Stuck on you: books I stopped reading somewhere in the middle

Discover books I couldn't finish! Explore my list of reads that lost me midway—find out why these stories didn't stick. Perfect for fellow book abandoners.

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Theft

by Peter Carey

Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex-“really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, …
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The Meaning of Night: A Confession

by Michael Cox

The atmosphere of Bleak House, the sensuous thrill of Perfume, and the mystery of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell all combine in a story of …
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Veronica

by Mary Gaitskill

A finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, here is an evocative novel about female friendship in the glittering 1980s. …
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Snow

by Orhan Pamuk

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense—a masterful novel of "political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir" (Vogue) and the lethal …
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The Sea

by John Banville

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has …
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Super-Cannes

by J. G. Ballard

Originally published: Great Britain: Flamingo, 2000.