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The Most Started but Unfinished Books

The following is a list of books that Goodreads readers said that they started but were unable to finish. There are several in this list that I gave up on as well.
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
2
Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Rings
3
Ulysses
Ulysses
4
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
5
Holy Bible
Holy Bible
6
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
7
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
8
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
9
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
10
Wicked (Gregory Maguire)
Wicked (Gregory Maguire)
11
The Simlarillion
The Simlarillion
12
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
13
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
14
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
15
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
16
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
17
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
18
Life of Pi
Life of Pi
19
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
20
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
21
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke)
22
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
23
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
24
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
25
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
26
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M Pirsig)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M Pirsig)
27
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
28
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost
29
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad (Homer)
30
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
31
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
32
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
33
The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy
34
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera
35
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
36
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath
37
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
38
The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
39
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
40
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
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