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The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,207,375 ratings — published 2011
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,144,243 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,498,252 ratings — published 2018
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,992,829 ratings — published 2005
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 47 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.82 — 378,530 ratings — published 2019
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,141,348 ratings — published 1992
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 389,112 ratings — published 2011
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,081,149 ratings — published 2014
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 448,629 ratings — published 2019
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,172,421 ratings — published 1925
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,643,884 ratings — published 2020
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.27 — 141,449 ratings — published 2017
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,023,900 ratings — published 1890
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 412,610 ratings — published 2012
Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 173,115 ratings — published 2012
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 984,301 ratings — published 1955
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,329,300 ratings — published 1963
Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 117,316 ratings — published 2014
The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 226,049 ratings — published 2013
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.19 — 598,641 ratings — published 2020
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,090,595 ratings — published 2013
On the Jellicoe Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 52,062 ratings — published 2006
The Scorpio Races (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 115,113 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,022,657 ratings — published 2015
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 633,071 ratings — published 2007
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.06 — 653,452 ratings — published 2014
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 344,480 ratings — published 1997
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 775,885 ratings — published 1938
Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 186,179 ratings — published 2014
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,428,252 ratings — published 1847
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 518,392 ratings — published 1987
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.37 — 172,105 ratings — published 2019
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.07 — 448,935 ratings — published 2017
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.08 — 246,662 ratings — published 2017
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,038,567 ratings — published 1813
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 580,852 ratings — published 2001
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,096,565 ratings — published 2006
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.83 — 244,233 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,815,790 ratings — published 2018
Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.40 — 73,774 ratings — published 2018
The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 164,696 ratings — published 2016
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,904,872 ratings — published 2012
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 23,698 ratings — published 2011
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 179,935 ratings — published 2019
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.34 — 309,809 ratings — published 1956
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 713,801 ratings — published 2016
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 227,948 ratings — published 1927
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.77 — 378,708 ratings — published 1925
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,124,649 ratings — published 2007
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 275,046 ratings — published 2015
“I stood there alone, abandoned in utter nothingness.”
― Dance Dance Dance
― Dance Dance Dance
“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