71 books
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9 voters
Abandoned Books
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1083 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,086,571 ratings — published 1967
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1058 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.99 — 879,857 ratings — published 1961
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 994 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.10 — 984,700 ratings — published 2001
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 956 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,597,424 ratings — published 1965
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 895 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,701,214 ratings — published 1996
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 890 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,835,964 ratings — published 2005
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 881 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.32 — 650,736 ratings — published 2016
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 877 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,025,049 ratings — published 2013
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 869 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.28 — 893,459 ratings — published 2015
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 845 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.17 — 575,858 ratings — published 2011
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 822 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,712,381 ratings — published 1813
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 819 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,141,805 ratings — published 1991
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 819 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.31 — 336,305 ratings — published 2012
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 810 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,936,218 ratings — published 2014
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 809 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,229,688 ratings — published 2011
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 799 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,333,395 ratings — published 1949
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 785 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,368,128 ratings — published 2016
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 782 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,082,712 ratings — published 2011
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 761 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,921,209 ratings — published 2011
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 760 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,446,094 ratings — published 2020
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 758 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,028,872 ratings — published 2015
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 743 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.91 — 230,404 ratings — published 2009
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 740 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.25 — 100,048 ratings — published 1996
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 713 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 252,478 ratings — published 2004
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 686 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.87 — 931,722 ratings — published 1955
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 675 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.51 — 675,258 ratings — published 1995
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 664 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.10 — 918,201 ratings — published 1878
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 662 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,368,853 ratings — published 1985
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 638 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,365,214 ratings — published 2020
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 629 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.78 — 469,184 ratings — published 2018
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 623 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,831,410 ratings — published 2011
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 605 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.86 — 727,612 ratings — published 2020
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 595 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,543,923 ratings — published 2018
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 592 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,312,432 ratings — published 2018
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 591 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.75 — 172,496 ratings — published 2017
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 588 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,993,946 ratings — published 1847
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 587 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.05 — 453,218 ratings — published 2011
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 585 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,727,698 ratings — published 2022
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 582 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,410,902 ratings — published 2005
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 580 times as abandoned)
avg rating 3.56 — 608,877 ratings — published 1851
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 580 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.02 — 549,647 ratings — published 2011
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 572 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.27 — 709,974 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 — 817,183 ratings — published 1990
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 560 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.16 — 986,740 ratings — published 1992
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 551 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,304,525 ratings — published 2022
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 547 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.08 — 476,682 ratings — published 2006
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 543 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,050,033 ratings — published 1866
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 537 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.00 — 748,756 ratings — published 2003
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 536 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.31 — 708,096 ratings — published 2001
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 534 times as abandoned)
avg rating 4.17 — 778,162 ratings — published 2019
“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
“I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love












