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Gave Up Books
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The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.31 — 338,977 ratings — published 2012
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.91 — 238,816 ratings — published 2009
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,071,347 ratings — published 2013
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 153 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,951,131 ratings — published 2005
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.99 — 899,652 ratings — published 1961
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.25 — 104,508 ratings — published 1996
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,177,053 ratings — published 1991
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,791,413 ratings — published 1996
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,000,801 ratings — published 2001
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,135,945 ratings — published 1967
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.31 — 694,507 ratings — published 2016
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.27 — 985,939 ratings — published 2015
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.88 — 260,812 ratings — published 2004
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,045,740 ratings — published 2014
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,684,411 ratings — published 1965
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,127,979 ratings — published 2011
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 102 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,910,666 ratings — published 2011
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 102 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.50 — 694,294 ratings — published 1995
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.78 — 246,959 ratings — published 2013
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.75 — 183,089 ratings — published 2017
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,777,882 ratings — published 2001
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.05 — 498,661 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.17 — 608,389 ratings — published 2011
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,504,440 ratings — published 2005
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.01 — 273,347 ratings — published 2004
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,308,899 ratings — published 2011
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,479,309 ratings — published 2015
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,863,117 ratings — published 2006
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.02 — 567,024 ratings — published 2011
The Magicians (The Magicians, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.53 — 281,690 ratings — published 2009
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.82 — 309,381 ratings — published 2009
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,952,059 ratings — published 1813
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 83 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.95 — 346,480 ratings — published 2009
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,258,810 ratings — published 1847
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.11 — 957,147 ratings — published 1878
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,522,101 ratings — published 1985
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.69 — 410,713 ratings — published 1957
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,095,991 ratings — published 1992
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.31 — 742,517 ratings — published 2001
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.00 — 776,217 ratings — published 2003
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,596,732 ratings — published 2020
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.81 — 204,305 ratings — published 2006
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,374,459 ratings — published 2011
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.77 — 504,935 ratings — published 2018
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.11 — 205,731 ratings — published 2018
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,525,586 ratings — published 2012
The Luminaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.75 — 87,127 ratings — published 2013
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,608,259 ratings — published 2020
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.85 — 841,700 ratings — published 2020
Milkman (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.53 — 72,783 ratings — published 2018
“I gave up many times but I never quit.”
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“One day I woke up and realized no amount of love, care, pain, hurt, anger, or retribution could ever transform those who are evil into good or kind people. That day I let go; I stopped caring for them, gave up any hope for their souls, and knew they were never worthy of me or my time.”
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