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Metaphor Books
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Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,882 ratings — published 1980
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,489,003 ratings — published 1945
I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.87 — 786 ratings — published 2011
The Rule of Metaphor (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.09 — 250 ratings — published 1975
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,400,149 ratings — published 1915
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,443,877 ratings — published 1943
Metaphor and Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.05 — 55 ratings — published 1979
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.12 — 543,314 ratings — published 2002
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,745,211 ratings — published 2001
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,287 ratings — published 1998
The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and The Mind's Hidden Complexities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.99 — 259 ratings — published 2002
The Big Umbrella (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,826 ratings — published 2018
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,094,738 ratings — published 1967
Metaphor and Musical Thought (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 2003
Metaphor (New Critical Idiom)
by (shelved 3 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.62 — 32 ratings — published 2007
More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.01 — 264 ratings — published 1989
Metaphor: A Practical Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.06 — 154 ratings — published 2001
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,853,609 ratings — published 1925
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,388,531 ratings — published 1949
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.08 — 324,825 ratings — published 1848
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.07 — 352,626 ratings — published 1892
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,474,057 ratings — published 1969
Washing the Brain - Metaphor and Hidden Ideology (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published 2007
Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking: A Dynamic View (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 2008
Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,807 ratings — published 1949
Who Moved My Cheese? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.87 — 508,345 ratings — published 1998
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.86 — 271,149 ratings — published 1970
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,202,962 ratings — published 2011
Shipwreck with Spectator: Paradigm of a Metaphor for Existence (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.90 — 146 ratings — published 1979
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,158,962 ratings — published 2015
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,106 ratings — published 1987
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.99 — 720,884 ratings — published 1987
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,526,398 ratings — published 1988
The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.21 — 170 ratings — published 2007
Wisdom & Metaphor (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.35 — 83 ratings — published 2008
Hailstones and Halibut Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,157 ratings — published 1961
Illness as Metaphor (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,523 ratings — published 1978
The Tiger Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.84 — 32,674 ratings — published 2001
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,085 ratings — published 2011
Miss Maple's Seeds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,344 ratings — published 2013
Mrs. Spitzer's Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.10 — 433 ratings — published 2001
The Art of Fielding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.99 — 115,738 ratings — published 2011
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,190 ratings — published 2007
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.35 — 288,597 ratings — published 2011
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,829 ratings — published 8
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.03 — 204,680 ratings — published 1321
Owl Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.23 — 44,571 ratings — published 1987
The Polar Express (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.32 — 247,863 ratings — published 1985
Walk On!: A Guide for Babies of All Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as metaphor)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,033 ratings — published 2006
“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
― Dead Beat
― Dead Beat
“I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.”
― The Sky Is Everywhere
― The Sky Is Everywhere
