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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 398 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,147,578 ratings — published 1967
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 392 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.31 — 339,324 ratings — published 2012
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 369 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,973,971 ratings — published 2005
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 368 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,081,256 ratings — published 2013
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 363 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.99 — 903,858 ratings — published 1961
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 348 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,004,067 ratings — published 2001
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 705,157 ratings — published 2016
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 326 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.92 — 240,498 ratings — published 2009
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.25 — 105,686 ratings — published 1996
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 314 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,184,433 ratings — published 1991
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 309 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,006,386 ratings — published 2015
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 302 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,812,285 ratings — published 1996
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 298 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,065,828 ratings — published 2014
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,136,377 ratings — published 2011
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.88 — 262,439 ratings — published 2004
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 275 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,924,811 ratings — published 2011
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 270 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.75 — 185,022 ratings — published 2017
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,869,118 ratings — published 2006
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 264 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.50 — 696,764 ratings — published 1995
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.17 — 615,229 ratings — published 2011
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 258 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.06 — 511,635 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 256 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,704,492 ratings — published 1965
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.11 — 966,024 ratings — published 1878
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 245 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,523,644 ratings — published 2005
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 245 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 976,928 ratings — published 1955
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 238 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.02 — 569,891 ratings — published 2011
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 233 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 750,739 ratings — published 2001
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,325,687 ratings — published 2011
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,621,940 ratings — published 2020
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,748,249 ratings — published 1949
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,999,526 ratings — published 1813
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,553,986 ratings — published 1985
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.00 — 781,618 ratings — published 2003
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.81 — 205,865 ratings — published 2006
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.01 — 274,868 ratings — published 2004
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 209 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.95 — 348,946 ratings — published 2009
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.57 — 634,232 ratings — published 1851
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 878,546 ratings — published 2019
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,484,573 ratings — published 2016
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 205 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,663,922 ratings — published 2020
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
by (shelved 205 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.78 — 248,122 ratings — published 2013
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,118,904 ratings — published 1992
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.10 — 208,764 ratings — published 2018
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,551,770 ratings — published 2012
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,786,177 ratings — published 2001
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.77 — 511,525 ratings — published 2018
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,287,587 ratings — published 1847
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.46 — 898,581 ratings — published 2022
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,169,881 ratings — published 2011
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,896,489 ratings — published 2022
“Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I’m laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.”
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“Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhead.”
― Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
― Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
