Books with lyrical writing, poetic prose, and beautiful imagery.

1.
The Night Circus
The Night Circus really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,068,501 ratings
2.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 4.02 avg rating — 375,174 ratings
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender 4.03 avg rating — 42,974 ratings
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The Song of Achilles
The Song of Achilles 4.31 avg rating — 1,862,064 ratings
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
This Is How You Lose the Time War 3.85 avg rating — 308,559 ratings
6.
The History of Love
The History of Love 3.92 avg rating — 139,281 ratings
7.
The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,449 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 696,782 ratings
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American Gods
American Gods 4.10 avg rating — 978,835 ratings
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The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy, #1)
The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 224,663 ratings
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The Waves
The Waves 4.14 avg rating — 51,056 ratings
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Love Poems
Love Poems 4.18 avg rating — 10,170 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha 4.16 avg rating — 2,082,663 ratings
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White Oleander
White Oleander really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 363,354 ratings
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The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings 4.54 avg rating — 716,551 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
The Garden of Evening Mists 4.15 avg rating — 29,003 ratings
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Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 381,944 ratings
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Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 132,388 ratings
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Marina
Marina 4.14 avg rating — 90,786 ratings
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Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,862 ratings
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Possession
Possession 3.90 avg rating — 83,126 ratings
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Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,297 ratings
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100 Love Sonnets
100 Love Sonnets 4.34 avg rating — 18,307 ratings
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The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 119,410 ratings
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Bury Me in Her Eyes
Bury Me in Her Eyes
by: Non Nomen
4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings
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20
20 3.41 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Fugitive Pieces
Fugitive Pieces 3.92 avg rating — 17,137 ratings
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A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow 4.32 avg rating — 637,008 ratings
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World 4.09 avg rating — 77,634 ratings
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To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,209 ratings
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Dark Matter: A Ghost Story
Dark Matter: A Ghost Story 3.96 avg rating — 21,964 ratings
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Augustown
Augustown 4.30 avg rating — 3,841 ratings
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Un Aquilone di Farfalle: Romanzo
Un Aquilone di Farfalle: Romanzo 4.68 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Wrath & the Dawn (The Wrath & the Dawn, #1)
The Wrath & the Dawn (The Wrath & the Dawn, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 184,569 ratings
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The Gift of Rain
The Gift of Rain 4.28 avg rating — 17,828 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,783,123 ratings
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The Forgotten Garden
The Forgotten Garden 4.15 avg rating — 234,180 ratings
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Do Not Say We Have Nothing 3.92 avg rating — 23,796 ratings
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets 4.25 avg rating — 110,524 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.36 avg rating — 4,172 ratings
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The House of Doors
The House of Doors 4.11 avg rating — 20,520 ratings
42.
The Scorpio Races
The Scorpio Races 4.10 avg rating — 112,872 ratings
43.
The Language of Flowers
The Language of Flowers 4.09 avg rating — 230,252 ratings
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,920 ratings
43.
Petite Carême: ... the beautiful days of Indian Summer
Petite Carême: ... the beautiful days of Indian Summer 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
43.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet 3.74 avg rating — 2,767,880 ratings
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Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities 4.10 avg rating — 93,545 ratings
47.
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating — 1,904,816 ratings
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The Short Life of Sparrows
The Short Life of Sparrows
by: Emm Cole
3.97 avg rating — 342 ratings
49.
In the Forest of Forgetting
In the Forest of Forgetting 3.94 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,154,043 ratings
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A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 415,459 ratings
52.
When the Moon Was Ours
When the Moon Was Ours 3.88 avg rating — 11,103 ratings
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something like
something like it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
55.
Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)
Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1) 3.76 avg rating — 493,499 ratings
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The House of the Spirits
The House of the Spirits 4.29 avg rating — 304,668 ratings
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Something Wicked This Way Comes 3.90 avg rating — 146,005 ratings
58.
Blackberries in the Dream House
Blackberries in the Dream House 4.18 avg rating — 87 ratings
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I Thirst
I Thirst 3.87 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Gabriel and the Swallows: Collectors Edition (The Volatile Duology Book 1)
Gabriel and the Swallows: Collectors Edition (The Volatile Duology Book 1) 4.14 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Tropical Sunsets in Delhian Nights
Tropical Sunsets in Delhian Nights it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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How We Fight For Our Lives
How We Fight For Our Lives 4.27 avg rating — 22,736 ratings
58.
Beyond the Moon
Beyond the Moon 4.18 avg rating — 3,515 ratings
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The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1) 3.56 avg rating — 262,205 ratings
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Wolf Song
Wolf Song 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
58.
To Kill a Shadow (Mistlands, #1)
To Kill a Shadow (Mistlands, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 8,330 ratings
58.
West with the Night
West with the Night 4.15 avg rating — 40,234 ratings
58.
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
by: Noor Naga
3.93 avg rating — 11,500 ratings
58.
When the Moon Hatched (Moonfall, #1)
When the Moon Hatched (Moonfall, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 238,287 ratings
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Neon Lights and Plane Tickets: Sci-Fi Poetic Prose Collection
Neon Lights and Plane Tickets: Sci-Fi Poetic Prose Collection 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
58.
Now You See the Sky
Now You See the Sky 4.32 avg rating — 87 ratings
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My Dark Vanessa
My Dark Vanessa 4.10 avg rating — 398,797 ratings
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Don't Let the Forest In
Don't Let the Forest In 4.10 avg rating — 24,633 ratings
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Orbital
Orbital 3.55 avg rating — 105,057 ratings
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Yoga of the Impossible
Yoga of the Impossible 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings
75.
The Unwords
The Unwords
by: Non Nomen
3.66 avg rating — 268 ratings
75.
The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales 3.81 avg rating — 1,061 ratings
75.
Blank Canvas
Blank Canvas it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
75.
The Rose and the Sword (The Veritas Chronicles, #2)
The Rose and the Sword (The Veritas Chronicles, #2) 4.28 avg rating — 36 ratings
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A Curse of Roses
A Curse of Roses 3.76 avg rating — 1,497 ratings
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Against the Loveless World
Against the Loveless World 4.50 avg rating — 27,505 ratings
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Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)
Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 83,238 ratings
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Death in Her Hands
Death in Her Hands 3.24 avg rating — 51,841 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity 3.98 avg rating — 114,826 ratings
85.
Peony in Love
Peony in Love
by: Lisa See
3.64 avg rating — 49,986 ratings
85.
The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable or, Beneath the Burnt Umbrella
The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable or, Beneath the Burnt Umbrella 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
85.
The Iron Tree (The Crowthistle Chronicles, #1)
The Iron Tree (The Crowthistle Chronicles, #1) 3.47 avg rating — 1,389 ratings
85.
Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)
Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3) 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
85.
64 Volte Ti Amo: Poesie (Illustrato)
64 Volte Ti Amo: Poesie (Illustrato) 4.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Gravity of Missing Things
The Gravity of Missing Things 3.74 avg rating — 722 ratings
85.
The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried 4.14 avg rating — 337,491 ratings
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 4.04 avg rating — 530,186 ratings
85.
Burma Sahib
Burma Sahib 3.93 avg rating — 1,955 ratings
85.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and Relaxation 3.61 avg rating — 524,823 ratings
85.
In Memoriam
In Memoriam 4.51 avg rating — 64,403 ratings
96.
The Blind Man's Garden
The Blind Man's Garden 3.77 avg rating — 1,970 ratings
96.
The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde, #1)
The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 4,850 ratings
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The Habitation of the Blessed (A Dirge for Prester John, #1)
The Habitation of the Blessed (A Dirge for Prester John, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 1,061 ratings
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To Shatter the Night (Mistlands, #2)
To Shatter the Night (Mistlands, #2) 3.86 avg rating — 1,771 ratings
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The Guest
The Guest 3.28 avg rating — 106,972 ratings
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