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Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,207 ratings — published 1980
The Neverending Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.18 — 227,933 ratings — published 1979
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,822,714 ratings — published 1945
You're Toast and Other Metaphors We Adore (Ways to Say It)
by (shelved 4 times as metaphors)
avg rating 3.83 — 81 ratings — published 2011
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,614,430 ratings — published 1943
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 917,254 ratings — published 1922
Paper Towns (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 1,522,395 ratings — published 2008
The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,763,306 ratings — published 1988
East of Eden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.46 — 734,716 ratings — published 1952
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 146,291 ratings — published 2022
The Big Book of ACT Metaphors: A Practitioner's Guide to Experiential Exercises and Metaphors in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.17 — 180 ratings — published 2014
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,356,187 ratings — published 2017
Ash Princess (Ash Princess Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.86 — 77,576 ratings — published 2018
I Talk Like a River (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 4,299 ratings — published 2020
I Am Every Good Thing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.61 — 3,641 ratings — published 2020
The Proudest Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.52 — 7,664 ratings — published 2019
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,846,308 ratings — published 1997
Bear Came Along (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,669 ratings — published 2019
My Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,628 ratings — published 2017
Life of Pi (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,789,677 ratings — published 2001
ساعي بريد نيرودا (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 3.65 — 20,418 ratings — published 1985
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,240,931 ratings — published 2007
Quick as a Cricket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,786 ratings — published 1982
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,891,362 ratings — published 2012
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,999,116 ratings — published 1963
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.11 — 578,354 ratings — published 2002
My Many Colored Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,168 ratings — published 1996
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,321,830 ratings — published 1954
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,780,143 ratings — published 1949
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.28 — 452,090 ratings — published 1967
More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.01 — 269 ratings — published 1989
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,265 ratings — published 1989
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,542,028 ratings — published 1974
One Giant Leap (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.09 — 340 ratings — published 2009
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,296 ratings — published 1998
I Like Myself!: A Story About Self-Esteem and Self-Acceptance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,710 ratings — published 2004
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,362,929 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,060,044 ratings — published 1999
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.13 — 227,481 ratings — published 1927
Demian (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphors)
avg rating 4.14 — 146,139 ratings — published 1919
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as metaphors)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,568,001 ratings — published 1985
Words with Wings and Magic Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as metaphors)
avg rating 4.17 — 321 ratings — published 2025
The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon (Library Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as metaphors)
avg rating 3.62 — 436 ratings — published
The Whatifs (A Calming and Reassuring Picture Book about Turning Anxiety into Positive Thinking for Kids Ages 4-8)
by (shelved 1 time as metaphors)
avg rating 4.47 — 679 ratings — published
Other Words for Home (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as metaphors)
avg rating 4.40 — 35,668 ratings — published 2019
Odessa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,702 ratings — published 2026
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as metaphors)
avg rating 4.10 — 630,312 ratings — published 2007
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 21,990 ratings — published 2024
The Magus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as metaphors)
avg rating 4.05 — 66,563 ratings — published 1965
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 7,178 ratings — published 2019
“Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.”
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“Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves.”
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