The Worst of my 2009 Reading List « Around the world in 80 books

What makes a book bad? What makes it worthy of being on a “worst” list? I mean, Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane had the most hackneyed, ridiculous, throw-the-book-across-the-room plot-twist (in the same vein of “it's all been a dream”) ... in a hotel because our apartment is full of ash but I don't actually really TALK about that with any sort of human emotion because I'd rather sound smart and blah blah blah…and I can't even blah anymore because I forgot everything else. ...