it's not that bad in it's own right - but it spawned a genre that is responsible for a lot of the most awful excuses for books ever.
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 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.01 Ludicrously over-rated. If you want good original thoughtful children's literature, read Lemony Snickett or Phillip Pullman
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £6.31 I'm not against violence in literature. I'm not against representing amoral characters, but there has to be some kind of point to it. This is just shock for shock's sake.
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 | Sexual Politics by Kate Millett
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £1.80 Maybe I just couldn't deal with her one-dimensional reading of DH Lawrence. But this is a good example of why so many women are to embarrassed to call themselves feminist.
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 | Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Beginning to resemble the "noddy" series in sheer scope. Shopaholic gets married, shopaholic takes a taxi, shopaholic goes to the toilet....
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 | To the Lighthouse (Wordsworth Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £1.89 / Used from: £0.01 The Plath worshipping girly-intellectual in me wanted to like it - but the truth hit about forty pages in. It's just plain old boring. A woman whose life was far more interesting than her writing.
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