17 best-selling audiobook books like The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine by Arlo Parks

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The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

By: Arlo Parks

3.89

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

From Arlo Parks, Grammy Award-nominated recording artist and “voice of a generation”—a stunning deb…

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine by Arlo Parks , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Serious Concerns

By: Wendy Cope

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Cope's Serious Concerns book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

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2. Jane: A Murder

By: Maggie Nelson

3.93

Format: None pages,

Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered … read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Jane: A Murder book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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3. 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

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • nonfiction
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4. Paradise Rot

By: Jenny Hval

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

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5. Und alle so still

By: Mareike Fallwickl

4.29

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

Was wäre, wenn alle Frauen sich verweigern und in einen Care-Streik treten würden? Ein großer femin… read more

Similar categories in Mareike Fallwickl's Und alle so still book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • audiobook
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6. 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 Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Golden Ax (Penguin Poets) by Rio Cortez

7. Golden Ax (Penguin Poets)

By: Rio Cortez

4.02

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a p… read more

Similar categories in Rio Cortez's Golden Ax (Penguin Poets) book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • autobiography
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8. Burning Butch

By: R/B Mertz

4.39

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Burning Butch is the courageous story of a trans / non-binary butch on a quest to survive conservat… read more

Similar categories in R/B Mertz's Burning Butch book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"Kissing Brad had felt good, but it was like the drip coffee back in America versus the espresso made in Europe."

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

"How could Hell be any worse than trying to live with all these secrets? At least in Hell, if you were on fire, you didn’t have to pretend you weren’t."

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

"Well, another thing we know is that a lot of people who are gay don’t have the ability to admit it even to themselves. But if she were straight, if she were a straight teacher and a male student had …"

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

"Real God and Love, too, I knew, must be more like the mother who stretches her mind around queerness and polyamory and all the limits of gender, and keeps inviting the children back who’ve hurt her o…"

-R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

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9. Sunburn

By: Chloe Michelle Howarth

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Michelle Howarth's Sunburn book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"All I'm doing is trying to love people. All I need is the right kind of love back."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

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10. Identitätskrise.

By: Alice Hasters

4.31

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Unsere Gesellschaft befindet sich in einer Identitätskrise. Alle Systeme, die Sicherheit, Zukunft u… read more

Similar categories in Alice Hasters's Identitätskrise. book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
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12. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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13. Hässlichkeit

By: Moshtari Hilal

4.46

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Vom Sehen und Gesehenwerden, von Selbstbildern und Selbstzweifeln – Moshtari Hilal schreibt über Hä… read more

Similar categories in Moshtari Hilal's Hässlichkeit book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • nonfiction
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14. 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

Similar categories in Maggie Millner's Couplets book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • lesbian
  • poetry
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
"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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15. Vatermal

By: Necati Öziri

4.35

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Arda weiß nicht, wie viel Zeit ihm noch bleibt. Er liegt mit Organversagen im Krankenhaus seiner He… read more

Similar categories in Necati Öziri's Vatermal book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • audiobook
"Du bist 18 und deine Freunde sind mit Balken vor den Augen in den Zeitungen. Sie liegen in den Parks und auf der Pennerwiese herum, sie sind jetzt die Statistik aus den Talkshows, abgeschoben, in der…"

-Necati Öziri, Vatermal

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16. The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

By: Arlo Parks

3.89

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

From Arlo Parks, Grammy Award-nominated recording artist and “voice of a generation”—a stunning deb… read more

Similar categories in Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • music
  • poetry
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. 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

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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18. Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

By: Emma Dabiri

4.06

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

An unmissable essay from Emma Dabiri, Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and Wh… read more

Similar categories in Emma Dabiri's Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Clémence en colère

By: Mirion Malle

4.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Clémence est en colère. Une colère si forte, si envahissante qu'elle l'empêche de vivre. Sentant qu… read more

Similar categories in Mirion Malle's Clémence en colère book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • lgbt
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20. Black Friend: Essays

By: Ziwe

4.30

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From a rapidly rising comedy star, a bold, biting, and deeply hilarious takedown—and send-up—of our… read more

Similar categories in Ziwe's Black Friend: Essays book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"You can't have my body, but you can have my body of work."

-Ziwe, Black Friend: Essays

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21. Mrs. S

By: K. Patrick

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more

Similar categories in K. Patrick's Mrs. S book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."

-K. Patrick, Mrs. S

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22. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

By: Schuyler Bailar

4.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more

Similar categories in Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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23. Aug 9 - Fog⁠

By: Kathryn Scanlan

3.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons Fifteen years ago, … read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Scanlan's Aug 9 - Fog⁠ book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • poetry
Cover of Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land by N. Scott Momaday

24. Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

By: N. Scott Momaday

4.23

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

"Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illu… read more

Similar categories in N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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25. All The Things She Said: Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture

By: Daisy Jones

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A modern, personal guide to the culture of queer women and everyone in between. All The Things S… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Jones's All The Things She Said: Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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26. Gay Girl Prayers

By: Emily R. Austin

4.10

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, a… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Gay Girl Prayers book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • lesbian
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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27. What

By: John Cooper Clarke

4.02

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

'Nothing short of dazzling' – Alex Turner Dr John Cooper Clarke's dazzling, scabrous voice has rev… read more

Similar categories in John Cooper Clarke's What book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • poetry
Cover of Words of a Goat Princess by Jessie Reyez

28. Words of a Goat Princess

By: Jessie Reyez

4.25

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A moving poetic debut from a talented artist, Words of a Goat Princess is everything you love about… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Reyez's Words of a Goat Princess book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • poetry
Cover of How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Seedbank) by Mikeas Sánchez

29. How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Seedbank)

By: Mikeas Sánchez

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the … read more

Similar categories in Mikeas Sánchez's How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Seedbank) book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. What We Lost in the Swamp: Poems

By: Grant Chemidlin

4.05

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

 is a lush and vibrant collection of poems that examines the many manifestations of green: nature, … read more

Similar categories in Grant Chemidlin's What We Lost in the Swamp: Poems book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • poetry
  • lgbt
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31. Haunt Sweet Home

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.47

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pinsker's Haunt Sweet Home book and Arlo Parks's The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

  • audiobook

18 Best nonfiction books like The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine by Arlo Parks

Transform Your Habits

Serious Concerns

Wendy Cope

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Jane: A Murder

Maggie Nelson

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Bluets

Maggie Nelson

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Orange and Other Poems

Wendy Cope

4.19

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15 Top contemporary books like Und alle so still by Mareike Fallwickl

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Endling

Jasmin Schreiber

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Und alle so still

Mareike Fallwickl

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Windstärke 17

Caroline Wahl

4.49

Transform Your Habits

‎22 Bahnen

Caroline Wahl

4.36

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