Any author of the french mouvement réalisme.

Court of Thorns and Roses. It came highly recommended by my sister and many others.

I get the appeal, an adult retelling of classic fantasy. But it felt like it was written just to be edgey, sexy and proactive. Which is fine if that's what you are wanting, lots of media does this. I was just hoping for a new angle or dimension on Beauty and the Beast, not just a sexy B&B. I guess that does count as a new angle, but not one for me.

of mice and men. its only 100 pages with large lettering and i still couldnt get through it because it was so boring

The Executioner's Song

Had to read Animal Farm for school. Haven't read it since then, so this could be a now incorrect edgy high school opinion, but I felt that its allegory was so obvious and direct that it had no need to be written and was a waste of time to read when we could've just directly discussed communism instead.

I've read some utter wank in my day, but the one that first springs to mind is Fault in their Stars by John Green.