I don’t know about poetic but Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin has some of the most beautiful prose I’ve ever come across.
themysticalman on
Lolita
ZenComanche on
Moby Dick
Possum2017 on
Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward Angel.
elissapool on
I like the sparse minimal, but visually and emotionally evocative writing of Haruki murakami.
ArcticHunter2000 on
Wuthering Heights
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Try Ray Bradbury. Something Wicked This Way Comes is perfect for this time of year.
smithysmithens2112 on
I always found Frankenstein very poetic. It’s actually what got me into poetry.
fineappl on
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.
LemonCitron47 on
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Sapphire_Bombay on
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin
SnailsMcHam on
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Exceptional use of poetic motifs throughout the narrative. Love this book
Vegetable-Driver2312 on
All the Light We Cannot See
ConversationLevel498 on
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. Read aloud it’s like there’s music and rhythm behind each word.
NW_chick on
East if Eden by John Steinbeck. I think it’s the most beautiful prose. Something about his writing style, especially in this book.
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Don Quixote
vagabondnature on
On The Road, by Jack Kerouac. Originally written on one long scroll.
viixxena on
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson. It really reads like poetry
bookdom on
Snow Falling on Cedars. Very slow and prosaic and beautiful.
ArmadilloNext9714 on
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner.
Lutembi on
_Hopscotch_ by Julio Cortazar
Mezcalier on
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
SylviaAtlantis on
This is How You Lose the Time War by El-Mohtar and Gladstone
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West with the Night, by Beryl Markham.
As Ernest Hemingway put it:
“she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers … it really is a bloody wonderful book.”
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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. She’s an artist and writes beautifully
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Ian Reid’s “I’m thinking of ending things” and Osamu Dazai’s “no longer human, if you mean like deep self reflections and pondering about everything around you.
JoeWilliams2501 on
Im currently reading Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean At The End Of The Lane and there’s just something about it that I can’t quite place. Poetic is the closest I can think of. Really recommend.
chrysantenum_ on
To the lighthouse by Virgina Wolf
MissSommer on
The Waves, Virginia Wolf
The whole thing sounds like a poem, but it’s not. And tells the life of a whole group of friends since primary school until old age.
It was also considered very avant gard for the time. I believe it still is.
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Circe by Madeleine Miller.
I don’t know about poetic but Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin has some of the most beautiful prose I’ve ever come across.
Lolita
Moby Dick
Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward Angel.
I like the sparse minimal, but visually and emotionally evocative writing of Haruki murakami.
Wuthering Heights
Try Ray Bradbury. Something Wicked This Way Comes is perfect for this time of year.
I always found Frankenstein very poetic. It’s actually what got me into poetry.
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Exceptional use of poetic motifs throughout the narrative. Love this book
All the Light We Cannot See
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. Read aloud it’s like there’s music and rhythm behind each word.
East if Eden by John Steinbeck. I think it’s the most beautiful prose. Something about his writing style, especially in this book.
Don Quixote
On The Road, by Jack Kerouac. Originally written on one long scroll.
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson. It really reads like poetry
Snow Falling on Cedars. Very slow and prosaic and beautiful.
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner.
_Hopscotch_ by Julio Cortazar
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
This is How You Lose the Time War by El-Mohtar and Gladstone
West with the Night, by Beryl Markham.
As Ernest Hemingway put it:
“she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers … it really is a bloody wonderful book.”
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. She’s an artist and writes beautifully
Ian Reid’s “I’m thinking of ending things” and Osamu Dazai’s “no longer human, if you mean like deep self reflections and pondering about everything around you.
Im currently reading Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean At The End Of The Lane and there’s just something about it that I can’t quite place. Poetic is the closest I can think of. Really recommend.
To the lighthouse by Virgina Wolf
The Waves, Virginia Wolf
The whole thing sounds like a poem, but it’s not. And tells the life of a whole group of friends since primary school until old age.
It was also considered very avant gard for the time. I believe it still is.