Sort of. Every month I have two book club books to read, so they automatically go on, and then I tend to choose a list of potential books based on what's available at my library (audio, digital, and in print) and other reading challenges I'm working on. My "possible tbr" for April is:

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Sangu Mandanna (book club)

The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller (book club)

The Color Purple, Alice Walker (library, reading challenge)

The Rosewater Redemption, Tade Thompson (library, reading challenge, also I just want to finish the series)

Come As You Are (digital library, also for work, also a reading challenge)

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante (audiobooks from the library, I like to always have one on the go, these two are pretty long so will probably take up most of April)

To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (library, reading challenge)

Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer (library, reading challenge)

Men Who Hate Women (library, reading challenge, Buzzwordathon for April (emotion words))

I'm not strict on finishing them each month so some may stray into May, some might get put off and others not on the list might find their way into my April reading, but this is the gist of the plan. I generally ready 9-12 books a month.

You didn't just not like the book though. You demanded people explain its merit to you while simultaneously concluding that it's a pile of garbage. Your post is not a critique, it's insulting the book, the author, and anyone who did like it.

If you mark a book as read on Goodreads and you didn't read every single word Jeff Bezos himself will step out of a mirror in your house and murder you in the night.

One example I can think of is Whose Names are Unknown, by Sanora Babb. She had a publishing deal for the book but it was shelved when Grapes of Wrath came out, as the publisher didn't think the market could support two books with similar settings and themes. It has since been published, relatively recently in 2004 (it was written in the 1930s), by a university press and in my opinion is better than Grapes. It's also very likely Steinbeck used her notes when writing Grapes of Wrath.

To be honest I think rather than studying philosophy you might want to try just reading lighter books. If you're not particularly drawn to reading, it suggests you're not that interested in the books you're picking up. Why not try some popular fiction? You develop your critical reading skills with everything you read, not just the big serious heavy books, and after a while you might find you come back to something like The Stranger with a new perspective.

Same here! I don't care if it makes me insufferable, sometimes I just want to read about hot faeries.