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Beautiful Prose Books
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The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,078,724 ratings — published 2011
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,907,549 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,304,157 ratings — published 2018
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,827,389 ratings — published 2005
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 383,054 ratings — published 2011
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,928,389 ratings — published 2014
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 41 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.85 — 318,079 ratings — published 2019
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 975,633 ratings — published 1992
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,431,874 ratings — published 2020
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,791,828 ratings — published 1925
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.28 — 133,548 ratings — published 2017
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 397,787 ratings — published 2012
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 385,723 ratings — published 2019
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,814,462 ratings — published 1890
Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.13 — 170,261 ratings — published 2012
Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 114,679 ratings — published 2014
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 928,454 ratings — published 1955
The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 217,937 ratings — published 2013
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,178,536 ratings — published 1963
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,021,349 ratings — published 2013
On the Jellicoe Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 51,580 ratings — published 2006
The Scorpio Races (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 113,152 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 885,384 ratings — published 2015
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 428,874 ratings — published 2020
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 581,868 ratings — published 2007
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.07 — 598,532 ratings — published 2014
Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.26 — 179,087 ratings — published 2014
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 386,828 ratings — published 2017
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 707,537 ratings — published 1938
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,013,478 ratings — published 2006
Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.41 — 69,721 ratings — published 2018
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.09 — 226,833 ratings — published 2017
The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 158,136 ratings — published 2016
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,627,653 ratings — published 2012
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 319,820 ratings — published 1997
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,692,568 ratings — published 1813
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.95 — 556,445 ratings — published 2001
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,280,865 ratings — published 1846
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.97 — 481,579 ratings — published 1987
Deathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,639 ratings — published 2011
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.84 — 230,006 ratings — published 2019
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 162,915 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,528,411 ratings — published 2018
Uprooted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.02 — 259,163 ratings — published 2015
I'll Give You the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 355,168 ratings — published 2014
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.78 — 347,442 ratings — published 1923
The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.95 — 114,150 ratings — published 2014
Saving Francesca (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,323 ratings — published 2003
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.40 — 155,838 ratings — published 2019
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as beautiful-prose)
avg rating 4.34 — 236,036 ratings — published 1956
“It was a sumptuous, oh, truly sumptuous autumn day, all Byzantine coppers and golds under a Tiepolo sky of enamelled blue, the countryside all fixed and glassy, seeming not so much itself as its own reflection in the still surface of the lake. It was the kind of day on which, latterly, the sun for me is the world’s fat eye looking on in rich enjoyment as I writhe in misery.”
― The Sea
― The Sea
“But aren't all great quests folly? El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth and the search for intelligent life in the cosmos-- we know what's out there. It's what isn't that truly compels us. Technology may have shrunk the epic journey to a couple of short car rides and regional jet lags-- four states and twelve hundred miles traversed in an afternoon-- but true quests aren't measured in time or distance anyway, so much as in hope. There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant-- sail for Asia and stumble on America-- and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along.”
― Beautiful Ruins
― Beautiful Ruins
