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Lyrical Prose
Well-written novels in which the poetic or lyrical language is the focus.
Authors & Titles
- Audeguy, Stéphane: The Theory of Clouds
- Banville, John: The Sea
- Barry, Sebastian: The Secret Scripture
- Buarque, Chico: Budapest
- Cameron, Peter: Andorra
- Chabon, Michael: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Clarke, Brian: The Stream
- Coelho, Paulo: The Devil and Miss Prym
- D'Erasmo, Stacey: A Seahorse Year
- di Natale, Silvia: Kuraj
- Doctorow, E.L.: City of God
- Durrell, Lawrence: Alexandria Quartet
- Justine
- Balthazar
- Mountolive
- Clea
- Durrell, Lawrence: Avignon Quintet
- Monsieur
- Livia
- Constance
- Sebastian
- Quinx
- Durrell, Lawrence: Revolt of Aphrodite series
- Tunc
- Nunquam
- The Black Book
- The Dark Labyrinth
- Egan, Jennifer: Look At Me
- Eggers, Dave: You Shall Know Our Velocity
- Ehrenreich, Ben: The Suitors
- Fletcher, Susan: Eve Green
- Fowler, Karen Joy: Sister Noon
- Frazier, Charles: Cold Mountain
- French, Albert: I Can't Wait on God
- Gershten, Donna M.: Kissing the Virgin's Mouth
- Goldstein, Jonathan: Lenny Bruce is Dead
- Gunesekera, Romesh: Heaven's Edge
- Gunn, Kirsty: The Keepsake
- Gunn, Kirsty: Rain
- Hill, Tobias: The Love of Stones
- Høeg, Peter: The Quiet Girl
- Høeg, Peter: Smilla's Sense of Snow
- Howard, Marueen: Four Seasons series
- A Lover's Almanac
- Big as Life
- The Silver Screen
- The Rags of Time
- Hunt, Laird: The Impossibly
- Hunt, Laird: Indiana, Indiana
- Joyce, James: Ulysses
- Landis, J.D.: The Taking
- Lehman, Mark Louis: Mocky's Revinge
- Levine, Stacey: Frances Johnson
- McBride, Regina: The Marriage Bed
- McBride, Regina: The Nature of Water and Air
- McCarthy, Cormac: Border series
- All the Pretty Horses
- The Crossing
- Cities of the Plain
- McGregor, Jon: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
- Meehan, Michael: Stormy Weather
- Minot, Susan: Rapture
- Mitchell, David: Cloud Atlas
- Mosley, Nicholas: The Hesperides Tree
- Narsesian, Arthur: Chinese Takeout
- Robertson, Deborah: Careless
- Robinson, Marilynne: Housekeeping
- Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg: Poison
- Seth, Vikram: An Equal Music
- Simonds, Merilyn: The Holding
- Smith, Ali: Girl Meets Boy
- Southerland, Ellease: Let the Lion Eat Straw
- Swan, Mary: The Boys in the Trees
- Taylor, Benjamin: Tales Out of School
- Wagman, Fredrica: Mrs. Hornstien
- Walbert, Kate: The Gardens of Kyoto
- Wallace, Melanie: The Housekeeper
- Wells, Kellie: Skin
- Wieland, Liza: Bombshell
- Williams, Niall: As It Is In Heaven
- Yehoshua, A.B.: A Woman in Jerusalem
updated: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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