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Rank the Excuses for Not Finishing a Book

The average adult starts about twelve books a year and finishes five. Here are the seven excuses, and you have used all of them.

Ranked by DogEared on 28 September 2026

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The ranking

  1. 1 It lost me in the first fifty pages
  2. 2 I started three others
  3. 3 It was a gift
  4. 4 The film came out
  5. 5 It is my bedtime book
  6. 6 Too heavy for the commute
  7. 7 I am saving it for the holiday

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