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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 444,529 ratings — published 2019
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,185,112 ratings — published 2011
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,071,975 ratings — published 2014
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.08 — 245,607 ratings — published 2017
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 43,576 ratings — published 2014
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.82 — 374,925 ratings — published 2019
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,477,656 ratings — published 2018
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,139,085 ratings — published 2011
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,120,427 ratings — published 2007
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 979,767 ratings — published 1955
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 342,358 ratings — published 1997
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 371,618 ratings — published 1999
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 516,525 ratings — published 2020
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,006,521 ratings — published 1890
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,630,262 ratings — published 2020
The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.35 — 117,312 ratings — published 2017
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.48 — 93,837 ratings — published 2019
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 708,660 ratings — published 2016
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.27 — 139,900 ratings — published 2017
Dandelion Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.09 — 82,211 ratings — published 1957
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.37 — 170,878 ratings — published 2019
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.83 — 243,191 ratings — published 2019
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 246,202 ratings — published 1985
Himself (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,732 ratings — published 2017
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,988 ratings — published 2011
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,758,116 ratings — published 1988
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 581,884 ratings — published 2020
The Island of Missing Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 187,773 ratings — published 2021
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,005,448 ratings — published 1818
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 57,015 ratings — published 1931
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 222,492 ratings — published 2022
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.07 — 517,748 ratings — published 2021
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 94,794 ratings — published 2021
Lips Touch: Three Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,475 ratings — published 2009
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,147,706 ratings — published 1925
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 629,430 ratings — published 2007
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.34 — 302,740 ratings — published 1956
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 767,068 ratings — published 1938
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.41 — 854,302 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,564,108 ratings — published 1985
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,126,935 ratings — published 1992
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.06 — 649,080 ratings — published 2014
The Forty Rules of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 216,466 ratings — published 2009
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.23 — 339,379 ratings — published 1923
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.28 — 694,782 ratings — published 2012
The Enchanted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,435 ratings — published 2014
The Snow Child (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 183,064 ratings — published 2012
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.94 — 563,370 ratings — published 1985
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,152,894 ratings — published 1967
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 236,114 ratings — published 2025
“The silence between us, around us, rivaled the end of time. The shrubs may have wilted, the river may have evaporated away, every hydrogen and oxygen atom sucked into space. Everything in existence drifting farther and farther away, endlessly and quietly fading.
Then, a pebble slipped into the river, reprimanding the water for staring and reminding it that it had a job to do. With some regret, the river moved on but kept thinking about our stories as it sloshed and trickles back to life.
Soon the fuscus, prompted by the river's resumption of its duties, began to wave back and forth once again, shaking off the droplets the river splashed on its stalks.
The trees around us, taking note of their part in the story, twitched their noir leaves as the wind spurred them on, and a rustling like bells filled my ears.
The clouds, always the last to hear about anything, understood that they too had to move on. So, they scooched along and let the sun have a turn.
We didn't say anything. Didn't move. We simply lay on the brown grass and the black soil as we stared up at the sky, watching the clouds billow past the daffodil sun, our hands, still nested together, keeping us tethered to our reality.”
― Nabukko
Then, a pebble slipped into the river, reprimanding the water for staring and reminding it that it had a job to do. With some regret, the river moved on but kept thinking about our stories as it sloshed and trickles back to life.
Soon the fuscus, prompted by the river's resumption of its duties, began to wave back and forth once again, shaking off the droplets the river splashed on its stalks.
The trees around us, taking note of their part in the story, twitched their noir leaves as the wind spurred them on, and a rustling like bells filled my ears.
The clouds, always the last to hear about anything, understood that they too had to move on. So, they scooched along and let the sun have a turn.
We didn't say anything. Didn't move. We simply lay on the brown grass and the black soil as we stared up at the sky, watching the clouds billow past the daffodil sun, our hands, still nested together, keeping us tethered to our reality.”
― Nabukko
“Fireflies danced in the warm, heavy air. Tarmac wound in a ribbon as smooth as a tumbled stone. The cream house at the end of the cul-de-sac looked like a wedding cake. Tulip poplar trees gathered around with their feather leaves dripping off the boughs.
A strange man, dark and gnarled, rapped at the door three times.
Inside the great hall, Mac Owens, a housewife, set down her brandy on ice.
She peered out at him and revealed a floral print dress.
“We don’t like solicitors,” she said, although she was home alone.”
―
A strange man, dark and gnarled, rapped at the door three times.
Inside the great hall, Mac Owens, a housewife, set down her brandy on ice.
She peered out at him and revealed a floral print dress.
“We don’t like solicitors,” she said, although she was home alone.”
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