You're all wrong. Not to say your choices aren't boring, but if you're wanting to know the most boring book ever written, look no further than The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne, I have always thought, is a pretty shitty writer. He goes into huge detail about the stupidest, least important stuff in the entire novel (the moss on a rock in the forest or the color of wood), while forgetting to make the novel entertaining. I think Nathaniel Hawthorne gets the scarlet letter "A" for "Ass."