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What is the one book that read like poetry

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Vera

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye. Or pretty much anything by her.

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Kimberly

SULA!

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Carole

A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin

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Adrienne

Loved this book! And Winter’s Tale – very beautiful prose

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Teresa

These three by Mark Helprin, illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg are great winter time books that read like poetry.

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Lacey

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15054.Written_on_the_Body

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Jennifer

The Road, Cormac Mc Carthy

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Dawn

their eyes were watching god

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Elizabeth

yes!

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Tim

Golden Gate by Vikram @Seth

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Carol

Station Eleven

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Laura

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13237099-madness-rack-and-honey?ac=1&from_search=true

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Kendra

The Night Circus

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Bre

My thoughts exactly!

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Lesley

Exit West

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Mary

Michel Crummey,a Newfoundland author books read like poetry.

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Susan

All the Light We Cannot See

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Nadha

I second this!

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Amanda

ulysses, james joyce. so rich, like a dark french-style chocolate cake…a few pages per day are enough. ?

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Melissa

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

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Terri

All the pretty horses

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Eleanor

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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Peg

An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine

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Rosanne

The God of Small Things

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Julie

Cold Mountain

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Patty

Just Kids by Patti Smith

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Melissa

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

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Michelle

Remains of the day

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Kimberly

Cry, the Beloved Country

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Zoe

Beloved.

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Ola

Agreed

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Amanda

milk and honey

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Gary

The Guest Cat

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Andrea

The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr, Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta by Aglaja Veteranyi, The Writer in her Writing by Adelheid Duvanel, Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco just to name a few 🙂

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Vina

American Pastoral. The Fault in Our Stars.

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Jade

The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain. I started reading it at the library and couldn’t put it down. Finished it at home that same day.

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Misi

Snow On Cedars

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Valerie

Gilead

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Laura

Great question!

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Deborah

Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.

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James

Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Things They Carried, The Name of the Wind

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Rosilyne

White Oleander

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Rosilyne

Also agree with The Name of the Wind

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Kat

Summerlong

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Laura

The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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Tanya-Lee

Dust Diaries

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