Unconsumated reading

An interesting perspective on the ever elusive question of what constitutes a good book. The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Initiated) book ever from Goodreads. 7,500 voters on some 1,200 books. This is not really about good and bad but about the prospect of books engaging a "random" reader. Take the top ten most started but never completed books as an example. All classics with great consequentiality and heavily read. But also prone to unsustained engagement.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Ulysses by James Joyce
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Holy Bible: King James Version by Anonymous
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

I am not really sure what this tells us but I find it an intriguing perspective. Perhaps: Books that are deemed inherently interesting by enthusiastic readers but which fail to sustain that initial interest.