1.) Favorite author

1.) Favorite author
2.) Their worst book

John Hawkes

Of the ones I've read so far, The Passion Artist was probably the weakest, but I like all of them.

Dostoyevsky
The Adolescent (aka A Raw Youth)

I suppose it was a final opportunity for him to work some things out in novel form prior to Karamazov, but I find it so unengaging. I can't get on board with the protagonist, either for or against him, and it doesn't seem to talk about much of anything, relative to his other four novels (or virtually all of his shorter work)

Hermann Broch.

Sleepwalkers was too fucking long.

Terry Pratchett
The Colour of Magic
Nothing controversial there

Not sure if I can choose an absolute favourite
>J.G. Ballard
>Rushing to Paradise

James Joyce

Ulysses

Dubliners, Portrait and Finnegans Wake all choose either brevity or lyricism and then focus principally on that, then complementing it with the other judiciously. Ulysses is a hot mess.

I found portrait to be his worst. It seemed very scaled back and insecure. The work of a man desperate for approval.

Kafka
Betrachtung (not count Heizer as it's not a book), still good though.

Where to start with Broch?