13 must-read fiction books like Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan

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Three Poems

By: Hannah Sullivan

3.90

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018 One of Bustle's 12 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections for 201…

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1. My Emily Dickinson

By: Susan Howe

4.23

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

My Emily Dickinson does more than just explore Dickinson's life and poetics, although it does that … read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
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2. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • american
  • fiction
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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3. Stranger, Baby

By: Emily Berry

3.86

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

The powerful new collection from award-winning poet Emily Berry. Emily Berry's Dear Boy was desc… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Mating

By: Norman Rush

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American … read more

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  • literature
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Meditations in an Emergency

By: Frank O'Hara

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclai… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • american
  • fiction
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6. 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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  • poetry
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • fiction

7. Under the Net

By: Iris Murdoch

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and s… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • british literature
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8. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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  • contemporary
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9. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

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  • new york
  • american
  • poetry
  • fiction

10. Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

By: Sonia Sanchez

4.11

Format: 40 pages,

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11. Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life

By: Gillian Rose

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished … read more

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12. A Coney Island of the Mind

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

3.84

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life"and expresses the way Lawr… read more

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13. 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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14. The Complete Collected Poems

By: Maya Angelou

4.22

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pul… read more

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15. Good Morning, Midnight

By: Jean Rhys

3.87

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"Quite like old times,' the room says."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"And then the days came when I was alone."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"I want more of this feeling - fire and wings."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new..."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

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16. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

By: Becca Rothfeld

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more

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  • contemporary
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18. Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

By: Janet Malcolm

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Superb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm’s] long career.” ―Charles… read more

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"La autobiografía es un género de nombre errado; la memoria recita solo algunas de sus líneas."

-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

"Los recuerdos con trama son, por supuesto, los que cometen el pecado original de la autobiografía, lo que le da la vitalidad, si no la razón de ser."

-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

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19. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Obit

By: Victoria Chang

4.27

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more

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  • poetry
  • american
  • contemporary
"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

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21. 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
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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22. The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void

By: Jackie Wang

3.83

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In The Sunflower, Wang follows the sunflower’s many dream guises―its evolving symbolism in literatu… read more

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  • poetry
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23. C+nto and Othered Poems

By: Joelle Taylor

4.25

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the priv… read more

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  • poetry
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24. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

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  • poetry
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25. 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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  • contemporary
  • poetry
  • american
  • the united states of america
"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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26. Three Poems

By: Hannah Sullivan

3.90

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018 One of Bustle's 12 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections for 201… read more

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  • new york
  • poetry
  • american
  • british literature
  • literature
  • the united states of america
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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28. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

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  • poetry
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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29. Flèche

By: Mary Jean Chan

4.23

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of… read more

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  • poetry
  • contemporary
"What does three years of famine teach a person? Nothing."

-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche

"if the legislators of our world looked to their trees for guidance would they reconsider everything?"

-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche

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30. Grand Tour: Poems

By: Elisa Gonzalez

3.92

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it g… read more

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  • poetry
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31. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive

By: Katie Farris

4.31

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as th… read more

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  • poetry

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3.86

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3.50

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Diane Seuss

4.50

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4.24

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