33 books
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15 voters
Lyrical Prose Books
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 416,813 ratings — published 2019
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,999,936 ratings — published 2014
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.08 — 238,450 ratings — published 2017
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.03 — 43,321 ratings — published 2014
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,036,856 ratings — published 2011
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,107,889 ratings — published 2011
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.83 — 346,848 ratings — published 2019
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,376,200 ratings — published 2018
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.87 — 954,198 ratings — published 1955
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,091,896 ratings — published 2007
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.96 — 329,019 ratings — published 1997
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.35 — 113,877 ratings — published 2017
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.48 — 90,857 ratings — published 2019
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.32 — 677,187 ratings — published 2016
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.28 — 136,390 ratings — published 2017
Dandelion Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.09 — 79,168 ratings — published 1957
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,909,750 ratings — published 1890
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,540,413 ratings — published 2020
The Starless Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.84 — 236,568 ratings — published 2019
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,727 ratings — published 2011
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,616,538 ratings — published 1988
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.21 — 495,823 ratings — published 2020
White Oleander (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.00 — 367,680 ratings — published 1999
The Island of Missing Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 170,281 ratings — published 2021
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 98,462 ratings — published 1972
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.14 — 54,384 ratings — published 1931
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.01 — 205,135 ratings — published 2022
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.99 — 90,623 ratings — published 2021
Lips Touch: Three Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,382 ratings — published 2009
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.38 — 164,213 ratings — published 2019
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.21 — 427,732 ratings — published 2020
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.10 — 603,514 ratings — published 2007
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.34 — 263,127 ratings — published 1956
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.25 — 731,541 ratings — published 1938
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,459,290 ratings — published 1985
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,051,543 ratings — published 1992
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.15 — 226,132 ratings — published 1985
Himself (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,312 ratings — published 2017
The Forty Rules of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.11 — 207,290 ratings — published 2009
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.23 — 331,437 ratings — published 1923
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.28 — 680,538 ratings — published 2012
The Enchanted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,232 ratings — published 2014
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.94 — 550,543 ratings — published 1985
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,116,037 ratings — published 1967
The Iron Chest (Amereld Book 1)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.50 — 50 ratings — published
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.30 — 37,460 ratings — published 2025
Palimpsest (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,266 ratings — published 2009
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 4.05 — 301,891 ratings — published 2022
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.90 — 46,010 ratings — published 2020
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as lyrical-prose)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,923,023 ratings — published 1818
“Then again, in the early morning hours, when the world outside whispers of slumber, my fingers still trace the outline of a memory. He rests there, in that blind spot between the everyday, when his presence feels most palpable, engraved on the half of the bed that remains unforgivingly empty. What a paradox of loss, this heightened sense of him in the heart of his absence.”
― We Are Everyone
― We Are Everyone
“It hardly felt real that she was gone, though the heavy pain Agata had carried for weeks reminded her, sitting like too many sweets in her stomach; that and the black fabric, the black everywhere.”
― Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta
― Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta






