There are tons of overrated books. And by overrated, I mean overrated, not crappy. Overrated doesn't mean the book is awful. Here are a few.
- The Bible
- The Koran
- Atlas Shrugged
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Great Gatsby
- The King in Yellow by Chambers
- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Zinn
- The Black Farm by Witherow
- Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Vol. 1)
- Dracula by Stoker
- Neuromancer by Gibson
- The Communist Manifesto
- The Perl camel book from the 1990s
The reason I put the Bible and the Koran on my list is that the followers of the respective religions think that the books in question are miraculous, wonderful, the height of literature, and so forth. No, those books aren't miraculous, wonderful, or the height of literature. That's especially true of the Koran. As literature, the Koran is actually kind of crappy.
I don't know why, but goths love Bram Stoker. The only way that anyone can love him is if they've never read any of his stuff. Bram Stoker is spectacularly overrated. His short stories are mostly just garbage. Of his stuff that I have read,
Dracula is the best thing he wrote, but that doesn't say much.
Dracula is actually an ok novel. I would not say it sucked. His second best thing he wrote would be
Lair of the White Worm, and it wasn't that great. It kind of sucked, actually.