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The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,081,600 ratings — published 2011
Madonna in a Fur Coat (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.30 — 120,064 ratings — published 1943
Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.14 — 772,640 ratings — published 2023
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as yearning)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,932,166 ratings — published 2018
This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as yearning)
avg rating 3.94 — 113,533 ratings — published 2022
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as yearning)
avg rating 3.83 — 357,131 ratings — published 2019
Sunburn (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,578 ratings — published 2023
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as yearning)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,229,363 ratings — published 1847
The Second Death of Locke (The Hand and the Heart, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as yearning)
avg rating 3.88 — 25,270 ratings — published 2025
Wild Reverence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.30 — 66,993 ratings — published 2025
The Jasad Heir (The Scorched Throne, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.07 — 51,474 ratings — published 2023
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.48 — 516,677 ratings — published 2022
The Everlasting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.20 — 54,373 ratings — published 2025
The Silversmith (The Selvaren, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.03 — 21,669 ratings — published 2025
The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.23 — 224,414 ratings — published 2025
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.07 — 391,816 ratings — published 1848
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,028,812 ratings — published 2023
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.06 — 716,324 ratings — published 2021
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,910,256 ratings — published 1813
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.15 — 794,207 ratings — published 1817
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,183,283 ratings — published 2015
Heated Rivalry (Game Changers, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.27 — 394,794 ratings — published 2019
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.10 — 610,651 ratings — published 2007
These Infinite Threads (This Woven Kingdom, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.09 — 70,953 ratings — published 2023
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as yearning)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,029,638 ratings — published 1925
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.34 — 273,536 ratings — published 1956
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.26 — 715,124 ratings — published 2022
Spark of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.17 — 296,513 ratings — published 2023
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,800,924 ratings — published 2018
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,988,016 ratings — published 2021
The Maddest Obsession (Made, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.24 — 247,245 ratings — published 2019
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,752,514 ratings — published 2023
People We Meet on Vacation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as yearning)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,858,537 ratings — published 2021
Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.08 — 61,267 ratings — published 2025
Heavenly Bodies (Heavenly Bodies, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as yearning)
avg rating 3.96 — 60,869 ratings — published 2022
Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.45 — 654,257 ratings — published 2018
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,115,225 ratings — published 2019
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.56 — 788,660 ratings — published 2016
In the Veins of the Drowning (The Siren Mage, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as yearning)
avg rating 3.92 — 36,484 ratings — published 2025
The Jasad Crown (The Scorched Throne, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,313 ratings — published 2025
Sword Catcher (The Chronicles of Castellane, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as yearning)
avg rating 3.82 — 57,121 ratings — published 2023
Play Along (Windy City, #4)
by (shelved 14 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.46 — 355,702 ratings — published 2024
The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,004,849 ratings — published 2019
Mate (Bride, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.03 — 278,611 ratings — published 2025
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.33 — 284,967 ratings — published 2025
The Seven Year Slip (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.15 — 651,513 ratings — published 2023
Fearless (The Powerless Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.04 — 428,371 ratings — published 2025
Deep End (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as yearning)
avg rating 3.85 — 488,036 ratings — published 2025
Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.17 — 429,863 ratings — published 2024
All This Twisted Glory (This Woven Kingdom, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as yearning)
avg rating 4.12 — 50,816 ratings — published 2024
“Time Does Not Bring Relief
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,—so with his memory they brim.
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, “There is no memory of him here!”
And so stand stricken, so remembering him.”
― Collected Poems
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,—so with his memory they brim.
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, “There is no memory of him here!”
And so stand stricken, so remembering him.”
― Collected Poems
“If we only see things through the cold-eyed lens of factuality and don’t listen to the yearning and screaming of unexpressed feelings, life may remain bleak in a mire of clinical hollowness, sodden in apathy and indifference. ("Morning after")”
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