Hiatus Books
Showing 1-50 of 13,567
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,645,513 ratings — published 1965
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,754,957 ratings — published 1996
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,493,728 ratings — published 1897
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,179,132 ratings — published 1954
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,859,956 ratings — published 1813
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.39 — 393,324 ratings — published 1880
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,910,361 ratings — published 1890
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,541,107 ratings — published 2020
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,417 ratings — published 1996
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,099,869 ratings — published 1866
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.27 — 948,746 ratings — published 2015
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.09 — 203,563 ratings — published 2000
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,001,637 ratings — published 2006
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,108,055 ratings — published 2011
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.30 — 346,228 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as hiatus)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,175,268 ratings — published 1847
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as hiatus)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,050,785 ratings — published 2013
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,052,016 ratings — published 1992
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.28 — 357,330 ratings — published 180
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,278,825 ratings — published 2011
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.25 — 829,660 ratings — published 1990
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.21 — 848,423 ratings — published 1862
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.14 — 489,919 ratings — published 2022
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.10 — 940,877 ratings — published 1878
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.17 — 595,641 ratings — published 2011
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as hiatus)
avg rating 3.93 — 514,956 ratings — published -800
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as hiatus)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,923 ratings — published 1615
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,000,408 ratings — published 2014
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as hiatus)
avg rating 3.57 — 620,395 ratings — published 1851
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,459,956 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,541,830 ratings — published 1948
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.04 — 339,457 ratings — published 1977
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 20 times as hiatus)
avg rating 3.95 — 342,020 ratings — published 2009
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,753 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,037,909 ratings — published 2011
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.66 — 684,403 ratings — published 2010
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,036,664 ratings — published 1844
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.10 — 994,274 ratings — published 2001
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,346,706 ratings — published 1847
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,495,469 ratings — published 1937
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,116,245 ratings — published 1967
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,092,076 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,905,304 ratings — published 2005
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as hiatus)
avg rating 3.99 — 891,184 ratings — published 1961
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,376,768 ratings — published 2018
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.16 — 500,330 ratings — published 2018
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.19 — 598,501 ratings — published 1990
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as hiatus)
avg rating 4.17 — 368,814 ratings — published 1869
“Thus began a break of undetermined length and meaning.”
― So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful Of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life
― So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful Of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life
“[Walter Scott] lived in a hiatus, in a country which was neither a nation nor a province, and had, instead of a centre, a blank, an Edinburgh, in the middle of it.”
― Scott and Scotland: The Predicament of the Scottish Writer
― Scott and Scotland: The Predicament of the Scottish Writer


