We have all done it. We abandon a book we were currently reading because it wasn’t do anything for you. Life is too short to read a book you no longer find interesting. But have you ever wondered which books are the most abandoned by book lovers? Well, Goodreads has the data. Here are the 15 most frequently abandoned books, according to Goodreads “Popular Abandoned Books” shelf:
- The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Fifty Shade of Grey by E.L. James
- Outlander by Diane Gabaldon
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tratt
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
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Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Have you tried to read any of theses “abandoned books?
Discover more from cup of tea with that book, please
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I dnf’d Outlander
This was super interesting. I feel like some of it made sense but some of them I was shocked by. I DNFd The Casual Vacancy, but loved The Night Circus and The Book Thief. Thanks for sharing!