15 best-selling nonfiction books like So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018 by Ursula K. Le Guin

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So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.17

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

"It's hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles …

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1. Dream Work

By: Mary Oliver

4.35

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more

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  • poetry
  • american
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • nature
"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

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2. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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  • poetry
  • womens
  • american
  • nature
"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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3. The Seven Ages

By: Louise Glück

4.02

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The Seven Ages was written during a ten-week period in the summer of 1999. The fierce, austerely b… read more

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  • 21st century
  • poetry
  • american
"I even loved a few times in my disgusting human way."

-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

"Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you it will not keep you alive."

-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

"The curtains parted. Light coming in. Moonlight, then sunlight. Not changing because time was passing but because the one moment had many aspects."

-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

"Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?"

-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

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4. Averno

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more

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  • poetry
  • american
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."

-Louise Glück, Averno

"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

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5. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

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6. A Thousand Mornings: Poems

By: Mary Oliver

4.21

Format: 82 pages, Hardcover

In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more

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  • poetry
  • american
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • nature
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

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7. Sharks in the Rivers

By: Ada Limon

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more

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  • poetry
  • american
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • nature
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8. The Book of Questions

By: Pablo Neruda , William O'Daly

3.66

Format: None pages,

A best-selling volume of Pablo Neruda's poetry in an English-Spanish edition. Pablo Neruda is one o… read more

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  • poetry
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9. Faithful and Virtuous Night

By: Louise Glück

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more

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  • 21st century
  • poetry
  • american

10. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

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11. The Rain in Portugal: New Poems

By: Billy Collins

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly f… read more

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12. Dog Songs

By: None , Mary Oliver

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more

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13. Felicity

By: Mary Oliver

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more

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14. Why I Wake Early

By: Mary Oliver

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snak… read more

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15. Ozone Journal

By: Peter Balakian

4.32

Format: 210 pages,

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16. Stag's Leap: Poems

By: Sharon Olds

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Stag's Leapis stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing st… read more

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17. Lucky Wreck

By: Ada Limon

3.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

The winner of the 2005 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Jean Valentine. Ada Limon's fir… read more

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18. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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19. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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  • american
  • nonfiction
  • 21st century
  • adult
  • nature
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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20. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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21. Winter Recipes from the Collective

By: Louise Glück

3.99

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more

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  • poetry
  • american
  • nonfiction
  • 21st century
  • adult
"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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22. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • 21st century
  • womens
  • adult
  • nature
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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23. So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.17

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

"It's hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles … read more

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  • poetry
  • american
  • collections
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • 21st century
  • womens
  • adult
  • nature
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24. What You Need to Be Warm

By: Neil Gaiman

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

During the coldest season, when the world feels scary—what do you remember about being warm? Baked … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • family
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25. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

By: Joy Harjo

4.34

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets."

-Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

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26. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • 21st century
  • adult
  • nature
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27. Whale Day: And Other Poems

By: Billy Collins

4.08

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

A collection of all-new poetry from former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins Billy Collins's thir… read more

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  • poetry
  • american
  • nonfiction
  • 21st century
  • adult
"But having sailed some time ago Into the quiet cardigan harbour of my life,"

-Billy Collins, Whale Day: And Other Poems

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28. Cold

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for the… read more

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  • adult
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29. Wade in the Water: Poems

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.10

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more

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  • 21st century
  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"History is a ship forever setting sail."

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

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30. Come Closer and Listen: New Poems

By: Charles Simic

3.53

Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition

An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent… read more

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  • poetry
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31. Dunce

By: Mary Ruefle

3.94

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Through her many projects across numerous genres, Mary Ruefle has proven herself a singular artist,… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction

15 Best adult books like So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018 by Ursula K. Le Guin

Transform Your Habits

Dream Work

Mary Oliver

4.35

Transform Your Habits

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Transform Your Habits

A Thousand Mornings: Poems

Mary Oliver

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Sharks in the Rivers

Ada Limon

3.95

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10 Best contemporary books like Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück

Transform Your Habits

Sharks in the Rivers

Ada Limon

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Horoscopes for the Dead

Billy Collins

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Glass, Irony and God

Guy Davenport , Anne Carson

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

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