30 books
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21 voters
Abandoned Books
Showing 1-50 of 100,000
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 403 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,124,848 ratings — published 1967
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 398 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.31 — 338,321 ratings — published 2012
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 376 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,059,540 ratings — published 2013
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 370 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,925,043 ratings — published 2005
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 364 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.99 — 894,773 ratings — published 1961
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 359 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.10 — 997,003 ratings — published 2001
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.32 — 684,712 ratings — published 2016
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 336 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.91 — 236,801 ratings — published 2009
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.25 — 103,322 ratings — published 1996
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 317 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.27 — 964,883 ratings — published 2015
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 315 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,167,997 ratings — published 1991
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 312 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,771,046 ratings — published 1996
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 300 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,019,819 ratings — published 2014
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 297 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,116,489 ratings — published 2011
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 258,643 ratings — published 2004
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 280 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,894,472 ratings — published 2011
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 272 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.75 — 180,793 ratings — published 2017
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,855,946 ratings — published 2006
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.17 — 601,166 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 — 691,880 ratings — published 1995
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 259 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,663,230 ratings — published 1965
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 257 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.05 — 487,004 ratings — published 2011
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 251 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,484,465 ratings — published 2005
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.11 — 947,750 ratings — published 1878
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 246 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 961,291 ratings — published 1955
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 242 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.02 — 563,544 ratings — published 2011
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,291,909 ratings — published 2011
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 235 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 734,637 ratings — published 2001
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,566,081 ratings — published 2020
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 227 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,899,489 ratings — published 1813
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,599,390 ratings — published 1948
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,485,931 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 — 769,806 ratings — published 2003
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.01 — 271,479 ratings — published 2004
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.81 — 202,874 ratings — published 2006
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 — 1,445,683 ratings — published 2016
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.57 — 624,362 ratings — published 1851
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 210 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.95 — 343,931 ratings — published 2009
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 842,548 ratings — published 2019
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 209 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,550,902 ratings — published 2020
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.11 — 202,200 ratings — published 2018
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
by (shelved 209 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.79 — 244,819 ratings — published 2013
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,071,120 ratings — published 1992
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,768,662 ratings — published 2001
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,220,440 ratings — published 1847
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,496,375 ratings — published 2012
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.77 — 496,326 ratings — published 2018
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.61 — 453,611 ratings — published 1957
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,837,145 ratings — published 2022
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.46 — 844,018 ratings — published 2022
“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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“The feeling of abandonment overwhelmed me as I realised that no one had waited, or cared where I was.”
― Letters to Eloise
― Letters to Eloise












