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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 431 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,115,833 ratings — published 1967
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 410 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.31 — 337,812 ratings — published 2012
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 399 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,050,397 ratings — published 2013
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 396 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.99 — 891,044 ratings — published 1961
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 390 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,901,314 ratings — published 2005
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.32 — 676,982 ratings — published 2016
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 370 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.10 — 994,149 ratings — published 2001
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 346 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.91 — 235,065 ratings — published 2009
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,389 ratings — published 1996
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 336 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.27 — 947,963 ratings — published 2015
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 329 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,161,268 ratings — published 1991
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 323 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,754,140 ratings — published 1996
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 319 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,999,510 ratings — published 2014
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 313 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,107,722 ratings — published 2011
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 256,865 ratings — published 2004
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 295 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,882,153 ratings — published 2011
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 285 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.75 — 178,557 ratings — published 2017
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,850,348 ratings — published 2006
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 278 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.50 — 689,427 ratings — published 1995
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 276 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.17 — 595,370 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 274 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,644,784 ratings — published 1965
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 270 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.05 — 478,335 ratings — published 2011
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.10 — 940,584 ratings — published 1878
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 257 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,468,106 ratings — published 2005
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 256 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,539,784 ratings — published 2020
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 256 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 954,054 ratings — published 1955
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,278,151 ratings — published 2011
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 250 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.02 — 560,271 ratings — published 2011
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,857,963 ratings — published 1813
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,538,934 ratings — published 1948
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 237 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 727,947 ratings — published 2001
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.00 — 764,827 ratings — published 2003
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 230 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,510,356 ratings — published 2020
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 229 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,458,628 ratings — published 1985
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.01 — 269,840 ratings — published 2004
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,429,177 ratings — published 2016
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.57 — 620,217 ratings — published 1851
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 825,525 ratings — published 2019
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
by (shelved 221 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.79 — 242,920 ratings — published 2013
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 220 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.95 — 341,936 ratings — published 2009
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.11 — 199,412 ratings — published 2018
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.81 — 201,601 ratings — published 2006
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.78 — 489,071 ratings — published 2018
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,051,104 ratings — published 1992
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.46 — 821,284 ratings — published 2022
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,761,729 ratings — published 2001
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,171,677 ratings — published 1847
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,035,879 ratings — published 2011
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,474,221 ratings — published 2012
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 210 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,298,256 ratings — published 2015
“I'm standing in a timeless place, between a past that has abandoned me and a future that scares me.”
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“It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us truths that knock us on our emotional ass the next.
After all, it is an unbelievably real world, with Darwin scribbling his thoughts into books and telling us what monkeys we are. Each of us explores possibility, hungry for sustaining adoration, yet we know enough to render ourselves helpless.
We strive and strain, bellow and believe, we learn, and everything we learn tells us the same thing: life is one great meaningful experience in a meaningless world. Brilliance has many parts, yet each part is incomplete.
We live, heal and attempt to piece together a picture worth the price of our very lives.
The picture I saw presented demonic executioners, who crippled those daring to look and consumed souls without defense. They’re everywhere. Some are people we know. Others are the great fears and addictions of our lives.”
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After all, it is an unbelievably real world, with Darwin scribbling his thoughts into books and telling us what monkeys we are. Each of us explores possibility, hungry for sustaining adoration, yet we know enough to render ourselves helpless.
We strive and strain, bellow and believe, we learn, and everything we learn tells us the same thing: life is one great meaningful experience in a meaningless world. Brilliance has many parts, yet each part is incomplete.
We live, heal and attempt to piece together a picture worth the price of our very lives.
The picture I saw presented demonic executioners, who crippled those daring to look and consumed souls without defense. They’re everywhere. Some are people we know. Others are the great fears and addictions of our lives.”
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