Most Poetic Book Titles

Silly and funny titles are way cool, but this list is for titles that are beautiful. Even if the book itself is not so hot (or you haven't read it!), the title is memorable.

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1	The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 4.11 avg rating — 526,980 ratings score: 22,420, and 233 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 4.12 avg rating — 1,074,382 ratings score: 16,378, and 172 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 1,688,661 ratings score: 14,532, and 152 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 3.99 avg rating — 117,143 ratings score: 12,171, and 129 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4.26 avg rating — 6,710,578 ratings score: 11,461, and 122 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 432,041 ratings score: 10,320, and 107 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino 4.02 avg rating — 108,639 ratings score: 8,619, and 93 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 3.99 avg rating — 312,239 ratings score: 8,558, and 92 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 5,597,512 ratings score: 7,940, and 84 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 4.28 avg rating — 1,551,972 ratings score: 7,925, and 84 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 4.31 avg rating — 1,249,736 ratings score: 7,062, and 78 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 4.24 avg rating — 1,954,633 ratings score: 6,947, and 74 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury 3.90 avg rating — 146,429 ratings score: 6,824, and 74 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 3.99 avg rating — 378,797 ratings score: 6,712, and 76 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams 3.98 avg rating — 329,537 ratings score: 6,594, and 71 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick 4.09 avg rating — 497,854 ratings score: 6,329, and 70 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 182,918 ratings score: 6,287, and 68 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author) 3.25 avg rating — 68,217 ratings score: 6,261, and 69 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt 3.92 avg rating — 289,979 ratings score: 6,248, and 67 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 3.79 avg rating — 483,501 ratings score: 6,233, and 72 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 345,946 ratings score: 5,993, and 69 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 3.90 avg rating — 1,966,225 ratings score: 5,777, and 63 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster 3.59 avg rating — 17,448 ratings score: 5,537, and 60 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) by Maya Angelou 4.30 avg rating — 570,463 ratings score: 5,453, and 60 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 3.94 avg rating — 537,095 ratings score: 5,423, and 61 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 4.10 avg rating — 506,871 ratings score: 5,398, and 60 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor 4.22 avg rating — 21,815 ratings score: 5,274, and 57 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 1,912,733 ratings score: 5,211, and 55 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 4.02 avg rating — 974,088 ratings score: 5,008, and 54 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 818,483 ratings score: 4,669, and 51 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	East of Eden by John Steinbeck 4.43 avg rating — 606,422 ratings score: 4,583, and 50 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson 3.86 avg rating — 192,675 ratings score: 4,471, and 50 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2) by Thomas Harris 4.25 avg rating — 579,320 ratings score: 4,425, and 49 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein 4.15 avg rating — 137,120 ratings score: 4,416, and 51 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 4.30 avg rating — 699,595 ratings score: 4,275, and 49 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Brave New World by Aldous Huxley really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,194,231 ratings score: 4,210, and 49 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 4.17 avg rating — 235,067 ratings score: 4,183, and 48 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 317,990 ratings score: 4,114, and 47 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 3.43 avg rating — 547,202 ratings score: 4,036, and 48 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 3.97 avg rating — 163,254 ratings score: 3,851, and 45 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 3.89 avg rating — 1,572,417 ratings score: 3,836, and 45 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima 3.84 avg rating — 49,932 ratings score: 3,831, and 45 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 3.86 avg rating — 192,691 ratings score: 3,816, and 43 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 755,595 ratings score: 3,736, and 42 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 4.10 avg rating — 210,796 ratings score: 3,518, and 41 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck 4.01 avg rating — 52,324 ratings score: 3,451, and 40 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe 3.74 avg rating — 404,128 ratings score: 3,416, and 38 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 3.72 avg rating — 183,026 ratings score: 3,392, and 40 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 3.92 avg rating — 78,670 ratings score: 3,335, and 40 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 4.20 avg rating — 769,083 ratings score: 3,316, and 37 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 4.02 avg rating — 235,858 ratings score: 3,300, and 40 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 546,702 ratings score: 3,241, and 37 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 4.14 avg rating — 388,318 ratings score: 3,070, and 38 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.77 avg rating — 146,958 ratings score: 2,999, and 35 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida 3.63 avg rating — 5,080 ratings score: 2,896, and 34 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 3.82 avg rating — 345,559 ratings score: 2,723, and 32 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 8,246 ratings score: 2,692, and 31 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill 4.06 avg rating — 42,458 ratings score: 2,662, and 31 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 3.94 avg rating — 270,379 ratings score: 2,647, and 32 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 4.01 avg rating — 263,335 ratings score: 2,640, and 31 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan 3.70 avg rating — 2,686 ratings score: 2,572, and 30 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith 3.99 avg rating — 113,394 ratings score: 2,521, and 30 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 3.74 avg rating — 188,806 ratings score: 2,513, and 32 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) by Marcel Proust 4.16 avg rating — 66,475 ratings score: 2,494, and 28 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3.80 avg rating — 3,811,528 ratings score: 2,408, and 28 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano 3.65 avg rating — 82,337 ratings score: 2,398, and 28 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4.29 avg rating — 4,653,456 ratings score: 2,347, and 26 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 3.45 avg rating — 54,433 ratings score: 2,257, and 29 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	From Here to Eternity by James Jones 4.08 avg rating — 17,984 ratings score: 2,243, and 28 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven 4.05 avg rating — 8,745 ratings score: 2,197, and 27 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 3.80 avg rating — 196,328 ratings score: 2,188, and 25 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 321,495 ratings score: 2,147, and 25 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3.97 avg rating — 61,910 ratings score: 2,124, and 26 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 3.81 avg rating — 1,271,034 ratings score: 2,121, and 25 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 3.69 avg rating — 182,835 ratings score: 2,074, and 24 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	I Dream of Yellow Kites: What if it was all just a nightmare? by Retta Bono (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 103 ratings score: 2,068, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	The Call of the Wild by Jack London 3.91 avg rating — 462,336 ratings score: 2,034, and 26 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	The Other Side of Silence by Margaret Mahy 3.72 avg rating — 211 ratings score: 2,033, and 25 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez 3.97 avg rating — 225,786 ratings score: 1,973, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories by Amy Bloom 3.86 avg rating — 2,887 ratings score: 1,967, and 22 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 3.59 avg rating — 103,759 ratings score: 1,967, and 24 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas 3.92 avg rating — 2,400 ratings score: 1,935, and 22 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada 4.27 avg rating — 35,493 ratings score: 1,902, and 22 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 4.30 avg rating — 500,868 ratings score: 1,864, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) by Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author) 4.52 avg rating — 1,054,728 ratings score: 1,856, and 22 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1) by Libba Bray (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 225,175 ratings score: 1,833, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 3.86 avg rating — 2,442,310 ratings score: 1,819, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 3.93 avg rating — 286,801 ratings score: 1,715, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick 3.91 avg rating — 44,846 ratings score: 1,708, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
90	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green 3.90 avg rating — 34,943 ratings score: 1,694, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91	The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 704,178 ratings score: 1,671, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2) by Douglas Adams 4.04 avg rating — 88,673 ratings score: 1,633, and 18 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 46,241 ratings score: 1,617, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 3.89 avg rating — 44,728 ratings score: 1,602, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham 4.15 avg rating — 60,486 ratings score: 1,576, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 41,309 ratings score: 1,536, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.63 avg rating — 78,820 ratings score: 1,480, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
98	Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya 3.69 avg rating — 10,732 ratings score: 1,448, and 18 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 4.02 avg rating — 163,409 ratings score: 1,427, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
100	The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 3.38 avg rating — 172,932 ratings score: 1,375, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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message 1: by Brixton (new)

Dec 20, 2010 02:09AM

I like this list. It is the only one I keep returning to when I am reminded of titles I didn't see on list or as such titles randomly occur to me.

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message 2: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Jan 28, 2012 06:33AM

I combined duplicates; hopefully this corrected the problem.

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message 3: by [deleted user] (new)

Apr 04, 2012 08:28AM

Virender wrote: ""Wuthering heights" is not a poetic title."

It sure sounds poetic to me and always has. It evokes gothic images.

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message 4: by jeanie (new)

Apr 30, 2012 02:57AM

How are books "scored"?

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message 5: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Apr 30, 2012 06:45AM

The book you rank first gets a hundred points, the one you rank second, ninety-nine, and so on down through one hundred books.

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message 6: by jeanie (new)

Apr 30, 2012 02:43PM

Ok. Now I see. Thank you.

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message 7: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Apr 30, 2012 07:50PM

No problem.

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message 8: by Dermo (new)

Aug 17, 2012 02:43AM

I wonder who can add to this list. An awful lot of awful on it. Hemingway and Steinbeck are both very good at the poetic titles though.

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message 9: by jeanie (new)

Aug 17, 2012 03:07PM

Anyone can post to it. Perhaps what is poetic to one is not poetic to another? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, afterall.

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message 10: by Antoine (new)

Aug 17, 2012 03:54PM

Dermo wrote: "I wonder who can add to this list. An awful lot of awful on it. Hemingway and Steinbeck are both very good at the poetic titles though."

Remember too that (for this list) it is only how good the titles sound that counts. The book itself could suck eggs, and still be worth including if the title is cool sounding. As for the actual results, well, that's democracy, I guess.

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message 11: by Christie (new)

Jan 25, 2013 12:36AM

I think you've made a lot of great choices here. I have to say though that some are poetic because the titles are taken directly from lines of poems! Not sure how "Jaws" fits though. lol

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message 12: by Dahlia (last edited Feb 05, 2014 07:03PM) (new)

Feb 05, 2014 07:02PM

Some of these titles are quite interesting, some of them truly wonderful; but some of them are just plain silly. I'm surprised to see them on the list.

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message 13: by Julie (new)

Feb 14, 2014 04:19AM

I didn't realize how much I love Alice Walker's titles until I went through my book list to add to your list.

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message 14: by Dana (new)

May 27, 2014 11:31PM

Who put Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin on this list? :( I love Charlie Brown, but someone thinks they're way too funny. But An Artist of the World and If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things are excellent choices. Wow, who knew there were so many definitions of "poetic"?

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message 15: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jul 30, 2016 07:35AM) (new)

Jul 30, 2016 07:34AM

Sometimes a book can have a beautifully poetic title, like Van de koele meren des Doods, which is completely lost in a translation (Van de koele meren des Doods has been translated as Hedwig's Journey).

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message 16: by Chris (new)

Feb 25, 2019 10:36PM

Catcher in the rye is on there twice - pages 1 and 6.

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message 17: by Chris (new)

Feb 25, 2019 10:38PM

I think that wind-up bird is on there twice too. pages 11 and ?

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message 18: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Feb 26, 2019 10:28AM) (new)

Feb 26, 2019 10:18AM

Chris wrote: "I think that wind-up bird is on there twice too. pages 11 and ?"

Shouldn't be there twice anymore, as I had the system perform a duplicate check (and 13 duplicates were removed...).

As a GR librarian, you could have tried the duplicate check yourself. Did you? And were the books still double on this list?

I checked for a double copy of The Catcher in the Rye (#102), see your previous remark, after the system performed the duplicate check, but it is only there once now.

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message 19: by Chris (new)

Feb 26, 2019 05:36PM

Thanks, my Goodreads time is limited so I only do an "alert" when I see duplications - trying to be helpful. I do the lists that my friend Alice sends me. That's about it. I do appreciate the work that others do, but I have to ration my time. That's because I don't have a home computer. Just those at the local libraries.

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message 20: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Feb 26, 2019 07:34PM

Makes sense. (I do it just about every time I vote or visit a list, but I have the time and a home computer.)

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message 21: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (new)

Feb 27, 2019 08:33AM

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "... I do it just about every time I vote or visit a list ..."

Same here :-)

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message 22: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Feb 27, 2019 07:08PM

I have to remind myself not to if it's a 'cover' list, actually...

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message 23: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (new)

Feb 28, 2019 09:14AM

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "I have to remind myself not to if it's a 'cover' list, actually..."

Again, same here :-)

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message 24: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (new)

Apr 28, 2019 04:18PM

Antoine wrote: "Remember too that (for this list) it is only how good the titles sound that counts. The book itself could suck eggs, and still be worth including if the title is cool sounding. ..."

I so agree... I looked purely at the titles, nothing more.

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message 25: by Jillian (new)

Jan 03, 2020 08:21AM

This is an overall great list, but it has a curious lack of actual poetry books on it. Books of poetry often have the most beautiful, heartstopping, and, well, poetic titles:

Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille Rankine
Atmospheric Embroidery by Meena Alexander
How to Cure a Ghost by Fariha Roisin
How the End Begins by Cynthia Cruz
Community Garden for Lonely Girls by Christine shan Shan Hou

Some other books that deserve a mention:
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Wholeness of a Broken Heart by Katie Singer
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
The Museum of Intangible Things by Wendy Wunder
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

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message 26: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Jan 03, 2020 09:07PM

Then you should definitely vote for those books.

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message 27: by Jillian (new)

Jan 12, 2020 10:27PM

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "Then you should definitely vote for those books."
I'm stupid and didn't realize I could add books to the list lol

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message 28: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)

Jan 13, 2020 01:37AM

A lot of people don't!

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message 29: by Rebekah (new)

Sep 02, 2022 11:32PM

Is Jaws a poetic title? Surprised at number of people who thought so. What about Teeth, Tongue, Saliva, Gums, Mouth, etc?

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message 30: by Book2Dragon (new)

Mar 13, 2025 01:41AM

I only got halfway through before using up all my votes. This These are not necessarily books on my TBR list, or booksI especially liked, just poetic-like titles.

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