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Lyrical Prose Books
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 427,112 ratings — published 2019
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,026,516 ratings — published 2014
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.08 — 241,359 ratings — published 2017
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 43,418 ratings — published 2014
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,083,687 ratings — published 2011
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,119,459 ratings — published 2011
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.83 — 357,599 ratings — published 2019
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,403,645 ratings — published 2018
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 963,573 ratings — published 1955
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,102,050 ratings — published 2007
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 333,420 ratings — published 1997
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.21 — 467,087 ratings — published 2020
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.35 — 115,272 ratings — published 2017
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.48 — 92,082 ratings — published 2019
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.32 — 687,148 ratings — published 2016
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 368,980 ratings — published 1999
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.27 — 137,737 ratings — published 2017
Dandelion Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.09 — 79,925 ratings — published 1957
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.38 — 166,684 ratings — published 2019
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,941,670 ratings — published 1890
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,573,989 ratings — published 2020
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.84 — 238,923 ratings — published 2019
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 232,801 ratings — published 1985
Himself (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,465 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 — 41,859 ratings — published 2011
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,664,116 ratings — published 1988
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 522,585 ratings — published 2020
The Island of Missing Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,461 ratings — published 2021
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 55,213 ratings — published 1931
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 211,148 ratings — published 2022
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.98 — 92,191 ratings — published 2021
Lips Touch: Three Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,409 ratings — published 2009
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,032,703 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 — 611,047 ratings — published 2007
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.34 — 274,060 ratings — published 1956
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 743,494 ratings — published 1938
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,495,183 ratings — published 1985
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,077,449 ratings — published 1992
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.06 — 632,063 ratings — published 2014
The Forty Rules of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 210,493 ratings — published 2009
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.23 — 334,020 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 — 685,082 ratings — published 2012
The Enchanted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,274 ratings — published 2014
The Snow Child (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 180,119 ratings — published 2012
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.94 — 554,399 ratings — published 1985
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,127,695 ratings — published 1967
The Iron Chest (Amereld Book 1)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.48 — 56 ratings — published
Once There Were Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.09 — 139,097 ratings — published 2021
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 37,608 ratings — published 1998
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.28 — 44,513 ratings — published 2025
“Furber had come in the late fall following that enormous summer, now famous, in which the temperature had hung in the high nineties along the river for weeks, parching the fields, drying and destroying; weeks which had, unmindful of the calendar, fallen undiminished into October so that the leaves shriveled before they fell and fell while green, the river level fell, exposing flat stretches of mud and bottom weed, the Siren Rocks were seen for the first time in twenty years, quite round and disappointingly small, and an unmoving cover of dust lay thickly everywhere, on fields, trees, buildings, on the river itself which crawled beneath it blindly like a mole. -- William H. Gass, Omensetter's Luck, p. 97, Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, 1997 (first published by The New American Library 1966).”
― Omensetter's Luck
― Omensetter's Luck
“Her quiet sobs were absorbed into the aria of their voices, their protection and love enveloping her pain and carrying her song.”
― Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
― Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
