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Aesthetic Books
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The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,083,359 ratings — published 1992
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,581,014 ratings — published 2020
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,948,665 ratings — published 1890
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 612,999 ratings — published 2007
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,122,190 ratings — published 2011
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,046,720 ratings — published 1925
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 2,620 ratings — published 1970
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 430,855 ratings — published 2017
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,240,636 ratings — published 1847
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,376,305 ratings — published 1847
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,925,043 ratings — published 1813
Emma (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,006,474 ratings — published 1815
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,274,030 ratings — published 1963
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,187,890 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 595,593 ratings — published 2018
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 413,709 ratings — published 2019
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,470,732 ratings — published 1942
Milk and honey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 826,322 ratings — published 2014
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,133,334 ratings — published 2012
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 31,874 ratings — published 1933
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,937,846 ratings — published 2005
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 428,488 ratings — published 1993
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 935,939 ratings — published 2016
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass (Audible Audio)
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avg rating 3.99 — 63,446 ratings — published 2020
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
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avg rating 4.07 — 4,745,601 ratings — published 2016
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,123,545 ratings — published 1866
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 2,508,390 ratings — published 1868
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,319,359 ratings — published 1811
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 228,018 ratings — published 2023
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,121,573 ratings — published 2019
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
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avg rating 3.45 — 354,000 ratings — published 2019
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
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avg rating 3.54 — 284,897 ratings — published 2020
The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)
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avg rating 4.33 — 71,260 ratings — published 2017
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 239,442 ratings — published 2019
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,959,449 ratings — published 1818
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 572,459 ratings — published 1985
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 440,537 ratings — published 2015
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,040,306 ratings — published 1999
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 888,516 ratings — published 2005
Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 724,163 ratings — published 2021
Dracula (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,514,339 ratings — published 1897
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
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avg rating 3.65 — 740,508 ratings — published 2015
Motherthing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 38,262 ratings — published 2022
Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 796,523 ratings — published 1817
Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)
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avg rating 4.14 — 777,288 ratings — published 2023
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 514,615 ratings — published 2022
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 351 ratings — published 1896
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 975,069 ratings — published 2015
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,093,793 ratings — published 2011
The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,123,045 ratings — published 2020
“Great beauty can be found in harmonious contrast variations, and brief uses of extremes.
Vastly.”
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Vastly.”
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“Just to think that you are killing an animal to eat, just the very idea, is unaesthetic.
I am not against it because the animal is killed... because that which is essential in the animal will live, it cannot be killed, and that which is nonessential, whether you kill it or not, is going to die. So that is irrelevant, that is not a point for me to consider.
The question is not that you have killed the animal and killing is not good, no. The question is that you have killed the animal -- you. Just to eat? While beautiful vegetarian food is available? If vegetarian food is not available, that's one thing. But the food IS available. Then why? Then why destroy a body? And if you can kill an animal, then why not be a cannibal? What is wrong with killing a man? The meat derived from a human body will be more in tune with you. Why not start eating human beings? That too is a question of aesthetics.
And the animals are brothers and sisters, because man has come from them. They are our family. To kill a man is only to kill an evolved animal, or to kill an animal is just to kill somebody who is not yet evolved but is on the way. It is the same. Whether you kill the child when he is in the first grade or whether you kill the young man when he has come to his last grade in the university, it does not make much difference. The animals are moving towards human beings, and human beings had once been animals.”
― The Diamond Sutra: The Buddha Also Said...
I am not against it because the animal is killed... because that which is essential in the animal will live, it cannot be killed, and that which is nonessential, whether you kill it or not, is going to die. So that is irrelevant, that is not a point for me to consider.
The question is not that you have killed the animal and killing is not good, no. The question is that you have killed the animal -- you. Just to eat? While beautiful vegetarian food is available? If vegetarian food is not available, that's one thing. But the food IS available. Then why? Then why destroy a body? And if you can kill an animal, then why not be a cannibal? What is wrong with killing a man? The meat derived from a human body will be more in tune with you. Why not start eating human beings? That too is a question of aesthetics.
And the animals are brothers and sisters, because man has come from them. They are our family. To kill a man is only to kill an evolved animal, or to kill an animal is just to kill somebody who is not yet evolved but is on the way. It is the same. Whether you kill the child when he is in the first grade or whether you kill the young man when he has come to his last grade in the university, it does not make much difference. The animals are moving towards human beings, and human beings had once been animals.”
― The Diamond Sutra: The Buddha Also Said...
