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Gave Up Books
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The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.31 — 337,841 ratings — published 2012
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 183 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.91 — 235,148 ratings — published 2009
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 163 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,905,618 ratings — published 2005
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,050,907 ratings — published 2013
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.99 — 891,240 ratings — published 1961
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,116,373 ratings — published 1967
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,431 ratings — published 1996
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 142 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,755,218 ratings — published 1996
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 141 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.10 — 994,306 ratings — published 2001
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 140 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,161,690 ratings — published 1991
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.32 — 677,492 ratings — published 2016
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.27 — 949,010 ratings — published 2015
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.87 — 256,971 ratings — published 2004
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,645,748 ratings — published 1965
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,000,673 ratings — published 2014
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,108,162 ratings — published 2011
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,882,918 ratings — published 2011
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.50 — 689,639 ratings — published 1995
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.05 — 478,901 ratings — published 2011
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.75 — 178,695 ratings — published 2017
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.79 — 242,999 ratings — published 2013
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,469,102 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,279,031 ratings — published 2011
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,762,104 ratings — published 2001
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.17 — 595,723 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 4.15 — 4,304,120 ratings — published 2015
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.02 — 560,471 ratings — published 2011
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,860,523 ratings — published 1813
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.01 — 269,953 ratings — published 2004
The Magicians (The Magicians, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.53 — 279,603 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 — 305,535 ratings — published 2009
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.10 — 940,953 ratings — published 1878
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,052,288 ratings — published 1992
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,850,651 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,176,330 ratings — published 1847
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.78 — 489,438 ratings — published 2018
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 85 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.95 — 342,042 ratings — published 2009
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.85 — 800,813 ratings — published 2020
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.31 — 728,337 ratings — published 2001
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,541,574 ratings — published 2020
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,512,980 ratings — published 2020
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.00 — 765,105 ratings — published 2003
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,475,460 ratings — published 2012
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,460,350 ratings — published 1985
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.69 — 408,371 ratings — published 1957
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.81 — 201,690 ratings — published 2006
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as gave-up)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,386,351 ratings — published 2022
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,430,169 ratings — published 2016
The Luminaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.75 — 86,140 ratings — published 2013
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as gave-up)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,363,445 ratings — published 2011
“I don't see how I can move on from loving her when she gave up everything for me. For the cause.' He shook his head. 'Every time I hook up, I remember it.”
― House of Earth and Blood
― House of Earth and Blood
“When you truly love or want what you are pursuing, holding on can never be harder than giving up.”
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