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Gave Up Books

The Casual Vacancy
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
The Goldfinch
The Book Thief
Catch-22
Infinite Jest
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Little Life
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
All the Light We Cannot See
Dune (Dune, #1)
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Lists

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezHole to Hell Mystery by Stephanie Parker McKeanThe Road by Cormac McCarthyA DANGEROUS TRADE by Oscar OrtizGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Best Books you've Never Finished
66 books — 69 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Difficult Reading
106 books — 100 voters

The Midnight Library by Matt HaigFoods That Fight Pain by Neal D. BarnardElphie by Gregory MaguireBlack Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn IveyA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Abandoned in 2025
84 books — 16 voters
Twilight by Stephenie MeyerWicked by Gregory MaguireThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienNightfall by L.J. SmithThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Books That You Couldn't Finish
400 books — 163 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienUlysses by James JoyceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleThe Holy Bible by Anonymous
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,708 books — 13,273 voters
One Piece, Volume 1 by Eiichiro OdaHunter x Hunter, Vol. 01 by Yoshihiro Togashi
Manga Series So Long You Gave Up
2 books — 1 voter

Quotes Tagged “Gave Up”

Jack Kerouac
“ I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk. ”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ When you truly love or want what you are pursuing, holding on can never be harder than giving up. ”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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