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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 450,974 ratings — published 2019
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,219,638 ratings — published 2011
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,086,538 ratings — published 2014
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.08 — 247,394 ratings — published 2017
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.82 — 380,770 ratings — published 2019
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 43,687 ratings — published 2014
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,509,147 ratings — published 2018
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,146,845 ratings — published 2011
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 986,623 ratings — published 1955
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,127,242 ratings — published 2007
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,651,893 ratings — published 2020
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 345,692 ratings — published 1997
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 373,147 ratings — published 1999
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 529,484 ratings — published 2020
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,034,170 ratings — published 1890
The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.35 — 118,089 ratings — published 2017
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.48 — 94,535 ratings — published 2019
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 717,202 ratings — published 2016
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.27 — 141,737 ratings — published 2017
Dandelion Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.09 — 82,973 ratings — published 1957
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.37 — 172,788 ratings — published 2019
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.83 — 244,857 ratings — published 2019
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 251,560 ratings — published 1985
Himself (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,833 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 — 42,054 ratings — published 2011
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,790,115 ratings — published 1988
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.19 — 608,915 ratings — published 2020
The Island of Missing Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 191,716 ratings — published 2021
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,039,022 ratings — published 1818
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 57,741 ratings — published 1931
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 226,577 ratings — published 2022
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.06 — 534,757 ratings — published 2021
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 95,854 ratings — published 2021
Lips Touch: Three Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,481 ratings — published 2009
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,187,110 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 — 635,031 ratings — published 2007
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.34 — 314,140 ratings — published 1956
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 782,028 ratings — published 1938
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.41 — 863,124 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,589,247 ratings — published 1985
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,150,681 ratings — published 1992
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.06 — 656,111 ratings — published 2014
The Forty Rules of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 218,817 ratings — published 2009
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.23 — 341,547 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 — 698,081 ratings — published 2012
The Enchanted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,490 ratings — published 2014
The Snow Child (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 184,289 ratings — published 2012
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.94 — 566,717 ratings — published 1985
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,162,715 ratings — published 1967
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 62,493 ratings — published 2009
“There's a kind of alchemy at work in first meetings—how they etch themselves into our narratives, often far more vividly than we realise in the moment. What screams serendipity on the outside is essentially—mainly—a brew of hope, curiosity, and fear. With just a touch of self-delusion.
We see what we want to see, hear what we want to hear, and often miss the subtle cues pointing to what's really there. It's why we can walk away from a first kiss feeling like we've found something significant, life-changing, earth-shattering, genre-defining, only to find later that we were merely projecting our own desires onto a blank, lonely page. But, by the gods of sanity, I couldn't have cared less.”
― We Are Everyone
We see what we want to see, hear what we want to hear, and often miss the subtle cues pointing to what's really there. It's why we can walk away from a first kiss feeling like we've found something significant, life-changing, earth-shattering, genre-defining, only to find later that we were merely projecting our own desires onto a blank, lonely page. But, by the gods of sanity, I couldn't have cared less.”
― We Are Everyone
“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
