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Beautiful Prose Books
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The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,983,076 ratings — published 2011
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,097,910 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,346,527 ratings — published 2018
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,877,916 ratings — published 2005
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 384,741 ratings — published 2011
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,974,464 ratings — published 2014
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.84 — 334,520 ratings — published 2019
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,027,180 ratings — published 1992
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,501,304 ratings — published 2020
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,914,302 ratings — published 1925
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.28 — 135,258 ratings — published 2017
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 405,268 ratings — published 2019
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 402,234 ratings — published 2012
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,877,524 ratings — published 1890
Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 171,019 ratings — published 2012
Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 115,403 ratings — published 2014
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 945,318 ratings — published 1955
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,220,393 ratings — published 1963
The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 220,380 ratings — published 2013
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,040,007 ratings — published 2013
On the Jellicoe Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 51,677 ratings — published 2006
The Scorpio Races (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 113,747 ratings — published 2011
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.21 — 468,274 ratings — published 2020
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.28 — 926,298 ratings — published 2015
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 595,524 ratings — published 2007
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.07 — 613,037 ratings — published 2014
Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 181,199 ratings — published 2014
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.09 — 410,689 ratings — published 2017
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.08 — 233,730 ratings — published 2017
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,322,630 ratings — published 1847
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 325,268 ratings — published 1997
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,036,129 ratings — published 2006
Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.41 — 70,745 ratings — published 2018
The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 160,041 ratings — published 2016
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,722,232 ratings — published 2012
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,800,646 ratings — published 1813
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.95 — 563,289 ratings — published 2001
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,862 ratings — published 2011
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 167,762 ratings — published 2019
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 720,230 ratings — published 1938
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.98 — 490,373 ratings — published 1987
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.84 — 234,187 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,624,753 ratings — published 2018
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,081,762 ratings — published 2007
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.38 — 161,735 ratings — published 2019
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.04 — 186,118 ratings — published 2015
I'll Give You the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 357,681 ratings — published 2014
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.78 — 356,518 ratings — published 1925
The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.94 — 114,586 ratings — published 2014
Saving Francesca (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,371 ratings — published 2003
“We both knew we were speaking about the effortlessness with which one falls in love without intending to, as if we were two stalks of bamboo bend toward each other by the chance of the wind. And then we bent toward each other and kissed, lost in the nowhere of being together.”
― The Bonesetter's Daughter
― The Bonesetter's Daughter
“One thing she realized soon was that the rain here was eternal. The weather must have changed since the Emperor's time, because now the tower loomed constantly in its cloud of drizzle; all the long afternoons rain trickled in runnels and gutters and spouts, spattering through gargoyles of hideous beasts and goblins that spat far down on the heads of hurrying clerks. Always the roofs ran with water; it dripped and plopped and splashed through culverts and drains, or sheeted down, a relentless liquid gurgle that never stopped, until she started to imagine that this was the song the tower sang, through all the throats and mouths and pipes of its endless body.”
― The Lost Heiress
― The Lost Heiress
