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The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,174,824 ratings — published 2011
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,137,146 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,468,290 ratings — published 2018
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 47 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.82 — 373,297 ratings — published 2019
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,976,188 ratings — published 2005
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,121,343 ratings — published 1992
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 388,492 ratings — published 2011
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,067,752 ratings — published 2014
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 442,652 ratings — published 2019
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,136,531 ratings — published 1925
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,624,563 ratings — published 2020
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.27 — 139,657 ratings — published 2017
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,999,203 ratings — published 1890
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 410,990 ratings — published 2012
Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 172,830 ratings — published 2012
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 977,758 ratings — published 1955
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,312,093 ratings — published 1963
Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 117,081 ratings — published 2014
The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 225,212 ratings — published 2013
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,082,320 ratings — published 2013
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 574,201 ratings — published 2020
On the Jellicoe Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 52,001 ratings — published 2006
The Scorpio Races (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.09 — 114,918 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,008,339 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 — 627,802 ratings — published 2007
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.06 — 647,158 ratings — published 2014
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 341,504 ratings — published 1997
Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 185,467 ratings — published 2014
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 763,913 ratings — published 1938
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,411,700 ratings — published 1847
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.07 — 441,680 ratings — published 2017
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.08 — 245,148 ratings — published 2017
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 578,141 ratings — published 2001
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 513,732 ratings — published 1987
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,086,593 ratings — published 2006
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.37 — 170,392 ratings — published 2019
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.84 — 242,704 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,790,043 ratings — published 2018
Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.40 — 73,386 ratings — published 2018
The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 164,018 ratings — published 2016
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,878,974 ratings — published 2012
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,004,080 ratings — published 1813
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 23,532 ratings — published 2011
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 178,134 ratings — published 2019
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.34 — 299,332 ratings — published 1956
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 706,251 ratings — published 2016
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.77 — 374,467 ratings — published 1925
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,118,475 ratings — published 2007
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 273,430 ratings — published 2015
I'll Give You the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 362,903 ratings — published 2014
“She stood watching a ritual she had seen many times before, yet which now seemed odd and extremely archaic; as if everything - the hill, the ox, the Mage, the cauldron, the king, the people looking on - everything belonged to a time so far away, so obscurely ancient that it could no longer be comprehended, only felt in the pulse of blood that flowed through her veins.”
― Taliesin
― Taliesin
“She had a window seat from Oslo, and for the longest time, she just watched the magnificence of the changing colors of the winter sky as the sun was just rising on the flight to Frankfurt.”
― Julebord: The Holiday Party
― Julebord: The Holiday Party