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Abandoned Books
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1083 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,087,464 ratings — published 1967
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1057 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.99 — 880,231 ratings — published 1961
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 997 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.10 — 984,987 ratings — published 2001
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 960 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,599,080 ratings — published 1965
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 896 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,702,831 ratings — published 1996
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 891 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,837,832 ratings — published 2005
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 883 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.32 — 651,744 ratings — published 2016
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 879 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,025,786 ratings — published 2013
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 873 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.28 — 895,187 ratings — published 2015
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 845 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.17 — 576,385 ratings — published 2011
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 823 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,716,964 ratings — published 1813
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 820 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,142,266 ratings — published 1991
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 819 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.31 — 336,360 ratings — published 2012
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 811 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,937,976 ratings — published 2014
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 809 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,231,164 ratings — published 2011
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 800 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,339,532 ratings — published 1949
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 789 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,370,064 ratings — published 2016
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 783 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,083,617 ratings — published 2011
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 762 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,924,273 ratings — published 2011
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 760 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,037,495 ratings — published 2015
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 757 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,449,342 ratings — published 2020
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 747 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.91 — 230,553 ratings — published 2009
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 740 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.25 — 100,133 ratings — published 1996
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 715 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 252,650 ratings — published 2004
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 687 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 932,436 ratings — published 1955
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 677 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.51 — 675,578 ratings — published 1995
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 665 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.10 — 918,859 ratings — published 1878
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 664 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,371,652 ratings — published 1985
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 639 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,369,993 ratings — published 2020
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 630 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.78 — 469,912 ratings — published 2018
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 622 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,832,840 ratings — published 2011
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 611 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.86 — 731,119 ratings — published 2020
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 595 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,547,502 ratings — published 2018
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 592 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,314,404 ratings — published 2018
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 592 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.75 — 172,650 ratings — published 2017
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 590 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,996,445 ratings — published 1847
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 589 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.05 — 454,124 ratings — published 2011
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 585 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,730,651 ratings — published 2022
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 583 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.02 — 550,210 ratings — published 2011
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 581 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,412,464 ratings — published 2005
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 580 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.56 — 609,280 ratings — published 1851
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 576 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.27 — 713,338 ratings — published 2014
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 568 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.25 — 817,538 ratings — published 1990
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 561 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 989,466 ratings — published 1992
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 553 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,307,196 ratings — published 2022
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 549 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.08 — 477,608 ratings — published 2006
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 543 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,052,085 ratings — published 1866
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 538 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 708,740 ratings — published 2001
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 536 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.00 — 749,228 ratings — published 2003
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 534 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.17 — 779,657 ratings — published 2019
“So he bought tickets to the Greyhound and they climbed, painfully, inch by inch and with the knowledge that, once they reached the top, there would be one breath-taking moment when the car would tip precariously into space, over an incline six stories steep and then plunge, like a plunging plane. She buried her head against him, fearing to look at the park spread below. He forced himself to look: thousands of little people and hundreds of bright little stands, and over it all the coal-smoke pall of the river factories and railroad yards. He saw in that moment the whole dim-lit city on the last night of summer; the troubled streets that led to the abandoned beaches, the for-rent signs above overnight hotels and furnished basement rooms, moving trolleys and rising bridges: the cagework city, beneath a coalsmoke sky.”
― Never Come Morning
― Never Come Morning
“Abandoned.
The word alone sends shudders down a sensitive spine, troubling the thoughts of pained souls as their hurt swells in ripples. It is a sentence of undesired solitude often pronounced on the innocent, the trusting—administered without warning or satisfactory cause.
One day the moon is yours, or so you believe. The next, his countenance transforms from Jekyll to Hyde with no intention of ever turning back, and you are left trampled upon in a deserted street, concealed by dirty fog that squelches all illumination or any hope for future rays of light.
It is the worst of mysteries why a beast considered noble would forsake his duty, exhibiting a heart of stone. And all who once looked on him, now turn down their eyes and suffer, beguiled.
Some poisons have no antidote, but are slow, silent, torturous ends that curl up the broken body swept into a cold, dark corner. There she is left to drown in her tears—a dying heart.
Abandoned.”
― Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
The word alone sends shudders down a sensitive spine, troubling the thoughts of pained souls as their hurt swells in ripples. It is a sentence of undesired solitude often pronounced on the innocent, the trusting—administered without warning or satisfactory cause.
One day the moon is yours, or so you believe. The next, his countenance transforms from Jekyll to Hyde with no intention of ever turning back, and you are left trampled upon in a deserted street, concealed by dirty fog that squelches all illumination or any hope for future rays of light.
It is the worst of mysteries why a beast considered noble would forsake his duty, exhibiting a heart of stone. And all who once looked on him, now turn down their eyes and suffer, beguiled.
Some poisons have no antidote, but are slow, silent, torturous ends that curl up the broken body swept into a cold, dark corner. There she is left to drown in her tears—a dying heart.
Abandoned.”
― Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
