16 must-read nonfiction books like Books and Libraries: Poems by Andrew D. Scrimgeour

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Books and Libraries: Poems

By: Andrew D. Scrimgeour

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Poet collection of poems from around t…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Books and Libraries: Poems by Andrew D. Scrimgeour , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Auden: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) by None, Edward Mendelson, W.H. Auden

1. Auden: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

By: None , Edward Mendelson , W.H. Auden

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable… read more

Similar categories in None's Auden: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

  • literature
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"My second thoughts condemn And wonder how I dare To look you in the eye. What right have I to swear Even at one a.m. To love you till I die? Earth meets too many crimes For fibs to interest her; If I…"

-None, Auden: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

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2. The Invisible Child and The Fir Tree

By: Tove Jansson

4.37

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

In Tove Jansson’s much loved short story, The Invisible Child, the isolated Ninny is helped to rega… read more

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3. The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more

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  • literature
"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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4. Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages

By: Michael Popek

4.39

Format: None pages,

It's happened to all of us: we're reading a book, something interrupts us, and we grab the closest … read more

Similar categories in Michael Popek's Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

  • nonfiction
  • books about books
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5. Prisoners of the Sun (Tintin, #14)

By: Hergé

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

After The Seven Crystal Ballsset the eerie stage, Tintin and his friends continue their adventures … read more

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6. The Great Cat: Poems About Cats

By: Emily Fragos

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

This delightful anthology gives us a teeming litter of literary tributes to the ever-fascinating, e… read more

Similar categories in Emily Fragos's The Great Cat: Poems About Cats book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
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7. The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe

By: Ann Morgan

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author's year-lon… read more

Similar categories in Ann Morgan's The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

  • nonfiction
  • books about books

8. Poems of the Sea

By: J.D. McClatchy

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankin… read more

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9. Haiku

By: Peter Washington

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Simple yet capable of great complexity, the haiku is a tightly structured verse form that has a rem… read more

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10. The Professor's Daughter

By: Emmanuel Guibert , Joann Sfar , Alexis Siegel

4.14

Format: 200 pages,

THREE THOUSAND YEARS MAY SEPARATE THEM, still... they love each other. 19th-century London. She is … read more

Similar categories in Emmanuel Guibert's The Professor's Daughter book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

11. Blues Poems

By: Kevin Young

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the … read more

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12. The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life

By: Virginia Woolf

4.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Virginia Woolf was already an accomplished novelist and critic when she was commissioned by the Bri… read more

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13. The Greengage Summer

By: Rumer Godden

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by … read more

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14. Poems Bewitched and Haunted

By: John Hollander

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions… read more

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15. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

By: Oliver Darkshire

3.97

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more

Similar categories in Oliver Darkshire's Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

  • nonfiction
  • books about books
"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

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16. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

Similar categories in Wendy Cope's The Orange and Other Poems book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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17. 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
  • nonfiction
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18. Where Hope Comes From

By: Nikita Gill

4.01

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

In Where Hope Comes From: poems for a broken world, Instagram superstar and poet Nikita Gill return… read more

Similar categories in Nikita Gill's Where Hope Comes From book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"A war is still a war even if it is inside your head, did you know this?"

-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

"Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma."

-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

"Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary."

-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

"I, too, hope to be that confident in a love. Someone who I know will still love me, even if I do not run to them every time they call."

-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

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19. The Perks of Loving a Wallflower (The Wild Wynchesters, #2)

By: Erica Ridley

3.99

Format: 346 pages, Mass Market Paperback

As a master of disguise, Thomasina Wynchester can be a polite young lady—or a bawdy old man. Anythi… read more

Similar categories in Erica Ridley's The Perks of Loving a Wallflower (The Wild Wynchesters, #2) book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

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20. A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment

By: Stephane Henaut

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A French cheesemonger and an American academic join forces to serve up a sumptuous history of Franc… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Books and Libraries: Poems

By: Andrew D. Scrimgeour

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Poet collection of poems from around t… read more

Similar categories in Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

  • poetry
  • literature
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • books about books
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22. This Is the Honey

By: Kwame Alexander

4.47

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
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23. Blossomise

By: Simon Armitage

4.22

Format: 63 pages, Hardcover

Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its mela… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of These Are the Words: fearless verse to find your voice by Nikita Gill

24. These Are the Words: fearless verse to find your voice

By: Nikita Gill

3.95

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the… read more

Similar categories in Nikita Gill's These Are the Words: fearless verse to find your voice book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

  • poetry
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25. brother. do. you. love. me.

By: Manni Coe

4.39

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

brother. do. you. love. me. is the story of two brothers and their extraordinary journey of resilie… read more

Similar categories in Manni Coe's brother. do. you. love. me. book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

  • nonfiction
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26. Twilight Falls (Shady Hollow, #4)

By: Juneau Black

4.03

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

The fourth book in the Shady Hollow mystery series sees Vera embroiled in a case involving star-cro… read more

Similar categories in Juneau Black's Twilight Falls (Shady Hollow, #4) book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

"Coming from the city like you did, you must have been free of all that old-fashioned nonsense." - "As long as you live among others, you're never free of other ideas. That's what society means."

-Juneau Black, Twilight Falls (Shady Hollow, #4)

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27. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book

By: Pandora Sykes

4.08

Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition

In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bes… read more

Similar categories in Pandora Sykes's What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
  • books about books
Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

29. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

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30. Tidal Waters

By: Velia Vidal

3.57

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

An epistolary, fictional account of one woman moving towards happiness in the black community of Co… read more

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31. 150 Bookstores You Need to Visit Before you Die

By: Elizabeth Stamp

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The most interesting bookstores in the world, collected in one beautifully bound volumeAfter 150 Ba… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Stamp's 150 Bookstores You Need to Visit Before you Die book and Andrew D. Scrimgeour's Books and Libraries: Poems

  • nonfiction
  • books about books

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4.22

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4.02

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4.19

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Patti Smith

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John Scalzi

4.16

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Patrick deWitt

3.41

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3.69

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Michelle Porter

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