395 books
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163 voters
Gave Up Books
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The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.31 — 337,254 ratings — published 2012
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 183 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.91 — 233,294 ratings — published 2009
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 169 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,879,203 ratings — published 2005
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,040,504 ratings — published 2013
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.99 — 886,775 ratings — published 1961
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,104,945 ratings — published 1967
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.25 — 101,489 ratings — published 1996
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 144 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,734,511 ratings — published 1996
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 144 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.10 — 990,806 ratings — published 2001
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,153,673 ratings — published 1991
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.32 — 667,019 ratings — published 2016
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.28 — 927,325 ratings — published 2015
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.87 — 255,160 ratings — published 2004
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,975,740 ratings — published 2014
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 120 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,627,138 ratings — published 1965
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,098,384 ratings — published 2011
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,865,730 ratings — published 2011
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.51 — 684,895 ratings — published 1995
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.75 — 175,492 ratings — published 2017
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 102 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.05 — 468,263 ratings — published 2011
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.79 — 241,459 ratings — published 2013
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,261,521 ratings — published 2011
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,447,641 ratings — published 2005
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,753,781 ratings — published 2001
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.01 — 267,799 ratings — published 2004
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,202,721 ratings — published 2015
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,803,382 ratings — published 1813
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.82 — 303,353 ratings — published 2009
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.17 — 588,803 ratings — published 2011
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.02 — 556,692 ratings — published 2011
The Magicians (The Magicians, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.53 — 278,471 ratings — published 2009
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,028,318 ratings — published 1992
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,843,962 ratings — published 2006
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.10 — 931,670 ratings — published 1878
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.31 — 720,005 ratings — published 2001
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,503,094 ratings — published 2020
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.00 — 758,988 ratings — published 2003
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 84 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.95 — 339,901 ratings — published 2009
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.78 — 481,468 ratings — published 2018
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.86 — 775,960 ratings — published 2020
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,447,446 ratings — published 2012
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,457,614 ratings — published 2020
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.69 — 407,005 ratings — published 1957
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,423,347 ratings — published 1985
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.81 — 200,025 ratings — published 2006
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,347,690 ratings — published 2018
The Luminaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.75 — 85,673 ratings — published 2013
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,353,419 ratings — published 2022
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,051,946 ratings — published 1847
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,357,599 ratings — published 2011
“I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“When you truly love or want what you are pursuing, holding on can never be harder than giving up.”
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