Sign in with Facebook
8 books
—
7 voters
Beautiful Prose Books
Showing 1-50 of 4,482
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,126,820 ratings — published 2011
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,129,809 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,428,432 ratings — published 2018
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,955,658 ratings — published 2005
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 387,819 ratings — published 2011
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 46 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.82 — 366,364 ratings — published 2019
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,049,992 ratings — published 2014
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,100,413 ratings — published 1992
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 435,546 ratings — published 2019
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,602,183 ratings — published 2020
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,088,592 ratings — published 1925
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.27 — 138,814 ratings — published 2017
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,971,038 ratings — published 1890
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 409,102 ratings — published 2012
Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 172,509 ratings — published 2012
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 970,945 ratings — published 1955
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,290,652 ratings — published 1963
Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 116,827 ratings — published 2014
The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 224,252 ratings — published 2013
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 547,136 ratings — published 2020
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,073,260 ratings — published 2013
On the Jellicoe Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 51,971 ratings — published 2006
The Scorpio Races (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.09 — 114,711 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.27 — 989,842 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 — 619,851 ratings — published 2007
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 337,493 ratings — published 1997
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.06 — 639,992 ratings — published 2014
Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 184,560 ratings — published 2014
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,392,541 ratings — published 1847
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.08 — 435,978 ratings — published 2017
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.08 — 243,406 ratings — published 2017
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 754,126 ratings — published 1938
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,961,431 ratings — published 1813
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 574,924 ratings — published 2001
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 508,537 ratings — published 1987
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,076,008 ratings — published 2006
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.84 — 240,932 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,755,324 ratings — published 2018
Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.41 — 72,872 ratings — published 2018
The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 163,197 ratings — published 2016
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,844,973 ratings — published 2012
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 23,404 ratings — published 2011
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.37 — 168,790 ratings — published 2019
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 176,415 ratings — published 2019
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.34 — 285,822 ratings — published 1956
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.77 — 370,529 ratings — published 1925
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,110,817 ratings — published 2007
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 696,589 ratings — published 2016
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 271,558 ratings — published 2015
I'll Give You the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 361,912 ratings — published 2014
“For some reason my nights tended to stretch out to suprising lengths, like rubber, and they were endlessly sweet. And my mornings were unforgivingly sharp. The light seemed to stab at me with some sort of pointy object. It was hard and translucent and stubborn. It was wretched.”
― Asleep
― Asleep
“It was like staring into a clear pool that seemed shallow, inches deep, but you might toss a coin in that glassy water and it would fall and fall, spiralling down forever without even striking the bottom.”
― The Little Friend
― The Little Friend