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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 398 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,154,896 ratings — published 1967
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 391 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.31 — 339,584 ratings — published 2012
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 368 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,984,845 ratings — published 2005
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 368 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,086,889 ratings — published 2013
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 364 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.99 — 905,965 ratings — published 1961
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 345 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,006,045 ratings — published 2001
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 710,331 ratings — published 2016
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 326 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.92 — 241,325 ratings — published 2009
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,215 ratings — published 1996
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 314 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,188,067 ratings — published 1991
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 307 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,015,946 ratings — published 2015
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 302 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,822,159 ratings — published 1996
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 296 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,074,992 ratings — published 2014
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 291 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,140,521 ratings — published 2011
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.88 — 263,369 ratings — published 2004
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 276 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,931,329 ratings — published 2011
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 269 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.74 — 186,128 ratings — published 2017
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,872,055 ratings — published 2006
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 263 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.50 — 697,658 ratings — published 1995
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 260 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 618,824 ratings — published 2011
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 256 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.06 — 517,464 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 256 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,714,519 ratings — published 1965
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.11 — 970,530 ratings — published 1878
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 246 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 981,149 ratings — published 1955
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 245 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,532,937 ratings — published 2005
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 237 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.02 — 572,082 ratings — published 2011
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 232 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 754,924 ratings — published 2001
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,291 ratings — published 2011
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,634,672 ratings — published 2020
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,782,589 ratings — published 1949
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,021,797 ratings — published 1813
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,569,098 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 — 784,474 ratings — published 2003
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.01 — 275,990 ratings — published 2004
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.81 — 206,552 ratings — published 2006
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 210 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.95 — 350,093 ratings — published 2009
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.57 — 636,557 ratings — published 1851
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,492,647 ratings — published 2016
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 887,409 ratings — published 2019
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 205 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,690,168 ratings — published 2020
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
by (shelved 205 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.78 — 249,044 ratings — published 2013
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,131,182 ratings — published 1992
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.10 — 210,189 ratings — published 2018
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,564,847 ratings — published 2012
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,789,940 ratings — published 2001
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.77 — 515,073 ratings — published 2018
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,300,572 ratings — published 1847
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.46 — 911,667 ratings — published 2022
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,192,457 ratings — published 2011
Untamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.97 — 528,849 ratings — published 2020
“I looked out the window at midnight and watched the snow drop slowly to the ground. It was 2004 at last and new beginnings were about to be discovered. All I can wish is that they can be created on the spot, but it'll have to wait. I have some time to make my wishes come true.”
― A World So Bright and Dark: The Journal of Lizzie Colleen MacDougal
― A World So Bright and Dark: The Journal of Lizzie Colleen MacDougal
“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
