people will read books they Do Not Like™ and then wonder why they hate reading
“i don’t like long books” read short ones. “i don’t like prose” try poetry. “i don’t want to pay for a book i might not even like” go to your local library.
reading is the hobby that you make it; make it something you like.
seeing this mentioned in the tags, but for the love of all that is good and holy please stop making yourself read books you don’t like. you know yourself better than any curation or recommendation, if you’re not enjoying it, you can put it down.
reading for leisure is supposed to be fun. you can’t have fun if you’re actively robbing yourself of joy while you do it!
Adding to this - if you are reading a book and it’s not required for work, school or university, and you are Not Enjoying It… You Can Stop Reading It. No one is going to penalise you. No one is going to tell you off. No one is going to take away your good grade in reading. You can stop reading it. Return it to the library if it was a library book. Give it away, to a friend, to a charity/thrift shop/second hand book shop, eBay, Amazon, whatever. Chuck it out if it was that bad. Was it for a book club? Turning up to the book club and going ‘could not finish this, it was awful’ might be a valid response, or alternately you could just skip out on it. A friend is pressuring you to read it? Just tell them it’s not your thing, maybe they could summarise the key takeaways they wanted you to see?
Life is too short to force yourself to read things you really don’t care about and don’t need to read.