Poetic Prose Books
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 435,305 ratings — published 2019
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,129,528 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,427,507 ratings — published 2018
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 970,726 ratings — published 1955
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.82 — 366,081 ratings — published 2019
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 43,506 ratings — published 2014
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,970,137 ratings — published 1890
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,601,335 ratings — published 2020
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,145 ratings — published 1998
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.28 — 689,723 ratings — published 2012
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,125,329 ratings — published 2011
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 223,161 ratings — published 1927
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 337,346 ratings — published 1997
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.45 — 8,447 ratings — published 1945
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 387,782 ratings — published 2011
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 70,703 ratings — published 1913
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 508,355 ratings — published 1987
The White Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.81 — 40,467 ratings — published 2016
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,137,708 ratings — published 1967
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.23 — 336,316 ratings — published 1923
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,086,813 ratings — published 1925
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,954,906 ratings — published 2005
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 208,141 ratings — published 2024
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.20 — 491,556 ratings — published 2020
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,049,288 ratings — published 2014
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 56,027 ratings — published 1931
Dandelion Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.09 — 80,845 ratings — published 1957
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.37 — 168,724 ratings — published 2019
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,110,559 ratings — published 2007
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.27 — 130,819 ratings — published 1929
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,099,701 ratings — published 1992
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,289,943 ratings — published 1963
Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 116,818 ratings — published 2014
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,075,610 ratings — published 2006
Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 172,494 ratings — published 2012
Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.17 — 59,556 ratings — published 1962
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 409,010 ratings — published 2012
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,843,709 ratings — published 2012
The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 126,376 ratings — published 1968
The Bone People (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,482 ratings — published 1984
The River Has Roots (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.95 — 48,319 ratings — published 2025
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.48 — 164,810 ratings — published 2023
Angels Before Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,015 ratings — published 2022
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,959,934 ratings — published 1813
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.77 — 370,419 ratings — published 1925
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 311,044 ratings — published 2022
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 4.39 — 39,486 ratings — published 1982
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,951,168 ratings — published 1963
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as poetic-prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 135,767 ratings — published 1981
“What do you mean, a goddess?” Alec questioned irritably.
“She’s staggeringly beautiful, wonderful, a vision of …” He petered out when he saw Alec looking at him strangely. Father Joe stroked his beard in thought, nervously eyeing Alec and then casting his eyes to the fireplace. Alec was beginning to sense Father Joe was regretting coming to his flat. He was also thinking that he regretted having anything to do with the vicar. He was quite mad … possibly.”
― The Wasp Trap: Book 3 in the Charlotte's War Trilogy
“She’s staggeringly beautiful, wonderful, a vision of …” He petered out when he saw Alec looking at him strangely. Father Joe stroked his beard in thought, nervously eyeing Alec and then casting his eyes to the fireplace. Alec was beginning to sense Father Joe was regretting coming to his flat. He was also thinking that he regretted having anything to do with the vicar. He was quite mad … possibly.”
― The Wasp Trap: Book 3 in the Charlotte's War Trilogy
“We survived on the breath she never took for herself, anchored to the world by a thread of devotion I was too broken to see.”
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