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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.96 — 215,623 ratings — published 2023
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,474,449 ratings — published 1868
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.25 — 104,031 ratings — published 2024
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.05 — 989,390 ratings — published 1815
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,837,519 ratings — published 1813
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,302,586 ratings — published 1911
A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,990 ratings — published 2013
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,119,584 ratings — published 1908
The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.88 — 18,159 ratings — published 2024
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.09 — 56,046 ratings — published 2025
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,302,581 ratings — published 1811
Lovely War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.22 — 69,941 ratings — published 2019
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,016,073 ratings — published 2011
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,922,114 ratings — published 2021
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,364,869 ratings — published 2018
A Letter to the Luminous Deep (The Sunken Archive, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.66 — 6,616 ratings — published 2024
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.01 — 192,464 ratings — published 2020
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.81 — 216,284 ratings — published 1927
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,498,845 ratings — published 1943
Mansfield Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.86 — 381,377 ratings — published 1814
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.15 — 782,231 ratings — published 1817
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,490,923 ratings — published 2020
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,951,605 ratings — published 1925
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.10 — 600,641 ratings — published 2007
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.06 — 611,561 ratings — published 1871
A Little Princess (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.23 — 331,174 ratings — published 1905
The Geographer's Map to Romance (Love's Academic, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,021 ratings — published 2025
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.21 — 485,473 ratings — published 2020
Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.28 — 13,561 ratings — published 2024
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.03 — 374,703 ratings — published 1911
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,597,010 ratings — published 1988
Love, Theoretically (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.08 — 674,719 ratings — published 2023
Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.04 — 160,451 ratings — published 2019
Love on the Brain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.90 — 644,146 ratings — published 2022
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.36 — 992,231 ratings — published 2020
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,894,938 ratings — published 2005
The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,088,486 ratings — published 2020
The Selection (The Selection, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,771,638 ratings — published 2012
The Spellshop (Spellshop, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 151,635 ratings — published 2024
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.70 — 104,062 ratings — published 2023
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,574,634 ratings — published 2022
If You Could See the Sun: A Compelling YA Fantasy of Academic Rivals and Secret Powers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.99 — 58,703 ratings — published 2022
Dead Poets Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.17 — 157,096 ratings — published 1988
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,476,958 ratings — published 1997
Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.43 — 35,994 ratings — published 2017
Alone With You in the Ether (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.77 — 109,114 ratings — published 2020
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,833,066 ratings — published 1590
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,246 ratings — published 1945
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as light-academia)
avg rating 3.85 — 456,820 ratings — published 1817
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as light-academia)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,042,373 ratings — published 1992
“THE MONSTER & THE MAN
One obstacle pierces his soul and calls him down the dark road - heavy sighing he must carry on and at last, the thorn is retrieved
- with agony in his brown eyes - he suddenly sees:
Fever dreams, scarlet on blue velvet, like ink drowning in words - words drowning inside his veins - words that pleaded in vain - words so scarlet... so stained.
Empty lines for empty souls that carry too much inside; empty pages for empty hands with nothing else to hide
nor to control the beast inside his soul.”
―
One obstacle pierces his soul and calls him down the dark road - heavy sighing he must carry on and at last, the thorn is retrieved
- with agony in his brown eyes - he suddenly sees:
Fever dreams, scarlet on blue velvet, like ink drowning in words - words drowning inside his veins - words that pleaded in vain - words so scarlet... so stained.
Empty lines for empty souls that carry too much inside; empty pages for empty hands with nothing else to hide
nor to control the beast inside his soul.”
―
“FLORENCE
Soft emerald valleys lay in crimson light beneath the rolling hills;
the waters of the Arno gleam like bronze the city's vein, so still.
Each artist at the shore of the river stares in wonder and delight - how far do the lines reach across the bridge, beyond their work?
One may seek rest under the cypresses and soft light of the August amber sun - here, at his grave, the city walls lay high around the garden, he knew once as paradise.
His dark eyes still seem to pierce the lines of the hills,
like he searches for his soul - still;
(somewhere between the Arno and the nightfall).
The trees - heavily laid with summer's fruit - stand high above the city in marble glance.
Clear is now the dark sky - full of shards which dreamers call the stars.”
―
Soft emerald valleys lay in crimson light beneath the rolling hills;
the waters of the Arno gleam like bronze the city's vein, so still.
Each artist at the shore of the river stares in wonder and delight - how far do the lines reach across the bridge, beyond their work?
One may seek rest under the cypresses and soft light of the August amber sun - here, at his grave, the city walls lay high around the garden, he knew once as paradise.
His dark eyes still seem to pierce the lines of the hills,
like he searches for his soul - still;
(somewhere between the Arno and the nightfall).
The trees - heavily laid with summer's fruit - stand high above the city in marble glance.
Clear is now the dark sky - full of shards which dreamers call the stars.”
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