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Abandoned Books
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 403 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,124,653 ratings — published 1967
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 398 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.31 — 338,311 ratings — published 2012
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 376 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,059,305 ratings — published 2013
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 370 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,924,573 ratings — published 2005
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 364 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.99 — 894,676 ratings — published 1961
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 359 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.10 — 996,945 ratings — published 2001
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.32 — 684,531 ratings — published 2016
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 336 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.91 — 236,745 ratings — published 2009
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.25 — 103,298 ratings — published 1996
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 317 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.27 — 964,526 ratings — published 2015
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 315 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,167,849 ratings — published 1991
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 312 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,770,691 ratings — published 1996
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 300 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,019,350 ratings — published 2014
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 297 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,116,276 ratings — published 2011
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 258,600 ratings — published 2004
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 280 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,894,203 ratings — published 2011
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 272 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.75 — 180,748 ratings — published 2017
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,855,845 ratings — published 2006
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.17 — 601,005 ratings — published 2011
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 265 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.50 — 691,840 ratings — published 1995
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 259 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,662,847 ratings — published 1965
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 257 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.05 — 486,814 ratings — published 2011
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 251 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,484,097 ratings — published 2005
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.11 — 947,591 ratings — published 1878
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 246 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 961,123 ratings — published 1955
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 242 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.02 — 563,481 ratings — published 2011
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,291,545 ratings — published 2011
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 235 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 734,486 ratings — published 2001
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,565,555 ratings — published 2020
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 227 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,898,571 ratings — published 1813
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,598,045 ratings — published 1948
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,485,341 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 — 769,708 ratings — published 2003
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.01 — 271,433 ratings — published 2004
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.81 — 202,850 ratings — published 2006
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 842,211 ratings — published 2019
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,445,318 ratings — published 2016
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.57 — 624,260 ratings — published 1851
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 210 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.95 — 343,886 ratings — published 2009
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 209 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,550,036 ratings — published 2020
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.11 — 202,144 ratings — published 2018
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
by (shelved 209 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.79 — 244,761 ratings — published 2013
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,070,680 ratings — published 1992
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,768,504 ratings — published 2001
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,219,596 ratings — published 1847
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,495,908 ratings — published 2012
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.77 — 496,174 ratings — published 2018
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.61 — 453,568 ratings — published 1957
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,836,663 ratings — published 2022
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.46 — 843,551 ratings — published 2022
“It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us truths that knock us on our emotional ass the next.
After all, it is an unbelievably real world, with Darwin scribbling his thoughts into books and telling us what monkeys we are. Each of us explores possibility, hungry for sustaining adoration, yet we know enough to render ourselves helpless.
We strive and strain, bellow and believe, we learn, and everything we learn tells us the same thing: life is one great meaningful experience in a meaningless world. Brilliance has many parts, yet each part is incomplete.
We live, heal and attempt to piece together a picture worth the price of our very lives.
The picture I saw presented demonic executioners, who crippled those daring to look and consumed souls without defense. They’re everywhere. Some are people we know. Others are the great fears and addictions of our lives.”
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After all, it is an unbelievably real world, with Darwin scribbling his thoughts into books and telling us what monkeys we are. Each of us explores possibility, hungry for sustaining adoration, yet we know enough to render ourselves helpless.
We strive and strain, bellow and believe, we learn, and everything we learn tells us the same thing: life is one great meaningful experience in a meaningless world. Brilliance has many parts, yet each part is incomplete.
We live, heal and attempt to piece together a picture worth the price of our very lives.
The picture I saw presented demonic executioners, who crippled those daring to look and consumed souls without defense. They’re everywhere. Some are people we know. Others are the great fears and addictions of our lives.”
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“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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