Gave Up


The Casual Vacancy
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
The Goldfinch
The Book Thief
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Infinite Jest
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Little Life
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Dune (Dune, #1)
All the Light We Cannot See
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Books That You Couldn't Finish
395 books — 163 voters

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Difficult Reading
106 books — 100 voters
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Best Books you've Never Finished
65 books — 69 voters

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Abandoned in 2025
83 books — 15 voters
One Piece, Volume 1 by Eiichiro OdaHunter x Hunter, Vol. 01 by Yoshihiro Togashi
Manga Series So Long You Gave Up
2 books — 1 voter

Jack Kerouac
I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk.
Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Sarah J. Maas
To escape the Prison, I made myself mortal. Immortal as you are, but... mortal compared to- to what I was. And what I was... I did not feel the way you do. The way I do now. Some things- loyalty and wrath and curiosity- but not the full spectrum.' Again, that faraway look. 'I was perfect, according to some. I did not regret, did not mourn- and pain... I did not experience it. And yet... yet I wound up here, because I was not quite like the others. Even as- as what I was, I was different. Too cur ...more
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

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