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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 398 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,144,267 ratings — published 1967
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 392 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.31 — 339,160 ratings — published 2012
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 369 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,968,092 ratings — published 2005
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 369 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,078,647 ratings — published 2013
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 363 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.99 — 902,758 ratings — published 1961
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 351 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,003,197 ratings — published 2001
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 702,372 ratings — published 2016
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 326 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.91 — 240,018 ratings — published 2009
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.25 — 105,370 ratings — published 1996
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 312 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,182,612 ratings — published 1991
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 309 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,000,925 ratings — published 2015
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 304 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,806,694 ratings — published 1996
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 298 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,060,776 ratings — published 2014
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 295 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,134,312 ratings — published 2011
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.88 — 262,012 ratings — published 2004
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 275 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,921,137 ratings — published 2011
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 270 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.75 — 184,495 ratings — published 2017
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,867,586 ratings — published 2006
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 264 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.50 — 696,266 ratings — published 1995
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 263 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.17 — 613,372 ratings — published 2011
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 258 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.06 — 508,104 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 258 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,698,985 ratings — published 1965
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.11 — 963,516 ratings — published 1878
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 246 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,518,526 ratings — published 2005
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 246 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 974,847 ratings — published 1955
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 238 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.02 — 569,116 ratings — published 2011
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 233 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 748,369 ratings — published 2001
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,321,107 ratings — published 2011
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,615,407 ratings — published 2020
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 222 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,986,991 ratings — published 1813
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,728,385 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,545,806 ratings — published 1985
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.00 — 780,241 ratings — published 2003
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.81 — 205,397 ratings — published 2006
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.01 — 274,459 ratings — published 2004
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 874,037 ratings — published 2019
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 209 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.95 — 348,305 ratings — published 2009
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.57 — 632,997 ratings — published 1851
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,479,600 ratings — published 2016
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 206 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,649,259 ratings — published 2020
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
by (shelved 205 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.78 — 247,803 ratings — published 2013
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,112,620 ratings — published 1992
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.11 — 207,916 ratings — published 2018
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,544,730 ratings — published 2012
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,784,026 ratings — published 2001
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,280,374 ratings — published 1847
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.77 — 509,746 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,156,203 ratings — published 2011
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.46 — 891,773 ratings — published 2022
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,888,820 ratings — published 2022
“Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhead.”
― Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
― Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
“She’d had unsettling dreams like this.
'I’m wandering through Miryoku, but it’s not Miryoku. Or it is, but it’s been abandoned and overgrown, like no one’s lived here for decades. It’s become a dense forest with pieces of buildings showing through in spots. I hardly recognize anything. Fae and animals have moved in—there’s a raccoon family looking at me from an apartment window, a cluster of mushroom fae crawling all over a café sign—and it smells like wild plants and earth and flowers. It feels both familiar and unsafe, and it makes me so, so sad.”
― Ballad for Jasmine Town
'I’m wandering through Miryoku, but it’s not Miryoku. Or it is, but it’s been abandoned and overgrown, like no one’s lived here for decades. It’s become a dense forest with pieces of buildings showing through in spots. I hardly recognize anything. Fae and animals have moved in—there’s a raccoon family looking at me from an apartment window, a cluster of mushroom fae crawling all over a café sign—and it smells like wild plants and earth and flowers. It feels both familiar and unsafe, and it makes me so, so sad.”
― Ballad for Jasmine Town
