On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

By
Ocean Vuong
Ocean Vuong
2019 • 256 pages

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216 books

Non Fiction

gabi
gabi
From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West
Plagued by Fire
Life Undercover
Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep
Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart

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95 books

Memoir

gabi
gabi
In the Dream House
The Broken Circle
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
I Miss You When I Blink Essays
Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
The Wrong End of the Table

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18 books

Diversity

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Mahala
The Kite Runner
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Thousand Splendid Suns
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
The Book of Unknown Americans
And the Mountains Echoed
The Help

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47 books

Historical Fiction

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Mahala
The Kite Runner
Out of the Dust
The Book Thief
I Capture the Castle
Memoirs of a Geisha
Sarah's Key
A Northern Light

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19 books

Own But Yet To Read

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A Gathering of Shadows
Becoming
P.S. I Like You
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
1Q84
Shadow and Bone

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142 books

Fiction

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zach
Independent People
The Name of the Rose
Das dunkle Herz
Dracula
The Great Gatsby
Mrs Dalloway
A Farewell To Arms

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81 books

Asia

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zach
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Hun Sen’s Cambodia
China's Last Empire
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
The Rising Sun

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56 books

Book Club Reads

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Bronwyn Knox
The Reading List
The Handmaid's Tale
A Man Called Ove
The Sellout
The Personal Librarian
A Ladder to the Sky
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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60 books

Fiction

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Vivian
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Three-Body Problem
Flowers for Algernon
All Systems Red
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

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26 books

Family Focused Fiction

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Lucky Purple
Little Women
The Joy Luck Club
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
To Kill a Mockingbird
Everything I Never Told You
Malibu Rising

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21 books

2023

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Alex
Big Swiss
The House Across the Lake
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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6 books

Favorites

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rafael.
Sex & Rage
Piranesi
Catching Fire
How High We Go in the Dark
I Who Have Never Known Men
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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6 books

Owned

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trice
A Little Life
Carry On
Wayward Son
Any Way the Wind Blows
Any Way the Wind Blows
Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian

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507 books

Fiction

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Sylvia Chi
The Ambassadors
The House of Mirth
Bonsai
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
A Fraction of the Whole
King Lear
The Big Sleep

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237 books

Leseliste

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Geir
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Year of the Monkey
The Ongoing Moment
The Communist Manifesto
A Long Way Gone: The True Story Of A Child Soldier
Off The Map

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54 books

Lgbtq Plus Rep

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Nicole
Butter Honey Pig Bread
The Light Pirate
The Immortal King Rao
Milk Fed
In the Dream House
À pleines dents
Pure Colour

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54 books

No Plot Just Vibes

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Nicole
Butter Honey Pig Bread
Convenience Store Woman
Days of Distraction
Milk Fed
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
À pleines dents

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3 books

Romance

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oscar
Book Lovers
Sorrow and Bliss
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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22 books

2020

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mia
Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
No Logo
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Health Justice Now
Affirmative Action

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9 books

Recent Favs

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Davi
Recursion
A Monster Calls
Flowers for Algernon
aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe
The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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95 books

4 And A Half Stars

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Nicole
The Seas
Ruin and Rising
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Station Eleven
This Tender Land
The Great Alone
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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45 books

Tbr Audiobook

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Roy
And Then There Were None
The Maidens
The Silent Patient
Radio Silence
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
The Dangerous Art of Blending In
Concrete Rose

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0 books

Owned

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Micah
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
All This Could Be Different
Bright Dead Things
Homie
Postcolonial Love Poem
Blankets
Between the World and Me

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688 books

Dnf

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kab
Pale Fire
The Abyss
Manalive
Three Men in a Boat
Every Tongue Got to Confess
The Age of Innocence

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227 books

Lit Fic

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Nicole
Convenience Store Woman
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
Milk Fed
Days of Distraction
The House in the Orchard
Thistlefoot
Signal Fires
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