Sign in with Facebook
Character Study Books
Showing 1-50 of 4,684
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.86 — 275,306 ratings — published 2008
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,467,906 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,085,572 ratings — published 1992
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,284,266 ratings — published 2017
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,944,925 ratings — published 2018
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.27 — 977,005 ratings — published 2015
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.14 — 375,105 ratings — published 1989
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.83 — 621,088 ratings — published 2014
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,276,054 ratings — published 1963
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.09 — 442,734 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.59 — 596,871 ratings — published 2018
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,254,240 ratings — published 2012
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,964,491 ratings — published 1951
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.67 — 395,807 ratings — published 2016
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.31 — 690,267 ratings — published 2016
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.46 — 860,654 ratings — published 2022
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,912,970 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,728,516 ratings — published 2018
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.56 — 134,296 ratings — published 2015
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,066,348 ratings — published 2013
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,052,452 ratings — published 1925
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,961,851 ratings — published 1818
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.79 — 384,328 ratings — published 2024
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,411,885 ratings — published 2018
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.65 — 426,958 ratings — published 2007
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,425,564 ratings — published 2022
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,336,797 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.12 — 874,284 ratings — published 2020
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.77 — 367,555 ratings — published 1925
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,619,420 ratings — published 2003
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.87 — 966,231 ratings — published 1955
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,473,841 ratings — published 1942
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,513,268 ratings — published 2012
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.08 — 219,818 ratings — published 2003
Annie Bot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.83 — 74,103 ratings — published 2024
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.16 — 247,081 ratings — published 1864
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,582,616 ratings — published 2020
Writers & Lovers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.98 — 214,237 ratings — published 2020
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.91 — 309,281 ratings — published 1962
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.05 — 493,561 ratings — published 2011
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.87 — 606,248 ratings — published 2012
The Wedding People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,276,825 ratings — published 2024
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.08 — 488,798 ratings — published 2021
The Librarianist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.40 — 25,010 ratings — published 2023
The Guest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.27 — 119,492 ratings — published 2023
Big Swiss (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.68 — 156,632 ratings — published 2023
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.09 — 745,857 ratings — published 1966
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.91 — 238,017 ratings — published 2009
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.93 — 170,577 ratings — published 2009
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.35 — 278,721 ratings — published 1965
“The Peacock & The Eagle: Cleopatra's Entry Into Tarsus by Stewart Stafford
Cleopatra arrives, regal and mighty,
From ocean spray as Aphrodite,
Wealthy and waif, yearning for her,
Dared all to defy her possessive aura.
Mark Antony, struck by her sultry gaze,
Lepidus, prisoner in a bureaucrat's maze,
Sees power slipping from a friend’s hand,
Ensnared by a siren from a scorched land.
Lepidus was Caesar's trusted right hand;
A granule falling through hourglass sand,
Antony, headstrong military provocateur;
Funeral orator from bloody crown auteur.
Bargain's scorpion pincers; no longer twain:
Cleopatra was Ceres, promising Rome grain,
Antony was Mars' armed emissary,
Business and pleasure's flood tributary.
Antony: "Barge of emerald, Elysium's onyx!
Beyond counsel words of sage sardonic,
Gliding the Cydnus's silken seam,
This Nile Helen shall be my queen."
Lepidus: "Pleasure vessel of a floating whore,
Yours for a sesterce on the Tiber's shore,
Honour your oath, noble Roman creed,
Lest passion’s shipwreck sets out to sea.”
"This Venus virago on her mirage barge;
Serpent prow, silver oars, rhythmic charge!
What hubris to think she can equal,
The bloody talons of our Roman eagle!"
Antony: "Feast your eyes past peacock's bower,
She speaks Rome's tongue of naked power.
Mark it, that obsidian Sphinx stings -
Human head, lion's body, eagle wings!
"That is the form she takes to the public:
I smell a perfumed alliance for the Republic!
With Plebeians as her tickled cats, they hum,
I crave her beauty and company. Come!"
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
Cleopatra arrives, regal and mighty,
From ocean spray as Aphrodite,
Wealthy and waif, yearning for her,
Dared all to defy her possessive aura.
Mark Antony, struck by her sultry gaze,
Lepidus, prisoner in a bureaucrat's maze,
Sees power slipping from a friend’s hand,
Ensnared by a siren from a scorched land.
Lepidus was Caesar's trusted right hand;
A granule falling through hourglass sand,
Antony, headstrong military provocateur;
Funeral orator from bloody crown auteur.
Bargain's scorpion pincers; no longer twain:
Cleopatra was Ceres, promising Rome grain,
Antony was Mars' armed emissary,
Business and pleasure's flood tributary.
Antony: "Barge of emerald, Elysium's onyx!
Beyond counsel words of sage sardonic,
Gliding the Cydnus's silken seam,
This Nile Helen shall be my queen."
Lepidus: "Pleasure vessel of a floating whore,
Yours for a sesterce on the Tiber's shore,
Honour your oath, noble Roman creed,
Lest passion’s shipwreck sets out to sea.”
"This Venus virago on her mirage barge;
Serpent prow, silver oars, rhythmic charge!
What hubris to think she can equal,
The bloody talons of our Roman eagle!"
Antony: "Feast your eyes past peacock's bower,
She speaks Rome's tongue of naked power.
Mark it, that obsidian Sphinx stings -
Human head, lion's body, eagle wings!
"That is the form she takes to the public:
I smell a perfumed alliance for the Republic!
With Plebeians as her tickled cats, they hum,
I crave her beauty and company. Come!"
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“She hadn’t understood loss until it had laid her to waste, and she feared what would become of her when she was again without purpose, left to the mercy of her own grief.”
― The Paragon
― The Paragon
