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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 4.01 — 404,342 ratings — published 2019
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,972,343 ratings — published 2014
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.08 — 233,386 ratings — published 2017
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 43,207 ratings — published 2014
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,979,356 ratings — published 2011
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 944,638 ratings — published 1955
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,097,084 ratings — published 2011
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.84 — 333,852 ratings — published 2019
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,344,523 ratings — published 2018
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,080,912 ratings — published 2007
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.35 — 111,767 ratings — published 2017
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.48 — 89,013 ratings — published 2019
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.32 — 665,748 ratings — published 2016
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 325,022 ratings — published 1997
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.28 — 135,188 ratings — published 2017
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,874,903 ratings — published 1890
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,498,133 ratings — published 2020
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.84 — 234,021 ratings — published 2019
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,563,627 ratings — published 1988
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.21 — 466,306 ratings — published 2020
Dandelion Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.09 — 78,434 ratings — published 1957
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 53,520 ratings — published 1931
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 199,797 ratings — published 2022
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 88,648 ratings — published 2021
Lips Touch: Three Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,379 ratings — published 2009
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.38 — 161,546 ratings — published 2019
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.19 — 365,097 ratings — published 2020
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 594,880 ratings — published 2007
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.34 — 251,290 ratings — published 1956
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 719,408 ratings — published 1938
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,418,583 ratings — published 1985
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,025,278 ratings — published 1992
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 219,750 ratings — published 1985
Himself (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,166 ratings — published 2017
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.23 — 328,764 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 4.29 — 675,832 ratings — published 2012
The Enchanted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,161 ratings — published 2014
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,619 ratings — published 2011
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.94 — 546,558 ratings — published 1985
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,103,514 ratings — published 1967
The Iron Chest (Amereld Book 1)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.60 — 47 ratings — published
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.32 — 30,235 ratings — published 2025
Palimpsest (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,257 ratings — published 2009
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 295,749 ratings — published 2022
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 366,445 ratings — published 1999
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 45,214 ratings — published 2020
The Island of Missing Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 164,219 ratings — published 2021
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,884,160 ratings — published 1818
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.34 — 183,226 ratings — published 2006
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 97,180 ratings — published 1972
“Each moment with you is a verse in the poetry of my heart.”
― Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements
― Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements
“Did his behaviour indicate a red flag?
Massively.
Did I notice it?
Probably.
Did I deliberately choose to ignore it because he was just.so.different?
Absolutely.
Did I feel ashamed for not knowing better, despite knowing better?
Constantly.”
― We Are Everyone
Massively.
Did I notice it?
Probably.
Did I deliberately choose to ignore it because he was just.so.different?
Absolutely.
Did I feel ashamed for not knowing better, despite knowing better?
Constantly.”
― We Are Everyone






