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Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.99 — 891,185 ratings — published 1961
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,905,338 ratings — published 2005
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,512,385 ratings — published 2020
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.10 — 940,886 ratings — published 1878
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,645,530 ratings — published 1965
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.27 — 823,706 ratings — published 2014
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,885 ratings — published 1866
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,175,379 ratings — published 1847
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.90 — 270,628 ratings — published 2018
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.31 — 337,839 ratings — published 2012
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,278,843 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.27 — 948,773 ratings — published 2015
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.17 — 595,653 ratings — published 2011
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,419 ratings — published 1996
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.91 — 235,123 ratings — published 2009
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.75 — 178,662 ratings — published 2017
The Luminaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.75 — 86,136 ratings — published 2013
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,050,791 ratings — published 2013
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,860,023 ratings — published 1813
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.28 — 427,865 ratings — published 1967
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.87 — 256,946 ratings — published 2004
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,030,985 ratings — published 1979
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.89 — 367,787 ratings — published 1984
Milkman (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.53 — 71,385 ratings — published 2018
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.32 — 677,378 ratings — published 2016
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,000,432 ratings — published 2014
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.82 — 305,517 ratings — published 2009
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,116,264 ratings — published 1967
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.76 — 138,838 ratings — published 1922
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,161,606 ratings — published 1991
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,459,989 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.87 — 954,361 ratings — published 1955
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,037,981 ratings — published 2011
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.69 — 408,357 ratings — published 1957
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,882,748 ratings — published 2011
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.14 — 317,463 ratings — published 1994
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,541,929 ratings — published 1948
It (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,283,176 ratings — published 1986
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,928 ratings — published 1615
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,475,168 ratings — published 2012
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.89 — 630,368 ratings — published 2013
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.89 — 300,631 ratings — published 1980
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,754,977 ratings — published 1996
The Passage (The Passage, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.05 — 224,169 ratings — published 2010
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.46 — 822,399 ratings — published 2022
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,376,797 ratings — published 2018
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,429,952 ratings — published 2016
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,302,812 ratings — published 2015
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as given-up)
avg rating 3.56 — 39,443 ratings — published 2017
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as given-up)
avg rating 4.07 — 477,892 ratings — published 2012
“The future I'd dreamed of was just that: a dream. I'd grow old and withered, while he would remain young for centuries, perhaps millennia. At best, I'd have decades with him before I died.
Decades. That was what I was fighting for. A flash in time for them- a drop in the pool of their eons.
So I greedily drank the wine, and I stopped caring about who I was and what had once mattered to me. I stopped thinking about colour, about light, about the green of Tamlin's eyes- about all those things I had still wanted to paint and now would never get to.
I wasn't going to leave this mountain alive.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
Decades. That was what I was fighting for. A flash in time for them- a drop in the pool of their eons.
So I greedily drank the wine, and I stopped caring about who I was and what had once mattered to me. I stopped thinking about colour, about light, about the green of Tamlin's eyes- about all those things I had still wanted to paint and now would never get to.
I wasn't going to leave this mountain alive.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
“There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true purpose. If it is necessary to rest, rest! But don't forever be at rest and don't ever give up on the rest of the unfinished task!”
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