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Gave Up Books
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The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.31 — 336,153 ratings — published 2012
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 182 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.91 — 230,008 ratings — published 2009
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 166 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,830,641 ratings — published 2005
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,022,848 ratings — published 2013
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.99 — 878,826 ratings — published 1961
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,083,984 ratings — published 1967
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.25 — 99,818 ratings — published 1996
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 145 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,696,698 ratings — published 1996
American Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 144 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.10 — 983,799 ratings — published 2001
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.32 — 648,261 ratings — published 2016
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,140,261 ratings — published 1991
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.87 — 252,061 ratings — published 2004
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.29 — 888,454 ratings — published 2015
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,080,167 ratings — published 2011
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,931,356 ratings — published 2014
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,827,673 ratings — published 2011
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 114 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,593,179 ratings — published 1965
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.51 — 674,429 ratings — published 1995
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.75 — 172,104 ratings — published 2017
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.79 — 239,383 ratings — published 2013
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,406,306 ratings — published 2005
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.05 — 450,950 ratings — published 2011
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,225,272 ratings — published 2011
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,738,044 ratings — published 2001
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.01 — 264,785 ratings — published 2004
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.02 — 548,210 ratings — published 2011
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,005,953 ratings — published 2015
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,700,209 ratings — published 1813
The Magicians (The Magicians, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.53 — 275,693 ratings — published 2009
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.82 — 299,686 ratings — published 2009
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.17 — 574,102 ratings — published 2011
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,829,341 ratings — published 2006
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.10 — 916,315 ratings — published 1878
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.16 — 979,564 ratings — published 1992
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.31 — 706,366 ratings — published 2001
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,392,019 ratings — published 2012
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 84 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.95 — 335,809 ratings — published 2009
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.78 — 467,201 ratings — published 2018
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.00 — 747,309 ratings — published 2003
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.69 — 404,504 ratings — published 1957
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,437,286 ratings — published 2020
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.86 — 718,142 ratings — published 2020
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.80 — 197,637 ratings — published 2006
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,362,068 ratings — published 1985
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,352,289 ratings — published 2020
The Luminaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.75 — 84,952 ratings — published 2013
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,912,802 ratings — published 2011
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,297,367 ratings — published 2022
Milkman (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.53 — 69,409 ratings — published 2018
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.17 — 774,226 ratings — published 2019
“When you truly love or want what you are pursuing, holding on can never be harder than giving up.”
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“I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
