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The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.31 — 339,243 ratings — published 2012
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 174 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.92 — 240,218 ratings — published 2009
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,079,733 ratings — published 2013
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 150 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,970,591 ratings — published 2005
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.25 — 105,491 ratings — published 1996
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.99 — 903,239 ratings — published 1961
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,183,392 ratings — published 1991
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 135 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,808,960 ratings — published 1996
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,003,532 ratings — published 2001
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,145,652 ratings — published 1967
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.31 — 703,573 ratings — published 2016
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,003,147 ratings — published 2015
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.88 — 262,207 ratings — published 2004
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,062,938 ratings — published 2014
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,701,261 ratings — published 1965
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,135,194 ratings — published 2011
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 102 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,922,668 ratings — published 2011
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.50 — 696,459 ratings — published 1995
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,784,901 ratings — published 2001
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.78 — 247,931 ratings — published 2013
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.75 — 184,711 ratings — published 2017
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,520,732 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,323,017 ratings — published 2011
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.06 — 509,644 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.17 — 614,171 ratings — published 2011
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.01 — 274,625 ratings — published 2004
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,868,209 ratings — published 2006
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.02 — 569,433 ratings — published 2011
The Magicians (The Magicians, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.53 — 282,426 ratings — published 2009
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 85 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.95 — 348,587 ratings — published 2009
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,554,598 ratings — published 2015
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.82 — 311,290 ratings — published 2009
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,992,270 ratings — published 1813
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,283,420 ratings — published 1847
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,549,200 ratings — published 1985
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.69 — 411,643 ratings — published 1957
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,115,244 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 — 749,350 ratings — published 2001
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.11 — 964,526 ratings — published 1878
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.00 — 780,820 ratings — published 2003
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.11 — 208,288 ratings — published 2018
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,379,033 ratings — published 2011
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.77 — 510,497 ratings — published 2018
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,618,158 ratings — published 2020
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.81 — 205,593 ratings — published 2006
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,547,677 ratings — published 2012
The Luminaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.75 — 87,445 ratings — published 2013
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,655,571 ratings — published 2020
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.85 — 856,562 ratings — published 2020
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.87 — 975,716 ratings — published 1955
“I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“I don't see how I can move on from loving her when she gave up everything for me. For the cause.' He shook his head. 'Every time I hook up, I remember it.”
― House of Earth and Blood
― House of Earth and Blood