In this week’s Critical Margins Podcast, Jason and Kevin talk about how to give up on reading. When is the best time to give up on reading a book? When is it better to wait for a better time to read?

Goodreads conducted a poll last year about why people give up on books. The poll found some interesting facts about our reading lives, and some of the respondents aren’t that honest.

In the show, we discuss these books:

Books people are most likely to give up, according to Goodreads:

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• The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
  
• Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
  
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
  
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  

Top five abandoned classics, according to Goodreads:

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• Catch–22 by Joseph Heller
  
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
• Ulysses by James Joyce
  
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  

Some books we’ve given up on:

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• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
  
• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
  
• William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck – which one would you give up on?
  
• The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a J.K. Rowling)
  

A book we mentioned to discover when it’s time to give up on projects:

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• The Dip by Seth Godin
  

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